Book Club Triads
1. Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together: A Pioneering Approach to Communication in Business and in Life, William Isaacs, 1999.
2. The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in Our Time, Marilyn Ferguson, 1980.
3. Community: The Structure of Belonging, Peter Block, 2009.
1. The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility, Robert Zubrin, 2019.
2. AI Super-Powers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, Kai-Fu Lee, 2018.
3. Movies, Marijuana, and Mind: An Exploration of the Thirteenth Configuration, Dean Frankmore, 2018.
1. The Phenomenon of Man, Teilhard de Chardin, 1959.
2. Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow Self and Embrace Your Power, Carolyn Elliot, 2020.
3. The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics and Eastern Mystics Agree, We Are in a Video Game, Rizwan Virk, 2018.
1. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, Iain McGilchrist, 2009.
2. Of Two Minds: The Science of Dual-Brain Psychology, Fredric Schiffer, 1998.
3. The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live—and How You Can Change Them, Richard J. Davidson with Sharon Begley, 2012.
1. The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens, Stephen Apkon, 2013.
2. Bookends: The Changing Media Environment of American Classrooms, Margaret Cassidy, 2004
3. Deschooling Society, Ivan Illich, 1970.
1. History on Film, Film on History, Robert A. Rosenstone, 2012.
2. How to Read Film: Movies, Media, and Beyond, James Monaco, 2009.
3. Film Studies: An Introduction, Ed Sikov, 2010.
1. The Adventure of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Inner Exploration, Stanislav Grof, 1988.
2. High Society: The Central Role of Mind-Altering Drugs in History, Science and Culture, Mike Jay, 2010.
3. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, Michael Pollan, 2018.
1. Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, Herminia Ibarra, 2015.
2. Boundaries for Leaders: Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously in Charge, Henry Cloud, 2013.
3. Failure Is Not An Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo and Beyond, Gene Kranz, 2000.
1. The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Culture, Wendy Wheeler, 2006.
2. Wholeness and the Implicate Order, David Bohm, 1980.
3. The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Berry, 2009.
1. The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell, 1949.
2. The Cosmic Hologram: In-formation at the Center of Creation, Jude Currivan, 2017.
3. A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance, Rupert Sheldrake, 1981
1. Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity’s Future, Duane Elgin, 2000.
2. Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential, Barbara Marx Hubbard, 1998.
3. Global Mind Change: The Promise of the 21st Century, Willis Harmon, 1998.
1. Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses “No, But” Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration (Lessons from The Second City), Kelly Leonard and Tom Yorton, 2015.
2. How to Say No: Regain Control of Your Life by Setting Boundaries and Saying “No” Without Feeling Guilty, Steven Hopkins, 2019.
3. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workshop for Anxiety: Breaking Free from Worry, Panic, PTSD and Other Anxiety Symptoms, Alexander Chapman, Kim Gratz, Matthew Tull, 2011.
1. The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World, Amit Goswami, 1993.
2. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn, 1962.
3. Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, Richard Tarnas, 2006.
1. Creative Evolution, Henri Bergson, 1911.
2. Biosemiotics: An Examination into the Signs of Life and the Life of Signs, Jesper Hoffmeyer, 2008.
3. Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics, Paul Davies and Niels Henrik Gregersen, Eds., 2010.
1. Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, Theodore Roszak, Mary Gomes, and Allen Kanner, Eds., 1995.
2. Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A New Treatment for Drugs and Alcohol Problems, Andrew Tatarsky, 2002.
3. No One Understands You and What You Can Do About It, Heidi Grant Halvorson, 2015.
1. Jung and the Alchemical Imagination: The alchemical art and its allegories are the drama of our own souls—playing out the individuation process on the wheel of life, Jeffrey Raff, 2000
2. The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality, Mitch Horowitz, 2018.
3. Christ in You, Anonymous, 1910.
1. The Great Book of Hemp: The Complete Guide to the Environmental, Commercial, and Medicinal Uses of the World’s Most Extraordinary Plant, Rowan Robinson, 1996.
2. Marijuana Medicine: A World Tour of the Visionary and Healing Powers of Cannabis, Christian Ratsch, 1998.
3. The Healing Magic of Cannabis, Beverly Potter and Dan Joy, 1998.
1. The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, and the End of History, Terence McKenna, 1991.
At this point we've 17 triads of books (51 total + 1) on our list of books to re-boot reality or reinvent human society from the ground up. In time this list will be expanded accordingly.
For courses and clubs I like to group books into threes, or triads. My reason for doing this has to do with synergy. In combining books in such a way, we may find in the synthesis of their ideas and content a synergistic result, that is, we may gain certain knowledge or understanding that is greater than the sum or their parts. Of course such synergy can happen in the combining of pairs and quads and mores, but I find three to be a most powerful and practical arrangement as the graphic on the right suggests. Below are examples of such triadic groupings:
