50 Books like Religion in Human Evolution

A Short History of Myth

by Karen Armstrong • 2005

We traded myth for reason and got neither meaning nor a world we can bear.

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📚 Comparative Mythology 📜 Religious History ✨ Sacred Experience 🔮 Ritual And Symbol 🌾 Goddess Traditions

A Short History of Myth 96%

We traded myth for reason and got neither meaning nor a world we can bear.

by Karen Armstrong 2005

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7k+ ratings

📚 Comparative Mythology 📜 Religious History ✨ Sacred Experience 🔮 Ritual And Symbol 🌾 Goddess Traditions

The Empathic Civilization

by Jeremy Rifkin • 2009

Every energy revolution expanded human empathy. Now that same engine threatens to undo us all.

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🏛️ Big History 🫂 Empathy Studies 📈 Moral Progress ⚡ Energy And Civilization 🌍 Ecological Philosophy

The Empathic Civilization 95%

Every energy revolution expanded human empathy. Now that same engine threatens to undo us all.

by Jeremy Rifkin 2009

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937 ratings

🏛️ Big History 🫂 Empathy Studies 📈 Moral Progress ⚡ Energy And Civilization 🌍 Ecological Philosophy

Food of the Gods

by Terence McKenna • 1992

A single psychoactive mushroom may have sparked language, religion, and human consciousness itself.

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🧬 Human Evolution 🌿 Ethnobotany 🌀 Altered States 🍄 Psychedelic Studies ✨ Entheogens

Food of the Gods 95%

A single psychoactive mushroom may have sparked language, religion, and human consciousness itself.

by Terence McKenna 1992

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13k+ ratings

🧬 Human Evolution 🌿 Ethnobotany 🌀 Altered States 🍄 Psychedelic Studies ✨ Entheogens

Ultrasociety

by Peter Turchin • 2015

War did not just destroy. Over ten millennia, it built the greatest cooperators on Earth.

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🧬 Cultural Evolution 📜 Big History 👥 Group Selection ⚔️ Warfare And Society 🏛️ State Formation

Ultrasociety 95%

War did not just destroy. Over ten millennia, it built the greatest cooperators on Earth.

by Peter Turchin 2015

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464 ratings

🧬 Cultural Evolution 📜 Big History 👥 Group Selection ⚔️ Warfare And Society 🏛️ State Formation

The Dawn of Everything

by David Graeber • 2021

The story of human progress was built to bury indigenous challenges to European society.

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🌍 Big History 💡 Intellectual History ✊🏽 Decolonizing History 🗣️ Indigenous Philosophy 🏴 Anarchist Anthropology

The Dawn of Everything 94%

The story of human progress was built to bury indigenous challenges to European society.

by David Graeber 2021

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27k+ ratings

🌍 Big History 💡 Intellectual History ✊🏽 Decolonizing History 🗣️ Indigenous Philosophy 🏴 Anarchist Anthropology

Minds Make Societies

by Pascal Boyer • 2018

Nations clash, gods multiply, and families splinter for reasons your conscious mind never sees.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🏛️ Cognitive Anthropology 🔄 Cultural Evolution 🔬 Cognitive Science ⛪ Evolution Of Religion

Minds Make Societies 94%

Nations clash, gods multiply, and families splinter for reasons your conscious mind never sees.

by Pascal Boyer 2018

3.90

397 ratings

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🏛️ Cognitive Anthropology 🔄 Cultural Evolution 🔬 Cognitive Science ⛪ Evolution Of Religion

Predictable Results in Unpredictable Times

by Stephen R. Covey • 2009

The West built its politics on a mistake: that humans are naturally selfish animals.

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🏛️ Political Anthropology 🌍 Western Critique 🧠 Human Nature Debate 🌿 Nature Vs Culture 👥 Kinship Systems

Predictable Results in Unpredictable Times Summary

Predictable Results in Unpredictable Times 94%

The West built its politics on a mistake: that humans are naturally selfish animals.

by Stephen R. Covey 2009

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186 ratings

🏛️ Political Anthropology 🌍 Western Critique 🧠 Human Nature Debate 🌿 Nature Vs Culture 👥 Kinship Systems

Nonzero

by Robert Wright

History bends toward cooperation, not because we're good, but because interdependence pays.

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📜 Big History 🧬 Cultural Evolution 🤝 Evolution Of Cooperation 🏛️ Social Complexity 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology

Nonzero 94%

History bends toward cooperation, not because we're good, but because interdependence pays.

by Robert Wright

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3k+ ratings

📜 Big History 🧬 Cultural Evolution 🤝 Evolution Of Cooperation 🏛️ Social Complexity 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology

Our Kind

by Marvin Harris • 1989

Built for a lost world: why we crave, worship, and wage war, from an anthropologist.

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🧬 Human Evolution 🏺 Prehistory 🏛️ Cultural Evolution 🗣️ Origin Of Language 📊 Social Hierarchy

Our Kind 94%

Built for a lost world: why we crave, worship, and wage war, from an anthropologist.

by Marvin Harris 1989

4.17

672 ratings

🧬 Human Evolution 🏺 Prehistory 🏛️ Cultural Evolution 🗣️ Origin Of Language 📊 Social Hierarchy

A Short History of the World

by H.G. Wells • 1922

Human history is the final page of a two-billion-year story we are only beginning to read.

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🌍 Big History 🔬 Popular Science ⏳ Deep Time 🦴 Human Origins 🧬 Evolutionary History

A Short History of the World 94%

Human history is the final page of a two-billion-year story we are only beginning to read.

by H.G. Wells 1922

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🌍 Big History 🔬 Popular Science ⏳ Deep Time 🦴 Human Origins 🧬 Evolutionary History

A Study of History, Abridgement of Vols 1-6

by Arnold Joseph Toynbee • 1987

History's pattern: empires die, and their true heirs are the churches they tried to crush.

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🏛️ Philosophy Of History 🌐 Comparative History 🔄 Cyclical History 🤝 Cultural Encounters 🏰 Imperial Legacies

A Study of History, Abridgement of Vols 1-6 Summary

A Study of History, Abridgement of Vols 1-6 94%

History's pattern: empires die, and their true heirs are the churches they tried to crush.

by Arnold Joseph Toynbee 1987

4.11

543 ratings

🏛️ Philosophy Of History 🌐 Comparative History 🔄 Cyclical History 🤝 Cultural Encounters 🏰 Imperial Legacies

Outgrowing God

by Richard Dawkins • 2019

Humans have invented thousands of gods. A scientist's case for why yours is one of them.

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🧠 New Atheism ⛪ Religious Critique 🌍 Secular Humanism 🌐 Comparative Religion 📖 Biblical Criticism

Outgrowing God 94%

Humans have invented thousands of gods. A scientist's case for why yours is one of them.

by Richard Dawkins 2019

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6k+ ratings

🧠 New Atheism ⛪ Religious Critique 🌍 Secular Humanism 🌐 Comparative Religion 📖 Biblical Criticism

The Crisis of the Modern World

by René Guénon • 1927

Modernity is a spiritual dark age, and the West's greatest achievements are its diagnostic symptoms.

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🕉️ Perennial Philosophy 🏙️ Critique Of Modernity 🔄 Cyclical History 🧘 Eastern Metaphysics 🕯️ Contemplation And Action

The Crisis of the Modern World 94%

Modernity is a spiritual dark age, and the West's greatest achievements are its diagnostic symptoms.

by René Guénon 1927

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🕉️ Perennial Philosophy 🏙️ Critique Of Modernity 🔄 Cyclical History 🧘 Eastern Metaphysics 🕯️ Contemplation And Action

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches

by Marvin Harris • 1974

Cow worship, pork bans, witch hunts: each solved a practical problem no one admitted existed.

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🍖 Food Taboos 🌿 Cultural Ecology 💰 Economic Anthropology 🕯️ Ritual And Sacrifice ⚔️ Origins Of War

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches 94%

Cow worship, pork bans, witch hunts: each solved a practical problem no one admitted existed.

by Marvin Harris 1974

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5k+ ratings

🍖 Food Taboos 🌿 Cultural Ecology 💰 Economic Anthropology 🕯️ Ritual And Sacrifice ⚔️ Origins Of War

Breaking the Spell

by Daniel C. Dennett • 2006

Our brains are built for belief. How evolution, cognition, and culture invented the gods.

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🔬 Science Of Religion 🧬 Evolution Of Religion 🧠 Psychology Of Belief ❌ New Atheism 🛐 Origins Of Religion

Breaking the Spell 94%

Our brains are built for belief. How evolution, cognition, and culture invented the gods.

by Daniel C. Dennett 2006

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🔬 Science Of Religion 🧬 Evolution Of Religion 🧠 Psychology Of Belief ❌ New Atheism 🛐 Origins Of Religion

The Battle for God

by Karen Armstrong • 2000

Fundamentalism is not faith's past. It is modernity's child, and opposition only feeds it.

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🌐 Comparative Religion 🔥 Religious Fundamentalism 🏙️ Modernity And Faith 🎭 Myth And Ritual 🚩 Religious Nationalism

The Battle for God 94%

Fundamentalism is not faith's past. It is modernity's child, and opposition only feeds it.

by Karen Armstrong 2000

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🌐 Comparative Religion 🔥 Religious Fundamentalism 🏙️ Modernity And Faith 🎭 Myth And Ritual 🚩 Religious Nationalism

Awakening From the Meaning Crisis

by John Vervaeke • 2024

The West's loss of meaning has a 40,000-year history. Tracing it reveals the exit.

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📜 Intellectual History 🧠 Cognitive Science 🔍 Attention And Flow 🌱 Secular Spirituality 🕯️ Wisdom Traditions

Awakening From the Meaning Crisis Summary

Awakening From the Meaning Crisis 94%

The West's loss of meaning has a 40,000-year history. Tracing it reveals the exit.

by John Vervaeke 2024

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69 ratings

📜 Intellectual History 🧠 Cognitive Science 🔍 Attention And Flow 🌱 Secular Spirituality 🕯️ Wisdom Traditions

The Evolution of Everything

by Matt Ridley • 2015

The same undirected process that built the eye also built language, money, and the internet.

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🕸️ Spontaneous Order 🎭 Cultural Evolution 📜 Big History ⚙️ Technological Evolution 🌐 Decentralization

The Evolution of Everything 94%

The same undirected process that built the eye also built language, money, and the internet.

by Matt Ridley 2015

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🕸️ Spontaneous Order 🎭 Cultural Evolution 📜 Big History ⚙️ Technological Evolution 🌐 Decentralization

Origin Story

by David Christian • 2008

How energy and information built the universe, life, and us. What they mean for our future.

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🌌 Big History 🦴 Human Origins ⚡ Energy And Complexity 🗣️ Cultural Evolution ⏳ Deep Time

Origin Story 94%

How energy and information built the universe, life, and us. What they mean for our future.

by David Christian 2008

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8k+ ratings

🌌 Big History 🦴 Human Origins ⚡ Energy And Complexity 🗣️ Cultural Evolution ⏳ Deep Time

The Marriage of Sense and Soul

by Ken Wilber • 1998

The war between science and religion is a category error. Fix the method, conflict dissolves.

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🧪 Science And Religion 🕉️ Perennial Philosophy 🧩 Integral Theory 📚 Epistemology 🧠 Transpersonal Psychology

The Marriage of Sense and Soul 94%

The war between science and religion is a category error. Fix the method, conflict dissolves.

by Ken Wilber 1998

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522 ratings

🧪 Science And Religion 🕉️ Perennial Philosophy 🧩 Integral Theory 📚 Epistemology 🧠 Transpersonal Psychology

How the World Thinks

by Julian Baggini • 2018

The West asks what is true. India asks what liberates. A map of philosophy beyond Europe.

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🧭 Comparative Philosophy 🛐 Comparative Religion 🪞 Conceptions Of Self ⚖️ Moral Philosophy ☸️ Eastern Philosophy

How the World Thinks 94%

The West asks what is true. India asks what liberates. A map of philosophy beyond Europe.

by Julian Baggini 2018

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3k+ ratings

🧭 Comparative Philosophy 🛐 Comparative Religion 🪞 Conceptions Of Self ⚖️ Moral Philosophy ☸️ Eastern Philosophy

The Immortality Key

by Brian C. Muraresku • 2020

The Eleusinian Mysteries were powered by a psychedelic potion, and the early Christians knew it.

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🏛️ Ancient Mystery Cults ✝️ Early Christianity 🍄 Psychedelic Religion 🍷 Ritual Intoxication 🌿 Pagan Survival

The Immortality Key 94%

The Eleusinian Mysteries were powered by a psychedelic potion, and the early Christians knew it.

by Brian C. Muraresku 2020

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6k+ ratings

🏛️ Ancient Mystery Cults ✝️ Early Christianity 🍄 Psychedelic Religion 🍷 Ritual Intoxication 🌿 Pagan Survival

The Frontiers of Knowledge

by A.C. Grayling • 2021

Physics, history, brain science: three frontiers where every answer opens a bigger question.

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🧪 Philosophy Of Science 📚 Intellectual History 📜 Historiography 🌍 Big History 🔬 Popular Science

The Frontiers of Knowledge 94%

Physics, history, brain science: three frontiers where every answer opens a bigger question.

by A.C. Grayling 2021

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344 ratings

🧪 Philosophy Of Science 📚 Intellectual History 📜 Historiography 🌍 Big History 🔬 Popular Science

The Weirdest People in the World

by Joseph Henrich • 2020

How a medieval church's war on cousin marriage made the West individualistic, analytical, and rich.

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🧠 Cultural Psychology 🦴 Evolutionary Anthropology 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Kinship And Social Structure 🧪 Cross-Cultural Experiments 🔄 Cultural Evolution Theory

The Weirdest People in the World Summary

The Weirdest People in the World 94%

How a medieval church's war on cousin marriage made the West individualistic, analytical, and rich.

by Joseph Henrich 2020

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4k+ ratings

🧠 Cultural Psychology 🦴 Evolutionary Anthropology 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Kinship And Social Structure 🧪 Cross-Cultural Experiments 🔄 Cultural Evolution Theory

The Origins of Political Order

by Francis Fukuyama • 2011

China built a modern state eighteen centuries before Europe. That gap reshapes political history.

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🏛️ Comparative Politics 🧱 State Formation 🦍 Evolutionary Anthropology 📉 Institutional Decay 👪 Kinship And Politics

The Origins of Political Order 93%

China built a modern state eighteen centuries before Europe. That gap reshapes political history.

by Francis Fukuyama 2011

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🏛️ Comparative Politics 🧱 State Formation 🦍 Evolutionary Anthropology 📉 Institutional Decay 👪 Kinship And Politics

A History of God

by Karen Armstrong • 1993

Humans invented God, then redesigned him again and again. The full 4000-year story.

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🕌 Comparative Religion ✡️ Abrahamic Faiths 🧬 Anthropology Of Religion 🔮 Mystical Traditions 💭 Philosophical Theology

A History of God 93%

Humans invented God, then redesigned him again and again. The full 4000-year story.

by Karen Armstrong 1993

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🕌 Comparative Religion ✡️ Abrahamic Faiths 🧬 Anthropology Of Religion 🔮 Mystical Traditions 💭 Philosophical Theology

Conscious Evolution

by Barbara Marx Hubbard • 1998

Humanity's next evolutionary step is not biological; it is a conscious choice we can make now.

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🌀 Evolutionary Spirituality 🌍 Social Transformation 🌏 Planetary Awakening 🧠 Memes And Culture 🌌 New Cosmology

Conscious Evolution 93%

Humanity's next evolutionary step is not biological; it is a conscious choice we can make now.

by Barbara Marx Hubbard 1998

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198 ratings

🌀 Evolutionary Spirituality 🌍 Social Transformation 🌏 Planetary Awakening 🧠 Memes And Culture 🌌 New Cosmology

A God That Could be Real

by Nancy Ellen Abrams • 2015

What if God isn't a creator but a creation, emerging from collective human consciousness right now?

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🧪 Science And Religion 🌊 Emergence Theory 🧠 Collective Consciousness 🌍 Planetary Ethics 🔭 Cosmic Perspective

A God That Could be Real 93%

What if God isn't a creator but a creation, emerging from collective human consciousness right now?

by Nancy Ellen Abrams 2015

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276 ratings

🧪 Science And Religion 🌊 Emergence Theory 🧠 Collective Consciousness 🌍 Planetary Ethics 🔭 Cosmic Perspective

Civilized to Death

by Christopher Ryan • 2018

Agriculture made us sicker, more unequal, and less free. The hunter-gatherer way holds the clues.

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🏹 Hunter-Gatherer Studies 🚫 Myth Of Progress ⚠️ Civilization's Costs 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🤝 Forager Egalitarianism

Civilized to Death 93%

Agriculture made us sicker, more unequal, and less free. The hunter-gatherer way holds the clues.

by Christopher Ryan 2018

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🏹 Hunter-Gatherer Studies 🚫 Myth Of Progress ⚠️ Civilization's Costs 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🤝 Forager Egalitarianism

The Meme Machine

by Susan Blackmore • 1999

Our brains did not make culture. Culture, evolving like a virus, made our brains.

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🧬 Cultural Evolution 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🦠 Memetics 🔄 Universal Darwinism 🤝 Altruism Evolution

The Meme Machine 93%

Our brains did not make culture. Culture, evolving like a virus, made our brains.

by Susan Blackmore 1999

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🧬 Cultural Evolution 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🦠 Memetics 🔄 Universal Darwinism 🤝 Altruism Evolution

Big History

by David Christian • 2008

13.8 billion years: from pure energy to a planet shaping species. The thread is not chance.

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🪐 Cosmic Evolution 📜 Universal History 🧩 Complexity Science ⚡ Energy History 🦴 Human Origins

Big History 93%

13.8 billion years: from pure energy to a planet shaping species. The thread is not chance.

by David Christian 2008

4.42

561 ratings

🪐 Cosmic Evolution 📜 Universal History 🧩 Complexity Science ⚡ Energy History 🦴 Human Origins

Homo Deus

by Yuval Noah Harari • 2015

Our oldest enemies are falling. The technology that beat them is now dismantling humanism itself.

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📜 Big History 🤖 Technological Disruption 🧬 Transhumanism 🧠 Human Consciousness 🏛️ Social Constructs

Homo Deus 93%

Our oldest enemies are falling. The technology that beat them is now dismantling humanism itself.

by Yuval Noah Harari 2015

4.18

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📜 Big History 🤖 Technological Disruption 🧬 Transhumanism 🧠 Human Consciousness 🏛️ Social Constructs

Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament

by John H. Walton • 2006

The Old Testament's world was nothing like ours. Its hardest verses only make sense inside it.

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📖 Biblical Studies 🗿 Ancient Near East 🧠 Ancient Worldviews 🌍 Comparative Religion 👑 Divine Kingship

Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament Summary

Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament 93%

The Old Testament's world was nothing like ours. Its hardest verses only make sense inside it.

by John H. Walton 2006

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809 ratings

📖 Biblical Studies 🗿 Ancient Near East 🧠 Ancient Worldviews 🌍 Comparative Religion 👑 Divine Kingship

Blueprint

by Nicholas A. Christakis • 2019

Goodness is our default setting. Evolution built us for love, friendship, and cooperation.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🌐 Human Universals 🏛️ Cultural Anthropology 📜 Cultural Evolution 🕸️ Social Networks

Blueprint 93%

Goodness is our default setting. Evolution built us for love, friendship, and cooperation.

by Nicholas A. Christakis 2019

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2k+ ratings

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🌐 Human Universals 🏛️ Cultural Anthropology 📜 Cultural Evolution 🕸️ Social Networks

The Cosmic Serpent

by Jeremy Narby • 1998

A Stanford anthropologist argues Amazonian shamans see their own DNA as twin luminous serpents.

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🌿 Ethnobotany 🍄 Psychedelics 🪶 Indigenous Knowledge 🐍 Comparative Mythology 🔬 Anthropology Of Science

The Cosmic Serpent 93%

A Stanford anthropologist argues Amazonian shamans see their own DNA as twin luminous serpents.

by Jeremy Narby 1998

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8k+ ratings

🌿 Ethnobotany 🍄 Psychedelics 🪶 Indigenous Knowledge 🐍 Comparative Mythology 🔬 Anthropology Of Science

The God Delusion

by Richard Dawkins • 2006

Religion is a delusion that survives by infecting children. A biologist makes the case for atheism.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🏛️ Philosophy Of Religion 📖 Religious Critique 🚫 New Atheism 🔬 Scientific Skepticism

The God Delusion 93%

Religion is a delusion that survives by infecting children. A biologist makes the case for atheism.

by Richard Dawkins 2006

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🏛️ Philosophy Of Religion 📖 Religious Critique 🚫 New Atheism 🔬 Scientific Skepticism

Authors of the Impossible

by Jeffrey J. Kripal • 2010

Ghosts, telepathy, UFOs: four scholars who read the impossible as a message, not a mistake.

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🔮 Psychical Research 💡 History Of Ideas 🧠 Consciousness Studies 🌊 Depth Psychology 👥 Sociology Of Belief

Authors of the Impossible 93%

Ghosts, telepathy, UFOs: four scholars who read the impossible as a message, not a mistake.

by Jeffrey J. Kripal 2010

4.15

289 ratings

🔮 Psychical Research 💡 History Of Ideas 🧠 Consciousness Studies 🌊 Depth Psychology 👥 Sociology Of Belief

Religion for Atheists

by Alain de Botton • 2011

Atheism won by disproving God. It lost by discarding everything religion knew about human needs.

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🧘 Secular Spirituality 📚 Applied Philosophy 🌍 Secular Humanism 🕯️ Ritual Design 📖 Cultural Criticism

Religion for Atheists 93%

Atheism won by disproving God. It lost by discarding everything religion knew about human needs.

by Alain de Botton 2011

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🧘 Secular Spirituality 📚 Applied Philosophy 🌍 Secular Humanism 🕯️ Ritual Design 📖 Cultural Criticism

The Human Story

by Robin I.M. Dunbar • 2004

Gossip, laughter, gods: how the social brain made us human, and the number behind it.

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🦍 Human Evolution 🧠 Social Neuroscience 🤝 Theory Of Mind 🗣️ Language Evolution 🎨 Symbolic Thinking

The Human Story 93%

Gossip, laughter, gods: how the social brain made us human, and the number behind it.

by Robin I.M. Dunbar 2004

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334 ratings

🦍 Human Evolution 🧠 Social Neuroscience 🤝 Theory Of Mind 🗣️ Language Evolution 🎨 Symbolic Thinking

The Subtle Body

by Stefanie Syman • 2010

Thoreau practiced it. The Beatles chased it. America turned it into an industry.

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🌿 Transcendentalism 🌏 East West Exchange 🧘 Modern Yoga 🕉️ Guru Culture 🌈 Sixties Spirituality

The Subtle Body 93%

Thoreau practiced it. The Beatles chased it. America turned it into an industry.

by Stefanie Syman 2010

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263 ratings

🌿 Transcendentalism 🌏 East West Exchange 🧘 Modern Yoga 🕉️ Guru Culture 🌈 Sixties Spirituality

Sex, Ecology, Spirituality

by Ken Wilber • 1995

Evolution doesn't stop at biology: the same pattern drives matter into life, mind, and spirit.

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🌱 Evolutionary Spirituality 🧠 Consciousness Evolution 📊 Developmental Stages 🔬 Mysticism And Science ☯️ Nondual Awareness

Sex, Ecology, Spirituality 93%

Evolution doesn't stop at biology: the same pattern drives matter into life, mind, and spirit.

by Ken Wilber 1995

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🌱 Evolutionary Spirituality 🧠 Consciousness Evolution 📊 Developmental Stages 🔬 Mysticism And Science ☯️ Nondual Awareness

The Ascent of Man

by Jacob Bronowski • 1973

Art and science are twin expressions of a single gift: the mind's ability to remake itself.

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🔬 History Of Science 🧬 Cultural Evolution 🦍 Human Origins 💭 Philosophy Of Science 🎨 Science And Art

The Ascent of Man 93%

Art and science are twin expressions of a single gift: the mind's ability to remake itself.

by Jacob Bronowski 1973

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🔬 History Of Science 🧬 Cultural Evolution 🦍 Human Origins 💭 Philosophy Of Science 🎨 Science And Art

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

by Julian Jaynes • 1976

Before introspection, humans heard gods. A theory of history explaining our search for certainty.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🧬 Consciousness Evolution 🧩 Neurological Models 🔗 Metaphor Theory 🧐 Heterodox Psychology

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind Summary

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind 93%

Before introspection, humans heard gods. A theory of history explaining our search for certainty.

by Julian Jaynes 1976

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🧬 Consciousness Evolution 🧩 Neurological Models 🔗 Metaphor Theory 🧐 Heterodox Psychology

The World Until Yesterday

by Jared Diamond • 2012

What hunter-gatherers knew about raising children, avoiding danger, and ending feuds we forgot.

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🏕️ Traditional Societies 👶 Child Rearing ⚠️ Risk Perception 🤝 Restorative Justice 🛡️ Traditional Warfare

The World Until Yesterday 93%

What hunter-gatherers knew about raising children, avoiding danger, and ending feuds we forgot.

by Jared Diamond 2012

3.78

11k+ ratings

🏕️ Traditional Societies 👶 Child Rearing ⚠️ Risk Perception 🤝 Restorative Justice 🛡️ Traditional Warfare

The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee

by Jared Diamond • 1991

How a species 98% chimp invented language, farming, and the means of its own ruin.

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🦴 Human Evolution 🦍 Primate Behavior 📜 Cultural Evolution 💑 Mating Strategies 🌾 Origins Of Agriculture

The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee Summary

The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee 93%

How a species 98% chimp invented language, farming, and the means of its own ruin.

by Jared Diamond 1991

4.09

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🦴 Human Evolution 🦍 Primate Behavior 📜 Cultural Evolution 💑 Mating Strategies 🌾 Origins Of Agriculture

How the Mind Changed

by Joseph Jebelli • 2022

The human brain didn't just get bigger. It learned to cook, gossip, and hallucinate a self.

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🧬 Human Evolution 🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🧩 Evolutionary Psychology 👥 Social Brain 🔮 Predictive Brain

How the Mind Changed 93%

The human brain didn't just get bigger. It learned to cook, gossip, and hallucinate a self.

by Joseph Jebelli 2022

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348 ratings

🧬 Human Evolution 🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🧩 Evolutionary Psychology 👥 Social Brain 🔮 Predictive Brain

The Social Conquest of Earth

by Edward O. Wilson • 2012

Human virtue and human genocide come from the same evolutionary force, and it's not kin selection.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦴 Human Evolution 🏛️ Multilevel Selection ⚖️ Origins Of Morality 🛡️ Tribalism

The Social Conquest of Earth 93%

Human virtue and human genocide come from the same evolutionary force, and it's not kin selection.

by Edward O. Wilson 2012

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦴 Human Evolution 🏛️ Multilevel Selection ⚖️ Origins Of Morality 🛡️ Tribalism

Wired for Culture

by Mark Pagel • 2012

Culture isn't a byproduct of big brains. It's the reason we have them.

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🦴 Evolutionary Anthropology 🔄 Cultural Evolution 👥 Social Learning 📚 Cumulative Culture 🤝 Group Cooperation

Wired for Culture 93%

Culture isn't a byproduct of big brains. It's the reason we have them.

by Mark Pagel 2012

3.86

296 ratings

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