{"id":1582,"date":"2008-09-05T13:47:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T21:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2008-09-05T13:47:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T21:47:21","slug":"books-about-being-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/books-about-being-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Books about being human"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently Karen Sella<\/a> posted a request to the OSLIST among other places for books that are about being human \u00a0Today she posted the list.<\/p>\n

Here is your new life reading program!<\/a><\/p>\n

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Playing and Reality<\/em>, D. W. Winnicott \u00a0
\nMaturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment<\/em>, D,W. Winnicott \u00a0 \u00a0
\nSexual Personae: A History of the feminine from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson<\/em>, Camille Paglia
\nThe World of Pooh<\/em>, A.A. Milne
\nThe Wind in the Willows<\/em>, Kenneth Graham
\nThe Spell of the Sensuous<\/em>, David Abrams<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Synthesis of Yoga<\/em>, Sri Aurobindo, \u00a0<\/span>The Inner Journey Home: Soul’s Realization of the Unity of Reality<\/em>, A.H. Almaas, \u00a0<\/span>Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World through Mindfulness<\/em>, Jon Kabat Zin, \u00a0<\/span>Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind<\/em>, \u00a0<\/span>Evan Thompson, \u00a0<\/span>The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature<\/em>, \u00a0<\/span>Steven Pinker, \u00a0<\/span>The Prophet<\/em>, Kahlil Gibran, and \u00a0<\/span>The Velveteen Rabbit<\/em>, Margery Williams…<\/span><\/span>to name just a few.<\/span> \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, for those of you who enquired, some (and there are \u00a0so very many<\/em>) favorite books about being human that I recommend are:<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Living Beyond the End of the World<\/em>, Margaret Swedish \u00a0
\nThe Shock Doctrine<\/em>, Naomi Klein \u00a0
\nOrnament of the World<\/em>, Maria Rosa Menocal
\nCultural Creatives<\/em>, Paul Ray
\nThe Rise of the Creative Class<\/em>, Richard Florida
\nBreaking Ranks<\/em>, Ronit Chacham
\nBetter<\/em>, Atul Gawand
\nThe Hidden Connections<\/em>, Fritjof Capra
\nSketching User Experience<\/em>, Bill Buxton
\nThe Miners of Windber: the Struggles for New Miners for Unionization<\/em>, Mildred Beik<\/p>\n

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\nBurning All Illusions<\/em>, David Edwards, 1995 (Also published under the Title \u201cDare to be Human\u201d\u009d)<\/span><\/p>\n

Jonathan Livingstone Seagull<\/em>, Richard Bach
\nIllusions<\/em>, Richard Bach
\nOne<\/em>, Richard Bach<\/span><\/p>\n

Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World<\/em>, Kathleen Dean Moore
\nThe Spell of the Sensuous<\/em>, David Abram
\nThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly<\/em>, Jean-Dominique Bauby
\nComing to Life<\/em>, Polly Berrien Berends
\nPilgrim at Tinker Creek<\/em>, Annie Dillard
\nAll Sickness is Homesickness<\/em>, Dianne Connelly<\/span><\/p>\n

Imagining Argentina<\/em>, Thornton
\nProphetic Imagination<\/em>, Brueggeman<\/span><\/p>\n

Crucial Conversations<\/em>
\nThe Way of the Peaceful Warrior<\/em> \u00a0(series), Dan Millman<\/span><\/p>\n

Books, tapes, online et al: anything by Esther and Jerry Hicks
\nThe Alchemist<\/em>, Paulo Coehlo
\nCreed for the Third Millennium<\/em>, Colleen McCullough<\/span><\/p>\n

Water for Elephants<\/em>, Sara Gruen \u00a0
\n\u201dEverything I have read by Parker Palmer and Frederick Buechner, nonfiction and fiction alike\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

How We Became Human<\/em>, Joy Harjo
\nTurning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restoring Hope to the Future<\/em>, Margaret Wheatley<\/span><\/p>\n

The Sparrow<\/em>, Mary Doria Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

Bring Me the Rhinoceros<\/em>, John Tarrant<\/span><\/p>\n

The Secret<\/em>, Rhonda Byrne
\nA New Earth<\/em>, Eckhart Tolle
\nLoving What Is<\/em>, Byron Katie<\/span><\/p>\n

The Road Less Traveled<\/em>, M. Scott Peck<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ishmael<\/em>, Daniel Quinn
\nThe Alchemist<\/em>, Paolo Coelho
\nWomen Who Run with Wolves<\/em>, Clarissa Pinkola Estes
\nPower of Now<\/em>, Eckhart Tolle
\nTurning to One Another<\/em>, Meg Wheatley
\nGrace and Grit<\/em>, Ken Wilber and Treya Killam Wilber
\npoetry of Neruda and Rumi
\nComing Back to Life<\/em>, Joanna Macy<\/span><\/p>\n

On Being Human<\/em>, Ashley Montague
\nMan’s Search for Meaning<\/em>, Viktor Frankl
\nI Am That<\/em>, Nisargadatta Maharaj
\nMetta: The Practice of Loving Kindness<\/em>, Nagabodhi<\/span><\/p>\n

Tao Te Ching<\/em>, Lao Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is a Verb<\/em>, Patti Digh<\/span><\/p>\n

Care of the Soul<\/em>, Thomas Moore<\/span><\/p>\n

The Chalice and the Blade<\/em>, Riane Eisler \u00a0 \u00a0
\nThe Occult Significance of Forgiveness<\/em>, Sergei Prokofiev. \u00a0 \u00a0
\nWhere the Wild Things Are<\/em>, Maurice Sendak \u00a0
\nThe Handmaid’s Tale<\/em>, Margaret Atwood
\nThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier<\/em> \u00a0and \u00a0Klay<\/em>, Michael Chabon
\nMan on the Threshold<\/em>, Bernard Lievegoed (and anything else this guy ever wrote)<\/span><\/p>\n

Nineteen Eighty Four<\/em>, George Orwell
\nFreedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama of Tibet,<\/em> \u00a0His Holiness the Dalai Lama
\nWinnie-the-Pooh<\/em>, A. A. Milne<\/span><\/p>\n

Le Petit Prince<\/em>, Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince<\/em> \u00a0in English)<\/span><\/p>\n

Bible
\nSpiral Dynamics<\/em>, Don Beck & Chris Cowan
\nCourage to Be<\/em>, Paul Tillich<\/span><\/p>\n

Winning Through Enlightenment : Mastery of Life, Volume I<\/em>, Ron Smothermon<\/span><\/p>\n

New and Selected Poems<\/em>, Mary Oliver
\nLetters to a Young Poet<\/em>, Rainer Maria Rilke
\nI and Thou<\/em>, Martin Buber
\nIshmael<\/em>, Daniel Quinn<\/span><\/p>\n

Thou Shalt Not Be Aware<\/em>, Alice Miller (also, \u00a0The Drama of the Gifted Child)<\/em><\/span><\/span>
\nIf This Is a Man<\/em>, Primo Levi (in United State published as \u00a0Survival in Auschwitz<\/em>)
\nThe History of Childhood<\/em>, Lloyd deMause \u00a0 \u00a0
\nThe Emotional Life of Nations<\/em>, Lloyd deMause<\/span><\/p>\n

In a Different Voice<\/em>, Carol Gilligan \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0
\nIsland<\/em>, Aldous Huxley<\/span><\/p>\n

Beloved<\/em>, Toni Morrison \u00a0
\nTree of Knowledge<\/em>, Huberto Maturana \u00a0
\nEternal Echoes<\/em>, John O’ Donohue \u00a0
\nPhilosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art<\/em>, Suzanne Langer \u00a0
\nHarold and the Purple Crayon<\/em>, Crockett Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

The Fourfold Way<\/em>, Angeles Arrien \u00a0
\nHarmful Advice<\/em> \u00a0[Vrednye Sovety], Grigorii Oster (Oster is described as a children’s writer read by primarily by adults. His contrarian rhymes and poetry caused a huge uproar when he came out in print during Perestroika. Sadly, last time I checked he was not available in English\u201dhe also has a line of “Harmful Textbooks”)<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently Karen Sella posted a request to the OSLIST among other places for books that are about being human \u00a0Today she posted the list. Here is your new life reading program! Playing and Reality, D. W. Winnicott \u00a0 Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment, D,W. Winnicott \u00a0 \u00a0 Sexual Personae: A History of the feminine from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, Camille Paglia The World of Pooh, A.A. Milne The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Graham The Spell of the Sensuous, David Abrams \u00a0 \u00a0 The Synthesis of Yoga, Sri Aurobindo, \u00a0The Inner Journey Home: Soul’s Realization of the Unity of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-pw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}