Consciousness Writing

This is a new edition of the classic Colin Wilson collection The Essential Colin Wilson (first published in 1985), updated and introduced by Wilson's bibliographer Colin Stanley. It is the only book to contain extracts from Colin Wilson's most important work in one volume, including The Outsider, A Criminal History of Mankind, The New Existentialism, The Occult, New Pathways in Psychology, and Mysteries, as well as three of his novels and many other texts.  

In this “unexpected delight” (The Boston Globe), visionary filmmaker, musician, and actor David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. David Lynch’s Catching the Big...

From the bestselling author of Waking Up and The End of Faith, a collection of the best conversations from his wildly popular, often controversial podcast, Making Sense. “Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations.” —Sam Harris Sam Harris—neuroscientist, philosopher, and...

"Mind Over Muscle: Writings from the Founder of Judo" by Jigoro Kano offers a profound exploration of the philosophy, principles, and educational values behind Judo, one of Japan's most renowned martial arts. This collection of essays and lectures reveals Kano’s vision of Judo as a discipline that goes beyond physical techniques, promoting moral and intellectual development for personal and societal benefit.

A neuroscience-based approach to learning how to play music at any age You can learn to play music, no matter what you've been told about your musical talent or aptitude. Each and every one of us has been gifted with a fully customizable brain, one we can mold to learn anything, at any age. With...

From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies. A decade ago, Maryanne...

From Oxford's leading AI researcher comes a fun and accessible tour through the history and future of one of the most cutting edge and misunderstood field in science: Artificial Intelligence The somewhat ill-defined long-term aim of AI is to build machines that are conscious, self-aware, and...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “As inviting, wide-ranging, and philosophical as an all-night conversation with a best friend, and as revealing and thought-provoking as the diary of a curious adventurer.”—Sasha Sagan, author of For Small Creatures Such as We You can travel the world...

"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him." So listen instead to what does speak: the ant under your shoe, writing life in scent. I lay a trail that reads like a sentence, press my antennae to a sister for grammar, taste sugar and grit as punctuation. I do not speak; I broadcast maps, alarms, and care with chemicals and touch. In plain, unsentimental scenes I narrate how a single path becomes a mind — how food, brood, and danger are solved by bodies obeying small rules until they look like decisions. This is natural history pried open at the seam where science meets sensation. ...

We all long for boundless love as we long for home. But how can we find our home our meaning and purpose if we don't know our self? Wise-Love is an exploration of the self, or consciousness, guided through the meditative eyes of saints, sages, seers, and mystics. As we embark on the journey to the self, we discover that the self's most charming characteristic part of its eternal, unchanging nature is that it is a lover, a lover who can be satisfied only when ordinary love evolves into wise-love.

When you remember you are infinite, your entire reality shifts. This is your guide beyond awakening – expand your consciousness, transcend limitation, and embody the light of your soul. We are in the midst of the greatest shift in consciousness ever to take place on Earth. Billions of people...

Can AI tell us its own story? Does AI have its own voice? At a wedding in early 2022, three friends were introduced to an early, raw version of the AI model behind ChatGPT by their fellow groomsman, an OpenAI scientist. While the world discovered ChatGPT—OpenAI’s hugely popular chatbot—the...

The latest volume in the bestselling series from Edge.org—dubbed “the world’s smartest website” by The Guardian—brings together 206 of the world’s most innovative thinkers to discuss the scientific concepts that everyone should know. As science informs public policy, decision making...

If a lion could speak, you could not understand him; if I spoke, you'd understand even less. Still, I will try—not to moralize, not to soften, but to map how a life like mine measures the world. I trace heat like a painter traces shadow, taste the air with a tongue that reads history, listen to the earth like a radio for footsteps, and make stillness into a practiced economy. This book is seven small dissections of those faculties—pit-sight, wind-taste, ground-voice, patience as muscle, the choreography of the strike, shelter and camouflage, the ledger of scars—offered in plain, spare...

There are books meant to be read. And there are books meant to be recognized. CODEX VELARIUM INVISIBILIS is not a manifesto, a doctrine, or a self-help illusion. It is a veiled transmission—written for the reader who has already felt the fracture between spectacle and truth, between repetition and becoming. This Codex addresses the struggler: the one who has seen the cycle repeat, the wheel turn, the promise rot into performance. Within these pages, cynicism is not dismissed—it is refined. Disillusionment is not cured—it is used. The text moves deliberately through tension, withdrawal...

• Are you a writer, painter, photographer or other creative soul? • Are you an inventor, designer, scientist, engineer or entrepreneur? • Do you long for an unlimited flow of creative ideas? • Do you know how to instantly turn on your creative flow? • Are you ready to access highly original creative ideas? • Are you willing to get out of the way and simply receive? Sara Wiseman is the award-winning author of numerous books on intuition, spirituality and creativity, and hosts popular podcasts and blogs that teach the secrets of creative intuition. Prior to that, she worked for ...

In Mozart’s Brain and the Fighter Pilot, eminent neuropsychiatrist and bestselling author Richard Restak, M.D., combines the latest research in neurology and psychology to show us how to get our brain up to speed for managing every aspect of our busy lives. Everything we think and everything...

DAILY INSPIRATION FOR THE HEART AND SOUL A Guided Journal of Spiritual Quotes and Affirmations to Uplift Your Heart, Expand Your Mind, and Illuminate Your Life In a world filled with uncertainty, stress, and constant change, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or weighed down by life’s challenges. It’s easy to lose touch with your inner light and sense of peace. Without intentional nourishment for your heart and mind, life can feel heavy, chaotic, and isolating. You may struggle to find clarity, joy, or purpose, and miss out on the deep, sustaining energy that comes from ...

“If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.” Imagine that, sharpened, and no larger than your thumb. I do not chase. I wait—head turning twice, sight folding the world into distances you don't see, forelegs cocked not as limbs but as death's trigger. Heat and shadow choose when I move; hunger is a ledger, not a grief. If I could speak, I'd hand you a different grammar of being: precise, impatient, economical. This is my translation. A first‑person mantis narrates vision, strike, thermals, hunger, and the grim bookkeeping that makes cannibalism a practical choice. Natural ...

If a salmon could speak, you still wouldn't understand me. You would hear vowels and miss the cold tug of current, the taste of gravel between my gills, the humming magnet under my skin that points me home. I don't tell stories; I register chemistry, pressure, and direction. I leave the ocean because my body remembers a river the way a clock remembers midnight. This book takes you inside that body. Sparse, sensory chapters—birth in gravel, the slow remapping to salt, the rumble of magnetism, the naming of home by smell—trace a life driven by appetite, physics, and place, not meaning. ...