Recommended books

Part of the Casswiki article series Books

On this page is the current list of books recommended by the FOTCM, with links to further information and overviews of the topics concerned. Currently, articles have been written about a portion of the books.

Some information is still only found in the old Recommended Books: List and Guide thread on the forum. For the old guide for delving into the material and related resources, see the second post (and those that follow).

For discussion of the recommended books (the list, this page, and other things about the project) and related topics, see the forum thread “Recommended Books: Discussion”. You’re welcome to participate!

Health and diet

See the article series Health and wellness for more on this general subject.

• Primal Body, Primal Mind – Nora T. Gedgaudas
• Diet Research of the Cassiopaea Forum – Gabriela Segura
• Keto-Adapted – Maria Emmerich
• The Vegetarian Myth – Lierre Keith
• When the Body Says No – Gabor Maté
• The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living – Stephen D. Phinney and Jeff S. Volek
• Life Without Bread – Christian B. Allan and Wolfgang Lutz
• Deep Nutrition – Catherine Shanahan and Luke Shanahan
• The Iron Elephant – Roberta Crawford
• Fiber Menace – Konstantin Monastyrsky
• The UltraMind Solution – Mark Hyman
• [Detoxification and Healing: The Key to Optimal Health](Detoxification and Healing The Key to Optimal Health) – Sidney MacDonald Baker
• Detoxify or Die – Sherry Rogers
• What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Autoimmune Disorders – Stephen B. Edelson and Deborah Mitchell
• Treating and Beating Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – Rodger Murphree
• Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival – T. S. Wiley and Bent Formby
• Sex, Lies, and Menopause – T. S. Wiley, Julie Taguchi and Bent Formby

Psychology

See the article series Psychology for some mixed coverage of psychological topics.

Narcissism “big five”

• The Myth of Sanity – Martha Stout
• The Narcissistic Family – Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman and Robert M. Pressman
• Trapped in the Mirror – Elan Golomb
• Unholy Hungers – Barbara E. Hort
• Character Disturbance – George K. Simon

Cognitive and social psychology

• Strangers to Ourselves – Timothy D. Wilson
• [[Redirect (book)|Redirect (book)]] – Timothy D. Wilson
• Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
• You Are Not So Smart – David McRaney
• What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite – David DiSalvo
• [[Blink (book)|Blink (book)]] – Malcolm Gladwell

Biological psychology and neuroscience

• Brain Changer – David DiSalvo
• In An Unspoken Voice – Peter A. Levine
• The Archaeology of Mind – Jaak Panksepp and Lucy Biven
• Social Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
• The Polyvagal Theory – Stephen W. Porges
• Trauma and the Body – Pat Ogden, Kekuni Minton and Clare Pain

Developmental and personality psychology

• Making Sense of People – Samuel Barondes
• Personality-shaping through Positive Disintegration – Kazimierz Dąbrowski
• Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration – Sal Mendaglio
• Positive Disintegration (book) – Kazimierz Dąbrowski
• Mental Growth Through Positive Disintegration – Kazimierz Dąbrowski
• Psychoneurosis Is Not An Illness – Kazimierz Dąbrowski
• The Dynamics of Concepts – Kazimierz Dąbrowski
• Multilevelness of Emotional and Instinctive Functions – Kazimierz Dąbrowski

Other psychology

• The Gift of Fear – Gavin de Becker
• Fear of the Abyss – Aleta Edwards
• The Caricature of Love – Hervey Cleckley
• How to Spot a Dangerous Man Before You Get Involved – Sandra Brown
• [Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, And Other Sex Offenders](Predators - Pedophiles, Rapists, And Other Sex Offenders) – Anna Salter
• Operators and Things – Barbara O’Brien
• The Drama of the Gifted Child – Alice Miller
• In Broad Daylight – Harry N. MacLean
• Molecules of Emotion – Candace Pert
• Mean Genes – Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan
• The Crowd – Gustave Le Bon
• The Denial of Death – Ernest Becker
• Escape from Evil – Ernest Becker

Psychopathy and ponerology

See the article series Ponerology and psychopathy for more on this general subject.

• Defense Against the Psychopath – Stefan H. Verstappen
• The Sociopath Next Door – Martha Stout
• Women Who Love Psychopaths – Sandra Brown
• Snakes in Suits – Robert Hare and Paul Babiak
• Without Conscience – Robert Hare
• The Mask of Sanity – Hervey Cleckley
• Political Ponerology – Andrzej Lobaczewski
• The Authoritarians – Bob Altemeyer
• The Paranoia Switch – Martha Stout

Social interaction and external considering

• The Fire from Within – Carlos Castaneda
• Crucial Conversations – Kerry Pattersson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
• How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
• Miss Manners – Judith Martin

Fourth Way

See the article series Fourth Way and Cassiopaean Experiment for more on this general subject.

• The Wave Series – Laura Knight-Jadczyk
• In Search of the Miraculous – P. D. Ouspensky
• Life Is Religion – Quantum Future Group
• Brain Changer – David DiSalvo
• [[Gnosis (book trilogy)|Gnosis (book trilogy)]] – Boris Mouravieff
• Meetings with Remarkable Men – G. I. Gurdjieff
• Life Is Real Only Then, When ‘I Am’ – G. I. Gurdjieff
• Tertium Organum – P. D. Ouspensky
• [Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff: The Man, The Teaching, His Mission](Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff -The Man, The Teaching, His Mission) – William Patrick Patterson
• Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope

Other esoterica

See the article series Esoterica and Shamanism and archaic esotericism for more on this general subject.

• The Sufi Path of Knowledge – William Chittick
• The Active Side of Infinity – Carlos Castaneda
• The Fire from Within – Carlos Castaneda
• Fulcanelli: His True Identity Revealed – Patrick Riviere
• The Mystery of the Cathedrals – Fulcanelli
• The Dwellings of the Philosophers – Fulcanelli

Information theory, metaphysics, and evolution

• Origin of Life: The 5th Option – Bryant M. Shiller
• The Living Stream – Sir Alister Hardy
• The Scars of Evolution – Elaine Morgan
• Information and the Nature of Reality – Paul Davies and Niels Henrik Gregersen
• Mind and Cosmos – Thomas Nagel

Politics and pathocracy

See the article series Politics and pathocracy for more on this general subject (but coverage is currently rather incomplete).

• 11: The Ultimate Truth – Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Joe Quinn
• JFK: The Assassination of America – Laura Knight-Jadczyk
• Manufactured Terror – Joe Quinn and Niall Bradley
• The Controversy of Zion – Douglas Reed
• JFK and the Unspeakable – James Douglass
• The Secret Team – Fletcher Prouty
• JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy – Fletcher Prouty
• The Shock Doctrine – Naomi Klein
• Defying Hitler – Sebastian Haffner
• Stasiland – Anna Funder
• The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
• The New Pearl Harbor – David Ray Griffin
• [The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions](The 911 Commission Report Omissions and Distortions) – David Ray Griffin
• Where Did the Towers Go? – Judy Wood
• None Dare Call it Conspiracy – Gary Allen
• In the Name of Sanity – Lewis Mumford

History

See the article series History for more on this general subject (but coverage is currently rather incomplete).

Hidden history

• The Secret History of the World – Laura Knight-Jadczyk
• Comets and the Horns of Moses – Laura Knight-Jadczyk
• Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection – Pierre Lescaudron
• [The Apocalypse: Comets, Asteroids and Cyclical Catastrophes](The Apocalypse Comets, Asteroids and Cyclical Catastrophes) – Laura Knight-Jadczyk
• The Cosmic Serpent – Victor Clube and Bill Napier
• The Cosmic Winter – Victor Clube and Bill Napier
• From Exodus to Arthur – Michael Baillie
• New Light on the Black Death – Michael Baillie
• Where Troy Once Stood – Iman Wilkens
• The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes – Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith

General history and historical method

• The Historian’s Craft – Marc Bloch
• The Ancient City – Fustel de Coulanges
• Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography – Arnaldo Momigliano
• On Pagans, Jews and Christians – Arnaldo Momigliano

Caesar

• Gallic War and Civil War – Julius Caesar
• The Civil Wars – Appian
• The Ancient City – Fustel de Coulanges
• Escape from Evil – Ernest Becker
• Caesar: Politician and Statesman – Mattias Gelzer
• The Assassination of Julius Caesar – Michael Parenti
• Julius Caesar – Philip Freeman
• Et tu, Judas? Then Fall Jesus! – Gary Courtney
• Jesus was Caesar – Francesco Carotta

Bible history

• The Origins of Biblical Israel – Philip Davies
• History and Ideology in Ancient Israel – Giovanni Garbini
• The Mythic Past – Thomas L. Thompson
• The Messiah Myth – Thomas L. Thompson
• The Bible Unearthed – Neil Asher Silberman and Israel Finkelstein
• David and Solomon – Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman
• The Lost Gospel – Burton Mack
• A Myth of Innocence – Burton Mack

UFOs and aliens

See the article series High Strangeness and Cassiopaean Experiment for more on this general subject.

• High Strangeness – Laura Knight-Jadczyk
• UFOs and the National Security State – Richard Dolan
• Operation Trojan Horse – John Keel
• The Eighth Tower – John Keel
• The Stargate Conspiracy – Picknett and Prince
• The Gods of Eden – William Bramley

Esotericism and parapsychology

See the article series Channeling and channeled material and High Strangeness for more on this general subject.

• Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy – Mircea Eliade
• Cosmos and History – Mircea Eliade
• The Sacred and the Profane – Mircea Eliade
• The Varieties of Religious Experience – William James
• The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher – Jane Roberts
• Magic - The Principles of Higher Knowledge – Karl Von Eckarthausen
• Darkness Over Tibet – T. Illion
• The Darkened Room – Alex Owen
• The History of Spiritualism – Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Book on Mediums – Allen Kardec
• Many Voices: The Autobiography of a Medium – Eileen J. Garrett
• Deviance and Moral Boundaries – Nachman Ben-Yehuda
• Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance – Brian Vickers (editor)
• The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor – Joscelyn Godwin
• The Secret Teachings of All Ages – Manly Hall
• The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts – Joe Fisher
• Spirit Releasement Therapy – William J. Baldwin
• Thirty Years Among the Dead – Carl A. Wickland
• The Unquiet Dead – Edith Fiore
• Life Between Life – Joel L. Whitton
• Prophecy in Our Time – Martin Ebon
• Evidence Of Survival After Death – Sir William F. Barrett and James H. Hyslop
• Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation – Ian Stevenson
• The Power of the Pendulum – T.C. Lethbridge
• Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science – Nandor Fodor
• Haunted People – Hereward Carrington and Nandor Fodor
• The Haunted Mind – Nandor Fodor
• Hostage to the Devil – Malachi Martin
• Unleashed – William Roll and Valerie Storey

Optional

• The Noah Syndrome – Laura Knight-Jadczyk
• Bringers of the Dawn – Barbara Marciniack
• The Ra Material – Carla Rueckert, Don Elkins, and Jim McCarty
• Cassiopaean session transcripts – Laura Knight-Jadczyk, et al
• The Teachings of Don Juan – Carlos Castaneda
• Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson – G. I. Gurdjieff
• The Field – Lynne McTaggert
• When God Was a Woman – Merlin Stone
• Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times – Donald Redford
• The Case for the UFO – Morris K. Jessup
• The Book of the Damned – Charles Fort
• New Lands – Charles Fort
• Lo! – Charles Fort
• Wild Talents – Charles Fort
• Worlds in Collision – Immanuel Velikovsky
• An Introduction to Information Theory – John R. Pierce
• Signature in the Cell – Stephen C. Meyer
• Darwin’s Doubt – Stephen C. Meyer
• The Science Delusion – Rupert Sheldrake
• The Neandertal Enigma – James Shreeve
• Shattering the Myths of Darwinism – Richard Milton
• The Chalice and the Blade – Riane Eisler
• The Hidden History of the Human Race – Michael Cremo
• Invisible Residents – Ivan T. Sanderson
• Programmed to Kill – Dave McGowan
• Understanding the F-Word – Dave McGowan
• The Hero With a Thousand Faces – Joseph Campbell
• The Crack in the Cosmic Egg – Joseph Chilton Pearce
• Psychology of Intelligence Analysis – Richards J. Heuer, Jr.
• The Quest to Feel Good – Paul R. Rasmussen
• The Angry Book – Theodore Isaac Rubin
• Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman

External links

• Cassiopaea Forum: Recommended Books: List and Guide (The forum thread for the recommended books list. Contains the old Guide, which has some information not yet available on this wiki.)
• Cassiopaea Forum: Recommended Books: Discussion (Discussion thread for the recommended books list, reading recommendations in general, and other information for readers.)