In this episode we talk about some of our favorite books.

We also branch into topics related to hierarchal and egalitarian societies and hierarchy in nature, the masculine and feminine dynamic seen in the yin-yang symbol, and touch on a few Scorcese movies. Enjoy!

Update to add- here is our booklist:

Audrey:

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber

The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Making the Gods Work for You by Caroline Casey

Carly:

Chinese medicine/bodywork/health

• The Spark in the Machine by Dr. Daniel Keown

• The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine

• Japanese Classical Acupuncture: Introduction to Meridian Therapy by Shudo Denmai

• Job’s Body by Deane Juhan

• Gua Sha: A traditional technique for modern practice by Dr. Arya Nielson

• Outlive by Dr. Peter Attia

• Social psychology/socio-political

  • Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

  • The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

  • Smokescreen by Kevin Sabat

  • The Price We Pay by Dr. Marty Makary

  • Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis

  Religious and Inspirational

  • Canonical Bible

  • Gnostic Bible and other Christian apocrypha

  • Christian mystics- St Theresa of Avila etc

  • Tao Te Jing and Hua Hu Jing

  • Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words

  • Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

  • Idries Shah books on Sufism

  • The Language of Creation

  • Last Temptation of Christ

  Astrology

  • Hellenistic Astrology by Chris Brennan

  • Alan Oken’s Complete Astrology

  • Stephen Arroyo- various

  Poetry

  • Rumi

  • Rainer Maria Rilke

  • Fernando Pessoa (was just introduced to this, so good)

  Uncool/nerdy

  • Harry Potter series

  • Chronicles of Narnia