Writing 'Pilgrim' took me on a wild ride through areas completely unfamiliar to me, from quantum physics to neuroscience to spirituality and self-help. For anyone looking for what to read next, here's the list that inspired me. I'll pick out a few in my next blog.
Non-fiction – science
Philip Ball, Invisible (2014)
David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980)
Jon Butterworth, Smashing Physics (2014)
Jon Butterworth, A Map of the Invisible: Journeys into Particle Physics (2017)
Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics (1975)
Marcus Chown, Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand (2018)
Frank Close, Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass (2022)
Nish Dubashia, The Unity of Everything, A Conversation with David Bohm (2018)
Duane Elgin, The Living Universe (2009)
Lisa Feldman Barrett, How Emotions Are Made (2017)
Paul Halpern, The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality (2017)
Annaka Harris, Conscious (2019)
Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions (2018)
Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design (2010)
Donald D. Hoffman, The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes (2019)
Michio Kaku, The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything (2021)
Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)
Lynne McTaggart, The Field (2001)
Tim Parks, Out of My Head: On the Trail of Consciousness (2018)
Heinrich Päs, The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics (2023)
F. David Peat, The Life and Times of David Bohm (1996)
David Robson, The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Transform Your Life (2022)
Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland (2020)
Govert Schilling, The Elephant in the Universe (2022)
Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham, The Evolutionary Mind (2005)
Mariano Sigman, The Secret Life of the Mind (2015)
Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe (1991)
Non-fiction – other
Ivan Antic, The Physics of Consciousness (2021)
Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix (2007)
Gregg Braden, The Science of Self-Empowerment (2017)
Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)
Deepak Chopra and Means Kafatos, You Are the Universe (2017)
Larry Dossey, Recovering the Soul (1989)
Wayne Dyer, I Can See Clearly Now (2014)
Wayne Dyer, Real Magic (1992)
Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (1959)
Neville Goddard, The Power of Awareness (1952)
Esther and Jerry Hicks, Ask and It Is Given (2004)
Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich (1937)
Vishen Lakhiani, The Code of the Extraordinary Mind (2016)
Don Lincoln, Einstein’s Unfinished Dream (2023)
Dean Radin, Real Magic (2018)
Jane Roberts, Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul (1972)
Richard Rohr and Andreas Ebert, Discovering the Enneagram (1989)
Tara Swart, The Source (2020)
Gelong Thubten, A Monk’s Guide to Happiness (2019)
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (1999)
Neale Donald Walsh, What God Said (2013)
Robert Wright, Why Buddhism Is True (2017)
Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, An Overview of the New Physics (1979)
Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul (1989)
Fiction
John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)
Paolo Coelho, The Pilgrimage (1987)
Paolo Coelho, The Alchemist (1988)
Aldous Huxley, Island (1962)
Thomas More, Utopia (1516)
James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy (1993)
H.G. Wells, Men Like Gods (1923)