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General

“Tantra: Cult of The Feminine”  by André Lisbeth
— a good introduction to the ideas of sacred sexuality.

“Cultivating Female Sexual Energy”  by Mantak Chia & Maneewan Chia
— a comprehensive and essential manual on basic practices.

“Passionate Enlightenment: Women In Tantric Buddhism”  by Miranda Shaw
— the most interesting and insightful reexamination of tantric history and myth I have read.

“The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”  by Carlos Castaneda 
“A Separate Reality” by Carlos Castaneda   

“The Sorcerer’s Crossing”  by Taisha Abelar

“Buddhism: Plain And Simple”  by Steve Hagen
— the most accessible rendition of Buddhist basics I know.

“Moola Bandha”  by Swami Satyananda Saraswati
— a pure manual for an important and primary exercise/meditation.

“Taking Root To Fly”  by Irene Dowd
— a beautifully drawn manual on the fluidity of body form and movement.

“A Natural History of The Senses”   by Diane Ackerman
“Deep Play”   by Diane Ackerman

“Siddhartha” and “Demian”  by Hermann Hesse

“Stranger In A Strange Land”   by Robert A. Heinlein

“Dune”    by Frank Herbert

Scientific & Technical

“Touching”   by Ashley Montagu
— a comprehensive treatise on the body of knowledge and history of touch.

“Vibrational Medicine”   by Richard Gerber, M.D.
— a wonderful view of a possible future for medicine.

“Urogenital Manipulation”   by Jean-Pierre Barral
— the most clear osteopathic manual on pelvic balancing I have ever seen.

“Memories, Dreams, Reflections”   by Carl G. Jung
— essential text for understanding the internal landscape.

“The Dragons of Eden”   by Carl Sagan
— contains some truly fabulous and revolutionary ideas on existence and evolution.

“The Naked Ape”     by Desmond Morris
“ The Human Zoo”   by Desmond Morris
— a bit dated & male-chauvinistic, but essential for understanding the
    present human social condition.

“Sociobiology: The New Synthesis”   by Edward O. Wilson
— the most important new model of our era for understanding social behavior.

“The Ape’s Reflection”    by Adrian J. Desmond
— a good comparative of primary primate behavior.

“Warmth Disperses And Time Passes” by Hans Christian Von Baeyer
— an essential read for understanding how energy moves. Covers
    the first three laws of thermodynamics.

“The Elegant Universe” by Brian Greene
— the best lay explanation of the basics of modern theoretical physics.

“The Fabric of The Cosmos: Space, Time, and The Texture of Reality”   by Brian Greene
— a more in depth and technical version of the material by the same author.

“Three Roads To Quantum Gravity”  by Lee Smolin
—a comparison of the newest lines of research in physics.

“Electromagnetic Fields and Interactions”  by Richard Becker
— an extremely technical text on field theory.