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PCC Canon - June 13, 2007

The following list of authors and their associated texts represents a minimal gathering of source materials with which every graduate from the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program ought to be familiar, regardless of their particular area(s) of specialization. "Familiar" here does not necessarily mean that students will have read each and every text cover to cover. At the very least, however, it is expected that students will be able to speak intelligently about the core ideas or fundamental relevance of the majority of the authors on this list to the wider mission of the PCC program.

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Ancient

The Bible - Genesis, Exodus, Isaiah, Job

The New Testament - Mark, Mathew, John, Acts, Letter to the Romans, 1st Corinthians, Revelation

Bhagavad Gita

Dhammapada

Lao Tse - Dao De Ching

Homer - Odyssey or lliad

Plato - The Republic and Phaedo, Symposium, Timaeus

Aristotle - Selections from Ethics and Metaphysics

Augustine - Confessions


Medieval and Modern

Aurobindo - The Essential Aurobindo

Aquinas - Selections

de Beauvoir - Ethics of Ambiguity or The Second Sex

Descartes - Discourse on Method or Meditations

Emerson - Nature

Freud - Outline of Psychoanalysis or Introductory Lectures, Interpretation of Dreams

Gandhi - Selections

Hegel - Introduction and Preface to The Phenomenology of Spirit or Reason in History

Hildegard of Bingen - Selections

James - The Varieties of Religious Experience

Jung - Memories Dreams Reflections or On the Nature of the Psyche, Answer to Job, Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious

Julia of Norwich - Selections

Kant - Selections

King, M.L. - [Washington, ed., Writings and Speeches of M. L. King, Jr.]

Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Leopold - A Sand County Almanac

Maslow - Toward a Psychology of Being

Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra or Beyond Good and Evil

Teilhard de Chardin - The Human Phenomenon or Activation of Energy, Christianity and Evolution

Teresa of Avila - Selections

Thoreau - Selections

Weil - The Notebooks of Simone Weil

Whitehead - Process and Reality or Adventures of Ideas, Science in the Modern World

Wollstonecraft - Vindication of the Rights of Women


Contemporary (1968 to the present)

Abrams, M.H. - Natural Supernaturalism

Baring & Cashford - The Return of the Goddess

Berry - The Great Work or Dream of the Earth

Black Elk - Black Elk Speaks

Capra - The Tao of Physics or Web of Life, Turning Point

Campbell - Masks of God or Hero with a Thousand Faces

Daly - Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation

Ferrer - Re-Visioning Transpersonal Theory

Grof - Realms of the Human Unconscious or Beyond the Brain, Psychology of the Future

Hillman - Revisioning Psychology

Jonas - The Gnostic Religion

Keller, C. - From a Broken Web

Keller, E.F. - Reflections on Gender and Science

Macy - World as Lover, World as Self

Merchant - The Death of Nature

Morin - Homeland Earth

Tarnas - The Passion of the Western Mind

Spretnak - The Resurgence of the Real or States of Grace

Swimme - The Universe Story

Wilson - The Future of Life