The following texts directly influenced The Sinequanon. Texts that are missing were either deemed irrelevant or
antiquated; or, for texts that seem applicable, have not yet been read by me (which will be made evident after the
second edition is published).
It is recommended that the texts be read in descending order (though I did not). Underlined texts link to websites
containing free electronic copies.
Diogenes Laertius: "The Life of Diogenes of Sinope"
Emerson: "Self-Reliance"; "Experience"
Thoreau: Walden, "Walking", "Life Without Principle"
G.C. Lichtenberg: The Waste Books
Plato: Republic, Symposium, Meno, Phaedrus, The Apology, Crito, Phaedo
Aristotle: Metaphysics; On the Soul;
Epictetus: Enchiridion
Democritus: Surviving Fragments
Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
Epicurus: Surviving Fragments and Letters
Francis Bacon: The New Organon (Preface and Aphorishms: Book One)
Einstein: The World As I See It; Relativity; Ideas and Opinions
David Bohm: Quantum Theory (Chapters 8, 22, and 23)
Steven Rado: Aethro-Kinematics
Crick: Astonishing Hypothesis
Armstrong: A Materialist Theory of the Mind (Part I, Sections 1 and 2
Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge
Hume: An Inquiry Into Human Understanding
Leibniz: Selections (published by Scribners)
Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, Critique of Judgment, Metaphysic of Morals
Nagarjuna: The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way
Baudrillard: Impossible Exchange
Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Schopenhauer: "Essay on the Freedom of the Will" (*yet to read anything else)
Nietzsche: Ecce Homo; The Gay Science; The Geneaology of Morals; Twilight of the Idols; Will to Power; The Dawn of Day
Kierkegaard: Either/Or: Part I; Unscientific Concluding Postscript; Repetition; Fear and Trembling "The Lily in the Field and
the Bird in the Air"
Pascal: The Pensees (Sections III and IV only)
Spinoza: Ethics (Part I - Concerning God)
Tolstoy: Confessions
St. Augustine: The Confessions
St. John of the Cross: Dark Night of the Soul
The Heart Sutra
The Diamond Sutra
The Dhammapada
The Ashtavakra Gita (Heart of Awareness)
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching
The Bhagavad Gita
The Upanishads
Meister Eckhart
Health-related
World Without Cancer (Vitamin B17 - Apricot Kernels)
The Healing Sun (Vitamin D3 and Photobiology)
Live Longer and Feel Better (Linus Pauling) (Vitamin C, L-Lysine and L-Proline)
Light on Yoga
Relearning to See (Curing Refractive Errors, Keeping Eyes Healthy, using the Bates Method)