Almost fifty years ago, a friend pressed a book into my hands. The book was Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung. Insights from the book have affected just about every aspect of my thinking.

To press a few books into other people’s hands, so to speak, I’ve compiled a list of books that might inspire us to analyze some of the personal and social issues we think about most. Those issues cross a variety of disciplines including psychology, history, religion, and science. The course will consider one book in each meeting, and the format of the course will be about half lecture and half discussion. Don’t worry about reading all the books. Just choose whatever you think would interest you most and be prepared to benefit from the main ideas of the rest.

• Memories, Dreams, Reflections - Carl Jung


• The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are - Alan Watts


• Zen Physics - David Darling


• Miracles - C. S. Lewis


• American Nations - Colin Woodard


• Games People Play - Eric Bern