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The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James
“that is still one of the best explorations of mystical experiences”
“the varieties of religious experience that is still one of the best explorations of mystical experiences”— Philip Goff
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The Will to Believe
William James
“Everyone should read William James. He's a patron saint of great intellectual thinking”
“his great paper the will to believe which he later thought I think rightly should have been called the right to believe”— Philip Goff
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The Varieties of Spiritual Experience: 21st Century Research and Perspectives
David B. Yaden (inferred)
“that is also worth taking a gander at if you are particularly really interested in mystical experiences”
“there's a book called the varieties of spiritual experiences the newer book 21st century research and perspectives by a scientist named David Yeden”— Tim Ferriss
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The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
Brian Muraresku (inferred)
“the immortality key is actually quite interesting read for people who haven't checked it out”
“the immortality key is actually quite interesting read for people who haven't checked it out Brian Murescu”— Tim Ferriss
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The Year of Living Biblically
A.J. Jacobs (inferred)
“It's intended to be a funny but also very informative read. I learned a lot about religion from that book”
“my friend AJ Jacobs who wrote a book called the year of living biblically in which he tried to follow all the rules of the Old and New Testament”— Tim Ferriss
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The Case for God
Karen Armstrong (inferred)
“her great book, The Case for God”
“her great book, The Case for God, which is a bad title... it's a history of religion and she divides religion into two epochs”— Philip Goff
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Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
Tom Holland (inferred)
“there's wonderful recent book Dominion by Tom Holland”
“there's wonderful recent book Dominion by Tom Holland which is again the history of the influence of Christianity”— Philip Goff
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The Resurrection of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemics, History
Dale Allison (inferred)
“one of my favorite biblical scholars... he's got a wonderful recent book on the resurrection”
“reading one of my favorite biblical scholars, guy called Dale Allison... he's got a wonderful recent book on on the resurrection exploring non-standard versions of the resurrection”— Philip Goff
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The Heart of Consciousness (Annaka Harris audio documentary)
Annaka Harris (inferred)
“if people want to do a deep dive into these subjects”
“I want to give a nod to Anakah Harris. She has a very extensive audio documentary that relates to consciousness if people want to do a deep dive”— Tim Ferriss
The guest's own work
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Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness
Philip Goff
“And I think that's really I mean this is my book Galileo's error. I think that's really at the root of our current predicaments of consciousness.”— Philip Goff
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Why? The Purpose of the Universe
Philip Goff
“And so your last book, why explored the middle ground between God and atheism.”— Tim Ferriss
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
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Mind Beyond Brain: Buddhism, Science, and the Paranormal
David E. Presti (inferred)
“they can read a collection of different writings called mind beyond brain which was edited by David Prey”— Tim Ferriss
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Why I Am Not a Christian
Bertrand Russell
“And Burton Russell has a book called Why I Am Not a Christian.”— Tim Ferriss
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A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
“Steven Hawking famously captured this on the last page of a brief history of time when he said, Even the final theory of physics won't tell us what breathes fire into the equations”— Philip Goff
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Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
David Chalmers
“David Charas in his recent book reality plus you know maybe we're in a computer simulation”— Philip Goff
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Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
Thomas Nagel
“the great philosopher Thomas Nagel yes Mr. bat called Mind and Cosmos and he got absolutely destroyed in reviews”— Philip Goff
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Dune
Frank Herbert (inferred)
“if you're interested in Dune, the book and not the movies, although I thought the movies were very well adapted, but they basically stripped all Arabic and Islamic influence from the book”— Tim Ferriss
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Perplexity
Perplexity AI (inferred)
“I was just doing a little bit of searching on perplexity for people who are interested which AI tool I am using which tends to focus a lot on avoiding or minimizing hallucination”— Tim Ferriss
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