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[sophiaserpentia]

Mostly for my own reference. Now that I'm working and have money to buy things with, I want to maintain a list of books I want to buy.

The floor is also open to recommendations.

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, by Julian Jaynes

Consciousness Explained* by Daniel Dennett

The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore and Richard Dawkins

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism by Karen L. King

The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle by Karen L. King

The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation by Hans Dieter Betz

Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation by Brian Copenhaver

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess* by Leonard Shlain

Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief* by Newberg, D'Aquili and Rause

Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought by Pascal Boyer

The "God" Part of the Brain by Matthew Alper

Programming the Human Biocomputer by John Lilly (recommended by two of you)

The Chaldean Oracles*

Theurgy and the Soul: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus by Gregory Shaw

* - marks those which I have read but do not own copies