Resources
Books
Not a bibliography. These are the books I actually return to, with an honest note on what each one will and will not do for you.
I-Ching
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The translation to start with and, for most people, to stay with. Wilhelm spent decades on it; Jung's foreword is itself one of the best short arguments for the practice.
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Thirteen years of work, and the only novel I know that takes seriously what a society of intellectuals would do with the I-Ching rather than about it.
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Where synchronicity is described from the inside, by the man who named it, rather than defended from the outside.
Meditation
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The shortest route into Krishnamurti, and the one that does the most damage to the idea that you need a method. Read it slowly and resist agreeing too quickly.
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Thirty questions and thirty answers. It can be read in twenty minutes and worked on for the rest of your life.
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Vivekananda's attempt to put Patanjali into language a modern sceptic could not dismiss. Still the clearest bridge between the two.
Yoga & Body
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The reference book. You will not read it cover to cover; you will open it at one pose for a year.
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The companion volume, and the more neglected one. Everything I teach about breath starts here.
Economy & Society
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The origin of demurrage, and the book Keynes said the future would learn more from than from Marx. Aggora Coin is a direct descendant.
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The long-form case for what Aggora Coin is built on: money under the same law of decay and regeneration as everything else alive, and what a civilisation running on compounding interest has to do to itself to keep the interest payable. Start here if the demurrage argument interests you.
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On the story of separation that makes a usurious economy feel natural. Useful even where you disagree with it.