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Jordan Peterson is a a visionary.Jordan Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto.

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The Myth of Mental Illness
The Myth of Mental Illness

by Thomas S. Szasz

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The Rational Optimist
The Rational Optimist

by Matt Ridley

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Panzram
Panzram

by Thomas E. Gaddis

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The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Demons
Demons

by KF Breene

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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat

by Oliver Sacks

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Factfulness
Factfulness

by Hans Rosling

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The Idiot
The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Words with Power
Words with Power

by Northrop Frye

“The Bible and Literature”
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The Origins and History of Consciousness
The Origins and History of Consciousness

by Erich Neumann

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The Will to Power
The Will to Power

by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Our Culture, What's Left of It
Our Culture, What's Left of It

by Theodore Dalrymple

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Affective Neuroscience
Affective Neuroscience

by Jaak Panksepp

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The Neuropsychology of Anxiety
The Neuropsychology of Anxiety

by Jeffrey A. Gray

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Mephistopheles
Mephistopheles

by Jeffrey Burton Russell

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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

by William L. Shirer

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The Denial of Death
The Denial of Death

by Ernest Becker

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The Crisis of Islam
The Crisis of Islam

by Bernard Lewis

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The Anti-Christ
The Anti-Christ

by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Brave New World
Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

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Enlightenment Now
Enlightenment Now

by Steven Pinker

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The Gay Science
The Gay Science

by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

by Robert M. Pirsig

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East of Eden
East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

by Tom Wolfe

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The Great Code
The Great Code

by Northrop Frye

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To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

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Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
Two Essays on Analytical Psychology

by Carl Jung

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War And Peace
War And Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

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Modern Man In Search of a Soul
Modern Man In Search of a Soul

by Carl Jung

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The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

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Stalin
Stalin

by Stephen Kotkin

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The Road to Wigan Pier
The Road to Wigan Pier

by George Orwell

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The Symbolic Life
The Symbolic Life

by Carl Jung

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The Stone Angel
The Stone Angel

by Margaret Laurence

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On Becoming a Person
On Becoming a Person

by Carl Rogers

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The Emotional Brain
The Emotional Brain

by Joseph Ledoux

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The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

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The Moral Judgment of the Child
The Moral Judgment of the Child

by Jean Piaget

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Tolstoy
Tolstoy

by Henri Troyat

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Answer to Job
Answer to Job

by Carl Jung

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How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place

by Bjørn Lomborg

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The Great Escape
The Great Escape

by Angus Deaton

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Beyond Good And Evil
Beyond Good And Evil

by Friedrich Nietzsche

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The Interpretation of Dreams
The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

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Shamanism
Shamanism

by Michael J. Winkelman

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Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

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1984
1984

by George Orwell

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Animal Farm
Animal Farm

by George Orwell

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The Mystery of Capital
The Mystery of Capital

by Hernando De Soto

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Notes from Underground
Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black

by Stendhal

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Island
Island

by Aldous Huxley

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The House of God
The House of God

by Samuel Shem

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The World's Religions
The World's Religions

by Huston Smith

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The Bible
The Bible

by Unknown Author

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The Horse's Mouth
The Horse's Mouth

by Joyce Cary

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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The Forge and the Crucible
The Forge and the Crucible

by Mircea Eliade

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The New Executive Brain
The New Executive Brain

by Elkhonon Goldberg

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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900
The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900

by Theodore M. Porter

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The Sacred and The Profane
The Sacred and The Profane

by Mircea Eliade

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Life at the Bottom
Life at the Bottom

by Theodore Dalrymple

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The Discovery of the Unconscious
The Discovery of the Unconscious

by Henri F. Ellenberger

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The Great Mother
The Great Mother

by Erich Neumann

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Zorba the Greek
Zorba the Greek

by Nikos Kazantzakis

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Myth and Reality
Myth and Reality

by Mircea Eliade

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Systemantics
Systemantics

by John Gall

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The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

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Progress
Progress

by Johan Norberg

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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

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Awakenings
Awakenings

by Oliver Sacks

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Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

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Myths Dreams and Mysteries
Myths Dreams and Mysteries

by Mircea Eliade

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Point Counter Point
Point Counter Point

by Aldous Huxley

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The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious
The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious

by Carl Jung

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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

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A Way of Being
A Way of Being

by Carl Rogers

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An Outline of Psycho-Analysis
An Outline of Psycho-Analysis

by Sigmund Freud

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Brain Architecture
Brain Architecture

by Larry W. Swanson

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Psychology and Religion
Psychology and Religion

by Carl Jung

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The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

by James J. Gibson

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The First Circle
The First Circle

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

by Hunter S. Thompson

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The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler

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Aion
Aion

by Carl Jung

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Existence
Existence

by Abbi Glines

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I, Claudius
I, Claudius

by Robert Graves

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Little Science, Big Science...and Beyond
Little Science, Big Science...and Beyond

by Derek J.De Solla Price

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Psychology and Alchemy
Psychology and Alchemy

by Carl Jung

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The Charterhouse of Parma
The Charterhouse of Parma

by Stendhal

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A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

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An Anthropologist On Mars
An Anthropologist On Mars

by Oliver Sacks

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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

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For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

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Fratricides
Fratricides

by Nikos Kazantzakis

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Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

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Play Dreams & Imitation in Childhood
Play Dreams & Imitation in Childhood

by Jean Piaget

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The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

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On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Earth in Human Hands
Earth in Human Hands

by David Grinspoon

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Sometimes a Great Notion
Sometimes a Great Notion

by Ken Kesey

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Symbols of Transformation
Symbols of Transformation

by Carl Jung

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Mysterium Coniunctionis
Mysterium Coniunctionis

by Carl Jung

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

by Ken Kesey

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Ordinary Men
Ordinary Men

by Christopher R. Browning

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The Rape of Nanking
The Rape of Nanking

by Iris Chang

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The Painted Bird
The Painted Bird

by Jerzy Kosinski

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Endurance
Endurance

by Alfred Lansing

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The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross
The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross

by John M. Allegro

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DMT
DMT

by Rick Strassman

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Mercy Among the Children
Mercy Among the Children

by David Adams Richards

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