Search for Meaning

• Nimrod Workman: Oh Death

• Man's Search for Meaning   Victor Frankl. 

• The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker.  Videos/Podcasts: Philosophize This!; Lex Fridman/Brian Greene 

• The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself  by Sean Carroll

• The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe by Glenn Clark. The University of Science and Philosophy  

• We're All Doing Time: A Guide to Getting Free (Bo Lozoff)  As a Man Thinketh (James Allen); Be Here Now (Ram Dass); The Source (James Michener)

• Time and the Art of Living by Robert Grudin; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

• The Profound Meaning of Plato's Allegory of the Cave; Something Amazing Happens When You Stop Trusting Your Thoughts

• Survival In Auschwitz (Primo Levi); Maus (Spiegelman); Night, Dawn, Day (Wiesel)  Eyewitness Auschwitz (Filip Müller)  

• The Gulag Archipelago (Abridged edition) Aleksander Solzhenitsyn   1978 Harvard Speech  English Reading

• Albert Camus: Camus: The Absurd;  The Stranger; The Fall; The Myth of Sisyphus; 

• The Joyous Science by Nietzsche; Academy of ideas: Introduction to Nietzsche; How to Find Meaning in a Meaningless World

• Personality and its transformations (check out the 2017 lectures)

Non-Western Ways of Liberation

• The Way of Zen ;  Alan Watts Lectures  

• Siddhartha; The Journey to the East; Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game) by Hermann Hesse; Lex Fridman on Siddhartha

• The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda (for trilogy add Separate Reality + Journey to Ixtlan)

• Autobiography of a Yogi (audio book) by Paramahansa Yogananda (Steve Jobs arranged for attendees at his memorial service to receive a copy of the book); Also by Yogananda, The Law of Success (audio book)

• Meetings with Remarkable Men (The Movie); Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by George Gurdjieff 

• In Search of the Miraculous (Audio Book) by P. D. Ouspensky ; YouTube

• The Five Tibetans, often called "The Fountain of Youth". Amazing sequence! Demos: #1; #2; Christopher Kilham

• Mindfulness by Joseph Goldstein;  The Waking Up App created by Sam Harris (Top of the food chain meditation app).

• Taoism: A Journey Towards Unity; Alan Watts: Philosophy of the Tao part 1, Part 2; Taoist Philosophy (Einzelgänger)

• Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body by Bruce Frantzis (I have been doing this, and other Energy Arts forms, for 11 years); Vintage footage of my Daoist Energy Arts Teacher; Taoist Master - Bruce Frantzis 

• Buddhism without Beliefs;  Alan Watts Essential Lectures

Three Commencement Speeches Worth Watching

• Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

• This Is Water - David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech; Lex Fridman on "This Is Water" speech

• Eric Church - 2026 Commencement Speech at UNC Chapel Hill