3 Books recommended by Ed Cooke
Edward "Ed" Cooke is a British entrepreneur and author of Remember, Remember: Learn the Stuff You Thought You Never Could. He is also a Grand Master of Memory and the co-founder of Memrise, a freemium online educational platform that uses memory techniques to optimise learning.
Ed Cooke
Book Recommendations
The Joyous Cosmology
The Joyous Cosmology
Alan W. Watts,Richard Alpert,Timothy Leary
The joyous cosmology is alan watts’s exploration of the insight that the consciousness-changing drugs lsd, mescaline & psilocybin can facilitate “when accompanied with sustained philosophical reflection by a person who is in search, not of kicks, but of understanding.” more than an artifact, it is both a riveting memoir of watts’s personal experiments & a profound meditation on our perennial questions about the nature of existence & the existence of the sacred.
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“a great book”
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Touching the Rock
Touching the Rock
John M. Hull,Oliver Sacks
Shortly after john hull went blind, after years of struggling with failing vision, he had a dream in which he was trapped on a sinking ship, submerging into another, unimaginable world. the power of this calmly eloquent, intensely perceptive memoir lies in its thorough navigation of the world of blindness—a world in which stairs are safe and snow is frightening, where food and sex lose much of their allure and playing with one's child may be agonizingly difficult. as he describes the ways in which blindness shapes his experience of
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