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Recommended Resources
The following resources were used in the development of this course or are recommended for students who want to explore the foundational material in more depth. They are organized by theme.
Neuroscience and Predictive Processing
- Clark, Andy. Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind. Oxford University Press, 2016. The most accessible rigorous treatment of the predictive processing model for a non-specialist audience.
- Damasio, Antonio. Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. Penguin, 1994. The foundational work on the role of emotion in decision-making and identity.
- Friston, Karl. ‘The Free-Energy Principle: A Unified Brain Theory?’ Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11 (2010), 127-138. The technical source for predictive processing; accessible via free online archives.
- Pascual-Leone, Alvaro, et al. ‘Modulation of Muscle Responses Evoked by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation during the Acquisition of New Fine Motor Skills.’ Journal of Neurophysiology, 74:3 (1995), 1037-1045. The piano study on mental rehearsal and cortical reorganization.
Identity and Behavioural Psychology
- Hardy, Benjamin. Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Identity Change. Hay House, 2022. The most practically applicable treatment of future-self research for identity change work.
- Hardy, Benjamin. Personality Isn’t Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story. Portfolio, 2020. Broader context for the identity-change framework.
- Atomic Habits by James Clear (Portfolio, 2018) is relevant for the behavioral dimension of the gap map, specifically the concept of identity-based habits versus outcome-based habits.
Neville Goddard and the Consciousness Traditions
- Goddard, Neville. The Power of Awareness. DeVorss & Company, 1952. The most direct statement of Goddard’s metaphysical framework and its practical implications.
- Goddard, Neville. Feeling Is the Secret. DeVorss & Company, 1944. The essential text on the role of emotion and the hypnagogic state in identity and manifestation work.
- Goddard, Neville. The Law and the Promise. DeVorss & Company, 1961. Documented case studies of imaginal technique in practice.
- Pruitt, David. The Neville Reader (2019) is a useful anthology for those new to the Goddard corpus, organizing the material thematically.
Embodied Cognition and the Somatic Dimension
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception. Routledge, 1945 (English translation 2012). The foundational philosophical account of embodied cognition.
- Levine, Peter. Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma. North Atlantic Books, 1997. Essential for understanding somatic encoding of identity patterns, particularly those rooted in early experience.
- Van der Kolk, Bessel. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. Viking, 2014. Widely accessible account of somatic identity encoding and the mechanisms of somatic change.