The Act of Creation
by Arthur Koestler | 
The Master and His Emissary
by Iain McGilchrist | 
The Origins and History of Consciousness
by Erich Neumann | 
A Brief History of Everything
by Ken Wilber | 
The Story of Psychology
by Morton Hunt | 
Muses, Madmen, and Prophets
by Daniel B. Smith | 
Maps of Meaning
by Jordan B. Peterson | 
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
by Julian Jaynes | 
The River of Consciousness
by Oliver Sacks | 
Why Does the World Exist?
by Jim Holt | 
The Spell of the Sensuous
by David Abram | 
Vehicles
by Valentino Braitenberg |
Quantum Psychology
by Robert Anton Wilson | 
The Doctor and the Soul
by Viktor E. Frankl | 
Crazy Like Us
by Ethan Watters | 
A General Theory of Love
by Thomas Lewis | 
The Social Leap
by William von Hippel | 
The Passion of the Western Mind
by Richard Tarnas | 
Traffic
by Tom Vanderbilt | 
The Social Animal
by David Brooks |
Koestler examines the notion that the parts of the human brain-structure which account for reason and emotion are not fully coordinated. This kind of deficiency may explain the paranoia, violence, and insanity that are central parts of human history, according to Koestler's challenging analysis of the human predicament.