Essential Reading for the Aspiring Artist (in no particular order):
CYBERNETICS The Macy Conferences 1946–1953 Transactions, edited by Claus Pias
The Psychology of Radio, Hadley Cantril and Gordon W. Allport
The Effect of Modern Technology and Organization upon Social Behavior, Hadley Cantril
Vanishing America: Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation, Miles A. Powell
The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy, Harold A. Abramson
The Hidden Dimension, Edward T. Hall
Problems of Consciousness: Transactions of the Second Conference, March 19-20, 1951, Harold A. Abramson
The Enneads, Plotinus
The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast, Giordano Bruno
Porphyry's Launching-Points to the Realm of Mind: An Introduction to the Neoplatonic Philosophy of Plotinus, Porphyry
Think Tanks and Power in Foreign Policy: A Comparative Study of the Role and Influence of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1939-1945, Inderjeet Parmar
Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power, Inderjeet Parmar
Mysterium Magnum, Volumes I & II, Jacob Boehme
The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology, Lily E. Kay
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Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America, E. Richard Brown
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Foundations: Their Power and Influence, Rene A. Wormser
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Changing Images of Man, O. W. Markley, Willis W. Harman
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The Survival of the Wisest, Jonas Salk
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The Impact of Science on Society, Bertrand Russell
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The First Global Revolution: A Report by the Council of The Club of Rome, Alexander King and Edward Jay Epstein
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COVID-19: The Great Reset, Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret
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The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution, H. G. Wells
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The New World Order, H. G. Wells
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Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith, James H. Billington
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A Brief History of the Future: A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-first Century, Jacques Attali
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The Ghost in the Machine, Arthur Koestler
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The Game of Nations: The Amorality of Power Politics, Miles Copeland
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Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, Carroll Quigley
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Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology, Gregory Bateson
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Cybernetics: The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions (Revised edition), Claus Pias
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The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, Frances Stonor Saunders
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Who Paid the Piper? : CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders
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The CIA Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists, Colin A. Ross
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Plutocrats: A Rothschild Inheritance, George Ireland
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Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717-1927, Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs
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Compromised Campus: The Collaboration of Universities with the Intelligence Community, 1945-1955, Sigmund Diamond
The Anglo-American Establishment, Carroll Quigley
Baron James: The Rise of the French Rothschilds, Anka Muhlstein
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The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets 1798-1848, Niall Ferguson
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The House of Rothschild: Volume 2: The World's Banker: 1849-1999, Niall Ferguson
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel P. Huntington
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The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America, Hugh Wilford
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Propaganda, Edward Bernays
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Crystallizing Public Opinion, Edward Bernays
Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, Zbigniew K. Brzezinski
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The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska, John W. DeCamp
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The Underground History of American Education, Volume I: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling, John Taylor Gatto
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Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists, Antony C. Sutton
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America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones, Antony C. Sutton
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The Federal Reserve Conspiracy, Antony C. Sutton
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Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler: The Astonishing True Story of the American Financiers Who Bankrolled the Nazis, Antony C. Sutton
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Principles of secondary education, Alexander James Inglis
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UNESCO: Its Purpose and Philosophy, Julian Huxley
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The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt
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Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments, Dr. John C. Lilly
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The Leipzig Connection (Basics in Education), Paolo Lioni
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Public Opinion, Walter Lippmann
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The Art Of War, Sun Tzu
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The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations: Shaping the Moral, Spiritual, Cultural, and Political and Economic Decline of the United States of America, John Coleman
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The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society, Norbert Wiener
