Worldview Reading List

The following list contains the most important articles and books for the Worldview Change Project so far.

Ishmael, The Story of B, My Ishmael, Beyond Civilization by Daniel Quinn

“Places to Intervene in a System,” and “Changing the World Through the Informationsphere” by Donella Meadows

Limits to Growth: 30 Year Update, Limits to Growth and Beyond the Limits by Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jørgen Randers, William Behrens

Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World by John Sterman

The Structure of Scientific Revolution by Thomas Kuhn

The Fifth Discipline and Presence by Peter Senge, et al.

Paradigm Wars: Worldviews for a New Age by Mark Woodhouse

Diffusions of Innovations by Everett Rogers

Consilience by E.O. Wilson

The Universe Is a Green Dragon by Brian Swimme

Whose Reality Counts? Putting the First Last by Robert Chambers

Worldview: History of a Concept by David Naugle

The Primitive World and Its Transformations by Robert Redfield

Small Is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Celestine Profecy and Celestine Vision by James Redfield

The Sacred: Ways of Knowledge, Sources of Life by Peggy V. Beck, Anna Lee Walters, and Nia Francisco

Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble by Lester Brown

The Uses of Enchantment: the Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim

Threshold 2000: Critical Issues and Spiritual Values for a Global Age by Gerald O. Barney

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The Dream of Earth by Thomas Berry

Aquarian Conspiracy by Marilyn Ferguson

A Theory of Everything : An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality by Ken Wilber

Collapse and Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture by Fritjof Capra

Spiral Dynamics : Mastering Values, Leadership, and Change (Developmental Management) by Don Edward Beck and Christopher C. Cowan

Changing Consciousness: Exploring the Hidden Source of the Social, Political, and Environmental Crises Facing Our World by David Bohm

Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future by Joel Barker

Coming Home to the Pleistocene by Paul Shepard

Stone Age Economics by Marshall David Sahlins

The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World by Sherry Ruth Anderson and Paul H. Ray

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington

Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida

The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action by Donald A. Schon

Believing Cassandra: An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist's World by Alan AtKisson

See my Amazon.com wish list for a wider selection of books (not all of which are related to Worldview Change)