Book Downloads

The Evolution of Perception & the Cosmology of Substance : a Simpler Theory of Everything,  Christopher Jonathan Ott, iUniverse © 2004. This is the original publication of this idea, now out of print.  It is available as a PDF file at Google Books here:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v72pZYochkw1NjQWPcGaFRNBp8_ho_c4/view

Intelligence Notebooks, edited by Chris Ott from handwritten notebooks believed to be a fair copy of a work by Meher Baba. Evolution of Perception Re-Explained borrows heavily from ideas in these notebooks. Free download here:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EsP9DZ6_sQ4XmK3Lt_7LUiZphZ2plejk/view

God Speaks: The Theme of Creation and Its Purpose, is an important book by Meher Baba. It has been in print continuously since 1955.  It greatly influenced the ideas in Evolution of Perception Re-Explained and is mentioned in the book frequently. You can download a free PDF copy of the 1973 second edition here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U731DguBwyUHOhcxaEFaa31odkhHfrBI/view 

Discourses by Meher Baba is another book that greatly influenced the concepts in Evolution of Perception. This is especially true of its explanation of the concept of sanskaras, which the idea of lenses is closely based on. You can download a free PDF copy of the 1987 seventh edition here:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NtSJjcZkyJ8aX0lcRoPM1y83Mna8ZpRv/view 

Books relevant to Evolution of Perception Re-Explained

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley, 1710. Berkeley was the only philosopher before now to assert that the things we perceive are nothing more than their being perceived. 

Patterns of Discovery, by Norwood Russell Hanson, Cambridge University Press, 1958. Many of the ideas of Hanson find their way into Evolution of Perception Re-Explained and greatly influenced the central concept.

My Philosophical Development, Bertrand Russell, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1959. Discussed in Evolution of Perception Re-Explained this autobiographical book describes the transition to materialism at the start of the 20th century.

Words and Things, A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology, Ernest Gellner, Boston, Beacon Press, 1959. The best critique of 20th century linguistic philosophy. With an introduction by Bertrand Russell. 

A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans, with A Theory of Meaning, by Jakob von Uexküll, 2010. Based on Uexküll's most influential books Umwelt und Innenwelt der Tiere (1909) and Bedeutungslehre, translated as A Theory of Meaning (1940), this book introduces to English the German word for environment, umwelt, in the author's sense of a "self-centered world" relevant to the ideas in Evolution of Perception Re-Explained. 

All Essays by Chris Ott

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Chris Ott Video Channels

http://www.youtube.com/c/ChristopherOtt77  (Personal Main Channel)

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Charts in the book are reproduced here in their original color versions.