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Talks, books, essays, video channels and blogs of Chris Ott
Chris Ott is a philosopher and independent researcher, bridging metaphysics, philosophy of perception, and spirituality. His principal theory is the evolution of perception. This site serves as a hub for all relevant books, papers and videos on the subject.
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Books (In Chronological order)
The Evolution of Perception & the Cosmology of Substance: A Simpler Theory of Everything (2004)
(The original book introducing the evolution of perception concept. Published June 24, 2004 by iUniverse. Out of print.) Free PDF
(Amazon lists the author as Wayne Louis, which is an error)
Evolution of Perception Re-Explained: A Radical New View of Reality (2021)
(A much more fleshed out explanation of the concept of the evolution of perception. Published February 25, 2021)
Further Reflections: A discussion of the concept of the evolution of perception with a deep dive into the subject of causation (2024)
(Thinking that leads to the evolution of perception is explored. Published November 21, 2024)
Selected Essays (2026)
(Forty seven essays on various subjects. Published March 12, 2026)
Selected Essays: Second Series (2026)
(Thirty eight additional essays on various subjects. Published June 8, 2026)
Video Playlists (In Chronological order)
Philosophical Talks (Talks given since 2005 on different subjects)
Metaphysics (Series of 20 talks recorded from 6/1/23 to 10/3/23)
The Psychic Emergent Universe (Series of 5 talks recorded from 10/28/23 to 12/15/23)
The Future of the Baba World (Series of 3 talks recorded from 5/21/25 to 6/21/25)
Essays, Papers, Collections
Refutations of Idealism (Master's Thesis, May 2001) 94 pages
I Een Westers Model van de Advaita Vedanta (A Western model of Advaita Vedanta. Translated to Dutch by Prof. Frank Landsman in 2007) 15 pages
Essentials of a Spiritual Metaphysics (A collection of essays, 2009) 111 pages
Historical Fallacy (Written in 2009) 4 pages
Meher Baba Vs. Charles Darwin (Written probably 2009) 15 pages
A Model of Perception (Written in 2010, updated 10/17/26) 28 pages
What Went Wrong With the New Physics (Written in 2010) 15 pages
What Went Wrong With the New Physics Part II (Written in 2010) 8 pages
The New Physics Part III (Written in 2010) 14 pages
Sanskaras, Karma, Maya, & Consciousness (Written in 2010) 42 pages
Here at the End of All Things (Written in 2011) 7 pages
Matter Vs Matter (Written March 8, 2011) 6 pages
Diminution of Mind (Written May 23, 2011) 4 pages
God Seeks Himself (Written May 24, 2011) 4 pages
Deeper Aspects of Form (Written 2011) 12 pages
A History of History (Written in March 3, 2010) 19 pages
Spiritual Death and Spiritual Life (Written July 9, 2010) 11 pages
On Science and Spirituality (Written September 2011) 20 pages
Mysticism in a Nutshell (Written in 2011) 5 pages
Myth and Mental Structures (Written in 2011) 1 page
Operations of the Mind (Written in 2011) 18 pages
Role of the Ego (Written in 2011) 7 pages
Head and Heart (Written in 2011) 3 pages
Esoterica on Meher Baba’s Divine Theme (Written January 2012) 47 pages
Where is Baba Now? (5/25/12, Updated 10/12/25. See also this video) 8 pages
Intelligence Notebooks (Edited by Chris Ott from a manuscript by Meher Baba August 12, 2012) 256 pages
The Intelligence Analogies (Originally written as a blog post on January 10, 2013. Last updated October 9, 2026.) 8 pages
How God Speaks Was Written (Written June 27, 2013) 19 pages
Yad Rakh Never Happened (Written April 9, 2014) 6 pages
How Lord Meher Came About (Written June 24, 2014) 13 pages
Positive and Negative Skepticism (Written November 25, 2014) 6 pages
What I Think the Intelligence Notebooks Are (Written July 23, 2017) 8 pages
The Modern Western Myth About Reincarnation (Essay added 3/20/24) 2 pages
The 12 Principles of EOP (Essay added 10/14/24) 13 pages
Clarification Regarding My Book “Further Reflections” (Essay added 12/5/24) 6 pages
Solving the Socratic Paradox (Essay added 12/8/24) 2 pages
The Factor of Time (Essay added 2/1/25) 2 pages
Questions Idealists Don’t Even Try to Answer (Essay added 2/11/25) 3 days
Why Materialism Doesn't Work (Essay added 4/30/25) 5 pages
Who is Chris Ott and what is EOP all about? (Essay added 4/3/25) 7 pages
Superstition Haunts Religions and Science Alike (Essay added 5/4/25) 3 pages
What will the Professional Philosophers think of EOP? (Essay added 5/14/25) 5 pages
How I think ideas are dispensed to the world (Essay added 5/18/25) 2 pages
If Meher Baba’s Teachings Were Embraced (Essay added 5/19/25) 28 pages
The Problem with Possibility and Why It Matters (Essay added 6/15/25) 4 pages
Hippy Delusions (Essay added 6/16/25) 6 pages
Language, Scientific Reasoning, Logic, and Sophistry (Essay added 6/21/25) 5 pages
How EOP Helps Us Understand Baba's Teaching (Essay added 6/27/25) 13 pages
Distinguishing EOP from Wrong Conceptions of It (Essay added 7/6/25) 2 pages
Why Things Feel Solid (Originally written in 2009. Updated on 7/7/25) 6 pages
Why Torture is Always Wrong (Essay added 7/8/25) 3 pages
Perceptual Algorithms (Essay added 7/22/25) 2 pages
Why I Follow Meher Baba (Essay added 7/22/25) 3 pages
John Dewey’s 19th Century English (Essay added 8/5/25) 4 pages
Full Summary (Essay added 8/15/25) 30 pages
Why EOP Matters (Essay added 8/18/25) 2 pages
Why EOP is the Only New Idea (Essay added 8/29/25) 2 pages
Three senses of God over history (Essay added 9/2/25) 3 pages
The Implications of Meher Baba’s Teaching on Sanskaras (Essay added 9/12/25) 9 pages
The Illusion that Sustains Reality (Essay added 9/14/25) 2 pages
Baba's Teaching is Unique (Essay added 9/19/25) 3 pages
The Vocabulary and Meaning of the Psychic Emergent Universe (Essay added 9/23/25) 11 pages
The Mind-Body Connection According to Meher Baba (Essay added 9/24/25) 8 pages
The Prominence of Consciousness in Meher Baba’s System (Essay added 9//24/25) 4 pages
Is the Big Bang Really a Process? (Essay added 9//25/25) 5 pages
The Matter Paradox (Essay added 10/7/25) 3 pages
EOP Explained Simply (Essay added 10/10/25) 5 pages
The Personal God According to Meher Baba (Essay added 10/10/25) 8 pages
The Contributions of Chris Ott (Essay added 10/13/25) 2 pages
A New Explanation of the Rise of Dual Sexes in Evolution (Essay added 10/13/25) 9 pages
Mathematics is a Product of Consciousness (Essay added 10/23/25) 2 pages
Induction is Based on Intuition and What the Implications Are (Essay added 10/26/25) 3 pages
What I Mean by Lenses (Essay added 10/25/25) 4 pages
Why I Talk about the Subjects I Do (Essay added 11/3/25) 2 pages
How Psychological Projection Contributes to Poorly Thought-Out Philosophy (Essay added 11/7/25) 10 pages
The Psychological Projection of Internality and Externality (Essay added 11/10/25) 5 pages
The Soul vs. the Subtle Body (Essay added 11/19/25) 6 pages
Meher Baba’s Message and Mission. (Essay added 11/24,25) 8 pages
Beware of English Language Idioms (Essay added 11/26/25) 4 pages
Immanence in Hinduism vs. EOP (Essay added 11/27/25) 7 pages
Setting the Record Straight about My Father (Essay added 12/3/25) 3 pages
The Religiology of the Baba World (Essay added 12/10/25) 7 pages
At Least on One Level, ‘God Speaking’ May Refer to God Revealing (Essay added 12/11/25) 4 pages
Some minor details about Souls (Essay added 12/16/25) 7 pages
We don't have karma; we are our karma (Essay added 1/6/26) 3 pages
Darwin vs. Meher Baba on Evolution (Essay added 1/7/26) 4 pages
How Baba’s Teaching on Sanskaras Obviates Much of Pop Psychology (Essay added 1/8/26) 5 pages
How Life Began (Essay added 1/16/2026) 4 pages
Is Baba God? (Essay added 2/11/26) 6 pages
Free Will (Essay added 2/14/26) 4 pages
Introducing My Writings (on Substack) (Essay originally uploaded as an introduction on my Substack page on 3/8/26) 3 pages
History of the Word Perception (Essay added 3/9/26) 2 pages
What is Real (Essay added 3/9/26) 5 pages
Sorry, not a member of the New Age Circus (Essay added 3/16/26) 5 pages
A New Movement in Consciousness Studies & the End of Gaslighting (Essay added 3/16/26) 2 pages
The Opening of the Eye (Essay by Stelios Karavias. References ideas I have mentioned many times. Added here with permission 4/2/26. ) 11 pages
The Hyper-rational Non-metaphysical nature of the Evolution of Perception (Essay added 4/17/26) 8 pages
Beware of Theories (Essay added 4/26/26) 3 pages
Caveats to Epistemology (Essay added 4/29/26) 2 pages
An Interpretation of Meher Baba’s Universal Message (Essay added 5/3/26) 11 pages
Where Does Meher Baba’s Teaching Fit into the Larger Picture of Religious and Mystical Schools, and Where Does EOP Fit into It? (Essay added 5/9/26) 4 pages
Will a Religion form Around the Teachings of Meher Baba? (Essay added 5/25/26) 3 pages
"Young People These Days" (Essay added 5/26/26) 6 pages
Reflections on "The Evolution of Perception" 22 years later (Essay added 5/31/26) 6 pages
Evidence (Essay added 6/3/26) 9 pages
The Other Side of the Veil (Essay added 6/5/26) 2 pages
The Unfolding Human Form According to Meher Baba (Essay added 6/5/26) 5 pages
What I Now Take God To Be (Essay added 7/17/26) 11 pages
Analogies Baba Didn't Have (Essay added 8/2/26) 2 pages
What Is It Like to Be a Rock? (Essay co-written with Stelios Karavias, added 8/7/26. Stelios' version is even more developed and can be read here.) 4 pages
9 Principles of Meher Baba’s Teaching that are Frequently Misunderstood (Essay added 8/8/26) 5 pages
Darwinism is Not Compatible with Baba’s Teaching (Essay added 8/10/26) 4 pages
A Special Kind of Truth (Essay added 8/15/26) 11 pages
Lies and False Rumors of Lies (Essay added 8/16/26) 10 pages
Patterns That Scientists are Trained Not to See (Essay added 8/20/26) 4 pages
EOP vs. Berkeley and Kant (Essay added 8/25/26) 3 pages
EOP and Relativism (Essay added 8/25/26) 3 pages
An Analysis of Why Meher Baba's Followers Don't Understand Him (Essay added 8/26/26) 1 page
Philosophy’s modern image of itself as a bulwark against disruptive inquiry (Essay added 8/26/26) 2 pages
Books that Influenced EOP (Essay added 8/30/26) 4 pages
What I Mean by Process (Essay added 9/14/26) 3 pages
EOP Plain & Simple (Essay added 9/21/26) 13 pages
Problem with Materialist Objections to Mystical Claims (Essay added 9/26/26) 1 page
Movie – All Relevant Essays (Essay added 10/1/26) 43 pages
The Only Solution to Our Problems (Essay added 10/2/26) 3 pages
EOP and Reincarnation (Essay added 10/4/26) 7 pages
Books We Have By and About Meher Baba (Essay added 10/5/26) 3 pages
EOP vs Sociobiology (Essay added 10/6/26) 5 pages
On the Social Disease that led to Darwinism (Essay added 10/7/26) 9 pages
A Quick History of My Hobbies and Interests (Essay added 10/12/26) 4 pages
Clarifying some points on Free Will (Essay added 10/13/26) 1 page
Why Infinite Intelligence had to Precede the Phenomenal Universe (Essay added 10/13/26) 1 page
The Seductiveness of Imagining Substances as an Explanation of Experience (Essay added 10/14/26) 3 pages
What is My Argument that the World is Perceptually Emergent? (Essay added 10/23/26) 5 pages
The Rise of Pseudoscience, pseudo-anthropology, pseudo-history, pseudo-archeology, pseudo-religion (Essay added 10/24/26) 2 pages
Quantum Delusions: A World That Doesn’t Exist (Essay added 10/28/26) 8 pages
Notes
Notes on Philosophy (These notes, collected and bound together in 2001, constitute my thinking while in graduate school before I had fully conceived of the idea of an Evolution of Perception. It includes 1,069 pages of mostly spontaneous notes and some early papers.)
Video Channels
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Christopher-ott (Official Christopher Ott Channel)
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@meganalexandraott/videos (Backup Christopher Ott Channel)
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@consciousness_studies/playlists (Consciousness Studies: Backup Christopher Ott Channel)
BITCHUTE: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/chris-ott/
RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/user/Cott12
VIMEO: https://vimeo.com/chrisott
GANJINGWORLD: https://www.ganjingworld.com/@Christopher-Ott-Philosopher
ODYSEE: https://odysee.com/@chrisott:7
BANNED VIDEO: https://banned.video/c/t7edpnyjtj
Blogs & Sites
Chris Ott at Substack (An online platform supporting subscription-based content)
Chris Ott's Defunct Blog (This blog began as a Meher Baba trivia blog and morphed into a blog about the prodigy soprano Amira Willighagen and other young talents. If you scroll far enough down the right column you can still find the Baba posts near the bottom.)
Letters to the Living (My friends and I are getting old. The title of this blog implies posts I hope people in the future will read, even if there is little interest in them now. Hence the title, "Letters to the Living.")
Meher Baba and the Future (A blog I created as a follow-on for a talk series I gave in Myrtle Beach from Jan to April, 2018, titled "Baba and the Future.")
Evolution of Perception Further Reading (A Google site I created as a follow-on for "Evolution of Perception Re-Explained.")
Afterthoughts (Started Christmas Day 2025. Some more personal recent posts.)
Miscellaneous
Chris Ott at Meher Baba's Life & Travels (A page made for me by Meher Baba afficianado Tony Zois on his website)
The Christopher Ott Archive (A permanent legacy archive of my books and papers)
Meher Baba Words (My original blog collected posts)
Meher Baba Words (excerpts) (A sampling of my original blog)
Meher Baba's Intelligence Notebooks (A site with links to the notebooks and some explanation)
Chris Ott at Google Photos (A selection of photos that show a bit of the history of my creative life)
Picture Biography (A very short pictorial biography)
Chris Ott at Flickr (Photos)
Chris Ott at Instagram (Photos)
Chris Ott at Facebook (Really just the FB identity I use to access the Amira Willighagen fan page where I'm a member)
The Main Written Works of Meher Baba (These are Baba's main works as free downloadable PDF files)
1966 Letter Giving Ott Family Permission to Settle on the Meher Center (A letter from Meher Baba's secretary Adi Irani)
Homosexuality Footnote in Lord Meher (An open letter from Tom Talley)
Mirror Site (A backup version of this site in case anything happens to it)
Stelios' Substack Page (Stelios & I have worked together on concepts and websites for a couple of decades)
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Google Sites
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