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Talks, books, essays, video channels and blogs of philosopher Chris Ott.
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Books

EOP TRILOGY: The three original books on the evolution of perception concept  A collector's edition of the original three books on the concept of an evolution of perception. They include The Evolution of Perception and the Cosmology of Substance (2004), Evolution of Perception Re-Explained (2021), and Further Reflections (2024).

Further Reflections: A discussion of the concept of the evolution of perception with a deep dive into the subject of causation (November 2024 book) (Free PDF Download)  Thinking that leads to the evolution of perception is explored. Written and published in 2024.

Evolution of Perception Re-Explained: A Radical New View of Reality (2021 book) (Free PDF Download)  A much more fleshed out explanation of the concept of the evolution of perception, published in February 2021.

Intelligence Notebooks, by Meher Baba, edited by Chris Ott (2012 book) (Free PDF Download)  A book by Meher Baba edited by Chris Ott from scans of the original handwritten fair copy discovered in India in 1969.  Published free online August 2012.

The Evolution of Perception & the Cosmology of Substance: A Simpler Theory of Everything (2004 book) (Free PDF Download)   The original book introducing the evolution of perception concept, published in June 2004.

Talk Series

The Future of the Baba World  (Series of 3 talks begun 5/21/25)

The God Dilemma  (Series of 3 talks begun 9/23/24)

The Psychic Emergent Universe  (Series of 5 talks recorded from 10/28/23 to 12/15/23)

Metaphysics  (Series of 20 talks recorded from 6/1/23 to 10/3/23)

On Meher Baba  (Series of 23 talks recorded from 2/14/23 to 5/29/23)

On Cause  (Series of 11 talks recorded from 3/8/20 to 5/26/20)

Talks With Kerry  (Series of 11 talks recorded from 10/29/19 to 12/17/19)

Baba and the Future  (Series of 11 talks at the Circle Center in Myrtle Beach, SC from 1/1/18 to 4/16/18)

Essays, Papers, Collections (In Chronological order)

1. Final Book (incomplete) Part 1 (Earlier work in progress for what became Evolution of Perception Re-Explained)

2. Final Book (incomplete) Part 2 (Earlier work in progress for what became Evolution of Perception Re-Explained)

3. Essentials of a Spiritual Metaphysics (A collection of essays, 2009)

4. Intelligence Notebooks (Manuscript by Meher Baba, edited by Chris Ott)

5. God Seeks Himself

6. A Model of Perception

7. A God Speaks Interpretation of LOTR

8. Here at the End of All Things

9. Deeper Aspects of Form

10. Historical Fallacy 

11. History of History

12. What I Think the Intelligence Notebooks Are

13. Yad Rakh Never Happened  (Written April 9, 2014)

14. How God Speaks Was Written

15. How Lord Meher Came About  (Written June 24, 2014)

16. Matter Vs. Matter

17. Meher Baba Vs. Darwin

18. On Science and Spirituality

19. What Went Wrong With the New Physics 

20. What Went Wrong With the New Physics Part II

21. The New Physics Part III

22. Mysticism in a Nutshell

23. Myth and Mental Structures

24. Operations of the Mind

25. Diminution of Mind

26. Refutations of Idealism  (Master's Thesis, 2001)

27. Role of the Ego

28. Sanskaras, Karma, Maya, & Consciousness

29. Spiritual Death and Spiritual Life

30. Where is Baba Now?

31. Esoterica on Meher Baba’s Divine Theme

32. Infinite Intelligence Analogies

33. Meditations on becoming heart smart

34. Positive and Negative Skepticism

35. The Modern Western Myth About Reincarnation  (Essay added 3/20/24)

36. The 12 Principles of EOP  (Essay added 10/14/24)

37. Clarification Regarding My Book “Further Reflections”  (A short addendum to "Further Reflections," added 12/5/24)

38. Solving the Socratic Paradox  (Essay added 12/8/24)

39. The Factor of Time  (Essay added 2/1/25) 

40. Questions Idealists Don’t Even Try to Answer  (Essay added 2/11/25)

41. Who is Chris Ott and what is EOP all about?  (Essay added 4/3/25)

42. Why Materialism Doesn't Work  (Essay added 4/30/25) 

43. Superstition Haunts Religions and Science Alike  (Essay added 5/4/25) 

44. What will the Professional Philosophers think of EOP?  (Essay added 5/14/25)

45. How I think ideas are dispensed to the world  (Essay added 5/18/25)

46. If Meher Baba’s Teachings Were Embraced  (Essay added 6/1/25)  

47. The Problem with Possibility and Why It Matters  (Essay added 6/15/25) 

48. Hippy Delusions  (Essay added 6/16/25)

49. Language, Scientific Reasoning, Logic, and Sophistry  (Essay added 6/21/25) 

50. How EOP Helps Us Understand Baba's Teaching  (Essay added 6/27/25)

51. Distinguishing EOP from Wrong Conceptions of It   (Essay added 7/6/25)

52. Why Things Feel Solid  (Written in 2009. Rewritten April 10, 2025. Further updated July 7, 2025)

53. Why Torture is Always Wrong  (Essay added 7/8/25)

54. Perceptual Algorithms  (Essay uploaded 7/22/25)

55. Why I Follow Meher Baba  (Essay added 7/22/2025)

56. John Dewey’s 19th Century English  (Essay added 8/5/25)  

57. Full Summary  (Essay added 8/15/25) 

58. Why EOP Matters  (Essay added 8/18/25)

59. Why EOP Is The Only New Idea  (Essay added 8/29/25) 

60. Three senses of God over history  (Essay added 9/2/25) 

61. The Implications of Meher Baba’s Teaching on Sanskaras  (Essay added 9/12/25)

62. Why I'm Sure Oswald Acted Alone  (Essay added 9/13/25)

63. The Illusion That Sustains Reality  (Essay added 9/14/25)

64. Baba's Teaching is Unique  (Essay added 9/19/25)

65. The Vocabulary and Meaning of the Psychic Emergent Universe  (Essay added 9/23/25)

66. The Mind-Body Connection According to Meher Baba  (Essay added 9/24/25)

67. The Prominence of Consciousness in Meher Baba’s System  (9/24/25)

68. Is the Big Bang Really a Process?  (Essay added 9//25/25)

69. The Matter Paradox  (Essay added 10/7/25) 

70. EOP Explained Simply  (Essay added 10/10/25) 

71. The Personal God According to Meher Baba  (Essay added 10/10/25)

72. The Contributions of Chris Ott  (A list added 10/13/25)

73. A New Explanation of the Rise of Dual Sexes in Evolution  (Essay added 10/13/25)

74. Mathematics is a Product of Consciousness  (Essay added 10/23/25)

75. Induction is Based on Intuition and What the Implications Are  (Essay added 10/26/25)

76. What I mean by Lenses  (Essay added 10/25/25)

77. Why I Talk about the Subjects I Do  (Essay added 11/4/25)

78. How Psychological Projection Contributes to Poorly Thought-Out Philosophy  (Essay added 11/7/25)

79. The Psychological Projection of Internality and Externality  (Essay added 11/10/25)

80. The Soul vs. the Subtle Body  (Essay added 11/19/25)

81. Meher Baba’s Message and Mission  (Essay  added 11/24/25)

82. Beware of English Language Idioms  (Essay added 11/26/25)

83. Immanence in Hinduism vs. EOP   (Essay added 11/27/25)

84. Setting the Record Straight about My Father   (Essay added 12/8/25)

85. The Religiology of the Baba World  (Essay added 12/10/25)

86. At Least on One Level, ‘God Speaking’ May Refer to God Revealing  (Essay added 12/11/25)

87. Some minor details about Souls  (Essay added 12/16/25)

88. We don't have karma; we are our karma  (Essay Added 1/6/25)

89. Darwin vs. Meher Baba on Evolution  (Essay added 1/7/26)

90. How Baba’s Teaching on Sanskaras Obviates Much of Pop Psychology  (Essay added 1/8/26)

91. How Life Began   (Essay added 1/16/26)

92. The Only Realistic Way Baba’s Theme Could Spread to the World   (Essay added 1/19/26)

93. Meher Baba's Movie - Part I  (Essay added 1/24/26)

94. Meher Baba's Movie - Part II  (Essay added 1/29/26)

95. Meher Baba’s Movie - Part III  (Essay added 1/29/26)
    
    Notes

Notes on Philosophy (2000-2001)  (These notes collected and bound in 2001 constitute my thinking while in graduate school before I had fully conceived of the idea of an Evolution of Perception. It includes 864 pages of notes and some early papers.)

Video Channels

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Christopher-ott  (Official YouTube channel)

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@meganalexandraott/videos  (Backup)

BITCHUTE: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/chris-ott/  

BRIGHTEON: https://www.brighteon.com/channels/cott12/home 

BRIGHTEON: https://www.brighteon.com/channels/twilightrocks/home  

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

Blogs

https://meherbabathoughts.blogspot.com/ (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.)

https://letters-to-the-living.blogspot.com/ (The Meher Baba followers, who comprise most of the people I interact with today, are getting old. Hence the title of this blog, "Letters to the Living," implies posts I hope future generations will read when we are gone.)

https://meherbabafuture.blogspot.com/ (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.")

https://sites.google.com/view/chris-ott (A Google site I created as a follow-on for Evolution of Perception Re-Explained. It was originally linked to from the last page of the 2021 first edition under the heading "Further Reading.")

https://sites.google.com/view/chris-ott/bio?authuser=0 (A photo biography of Chris Ott)

https://www.permanent.org/p/archive/0ibq-0000  (A permanent legacy site of Chris Ott books and papers)