Charles Foster is a Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.
His books cover many fields. They include books on travel, evolutionary biology, natural history, anthropology, theology, archaeology, philosophy and law. Ultimately they are all attempts to answer the questions ‘Who or what are we?’, and ‘what on earth are we doing here?
Foster's newest book is Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 years of consciousness. It tries to answer the question ‘What sort of creature is a human?’
At the Guardian Foster tagged ten top books about human consciousness, including:
Nine-Headed Dragon River by Peter MatthiessenRead about the other entries on the list.
Matthiessen, best known for The Snow Leopard, was an advanced Zen practitioner. This book contains some of his meditation diaries. They’re full of vertiginous worked examples, showing how to watch your own mind working.
Also see Adrian Owen's top ten books about consciousness.
--Marshal Zeringue
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