Explore Beyond DezisMilk

No one source contains everything worth learning.

This directory highlights books, educators, organizations, tools, communities, and experiences that may support continued growth in different areas of life.

These recommendations are provided for educational exploration. Inclusion does not imply endorsement of every idea or conclusion presented by the source.

Human Development

Self-Regulation and Ceremonies with FirstMemory

Understand Human Development

Integral Consciousness and Where Do We Go From Here?
(Coming soon)

History & Governance

Learn About History and the Government

Agreements, Law, & COMMERCE

Explore Law, Etymology, Banking, and Litigation (Don't Be A Slave / OneStupidFuck)

Understand Debt, Credit, and Financial Obligations (Hood Consumer Advisors)

Explore Taxation and Public Finance

Health, hEALING, & RECOVERY

Heal from Addiction

Nutrition and Cleanses

Daily Practices

Nature & Practical Living

Learn Through Nature and Agriculture

Find Local Spring Water

LIVING LIBRARY

Ideas shape the way we see the world. This growing collection includes books that have informed, challenged, and expanded the thinking behind DezisMilk. Spanning human development, governance, law, philosophy, history, economics, spirituality, and systems thinking, these works are offered as invitations to explore, ask better questions, and continue developing discernment.

Human Development

Books exploring identity, emotional maturity, responsibility, relationships, meaning, and personal growth.

  • Sacred Contracts — Caroline Myss

Governance & Political Development

Understanding how societies organize authority, institutions, legitimacy, and civic life.

  • The Origins of Political Order — Francis Fukuyama

  • The Rule of the Clan — Mark S. Weiner

  • Sovereignty: The Origins and Future of a Political Concept — Dieter Grimm

  • On Revolution — Hannah Arendt

Law, Justice & Legal Traditions

Books examining how legal systems develop, evolve, and operate across cultures and institutions.

  • Equity Jurisprudence — Joseph Story

  • Scott on Trusts — Austin W. Scott & William Fratcher

  • The Law of Trusts and Trustees — George Bogert

  • Canon Law in a Comparative Perspective — Norman Doe

  • Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity — Richard Hooker

  • Indigenous Legal Traditions — John Borrows

  • The Anthropology of Law — Fernanda Pirie

  • The History of Human Rights — Micheline Ishay

  • Roberts Rules of Order — Henry Martyn Robert

Institutions, Power & Society

Understanding how authority functions within organizations, markets, workplaces, and modern institutions.

  • The Great Transformation — Karl Polanyi

  • Private Government — Elizabeth Anderson

  • Seeing Like a State — James C. Scott

  • Discipline and Punish — Michel Foucault

  • Robert Hale, Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-Coercive State

  • Selected articles from the Harvard Law Review

Civic Perspectives

Works that encourage thoughtful engagement with citizenship, governance, and public life.

  • The Guide to the Most Beautiful Woman in the World — Brandon Joe Williams

SPIRITUAL & WISDOM TRADITIONS

A collection of sacred texts and wisdom literature that have shaped civilizations, ethics, governance, and human understanding across history.

  • The Ethiopian Bible

  • The Remix Modern Bible

  • A Course in Miracles

About This Library

The inclusion of a book in this library does not imply complete agreement with every idea or conclusion it presents. These works have been selected because they contribute meaningful perspectives to the study of human development, governance, law, institutions, ethics, and responsible participation. Some reinforce one another. Others offer contrasting viewpoints. Together, they encourage curiosity, thoughtful dialogue, and the ongoing practice of discernment.