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Bibiliography for

"Essential Consciousness":

A reading and yet-to-read list

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The books that I've read or intend to read are listed below as the "references" part of a book length project on which I am working. Most citations also have my off the cuff remarks; comments begin with the year that I read, or discovered the book.

Generally the Univ. of Michigan (one of the very first parts of the internet itself) library system provided my details, although some sit on the shelves of other Big Ten universities with online catalogs. Bibliographic data was simply cut ’n’ pasted from online library data (I started at www.umich.edu for the MIRLYN online catalogue, then used 'Guest' login.) "Call numbers" use the the Library of Congress (LC) system #’s and/or Dewey Decimal #’s from source libraries; numbering is usually consistent throughout the U.S. Some new books' details come straight from bookstore data.

My comments & notes follow each citation... in this smaller font.

Arrangement of titles is, on this date, ~~8. Oct. 1998.,~~ [updated 4. February. 2001] random. I’ll get to sorting sooner or later. For now the list contains my notes for the work-in-progress I variously call an essay, a book, a thesis, or simply an extended thought. Hence my copyright notice. Other complete pages (yet to be html’d) contain somewhat more coherent thought coming soon (I hope.) Clicking bookstore links might help me pay for this silly project. If time and energy allow, then I will hyperlink things, and present a simple list of authors and/or of titles.

True Bibliography...

For a true bibliography by an actual working scholar in the field of Philosophy of Mind, look at Dr. David Chalmers's big bibliography and it's 5,000+ (!) citations and occasional comments, or at his more limited Consciousness site. It shows how the field has exploded with research and implies that it fascinates more people than merely me. It also indicates hardcore scientific work, not just diaries of drug induced or crackpot episodes, fills the literature of consciousness studies.

** NOTE: My book search links all go to Barnes & Nobles, but do NOT necessarily go to the correct book. Give me a little time. ** Here's a general link to the Barnes & Noble.com Bookstore, but also see their Rare and Out of Print Books link. If the B&N search fails try www.bookwire.com, www.borders.com, www.amazon.com, or best of all visit your local library ... they can request interlibrary loans for out of print books.

Remember, the order of books is currently random.

[1996-7 (=the year I read the book)]: I was directed to this book by a writer’s magazine article listing “hot topics” that book publishers currently want; he was an example of “mind/body integration” as a subject of interest to publishers. The body as mind fit very neatly into my thinking at the time I read him. I’ve been meaning to get back to him, but the workaday world, etc. etc. Replaces https://members.tripod.com/~denmanni/bib_1.html.

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Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, Holy blood, Holy Grail / Published London, Eng., : Jonathan Cape, ©1982. Description xvi, 445 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Subjects Knights Templar (Masonic order) Grail. France--History--Miscellanea. Rennes-le-Château (France) Contributors Leigh, Richard. Lincoln, Henry. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. 395-405. ISBN 0224017357 Call No: DC40 .B15

(1989) This I read at a friend's suggestion, without the slightest foreknowledge of its content. It challenges the christian church's version of history. In particular the authors dismiss Jesus' immaculate birth & celibacy by providing a detailed history of a geneology that begins with contemporary European royalty and goes back to a son born to Jesus. I hadn't had any initial interest in it, but the book effectively made me interested. It also had the very relieving effect of reminding me that I had no need to believe the church's peculiar version of history and of the man himself.

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MacLaine, Shirley,1934- Dancing in the light / Shirley MacLaine. Published: Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, ©1985. Description: 421 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: MacLaine, Shirley, 1934- Entertainers--United States--Biography. Spiritualists--United States--Biography ISBN: 055305094X Call No: 808.29 M162O A31

(1988-9) An audio engineer/mixer with whom I worked “discovered” MacLaine in his private little search for what he called “spiritual software” that would round out his life; he has since been taken in by TV evangelists and is now a Bible-thumper Baptist Christian. I doubt it is the end of his story as he tends to be extremely logical though exceedingly opinionated as well. For now it’s helping him. As for MacLaine, this book offered a few tidbits of useful information. Example, the Philippine healer who took her hand and plunged it into one of his patient’s bodies; she described a sensation of nothing more than warm fog, rather than ooze & goo.

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(1992?) A book club (QPB) selection that fascinated me, though I thought he "lost it" in dubious speculation in the last few chapters. His premise hinged on work by the physicist David Bohm (a student then colleague of Einstein's) & neurospychologist Karl Pribram (whom I’d seen lecture in ~1975 with my psych prof who had done his grad work under Pribram.) Talbot’s work provided a kernal around which, or from which, I reached some conclusions about consciousness, in particular as a system and more especially as a stand-alone system of energies. In my picture, Talbot’s hologram that is the universe, "begat" a hologram that is consciousness that can and does, like any child, seek congenial independence from its parent(s), to stand apart but nearly equal to and close to the parent. Each mind, then, is a universe in the making or becoming. This universe responds to us as a doting parent, or equally possibly as a mother to the child in her belly, with each our minds being mere cells of a larger organism of consciousness. Naturally as holograms each and every piece contains the whole picture. Thus, the whole picture from the beginning to the end of time resides in each of us; all we need to do is sharpen our perception!

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O'Hara, Nancy, Just Listen: A Guide to Finding Your Own True Voice Publisher: Broadway Books, October 1998, Paperback, 288pp., ISBN: 0767900235

(2000) I've only begun this meditation book, but met her at her promotional book signing last year.

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Scott, Alwyn C., Stairway to the Mind: The Controversial New Science of Consciousness: The Controversial New Science of Consciousness. Publisher: Copernicus Books, January 1995, Hardcover, 229pp., ISBN: 0387943811

I've scanned but haven't yet finished this mathematician's book that is credited with starting the "emergentist" theories of consciousness. To quote him (p. 3) "consciousness is an emergent phenomena, one born of many discrete events fusing together as a single experience." My emergentist version came to me independent of Dr. Scott before finding his book a year later in '96. Sigh ... he beat me to my claim to fame.

Nonetheless, to distinguish my view from his, he focuses on the actions of agents rather than, as I do, on the actions themselves. In other words he, like all Western scientists, depends upon the actor, a thing of some kind acting. Like everyone, he assumes discrete physical things lay at the root of all that is, and presumes they take action, but then never examines action itself. But by referring to string theory (see B. Greene elsewhere on this page, and the quote from Kane) it is scientifically reasonable to assert that action precedes the very existence of things. From this point on, then, I would argue that activeness accounts for everything that emergently leads to high consciousness. In a way, the actor/agent/matter itself is merely a marker, a place holder, an epiphenomena of action. Elsewhere I've begun essays challenging mathematics itself as an inadequate "thing based" description of reality (thus including consciousness.) Math lacks verbs, thus it insufficiently describes reality. Before "a=a," activeness acts. The spectacular successes of math thus requires a reminder that while it may be necessary and even critically necessary to an understanding of the universe, it remains insufficient; to use math's phrase, "necessary but not sufficient.". Emergence of consciousness, then, moves through levels of actions, from string vibrations to chemical binding, to organism autonomy to consciousness that can (& in OBE & NDEs does) exist/occur independent of the corresponding materially emergent "actor." Also see my remarks under B. Greene's book elsewhere on this page.

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Greene, Brian, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory. Publisher: Vintage Books, Pub. Date: March 2000, Paperback, 464pp. ISBN: 0375708111

For a potential string theory of consciousness? An alumni newsletter from U. Mich. ("Michigan Today," Vol. 32, No. 2, Summer 2000) included a long article by Gordon Kane about string theory because the school had just (July 2000) hosted a major international conference on the subject. A physicist wrote it for intelligent laymen (university alumni) so it provided a succinct explanation from a working expert that prepared me for Greene's very thorough book. For my personal notion of consciousness, the alumni article specifically said exactly what I had mentally determined sat at the root of mind: the universe has at its most fundamental level a vibration, but "[there] are not strings of anything" that vibrate. Action or activeness is, to me, the root or element that proceeds through stages of complexity and eventually yields consciousness. String theory, therefore, and this well known book (sales rank 324 out of millions) constitutes essential reading.

The full paragraph in Kane's alumni news article that led me to buy Greene's book is: "Now we have learned that it is possible to make a quite remarkable theory in nine space dimensions. It seems to be consistent with the rules of quantum theory, to contain both gravity and the supersymmetric Standard Model, and to require only the forces that have been observed. In this theory the particles are the same ones we know—the particles of the Standard Model and their superpartners-but they are represented not as point—like quanta of fields but as tiny vibrating strings, so tiny they would appear point-like in any experiment we could do. They are not strings of anything; if they were, then that stuff would be more basic than the particles of the Standard Model. When we say they are strings, we mean their behavior is described by the same kinds of equations that would describe idealized everyday strings-thus, "string theory." Different patterns of vibration of the strings—the sort of changes that produce different notes from vibrating violin strings—correspond to different particles."

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Powelson & Riegert, The Lost Gospel Q: The Original Saying of Jesus. Thomas Moore (Intro), Mark Powelson (Editor), Ray Riegert (Translator) Publisher: Ulysses Press, October 1996. Hardcover, 128pp., ISBN: 1569751005. Call No. BS2555.2.1.66 1996

If you dislike the Church (Christian) as do I (despite my essentially Christian upbringing), but you have no real dispute with Jesus, then this extremely small book is exactly what you need. It conveys the man's words with only the least bit of dogma, and gives a picture of a warm, witty, yet profound teacher. For example, a footnote in this work points out that Jesus used the Aramaic word "Abba" and church-types mis-translate it as the very formal word "father." But in fact it means "papa" or in American English, "daddy." So much for the "fear of god!" Easily the only book really needed to understand him.

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Rumi, Jelalludin, Coleman Barks (Translator) The Essential Rumi, With John Moyne, with A. J. Arberry, with Reynold Nicolson, introduction by Reynold Nicholson. Publisher: HarperTrade, June 1996. Paperback, 310pp., ISBN: 0062509594

(1998) This was a wonderful book; it's filled with all kinds of things I found experientially on my own. I hadn't heard of (or at least paid attention to) Rumi before this came as part of a "spiritual" set from the book club (qpb.com, isbn=0965064871, ©1998.) Despite my enormous pleasure reading it, and deep appreciation for its profound levels, someone else who read and reviewed it on the B&N website considered it shallow and inadequate to Rumi's technical precision. That reviewer recommends, instead, translations by Idries Shah, whom I have not read. Make your own choice, but this is an extremely easy to read version and would at least give you a pleasant, sometimes raucously fun, introduction to this 13th century mystic master whose work changed the course of Islam.

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Billy, Dennis J., The Way of the Pilgrim: Complete Text and Reader's Guide (Many editions exist of this 19th century Russian Christian classic; it's available in many libraries. My edition comes from qpb.com and is translated by R. M. French, intro. by Huston Smith, QPBC, ©1998, from the Harper Collins Publishers. Avoid confusion with a sci-fi work of the same title.)

(2000) Another spiritual/religious classic from qpb.com that occupied my spring 2000. Considered a Christian classic it provides a Russian peasant's life of wandering while endlessly repeating a single line prayer. A readable translation until the last chapter (the style changes so completely that I doubt it was the same author.) Luckily the preaching and moralizing so popular among Christians is minimal. Readers must include this in their reading of spiritual texts, if only for thoroughness. But it's not bad.
One anecdote in the pilgrim's travels describes a farmer's treatment for the traveler's debilitating gout or arthritis. Oddly the method described corresponds (differs, but has similarities) to a currently living physician's "newly discovered" method for treating arthritis; Dr. Joel Wallach uses what he called the "chicken bone pig arthritis cure" and has formulated and marketed a food supplement derived from his research. The book's pilgrim had been treated by someone who collected any sort of bone laying around, then boiled them, and applied the resulting fluid to a rag wrapping the pilgrim's leg.

Bhagavad Gita is the "core ancient text of the Hindu tradition." My bookstore search found 164 available versions. My copy was translated by Barbara Stoler Miller, intro. by Huston Smith, ©1998, QPBC, New York, from the Harper Collins Publishers edition; it is part of a set from qpb.com.

(2000) This ancient classic occupied my summer 2000. A readable translation from qpb.com, I made numerous notes in the margins, especially as the lessons about action were given. For example, the Sixth Teaching, stanza 2, "no man is disciplined / without renouncing willful intent." Then in the 8th Teaching, stz. 3, "Eternal and supreme is the infinite spirit; / its inner self is called inherent being; / its creative force, known as action / is the source of creatures' existence." And the the 16th Teaching, stz. 7, "Demonic men cannot comprehend / activity and rest; / there exists no clarity, / no morality, no truth in them." Finally, in the 18th, stz. 16, "a man ...[who] ... sees himself as the only agent, / cannot be said to see." And stz. 18, "Knowledge, its object, and its subject / are the triple stimulus of action; / instrument, act, and agent / are the constituents of action."
Readers who include this, as I did, in reading ancient religious texts will no doubt find just as many similarities to other ancient work as I found. Read it (it's short) for any reason at all, but read it.

Lao-Tzo (auth.), Victor Mair (Translator), Tao TE Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way. Publisher: Bantam Books, Incorporated: August 1990. Paperback, 192pp., ISBN: 055334935X
Described as "A new translation of one of the world's most popular and oldest books based on the newly discovered Ma-wang-tui manuscripts." My copy is included as part of a set from qpb.com, intro. by Huston Smith, ©1998, QPBC, New York, from the Harper Collins Publishers edition.

(2000) I read this, including the informative intro, just to be thorough. It surprised me how similar, if not identical, some of its message is to other ancient texts; the QPBC ed. in fact quotes the Hindu Bhagavad Gita in the frontispiece. This probably contains the root notion that it ALL reduces to nothing more than action and rest. The Bhagavad Gita echoes this but emphasizes the importance of action over moralization about the type of action.
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The Essential Kabbalah, Another spiritual classic; my copy is an edition translated by Daniel C. Matt, part of the book club set from qpb.com, intro. by Huston Smith, ©1998, QPBC, New York, from the Harper Collins Publishers edition.

This is another "yet-to-read" ancient classic sitting on my shelf. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of books about Hebraic Kabbalah have been written. This simply begins the trip to the source. NOTE that transliteration from Hebrew varies: kabbalah, cabbalah, chabballah, etc.
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Tibetan Book of the Dead, Another "yet-to-read" spiritual classic in my book club set; part of the book club set from qpb.com, translated by Robert A. F. Thurman, intro. by Huston Smith, ©1998, QPBC, New York, from the Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. edition. Many other editions by many other translators and editors are available.

This is a "yet-to-read" and another ancient classic sitting on my shelf. It's in the set available from qpb.com.

I haven't yet read the first of his three books, having started with his 2nd. For his Monroe Institute, and introductions and details about their research, check their multi-lingual Institute web site. To purchase tapes and CDs designed to assist you in achieving out-of-body (OBE) experiences of your own go to their commercial sales site.
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Monroe, Robert A. Far Journeys (2nd of his books) Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Incorporated: September 1987; Paperback, 290pp. ISBN: 0385231822

(1987-8-9?) This is where I started in terms of OBE, NDE, RV and similar reading. I discovered Monroe by reading an article on lucid dreaming in one of Playboy’s magazines, which is still outside in my storage shed, but also by a reference in a New Age magazine article. This, his second book, "Far Journeys" provided some wonderful tidbits of value to me. One was his description of a previous life as a high priest. His total surrender and the apparently miraculous result fall within an essay I wrote & rewrote called "Devastation." Similar thoughts to Monroe's experience are echoed by a footnote in Cyril Scott's book elsewhere in this bibliog. You may doubt the value of his work & his claims, but it is easily and desevedly readable.

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(1996) Read large sections of the book standing in bookstores, but waited to actually complete it cover to cover (no money) 2 years later in '98. I had a spectacular dream one night shortly after reading his passage about some sort of cosmic million-person consciousness. In it I'd had a quite "normal" conversation with an enormous "star" that filled my field of vision. I only recall the image and it’s/his last words before I woke: "You’ll see the message many times in your life." To which my just awaking conscious mind asked, "But will I ever GET the message?" (understand it.) This book is the one in which Monroe describes the formation of clusters and multiple clusters of minds/souls into grander entities; I have taken this as definitive, although anecdotal, evidence that consciousness is a system built of smaller components and actions. My personal caveat, though, is to remember that Monroe prided himself in his storytelling ability; to fabricate it all would be highly unlikely, but possible, thus worth remembering.

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Buhlman, William. Adventures beyond the body : how to experience out-of-body travel / William Buhlman. Published: HarperSanFrancisco, ©1996. Edition: 1st ed. Description: xi, 292 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Astral projection. Physics--Philosophy. Quantum theory--Miscellanea. Notes: "A Tree clause book"--T.p. verso. Includes index. ISBN: 0062513710 Call No: No call number available} {replaces https://members.tripod.com/~denmanni/bib_4.html

(1996) I met him literally at the end of a rainbow after a thunderstorm at one of his book signings; he lived nearby at the time. He seemed a nice, articulate and intelligent man. He signed my copy after pausing a moment to stare into space to think, "You have the power." Despite his book's instruction and Monroe’s, and my work with Monroe Institute OBE self-induction tapes, I’ve never had, nor come close to, a conscious OBE. However, I have enjoyed some interesting dreams like the one (similar to one of his OBEs) from which I awoke saying quite decidedly "I'm tired of being a German officer." His website LINK with CDs & similar training materials & seminars is: Buhlman's Adventures Beyond the Body.

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Hall, Manly Palmer, The lost keys of Freemasonry : or, The secret of Hiram Abiff / Hall, Manly Palmer, 1901- Published: Richmond, Va. : Macoy Pub. and Masonic Supply Co., ©1968. Description: xxiv, 100 p., 6 leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm. Call No: HS425 .H18 1968

[1995 [(est.)] Perused this in a bookstore, reading large sections, but did not study it. It got my attention as a mental link to Baigent, et al's book Holy Blood... My only note is that he quotes his source of the translation of the occult Emerald Tablet as Wm. Eiser in "Universal Language of Caballah." Hall's book appears to be a reprint of a 1981 book, and is one of over a dozen re-released in one year (1999) by this author's publisher; I should have noticed this, obviously, based on his 1901 birthdate.

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(1994?) Read a chapter at a time in bookstores until I finished it; was referred to it by an article in "Worth" financial mag. Subsequently I did a short (500 wd?) article for the local new age monthly paper extending the notion by referencing the ancient Egyptian "Law of Amra" and others. (Amra's law requires regular anonymous generosity, unlike the very public Judeo-Christian tithing.) He followed this book with many sequels which (for me) add little to his very popular, but weak, first book. In fact, he and his wife seem to have formed an entire Celestine empire from books, tapes, lectures, radio and TV appearances, and the like; it is vapid, commercial expansion of simple truths contained in this first book.

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Meurois-Givaudan, Anne and Daniel. English. Title: The way of the Essenes : Christ's hidden life remembered Uniform Title: De mémoire d'essénien. / Anne and Daniel Meurois-Givaudan. Published: Rochester, Vt. : Destiny Books : Distributed to the book trade in the U.S. by American International Distribution Corp., ©1992. Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Description: ix, 364 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Essenes--Miscellanea. Jesus Christ Miscellanea. Contributors: Meurois-Givaudan, Daniel. Notes: Translation of: De mémoire d'essénien. Includes index. Call No: BF1999 .M4951 1993 ISBN: 0892813229

(June 1996) Absolutely some of the best philosophy (& flat out information if you accept regressions) I’ve ever read. Who cares if past-life regression makes the source dubious? The master is reported to have made the most profound statement I’ve ever heard. Asked by a follower about all the healings of the others, Jesus said "What others?" Distinctly pantheistic, all-one, Aussie aboriginal Oneness, etc. Amazing. Read this if you read nothing else ... ever. My copy is heavily underlined, with many pages full of notes, etc.

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Wolf, Fred Alan The eagle's quest : a physicist's search for truth in the heart of the shamanic world / Author Wolf, Fred Alan. Published New York : Summit Books, ©1991. Description 318 p. ; 25 cm. Subjects Shamanism. Occultism and science. Quantum theory--Miscellanea. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-304) and index. ISBN 0671675346 : Call No: BF1611 .W84 1991

(1998) Read this after a friend said she couldn't deal with the technical depth (physics) even though written for non-physicists. It was my first contact with Dr. Wolf's work, but it prompted me to e-mail him and to stay tuned to his ongoing work. Later I learned that he knows and has worked with a psychologist whose work I also admire, that of Karl Pribram (see reference elsewhere on this page.) At this date (Dec. 2000) his book Spiritual Universe is the latest version of his thinking. Quite a thinker, quite a writer, and very much in the public eye with lectures and the like. Despite his very thorough work, there are as many academic scholars who disagree as who agree with his quantum physics version of mind and soul. Nonetheless, he deserves attention/reading by everyone interested in mind, consciousness, spirit, soul, and such.

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Abraham, Ralph / Chaos, gaia, eros : a chaos pioneer uncovers the three great streams of history. Published: Harper San Francisco, ©1994. Description: xiii, 263 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Call No: BF 1999 .A2241 1994

(1996) A birthday gift from my son signed "for your quest for enlightenment." In this book a mathematician takes a shot at the big picture, mostly about history & the history of history (not my favorite subject.) True to his field (math), it's carefully but lifelessly written, fraught with passive verbs; nothing ever "happens." This makes it tiring to read, but ok material.

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Brinkley, Dannion / Saved by the light : the true story of a man who died twice and the profound revelations he received. Published: New York : Villard Books, ©1994. Description: xii, 161 p. ; 22 cm. Call No: BF 1045 .N4 B751 1994

(1996) Another that I perused in the bookstore. Didn’t make a big impression, but seems to offer support for some of my thought.

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(1991) Fabulous book, wonderful poet/writer. The 11 page fairy tale is at the end of his very long social-psychological literary analysis. I picked it up in the bookstore after hearing a lot about it (including a magazine article in New Age magazine) & skipped right to the tale at the end. Standing in the store I read it & almost cried. A couple tiny points Bly made have lingered many years: the "girl" princess’s name in the story is Beauty. Mulling that over all this time has made much clear to me. It is the source of my conclusion that Grimm’s &other tales are not children’s nor psychological (a la C. Jung) literature but are the fundamental secret sacred "hidden" mysticism people have sought for thousands of years. If you’re going to hide a message across centuries & cultural upheavals, where better than in a kids story? Nobody will ever burn that book! Want the "secrets of the universe?" 15 bucks at the bookstore! Beauty refers to the Source that we who are human (divine) animals (beasts) loves: Beauty &the Beast. Sleeping Beauty, similarly, and Cinderella [ash-girl] clues us in that Beauty lurks in the dirt beneath our feet. Paramahansa Yogananda: "Any time you become fascinated by some material creation, close your eyes, look within & contemplate its Source." This is an idea I’ve wanted to present in some decent written form for years, while somehow acknowledging the need to keep it secret.

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Moore, Robert L., King, warrior, magician, lover : rediscovering the archetypes of the mature masculine / Moore, Robert L., and Douglas Gillette. Edition 1st HarperCollins paperback ed. Published [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, ©1990. Description xix, 160 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Subjects Men--Psychology. Masculinity (Psychology) Archetype (Psychology) Contributors Gillette, Douglas. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-159). ISBN 0062505971 or 0062506064: Call No: HQ1090 .M66 1990 {replaces https://members.tripod.com/~denmanni/bib_5.html}

(1991-2) This was a book club selection, but I took & read it on the heels of Robt. Bly’s more powerful Iron John." Added a little depth to my personal mythology, and personality structure. In the context of my view of fairy tales, it brought the balance of internal power into sensible shape but didn’t really extend it. There was another book, too, in this vein neither the title nor author of which comes to mind. But now that I think of it, Bly’s book and this one provided a basis for my "extension" of interpreting so-called fairy tales. Worth reading.
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Nhât Hanh, Thích. Peace is every step : the path of mindfulness in everyday life / Thich Nhat Hanh ; edited by Arnold Kotler. Published New York, N.Y. : Bantam Books, ©1991. Description xv, 134 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects Religious life--Buddhism. ISBN 0553071289 or ISBN: 0553351397 Call No: BQ 5410 .N46 1991

(1990-91) I read a book on "mindfulness" that I think was this one by Thich Nhat Hanh. (A former business client/employer stole all my books from our joint office so I can’t pull it off the shelf.) During my reading I noticed his content dealt with the very thing I’d been trying to refine in my own behavior. A synchronistic reading of material I needed at the time, a la "when the student is ready…." I had arrived at his central theme by myself but he "gave me the details" more clearly than I could have explained them to anyone else. My personal choice of words was "attentiveness" but his choice carries a richer sense of healthy mental process. Sooner or later he will show up as a reference in something I write; may as well give him the credit now.

However, what I read might have been his "Touching peace : practicing the art of mindful living" / Published: Berkeley, Calif. : Parallax Press, c1992. Or possibly the book "Moment by moment : the art and practice of mindfulness"-- / Author: Braza, Jerry. Published: Salt Lake City, Utah: Healing Resources, c1993. Another in the same vein is: "The miracle of mindfulness! : A manual of meditation" / Thich Nhat Hanh ; trans. by Mobi Warren ; with drawings by Vo Dinh. Uniform Title Phép la cua su’ tinh thu’c. English. Author Nhât Hanh, Thích. Published Boston : Beacon Press, c1976. Description ix, 108 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Subjects Meditation--Buddhism. Buddhist meditations. ISBN 0807011185 0807011193 Call No: BQ5612 .N48 1976

{Something else that I have not read that falls in line with the many other traditions that address breath, and may come in handy when I do the piece on mitochondria / chloroplasts as the masters of our fate. Not read: "The sutra on the full awareness of breathing" : with commentary by Thich Nhat Hanh / Published: Berkeley, Calif. : Parallax Press, ©1988.}

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(1969 [for my high school English comp class]) This is the classic writer's handbook, known throughout the American English world of writers, the ultimate and sometimes only book you need to write well. In Strunk's tiny book I found the fundamental rule of style that has guided me for years in writing and speech and in thinking came from : "Use the active voice." To me, having mulled it over for decades, it offers profound impact on living life. Every politician has mastered the passive voice, and manipulates people with it against all common sense. Convert political (or any other) utterance into the active voice & it forces you to assign responsibility, exposes bizarre thinking, and brings life to life. Many times I’ve written the same essay over & over arguing exactly that point, complete with scholarly references to linguistic & psychological literature. He also gave the second most important rule of style: "Use the positive voice" (i.e., eliminate "not.") It eventually leads to profound weight in the statement "I am that I am," timelessly existent identity, and the corresponding rule to avoid frivolous usage of the phrase "I am."

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Kozminsky, Isidore, The magic and science of jewels and stones. Published: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons, ©1922. Description: xv, 434 p. col. front., illus., plates (part col.) 21 cm. Call No: QE 392 .K88

(1987) I wanted to make a belt buckle using the 12 stones of Aaron’s breastplate, the Ephod described in Exodus. Unfortunately, nobody has ever successfully identified the stones! The Hebrew original &the cultural milieu confound things: "saphhire" at the time referred to any stone that was blue, and anything green was "emerald." Kozminsky provided the only sensible alternative: consider the astrological correspondences to the 12 signs. I have a dozen stones now (not all Kozminsky’s choices), and an ounce of silver, but extremely limited skill with either! So I’ve meanwhile settled for a synthetic alexandrite in a gold forefinger ring; it’s a deliberate affront to Caesar’s ring on the Pope’s hand. The Roman Empire never died; it just changed hands and put on a disguise: the "whore of Rome."

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Sagan, Carl, The dragons of Eden : speculations on the evolution of human intelligence / Carl Sagan. 1934- Edition 1st ed. Published New York : Random House, ©1977. Description 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects Intellect. Brain. Genetic psychology. Subjects (Medical) Brain. Intelligence. Evolution. Genetics, Behavioral. Notes Bibliography: p. 241-249. Includes index. ISBN 0394410459 or (ppk.) 0345346297: Call No: BF431 .S2

(1981-2-3) This I read a long time ago, but remember feeling comfortable with his cross-discipline approach to explaining life. Don’t recall anything in particular that has stuck with me, though. At this point his scientific information may be out of date due to the research work during the 2 decades since he wrote it.

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Regis, Edward, Nano : the emerging science of nanotechnology : remaking the world-molecule by molecule / Author: Regis, Edward, 1944- Published: Boston : Little, Brown, ©1995. Description: 325 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Call No: T 174.7 .R441 1995

(1995) Pulled a publisher’s preview copy out of the trash at a library and read it. It certainly held my attention, as I had not too much earlier finished reading Cannon’s Nostradamus. It’s disappointing feature is that it reads more like a biography of one clever MIT engineer, rather than as a thorough covering of the field of nanotech.

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Phelan, Laurel: Guinevere: The True Story of One Woman's Quest for Her past Life Identity and the Healing of Her Eternal Soul. Publisher: Pocket Books: June 1997; Paperback, 32pp. ISBN: 0671526154

This book was simply given to me by someone who had no interest in it and was about to throw it away. It is another past-life regression, adequately, but over dramatically written. In it a real-life 21 year old secretary traces the source of her nightmares to a past life 1500 years ago as the medieval Queen, wife of the legendary Arthur. To me her description of the queen reads like a headstrong, selfish, spoiled brat of a girl who was lucky enough to marry the local gandlord, Arthur. But if you can accept regression work as valid, then it offers some useful bits of information about the source of the legends. As to the writing, it is adequate but disappointingly nothing more. It shows up as number 300,000 on the B&N bestseller, which shows what others think of it.

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Pribram, Karl H., Languages of the brain : experimental paradoxes and principles in neuropsychology / Author: Pribram, Karl H., 1919- Published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J : Prentice-Hall, ©1971 Description: xiv, 432 p. : illus. ; 24 cm. Call No: QP 360 .P94

(1975) My favorite psych prof at Michigan did his grad work with Pribram. For a paper for class he pulled Pribram off the shelf, handed it to me, suggested some chapters and expected a term paper. Later on he took me to a lecture Pribram was giving locally, at which Pribram presented a convincing display of data from electrodes in monkey brains that appeared to prove that brains at the cellular level organize incoming information even when no organization exists among the input! I.e., the brain will "make sense" of complete randomness. But, aware of the obvious conclusion, he deliberately refused to state the conclusion as it would make him guilty of adding meaning that might actually be absent. The critical importance of "context" in Pribram’s book has stuck with me for two decades now. I hope I get to help some bright young lawyer someday by pointing out that any and every case, statement, whatever, in a court that denies admission of the surrounding context contradicts the proven cellular basis our brains use to determine truth; thus denial of context makes truth impossible. The entire notion of context has served me well throughout life, from guessing the meaning of a word in a sentence to the implication of Grand Consciousness or God in relation to me/us as an essential feature of grasping Truth.

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Waldrop, M. Mitchell. Complexity: the emerging science at the edge of order and chaos / M. Mitchell Waldrop. Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1992. Description: 380 p. ; 24 cm. ISBN: 0671767895 : Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [360]-363) and index. Call No: Q 175 .W2581 1992 Subjects: Science--Philosophy. Complexity (Philosophy)

(1997) The only book anybody needs to read who doesn’t want to dive into the volumes of technical literature. It is often recommended by even the most important scholars in the field. This gives the essential underpinnings, the principles, of what has become overly mechanistic new versions of artificial intelligence offer some real hope of understanding. Many current complexity aficionados lean towards the computational/mechanistic end. But the idea of phenomena, systems, organisms, and independent animacy "emerging" without preplanning overrides, for me, the computationists who are distracted from the truth under their noses. Despite mechanistic analogies, the thinking has profound implications and offers clear understanding for consciousness as a stand-alone entity (a system, if you will) that came into being according to complexity principles from, but now apart from, the physical universe. For more links on complexity and chaos try this.

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White, John Warren, Pole shift : predictions and prophecies of the ultimate disaster / Author: White, John Warren, 1939- Published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, ©1980. Description: xx, 410 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. Call No: NON-FICTION 133.3 W584p 1988

(1996) I read the bulk of this sitting in the store. His bottom line: don’t worry, it’s unlikely. It contradicts D. Cannon’s Nostradamus, though, which is why I picked it up.

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Cannon, Dolores, Conversations with Nostradamus : his prophecies explained / Author: Cannon, Dolores, 1931- Published: Huntsville, AR : Ozark Mountain Pub., ©1997. Description: 365 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

(1995) For what it is, it’s an excellent text, in 3 volumes costing about $45US in ppbk. I started with vol. 2, then 1 & 3. The woman could not possibly have made up this stuff. Her transcripts of past-life regression of her subjects, who act as go-betweens for her & Nostradamus (Michel de Nostredame), indicate that she, forgive me, isn’t smart enough to make this up. Besides, the guy has an Attitude, with a capital A, that I find refreshing and honest. The interpretations of the prophecies also all just make plain sense, once translated by the man himself. Some of my favorite reading of the last few years. CAUTION: Read this book with a large measure of healthy skepticism. It is, after all, past life regression therapy by a woman with minimal credentials other than late life experience. Even if you accept that notion then you probably also accept the OBE and remote-viewer reports which, logically could be the "true" sources of any alleged past-life experience. But I repeat that it is some of my favorite material. Even includes a drawing of the so-called Anti-Christ born in Jerusalem in 1962.

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Bonewits, Philip Emmons Isaac, Real magic : an introductory treatise on the basic principles of yellow magic. Author: Bonewits, Philip Emmons Isaac. Published: York Beach, Me. : S. Weiser, ©1989. Description: xxi, 282 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Call No: 133 B653ra 1989 [And another ed.] - Real magic : an introductory treatise on the basic principles of yellow magic, Bonewits, Philip Emmons Isaac. Author: Bonewits, Philip Emmons Isaac. *Published: Berkeley, Calif. : Creative Arts Book Co., ©1979. Description: xix, 282 p. ill. ; 22 cm. [Yet another ed.] - Real magic; an introductory treatise on the basic principles of yellow magic. Author: Bonewits, Philip Emmons Isaac. *Published: New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan ©1971 Description: xix, 236 p. illus. 22 cm. Call No: DESK R 133 B653r

(1996) Three eds. of one book, none of which are the ppk. ed. I have. This, and only this, book will suffice to teach anyone everything of value in all the magic mumbo-jumbo books out there. He includes a passage by someone else describing a specialized kind of visualization technique, allegedly based on physics principles. Of particular importance, he talks about emotional content as an essential ingredient to effectiveness. Considering my experience, Monroe’s, C. Scott’s, and some implicit suggestions from Grimm, emotion alone may very nearly suffice ... used correctly. He provides a simple seven step, universally applicable "spell" which even I have tried and found mildly effective (there are additional considerations.) Don’t waste a penny on anybody else’s magic crap; read this book by a magician who has discovered it’s all 99% crap anyway then gives you the 1% leftover gold.

Incidentally 5 years after reading it, I picked up a U.S. government remote viewer's new book, (W. Adam Mandelbaum's Psychic Battlefield: A History of the Military Occult Experience ) about psychic viewing. The government's "top-secret" method turned out to be what I always thought would be very practical: they used this author's (Bonewits's) technique, first published (thus, not secret) in 1971! Now I am convinced this is the only so-called "magic" book anyone needs.

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Welburn, Andrew: Gnosis, the mysteries and Christianity : an anthology of Essene, Gnostic and Christian writings / selected and edited by Andrew Welburn. Published: Edinburgh : Floris Books, ©1994. Description: 348 p. ; 25 cm. Call No: BR 129 .G56 1994 $31.45@Borders.com

(1996) Stumbled across this in the New Age section at Borders Books in Ann Arbor. No particular motivation to read it except that I had only just finished Pagels’s book. Did not completely read it, but did find some intriguing texts: alleged translations of long forgotten gnostic literature. Most interesting to me (that I recall) was the apparent OBE of the ancient author talking to a sheep-man (shepherd?) who clearly describes the writer’s place in the grand scheme of things. The editor, Welburn, seems to be a literary type (his other books deal with Rudolf Steiner), so scientific (vs. literary) scholarship may challenge him or urge us to dismiss him altogether. I’ve done no follow up, and haven’t the cash to buy it among all the others I want. But I’d dearly love to get my hands on it. For reference, though, see translated a lot of (into English) gnostic literature online at http://home.online.no/~noetic/libe.htm.

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(1995-6) Saw this somewhere along the line, can’t quite recall what led me to her. But I found it a worthwhile read. Her historical perspective I’ve heard called (by a bright Catholic Seminary dropout friend) "revisionist history." Seems to me it was better than that, but at the moment I can only recall that her work had value to me at the time. F.Y.I., this author seems to have continued with commentary on gnostic works, see e.g., her "The Gnostic Paul," "Adam, Eve, and the Serpent," and "The Origin of Satan."

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Bellinzoni, Arthur J., The sayings of Jesus; Published: London, Gay & Bird, ©1903. Description: xi, 149, (1) p. 16 cm. Call No: BT 306 .R65 Also see: The sayings of Jesus in the writings of Justin Martyr, Author: Bellinzoni, Arthur J. Published: Leiden, E. J. Brill, ©1967. Description: vii, 157 p. 24 cm. Call No: BS 2280 .N6 v.17

(1996) A direct search based on Pagels’ references. I perused a paperback current edition of these sayings in the bookstore, also known as the "Gospel of Thomas the Twin" (Thomas means twin.) Best direct information from and about the teacher available. I also picked up a forgotten (by me) book that discussed the historical Jesus as possibly one of those from the original school of Cynics who deliberately dressed in rags and badgered people with phenomenally clever and insightful truths. Jesus was, if nothing else, a master of his language. Some things attributed to him I personally "reconfigure" according to what would have made sense for him to say. For example, his benediction about "this is my body, my blood..." is an unfortunately obvious misconveyance of words which were more likely to have been: "This is the body of the ‘One I Am’" referring to the Genesis God’s name, I am that I am, and also indicating there is only one of them, and thereby explicitly professing pantheism in that everything, even the wine you drink is part of the body of the one and only who calls itself "I am." A man of Jesus' stature would be exceptionally careful about his choice of words; his followers obviously less so.

I have a book club edition (qpb.com), edited by Marcus Borg, of the Q Gospel, which is essentially the same thing. The editor points out the early churchmen’s mis-translations; my favorite is their note that Jesus never used the very formal "Father" for God, but instead called God "Daddy" ("Abba" in the Aramaic.) It fits nicely with my personal picture of the universe and my enormous fondness for it and its Source.

Many, many editions now exist of this work. To find the Borg version [no, not the Star Trek Borg!] that I use, search B&N's bookstore by title: Q Gospel or others by the alternate title: Sayings of Jesus or another alternate title: Gospel of Thomas the Twin or specifically for Borg's edition by ISBN: 1569751897, "The Lost Gospel: The Original Sayings of Jesus."

Drizari, Nelo, Spoken and written Albanian; a practical handbook. Author: Drizari, Nelo, 1900- *Published: New York, Ungar Pub. Co., 1975, ©1947, Description: xviii, 188 p. 24 cm. Call No: ALBANIAN 491.99 D833s Also see: Spoken and written Albanian; a practical handbook. Author: Drizari, Nelo, 1900- *Published: New York, Hafner Publishing Co., (1947) Description: xviii, 188 p. 24 cm. Call No: PG9523 .D7

(1996) A Greek beauty & friend found her perfect man (body builder, movie star clone, & nice guy) who is American-Albanian. Being bilingual herself, & marrying a bilingual husband she asked me to find her some books to help her talk with her mother-in-law. Although I did not read this book, I read the Introduction. In it Drizari points out that there is no known etymological source for "Athena." However, in Alb. there is such a source and it means something like a willfully spoken word, or that which is willed. Aha! Identical to Hebraic "davar" which (I’m told) alternately means word or will or way. My Big Insight is that the word (either davar or Athena) conveys triple meaning, not, I repeat not, contextually dependent meaning. Immediately I recall Hollywood’s Native Americans referring to the Great White Spirit, all the near-death "lights," and the first half of the Greek goddess’s name: Pallas Athena. Thus, White Willed Word! I’ve written an essay to myself about this several times, too. The essay of course goes on to Jesus’s triplicity, and the Emerald Tablet's & Hermes (word) Trismegistus (of triple meaning.)

I posted as much to the NewPhysics listserv back in Aug. ’98 but it seems to have been lost in the shuffle. Just to get the word out, I also sent a note about the footnote to the Oxford English Dictionary so they can examine the etymology of the English word "attention."

If you search B&N's bookstore, you must search by author, which still won't find this book; but this will then allow you to connect to the out-of-print network. It is better simply to search a local library and request an interlibrary loan. Nonetheless, here's a link to search B&N by author: Drizari.

Vygotskii, L. S.: Thought and language / Author: Vygotskii, L. S. (Lev Semenovich), 1896-1934. Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1986. Description: lxi, 287 p. : port. ; 21 cm. Call No: P 105 .V983 1986

(1974) Referred to it by a physical therapist at whose gym I worked out twice weekly during college. One of the principle roots of all of Soviet-Russian psychological work in this century (like Freud in the West); his main student became a huge force in Russian psychology named Alexander Luria (see, e.g., Luria’s "Mind of the Mnemonist") who did mostly child development studies. One of Luria’s research papers studied the acquisition of negation in language development. Turns out it takes a full year, from age 2-1/2 to 3-1/2 to acquire the ability to use "not" successfully. I use this reference in my argument for the active positive voice (see Wm. Strunk in this biblio.) Vygotsky acquired some fame among American psych and language people a decade or two ago, but is not cited very often that I know of. The physical therapist wound up screwing my wife, precipitating our divorce (though it turned out she’d made herself freely available to many), so I don’t know whatever happened to him. It is enough to bite the bullet and forgive them without having to give a shit about their current well-being. Meanwhile, I mentally carry a few tenets professed by Vygotsky with me.

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Kharitidi, Olga: Entering the circle : a Russian psychiatrist's journey into Siberian Shamanism. / Author: Kharitidi, Olga. Published: Albuquerque, NM : Gloria Press, ©1995. Description: xiii, 233 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Call No: BL2370.S5 K473 1995 C.1

(1996) This book indirectly led me to joining and making some postings to the NewPhysics listserv. I found some value in the work, especially due to to my psych major, but also by her reference to time travel (she mentions an important, unnamed nuclear physicist studying A. Kosirev’s work on "time as a substance.") This subsequently led me to Georgii Ryazanov’s New Physics "sincretic science" website & also to current Russian "temporological" work. My only written notes from the book are a list of the five things "you must always satisfy:" Light, Health, Happiness, Beauty, and Truth. Her shaman also encouraged her to ask her spirit guide for assistance whenever she needed it, noting there are only seven kinds of guides (hers was a healer) and that we each have only one.

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Morehouse, David, Psychic warrior: inside the CIA's Stargate program : the true story of a soldier's espionage and awakening / David Morehouse 1954-. Edition: 1st ed. Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, ©1996. Description: viii, 258 p., <8> p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN: 0312147082; Call No: BF1027.M67 A3 1996 C.1

[1997 (early Jan.-Mar?)] In July ‘98 I made a posting to the Newphysics listserv about this book that elicited a prompt reaction from someone who basically called this author an asshole. To which someone else responded that Morehouse was given short shrift. My reading was done in various bookstores over a period of several days. I made clear mental note of his obvious "common man" perspective, lacking the riches that my academic education has provided to me. He describes what he couldn’t call either a dream, a hallucination, or an unwanted remote view. This actually supports the Army case against him in that it shows him failing to distinguish reality from whatever. One "dream" that he describes involves a red river which turns out to be blood. All the people happily stand in line to wait to get their throats cut & drained into the river. He offers no interpretation. I’ve paid close attention to dreams since childhood, and have read much on dreams, their interpretation, symbolism (including literary), etc. To me it’s a blatantly obvious message describing the world today: everybody stands in line eagerly obeying the status quo requirement to spend your life working to make money, only to find out at the end that you’ve devoted your life’s energy (blood) to someone who merely collects it and spills it. My socio-political interpretation is that working for a living for money is an utter and total waste, that his dream was intended as a warning to give your life’s blood/energy to something more worthwhile. It gives the command to "get out of line" with it's pun-intenional. Wilhelm Stekel first noted puns in dreams back in the 1930s-‘40s. {see Stekel elsewhere on this page} Personally I think that wealth is acceptable, but devoting one’s life energy to acquisition ends in death (Faust?) The current mechanism for the blood spilling by the pig is nothing more complicated than interest on loans. Outlaw interest! in order to "let my people go."

Other books covering the same material about government sponsored "remote viewing" include one by Jim Schnable (considered "disinformation" by the others), another by the head of the Army program, Jim McMoneagle, and yet another by a lawyer / CIA viewer / etc, named W. Adam Mandelbaum. You can learn how to do it online at rviewer.com.

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Myss, Caroline M. Anatomy of the spirit : the seven stages of power and healing / Caroline Myss. Edition: 1st ed. Published: New York : Harmony Books, ©1996. Description: xiv, 302 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-298) and index. ISBN: 0517703912 Call No: R726.5 .M97 1996

(1998) I scanned this at the store and attended one of her book signings. An excellent study of cross-tradition, cross-discipline correspondence. Her current work is “Why People Don’t Heal, and How they Can." On her website I posted my thought about fairy tales being the "secrets of the universe." I did so because at her signing she talked at length about how Princess Diana’s untimely death finally and, in her opinion, happily destroyed a useless myth from fairy tales. My posting agreed that the Hollywood version, the superficial version, deserved destruction. However, I pointed out that the woman who became Princess Di was still the girl in the ashes. The physical human is the animal human, the dirt-thing in which lives Awareness. Physical death is the transition to royalty. Maybe I should quit while I’m ahead because it begins to sound like simple medieval apologist Christianity, promising that the "next" world will be better. That may be so, but I’m in This world, and I like it and I want royalty to come pay a visit Here. Another essay I often consider writing is "IBE’s: IN the Body Experience" vs. OBEs. Myss’s health work might come in handy in that regard.

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Long, Max Freedom, Growing into light / Author: Long, Max Freedom, 1890- Published: Santa Monica, Calif. : DeVorss, ©1955. Description: x, 177 p. ; 22 cm. Call No: BF1999 L56 1955. *Also see Title: The Huna code in religions. Author: Long, Max Freedom, 1890- Published: Vista, Calif. : Huna Research Publications, [©1965]. Call No: BF1999 L565 1965. *Also see Title: The secret science behind miracles. Author: Long, Max Freedom, 1890- Published: Santa Monica, Calif. : DeVorss, [c1954].

(1996) I actually only read "Growing into Light," the shortest of his 11(?) books. Very thorough books, in the style of his generation (died old in 1955?). He presents innumerable obvious -- once he explains them -- meanings for much of judeo-christian texts’ inner meanings, heavily dependent upon language. The triplicity in Long’s work equates to the subconscious, waking conscious, and super-conscious or collective unconscious, as three levels of the Self. Again we stumble across the "I Am" but with another perspective derived from Hawaiian shamanism of the first half of this century. Try some of his exercises, they work pretty well. He focuses heavily on christian meaning no doubt because of his very obvious Christian American roots, and the context of his time period, making Huna palatable to the American midwesterner. If no one else has noticed, the "hu" rush of air syllable occurs almost ubiquitously in mystic and religious traditions all over the planet. Take that into account when I mention respiration as the guiding force of all life on our planet, as well as being central to Chi energy, Qi Qong, etc. His general methodology, by the way, also matches the essence of witchcraft described by Bonewits, later used by government remote viewers. Thus the principles, the method, has little to do with ethics; those come from elsewhere.

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Plichta, Peter, God's secret formula: deciphering the riddle of the universe and the prime number code/ Peter Plichta,1939-. Published: Shaftesbury, Dorset ; Rockport, Mass. : Element, ©1997. Description: 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Plichta, Peter, 1939- Science--Philosophy. Religion and science. God--Proof. Scientists--Germany--Biography. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 1862040141 (pbk. : alk. paper) Call No: Q 143 .P635 A32 1997

(1997) Another serendipitous find on the shelves at the bookstore, on one of my random follow-the-wind days. I admit I did not read it, but scanned it looking for the essence rather than the supporting material of his book. To Plichta, it all comes down to prime numbers, and despite any mathematician’s claim to the contrary he says that primes are predictable. A German chemist who of necessity acquired a load of mathematic & physics skill, he yet seems to present a cogent argument and does so well. This is a book I’d like to give a thorough reading because I skipped straight to his main argument.

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Scott, Cyril,1879-1970. The initiate; some impressions of a great soul, by his pupil. Published: New York, S. Weiser ©1971, Description: xv, 380 p. 19 cm. Subjects: Occultism. Contributors: His pupil. Notes: "First published 1920." reprinted, 1973. Call No: BF1411 .S427 1971

(1999) A quote from the book: "’Now I am utterly forsaken and alone.’* [author's footnote, p.368]: *"This agony of desolation precedes attainment in all mystic literature." This quote & its footnote I jotted down while I scanned the book in the store. As I said in my comments on Robt. Monroe’s work, I had already learned (from painful personal experience) that devastation was "required coursework" in the living of life’s learning. In my often rewritten essay to myself on the subject of emotional wreckage I viewed sado-masochism as a misguided attempt to forcefully precipitate the lesson (& relief) that devastation entails. However, as with so much of my reading, I read large passages in the store but never gave it the cover-to-cover it deserves. It seemed to offer much of value in anyone's quest for enlightenment ... and written by a musician!

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Grimm, Jacob, The complete fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm / Published: Toronto ; New York, N.Y. : Bantam, ©1987. Description: xxxiv, 733 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Location: UNDERGRADUATE--Call No: PT921 .K5613 1987 23. - *Also see Title:The complete Grimm's fairy tales. Author: Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863 Published: New York : Pantheon ; ©1972. Description: 865 <8> p. : illus. (part col.) ; 24 cm. Call No: GR 25 .G831 1972 *Also see Title: Fairy tales. Published: London, Routledge and Paul (1948) Description: 863 p. illus. (part. col.) 23 cm. Call No: GR 25 .G831 1948 *Also see Title: Grimms' tales for young and old : the complete stories / Published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, ©1977. Description: x, 633 p. ; 24 cm. Call No: GR25 .G831 1977

(1995) Pick one, just make it a complete version, rather than one of the sanitized editions that misguided puritans have butchered beyond recognition. My ppbk. ed. is an Engl. trans. from Ger. by a guy named, I think, Mannheim; it’s in storage now. As I’ve said elsewhere (Myss, e.g.) so-called fairy tales present the hidden secrets of the universe that so many alchemy and witchcraft & mysticism students wish they could find. Read ‘em, you’ll see. Or at least you will when you translate the images to their proper levels: physical man is the beast in which is the princely soul/Awareness. Man is not the prince over animals; he is the animal (look how we behave, killing our food, fucking anything that moves.) Beauty is not the pretty girl, but the Source hiding within the dusty physical stuff called a body. Ultimate Beauty which I personally have learned to love as much or more than a woman, resides even within the ashes in my ashtray. (Yes, I smoke, and enjoy it.) Have any doubts? In my edition, the last piece is a two paragraph story called "The Key." Briefly, a kid found a key, paused to think, then started digging furiously because "where there’s a key, a lock is nearby." That’s it, the whole story. Besides, if you had to hide the secrets of the universe but simultaneously pass them down through the generations, and protect them from censors, book-burners, politicians, and the like for centuries to come, what better place to "hide" them? Who would ever burn a fairy tale? Disney, that’s who! I’m convinced Jung was close but missed the mark. They may provide psychological insight, they may carry collective unconscious images, but they primarily convey fundamental cosmic Truth. The Church’s destruction of the Cathars no doubt sought to destroy their clear understanding of the stories. The European stories, I’d bet, are the Cathars’ legacy to us. Literary types who study folklore across cultures have found clear and obvious kinships among stories, but have limited their explanation of the similarities to lack of originality or imagination (!) on the part of "illiterate storytellers." Again. the secrets of the universe cost 15 bucks, just about anywhere ... which is where they belong, everywhere! I asked a Jordanian friend if he would supply or direct me to a good translation of the Al’Laddin stories. He said there are none, and a little background research in the library confirms that our English versions are bastardized things by self-important 19th century British "explorers." Sigh. I live near the largest American population of Arab speaking people (who are in Dearborn, MI.) You’d think one of them would want to take the trouble to share the tales in their true glory.

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Helmstetter, Shad. What to say when you talk to yourself / Shad Helmstetter. Published: Scottsdale, Ariz. : Grindle Press, ©1986. Description: 228 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Self-help techniques. Change (Psychology) Psychology--popular works. ISBN: 0937065056 Call No: 158.1 Hel -

(1988?) I saw Helmstetter on a late night info-mercial around 1983 promoting his subliminal tapes. Yes, I did pick up several subliminal persuasion tapes by others. But I also finally got hold of his book. Despite his raw commercial purpose, he has many valid points reiterated by many others in other books (or perhaps originally stated elsewhere & "used" by him.) To me, it all falls into line with Long’s three selves, the High, Low, & Middle selves. Subliminals work because the Low self, the subconscious, believes every word it hears, like a child or an ingenuous naive soul. I wrote (in ‘94) & published (in "Touchstone" a Detroit area new age mag in 1996) a derivative essay which I called "Talking to Your Parts." In that piece I came dangerously close to a recent (July ‘98) essay I wrote about proprioception as a means of understanding one’s own unity with the universe at large. But both essays began essentially with Helmstetter’s crass commercial application of a Truth. To be fair, though, I crassly availed myself of the purported benefits of such tapes; they work unless you have no need for them. A smoke cessation subliminal, in other words, has no effect on a non-smoker, nor on a smoker who enjoys tobacco, but overcoming procrastination won’t let you sit down.

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Gawain, Shakti,1948- Creative visualization / Shakti Gawain. Published: San Rafael, Calif. : New World Library, 1990, ©1978. Description: 152, [6] p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Visualization. Success. Affirmations. Self-actualization (Psychology) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [154-157]). ISBN: 0931432022 Call No: BF367.G34 1990

(1987) For years, now, I've practiced her techniques. Amazing the results you can get, but it took a significant amount of other reading (a lot of this bibliog.!) to make it effective & understand why. It was worth the read, and the practice. It irks me, though, that she has taken a single technique and turned it into a career, and mini-industry, like the Redfield's; but I still recommend at least this one book of hers.

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Dossey, Larry: Healing words : the power of prayer and the practice of medicine / Author: Dossey, Larry, 1940- Published: Harper San Francisco, ©1993. Description: xxi, 291 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Call No: BL65.M4 D67 1993 C.1

(1996) Nice book by a nice man about effective non-standard healing. I kept his address on a scrap of paper for almost a year because I’d intended to write to him. But, the reason for the letter eludes me now, as does recollection of the details of the text. I remember liking it and finding it of value, but returned it to the library. In May 2000 he gave a small lecture on healing & prayer at the U. Mich. I attended it, but only added a few research references to what he had already said in his book(s): i.e., any kind of prayer, by anyone, anywhere, has a scientifically measurable effect, especially when the two parties (pray-er and pray-ee) have no knowledge of one another.

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Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly: Finding flow : the psychology of engagement with everyday life / Author: Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Published: New York : Basic Books, ©1997. Description: ix, 181 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Location: GRADUATE LIBRARY--Call No: BF 575 .H27 C8481 1997

(1998, Sept.) Just finished it. Wonderful. A quote per the book club (QPB) promo: "The way to happiness lies not in mindless hedonism, but in mindful challenge" He takes decades of many people's research, extracts the common man’s view of it, then compiles it into a convincing argument to get off your ass and do something for a reason other than money, i.e., innately satisfying for you (& possibly only for you.) Check my comments under Morehouse’s book, and then consider Marlo Morgan’s Australian Aborigines behavior (see "Mutant Message"), then Csikszentmihaly makes more sense than even he claims. When talking to friends I paraphrase his advice as "tackling a challenge that you're up to," neither easy nor overwhelming.

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Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly: Evolving Self, HarperTrade, June 1994, Paperback, 384 Pages, ISBN: 0060921927

(2000) Given to me as a gift after I praised his book Finding Flow (see above.) This is a heftier version of his thinking. It adds details and references and some additional ideas; for general readers, his Finding Flow will suffice.

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Goodman, Linda: Linda Goodman's Star Signs : the secret codes of the universe: forgotten rainbows and forgotten melodies of ancient wisdom. Uniform title, Star signs. Author Goodman, Linda. Edition 1st ed. Published New York : St. Martin's Press, ©1987. Description xli, 477 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN 0312013523 Subjects Occultism. Parapsychology--Research. Astrology. New Age movement. Other Title: Star signs.

(1988-9) Much to say, but I’ll limit it to the simple statement that I did and continue to ignore all her other work because this is better, more comprehensive, and more interesting. A wonderful intro to many things. She suggested trying something she called "purple plates" which I’ve found intriguing, and occasionally effective. Worth having on the shelf.

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Gardner, Martin, Relativity for the million. Illustrated by Anthony Ravielli. Author Gardner, Martin, 1914- Published New York, Macmillan (1962) Description 182 p. illus. 24 cm. Subjects: Relativity (Physics) Notes Rev. ed. published in 1976 under title: The relativity explosion. Call No (Dewey Decimal): 530.11 G175r

(1962-3-4? Childhood reading around age 10-12 yrs old, as follow up to several biographies of Einstein & several of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, & Tschaikovsky.) I learned early in life to consider time as if it were a spatial thing, and have enjoyed endless years of musings about the nature of time, escape from time, directionality of it, and so forth. Russian physicist Kosirev’s (alt. transliterations: Kosyrev, Kosireev) notion of time as a substance fits neatly and intuitively into much of my many years of mental play, as does Geo. Ryazanov’s "arrows" (directions) of time. To me such "insights" seem mundane because I found the notions myself in childhood. I have a theory on physically escaping the "surface" of time, not just non-physically disconnecting as in OBEs and RVs and past-life regression. I suppose I owe one of my biggest debts to Gardner’s very understandable explication of Einstein. I moved on to more detailed, but still laymen level, reading in physics and nuclear physics, etc., and retain a nagging appreciation for the value of nuclear reactors, and a peculiar love for the beauty of (but not the consequences of) the power of an H-bomb. Didn’t take me long to recognize that fission was a tiny problem compared to the problem of lax operating companies and hungover personnel working the damn things. If Time intrigues you as it has me since I read Gardner, then check out the scholarly Russian (Moscow) Institute for Temporology.

The book: I was a kid, so I know it's good for kids (ok, maybe a precocious or presumptuous kid, but still only a 6th grade kid.)

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Ruiz, Don Miguel, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom: Amber-Allen Publishing / November 1997; "A Toltec Wisdom Book" (ppk.)

(summer 2000) A very popular best seller, but I read it anyway. This work by a surgeon-turned-shaman sounded interesting. Once I read it -- and I assume when anyone else reads it -- there is no need to remember anything but the simple, proverbial rule-set he presents. They are:

[*] Take nothing personally. [*] Make no assumptions. [*] Be true to your word, or impeccable with your word. [*] Always do your best.

Before presuming that you know what these rules mean, I strongly suggest reading his very easy book; however, you may then pass it along to a friend without great loss. Comparing this "nagual" shaman to C. Castaneda, I'd choose this guy. He has a web site, and offers workshop (in the West and Southwest), expensive seminars, and expeditions for the rich and well-to-do. A philosophy instructor who reviewed this on B&N also recommended: 'Castle of Wisdom' by Rhett Ellis.

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Morowitz, Harold J. and Singer, Jerome L.: The Mind, the brain, and complex adaptive systems / editors, Harold Morowitz, Jerome L. Singer. Published: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., ©1995. Description: xii, 237 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Series: Proceedings volume in the Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity ; v. 22. Subjects: Cognitive neuroscience--Congresses. Adaptive control systems--Congresses. Contributors: Morowitz, Harold J. Singer, Jerome L. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 0201409887(hrdbk.) 0201409860 (pbk.) Call No: QP 360.5 .M561 1995

(1996) Technical material, by scientists for scientists, found when I looked at the Santa Fe Institute’s page of new books on its website. Didn’t get through it before the inter-library loan period came due & they refused to renew it. Oddly, over a year later I awoke from a dream with the single clear statement: "Jerome Singer." Huh?! I asked myself. My subsequent review of Singer’s work reveals that he has extensively studied daydreams. This naturally lends itself to material like Gawain’s visualization techniques, and the witchcraft "center of the universe" technique (see Issac Bonewits), and Maxwell Long’s Huna method, and another dream 2 years later about Moses. But, for this text, I shall return to it for technical thoroughness. At the time, I made this note on a scrap of paper:

INCLUDES Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic, p. 53, "…prefrontal cortex has a specialized function that is replicated in … its … subdivisions and … these memory centers … constitute the brain’s machinery for higher-level cognition." MY comments from & about this: Redundancy is implied — this is consistent w/ nature’s habit; redundancy also suggests the capacity to compare for differences faster than serial processing; e.g., stereo vision, per Keith (my brother), is hard-wired for this instantaneous subtraction algorithm. MORE: the "difference set" yielded by parallel [or binoc] proceses is the new information (stereo vision, e.g., or possibly the difference between love and fear); optic chiasm [crossover] partially crosses data stream, partially diverts it, divides it to permit comparison between two data sets from two eyes.

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Weiss, Brian L.: Only Love Is Real: A Story of Soulmates Reunited / Author: Weiss, Brian L. (Brian Leslie), 1944- , Publisher: Warner Books, Incorporated; Pub. Date: February 1997. Descr.: Paperback, 1st ed., 192pp. ISBN: 0446672653

(1997) I read this in the store (a week of visits around town) and enjoyed it. Wrote down his address from the back of the book, then wrote him a good letter with a question or two. I never heard a word from him or his staff, nary a postcard of acknowledgement, despite the book’s statement of interest in hearing from people. Oh well. Maybe I’ll be the same way if I ever get published, but I hope to behave otherwise.

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Keen, Sam: Inward bound : exploring the geography of your emotions / Sam Keen. Published New York, N.Y. : Bantam Books, ©1992. Description xii, 228 p. ; 21 cm. Subjects Boredom. Depression, Mental. Meaning (Psychology) Contributors Keen, Sam. What to do when you're bored and blue. Notes Rev. ed. of: What to do when you're bored and blue. 1980. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0553353888 Call No: BF575.B67 K43 1992

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Morgan, Marlo Mutant Message from Down Under / Author: Morgan, Marlo

(1998) A friend insisted I read this & I was pleased I did. Their behavior matches my vague sense of preferred human behavior, especially as regards spontaneity and freedom (e.g., from money) to be spontaneous. Now I think of Csikszentmihaly’s work, too (elsewhere on this page.) The aboriginal notion of speaking to the all-one also corresponds, for me, to Maxwell Long’s method the Huna, to Bonewits’ center of the universe, and so forth. I believe their behavior would support my "thesis" of consciousness as an independent child/system of the universe’s underlying consciousness.

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Carlos Castaneda: The Art of Dreaming Publisher: HarperTrade: May 1994; Paperback, 1st ed., 260pp. ISBN: 006092554X

(Aug. 2000) Another book suggested by someone. I have ignored Castaneda since his first work in the early '70s because so many people talked about it that I felt no need to get any additional information his work might contain. That is, they told me all I needed to know. But this one was an easy read, and in view of my other reading, pretty straightforward. Personally I would encourage readers to choose the nagual D. Ruiz's "Four Agreements" over the nagual Castaneda; however, Castaneda is more fun because he dramatizes his story like fiction.

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Chu, Chin-Nin: Do Less, Achieve More: Discover the Hidden Power of Giving In, Regan Books, April 1998, Hardcover, 224 Pages; ISBN: 0060392703; paperback ISBN: 0060988754

(2000) A book club book that sounded useful. I read it in my favorite coffeehouse, Brazil. It offered some useful practical advice that adds a pragmatic flavor to my more nebulous notion of devastation as a necessity of personal success. I suppose it would be better said, to allow loss allows success.

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Nelson,Jr., Robert Finnish Magic, Llewellyn's World of Magic & Religion Series; Llewellyn Publications, February 1999 Paperback, 192 Pages, ISBN: 1567184898

(spring 2000) A book stumbled upon as I walked out the door at Borders books. Coming from Finnish heritage myself I simply had to buy and read it. As it turns out the psychologist author comes from that heritage, and his geneology includes the first woman (a Finn) prosecuted (put on probabtion) for witchcraft in the colonies. A wonderful and informative book showing the eminently practical nature of Finnish magic, of the major role that musicians play in the tradition, and (thankfully) extremely little mumbo-jumbo. But despite its emphasis on the history of the tradition, those who are acquainted with other spiritual-magical-occult threads of the world will find clues and commonalties.

My notes from the book include: (p.90) "The mage seeks power in order to benefit the universe." And, p. 94, "'singing' is synonomous with magic." And (no page number) "Awareness of changes and changing facilitates harmony with, and power over change." (This last one might be my own note rather than the author's; but I'll give him the credit.)

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Millman, Dan: The Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives Publisher: Starseed Press: March 1984. Paperback, 1st ed., 210pp. ISBN: 0915811006

(1999) A friend named Heidi insisted I read this, even though I had known about and steadfastly ignored it for the 15 years since it was first published. I was pleased not because it offered much, but that it tended to confirm or at least correlate to some of my life experience. Although not specifically a book on consciousness, it provided one of the early published works of "New Age" thinking and living and lifestyle. An easy read intended to (it seems) dramatize experiential work for a mass audience. It is still #5,172 in sales ranking (out of a million(?) books in print); people seem to find continuing value in the work. The same writer has numerous subsequent books that extend the lessons he learned in this early book. For myself, glancing at those later books' tables of contents will suffice after reading this one.

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Gerard, Philip, Creative Nonfiction: researching and crafting stories of real life: / Philip Gerard. Cincinnati, Ohio : Story Press Books, ©1996. Description 216 p ; 24 cm. Subjects: Authorship. Feature writing. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-210) and index. ISBN 1884910076 Call No (Dewey Dec.): 808.02 G357c

(1998) This I read at the insistence of a literary magazine editor friend. When I shared a piece I'd done with her, she tore it apart as being the opposite of what Gerard suggests. To which I answered that her criticisms negated all that I was trying to do. This book by Gerard can obviously lead two people to opposite understandings of the literary form of "creative nonfiction." However, I encourage any writer to read it.

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Stekel, Wilhelm, The interpretation of dreams; new developments and technique. Author: Stekel, Wilhelm, 1868-1940. Published: New York, Liveright publishing corporation. [1943] Description: 2 v. 22 cm. Call No: BF1078 .S68 c.2

(1967 in high school) Some high school reading after reading Freud’s work of the same title. Stekel made much more sense than Freud, having paid so much more attention to the practical outcome. He, for instance, noticed that his patients acquired the ability to dream in the ways he expected, thus suggesting deeper layers. Despite his attempt to turn all dreaming around religious, rather than Freud’s sexual, meaning Stekel was a clever fellow who deserves much more attention than he gets. Not necessarily the easiest thing a teenager could find for amusing reading!

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ALSO READ [unrelated, but I enjoyed]

Brand, Stewart: How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built, Viking Penguin, October 1995;Paperback, 256 Pages, ISBN: 0140139966

(2000) This and some related books serve my perpetual (and so far unsuccessful) desire to get or preferably to build a home of my own ... rather than renting and enriching some landlord who already has more than me. Brand's book gives a perspective on buildings that no architecture, nor do-it-yourself handyman book ever will give: buildings perpetually change rather than remain permanent structures for years or centuries to come. Thus, he seems to say, build for change and adaptability rather than presumptuously assuming that once it's built, it's built. Any structure will begin to fail to meet the occupant's needs the moment people move into it because the occupants are moving changing living beings, not permanent fixtures. I finished this a long time after reading Waldrop's Complexity but believe the two unrelated books should be taken together for a complete picture of deep inner principles of succesful building. Actually a number of architects have in fact embraced the notions of Complexity Studies, but I think they should read Brand's book before continuing their misguided misapplication of the principles Waldrop elucidates.

Cf. In this vein (building / living) I've also picked up these titles:

Home Tree Home: Principles of Treehouse Construction and Other Tall Tales by Peter N. Nelson and Gerry Hadden; Viking Penguin, June 1997 Paperback, 192pp. ISBN: 0140259988

Straw Bale House: A Real Goods Independent Living Book by Athena Swentzell Steen with David Eisenberg and Bill Steen, Chelsea Green Publishing Pub. Date: October 1994, Paperback, 297pp., ISBN: 0930031717

Storey's Basic Country Skills by M. John Storey, Deborah Burns; (Editor) Martha Storey. Storey Communications, Inc., September 1999, Paperback, 576pp. ISBN: 1580172024

Complete Book of Cordwood Masonry Housebuilding: The Earthwood Method by Rob Roy; Sterling Publishing Company, Incorporated Pub. Date: March 1992; Paperback, 264pp. ISBN: 0806985909. Also see the cordwood web site.

Wildwood Wisdom Ellsworth Jaeger Lloyd Kahn (Introduction); Shelter Publications, Incorporated, January 2000, Paperback, 2nd ed., 491pp. ISBN: 0936070129. "The tools you need not only to survive in the great outdoors."

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Clark, Hulda R.: The Cure for All Diseases, Revised, ProMotion Publishing, August 1995, paperback, 604 Pages ISBN: 1887314024 {hard to find} or see Publisher: New Century Press Pub. Date: March 1997, paperback, 604pp. ISBN: 1890035017.

(2000) Practical, useful, but unusual health stuff from a Ph.D. physiologist.

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Miyamoto Musashi (auth), Thomas Cleary (translator): The Book of Five Rings, Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated; Pub. Date: April 1994 Format: ppbk., 1st ed., 151pp. ISBN: 0877739986.

(Feb. 2001) Translation into English of a classic 16th century martial arts manual; it is usually found among business books. Author was an undefeated 16th century Japanese swordmaster. This was recommended by a coffeehouse friend who is also a police martial arts instructor. In my reading, I realized I must stretch the mind to see how one's grip on a sword has anything to do with business or life. However, so many current readers insist on the relationship that I make the effort. I find the connection tenuous.

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YET TO READ [possibly useful]

Holland, John H.: Emergence: From Chaos to Order. Publisher: Perseus Books Group Pub. Date: April 1999 Format: Paperback, 248pp. ISBN: 0738201421.

(2001) I've read half of this most recent work; included it for completeness of this hugely important complexity scientist's early works. Search B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 0738201421

Holland, John H.: Adaptation in natural and artificial systems : an introductory analysis with applications to biology, control, and artificial intelligence / Author: Holland, John H. (John Henry), 1929- Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1992. Description: xiv, 211 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Call No: QH 546 .H74 1992

Not read; included for completeness of this hugely important complexity scientist's early works. Search B&N bookstore by title or for the 1994 ed. by ISBN: 0262581116

Holland, John H.: Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity / Author: Holland, John H. (John Henry), 1929- Published: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, ©1995. Description: xxi, 185 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Call No: TJ 217 .H641 1995

Not read. Holland's later book Emergence says he focused on the notion of an "agent" in this book. Clearly I need to read this.

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Holland, John H.: Hierarchical descriptions, universal spaces and adaptive systems : technical report / Author: Holland, John H. (John Henry), 1929- Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Computer and Communication Sciences Dept., (1968) Description: 53 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. Call No: UMR2009

Not read; included for completeness of his early works. This is strictly an academic piece; I found nothing searching the B&N bookstore; better try libraries.

Dossey, Larry: Prayer is good medicine : how to reap the healing benefits of prayer / Author: Dossey, Larry, 1940- Published: San Francisco, CA : Harper San Francisco, ©1996. Description: xix, 249 p. ; 20 cm. Call No: BL65.M4 D674 1996

Not read; included because another of the doctor/author's works caught my attention, and because I attended one of his lectures. Search B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 0062514245.

Talbot, Michael: Beyond the quantum: A Journey to God and Reality in the New Scientific Revolution / Author: Talbot, Michael, 1953- Published: New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan, ©1986. Description: xiii, 240 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Call No: QC174.12 .T351 1986

Not read; included for completeness of author's works. This preceded his much more popular Holographic Universe. I was told that this author has died, but have not confirmed this. Searching B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 0026162105 reveals that it is out of print, but available through used booksellers.

Hameroff, Stuart R.: Ultimate computing : biomolecular consciousness and nanotechnology / Author: Hameroff, Stuart R. Published: Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., ©1987. Description: xxi, 357 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Call No: QH603.C96 H361 1987

Not read; an older work included for completeness of scientist's earlier works. Search B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 0444702830.

Pribram, Karl, editor: Origins : brain and self organization / ed. = Pribram, Karl Published: Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, ©1994. Description: 716 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. Call No: QP 360 .O7351 1994 Notes: "This, the second Appalachian conference on neurodynamics, focuses on the problem of 'order,' its origins, evolution and future"--Foreword. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 0805817867

Not read; I accidentally saw this on a library shelf. Included it because the editor's (Pribram's) works are central to my thinking and that of many others. Search B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 0805817867; it is a VERY expensive academic work at $135US.

Godfrey-Smith, Peter: Complexity and the function of mind in nature / Peter Godfrey-Smith. Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1996. Description: xiii, 311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Series: Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology Subjects: Philosophy of mind. Cognition. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-308) and index. ISBN: 0521451663 Call No: BD 418.3 .G631 1996

Not read; in 1997 I saw the title of this work in philosophical biology and it simply intrigued me. At $70US / $25 ppk., I'll go to the library (you can also probably get an inter-library loan.) But search the B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 0521646243. A note: it is number 248,000 on B&N's best seller list.

Mitchell, Edgar D.: The way of the explorer : an Apollo astronaut's journey through the material and mystical worlds / Author: Mitchell, Edgar D. Published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, ©1996. Description: vi, 230 p. ; 24 cm. Call No: TL 789.85 .M57 A32 1996

Actually I read large parts of this in the store, but haven’t given him his thorough reading. The Kirkus reviews suggest his book makes a valiant attempt to reinvent the wheel, bridging science and religion in ways that others already have done.Search B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 0399141618.

Pinker, Steven: How the mind works / Author: Pinker, Steven, 1954- Published: New York : Norton, ©1997. Description: xii, 660 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Location: GRADUATE LIBRARY--Call No: QP 360.5 .P561 1997 /

An obvious choice based on my interest in consciousness studies. It sits on my shelf, ready to read, but is so hefty that it makes me procrastinate. Search B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 0393318486.

Not read; included for completeness of this author's works. Search B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 0060976519.

Pinker, Steven: Language learnability and language development / Author: Pinker, Steven, 1954- Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©1984. Description: xi, 435 p. ; 24 cm. Call No: P118 .P551 1984

Not read; included for completeness of author's works. Search B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 0674510534.

Pinker, Steven: Learnability and cognition : the acquisition of argument structure / Author: Pinker, Steven, 1954- Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1989. Description: 411 p. ; 24 cm. Call No: P 118 .P555 1989

Not read; included for completeness of author's works. Search B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 0262660733.

Not read; I included it as follow up reading to her Creative Visualization. Search B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 1882591046.

Not read; included to refresh old classwork from 1974-75. Search B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 0898625157.

Beaumont, J. Graham: Understanding neuropsychology / Author: Beaumont, J. Graham. Published: Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Basil Blackwell, ©1988. Description: x, 150 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Call No: QP360 .B4171 1988

Not read; intended to refresh a class I took in 1975. They say it is not stocked, but search B&N's bookstore by title or by ISBN: 0631157212.

Baigent, Michael: The elixir and the stone : a history of magic and alchemy / Author Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh. Published London ; New York : Viking, ©1997. Description xxv, 453 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects Occultism--History. Hermetism--History. Contributors Leigh, Richard. Notes Includes bibliographic references and index. ISBN 0670862185 Call No: BF 1411 .B35 1997

Not read; included as follow up reading to Holy Blood, Holy Grail (above.) Amazingly, when I search the B&N bookstore by title NOTHING but children's books come up, and searching by either author, I also find nothing, even though the book does exist. Searching by ISBN I also find nothing. Same thing at borders.com. So, you must search the Rare and Out of Print Books, or a good library that handles inter-library loans.

Not read; but it sounded like interesting follow up reading to the scholar Dr. Pagels's Gnostic Gospels (elsewhere in this biblio.) Search the B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 0679731180.

Not read; sequel to Celestine Prophecy. Included for completeness. Search B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 074291268X for the hardcover ed., cheaper than the newer (1998) ppk. ed.

Not read; included for completeness of author's older works. Search B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 0671657860.

Abraham, Frederick David: A visual introduction to dynamical systems theory for psychology / Author: Abraham, Frederick David. Published: Santa Cruz, CA : Aerial Press, (1990?) Description: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 26 cm. Call No: QA 614.8 .A2711 1990

Not read; title simply intrigues me. It is also by the same author as Chaos, Gaia. Search B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 094234409X; note this will NOT yield the book, but a link to someone else with it.

Not read; included due to author's reference to it in another work. Search B&N bookstore by title: Gooberz or by ISBN: 1571740600.

His newest book, not read; included for completeness of author's works. Search B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 0966132769.

Wolf, Fred Alan: The dreaming universe: a mind-expanding journey into the realm where psyche and physics meet / Author: Wolf, Fred Alan. Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1994. Description: 413 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Call No: BF1078 .W55 1994

Not read; included for completeness of author's works. Search B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 0684801590.

Wolf, Fred Alan: Parallel universes : the search for other worlds / Author: Wolf, Fred Alan. Published: New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1988. Description: 351 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Call No: QC6 .W68 1988 --Note: DUE 03-12-96

Older work, not read; included for completeness of author's works. Search B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN 0671696017.

Wolf, Fred Alan: The spiritual universe : how quantum physics proves the existence of the soul / Author: Wolf, Fred Alan. Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1996. Description: 367 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Call No: BD421 .W65 1996

I've begun reading this, his second most recent book on consciousness (Momentum is newest.) Search B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 0684812002.

Wolf, Fred Alan: Star wave : mind, consciousness, and quantum physics / Author: Wolf, Fred Alan. Published: New York : Macmillan, ©1984. Description: x, 342 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Call No: QC174.13 .W65 1984

Not read; included for completeness of author's works, like his 1986 thoughts on quantum consciousness. Although not in stock, you can search B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 0020940807 (out of print.)

Wolf, Fred Alan: Taking the quantum leap : the new physics for nonscientists / Author: Wolf, Fred Alan. Published: San Francisco : Harper & Row, ©1981. Description: 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Call No: QC174.12 .W64

Not read; included for completeness of this author's works. Search B&N bookstore by title or by ISBN: 0060963107 (new ed.)

QUR'AN, (Alternate title: Koran). trans. Ahmed Ali, Book of the Month Club ed., 1992, from the Princeton U. Press ed; intro by Jaroslav Pelikan; vol. 3 of "Sacred Writings," series ed. Jaroslav Pelikan.

Yet to read in its entirety. A search of the bookstore by title yielded 365 versions &/or books. Here's a link to the edition I have, using the ISBN: 0691020469.

Wise, Michael C., Dead Sea Scrolls, trans. Michael C. Wise, Martin G. Abegg, Jr. (ed.), & Edward Cook. New York, Harper Collins, 1996; A Tree Clause book, 1st Ed.. ISBN 006069201 [pbk. 528 pp.] BM487.A3W57 1996

Yet to read in its entirety. A search of the bookstore by title yielded many books. Here's a link to the one from which QPB's ed was taken using the ISBN: 0060692014 .

Matthews, Caitlin & John, Celtic Wisdom, Encyclopedia of, Rockport, Mass, Element Books, 1994, published for Book of the Month Club, NY. ISBN 1852305614

Yet to read in its entirety. Here's a link to the 1996 B&N edition (identical covers) by ISBN: 0760701466.

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