BIBLIOGRAPHY: A reading and yet-to-read list

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Initial date [year] is the year I read the book, or discovered it. "Locations" are generally Univ. Of Michigan library system holdings, though some sit on the shelves of other universities with online catalogs. Bibliographic data simply cut ’n’ pasted from online library data (start at www.umich.edu and look for the MIRLYN online catalogue.) Library of Congress (LC) #’s and/or Dewey Decimal #’s from source library, usually consistent throughout the U.S. My notes follow in brackets [ ]. Arrangement of titles is, on this date, 8. Oct. 1998., random; I simply haven’t invested the energy into chronologizing them. 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.) Presented at no cost to you, but at cost to me, so please click through on banners [once I get some] to help me pay for this silly project. As time and energy allow I will acquire some skill in hyperlinking & present a header list of authors with links to the reference and my comment. Someday I may even add a graphic or write a bit of music for audio!

1996-7 (the year I read the book) Author: Damasio, Antonio R. Title: Descartes' error : emotion, reason, and the human brain / Published: New York : G.P. Putnam, c1994. Description: xix, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Location: GRADUATE LIBRARY--Call No: QP 401 .D21 1994 [referred to this 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.]

1988-9 Author: MacLaine, Shirley,1934- Title: 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 Location: GRADUATE LIBRARY Call No: 808.29 M162O A31 [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.]

1990? Title: The holographic universe / Author: Talbot, Michael, 1953 Published: New York, NY : Harper Collins Publishers, c1991. Description: xii, 338 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. Location: GRADUATE LIBRARY--Call No: QC 449 .T351 [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 physicist Bohm & 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, though, 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 piece of it 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!]

1984-5-6-7-8? Author: Monroe, Robert A. Title: Far Journeys (2nd of his books) publ’d ? [not read] Title: Journeys out of the body (1st of his books) Published: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1971. Description: 279 p. 22 cm. Location: UNDERGRADUATE--Call No: BF1283.M582 A3 [I discovered Monroe by reading an article on lucid dreaming in one of Playboy’s magazines (Oui), which is still outside in my storage shed. His "Far Journeys’ gave me some wonderful tidbits of value to me, one of which was his description of a previous life as a high priest. His total surrender and miraculous result fall within an essay I wrote & rewrote called "Devastation." That thought is echoed by a footnote in another book in this bibliog.]

1996 Title: Ultimate journey (3rd & last of his books) Author: Monroe, Robert A. Published: New York : Doubleday, 1994. Description: xi, 303 p. ; 25 cm. Location: UNDERGRADUATE--Call No: BF 1389 .A7 M6671 1994 [Read large sections of the book standing in bookstores, but never did actually complete it cover to cover (no money). Had a spectacular dream one night after reading his passage about some sort of cosmic million-person consciousness; in it I met and had a quite "normal" conversation with a "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 waking mind later in the day 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. My personal caveat, though, is to remember that Monroe prided himself in his storytelling ability; to make it all up would be unlikely, but possible & thus worth remembering.]

1996 Author: Buhlman, William. Title: Adventures beyond the body : how to experience out-of-body travel / William Buhlman. Published: : HarperSanFrancisco, c1996. 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 Location: Univ Illinois at Urbana Call No: No call number available [whom I met literally at the end of a rainbow after a thunderstorm at a book signing & lives nearby; nice man. He signed my copy "you have the power." Despite his instruction and Monroe’s, and work with Monroe Institute induction tapes, I’ve never had or come close to a conscious OBE.]

1995 [est.] Title: The lost keys of Freemasonry : or, The secret of Hiram Abiff / Author: 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. Location: GRADUATE LIBRARY--Call No: HS425 .H18 1968 [Perued in bookstore, read large sections, but did not study it. He quotes source of trans. of Emerald Tablet as Wm. Eiser "Universal Language of Caballah"]

1994? Title: The Celestine prophecy : an adventure / Author: Redfield, James. Published: New York, NY : Warner Books, 1994. Description: 246 p. ; 23 cm. Location: GRADUATE LIBRARY--Call No: BF 1751 .R411 1994 [Read a chapter at a time in bookstores & finished it; referred to it by an article in "Worth" financial mag; subsequently did a short (500 wd?) article for local new age monthly newspaper extending the notion by reference to Egyptian "Law of Amra" & others.]

June 1996 Author: Meurois-Givaudan, Anne. Uniform Title: De mémoire d'essénien. English. Title: The way of the Essenes : Christ's hidden life remembered / 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. [@Ohio State U.] Location: Stacks Call No: BF1999 .M4951 1993 ISBN: 0892813229 [Absolutely some of the best philosophy (& flat out information) 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, pages full of notes taken, etc.]

1996 Title: Chaos, gaia, eros : a chaos pioneer uncovers the three great streams of history / Author: Abraham, Ralph. Published: : Harper San Francisco, c1994. Description: xiii, 263 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Location: GRADUATE LIBRARY--Call No: BF 1999 .A2241 1994 [A birthday gift from my son signed "for your quest for enlightment." A mathematician takes a shot at the big picture, mostly about history & the history of history (not my favorite subject), and true to his field, lifelessly written, fraught with passive verbs. Tiring to read, but ok material.]

1996 Title: Saved by the light : the true story of a man who died twice and the profound revelations he received / Author: Brinkley, Dannion. Published: New York : Villard Books, c1994. Description: xii, 161 p. ; 22 cm. Location: UNDERGRADUATE--Call No: BF 1045 .N4 B751 1994 [[Another perused in the bookstore. Didn’t make a big impression, but seems to offer support for some of my thought.]

1991 Title: Iron John : a book about men / Author: Bly, Robert. Published: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1990. Description: xi, 268 p. ; 25 cm. Location: UNDERGRADUATE--Call No: HQ 1090.3 .B591 1990 [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.]

1991-2 Title King, warrior, magician, lover : rediscovering the archetypes of the mature masculine / Author Moore, Robert L., and Douglas Gillette. Edition 1st HarperCollins paperback ed. Published [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, c1990. 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 : Holdings Location: MAIN LIBRARY Call No: HQ1090 .M66 1990 [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.]

1990-91 Title Peace is every step : the path of mindfulness in everyday life / Thich Nhat Hanh ; edited by Arnold Kotler. Author Nhât Hanh, Thích. Published New York, N.Y. : Bantam Books, c1991. Description xv, 134 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects Religious life--Buddhism. ISBN 0553071289 Call No: BQ 5410 .N46 1991 [I read a book on "mindfulness" that I think was this one by Thich Nhat Hanh. (A former business partner/employer stole all my books from our joint office so I can’t pull it off the shelf.) During the reading of it 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 on my own 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 even 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:] Title 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 Location: MAIN LIBRARY Call No: BQ5612 .N48 1976 {Also, the next one which I have not read 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, c1988.

1969 [high school English comp class] Title: The elements of style / Author: Strunk, William, 1869-1946. Published: New York : Macmillan, c1979. Description: xvii, 85 p. ; 21 cm. Location: GRADUATE--Call No: PE 1408 .S93 1979 [The fundamental rule of style that has guided me for years in writing and speech and in thinking came from Strunk: "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" (eliminate "not.") It eventually leads to profound weight in the statement "I am that I am," timelessly existent identity, and the rule to avoid frivolous usage of the phrase "I am."]

1987 Title: The magic and science of jewels and stones, Author: Kozminsky, Isidore. Published: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1922. Description: xv, 434 p. col. front., illus., plates (part col.) 21 cm. BUHR - Call No: QE 392 .K88 [I wanted to make a belt buckle using the 12 stones of Aaron’s breastplate, the Ephod of 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, as 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."]

1981-2-3 Title The dragons of Eden : speculations on the evolution of human intelligence / Carl Sagan. Author Sagan, Carl, 1934- Edition 1st ed. Published New York : Random House, c1977. 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 : Location: MAIN LIBRARY Call No: BF431 .S2 [Read this a long time ago, but felt comfortable with his cross-discipline approach to explaining life. Don’t recall anything in particular that has stuck with me, though.]

1994-5 Title: Nano : the emerging science of nanotechnology : remaking the world-molecule by molecule / Author: Regis, Edward, 1944- Published: Boston : Little, Brown, c1995. Description: 325 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Location: GRADUATE LIBRARY--Call No: T 174.7 .R441 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 thoroughly covering the field of nanotech.]

1975 Title: 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. Location: GRADUATE LIBRARY--Call No: QP 360 .P94 [My favorite psych prof 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.]

Author: Waldrop, M. Mitchell. Title: Complexity: the emerging science at the edge of order and chaos / M. Mitchell Waldrop. Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1992. Description: 380 p. ; 24 cm. ISBN: 0671767895 : Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. <360>-363) and index. Holdings: Location: GRADUATE LIBRARY Call No: Q 175 .W2581 1992 Subjects: Science--Philosophy. Complexity (Philosophy) [The only book anybody needs to read who doesn’t want to dive into the technical literature. 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.]

2. - Title: 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. Location: DPL CHANEY ADULT PBK RACK-Call No: NON-FICTION 133.3 W584p 1988 [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.]

1994 Title: Conversations with Nostradamus : his prophecies explained / Author: Cannon, Dolores, 1931- Published: Huntsville, AR : Ozark Mountain Pub., 1997. Description: 365 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. [Excellent text, in 3 volumes costing $45 in ppbk. I started with vol. 2, then 1 & 3. The woman could not possibly have made this stuff up. Her transcripts of past-life regression subjects’ acting as go-betweens for her & Nostradamus indicate she, for give, isn’t smart enough to make this up. Besides, the guy has an Attitude, with a capital A, that I find refreshing and honest. It also all makes sense, once translated by the man himself. Some of my favorite reading of the last few years.]

1996 Title: 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. Location: DPL PHIL REL & ED--Call No: 133 B653ra 1989 [Another ed.] - Title: 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.] - Title: 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. Location: DPL PHIL REL & ED REFERENCE--Call No: DESK R 133 B653r [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 7 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 by a magician who has discovered it’s all 99% crap anyway and gives you the 1% leftover.]

1996 Title: 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. Location: GRADUATE LIBRARY--Call No: BR 129 .G56 1994 $31.45@Borders [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 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, is a literary type, so rigorous scholarship may challenge him or dismiss him altogether. I’ve seen 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.]

1995-6 Title: The gnostic gospels / Author: Pagels, Elaine H., 1943- Published: New York : Vintage Books, 1981, c1979. Description: xxxix, 214 p. ; 18 cm. Location: UNDERGRADUATE--Call No: BT1390 .P31 1981 [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.]

1996 Title:The sayings of Jesus; Published: London, Gay & Bird, 1903. Description: xi, 149, <1> p. 16 cm. Location: BUHR - Ask at any library--Call No: BT 306 .R65 Title: 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. Location: WSU PURDY/KRESGE LIBRARY--Call No: BS 2280 .N6 v.17 [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. 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. A man of his stature would be exceptionally careful about his choice of words; his followers obviously less so. I also have a book club edition of the Q Gospel, which is essentially the same thing. The editor points out the politician churchmen’s mis-translations, especially noting 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.]

1996 Title: Spoken and written Albanian; a practical handbook. Author: Drizari, Nelo, 1900- *Published: New York, Ungar Pub. Co., <1975, c1947> Description: xviii, 188 p. 24 cm. Location: Detroit PubLib DOWNTOWN FOREIGN LANGUAGE--Call No: ALBANIAN 491.99 D833s 5. - Title: Spoken and written Albanian; a practical handbook. Author: Drizari, Nelo, 1900- *Published: New York, Hafner Publishing Co., <1947> Description: xviii, 188 p. 24 cm. Location: OU KRESGE LIBRARY BOOKS (3RD)--Call No: PG9523 .D7 [A Greek beauty & friend found her perfect man (body builder, clone of Jean Claude Van Damme, & 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. Though I did not read this book, I read the Intro. 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 = White [willed] Word! I’ve written this essay to myself several times, too. The essay of course goes on to Jesus’s triplicity, the Emerald Tablet & Hermes (word) Trismegistus (of triple meaning.) I posted as much to the NewPhysics listserv back in Aug.’98 but it seems to been lost in the shuffle.]

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