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| Chaos Theory and Attractor Fields |
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Gleick, J. (1987) Chaos: Making a New Science London: Heinemann.
A popularly written introduction to chaos theory and the major scientific thinkers who developed it.
Waldrop, M.M. (1992) Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos New York: Simon and Schuster.
The science of complexity studies how single elements, such as a species or a stock, spontaneously organise into complex structures such as ecosystems and economies; stars become galaxies, and snowflakes avalanches almost as if these systems were obeying a single yearning for order. Waldrop has a special talent for relaying the exhilaration of moments of intellectual insight, of a science in the making. |
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| Science and Consciousness |
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Dossey, L. (1989) Recovering the Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual Search New York: Bantam Books.
Dossey synthesises the ideas of eminent scientists such as Schrodinger, Einstein, Godel and Margenau, with the time-honoured knowledge of visionaries and mystics like Lao Tzu, Meister Eckart, Rilke and the Upanishads to present convincing evidence for a non-local, holistic view of mind and reality that can explain transcendental experiences.
Dossey, L. (2003) Healing Beyond the Body: Medicine and the Infinite Reach of the Mind Boston: Shambhala.
A collection of essays examining whether the mind produces consciousness or transmits it, why stress has become a worldwide epidemic, and the origins of war. Dossey explores the relationship between science and œunscientific concepts such as prayer, love, laughter, creativity, dreams and immortality.
Laszlo, E.(2004) Science and the Akashic Field Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions.
Mystics and sages have long maintained that there exists an interconnecting cosmic field at the roots of reality that conserves and conveys information, a field known as the Akashic record. Recent discoveries in vacuum physics show that this Akashic field is real and has its equivalent in science's zero-point field that underlies space itself. This is a seminal book from one of the best thinkers of our time. Ervin Laszlo charts the frontiers to which science is inexorably headed. In years to come people will look back at the amazing foresight of his work.
Sheldrake, R., McKenna, T. and Abraham, R. (1992) Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press.
The late psychedelic visionary and shamanologist Terence McKenna, acclaimed biologist and originator of the morphogenetic fields theory Rupert Sheldrake, and the mathematician and chaos theory scientist Ralph Abraham join forces to investigate the relations between chaos and creativity and their connection to cosmic consciousness.
Tiller, W.A. (1997) Science and Human Transformation: Subtle Energies, Intentionality and Consciousness Walnut Creek, California: Pavior Publishing.
William Tiller is one of the world's leading scientists on the structure of matter. This book integrates a multitude of previously disconnected pieces of the human health puzzle into a consistent framework that sets a new paradigm for medicine and medical science. Technical in parts, it can still be fascinating and useful for the lay reader.
Tiller, W.A., Dibble, W.E. and Kohane, M.J. (2001) Conscious Acts of Creation: The Emergence of a New Physics Walnut Creek, California: Pavior Publishing.
Professor Tiller has been exploring the subtle domains of energy, parapsychology and the implications of quantum physics for decades. These areas are among the most ancient and controversial in science. Unlike many who venture into these realms, Tiller has a distinguished career as a mainstream engineer at Stanford University and a solid grounding in physics. If there are prophets in our extraordinary times he is likely one of them. His claim is a bold one indeed: human consciousness contributes to the creation and direction of the universe. |
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| Biology |
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Becker, R.O. and Selden, G. (1985) The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life New York: William Morrow.
Becker, a pioneer in the field of regeneration and its relationship to electrical currents in living things, challenges the accepted mechanistic understanding of the body and the blinkered biology that goes with it. He finds clues to the healing process in the long-discarded theory that electricity is vital to life. An accurate expose of the politics of medicine and research, this is a gripping account of science at the cutting edge.
Pearce, J.C. (2002) The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press.
Pearce examines the current biological understanding of our neural organisation to ask how we can transcend our current evolutionary capacities and limitations. The dynamic interaction of our head-brain (intellect) and heart-brain (intelligence) allows transcendence from one evolutionary place to the next. He shows how we can nurture our young, enabling them to thrive, rather than merely survive.
Sheldrake, R. (1981) A New Science of Life: Morphic Resonance Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press.
Why do many phenomena defy the explanations of conventional biology and physics? For instance, when laboratory rats in one place have learned how to navigate a new maze, why do rats elsewhere seem to learn it more easily? Rupert Sheldrake describes this process as morphic resonance: the past forms and behaviours of organisms influence organisms in the present through direct connections across time and space.
Sheldrake, R. (1988)The Presence of the Past: The Habits of Nature Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press.
Here Sheldrake lays out the evidence for his controversial theory of morphic resonance, proposing that all natural systems, from crystals to human society, inherit a collective memory that influences their form and behaviour. At the same time, he delivers and stinging critique of conventional scientific thinking, which sees nature as a machine. In its place he offers a new understanding of life, matter and mind.
Sheldrake, R. (1990) The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God London: Random Century.
Through science itself, despite the prevailing mechanistic view, nature is being reanimated. The old faith in the total predictability of mechanical nature has given way to the recognition of chaos and spontaneity, and there is now growing realisation that our earth and indeed our universe are developing organisms. |
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| Physics |
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Bohm, D. (1980, 1995) Wholeness and the Implicate Order London: Routledge.
In our opinion, one of the most important books of the twentieth century. Bohm was Professor of Theoretical Physics at Birkbeck College, London University. What underlies the universal constitution and structure of matter? Even quantum physics provides no consistent answer. Bohm, an excitingly original thinker, proposes a new notion of order, an implicate or enfolded order, in which space and time are no longer the dominant factor, but within which all the potentials of space and time are contained. From the implicate order our ordinary world of space and time, and all apparently separately existing material particles are derived. They appear in what Bohm calls the explicate or unfolded order. Bohm's book is an appealing explanation of the riddles of modern physics as well as being full of implications for human living.
Wolff, F.A. (1989) Taking the Quantum Leap : The New Physics for Nonscientists New York: HarperPerennial.
This book entertainingly traces the history of physics from the observations of the early Greeks through the discoveries of Galileo and Newton to the dazzling theories of such scientists as Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Bohm. This humanised view of science opens up the mind-stretching visions of how quantum mechanics, God, human thought, and will are related, and provides profound implications for our understanding of the nature of reality and our relationship to the cosmos. |
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| Synchronicity |
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Jung, G. (1969) Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle Second edn, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Synchronicity indicates a meaningful coincidence of two or more events, where something other than the probability of chance is involved. Precognition, clairvoyance, telepathy, etc. are phenomena that are inexplicable through chance, but become intelligible through employment of the principle of synchronicity, which suggests a harmony at work in the interrelation of both psychic and physical events. Jung explains synchronicity with ingenuity and erudition, in striking and thought-provoking ways.
Peat, F.D. (1987) Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind New York: Bantam Books.
A colleague of David Bohm, Peat found his investigations into quantum mechanical phenomena and the foundations of relativity and quantum theories leading him to question the whole nature of the scientific worldview. Peat joins two quests: Jung's search for synchronicity, and the totality of space and time. What emerges is evidence of a hidden order, of a creative universe that expresses itself in individual lives.
Strogatz. S. (2003) Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order New York: Hyperion.
One of the pioneers of the new science of synchronicity, Steven Strogatz, a leading mathematician in the fields of chaos and complexity theory, explains how enormous systems can synchronise themselves, from electrons in a superconductor to the pacemaker cells in our hearts. Learn how consciousness plays across millions of mindless brain cells! |
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| Energy Healing |
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Eden, D. (1998) Energy Medicine New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam.
Very readable and well illustrated introduction to energy systems including meridians and charkas, with information on pain, electromagnetic currents and how to change habits.
Gerber, R. (2001) Vibrational Medicine Rochester, Vermont: Bear and Company.
Trained in a variety of alternative therapies as well as conventional medicine, Dr Gerber provides an almost encyclopedic treatment of energetic healing, covering subtle energy fields, acupuncture, Bach flower remedies, homeopathy, radionics meditation, psychic healing and many others. He explains current theories about how various energy therapies work and offers new insights into the physical and spiritual perspectives on health and disease.
Gordon, J.S. (1996) Manifesto for a New Medicine Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.
Dr Gordon has pioneered an approach to healing that synthesises the best of modern scientific medicine with the best of alternative techniques. There are convincing and absorbing case studies of the successful use of these alternatives and of the scientific bases for them. Gordon show how we can incorporate alternative therapies as an integral part of our health care and our daily lives.
Locke, S. and Colligan, D. (1997) The Healer Within: The New Medicine of Mind and Body New York: Plume Books.
This book explores the emerging field of psycho-immunology, and demonstrates the ways emotions and attitudes, both positive and negative, can affect health and the treatment of illness, from the common cold to cancer. The authors show how techniques such as biofeedback, hypnosis, exercise and imaging can relieve the symptoms of many major diseases.
Oschman, J.L. (2000) Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Excellent “ a concrete, scientifically grounded and usable text that effectively describes the concept of human energetic systems. Technology has now evolved to the point where we can observe and interact with those energetic aspects most often described in spiritual metaphor. Oschman is a world authority on energy and complementary medicine, with a distinguished scientific career and publications in leading scientific journals.
Rockwell, I. (2002) The Five Wisdom Energies Boston: Shambhala.
A Buddhist understanding of personalities, emotions and relationships. Irini Rockwell draws from her background in dance, psychotherapy, meditation and leadership training. Her book shows how basic energy patterns present themselves as different personality types, and how understanding these energies can help us integrate spiritual practice into daily life. |
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| Prayer and Healing |
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Dossey, L. (1993) Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine New York: HarperPaperbacks.
Dossey lays out the latest evidence connecting prayer, healing and medicine, using real-life examples and personal anecdotes and showing how prayer can be as valid a healing tool as drugs or surgery.
Dossey, L. (1997) Prayer is Good Medicine: How to Reap the Healing Benefits of Prayer San Francisco: Harper San Francisco.
Building on his earlier book Healing Words, Dossey discusses four areas: the scientific evidence for prayer, the controversies associated with the prayer experiments, what prayer is, and how to pray. |
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| Spirituality |
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A Course in Miracles (1996) Second edition, New York: Penguin Books and Foundation for Inner Peace.
Profound metaphysical treatment of human perception, illness, health and healing, combined with practical principles of living based on the healing power of forgiveness. Challenging and inspiring, this remarkable book provides a one-year workshop of daily lessons against a backdrop of theory about the spiritual path and how it relates to life within the world of space and time, and our spiritual destiny. It also presents a rigorous œspiritual psychology covering basic emotions such as love and fear and psychological mechanisms such as projection and denial.
Berg, Y (2003) The Power of the Kabbalah London: Hodder and Stoughton.
From the Jewish mystical tradition, the Kabbalah, or Book of Formation, is a science of the soul and the physics and metaphysics of fulfillment. The Power of the Kabbalah is a lighthearted yet profoundly serious presentation of ancient wisdom that at the same time sits well with the developing emergence of science and spirituality. Much of what was once called mysticism is now called science!
Maharaj, Sri Nisargadatta (1998) I am That Charlottetown, Canada: The Acorn Press.
This collection of the timeless teachings of one of the greatest sages of India, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, regarded by many as a "modern spiritual classic" is a testament to the uniqueness of the seer's life and work. I Am That preserves Maharaj's dialogues with the followers who came from around the world seeking his guidance in destroying false identities. The sage's sole concern was with human suffering and the ending of suffering. It was his mission to guide the individual to an understanding of his true nature and the timelessness of being. He taught that mind must recognise and penetrate its own state of being, "being this or that, here or that, then or now," but just timeless being.
Renard, G. (2003) The Disappearance of the Universe Sydney: Hay House.
Smart, funny and uncompromising; a rousing refresher workshop in the spirituality of the future; an impressively detailed examination of the essence of life and what it means live fully. Gary Renard's book is also a crystal clear introduction to the path of forgiveness in A Course in Miracles.
Williamson, M. (1992) A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles New York: HarperCollins.
Suggestions on how each of us can become a miracle worker by accepting God and by the expression of love in our daily lives. Whether psychic pain is in the area of relationships, career or health, Williamson shows how love is a potent force, the key to inner peace, and how by practising love we can make our own lives more fulfilling while creating a more peaceful and loving world for our children. |
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| Movies |
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Life is Beautiful. Directed by and starring Roberto Benigni. Miramax and Buena Vista.
Italy's rubber-faced funnyman Roberto Benigni accomplishes the impossible in his World War II comedy Life Is Beautiful: he shapes a simultaneously hilarious and haunting comedy out of the tragedy of the Holocaust. An international sensation, the picture earned director-cowriter-star Benigni Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor. He plays the Jewish country boy Guido, a madcap romantic in Mussolini's Italy who wins the heart of his sweetheart and raises a son in the shadow of fascism. When the Nazis ship the men off to a concentration camp in the waning days of the war, Guido is determined to shelter his son from the evils around them and convinces him they're in an elaborate contest to win (of all things) a tank. Benigni's film demonstrates the power of love and faith over fear and hate, and the power of courage that ultimately makes cruelty and violence look like a laughable illusion. On the spiritual level, Guido is truly invulnerable.
What the bleep do we know?! Produced by William Arntz, Betsy Chasse and Mark Vicente. Lord of the Wind Film, LLC, 2004.
WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW?! is a new type of film. It is part documentary, part story, and part elaborate and inspiring visual effects and animations. The protagonist, Amanda, played by Marlee Matlin, finds herself in a fantastic Alice in Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of the quantum field hidden behind what we consider to be our normal, waking reality. This movie shows how science and spirituality merge into one in both intellectual understanding and the experience of daily life. |
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