Atlee,
Tom. The
Tao of Democracy: Using
Co-Intelligence to Create a World that Works for All. [publisher information?? Atlee's website:
www.co-intelligence.org]
[This man's co-intelligence model describes a
paradigm shift -- the growing awareness of and necessity to strive for a
unifying, empathic operative intelligence that is fully congruent with the
visioning and experiencing many speak from who have come back from their
various death-transcendent spiritually transformative glimpses into the
larger-life reality. Atlee's
work is especially valuable because it comes from a fresh angle of
perception, yet
is fully at-one with the knowledge or awareness familiar to EHEers.]
Berry,
Thomas, and Swimme, Brian. The Universe Story:
A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos.
HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco, 1994.
Bloomquist,
Wayne [compiler from the writings of The Mother, the many-decades
collaborator of Sri Aurobindo]. Search
for the Soul in Everyday Living. Lotus Light
Publications, Wilmot, WI, USA, 1990. [From
the Introduction and in reference to The Mother's writings, Mr.
Bloomquist, who had been long familiar with The Mother's writings, at
one point began a thorough re-reading of her works. He says,
"... I kept seeing passage after passage that I had to note,
mainly, about various exercises, i.e., something that one could practice
either alone or as part of a group. Participants in a study group
could take an exercise and each would practice in his/her own way and
then share their experience at the next meeting." Great and
important work, and meant for study groups.]
Bohm, David.
Wholeness and the Implicate Order.
Ark Paperbacks, London and New York, 1980. [I
do not have a scholarly familiarity with the hirstory
of how this flows, but it seems to me that this book was one of the most
powerful instruments for initiating the explosive consciousness studies
phenomenon as we know it today. There were others who contributed
greatly during a tipping point moment whose time had come, particularly
during the late 60s-early 80s, thinking of people / networks like Gregory
Bateson, Teilhard de Chardin, Esalen and other popular intellectual and
spiritual hotspots, Abraham Maslow, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross / Raymond Moody /
Kenneth Ring / Margot Grey, John Heron, .. the list goes on and on!
But Dr. Bohm was the most affecting physical scientist of the time, and
let's not overlook his fructifying conversations and friendship with
Krishnamurti!]
Brink,
Margarete von den, and Stolp, Hans. A
Christian Book of the Dead: Accompanying their journey after death.
Hawthorn Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, 2004. This
is one of the most insightful and important books of our time about what
happens to us after death, born out of astute scholarship and rich in
EHEerly experiences from past and contemporary sources.
This highly readable and surprisingly short text [for all that it
covers so well!] developed out of a classic spiritual quest initiated by an
out-of-body experience Hans Stolp had as a seminary student.
He had been taught that, given the predominant Western materialistic
scientific sensibilities, belief in a soul as something separate from the
body is 'outdated'. But here he
was, obviously as himself, personality and consciousness fully intact,
floating up near the ceiling looking down at his body on the bed below.
Stolp says, “This, and subsequent experiences, inspired me to look
for an answer. …
Incidentally, many people have out of body experiences like mine
these days. There is nothing
special about it. And many
people seek a new direction in life as a result.
They want to understand what has happened to them, in order to be
able to place it in context in their lives.”
We live in this bizarre situation in which, on the one hand, traditional
Christian belief as we know it today espouses everything “from pragmatic
humanism [basically, there is no god] to literal belief in the virgin birth
and the Resurrection.” And
certainly this depth of disparity in beliefs is by no means confined to the
Christianity. Oh
the other hand, a similar spectrum of beliefs [philosophies] could also be
said to apply to Western science, but particularly the materialistic view
has influenced and eroded religious beliefs,
especially over the last couple of centuries. On a positive note to my
mind, is that a substantial number of scientists are now moving in the other
direction, toward where science and spirituality actually meet.
Nevertheless, this kind of confusion has led Stolp and van den Brink to
suggest something many of us feel today: “.. [S]urely, we are
no longer satisfied by knowledge imparted from on high:
we want to know things for ourselves.” And the burgeoning
numbers of people who are having spiritual / paranormal experiences
In essence, Stolp and van den Brink, take us on this journey toward an
understanding of our lives within this larger-life context, based upon
religious hirstory [such as the
gradual loss of the teachings from the early Christian era, which led to the
declaration of the Council of Constantinople in 869 AD that we have a body
and soul, but no spirit (Ladies, not to worry; this unfortunate
pronouncement only concerned the male half of our race – ‘o, man’!)];
also upon insights from an array of sources including Paul the apostle, the
early 20th century seer, Rudolf Steiner, and the recovered Nag
Hammadi find of gnostic texts from the first two centuries, AD, discovered
in 1945; and finally upon the growing wealth of corroborative experiences of
those who have, like Stolp, experienced the larger-life reality firsthand.
There's so much more to this book that can't be mentioned here, like what we
can do to help those who have passed on -- and they, us. My
recommendation: don't miss this book!
Brink,
Margreet** van den. More Precious than
Light: How dialogue can transform relationships and build community.
Hawthorn Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, 1996. [A
most important contribution addressing a fundamental need that pervades our
globe and our times, and perhaps this evolutionary moment of our
species. In our secular and divisive world it is a kind of miracle
that those who bear and are able to communicate candidly with such
simplicity and clarity this depth of wisdom and knowledge. We have
almost universally suffered a "need" that very few of us have
chanced to comprehend as anything other than a vague, if oppressive sense of
deep dissatisfaction, disillusionment, unfulfillment, something BIG missing
in our relational world, human being to human being. Van den Brink,
whose understanding comes straight out of the insights of the great seer,
Rudolf Steiner, succinctly describes this unease and what it signifies
developmentally for us as a stage of our evolution.
From
the back cover:
"Opportunities for community building exist
whenever people meet together regularly, sharing in a common task, for
study, or simply to meet as individuals searching for a more meaningful
life. The true community spirit values differences as well as harmony,
is open rather than closed. Challenge, support, questioning and
empathy are all needed. Knowing when one or the other is appropriate
depends on presence of mind. It depends as much on intuition as on a
knowledge of groupwork. This book offers a path through which both
knowledge and intuition can gradually be joined, by patient practice and the
readiness to learn from the experiences themselves."
--Russell Evans]
**
Ms. van den Brink's
first name is indeed spelled two different ways -- in these instances.
In A Christian Book of the Dead [published 2004], it is consistently
spelled Margarete, and throughout the second book, same publisher [1996], it
is spelled Margreet. Perhaps the second one is a correction for the
first?
Daft,
Richard L., and Lengel, Robert H.
Fusion Leadership: Unlocking the Subtle Forces That Change People
and Organizations.
Berrett-Koehler, San Francisco, 1998.
[A new
way of leading based on “fusion” – bringing together the
emotional, intellectual, and spiritual aspects of people to
accomplish mutual goals based on shared visions and values. ]
Davies, Stevan (Foreward by Andrew
Harvey). The Gospel of Thomas Annotated
& Explained. Skylight Paths Pub., Woodstock, VT,
2002. [Beyond anything else you will find on this
listing of books, and no matter how extensive the list becomes, and without
hesitation, I most highly recommend this book. It is the
Wake-Up in the cosmic coffee for those who are interested in and disciples
of Jesus. Also see Davies'
website.]
de
Chardin, Pierre Teilhard. The Phenomenon
of Man. Harper & Row, New York, 1959. [As
a scientist and priest, but most of all as a mystic and seer, Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin is one of our recent defining contemporaries of the
evolutionary path of humanity. In Heading Toward Omega: In
Search of the Meaning of the Near-Death Experience, much inspired by de
Chardin's farseeing, Kenneth
Ring wrote:
Omega ["as an endpoint," "the aim of human evolution, the
ultimate destination toward which humanity is inexorably bound"] ...
is of course associated with a great visionary writer [de Chardin] whose
celebrated book The Phenomenon of Man is one of the twentieth
century's landmark contributions to evolutionary thought. In this
work Père Teilhard spoke of the various levels of evolution -- matter,
life, and consciousness -- and argued that human evolution was headed
toward a transhuman state he called ''noogenesis," the birth of a
unified planetary mind aware of its essential divinity. This
convergent end state, the culmination of human evolution on earth, Père
Teilhard called "The Omega Point."]
de
Quincey, Christian. Radical Nature:
Rediscovering the Soul of Matter.
Invisible Cities Press, Montpelier, VT, 2002. [About
the nature of reality. From the back cover:
Brian Swimme,
co-author with Thomas Berry of the Universe Story says, "One of
the most important books on consciousness and cosmology to appear in
decades. Anyone interested in questions about soul and nature, about
the relationship between consciousness and the world of matter, about
meaning the universe, needs to read (this book)."
Larry Dossey,
who as a physician has written several seminal books about consciousness and
healing writes: "Radical Nature exposes the biggest con job in
the history of human thought -- that matter and nature are dead, mindless,
unfeeling, and disconnected from ourselves. De Quincey gives us an
image that is as hopeful and fulfilling as the old view was empty and
depressing. never have we needed such a view as
now."
About
the book itself: "...(de Quincey) explores how mind and matter
are related, and he proposes a radical and surprising answer:
Consciousness goes all the way down! Through animals, plants, even
single cells ... in fact, all the way down the great chain of being to
molecules, atoms, and beyond. Drawing on both ancient and modern
knowledge, de Quincey shows us that the universe teems with consciousness
through and through. 'Matter itself tingles with the spark of spirit,'
he says. 'And therefore nature, in all its forms and glory, is sacred
to its deepest roots.' Radical nature takes you on a mind-stretching
journey in this remarkable story of philosophy and science in search of a
soul."]
de
Quincey, Christian. Radical Knowing.
[Invisible Cities Press, Montpelier, VT,
?. This would be or is the second of a trilogy of books -- this one
"about exploring the very instrument of knowing itself:
consciousness." Further, de Quincey says, "Radical
Knowing .. reveals the distortions of modern philosophy and
science when they limit knowledge of the world and ourselves to what
we can detect through our senses or analyze with reason. Other ways of
knowing, such as feeling, intuition, and direct experience of nonsensory
realities, are equally valid, and need to be encouraged, honored, and
developed."]
de
Quincey, Christian. Radical Science.
[Invisible Cities Press, Montpelier, VT,
?. This would be or is the third of a trilogy of books -- this one
"challenges the dominant myth of matter as essentially 'dead stuff'
that mysteriously weaves mind and consciousness out of body and brain.
This old view splits mind from body, consciousness from matter, spirit from
nature, and leaves us trying to make sense of a world where consciousness,
soul, and spirit are real -- and where matter / energy is, too."
in Radical Nature, the author explains, "Radical Science builds on the
first two (books) and explores how a true science of consciousness would be
possible -- by radically altering our understanding of the nature of the
world, and by expanding our ways of knowing -- so that science no longer
restricts itself to what can be counted and measured, and opens up to deeper
and higher 'shafts of wisdom,' where dead-bolt mechanism is replaced by the
vitality of lived meaning."]
Driver,
Tom F. Patterns
of Grace: Human Experiences as Word of God.
Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1977.
Driver,
Tom F. The
Magic of Ritual: Our Need for Liberating Rites That Transform Our
Lives and Our Communities.
HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco, 1991.
Fezler, William.
Creative
Imagery: How to Visualize in All Five Senses.
Fireside, New York, 1989.
Fezler, William.
Imagery for Healing, Knowledge, and Power.
Simon & Schuster, NYC, 1990.
Foos-Graber,
Anya. Deathing: An
Intelligent Alternative for the Final Moments of Life.
Nicholas-Hays, Inc., York Beach, ME, 1989. [This
is a unique and empowering Great Work. Foos-Graber's understanding
and teaching, expressed in largely secular and universal terms, is one
of those natural, next-step revelations and teachings that over time
will grow to become a Humanity-wide wisdom and essential, yet highly
individualized practice. Deathing
is one of the most crucially important insights of all ages. What
a wondrous thing that this woman has so capably, elegantly, simply
brought this awareness to our time.]
Goethe,
Johann Wolfgang von. The
Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily.
Steinerbooks, New York, 1979. [An
early admirer, Thomas Carlyle, who published this excellent translation
in 1832, referred to this fascinating fable as "one of the
notabelist performances produced in the last 1,000 years!"
The Fairy Tale is an enjoyable read, but it is at the same time a most
subtle and complex story that has attracted many great minds to long
contemplation of its mythic meaning. According to Paul M. Allen,
who wrote the introduction to this book, Dr. Steiner "characterised
(sic) the Goethe Fairy Tale as the 'archetypal seed' which offers the
possibility of a new order of social life amongst humanity as a whole,
and described it as the foundation upon which he based his teaching
concerning the modern Science of Spirit, Anthroposophy."]
Greaves, Helen.
Testimony of Light. Neville
Spearman Publishers, Essex, England, [reprint from 1969, Churches'
Fellowship for Psychical & Spiritual Studies, England] 1991.
Grof,
Stanislav and Christina. [Eds.] Spiritual
Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis.
Jeremy P. Tarcher / Putnam / Penguin, New York, 1989.
[From the back
cover:
A
NEW CONSCIOUSNESS READER. From Spiritual Emergency to Healing and
Rebirth: Increasing numbers of people involved in personal
transformation are experiencing spiritual emergencies -- crises, when
the process of growth and change becomes chaotic and overwhelming.
Individuals experiencing such episodes may feel that their sense of
identity is breaking down, that their old values no longer hold true,
and that the very ground beneath their personal realities is radically
shifting. In many cases, new realms of mystical and spiritual
experience enter their lives suddenly and dramatically, resulting in
fear and confusion. They may feel tremendous anxiety, have
difficulty coping with their daily lives, jobs, and relationships, and
may even fear for their own sanity.
Unfortunately, much of modern psychiatry has failed to distinguish these
episodes from mental illness. As a result, transformational crises
are often suppressed by routine psychiatric care, medication, and even
institutionalization.
However, there is a new perspective developing among many mental
health professionals and those studying spiritual development that
views such crises as transformative breakthroughs that can hold
tremendous potential for physical and emotional healing. When
understood and treated in a supportive manner, spiritual emergencies
can become gateways to higher levels of functioning and new ways of
being.
In this book, foremost psychologists, psychiatrists, and spiritual
teachers address the following questions: What is spiritual
emergency? What is the relationship between spirituality,
"madness," and healing? What forms does spiritual
emergency take? What are the pitfalls -- and promises -- of
spiritual practice? How can people in spiritual emergency be
assisted by family, friends, and professionals?
This groundbreaking work reveals that within the crisis of spiritual
emergency lies the promise of spiritual emergence and renewal.]
Heron, John.
Spiritual Science: Person-centred Inquiry into
the Spiritual and the Subtle. PCCS Books, Ross-on-Wye, England,
1998. [This is an important
book, integral to this consciousness shift we are moving into, because
it gives us a uniquely personal, yet universally collaborative way to study and encourage the kinds of spiritual
experience that lead to an Awakening to one's / our multidimensional
beingness. On the back, it says,
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"This cutting-edge book breaks
new ground in transpersonal psychology. It argues for a
people-based, person-centred [philosophy] which holds that spiritual
authority is within each individual, and that spiritual initiation is a
path of lived inquiry.. . Topics covered include:
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The
emergence of a self-generating spiritual culture of
independent pathfinders
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An
affirmation of the person as a real spiritual presence
on the crest of divine becoming.
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The
nature of long-term lived inquiry and of short-term
cooperative inquiry into the spiritual and subtle.
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An
exploration of the issues involved in do-it-yourself
subtle (psychical) research.
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A
provisional new dipolar map of the spiritual and subtle,
and a critique of other maps.
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Reports
of eleven short-term cooperative inquiries into the
spiritual and the subtle, showing how the method works.
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A
presentation of a participatory worldview, with the
paradigm of participatory inquiry ..
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"Sacred
Science will be of interest to all those who believe in the
emergence of the self-determining human spirit within the field
of religious/[spiritual] belief and practice."]
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Heron, John. Co-operative
Inquiry: Research into the Human Condition. Sage,
London, 1996.
Hicks, Esther and Jerry [and Abraham].
A
New Beginning I: Handbook For Joyous Survival.
Jerry and Esther Hicks, San Antonio, TX, 2002.
Hicks, Esther and Jerry [and Abraham].
The
Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent: Living the Art of Allowing.
Jerry and Esther Hicks, San Antonio, TX, 2005.
Ingerman, Sandra.
Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented
Self. HarperSan Francisco, San Francisco, 1991.
Isaacs, William [Introduction by Peter
M. Senge]. Dialogue and the Art of
Thinking Together: A Pioneering Approach to Communicating in
Business and in Life. Currency Pub., New York, London,
Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 1999. [In
regards to what is found on Ahh-theLight.com, Dialogue and the Art of
Thinking Together is another of the most extraordinary resources
I've ever come across. I've still got some integrating before I
can talk about it coherently, but I highly, highly recommend this book
and agree very much with the back-cover comments below.
From the back
cover: "There is no more important art for humans to master
than that of dialogue. Bill Isaacs unpacks the process for us and
illustrates it with powerful stories and insights.
Masterful!" (William Ury, coauthor of Getting to Yes,
author of Getting Past No)
"A
book I've long been awaiting! Bill Isaacs is today's leading
thinker and practitioner of dialogue. His book will change the way
we think, talk, and relate. The Seeds are here to change the
world." (Danah Zohar, author of The Quantum Self, The
Quantum Society, and Rewiring the Corporate Brain)]
James, William. The Varieties of Religious
Experience. Penguin American Library, NYC, 1982 [originally published by
Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902].
Jaworski, Joseph. Synchronicity: The Inner Path of
Leadership. Berrett-Koehler,
San Francisco, 1996. [Review excerpts by
Rhea A. White, in Exceptional Human Experience, 16(2), 2000:
...a
marvelous EHE autobiography, for one thing. But its main gift, to
me, is that it is a record of how one man, a top-rated lawyer, who was
supremely and superbly rooted in the Newtonian, linear paradigm, came to
live from within the Experiential Paradigm, or the nonlinear reality of
David Bohm's [implicate] order. His book is titled Synchronicity
because synchronicities were one type of EHE he had often, but more
than that, he was able to see how synchronicities occurred at those
times when he had skipped the bonds of linearity and was strongly rooted
in his vision of the way the world should be, which is operating as one
organism in which all parts work together synergistically.
For Jaworski, this was not simply a fantasy. He actually worked
with several teams of internationally selected highly intelligent and
globally knowledgeable people of high responsibility who themselves had
the felt sense of global unity and who had the experience of how
rootedness in nonlocality can result in instantaneous change that could
occur anywhere in the world, working toward the realization of that
unity in ways that appeared to be miraculous -- EHEs, in other words.
He describes how he began to learn "how to move with the unfolding
order and to live out the principles, naturally" (p. 14).
What he, after Bohm, calls the "unfolding order" is what I
have called the late stages of the EHE process, but he goes further than
I have been able to do, pointing the way for all of us.
Jaworski is at the forefront of those, often in large multinational
corporations, who are working to influence and shape global events so
that unity within diversity will be promoted. He realized it was
no longer "possible for business and governments to effectively
'plan' a long term future. Instead, it was necessary to learn to
create and discover an unfolding future" (p. 147). One of the
most important nonlocal synchronicities of his life was a four-hour talk
he had with David Bohm in which Bohm supplied the theoretical
underpinnings for Jaworski's unusual experiences and his intuitions
about reality, which went far beyond the linear, deterministic
paradigm. Bohm told him that "you cannot think of existence
as local," and "Yourself is actually the whole of
mankind. That's the idea of the implicate order -- that everything
is enfolded in everything... We are all connected. If this
could be taught, and if people could understand it, we would have a
different consciousness" (pp. 89-81 [sic?]). And, I would
add, a very different world; which is the whole point of Jaworski's
book. ... Get a copy of this world-shaking book and give yourself
the pleasure of reading every word from cover to cover. Even if
you know what he is saying, you are bound to become even more in
resonance with and conscious of the unity of all than you were when you
began. -- R.A.W.]
Lievegoed,
Bernard [transl. by Jakob M. Cornelius]. Man
on the Threshold: The Challenge of Inner Development. Hawthorn Press, Stroud, UK,
1985. [A piercingly profound philosophical
and biographical treatise cherished by many Rudolf Steiner admirers and students.
This spiritual feast of a book speaks directly to the entelechy [one’s
deeply personal individuality or high Self] and is thus
soul-reverberating.
Especially when Lievegoed introduces
Friedrich Wilhelm Hardenberg, aka Novalis, is the heart truly inflamed.
He tells the story of Hardenberg as a young man, about 22 years
old, who merely sees and falls instantly in love with a 12-year-old [!]
girl, and formally asks for her hand in marriage.
Her name was Sophie von Kuhn [circa 1794].
Lievegoed says, “It is not easy to get a good picture of her,
of this extraordinary being. What
is certain is that she made a deep impression on everybody who was
acquainted with her. All
describe her as a heavenly creature, an enchantingly innocent soul, who
in her gaze suggested great depth of soul.”
The shock of her death precipitated Hardenberg’s piercing of
the veils into the Eternal Vastnesses beyond this worldly life.
Sophie becomes, like Dante’s Beatrice, the sublime motivating
inspiration that focuses his life. Short
life also – he only lives 3-4 more years himself.
The author describes the poet Novalis’ [meaning ‘he who clears new land, and
sows’] “Hymns to the Night” as the "precipitate of the
process the poet experienced as a result of the death of his beloved.
He himself experienced the crossing of the threshold inwardly.
. . Clothed in the
language of German Romanticism, it is entirely pervaded by the
experience of how the night ‘lights up as our true homeland."]
Lievegoed,
Bernard. Developing Communities.
(Includes what appears to be two books-in-one or two major essays:
Forming Curative Communities
[translated by steve Briault], and Concerning
Organisations of the Spiritual Life [translated by Simon
Blaxand de Lange].) Hawthorn Press, Stroud, UK, (date?).
Lievegoed,
Bernard [transl. by Philip Mees]. Battle
for the Soul. Hawthorn Press, Stroud, UK, (date?).
Lipton,
Bruce H. The
Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And
Miracles. Mountain of Love, ___? 2005. [I
have heard this is a phenomenal, precedent-setting book, but have yet to
learn more. .. It's 'on my list' -- if it's not on yours
yet, maybe it should be! As of June 3, 2008, it had the amazon.com
ranking of 1,743, which is VERY good!]
Longaker, Christine.
Facing
Death and Finding Hope: A Guide to the Emotional and Spiritual
Care of the Dying. Doubleday, NYC and London, 1997.
Lovelock,
James. Gaia: A New Look at Life on
Earth. [pub. info??] [Lovelock
and Lynn Margulis originated the Gaia Hypothesis.]
Mallasz,
Gitta [Transcriber; English rendition by Robert Hinshaw]. Talking
with Angels. Daimon Verlag, Einsiedeln,
Switzerland, 1988. [Such a heart-rending
treasure! On the back cover: "The true story of four
young Hungarians in search of inner meaning at a time of outer upheaval
-- the holocaust -- who encountered luminous forces that helped them
find new direction and hope in their shattered lives. These
forces, which came to be known as angels, accompanied them for
seventeen perilous months, until three of them met their deaths in Nazi
concentration camps. Only Gitta Mallasz survived to bring
their story and these remarkable dialogues to the world."]
Mindell, Arnold.
Coma:
The Dreambody Near Death. Arkana/Penguin, London,
1989. [This book left a haunting, yet
exciting imprint on me. Quote from back cover: "Dying
to live: This is a book about what happens to us when we are close
to death. And far from being the horrific experience many assume
it must be, coma can be a time of ecstasy, understanding and remarkable
transformation, preparing us for what lies ahead whether we live or
die. Using his celebrated process work with body signals and
dreams, Process oriented and Jungian analyst Arnold Mindell illustrates
how we can communicate with comatose individuals and reveals that they
are not 'vegetables', but very much alive -- like shamans or mythical
heroes venturing into unknown realms, returning with powerful messages
and prophetic insights. .."]
Morrissey, Dianne.
Anyone
Can See the Light. Stillpoint Publishing, Walpole,
NH, 1996.
Moss, Robert.
Conscious
Dreaming: A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life. Three
Rivers Press/Crown Pub., NYC, 1996.
Moss, Robert. Dreamgates:
An Explorer's Guide to the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life
Beyond Death. Three Rivers Press/Crown Pub., NYC,
1998.
Mozumdar, A. K.
The
Triumphant Spirit. DeVorss & Company, Marina
del Ray, CA, 1931, 1978.
Neville.
The
Power of Awareness. DeVorss Pub., Marina del Rey,
CA, 1952 [Revised by Victoria Goddard, 1992].
Norbu, Namkhai [Translated by John Myrdhin
Reynolds]. The Cycle of Day and Night.
Station Hill Press, Barrytown, NY, 1984.
Norbu, Namkhai [Ed., Michael Katz].
Dream
Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light. Snow Lion
Press, Ithaca, New York, 1992.
Pagels, Elaine.
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of
Thomas. Vantage/Random House, NYC, 2003.
Peterson, Robert. Out-of-Body
Experiences: How to Have them and What to Expect.
Hampton Roads, Charlottesville, VA, 1997.
Poer, Nancy Jewel.
Living
Into Dying: A Journal of Spiritual and Practical Deathcare for
Family and Community. White Feather Publ.,
Placerville, CA, 2002.
Rasha
(received and transcribed by). Oneness.
Earthstar Press, Santa FE, NM, 2003. [This
book thrills me and speaks to me like almost no other. It is one
of the most important and enlightening resources I have.]
Ray,
Paul H., and Anderson, Sherry Ruth. The
Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World.
Three Rivers Press, NY, 2000. [One of the
most important, revolutionary books on the planet. Period.
If what you find on this website resonates for you, excites you, gets
you to YESSS!! a lot, you need to own your own copy of this book.]
Rilke, Ranier Maria [translators: Anita
Barrows and Joanna Macy]. Rilke's Book of
Hours. Riverhead Books, NY, 1996.
Rinpoche,
Sogyal. The Tibetan Book of Living
and Dying. Rigpa
Fellowship, NYC, 1993; HarperCollins, NYC, 1994.
Roberts,
Jane. [[ Anything -- all of
her books are great study group material! ]].
Prentice-Hall, NYC.
Sardello,
Robert and Cheryl. Silence.
[Heaven & Earth Pub.? 2007?].
[Quite a few of my friends have
well-thumbed copies of this loved book. One reviewer, Robert Simmons, writes
(in: The Heaven & Earth Network News & Catalog,
#37, Fall/Winter 2007-2008) of
this book,
"Unlike any other book I've read,
Silence brings me into
the realm of -- into the vivid personal experience of -- the holy
presence that underlies and supports ourselves and our world. ... behind
all the appearances of the world. ... The Silence Sardello evokes is
immediately recognized by the soul, and feeling that recognition makes
one both joyful and sad, realizing that somehow this is always what one
has yearned for, has deeply known but neglected."
Mr. Simmons brings this out of the abstract and into the realm of felt
experience, giving you a glorious taste of what is in store for the
reader:
Here is an abbreviated version of one of my favorite passages, taken
from the chapter Silence in Daily Living: "The
image-filled qualities of the world, which are perceived in and
through Silence as holy, are further characterized by being filled
with a subtle but unmistakable sense of anticipation. It is an
anticipation that seems to belong to the things themselves rather than
belonging to our inner state of being. This quality, more than
any other ... makes Silence compelling. It is not the peace
Silence brings to us that makes us want to move toward it, but this
aspect of holy anticipation within the very things of the world! ...
With this felt sense of anticipation, we realize that our soul-spirit
participation in Silence enjoins us with the ongoing action of the
world coming into being."
There is no real way to describe this book, any more than one can
describe joy, or Silence itself. Yet I do recommend that readers
take this journey and experience it. Silence has the
capacity to change the world for the better, through the people who
understand and practice its message. It extends an invitation to
[a] kind of service by means of which our world can be re-imagined,
transformed and even saved.
For more information about the reviewer, Robert Simmons, see www.heavenandearthjewelry.com.
For more about the authors, Robert and Cheryl Sardello, see their
website, www.sophiajournal.org.
I look forward to having a well-marked and treasured copy and highly
recommend it to you.
Satprem.
Sri
Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness.
Institution for Evolutionary Research, New York, 1984 [English transl.].
[
Run, don't walk, and find yourself a copy of this book. Lay all
possible biases aside about religion or East vs. West or gurus and just flat
read this book with both eyes and mind wide open. His life was
remarkable and constantly unexpected in every sense. For starters, Sri
Aurobindo was not a religious man, nor a guru in the sense most might
suppose. Although he was founder of an internationally renowned
ashram, that and the leadership role he played for one of the 3-4
significant 'lives' he lived in one body were merely vehicles to which we
might attach familiar labels so we could put him in some perspective within
our worldviews. In short and why I place so much emphasis in this man
is that in a most unique life and way, once he realized the potential of
"yoga" / an inner-directed life and its possible impact on our
shared world, this man was relentless at this as with everything else he
set his sights on. He became an extraordinary consciousness
explorer -- not as a philosopher, but uncompromisingly as an Experiencer
/ EHEer. His findings, I feel, will be seen eventually as among
the most important for the future of the Human species, and for all
sentient beings. Religious has nothing to do with it, that's just
a too-familiar form on which to hang an unstudied interpretation of
something Quite Other.
From the back cover:
... Satprem takes us along with him in a methodical exploration of Sri
Aurobindo's yoga. We are surprised to find that the guide has an
amazing ability to make the most intricate concept simple and
obvious. With him, we understand the virtues of mental silence,
the invisible gradations of consciousness above the mind and the many
beings that inhabit us. All our unknown potentialities come
alive before our eyes. Most importantly, we appreciate how these
untapped possibilities relate to our daily life, how they can change
it from the inside, and how, ultimately, Sri Aurobindo's experience
leads to "a divine rehabilitation of Matter."
"We have denied the Divinity in Matter, to confine it
instead in our holy places and now matter is taking its revenge -- we
called it crude, and crude it is. As long as we tolerate this
imbalance, there is no hope for the earth. We will swing
endlessly from one pole to the other -- both equally false -- from
material enjoyment to spiritual austerity, without ever finding true
fulfillment. We need BOTH the vigor of Matter and the fresh
waters of the Spirit . . . Now the time may have come at last to
unveil the Mysteries, and to rediscover the complete truth of the two
poles within a THIRD POSITION, which is neither that of the
materialists nor that of the spiritualists." --Satprem]
Scharmer,
C. Otto. Theory
U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges.
SoL / the Society for Organizational Learning, 2007. [The
review below is from amazon.com:
In a world burdened with too much
information, we are occasionally blessed with a genuinely new idea about
how to perceive, think about, and act on our overly complex world.
Scharmer's Theory U model of how to open our mind, emotions, and will to
moments of discovery and mutual understanding is profound and much
needed. Readers will be impressed not only by the depth of theory in
this volume but also by the very practical approach that Scharmer
provides us for enlarging our human capacity for growth. This will be an
important book --Edgar Schein, Sloan Fellows Professor of Management
Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management
This book is a must-read for
all who are interested in the emerging future of leadership theory and
practice. Otto Scharmer's Theory U takes you on an exciting deep dive
into the true center of leadership as a process of inner knowing and
social innovation. With many tested and practical exercises drawn from a
rich background of disciplines, this book will help you to discover and
follow the path towards mastery on your own leadership journey. It
pushes the envelope of current leadership wisdom and invites you to
explore the strongest leadership tool there is: yourself. --Ralf
Schneider, Head of Global Talent Management, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Otto Scharmer has given us a brilliant, provocative, and important book
on the leading-edge of the "next big thing": integral
thought. Highly recommended. --Ken Wilber, author, A Theory of
Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science, and
Spirituality
Product
Description
In this
ground-breaking book, Otto Scharmer invites us to see the world in new
ways. Fundamental problems, as Einstein once noted, cannot be solved at
the same level of thought that created them. What we pay attention to,
and how we pay attention - both individually and collectively - is key
to what we create. What often prevents us from attending is what
Scharmer calls our blind spot, the inner place from which each of us
operates. Learning to become aware of our blind spot is critical to
bringing forth the profound systemic changes so needed in business and
society today. First introduced in Presence, the U methodology of
leading profound change is expanded and deepened in
Theory
U.
By moving through the "U" process we learn to connect to our
essential Self in the realm of presencing - a term coined by Scharmer
that combines the present with sensing. Here we are able to see our own
blind spot and pay attention in a way that allows us to experience the
opening of our minds, our hearts, and our wills. This wholistic opening
constitutes a shift in awareness that allows us to learn from the future
as it emerges, and to realize that future in the world. Theory U
explores a new territory of scientific research and personal leadership,
one that is grounded in real life experience and shared practices.
Scharmer shares much from his own personal and professional development,
and draws from a rich diversity of compelling stories and examples.
Readers will find themselves drawn to new ways of thinking and acting as
they read, completing a parallel journey of exploration and discovery.
The final chapters lay out principles and practices that allow everyone
to participate fully in co-creating and bringing forth the desired
future that is working to emerge through us. ]
Schwarz, Jack. Voluntary
Controls: Exercises for Creative Meditation and for Activating the
Potential of the Chakras. E. P. Dutton, NYC, 1978.
Senge,
Peter M. The Fifth Discipline.
______??, 1990. [From
the website, http://www.infed.org/thinkers/senge.htm,
we learn that,
Peter M. Senge (1947- ) was named a ‘Strategist of the
Century’ by the Journal of Business Strategy, one of 24 men and women
who have ‘had the greatest impact on the way we conduct business
today’ (September/October 1999). While he has studied how firms and
organizations develop adaptive capabilities for many years at MIT
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology), it was Peter Senge’s 1990
book The Fifth Discipline that brought him firmly into the limelight and
popularized the concept of the ‘learning organization'. Since its
publication, more than a million copies have been sold and in 1997,
Harvard Business Review identified it as one of the seminal management
books of the past 75 years.
]
Senge,
Peter M., C. Otto Scharmer, Betty Sue Flowers and Joseph Jaworski. Presence:
Human Purpose and the Field of the Future. Society
for Organizational Learning, Boston, 2004 ; Currency/Doubleday, New
York, 2005. [This is still so new for me,
and so over-the-brim-full with purpose and meaning and transformative
impact on our world, I'm still processing it into something more
manageable than megabytes. For the moment, I will simply say Presence
is clearly sourced from the Heart of four remarkable Servants of the
Good, the True, and the Beautiful. They are themselves a
substantial "presence" in the world of business management and
education. Barbara Mackoff, an amazon.com reviewer, offers
a
most astute description of this Great Work:
How would the world change if we learned to access, individually and collectively, our deepest capacity to sense and shape the future? This is just one of the questions posed by the authors of a book that combines unusual personal honesty with rigorous critical thinking.
Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future gives the reader an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations held over a year and a half, Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski, and Flowers explore their own experiences and those of one hundred and fifty scientists and social and business entrepreneurs in an effort to explain how profound collective change occurs. Their journey of discovery articulates a new way of seeing the world, and of understanding our part in creating it-as it is and as it might be.
Radical and hopeful, Presence synthesizes leading-edge thinking, first-hand knowledge, and ancient wisdom to explore the living fields that connect us to one another, to life more broadly, and, potentially, to what is "seeking to emerge." Seven capacities underlie our ability to see, sense, and realize new possibilities. Developing these capacities accesses a deeper level of learning that is the key to creating change that serves the whole-ourselves, our organizations, and the communities of which we are a part.
In a Cambridge, Massachusetts living room, four organizational learning leaders met for a year to talk about how transformational change is all in your mind. With Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline as ringleader, the authors ask us to examine organizations and self by asking, "What question lies at the heart of my work?" and "How can I set aside my narrow view point and understand the whole?"
For them, organizational learning requires a shift from "downloading" (operating with habitual ways of knowing and doing) to "presencing" (awareness of the present moment). The specifics of the shift are found in success stories--like the creation of Visa in the 1960s--and in the moving stories of the authors. For example, Senge's story about an Afrikaans businessman who wept as he rejected apartheid or Scharmer's memory of his childhood home destroyed by fire. In addition, Scharmer and Jaworski's innovative research with 150 thought leaders, such as Francisco Varela, a Chilean born Buddhist biologist, add rigor to "The U Process": a seven capacity model for deep individual and collective change.
The authors also draw on a diverse supporting cast including Martin Buber, Goethe, Lao Tzu and Carl Jung to illustrate their core concepts of intention, self-reflection, and awareness of the whole.
... bold, juicy ideas about self and system. .. [R]eaders who follow the conversations will be richly rewarded with the understanding of what it means to be an authentic agent of
change.]
Simonton, O. Carl, MD, Henson, Reid, with
Brenda Hampton. The Healing Journey:
The Simonton Center Program for Achieving Physical, Mental, and
Spiritual Health. Bantam Books, NYC, 1992.
Snow, Tiffany. Psychic
Gifts in the Christian life: Tools to Connect. Spirit
Journey Books, San Diego, CA, 2003.
Spangler, David. The
Call. Riverhead Books, New York, 1996.
Spangler, David.
Everyday
Miracles: The Inner Art of Manifestation.
Bantam, NYC, 1996.
Spock,
Marjorie. Group Moral Artistry I:
Reflections on Community Building. St. George
Publications, Spring Valley, New York, 1983. [This
exceptionally clarifying and important work, a succinct 36 pages!,
concerns Rudolf Steiner's teachings about our social plight, as embodied
spirit beings who have largely forgotten our purpose for coming
here. According to Spock / Steiner, we were separated from the
"light world" so that in genuine freedom we might of our own
volition grow to recognize and choose our spirit destiny once
more. Every page is packed with meaning about this "hard but
rewarding task of seeing through the outer shell of seeming ... and to
search out the eternal spirit hidden 'under the bushel" of our
physical existence.]
Stack, Rick. Out-of-Body
Adventures: 30 Days to the Most Exciting Experience of Your Life.
Contemporary Books, Chicago, 1988.
Steinem, Gloria. Revolution
from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem. Little,
Brown and Company, Boston, 1992.
Steiner, Rudolf.
How
to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation. Anthroposophic
Press, Hudson, NY, [English Transl.] 1994. [Rudolf
Steiner was the first person, circa 1904, who "openly describes a
path of development for all who seek to have real experiences of the
spiritual world without sacrificing their practical duties in everyday
life." From the back cover:
New Translation: ... (formerly Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its
Attainment) ...Steiner begins by stating that the "capacities
by which we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each
one of us." He then leads the student from the cultivation of
reverence and inner tranquility to the development of inner life through
the stages of preparation, illumination, and initiation. By
following the exercises that are given, new organs begin to form that
reveal the contours of worlds previously unknown. ...
In this book Rudolf Steiner is at once teacher, counselor, and
friend. His advice is practical, clear, and powerful. The
challenges we face in life, both individually and as a society require
ever deeper levels of insight. Here is a text on how to cultivate
the capacities for such insights and place them at the service of
humanity.]
Steiner, Rudolf.
Theosophy. Anthroposophic
Press, Hudson, NY, [English Transl.] 1994. [From
the back cover:
"As
human beings we call the highest things we can look up to the
'Divine,' and we must imagine that our highest aim and calling have
something to do with this divine element. This may well be why
the wisdom that transcends the sense-perceptible world and reveals to
us our essential nature and destiny is called
theosophy* or
'divine wisdom.' The term spiritual
science* can
be given to the observation of spiritual processes in human life and
in the cosmos. If, as has been done in this book, we extract
from spiritual science the phenomena pertaining especially to the
essential core or the human being, then we can use the term
theosophy* for
this particular subject area, since it has been applied in this sense
for centuries .." --R. Steiner
In this seminal work, Rudolf Steiner turns his trained scientific mind
to the precise description of his own supersensible experiences and the
phenomena revealed by them. It is a fundamental book for anyone
seeking a solid grounding in spiritual reality.
The text is organized in four parts. First, Steiner builds up an
understanding of human nature, beginning with physical bodily nature and
moving up through soul nature to the spiritual being, the 'I,' and the
higher spiritual aspects of our being. this leads to the
experience of the human being as a seven-fold interpenetrated being of
body, soul, and spirit.
Next, Steiner gives an overview of the laws of reincarnation and
workings of karma. This prepares us for the third section.
Here Steiner shows how we live, on earth and after death, in the three
worlds of body, soul, and spirit, as well as how these worlds live in
us. Finally, a succinct description is given of the spiritual path
by which each one of us can begin to understand for ourselves the
marvelous complexity of the worlds of body, soul, and spirit in their
fullness.]
*
Emphasis from back cover.
Steiner, Rudolf.
Spiritual
Research: Methods and Results. Steinerbooks,
Blauvelt, NY, [English transl.] 1981. [Most
of the books by Dr. Steiner, this one included, are thematic
collections from his 6,000+ transcribed lectures and articles. In
this case the collection shares the [from the back cover] ..
..
similar theme of being introductory remarks and observations on the
science of the spirit, as well as being tailored to general audiences
unfamiliar with the more esoteric aspects of Spiritual Science.
The reader will find many new, illuminating ideas and interesting
explanations concerning those basic, human questions which all mature
individuals eventually ask themselves. The titles of the
lectures attest to these concerns: The Ways of Attaining
Knowledge about the Eternal Powers in the Human Soul; Supersensible in
Man and World; How Can the Psychological Distress of Today be
Overcome.
Steiner's presentation of Spiritual Science as the modern scientific
method of dealing with the spiritual essence of Mankind , and the
spiritual worlds, is a truly unique accomplishment. His
pioneering genius into this area of the human being will be readily
acknowledged by the reader of this book, with the added personal
well-being that results from this experience.
One last important note. I've been studying Steiner's works with a
local group for several years now, and the following comment is one of
the things that has been a striking personal observation as well.
This is a comment by the editor, Paul M. Allen, in the Introduction:
In all his years of writing and lecturing, Steiner made no appeal to
emotionalism or sectarianism in his readers or hearers. His
profound respect for the freedom of every man [[and yes, of every woman;
it was a manner of speaking up until surprisingly now long ago]] shines
through everything he produced. The slightest compulsion or
persuasion he considered an affront to the dignity and ability of the
human being. Therefore he confined himself to objective statements
in his writing and speaking, leaving his reaad3ers and hearers entirely
free to reject or accept his words. He addressed the healthy,
sound judgment and good will in each person, confident of the response
in those who come to meet his ideas with the willingness to
understand them.
In
an understated way the theme of this particular collection, the very
idea of spiritual research methods applied to the supersensible and the
subtle and his obvious respect for the philosophy of Western science
based on utilizing objective methods to derive greater understanding
through direct, personal experience and disciplined observation, add
emphasis to this point. ]
Steiner, Rudolf.
Occult Science. [publishing
information??]
Steiner, Rudolf [Edited and introduced by
Christopher Bamford]. Staying Connected:
How to Continue Your Relationships with Those Who Have Died
[Selected Talks and Meditations, 1905-1924]. Anthroposophic
Press, Hudson, NY, 1999. [Excellent
group-work material, especially if you are practicing and utilizing
what Steiner teaches, such as reading to (so-called) 'the
dead' -- and also for personal
work. This is one of my best-thumbed books. I cherish it as
one of the most important and unique (in the West) ideological books
around, because although it took me a couple of years of being in a
Steiner-based study group to convince me, I believe Dr. Steiner was a
genuine Seer , which is overwhelmingly reflected in his works and his
gentle humility. He appeared to have the equal ability to
experience both the physical and other-dimensional worlds.
The following comes from the back cover:
“Working with the dead” – maintaining, continuing, and enhancing our relationships with those how have died – was fundamental to Rudolf Steiner, as it is to every spiritual tradition. So, too, is the idea that human beings on both sides of the threshold constitute a single community. This book provides concrete, practical instructions for those who wish to engage consciously in the great work that the living and the so-called dead can do together.
Steiner speaks directly from experience, formulating meditation practices and verses that have worked for him. We learn of reading to the dead and of using verbs [not nouns] to communicate with them. We learn also about the importance of the sacred moments of falling asleep and awaking and of the way in which our memories are like “art” to them. Finally, we learn of the key soul moods to be cultivated: community with the world, gratitude, and confidence in the current of life.
Gradually, we come to realize that the dead, and indeed the whole spiritual world, care deeply about every aspect of earthly life. We understand that the earth is the only place where death can be experienced, as well as the only place where we can love and form connections and relationships. We learn, too, how this love extends beyond the physical world and how the living and the dead can help each other.
This volume also contains many of the meditative verses and prayers that Steiner gave his students to help them connect with their loved ones who had died.
This book has had quite an influence on me and my continued felt connections with those who have passed to the other world. For one thing it was instrumental in helping to heal a relationship-gone-awry with a parent. Since all we really take with
us into the other world, it seems, is the love, this has been perhaps one of the more significant events of my personal life.
This book has had quite an influence on me and my continued felt
connections with those who have passed to the other world.
For one thing it was instrumental in helping to heal a
relationship-gone-awry with a parent.
Since all we really take with us into the other world, it seems,
is the love, this has been perhaps one of the more significant events of
my personal life. ]
Steiner, Rudolf.
Awakening to Community.
Anthroposophic Steiner Press, New York, 1974.
Steiner, Rudolf.
The Philosophy of Freedom. You
can freely read
this publication online [and something like 60 others of his
publications!] through the great good graces of James
Stewart's Rudolf Steiner Archive, a magnificent online collection of
many of Steiner's writings. By the way, if you want to donate
to a fantastic cause, the Rudolf Steiner Archive, and
including their eLibrary online as a whowle, is one
important piece of www.eLib.org,
James Stewart's heroic commitment to make available for reading online
many treasures of great, classical literature. It is optionally
free, but James Stewart and his equally devoted cohort, Marilyn Kraker,
work hard to keep this online with merely donations. [The
Philosophy of Freedom was Rudolf Steiner's first book, the one he
often referred to as the underpinnings of all his subsequent
work. He wrote it while still in his young 20s, and it is
obviously an important and unique work of genius and inner
knowing from one whose sole desire was to pass on what he was
experiencing in other-dimensional reality to those in this world, in
order to help and encourage others to discover this "higher
knowledge" for themselves. It is also not an easy
work to understand and readers could benefit much from studying this
with others.]
Steiner, Rudolf. Spiritual
Research: Methods and Results. Steinerbooks,
Blauvelt, NY, [English transl.] 1981.
Steiner, Rudolf [Edited and introduced by
Christopher Bamford]. Staying Connected:
How to Continue Your Relationships with Those Who Have Died
[Selected Talks and Meditations, 1905-1924]. Anthroposophic
Press, Hudson, NY, 1999.
Targ, Russell.
Limitless
Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of
Consciousness. New World Library, Novato, CA, 2004.
[From the back cover: For decades, the work
of Russell Targ and other scientists has demonstrated that our
minds have extraordinary abilities we are only beginning to
understand. Learning to use these abilities -- from remote viewing
to precognition to intuitive medical diagnosis to distant healing --
leads to a quiet mind, the experience of the interconnectedness of all
beings, and ultimately, the transformation of consciousness.
This breakthrough book, based on two decades of research at the Stanford
Research Institute and elsewhere, clearly presents the scientific
support for remote viewing and the phenomenon of
"nonlocality." It explains these phenomena in clear
terms and offers practical, concrete steps you can take to guide you in
your own experiences of remote viewing and distant healing.
Even more important, Russell Targ shows us in these pages that timeless
existence is real and has been experienced for centuries by those
practicing meditation and remote viewing. Best of all, he gives us
the tools to experience it for ourselves.]
Tart, Charles T. Waking
Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential. New
Science Library, Boston, 1986.
Tulku,
Tarthang. Time, Space, and Knowledge: A New
Vision of Reality. Dharma Publishing, Berkeley, CA,
1977.
Upledger,
John E. Cell Talk: Talking to Your
Cell(f). North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA,
2003. [I have this habit of reading the
acknowledgements first, because from it comes much added insight about
the author/s. In his Dedication, Dr. Upledger says, in gratitude
to all who are participating in this type of medicine with mindfulness
and heart, "... it's clear we are making a difference.
It feels like science and spirituality are finally beginning to
blend. This is as it should be."
Can you feel
that 'Shift'? [YYESSSS!!]
From the inside flap of the book cover:
This groundbreaking book by a medical pioneer explores uncharted
territory in complementary healthcare: communicating with the
body on a cellular level to facilitate health and well-being.
In Cell Talk, Dr. Upledger presents the conceptual and
experiential core of his work. As the creator of CranioSacral
Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release®, he has synthesized
years of research and clinical observations into a fascinating theory
of the human body. By addressing the relationship between cell
activity and consciousness, he strikes at the heart of how living
systems form and heal themselves and, indeed, how organisms with minds
may exist at all. Understanding how cells communicate and how it
is possible to augment their interactions provides us with a new way
of catalyzing cure.
While Cell Talk documents the decades-long development of Dr.
Upledger's successful and revolutionary therapies, its concept opens
new vistas of understanding and therapeutic options. It offers
an unabashed look at the possibilities of working with cellular
consciousness.
Here's a wowww to
chew on: Put this understanding -- I/thou, blended,
consciousness-to-consciousness communication with our trillions of
bodily cells -- together with the rEvolutionary consciousness
transformation we are moving into as a global human event. Some
like Peter Russell,
Lynn Margulis, James
Lovelock and Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin have spoken of this
mutually aware blending of the functional awareness of our many billions
in terms of our becoming the unified, planetary I-am awareness,
the "global brain"/mind. The
understanding gained from this crucially important work, Dr. Upledger's Cell
Talk, is an essential complement to the developmental, evolutionary
process we are discovering together from what feels like the other end
of the telescope -- or microscope, as it were -- and in a fascinating,
experiential way, boils down to same-same!!]
Valarino,
Evelyn Elsaesser, and Ring, Kenneth. Lessons
from the Light: What We Can Learn from the Near-Death Experience.
Moment Point Press, Portsmouth, NH, 1998. [See
review by Rhea A. White. The
book is largely about aftereffects of NDEs and also to some degree
"nonNDEs," meaning, any type of EHE other than specifically
NDEs. White sees this as a highly important work in relation
[also] to EHEs as a whole. Her review is over two large journal
pages long!]
Vallee, Jacques. Forbidden
Science. North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA, 1992.
Vaughan
, F. E. Awakening
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Wetzel, Joseph [translator].
The
Bridge Over the River: Communications fro the Life After Death of
a Young Artist Who Died in World War I. The
Anthrophsophic Press, Spring Valley, NY, 1974.
White, John.
A
Practical Guide to Death and Dying.
Paraview Special Editions,
NYC, 2004.
White, Rhea A. EVERYTHING!
see
her website--a great
place to start.
Witzenmann,
Herbert. The Virtues: The Seasons
of the Soul. Spicker Books,
____?, 1975 [English Transl.], 1972 [German]. [From the
introduction: "[The Virtues]
were first published in the Star Calender (sic) for the year Easter
1969 to Easter 1970, Philosophic - Anthroposophic Press (Dornach
1968). They are printed in this edition for the second time in an
almost unaltered form" and were based on Rudolf Steiner's own
remarks on the virtues." From Notes to the First German
Edition, 1972:
The inner path is the constant moving mean between being body-free and
resurrecting to a spiritually molded state of being. Virtues are
stages of the constant struggle to achieve a middle way between
divergencies. As witnesses to the experience of such a center of
balance, they are described by Rudolf Steiner not as achievements but
as steps of progress. They are the reflective awareness in
between remembrance of the spirit's descent and premonition of the
spirit's goal. They are the motion of path-finding which yet is
quietude because it ascertains the right direction through truth and
inner life.
What
an unexpectedly and profoundly transporting experience to experience
this precious jewel of a book that must be read from within the
Within-ness of one's being. In the very reading you are instantly
there!]
Wolf, Fred Alan.
The
Dreaming Universe: A Mind-Expanding Journey into the Realm Where
Psyche and Physics Meet. Simon & Schuster, New
York, 1994.
