DT EHE Books-plus: 

Reviews and Commentary

From RACHAEL'S FAVORITES LIST

... offers a collection of compelling  and seminal resources [books, CDs, DVDs, videos, etc.], significant contributions to the molten conceptual core of wHeretwoworldsTouch.com.    They have provided many of us a steady diet of nourishing food for thought and certainly for the soul in this physical stretch of the Long Journey.   As the site matures, this list will continue to grow and change to reflect new insights, additional "bread crumbs" along the way that lead us ever onward in this Marvelous Mystery that is Life.   

Many times, not always, you will also find review-like commentary as well.   This comes from various sources, primarily me and also from reviews from Rhea A. White's prolific literature.

I always welcome your suggestions, so let me know if you think I'm missing something!

In the meantime, by far the most important generative concepts instrumental in the creation behind wHeretwoworldsTouch are the contributions of these remarkable individuals (also highlighted in red in the resource listing below):

RHEA A. WHITE

[the founder of the EHE Network; www.ehe.org]

JOHN HERON

[Sacred Science, 1994; www.human-inquiry.com]

AMIT GOSWAMI

[The Self-Aware Universe, 1993.]

CHRISTIAN DE QUINCEY

Here's the DT EHE books-plus list.  It's one-sided in favor of books, but that will change to reflect other media as the site grows.

1. Adilakshmi.  The Mother.  Printed in Germany by Mother Meera, 1987, 1995.   [As with any physical characteristics and psychological strengths, some people apparently are more infused with a 'something other' than others.   A number of my friends over the years have visited Mother Meera, who lives in Germany, and have almost all confided transformative anomalous experiences they had while being in her presence or in some way associated with her.   I have never physically met her, but I, too, have had an extraordinary mystical experience clearly connected to her.   For me, this is not about gurus and avatars.    It is about a most remarkable individual who has her own unique gifts to bear.   Some people can have controlled out-of-body experiences [Robert Monroe, Rick Stack, Robert Peterson]; other people are moral or intellectual titans [Mahatma Gandhi; Albert Einstein].   A number of people are gifted psychics [Eileen Garrett, Edgar Cayce], others have special healing abilities [Barbara Brennen, Harry Edwards].   Ten people with the same gift, such as controlled OBEs or healing will demonstrate varying levels of expertise and uniqueness, a product of each one's singular development and propensities.   Also, it is useful to remember we all get to have our beliefs, needs, projections, or whatever.    But again, labels and beliefs are one thing, and experiences are a 'whole 'nother thing'! ... which is the entire point of this website.   One interesting way to peruse this book is within the framework of the magnetic -- some have said 'electric' -- way exceptional experiences seem to coalesce around this one reverential life and those with whom she connects in some way.    Written by one of her closest confidants, The Mother offers a glimpse of an unforgettably fascinating and beautiful being, both human and divine, surely a titanic example expressive of that Something Divine -- or MOST Human in the ultimate, even divine sense -- we are all awakening to within our individual selves.]

2. Atwater, P. M. H.  Coming Back to Life:  The After-Effects of the Near-Death Experience.  Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1988.   [Dr.  Atwater has had three near-death experiences and many other similarly powerful EHEs over the course of her life.   As a researcher, and in fact as one of the most outstanding contributors to the field of near-death studies, she has a quantum-jump advantage because of her own deep NDEs.   She is also a wonderful communicator / writer who is known for her thorough investigative discipline.  This and all her books, I highly recommend!]

3. Atwater, P. M. H.  Future Memory: How Those Who 'See the Future' Shed New Light on the Workings of the Human Mind.  Birch Lane Press, New York, 1995.  [Dr. Kazanis begins his review by saying, "The human adventure is indeed much broader and deeper than Western culture might once have believed."  In his final remarks, he expressed a thoughtful "appreciation of how much we don't know, of how this phenomenon confronts our presently limited cultural, scientific, and experiential knowledge, and of how far we still have to go to understand truly the mystery of our very existence.  The point is not how our present scientific knowledge can explain or rationalize this experience, but rather how this phenomenon can challenge our science to grow."   (Dr. Deno Kazanis, is a biophysicist and Director of the Center for Restorative Health and Improved Athletic Ability through Qi Movement.  These quotes are from a review of Future Memory, in:  The Journal of Near-Death Studies, 17(1) Fall 1998).]

4. Atwater, P. M. H.  Children of the New Millennium.  Three Rivers Press, New York, 1999.   [This is now THE definitive research book, the benchmark by which all other such books are measured, on the subject of children and NDEs.]

5. Avabhasa, Da.  Easy Death.  The Dawn Horse Press, Clearlake, CA, 1983.   Another rare mystic of our times.   Turn off the guru warning lights if this is a sensitive issue for you and simply explore this man's wisdom and loving insights about life and death.

6. Bandler, Richard, and Grinder, John.  Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D.   Metamorphous Press, Portland, OR, 1997.  [Stick with the first volume of the 2-volume set, unless you're certified and licensed every-which-way but purple.]

7. Becker, Carl B.  Paranormal Experience and Survival of Death.  State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, 1993.  ["Reviews accounts of [various EHEs] collected from Europe, Asia, and the Americas over the past century; and examines the tension between religious and scientific perspectives on the phenomena, the medical evidence, and the taboo on studying such subjects in the social sciences."   (Source:  Book News, Inc., brief review on amazon.com)]

8. Bohm, David, and Peat, F. David.  Science, Order, and Creativity.  Bantam, New York, 1987.   [Birthed my first efforts to understand the so-called 'new physics'; an old favorite.]

9. Bohm, David.  Wholeness and the Implicate Order.  Ark Paperbacks, London and New York, 1980.   [All I can say is, the insight offered in this tract comprises one of the most important contributions to science and to our understanding of our universe, period.]

10. Brinkley, Dannion [with Paul Perry].  Saved by the Light.  Villard Books, New York, 1994.  [The 'bad, bad, bad boy'-turned-living-saint as a result of one of the most dramatic NDEs on record.   This man and his story, more than any other, exemplify for me the epitome of the great hope and fascination of death-transcendent EHEs and the sole raison d'etre for this website.   Rhea White expresses this idea perfectly:   "[T]he basic meanings revealed by these experiences, once they become potentiated into EHEs, is the key to the evolution of consciousness and also to saving planet Earth because of the types of changed consciousness that are associated with EHEs."  So here's my question to you:   can you imagine a world filled with people similarly transformed as Dannion so wondrously demonstrates??]

11. Buhlman, William.  Adventures Beyond the Body:  How to Experience Out-of-Body Travel.  HarperSan Francisco/HarperCollins, New York, 1994.  Most excellent; I highly recommend his books.

12. Buhlman, William.  The Secret of the Soul.  HarperSan Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2001.   An all-time favorite -- right up there with Robert A. Monroe!

13. Castaneda, Carlos.  The Active Side of Infinity.  HarperPerennial, New York, 1998.   [All of Castaneda's books have 'shifted' something inside me and have brought alive the feminist science point of view, the great truth that reality is indeed largely socially (and I want to say ideally, experientially) constructed.   The Active Side of Infinity has affected me more than most; Castaneda wrote it shortly before his own permanent departure from this world and into the 'active side of infinity'.   That comprises a striking synchronicity, its core topic being a formal and essential shamanic process of his teacher, don Juan Matus' lineage, which he calls "recapitulation":  the methodical, thorough, and at times torturous remembrance of one's life.   Don Juan details the import of this practice within the context of discoveries of his shamanic forebears regarding what they perceive to happen to us at the moment the body dies.   I'm just going to leave you hanging on that one!   In the meantime, this will be probed in depth elsewhere on the site because so much emphasis has been placed on this very subject in relation to our final transition out of the physical body.   For now, let me mention a few hints to contemplate:   (1)  of course, the so-called "life review" that comes up as an integral component of the NDE and other similarly dramatic EEs/EHEs;  (2)  the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, G. I. Gurdjieff, Gustav Theodor Fechner (remember him from psychology 101?  If that's all you remember about him, are you going to be amazed!) and others, also stressing extravagantly the importance of self reflection, by whatever name;  (3)  and also add Rhea A. White's ultimate 'humanizing' practice of writing one's EHE autobiography!   This topic is so important, it may get its own 'corner' on the website.]

14. Castaneda, Carlos.  The Art of Dreaming.  HarperPerennial, New York, 1993.   [From the book:   "(Don Juan Matus) asserted that even though we have been energetically conditioned to perceive solely our world, we still have the capability of entering into those other realms, which are as real, unique, absolute, and engulfing as our own world is. ...  [F]or us to perceive those other realms, not only do we have to covet them but we need to have sufficient energy to seize them.   Their existence is constant and independent of our awareness, ... but their inaccessibility is entirely a consequence of our energetic conditioning.   In other words, simply and solely because of that conditioning, we are compelled to assume that the world of daily life is the one and only possible world.   Believing that our energetic conditioning is correctable, don Juan stated that sorcerers of ancient times developed a set of practices designed to recondition our energetic capabilities to perceive.   They called this set of practices the art of dreaming ... the 'gateway to infinity.'"]

15. Castaneda, Carlos.  The Power of Silence.   Simon and Schuster, New York, 1987.  [This one is just full to the brim and beyond with cognitive doggie bones (or catnip, as you prefer).  Don Juan's definitions become at times a poetic exaltation, like this one:  'A somersault of thought into the inconceivable' is the descent of Spirit, the act of breaking our perceptual barriers, the moment in which one's perceptions reach their limits.   He teaches us that 'life is the process by which death challenges us.   Death is the active force.   Life is the arena.  and in that arena there are only two contenders, ... oneself and death.  ...  Death sets the pace for our actions and feelings and pushes us relentlessly until it breaks us and wins the bout, or else we rise above all possibilities and defeat death.   Sorcerers defeat death and death acknowledges the defeat by letting the sorcerers go free, never to be challenged again.'  ( ... and so:  'thought takes a somersault into the inconceivable.').  Oh.  One last morsel!   Says the master teacher:   'Evil does not exist; only power exists ...   Our dark side does not equate to evil but to stupidity!']

16. Castaneda, Carlos.  The Fire from Within.  Simon and Schuster, New York, 1984.  [Here, Castaneda begins to bring some order to all that don Juan and his associates have been teaching him, creating (see front flap) "a stunning portrait of the 'sorcerer's world' that is crystal-clear and dizzying in its implications."   Now, here's 'dizzying':   A new practice taken up by the so-called new seers, according to don Juan, mercilessly honed their sorcery skills, then plied themselves to a collective, simultaneous 'seeing' into alternate realities, which he described as 'gazing in teams'.   Think about it!!]

17. Corbin, Henry.  Mundus Imaginalis or the Imaginary and the Imaginal.  Analytical Psychology Club of New York, Inc., New York, 1972.   [Imagine (smile) this:   Within certain academic circles this 'book', explicating the critical differences between the 'imaginary' and the 'imaginal', is still frequently referenced and quoted these 30 years later and is merely 21 pages in length!   Now that's power writing!] 

18. Crosley, Reginald. The Vodou Quantum Leap.  Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul, MN, 2000.   [ Dr. Crosley is a practicing internist in the U.S. who grew up in Haiti.   This is an astoundingly exotic and important book in large part because of his unique presentation of the African-Haitian tradition, Vodou, which he cogently places in the context of one of the major world religions.   He also offers by far the most comprehensible presentation of quantum physics for non-physicists I've ever seen.   Here, too, is a brilliant example favoring the feminist science perspective that reality to a great extent is socially and culturally constructed, that no base holds for all cultures, although many cultures may share what appears to be the same base.]   

19. Currie, Ian.  You Cannot Die:  The Incredible Findings of a Century of Research on Death.  Element, Shaftesbury, Dorset, England, 1978.   [One of my earliest forays into this literature, like a 'first love', this is an old favorite.]

20. de Quincey, Christian.  Radical Nature: Rediscovering the Soul of Matter.  Invisible City Press, San Francisco, 2002.   [Exquisitely astute reassessment (and deliciously readable for all us un-scientists!) of the unfolding of the philosophy of Western science; where, according to de Quincey, it took a few critically important wrong turns over the last few hundred years; the implications of these misperceptions in terms of our values and circumstances based on the currently dominant materialistic worldview.  This book got the top rating, 5 stars with 15 reviews on amazon.com!   One of the reviewers who only identifies hirself as 'from Sunnyvale, CA, United States, says, "This is a good book that explorers a very old "one substance" view of nature. Some draw backs are that the author doesn't go enough into the more modern history of this position. Panpsychism was a popular view in the 19th century and was the competing position to "emergence" associated with materialism. I find materialistic emergence as a non-sense doctrine when it comes to things like consciousnes, others like Ernst Hackel and William Clifford found it unsatisfactory as an underlying philosophy for Darwinian evolution, preferring the panpsychist alternative instead. In the early twentieth century the debate between panpsychists and materialists was cut short as the supposedly anti-metaphysical philosophy of logical positivism/empiricism became dominant. Later on as positivism fell out of favor, materialism became the fall back position in many sciences. Ironically, the twentieth century also witnessed the death of classical physics with the advent of quantum theory, and QT is compatible with a panpsychist world view.

21. Doore, Gary (Ed.).   What Survives:  Contemporary Explorations of Life After Death.  Jeremy P. Tarcher, Los Angeles, 1990.    [A warm, readable classic.   Here, you can find some of the most memorable, quotable writings scribed by all of these near-legendary greats -- Stephen Levine, Ram Dass, Ken Wilber, Colin Wilson, Kenneth Ring, Charles T. Tart, Sogyal Rinpoche, Stanislav Grof, Stanley Krippner, D. Scott Rogo, and others.]

22. Eisler, Riane.  The Chalice and the Blade.   Harper San Francisco, San Francisco, 1988.   [Some people accuse Eisler of fudging on the speculative side too heavily rather than presenting just the facts.   However little or much truth there may be to that, The Chalice and the Blade became an instant classic that will never die, and in fact it's still very high in the ratings on amazon.com 14 years later!    The author Isabelle Allende has this to say about Eisler's masterpiece:  "Some books are like revelations, they open the spirit to unimaginable possibilities.   The Chalice and the Blade is one of those magnificent key books that can transform us and...initiate fundamental changes in the world.   With the most passionate eloquence, Riane Eisler proves that the dream of peace is not an impossible utopia."]

23. Farr, Signey Saylor.  What Tom Sawyer Learned from Dying.  Hampton Roads, Charlottesville, VA, 1993.   [Like Dannion Brinkley, post NDE, Tom Sawyer's life, since his car first fell on him and sent him plummeting into the Light, offers a fascinating glimpse into the realm of possible transformations few if any of us ever imagined!   If you enjoy REAL life that blows 'laws written in stone' all to heck now and then, then this is one NDEr whose story will haunt and delight you.]    

24. Fechner, Gustav T.

25. Fenwick, Peter and Elizabeth.  The Truth in the Light.  Berkley Books, New York, 1995.  [Yet another favorite read about what puts 'electric' in my sockets every day.]

26. Fezler, William.  Creative Imagery:  How to Visualize in All Five Senses.  Fireside, New York, 1989.   [Creative Imagery is one of the more extraordinary finds of my bookworm career.   On the back cover, Wm. S. Kroger, former Director of the Institute for Comprehensive Medicine says, "Dr. Fezler's brilliant, innovative techniques show how to create images so vivid they literally change reality.  Truly an inspirational, state-of-the-art guide to achieving higher knowledge and experience."]

27. Ford, Arthur.  Unknown But Known:  My Adventure into the Meditative Dimension.  Harper and Row, New York, 1968.   [The captivating story of a justifiably famous medium who had some interesting connections with legendary people of his day.]

28. Frankl, Viktor E.  Man's Search for Meaning.  Washington Square Press, New York, 1959 (first published in Austria in 1946.   [Another humanitarian classic that should live as long as there are people to read it and benefit from it.   The back of my little paperback says, "Internationally renowned psychiatrist, Viktor E. Frankl, endured years of unspeakable horror in Nazi death camps.  During and partly because of his suffering, Dr. Frankl developed a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy known as logotherapy.  At the core of his theory is the belief that man's primary motivational force is his search for meaning."]

29. Garrett, Eileen J.  Many Voices:  The Autobiography of a Medium.  G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1968.   [Purported to be one of the all-time great psychics of the Western world and just a magnificent human being!]

30. Gilligan, Stephen G.  Therapeutic Trances: The Cooperation Principle in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy.  Brunner-Routledge, New York, 1987.   [This is the best-reviewed book I've seen about Milton Erickson's work.]

31. Goswami, Amit [with Richard E. Reed and Maggie Goswami].  The Self-Aware Universe:  How Consciousness Creates the Material World.  Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York, 1993.    [ Goswami is the brave soul (physicist, no less) who finally put consciousness where it belongs -- into perfect perspective within the scientific milieu as the creatrix from which sprang matter.   ...Y-E-S-S-S-S-SSSSSSSS!!!   (I honestly don't know if he's the first scientist to do this--is he??  He was the the first whose work I came across who did this so clearly.)]

32. Goswami, Amit.  Physics of the soul:  The Quantum Book of Living, Dying, Reincarnation, and Immortality.  Hampton Roads,   , 2001.  [For those who long to experience a superlative blending of spirituality and science, here's a book you will treasure!   A briefing on the book's cover says,   "At last, science and the soul shake hands.  Writing in a style that is both lucid and charming, mischievous and profound, Dr. Amit Goswami uses the language and concepts of quantm physics to explain and scientifically prove metaphysical theories of reincarnation and immortality.  [The author also explains] the perplexities of the quantum physics model of reality and the perennial beliefs of spiritual and religious traditions.  He shows how they are not only compatible but also provide essential support for each other.  The result is a deeply broadened, exciting, and enriched worldview that integrates mind and spirit into science.   ...  Dr. Goswami is one of today's pioneering thinkers in science and spirituality.  [He] taught physics for 32 years and was a professor of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon.  [Presently] he is senior resident researcher at the world-renowned Institute of Noetic Sciences.  He is an advocate of "monistic idealism," the philosophy that defines consciousness, not materiality, as the primary reality."]

33. Grant, Robert J.  The Place We Call Home:  Exploring the Soul's Existence after Death.  A. R. E. Press, Virginia Beach, VA, 2000.   [Hauntingly (pun intended) beautiful---hard to put down, easy to read in one go.]

34. Greaves, Helen.  Testimony of Light.  Neville Spearman Publishers, Essex, England,  1991 [reprint from 1969, Churches' Fellowship for Psychical & Spiritual Studies, England].  [An all-time FAVORITE!]

35. Green, Elmer, and Green, Alice.  Beyond Biofeedback.   Delacorte Press, New York  , 1977.   [Practically this whole page is a listing of Who's Who of people in their various professional capacities, who have hung their necks out on the line, those who took the first definitive steps toward researching and then writing / speaking about very controversial topics that leave REAL materialistic scientists with dangerously elevated blood pressure and spittle dribbling down their chins.   The Greens' book is one of my early favorites.]   

36. Haley, Jay.  Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D.  W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1993.   [This is a great and most 'uncommon' man whose near-mythic therapeutic approaches even helped inspire a whole new discipline, neurolinguistic programming (NLP), because his therapeutic approach bordered on savant proportions.]

37. Harman, Willis.  Global Mind Change:  The New Age Revolution in the Way We Think.  Warner Books, Sausalito, CA, 1988.   [Dr. Harman, once President during a critical developmental period of the famed Institute of Noetic Sciences, remarks,  "The world is undergoing an extraordinary revolution, an intellectual rebellion against the exclusionary belief structure that has dominated Western thought for centuries.   For too long, science has been used by scientists and others to slam closed the frontiers of the human mind.   But now the scientific community is beginning to accept the tidal wave of enhanced consciousness sweeping the earth ... an optimistic trend toward new thinking, toward new ways of thinking.   It's no longer necessary for science to shrug away the mysteries of the spirit.   We are undergoing a radical transformation.   We are empowering ourselves.   As a result, conventional power -- military, economic, and political -- will fade.   By deliberately changing their internal image of reality, people are changing the world.   This book shows you how."]

38. Harary, Keith, and Weintraub, Pamela.  Out-of-Body Experiences in 30 Days:  The Free Flight Program.  Saint Martin's Press, New York, 1989.   [Short, potent, to the point of the point, written by a perfect team for the project.  Quoting from the book, Dr. Harary first became widely known as the primary experimental participant in the world-famous OBE research carried out [at] Duke University in the early seventies.  Not only was Harary a participant in this research, he was also an integral member of the research team that designed and carried out the project.  In this sense, the OBE research at Duke broke fresh ground, helping to establish the role and credibility of the participant-researcher and strongly suggesting that one cannot fully understand certain human experiences without subjectively going through them firsthand."    Two ideas expressed here are integral to the very 'ground of being' of wHeretwoworldsTouch, and you will notice many references to them.   In fact two of the people whose names you will see all over the website, Rhea A. White and John Heron, refer to these ideas as  critical to our development as a species and to the advancement of both science and spirituality.   Of course the originator of the term "exceptional human experience" (EHE), Rhea White, looks at the experiencer and hir experience/s in spite of the fact and even because science has tended to ignore altogether, and her work has blossomed out of this concern.    John Heron has created what he calls a  "person-centered" methodology with which to study "the spiritual and the subtle."   This is a collaborative effort in which each participant switches back and forth between playing researcher and subject.    Harary and Weintraub, like so many who are focused on the experiential end, having out-of-body experiences and encouraging others to, ...

39. Heron, John.  Spiritual Science:  Person-centred Inquiry into the Spiritual and the Subtle.  PCCS Books, Ross-on-Wye, England, 1988.

40. Home, D. D.  Incidents in My Life.  A. J. Davis & Co., 1864.  [Reprinted 1991, Time-Life Books, New York.   Daniel Dunglas Home must certainly top the list as one of the most mysterious and intriguing human beings during the heyday of 19th-century spiritualism.   There is no end of materials in print offering judgment on the man and his apparent talents -- or some argue, deceptions.   So I turned to a book written by the man himself as another approach to insight.   I cannot presume to judge either way, though it's impossible not to have an opinion.   Read this and see what you think!]

41. Houston, Jean.  A Mythic Life:  Learning to Live Our Greater Story.  Harper San Francisco, San Franscisco, 1996.  [From the back cover:  "A Mythic Life presents Jean Houston's real story and her true teaching.  Here she draws on her personal history and vast cultural knowledge to show how we can experience in our own lives the greater human story that is revealed in key myths and discover our real potential."  One comment that speaks well of my experience of this woman comes from Wayne W. Dyer, again on the back cover:  "... a brilliant storyteller.  A witty and provocative writer.  A soulful woman.  A tantalizing commonsense intellectual.  I love her and I love this delicious book."] 

42. Hugo, Victor (translation and commentary by John Chambers and introduction by Mark Ebon, who 'rediscovered' this rare treatise for the English-speaking world).  Conversations With Eternity:  The Forgotten Masterpiece of Victor Hugo.  New Paradigm Books, Boca Raton, FL, 1998.   [Here's a side of Victor Hugo I dare say never came up in an English Lit. class!  This concerns the more private life, or perhaps simply less known in this age sadly cut off in large hunks from its innate spiritual nature, of a man deeply intrigued by the spiritualist pursuits popular in his day.   The rediscovery of the material that brought  Hugo's interests in communicating with spirits to press and finally to English translation is an equally novel story!   In 1950 Martin Ebon, who was then working for the "Voice of America" and directing a Vietnamese unit was educating himself about the culture.   He says, "All went smoothly, until I came to the religious orientations of the Vietnamese people, and read that the third-largest religious movement, after Roman Catholicism and Buddhism, was a denomination known as the Cao Dai.  ... broadly speaking, an amalgam of Eastern and Western faiths -- and that one of its three major saints was the French poet-novelist-playwright and politically volatile persona, Victor Hugo (1802-1885).   I had a fairly good idea of Hugo as a commanding literary figure in Europe of the nineteenth century; but, aware of his controversial life style [very!], I had never thought of him as a saint of anything, anywhere, at any time."   Ebon proceeds to brief his readers on the history of the Cao-Dai religion then extant in pre-Vietnam War days, more than two million strong.   You know of that vague plausibility rendered as 'truth stranger than fiction'?   This is it!   Delight is the surfacing of totally unexpected insights, especially as they make us look at something we long took for granted with entirely new eyes!   And this is a gem!]

43. Ingerman, Sandra.  Soul Retrieval:  Mending the Fragmented Self.  HarperSan Francisco, San Francisco, 1991.

44. Jovanovic, Pierre.  An Inquiry into the Existence of Guardian Angels.  [English transl.] M. Evans and Company, Inc., New York. 1995.  (Originally published by Editions Filipacchi--Societe Sonodip in France.)  

45. Karpinski, Gloria.  Where Two Worlds Touch.

46. Keyes, Laurel Elisaabeth.  Toning, the Lost Word.

47. Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth.  Death Is of Vital Importance.

48. Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth.  On Children and Death.  Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, 1985.

49. LaBerge, Stephen and Rheingold, Howard.  Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming.  Ballantine, New York, 1990.

50. LeGrand, Louis E.  After Death Communication:  Final Farewells.  Llewellen, St. Paul, MN, 1997.

51. Mack, John E..  Abduction:  Human Encounters with Aliens.  Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1994.

52. Mallasz, Gitta.  Talking with Angels.  Daimon Verlag, Einsiedeln, Switzerland, 1988. 

53. Martin, Joel, and Romanowski, Patricia.  Love Beyond Life:  The Healing Power of After-Death Communications.  HarperCollins, New York, 1997.

54. Maxwell, Meg, and Tschudin, Verena.  Seeing the Invisible.  Arkana/Penguin, New York, 1990.

55. Meek, George W.  After We Die, What Then?  Ariel Press, Columbus, OH, 1987.

56. Miller, Carolyn.  Creating Miracles:  Understanding the Experience of Divine Intervention.  H. J. Kramer, Inc., Tiburon, CA, 1995.

57. Miller, Suki.  After Death:  Mapping the Journey.  Simon & Schuster, New York, 1997.

58. Millman, Dan.  Way of the Peaceful Warrior.  H. J. Kramer, Inc., Tiburon, CA, 1980.

59. Mindell, Arnold.  Coma:  The Dreambody Near Death.  Arkana/Penguin, London, 1989.

60. Mindell, Arnold.  Working with the Dreaming Body.  Routledge & Kegan Paul, London and New York, 1985.

61. Mitchell, Janet Lee.  Out-of-Body Experiences:  A Handbook.  Ballantine Books, New York, 1981. 

62. Moen, Bruce.  Voyage Beyond Doubt.  Hampton Roads, Charlottesville, VA, 1998.

63. Monroe, Robert A.  Ultimate Journey.  Doubleday, New York, 1994.

64. Monroe, Robert A.   Far Journeys.  Doubleday. New York, 1985.

65. Moody, Raymond A., Jr.  The Last Laugh:  A New Philosophy of Near-Death Experiences, Apparitions, and the Paranormal.  Hampton Roads, Charlottesville, VA, 1999.

66. Moody, Raymond, Jr.  Life After Life.  Bantam, New York, 1975.

67. Moody, Raymond [with Paul Perry].   Reunions:  Visionary Encounters with Departed Loved Ones.   Villard, New York, 1993. 

68. Morrissey, Dianne.  Anyone Can See the Light.  Stillpoint Publishing, Walpole, NH, 1996.

69. Morse, Melvin.  Closer to the Light.   Ivy Books, New York, 1990.

70. Moss, Robert.  Conscious Dreaming:  A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life.  Crown Trade Paperbacks, New York, 1996.

71. Mozumdar, A. K.  The Triumphant Spirit.  DeVorss & Company, Marina del Ray, CA, 1931, 1978.

72. Myers, Frederic W. H.  Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death, Volumes 1 and 2.  Longmans, Green and Co., New York, 1903 and 1954.

73. Neihardt, John G.  Black Elk Speaks.  Washington Square Press, New York, 1932.

74. Norbu, Namkhai [Translated by John Myrdhin Reynolds].  The Cycle of Day and Night.  Station Hill Press, Barrytown, NY, 1984.  

75. Norbu, Namkhai [Ed., Michael Katz].  Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light.  Snow Lion Press, Ithaca, New York, 1992.

76. Osis, Karlis, and haraldsson, Erlendur.  At the Hour of Death, Third Edition.  Hastings House, Norwalk, CT, 1997.

77. Peterson, Robert.  Out-of-Body Experiences:  How to Have them and What to Expect.  Hampton Roads, Charlottesville, VA, 1997.

78. Ring, Kenneth [with Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino].  Lessons from the Light:  What We Can Learn from the Near-Death Experience.  Moment Point Press, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1998.

79. Ring, Kenneth and Cooper, Sharon.  Mindsight:  Near-Deatn and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind.  William James Center for Consciousness Studies. Palo Alto, CA, 1999.

80. Rinpoche, Sogyal.  The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.  HarperSan Francisco/HarperCollins, New York, 1994.

81. Roberts, Jane.  Adventures in Consciousness:  An Introduction to Aspect Psychology.  Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1975

82. Roberts, Jane.  The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher:  The Worldview of William James.  Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1978.

83. Roberts, Jane.  Dreams, "Evolution," and Value Fulfillment, Volume 2.  Prentice-Hall, New York, 1986.

84. Roberts, Jane.  The Nature of Personal Reality.  Bantam/Printice-Hall, New York, 1974.

85. Roberts, Jane.  Seth Speaks:  The Eternal Validity of the Soul.  Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1972.

86. Rogo, D. Scott.   The Infinite Boundary.  Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1987.

87. Rogo, D. Scott.  Leaving the Body:  A Complete Guide to Astral Projection.  Simon & Schuster, New York, 1983.

88. Rosen, Jay Elliot.  Experiencing the Soul.  Hay House, Carlsbad, CA, 1998.

89. Rosen, Sidney.  My Voice Will Go With You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson, M.D.  W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1991.   [Approachable even by us non-psychiatric 'mortals' who just want to know more about this extraordinarily gifted therapist and how he elicited such powerfully healing changes in his clients.]
    

90. Roy, Dilip Kumar and Devi, Indira.  Pilgrims of the Stars.  Macmillan Publishing Col, Inc., New York, 1973.

91. Satprem.  Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness.  Institution for Evolutionary Research, New York, 1984 [English translation].

92. Segal, Suzanne.  Collision with the Infinite:  A Life Beyond the Personal Self.  Blue Dove Press, San Diego, 1996.

93. Spangler, David.  Blessingz:  The Art and the Practice.  Riverhead Books, New York, 2001.

94. Spangler, David.  The Call.  Riverhead Books, New York, 1996.

95. Spangler, David.  Emergence:  The Rebirth of the Sacred.  Gateway Books, London, 1984.

96. Spangler, David.  Everyday Miracles:  The Inner Art of Manifestation.  Bantam, New York, 1996.   [You never forget your first true love.  David Spangler was certainly that for me -- not in the literal boy-next-door sense, and yet in a way more timelessly real, and as the deeply blessing presence that he is, this is so.   In David's presence, everything dramatically shifts gears inside.   Sometimes after a frenetic or just busy day, to pick up one of his books or listen to an old cassette tape he made for classes I attended years ago is like moving through a door from New-York-rush-hour craziness to the sudden and delicious peace of a Waldon Pond.   And don't forget the quartet of frogs amid the soft mists, the ancient trees and sun-glinted dragonflies.   His warmth and humor and love reach you like he's your best friend sharing a perfect, golden-sun afternoon.  Rhea White and William James rhapsodize on the potential in all of us to express the sublime fullness of what it can mean to be Human in the highest sense.   David simply IS that.   His wisdom and his love Awaken you to forgotten knowings deeper than words and older than time, and remind you of what it is like to be at home in your true nature as immortal spirit.   For in his presence that is simply where you are.

Here's a taste from Everyday Miracles, a remake of a book he first wrote at Findhorn, the intentional community  in Scotland he co-founded in the 1960s:  "It is important to realize that we are not trapped in the particle of our history and our habits and the dictates of a purely linear logic in our lives.   Other possibilities are available to us as we reach into our wave state and step out of the locality and particularity of our situation.   We can deliberately work with the waves of probability to transform our lives [which is] the inner art of manifestation.   As particles, I and that which I want to manifest may be separated.  But as waves, we are already together.   Manifestation is the art of making a given wave of possibility more probable than it would have been otherwise.   [So,] manifestation is the art of transforming a wave of possibility into a particle of actuality."]

94. Spangler, David, and Thompson, William Irwin.  Reimagination of the World.  Bear & Company, Santa Fe, NM, 1991.  [Hazel Henderson says of this book, "This kind of visioning helps clear away the detritus of the 1970s and 1980s -- preparing us to face the future with clearer eyes."  And James Lovelock writes, "for me this is one of the few truly moving and significant books that I have read, like one of those clear maps without which I can never find my way home .... It is compulsive reading and a book that punctuates our place in history."]

95. Spangler, David.  Revelation:  The Birth of a New Age.  Lorian Press, Elgin, IL, 1976.   [This is the book that brought David Spangler international attention and was an instant classic almost literally before it officially was published, originally through the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland.   The brief description on the back of the book states, "This book deals with the emergence of a new consciousness within humanity, which will be the foundation for a New Age and a planetary culture.  Written around a modern revelation from transcendental sources, it shows the power present in each person to transform his world and bring a New Age into being.  It is a vision calling each of us to understand and embody that power now, to live the life of 'Limitless Love and Truth'."   Alas and alas, to David's horror, it was through this formative material that someone named him 'father of the New Age'.   I've personally never met anyone ...

96. Stack, Rick.  Out-of-Body Adventures:  30 Days to the Most Exciting Experience of Your Life.  Contemporary Books, Chicago, 1988.    [Another old favorite.   A note of interest:  the author was a long-time student and friend of Jane Roberts.  Every Tuesday for several years, he would make the 10-hour round-trip drive to her home in Elmira, NY for a class he wouldn't miss for anything.  In fact it was this affiliation that led to his first OBEs.]   

97. Steiger, Brad.  One with the Light.  Signet/Penguin, New York, 1994.

98. Steinem, Gloria.  Revolution from Within:  A Book of Self-Esteem.  Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1992.

99. Steiner, Rudolf.  How to Know Higher Worlds:  A Modern Path of Initiation.    Anthroposophic Press, Hudson, NY, [English Transl.] 1994

100. Steiner, Rudolf.  Spiritual Research:  Methods and Results.  Steinerbooks, Blauvelt, NY, [English transl.] 1981.

101. 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.

102. Sugrue, Thomas.  There Is a River.  Dell Publishing Co., New York, 1942.

103. Swedenborg, Emanuel [Transl. by George F. Dole].  Heaven and Hell.  Swedenborg Foundation, Inc., New York, 1976.  

104. Talbot, Michael.  The Holographic Universe.  HarperCollins Publisher, New York, 1991.

105. Tart, Charles T.  Body Mind Spirit:  Exploring the Parapsychology of Spirituality.  Hampton Roads, Charlottesville, VA, 1997.

106. Tart, Charles T.  Waking Up:  Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential.  New Science Library, Boston, 1986.

107. Taylor, Albert.  Soul Traveler:  A Guide to Out-of-Body Experiences and the Wonders Beyond.  Verity Press, Covina, CA, 1996.

108. Tulku, Tarthang.  Time, Space, and Knowledge:  A New Vision of Reality.  Dharma Publishing, Berkeley, CA, 1977.

109. Varela, Francisco D. (Narrator and editor).  Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying:  An Exploration of Consciousness with the Dalai Lama.  Wisdom Publications, Boston, 1997.  [Midwest Book Review provides a brief overview on amazon.com:  'Sleeping, Dreaming, And Dying is an exploration of Consciousness with the Dalai Lama edited and narrated by Francisco Varela.  Sleeping, Dreaming, And Dying is the account of an historic dialogue between leading Western scientists and one of the foremost representatives of Buddhism today, the Dalai Lama of Tibet.  Revolving around the three key moments of consciousness of sleep, dreams, and death, Sleeping, Dreaming, And Dying is engrossing and highly readable, whether the topic is lucid dreaming, near death experiences, or the very structure of consciousness itself, this unique exchange between the Dali Lama and philosopher Charles Taylor, psychoanalyst Joyce McDougall, psychologist Jayne Gackenbach, cultural ecologist Joan Halifax, and neuroscientist Jerome Engle will delight any reader with an interest in Buddhism, psychology, neuroscience, the alternative worlds of dream, and the afterlife.']

110. Watts, Alan.  The Book:  On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are.  Vintage Press, New York, 1966.

111. Weiss, Jess E.  The Vestibule.  Pocket Books, New York, 1972.

112. White, John.  A Practical Guide to Death and Dying.

113. White, Rhea A.  EVERYTHING!  see her website [ www.ehe.org ] and specifically, her published works.

114. Wilde, Stuart.  The Quickening.  Hay House, Carson, CA, 1988.

115. Wilde, Stuart.  Sixth Sense.  Hay House, Carlsbad, CA, 2000.

116. Wilde, Stuart.  Whispering Winds of Change.  Nacson & Sons, Pty., Sydney, Australia, 1993.

117. Wilson, Colin.  Afterlife.

118. Wilson, Colin.  Beyond the Outsider.  Carroll and Graf Publishers, New York, 1965.

119. Wilson, Colin.  Mysteries.  G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1978.

120. Wilson, Colin.  The Outsider.

121. Wolf, Fred Alan.  The Dreaming Universe:  A Mind-Expanding Journey into the Realm Where Psyche and Physics Meet.  Simon & Schuster, New York, 1994.

122. Wolf, Fred Alan.  The Spiritual Universe:  How Quantum Physics Proves the Existence of the Soul.  Simon & Schuster. New York, 1996.

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