Bright Lights:  Highest Praises!

RACHAEL'S FAVORITES LIST

"Bright Lights" offers a collection of nurturing and exciting ideas and seminal sources which have contributed significantly to the molten conceptual core of wHeretwoworldstouch.  What can I say!  These are unabashed, personal favorites.  They have been the powerful, directional winds in the sails of my vocational life.  I'm sure there are other magnificent creations just as bold and beautiful and empowering that have not been included here, and of course the list will always continue to grow, and suggestions and review copies are always welcome.  

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personal empowerment through personal experience, and each of these books in some way reflects this particular engagement with life as I know it or want to.  Some of these address the reflective side, how we may approach or best cultivate our abilities or potential for gaining direct experience of the death-transcendent EHE variety and why it's so important.  Most of the rest are written by and about people who have had such transformative experiences.

And in fact this list will continue to grow and change over time as we all continue to learn and develop in our shared efforts to explore the very edge of the edge, our conscious interface options within the Larger-Life Reality.  What we discover together will certainly influence future selections to be included in "Bright Lights."

1. Adilakshmi.  The Mother.  Printed in Germany by Mother Meera, 1987, 1995.

2. Atwater, P. M. H.  Coming Back to Life:  The After-Effects of the Near-Death Experience.  Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1988.

3. Avabahasa, Da.  Easy Death.  The Dawn Horse Press, Clearlake, CA, 1983.

4. Becker, Carl B.  Paranormal Experience and Survival of Death.  State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, 1993.

5. Bohm, David, and Peat, F. David.  Science, Order, and Creativity.  Bantam, New York, 1987.

6. Bohm, David.  Wholeness and the Implicate Order.  Ark Paperbacks, London and New York, 1980.

7. Brinkley, Dannion [with Paul Perry].  Saved by the Light.  Villard Books, New York, 1994.

8. Buhlman, William.  The Secret of the Soul.  HarperSan Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2001.

9. Corbin, Henry.  Mundus Imaginalis or the Imaginary and the Imaginal.  Analytical Psychology Club of New York, Inc., New York, 1972.

10. Crosley, Reginald. The Vodou Quantum Leap.  Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul, MN, 2000.

11. Castaneda, Carlos.  The Active Side of Infinity.  HarperPerennial, New York, 1998.

12. Castaneda, Carlos.  The Art of Dreaming.  HarperPerennial, New York, 1993.

13. Currie, Ian.  You Cannot Die:  The Incredible Findings of a Century of Research on Death.  Element, Shaftesbury, Dorset, England, 1978.

14. Doore, Gary.  What Survives.

15. Eisley, Raine.  The Challice and the Blade.

16. Erickson, Milton.

17. Farr, Signey Saylor.  What Tom Sawyer Learned from Dying.  Hampton Roads, Charlottesville, VA, 1993.

18. Fenwick, Peter and Elizabeth.  The Truth in the Light.  Berkley Books, New York, 1995.

19. Fezler, William.  Creative Imagery:  How to Visualize in All Five Senses.  Fireside, New York, 1989.

20. Ford, Arthur.  Unknown But Known:  My Adventure into the Meditative Dimension.  Harper and Row, New York, 1968.

21. Frankl, Victor.  Man's Search for Meaning.  

22. Garrett, Eileen J.  Many Voices:  The Autobiography of a Medium.  G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1968.

23. 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, 1995.  

24. Grant, Robert J.  The Place We Call Home:  Exploring the Soul's Existence after Death.  A. R. E. Press, Virginia Beach, VA, 2000.

25. Greaves, Helen.  Testimony of Light.  Neville Spearman Publishers, Essex, England, [reprint from 1969, Churches' Fellowship for Psychical & Spiritual Studies, England] 1991.

26. Green, Elmer, and Green, Alice.  Beyond Biofeedback. 

27. Harman, Willis.  Global Mind Change:  The New Age Revolution in the Way We Think.  Warner Books, Sausalito, CA, 1988.  

28. Harary, Keith, and Weintraub, Pamela.  Out-of-Body Experiences in 30 Days:  The Free Flight Program.  Saint Martin's Press, New York, 1989.

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

30. His Holiness, the Dalai Lama.  Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying.

31. Home, D. D.  Incidents in My Life.  A. J. Davis & Co., 1864.  [Reprinted 1991, Time-Life Books, New York.]

32. Houston, Jean.  A Mythic Life.

33. Houston, Jean.  In Search of the Beloved.

34. Hugo, Victor.  Conversations With Eternity:  The Forgotten Masterpiece of Victor Hugo.  New Paradigm books, Boca Raton, FL, 1998.

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

36. 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.]  

37. Karpinski, Gloria.  Where Two Worlds Touch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

62. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

68. Ring, Kenneth.  Lessons from the Light.  

69. 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.

70. Rinpoche, Sogyal.  The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

78. Rosen, Jay Elliot.  Experiencing the Soul.

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

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

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

82. Spangler, David.  Blessing.  

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

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

85. Spangler, David.  Everyday Miracles:  The Inner Art of Manifestation.

86. Spangler, David, and Thompson, William Irwin.  Reimagination of the World.

87. Spangler, David.  Revelation:  The Birth of a New Age.

88. Stack, Rick.  Out-of-Body Adventures:  30 Days to the Most Exciting Experience of Your Life.  Contemporary Books, Chicago, 1988.

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

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

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

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

93. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

104. White, Rhea A.  EVERYTHING!  see her website--and specifically, her published works.

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

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

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

108. Wilson, Colin.  Afterlife.

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

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

111. Wilson, Colin.  The Outsider.

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

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

114. Zaleski, Carol.  Otherworld Journeys:  Acconts of Near-Deatn Experience in Medieval and Modern Times.  Oxford University Press, NY and Oxford, 1987.

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