Suggested Readings
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Bernardo Kastrup, The Idea of the World: A multi-disciplinary argument for the mental nature of reality. John Hunt. Winchester, UK, 2019. Bernard Kastrup is a double Ph.D. with one in the philosophy of mind (ontology) and a second in computer engineering. He has worked for CERN and Philips Research Laboratory and published multiple academic papers. There are, Kastrup reminds us, tribes in the Amazon that have never been exposed to a materialist world view. To them, the materialism so accepted by us seems like a strange fantasy. We ourselves dwell …More
Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself, Noetic Books, Oakland, CA 2007. “In case you haven’t noticed,” Singer reminds us in his first pages, “you have a mental dialogue going on in your head that never stops. If you spend some time observing this mental voice, the first thing you will notice is that it never shuts up.” It is, “actually a shocking realization when you first notice that your mind is constantly talking to you.” …More
Rupert Sheldrake, The Sense of Being Stared At: Unexplained Powers of the Human Mind, Crown Publishers, New York, 2003. For over twenty years, English biochemist Rupert Sheldrake has been in the forefront of documenting types of sensing that occur outside of our usual sensory abilities using sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. According to Sheldrake’s staggering extent of investigation, these types of “telepathic” experiences are far more widespread and variegated than most of us have realized …More
Rupert Sheldrake, Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, Crown Publishers, Updated & Revised Ed., 2011.
Rupert Sheldrake, Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation, Park Street Press, Rochester, Vermont, 4th ed. 2009.
Lynn McTaggart, The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe, Element, London, 2001. UK science writer Lynn McTaggart begins this inquiry with a gripping description of astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s experience aboard Apollo 14 on the return journey back to Earth from his 1971 moon landing. She writes that, “It was then, while staring out the window, that Ed experienced the strangest feeling he would ever have: a feeling of interconnectedness, as if all the planets and all the people of all time were attached by some invisible web …More
Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, Vintage Books, New York, 1966.
Charles A. Tart, Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential, Shambhala, Boston 1986.
William H. Keith, The Science of the Craft: Modern Realities and the Ancient Art of Witchcraft, Citadel Press, New York, 2005. William Keith could have titled this book, The Science of Magic: Quantum Physics and Magical Ritual. I suspect he would have sold even more copies as well. This is a remarkable and unique work. Keith weaves a compelling fusion between two fields usually perceived as unrelated, but which, he reveals, are actually closely inter-twined. Keith, a practicing magician and prolific author, is also well-versed in the basics of quantum physics. …More
Our Mind(s) & Impacts of Current Online Media
“The Social Dilemma”, Video, Netflix 2020.
Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Public Affairs, New York, 2019.
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