1. A Course in Miracles, J. Christ, 1975 -- JC through Helen Schucman,
Columbia University Medical Center research psychologist, in 1965-1972, the
foundation for post-Christian Christianity -- as a willing victim of this
relentless subversion of all concepts since August, 1977, I never tire of
its brilliant symphonic pithy multi-level fractal prose, much of it in
iambic pentameter -- the first daily lesson, "Nothing I see means
anything." -- nothing like a direct poke in the eye approach for challenging
common sense, historical religions, and all sciences...
2. The Nature of Personal Reality, Jane Roberts, 1974 -- tiny science
fiction writer channels big booming emphatic jovial voice of "Seth" -- we
each create our own multidimensional reality, in collaboration with our
other simultaneous lifetimes in real-time present moment interaction with
past and future selves, as well as selves in equally valid parallel probable
history streams, within higher dimensional identity levels all the way up to
All That Is...
3. Island, Aldous Huxley, 1962 -- he saved the manuscript as his house
burned down -- poor literature brilliantly combines ideal society with
psychedelic mysticism -- inspired my work as a hospice care giver in Santa
Fe 1985 to 2005...
4. Narcissus and Goldmund, Herman Hesse, 1930 -- acetic scholar monk and
life friend passionate artist.
5. The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi), Herman Hesse, 1943 -- [ Adualisic
Mysticism/The Instant Zen School
"I suddenly realized that in the language, or at any rate in the spirit of
the Glass Bead Game, everything actually was all-meaningful, that every
symbol and combination of symbols led not hither and yon, not to single
examples, experiments, and proofs, but into the center, the mystery and
innermost heart of the world, into primal knowledge. Every transition from
major to minor in a sonata, every transformation of a myth or a religious
cult, every classical or artistic formulation was, I realized in that
flashing moment, if seen with truly a meditative mind, nothing but a direct
route into the interior of the cosmic mystery, where in the alternation
between inhaling and exhaling, between heaven and earth, between Yin and
Yang, holiness is forever being created." Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead
Game ]
5. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke, 1950, 1953 --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood's_End
6. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein, 1961 --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
7. The Reverse of the Medal, Patrick O'Brian, 1986 -- historical navel novel
, eleventh in the Aubrey-Maturin series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reverse_of_the_Medal
8, Ender's Game, Orson Scott Cord, 1985 --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_Game
9. Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley, 1928 --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Counter_Point
10. Appointment With Death, Agatha Christie, 1938 --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appointment_with_Death
11. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque, 1929 --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front
12. The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara, 1974 --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killer_Angels
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BS MIT 1964, history and physics,
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