FROM THE WRITINGS OF ---

 

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Author                          Selection From:

 

Abram, David                        +         “The Ecology of Magic”

 

Allen, William A. “Bill”                 Dbaajmoowin: Dialogue with the Elders”

                                                            [A story about relationships, shared experience, the role of story, and the importance of dialogue]

 

Almaas, A.K.                                     “The Void” and “Pearl Beyond Price”

[Excerpts from this syncretic Sufi/Buddhist psychoanalytical teacher]

 

Aurelius, Marcus                        “Meditations”

                                                [Selections from this Stoical Roman Emperor’s journal]

 

Aurobindo, Sri                                   Fragments from “The Synthesis of Yoga” and the Master’s other writings

Aurobindo, Sri                       +         “The Life Divine”

                                                            [The essay which preceded the book of the same name]

Aurobindo, Sri                  +        Rebirth, Evolution, Heredity

Bennett, Clif                          +         “The I Ching Sonnets”

[Subjective interpretations of castings of the I Ching by gifted local artist]

 

Bergson, Henri                     +         “Animal and Human Consciousness”

 

Bogart , Brian                       +         Sins of Statecraft: The War on Terror Exposed

                                                [Theories on Militarism, and Prospects for Transformation  29-07-06]

 

Bolduc, Henry                            “Journeys Within”

                                                [Messages channeled through Daniel Pugh, conducted by Bolduc]

 

Chang Tsai                                        Selections from 11th century neo-Confuscian/Taoist

 

Chief Seattle                                     Treaty Speech on turning over his tribal Squamish lands

 

Corbin, Devin                                    “Twilight of the Sugar Maples”  [Rising sap & temperatures in the woods]

 

Demasio, Antonio             +        Emotion, Feeling, and Social Behavior: The Brain Perspective  (Katz lecture audio – Intentionality, the

Somatic marker mechanism and social intelligence)

 

Edney, Julian                      +        Greed: An Essay”   www.g-r-e-e-d.com  [A detailed analysis of the cudgel in Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand”]

Edwords, Frederick             +         What Is Humanism?  [The power of Ideas at work: An accomplishment- not a doctrine]

Ehrenreich, Barbara                   “Pathologies of Hope” [The positivity cults coach our insensitivity to others’ suffering]

Elliott, Keith & Marnie                 “The Dialogues” – a recent feature section of Our Storiesarchives

Emerson, Ralph Waldo                    Selections from “Self Reliance” and other essays

Gibran, Kahlil                                    Selections from Gibran’s works

Gibran, Kahlil                        +         “The Prophet”

Goddard, J. & Harrington, R.          Canada’s Madonna and Child

Goenka, S.N.                         +         “The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation”

Goethe                                               Fragments from his writings

Goldstein, Emmanuel          +        The Theory & Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism”

           [The 'Book within a Book' from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four]

 

 

Govinda, Lama Anagarika              Selections from writings of this 20th century Tibetan Buddhist including an interview with Renée Weber entitled “Of Matter and Maya”

 

Graves, Tom                         +         “Inventing Reality: towards a magical technology”

                                                [To see beliefs and points of view as tools, rather than as final Truths]

 

Gregg, Richard                      +        The Value Of Voluntary Simplicity - 1936

                                                          [An exploration of the spiritual, social and economic issues involving

 the choice of a life-path of greater simplicity.]

 

Haley, Jay                                 “How To Have An Awful Marriage”

 

Hick, John                        +        Reincarnation and the Meaning of Life www.johnhick.org.uk 12-02

 

Hillman, James                                Fragments, findings and excerpts from various works of the ‘dean of American psychotherapy’

 

Hurlbut, William                               “From Biology to Biography”      [“Human existence is located between infinities”]  www.thenewatlantis.com 

 

Kazantzakis, Nikos                          Favorite quotes from “Zorba The Greek”

 

Khayyam, Omar                   +         “The Rubaiyat”

                                                [The astronomer-poet of Persia – Fitzgerald translation]

 

Kramer and Alstad              +         The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power [Quotes from Part One]

Laing, R D                              +         Mystification, Confusion and Conflict”

Laing, R.D.                                         From “Self and Others” – extracts from Susan Isaac’s

 “The Nature and Function of Phantasy”                       

 

Lao Tzu                                  +         Tao te Ching  [Stephen Mitchell translation]

Levi, Renee                           +         The Sentient Heart: Messages For Life

Lewis, C.S.                                        From “The Screwtape Letters” and “The Problem Of Pain”

Lincoln, Abraham                             The Gettysburg Address

Long, Barry                           +         “In A World Of No Guarantees….”

 

Lorca, Federico Garcia                    “The Irresistible Beauty Of All Things”

MacEnulty, John                        “Eman8tions”

Machiavelli, Nicolò               +         The Prince Written c. 1505, published 1515

Maharshi, Sri Ramana                     Fragments from his teachings

Markham, Edward                      “The Man With The Hoe”  [A poet’s ode to a painting by Jean-François Millet]

 

Masefield, Peter                   +         The Price of Liberation

                                                [A Buddhist Scholar Asks: How "Middle" was the Buddha's Middle Way?]

 

Millard, Allan                             Peace in West Asia  [an objective historical analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict]

 

OSHO                                                  “Remaining With The Real” from “The Book of Secrets” [sutra #68 of the Vigyam Bhairav Tantra]

 

OSHO                                      +         “The Root Problem of all Problems” from “Tantra: The Supreme Understanding

 

OSHO                                      +         A Meditator Needs No Personal Guidance” from The Invitation”

 

O’Shea, Tim                           +         Portal to The Doctor Within website

 

Pelletier, Dr. Kenneth                      From “Toward a Science of Consciousness”

                                                [The holographic model of brain/consciousness)

 

Peirce, Charles Sanders     +         “The Fixation of Belief”

 

Persinger, Dr. Michael                     Remedy’s tribute to the work of Dr. Persinger’s Behavioural Neuroscience Program

 

Pirsig, Robert                             From “Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”

 

Rilke, Rainer Maria                           Selections from translations of renowned early 20th century German poet

 

Roberts, Jane                            From “Seth”

 

Rossi, Ernest & Lippincott, B +     The Wave Nature of Being: Ultradian Rhythms & Mind-Body Communication”

 

Santayana, George                         From “The Sense Of Beauty: Being An Outline Of Aesthetic Theory”

                                                [Observations by a renowned Harvard naturalist philosopher]

 

Santayana, George                         Selections from Santayana’s other works

 

Schopenhauer, Arthur       +         ‘On Books and Reading’ – a chapter from the book entitled ‘Religion’

 

SILO (Mario Rodrigues Cobas) +  Silo Speaks  [An Anthology of Speeches by the founder of the New Humanist movement]

 

Singh, Kirpal                             +      “Man! Know Thyself”

                                                            [Teachings from the great Sikh Master]

 

Slabbert, Jos                            +      “The Way is Tao”  [The poetry of a Namibian Master]

 

Sorli, Amrit                                        “Consciousness As A Research Tool”   [How mind-created mathematical

                                                                                    models of space-time influence our experience]

 

Stone, Drs. Hal & Sidra          +      “Judgment, and what to do with it”         [From the creators of the

“Psychology of Selves” (aka Voice Dialogue) technique www.delos-inc.com ]

 

 

Sugrue, Thomas                               From “There Is A River”

                                                [The philosophy of the American psychic Edgar Cayce]

 

Szasz, Thomas                        +      The Myth of Mental Illness [from The American Psychologist]

Szasz, Thomas                        +      “The Moral Physician”  [from Szasz’s classic “The Theology of Medicine”]

Tallmadge, John                               “The Wild Within”

[from The Cincinnati Arch: Learning From Nature in the City]

Tart, Charles                       +     Attachment” from The Journal of Consciousness Studies

Tart, Charles                      +     “Consciousness: A Psychological, Transpersonal and Parapsychological Approach”

Tart, Charles                            +      “Emergent Interactionist Understanding of Human Consciousness”

 

Thoreau, Henry David            +      Life Without Principle” [as applicable today as when written in 1863]

Thoreau, Henry David                     Some favorite selections from Thoreau’s writings

Tolle, Eckhart                           +      “The Power of Now”   [Chapter One – ‘You Are Not Your Mind’]

From http://www.inner-growth.info/power_of_now_tolle/eckhart_tolle_home.htm        

 

Troward, Judge Thomas                 “The Dore Lectures”

                                                [Rational organizer of the early New Thought movement]

 

Ullman, Montague                  +      “The Transformation Process in Dreams”

Watts, Allan                       +     “The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”

                                                [‘The Creation Myth’ by this ‘60s Western Buddhist/Taoist]

Wei Wu Wei..                                    Selections from his writings

Wei Wu Wei                        +     “Fingers Pointing Toward The Moon” [What is Zen?]

Westlake, Aubrey                      “Role and Scope of Radiesthetic Faculties In The Modern World”

Wilson, E. O.                                     From “Consilience”

Wiman, Christian                    +      “Gazing into the Abyss” [An essay on love, death and “a hope toward God”]

Young, Shinzen                       +      Bringing the Monastery Home” pdf [Particle-Wave Consciousness Energetics]

Young, Shinzen                       +      “Purpose and Method of Vipassana Meditation”

Zinn, Howard                           +      “Just and Unjust War”  [a chapter from ‘Declarations of Independence’]

 

 

 

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