Readings
and References for the Thread of Awareness
in Chaos
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Bateson, Gregory. 1980.
Mind and Nature, A Necessary Unity. Bantam
Books, New York.
Capra, Fritjof. 1996. The Web of Life. Harper Collins Publishers.
77-85 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, London W6 8JB. See also his Tao of Physics (1991)
Shambhala, Boston and The Turning Point (1982) Simon & Schuster.
Ching, I. 1978. The I Ching, or Book of Changes. Cary F. Barnes
English version of the Richard Wilhelm translation from Chinese. Routledge & Kegan
Paul Ltd. London.
Elgin, Duane. 1993. Awakening Earth. Exploring the Evolution of
Human Culture and Consciousness. William Morrow and Co. N.Y. He has some good ideas, and
some wrong ones. Good background and historical information but rather dry and serious.
Fuller, Buckminster. 1975. Synergetics. Explorations in the Geometry
of Thinking. Macmillan Publishing Co. N.Y. All about synergy, but heavy reading by design.
Gerard, R.W., C. Kluckhohn, A. Rapoport 1956 Biological and Cultural
Evolution, Some Analogies and Explorations. Behavioral Science (1)1:6-34.
Gleick, James. Chaos. 1987. Penguin Press. All about fractals, and
how they were discovered. Good stuff, but early on in the fractal game.
Govinda, Lama Anagarika. 1982. Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism.
Samuel Weiser, Inc. P.O. Box 612. York Beach, Maine. U.S.A. 03910. One of the very best
treatments of ancient wisdom as encapsulated in Om Mani Padma Hum.
Julian Jaynes, 1976. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of
the Bicameral Mind. Houghton Mifflin 467pp
Lovelock, James. 1979. Gaia. A New Look at Life on Earth. Oxford
University Press. If you can get a copy of this, his first book, grab it. The wrath of the
scientific community made his later works a bit more timid and argumentative. This is
inspiration. Also see 1991. The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine. GAIA. Allen & Unwin. Australia. Gaia Books. U.K. Nice illustrations, more available than his earlier
work.
Margulis, Lynn and Dorion Sagan 1995. What is Life. Simon & Schuster. N.Y. Also 1986. Microcosmos, Summit, New York. These are great books, great
writers, great ideas. Five star hotel for your mind.
Maturana, Humberto and Francisco Varela. 1980. Autopoiesis and
Cognition, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland.
Murchie, Guy. 1967. Music of the Spheres. The material universe -
from atom to quasar, simply explained. Dover Publications, New York. also 1978. The Seven
Mysteries of Life. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston. These are miraculous, wonderful, special
books - if you can find them.
Nilsson, Lennart. 1973. Behold Man. A Photographic Journey of
Discovery inside the Body. Little, Brown and Company. Boston. Nilsson is one of the great
biolgical photographers of the microscopic world. This is the best display of cells I've
seen.
Prigogine, Ilya, and Isabelle Stengers. 1984. Order out of Chaos.
Bantam, New York.
Redfield, James. 1993. The Celestine Prophecy. Bantam Books. New
York. Enjoyable fiction. You'll like it.
Sheldrake, Rupert. 1991. The Rebirth of Nature. Bantam Books, New
York. Great stuff. You'll love his morphogenetic fields. One scientific reviewer suggested
we burn the book, so you know it is good. If you understand the thread of awareness,
you'll catch on to what creates morphogenetic fields.
Teilhard de Chardin, P. 1965. The Phenomenon of Man. Collins.
London. The right ideas, heavy reading.
Thomas, Lewis. 1974. The Lives of a Cell. The Viking Press. New
York. Also, 1979. The Medusa and the Snail. You will never tire of reading Lewis Thomas.
If you have not read these books, treat yourself right away.
Thom, R. 1975. Structural Stability and Morphogenesis. Benjamin,
Reading, Mass. U.S.A. Complex but interesting analysis of catastrophie theory.
Watson, Lyall. Lifetide. Bantam
Books. New York.
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