Network Recommended List

Listed here are 20 of the most significant titles published on subjects of interest to the Network.

  • Anderson, William The Face of Glory
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    A discursive account, personal yet universal, of the sources of divine creative energy in the Great Memory, and of its outpouring into so many fields of human endeavour.


    Capra, Fritjof The Tao of Physics
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    A seminal introduction to the links between Eastern mysticism and modern physics.


    Clarke, Chris Reality through the Looking Glass
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    Quantum theory provides us with an alternative to the picture of the world provided by traditional science and its conventional view of spacetime. An exploration of such alternative realities leads into mystical experience, and thus into 'reality-in-relation', from which a new world view and a more comprehensive science can emerge.


    Davies, Paul The Mind of God
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    Subtitled 'Science and the Search for Ultimate Meaning', a cosmologist speculates about where his studies are leading us.


    Dossey, Larry Healing Words
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    A description by a cardiac physician of the power of prayer for healing, and an exposition of the concept of three 'eras' in medicine: mechanical/doing, meaning/mind, and nonlocal/being. His later books expand these themes


    Fenwick, Peter and Elizabeth The Truth in the Light
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    An exploration of over 300 near-death experiences, with thoughtful commentary and intriguing speculations concerning their origin and significance.


    Gleick, James Chaos
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    A readable and comprehensive account of the mathematical discoveries and shifts in patterns of thinking that have produced chaos theory


    Gore, Al Earth in the Balance
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    The ex-Vice President of the USA presents a powerful, well researched, realistic and highly influential analysis of the environmental situation and our political response.


    Holdgate, Sir Martin From Care to Action
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    Subtitled 'Making a Sustainable World', this book sets out the political and societal implications of the principle of sustainability, emphasising the positive and and attracive consequences of this alternative to unbridled individualism and consumerism. It is extensively referenced


    Jahn, Robert & Dunne, Brenda Margins of Reality
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    An engineer and a psychologist from Princeton University report experiments that show the influence of mental intention on the output of any random number generator. This work has since been replicated and extended by them and others


    Laszlo, Erwin The Whispering Pond
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    A vision of the cosmos as interconnected and all-embracing. The author describes the emergence of a new and more complete science which will encompwss the paradoxes and anomalies within traditional science, and which will recognise the quantum vacuum as a unifying source of energy and information. Speculative, realistic and inspiring.


    Lorimer, David (ed) The Spirit of Science
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    In this collection, distinguished scientists and thinkers from a wide range of disciplines examine the relationship of scientific knowledge and practice to the wider dimension of human life and awareness. Especially recommended to newcomers to the Network.


    Lovelock, James The Ages of Gaia
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    A continuation of the ideas first proposed in Gaia, the Practical Science of Planetary Medicine, the book which first put the concept of the earth as a living organism on the map.


    Penrose, Sir Roger Shadows of the Mind
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    btitled 'A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness' an eminent physicist claims that it is impossible to to build a machine that is conscious and proposes a quantum basis for human consciousness. A continuation of the ideas put forward in The Emperor's New Mind .


    Popper, Sir Karl & Eccles, Sir John The Self and its Brain
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    A rigorous defence of dualist interactionism from a leading philosopher and neuroscientist. Contains a fascinating appendix of critical dialogues between the authors


    Ravindra, Ravi The Yoga of the Christ
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    A verse by verse exegis of the Gospel of St John from an Indian perspective, which illustrates its coherence with other traditions and especially with the Bhagavad Gita. See also his The Yoga of the Teaching of Krishna


    Robertson, James Beyond the Dependency Culture
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    Advocates a new world-wide economic order for the 21st century, adapted and applied to real human and planetary needs, with emphasis on enabling people and conserving the earth.


    Schumacher, E.F., 1973 Small is Beautiful
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    Subtitled 'Economics as if People Mattered', this book had a seminal influence on the development of the 'new economics' with ideas of sustainability and the promotion of intermediate technology and local economies


    Schuon, Fritjof, ed S H Nasr Essential Writings
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    A theologian 'depicts... the traditional doctrine of the nature of the One...' and develops many related themes, drawing out not only the 'remarkable harmony which exists in various traditions' but also the significance and value of orthodoxy. The introduction by Nasr is itself illuminating and inspiring.


    Woodhouse, Mark Paradigm Wars
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    A wide-ranging and perceptive exploration of world views in science, medicine, healing and education, emphasising ways in which they might be integrated. Energy monism is described in detail, together with its links with the New Physics and mystical experience. Reincarnation, abortion and extra-terrestrial visitation are other aspects of human experience which are embraced within this vision.


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