Following is a list of books that I have read that might be of interest to you. I have organized them into 3 categories: Quantum Physics / Science, Psi / Parapsychology and Spirituality / Philosophy. Each book in each category is listed in order of their impression upon me. Clicking on the name of the book will take you directly to that book's listing at Amazon.com's on-line book store where you can purchase it, or read some reviews.
Wow. This book was riveting! All 337 pages of it. Is the new physics starting to verify what ancient eastern religions have maintained for centuries? Discover the magic in our universe and read this book now! Discover how particles can appear from nowhere in a vacuum and disappear just as quickly. Add two particles together and get four (or more!) - some identical to the two originals. Learn that the universe is just a big probability 'wave' function waiting for a conscious observation to make it materialize. Wonder how a pair of particles separated in space, seem to know what state the other is. Learn that space and time is really just the same thing, and that energy and mass are one in the same. If you've never been exposed to quantum physics and Einstein’s theories of relativity, then this book will blow your mind. Written in an easy to understand format with no mathematical equations. "Stripped of mathematics, physics becomes pure enchantment"
The Dancing Wu Li Masters - AUDIO TAPE - Gary Zukav
If you don't have time to read the book, then listen to the tape series.
In Search of Schrodinger's Cat - John Gribbin
Part history book and part remedial physics text for those who lost interest when the equations started getting unintuitive, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat explains quantum physics in a way that's not only clear, but also enjoyable. It dispels many stubborn myths surrounding our most common understanding of basic physics and introduces the strangeness in the world of the quantum. A great argument for the inclusion of consciousness in our models of understanding the physical universe.
Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality - John Gribbin
A decade ago, John Gribbin's bestseller In Search of Schrodinger's Cat explained the mysterious world of quantum mechanics. Now, in his new book, he shows how dramatic improvement in experimental technique and new theories have provided extraordinary new insights into how the quantum universe actually works.
Science and Human Transformation : Subtle Energies, Intentionality and Consciousness - William A. Tiller, Ernest F. Pecci
William Tiller makes a great argument for including conscious energy called "subtle energies" into our definitions of our universe and warns scientists who think we are close to a grand theory of everything – those who choose to ignore the growing mass of psi research. What makes this book so great is that he backs his theories up with research results. This book is packed with psi and psychokenesis research. I highly recommend this book for those interested in how psi and conscious energy might be related to our physical world. However, I need to follow that with a warning that past the first three chapters, the book does tend to get VERY technical and difficult to follow unless you are a physicist.
Time Travel: A New Perspective – J.H. Brennan
This was a GREAT book! Brennan introduces the concept of time travel as it relates to what we currently understand about physics. There is a bit of philosophy, a bit of psi and a whole lot of science backed up with research data. There is nothing in Newtonian physics, relative theory, or the laws of quantum mechanics to deny the possibility of time travel. In fact, the very latest findings of physicists show that time travel is already taking place!
Tao of Physics, 25th Anniversary Edition : An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism – Fritjof Capra
This book is a lot like The Dancing Wu Li Masters. A classic exploration of the connections between physics and Eastern religions and philosophy.
Schrodinger's Machines - Gerard Milburn
The most successful scientific theory in history, quantum mechanics has already ushered in the information age. Now new developments in the field offer breathtaking possibilities for the future. As Niels Bohr, one of the theories founders, once remarked, "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum mechanics hasn't understood it."
Conscious Mind in the Physical World - Euan Squires
Where within physics does consciousness appear? Can physical things be conscious or is consciousness something else, forever outside the range of physics? These are age old questions which this books considers. I couldn't decide if this book belonged in the philosophy section or quantum physics section, so I put it here because the author is a physicist. And the book has a physics spin, although the author is ignorant of most psi research and tends to discount it as pseudo science.
The Giza Power Plant : Technologies of Ancient Egypt - Christopher P. Dunn
I’m not really too sure weather or not this book belongs in this section or even at all at this web site, but just had to include it because it was such a fascinating book! Did a highly advanced civilization exist in prehistory? Is the Giza Pyramid actually a power plant producing copious amounts of micro waves? Sounds ridiculous, but you have got to read this book. Christopher Dunn does an outstanding job of putting all of the FACTS together and coming to some obvious conclusions. He show’s how the pyramid’s numerous chambers and passageways were positioned with deliberate precision to maximize it’s acoustical qualities. That in combination with natural microwave transmissions and granite blocks with a high quartz content produce electromagnetism. Combine that with Hydrogen and you’ve got massive amounts of energy emitting from the pyramid!
Parapsychology: The Controversial Science - Richard S. Broughton
If you have any doubts about the validity of Parapsychology, then this book will dispel those doubts! A thorough review of over 50 years of research into psi - ESP, telepathy, psychokinesis, precognition, etc. A must read.
Remote Viewers - Jim Schnabel
The definitive remote viewing resource! Under code names like "Grill Flame", "Center Lane", "Sun Streak", and "Star Gate", The U.S. government's Remote Viewers went on psychic-spying missions around the world ... read minds ... even looked back in time and into the future. A very thorough history of the U.S. governments involvement with remote viewing including the research done at Stanford Research Institute.
Mind Trek - Joe McMoneagle
Joe McMoneagle was one most successful remote viewers with the military unit STARGATE. This book is a fascinating story of his experience with the unit. In Mind Trek, Joe describes the development and application of one's own natural intuition through the proper use of remote viewing protocols. Joe has been featured on Nightline, many radio shows, ABC's Put to the Test, and articles in Newsweek and Time. If you could only read ONE book on remote viewing, this is the one I'd recommend.
The Mind Race - Russell Targ and Keith Harary
This book is currently out of print, but finding it through internet based used book seller's is easy and worth the effort. This was the first comprehensive and popular book on psychic functioning - written by a physicist and scientist who for over a decade studied parapsychology at Stanford Research Institute (SRI). This is the MOST applicable book I have on associative remote viewing.
The Conscious Universe - Dean Radin
Dean Radin, Ph.D., - the director of the Consciousness Research Laboratory at UNLV, has amassed irrefutable data that support the parapsychology anecdotes and place us on the edge of what may well be the next scientific revolution. Radin explains in detail, experiments that he and others have conducted and discuses the results in a scientific, proof oriented manner. It's a very interesting book and places high on my recommendation list for anyone who is a skeptic.
Practical Intuition : How to Harness the Power of Your Instinct and Make It Work for You - Laura Day
I must admit, when I purchased this book about a year ago, I set it aside after noticing that the book contained an introduction by Demi Moore. I have nothing against Demi Moore, but I assumed that the book was some kind of ‘hollywoodized’ book about getting in touch with your innerself, and finding love, yada, yada. Boy, was I wrong. Laura Day has this stuff figured out! She takes the reader through various steps to show them how they can utilize their own intuitive abilities. I HIGHLY recommend this book for any students who just want to know HOW to do it. This is exactly the way that I would teach it!
Tracks in the Psychic Wilderness - Dale E. Graff
A great read! Dale was a first director of the early remote viewing experimentation that the U.S. government did that eventually became known as STARGATE. In this book, Dale melds Remote Viewing, Precognitive dreaming and synchronicities into one neat, sensible package. Dale finishes with his Quantum Hologram theory that just might be the best (if not only) explanation of psi.
Future Memory & Time -Sean O'Donnell
This book was terrific! It's a self published book and can be purchased directly from Sean in Ireland. If you are interested in the nature of time and memory, then importing this book from Ireland is DEFINITELY worth the effort. Sean puts forth his theory that when we remote view (or use psi, intuition, etc), we actually don't transpond space and time, just time. His data amassed from extensive experimentation indicates that we can only preconceive events that we eventually become witness to. In other words, you can't travel across the universe and see something that you would never be able to see in your life time - but seeing tomorrows stock market closing is easy. It's all about a shift in time - not space. It's an interesting theory and has caused me to reflect upon my own understanding of time, space and remote viewing. If you really want to remote view the future by association, then you must read this book!
The Ultimate Time Machine : A Remote Viewer's Perception of Time, and Predictions for the New Millennium – Joseph McMoneagle
According to Joe McMoneagle, the ultimate time machine is a human being. In this book, Joe paints a detailed picture of our future through 2075 as well as visions of the year 300 and beyond. A very interesting and entertaining book!
Adventures Beyond the Body - William Buhlman
A Great modern book on out of body experimentation. Bill takes us through the experience and shows us how we can all achieve an out of body experience. He also offers a very good potential explanation as to how it all might work. His experiences are very similar to out of body pioneer, the late Robert Monroe.
Journeys out of the Body - Robert Monroe
The first in a trilogy by the late Robert Monroe on his early out of body experiences. Travel with Robert to strange dimensions, have astral sex, deal with demons and monsters and visit friends as a ghost in the night. Fascinating!
Far Journeys - Robert Monroe
The second in the trilogy. In this book the late Robert Monroe takes us to even more fascinating worlds where life exists in various transitions between the spiritual and physical. Meet entities, dead humans, aliens from other dimensions. Riveting!
Ultimate Journey - Robert Monroe
In the last book by Robert Monroe, he attempts to map out his experiences of other dimensions, far away worlds, and alternate realities. What results is a conceptual framework that actually makes a lot of sense. A theory that coincidentally further backed-up and expanded upon by William Bhulman in his book; Adventures Beyond the Body.
Miracles of Mind - Russell Targ and Jane Katra, Ph.D.
This is Russ's first book since Mind Race. Russ is a laser physicist, and tells the story of remote viewing, then Jane Katra who is a spiritual healer tells her story of healing. Then they merge both phenomenon’s together in an enlightening spiritual and philosophical theory. It's a good book if you haven't heard the remote viewing story enough, and a great introduction to spiritual healing.
China's Super Psychics - Paul Dong and Thomas E. Raffill
We read about tiny, almost insignificant effect sizes in parapsychological research here in the west, yet in China, a man named Zhang Baosheng moves a bag of salt across a wear house floor in front of dozens of witnesses. This book is about some of China's amazing physic talents and parapsychological research programs. Healing, predictions, stopping running cars, walking through walls, changing colors, bending steel, passing objects through glass containers, making flowers bud - the list goes on. A fascinating read!
The Psychic Paradigm - Beverly Jaegers
Beverly Jaegers has been involved in the field of psychic phenomena for over 30 years. She has worked for individuals, and police aiding in investigations and has taught hundreds how to realize their own psychic ability. Beverly is also a valued and active contributor to the stargate mail list.
Adventures of a Psychic : The Fascinating Inspiring True-Life Story of One of America's Most Clairvoyants - Sylvia Browne.
Millions of people have witnessed Sylvia Brown’s amazing psychic abilities on TV shows like Unsolved Mysteries, Montel Williams, Entertainment Tonight, and CNN. This is the story of her life and is a very entertaining read. Sylvia Brown brings you an entirely new perspective on life, death, and psychic phenomena.
Margins of Reality - Jahn & Dunne
Margins of Reality offers a summary of over 20 years of research in human intention effecting a physical random number generator at the PEAR labs at Princeton University. The section of the book that details the actual experiment, and results is very good and indeed interesting, but later Jan and Dunne get into attempting to offer an explanation, and that's where they lost me. Worth a read if you are interested in microphychokenesis. (conscious intention effecting the entropy of a series of random quantum events).
Advances in Parapsychological Research Volume 8 - Stanley Krippner
The eighth volume in a series continues to document the scientific investigation of the ability of human consciousness to transcend space and time and produce remote effects.
Journal of Scientific Exploration -JSE journal
This is a once-monthly journal for the Society of Scientific Exploration. A scientific oriented collection of current research papers in areas that include parapsychology.
Beyond the Body - Susan J. Blackmore
An OK book reviewing OBE research and anecdotal evidence - by a skeptic!
100 Top Psychics in America; Their Stories, Specialties and How to Contact Them - Paulette Cooper, Paul Noble
A novel book and entertaining read. 100 of America’s most interesting psychics and their stories divided into sections of various expertise.
Psychic Warrior - David Morehouse
Don't bother with this book. David Morehouse was a remote viewer with the Fort Meade military unit. He suffered a bullet wound to the head through a helmet during an exercise, and started having spontaneous out of body experiences. Because of this, he was invited to join the remote viewers at Ft Meade. David is bitter about his experience and about his treatment by the army. I can't help but wonder if his bitterness and negativity colors his memory of his experiences leaving behind a somewhat tainted story.
Remote Viewing – Tim Rifat
This book is currently available only from the U.K. The link above takes you to the British version of Amazon.com. I found Tim’s book to be very paranoid. He talks more about the dangers of intentional electromagnetic energies designed by the soviets and powers that be to brainwash and mind control North Americans. The paranoia is followed with his own ‘different’ technique on how to remote view complete WITHOUT any research at all. There is a very LARGE appendix (over ½ the book!!) that consists of copies of various DIA unclassified documents that discuss mostly soviet psychotronic research, and once again, effects of electromagnetic radiation. I found Tim’s review of soviet psychotronic research very thorough and interesting and must admit that his warnings and research into electromagnetic emissions are a potential danger to consider.
Remote Perceptions : Out-Of-Body Experiences, Remote Viewing, and Other Normal Abilities - Angela Thompson Smith
A very thorough book about remote viewing, OBE’s, the history of the CIA STARTGATE program, and Angela’s own personal story.
Traveling the Interstate of Consciousness : A Driver's Instruction Manual : Using Hemi-Sync to Access States of Non-Ordinary Reality - Patricia Leva
I often use a hemisync tape from the Monroe Institute to help me ‘warm down’ into a ‘slower’ brain wave state before remote viewing. The collection of various Hemi-Sync tapes and CD’s can be ordered directly from the Monroe Institute
Philosophy, Spiritual & Prophecy
A course in Miracles: Combined Volume
Wow! After an argument between two college professors, one starts to hear voices at night that command her to start writing. The voice said "This is a course in miracles. Please take notes" Seven years later, the two professors published those notes and called the 800 page book "A course in miracles". It's enlightening and absolutely shocking and scary. It will force you to re-define your conceptual framework - everything that you think about life, the universe, heaven, hell, God and consciousness.
Conversations with God - Neale Donald Walsch
Fascinating read and coincidentally, VERY similar content to a Course in Miracles! After finishing a nasty letter to God complaining about his life, Neale Walsh felt compelled to continue writing. His text ended up being an entire book where God answers all of his questions.
A Brief History of Everything - Ken Wilber
Wow! This guy has it all figured out. It's philosophy for the modern western person. New York Times reporter Tony Schwartz says: "No one has described the path to wisdom better than Ken Wilber". This book takes wisdom found in books like: Conversations, Course in Miracles, Free Yourself, Zen and others and presents it all in a reasonable, sensible fashion that is backed up by science. Very easy to read and thought provoking to the max!
Zen Keys - Thich Nhat Hanh
A real great book introducing the concept and history of Zen.
Free Yourself of Everything - Wolfgang Kopp
If Seinfeld is a show about nothing, then Zen is a religion about nothing. A GREAT book that captures the ESSENCE of Zen. Wisdom we could ALL live with! There is an old Zen tale that perfectly captures the common sense that this book preaches and it goes something like this: "There once was a dog who wondered into a room filled with mirrors. The dog looked around and seeing all of the other dogs, growled and showed his teeth. Upon seeing all of the other dogs do the same, he got frightened and cowered. When he noticed the other dogs cowering, he once again growled and started barking. A similar reaction from the other's made his cower and become very frightened once again. This continued over and over until the dog finally fell over, dead from emotional and physical exhaustion. One must stop and consider what would have happened if the dog had only once wagged it's tail" The world is merely a reflection of our attitude toward it.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Inquiry into Values - Robert M. Pirsig
If you have not yet read this award winning treasure – treat yourself now! Disguised as a story of a father and son on a cross-country motorcycle trip, it’s really a brilliant essay on western philosophy.
Seth Speaks - The Eternal Validity of the Sole - Jane Roberts
This book was written by an entity called 'Seth". It was dictated through Jane Roberts as she slept in a trace and recorded by her husband Rob. I always find it amazing how much these medium books have in common. It's almost as if the authors had a meeting and agreed upon some common principals. This is yet another one of those books where Seth teaches us about our true selves, our role and purpose here in physical reality and that the sole is eternal and perfect. This book is worth a read.
Conversations with Nostradamus - Dolores Cannon
This book is down-right freaky! Dolores Cannon uses regressive hypnosis to take subjects back in time to participate in a conversation with the great prophet Nostradamus. The subjects are asked to ask Nostradamus to explain certain quatrains. What results is some predictions that have already come true! (I'm writing this on Aug 31, 1998) The book was written in 1989 and it was predicted that the Berlin wall would come down and the breakup of communist countries BEFORE they happened.
Body Mind Spirit - Charles T. Tart
The connection between our conscious minds and our conscious soles! This book is a compilation of essays by a select group of parapsychologists, researchers and authors. It mixes science with the spiritual.
The Great Apparitions of Mary - Ingo Swann
I bought this book because it was written by one of the great military remote viewers - Ingo Swann. The book is a fascinating account of 22 apparitions of the holy mother virgin Mary. The evidence that something supranormal was happening during these appearances of the virgin can't be dismissed - including a televised broadcast to hundreds of thousands! The book is incredible and even a bit scary.
Zen and the Brain : Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness - James H. Austin
I’m not sure weather this book belongs in the science or spirit section! A great big, huge, heavy book. James Austin is a Zen Buddhist / Neurologist. James takes the reader on a trip through the human brain from a science perspective, and relates certain aspects to the teachings of Zen. There is NO LACK of good science here! Definitely worth a read, but be prepared to encounter a lot of hard core science.
The Final Prophecies of Nostradamus - Erika Cheetham
The actual Latin quatrains translated to English and interpreted.
Conversations with God Book 2 - Neale Donald Walsch
Another conversation a year later answering even more questions about life, the universe, time, etc.
The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
If you took every common denominator from every religion, and every enlightened philosophical account from as far back in history as you can go and wrote a fictional story that incorporates these truths, you would have written The Celestine Prophecy.
The Three Pillars of Zen : Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment - Roshi Philip Kapleau
Taking the Path of Zen - Robert Aitken
Nothing Special : Living Zen - Charlotte Joko Beck
Awakening to Zen : The Teachings of Roshi Philip Kapleau - Philip Kapleau
Talking to Heaven - James Van Praagh
James Van Praagh is a medium who can contact dead people and talk with them. I saw James on Larry King Live, where he took random phone calls from viewers. Some of what he told callers about their dead relatives was way too accurate! Scary actually. His book, however was disappointingly simplistic and anecdotal.
The Seat of the Soul - Gary Zukav
Gary’s first book, Dancing Wu Li Masters is an awesome book about philosophy, spirituality and quantum physics. "seat of the Sole" is just the spirituality side, and I found it to be MUCH less intriguing. It’s now a best seller, but to be honest, I found it a chore to finish.
Edgar Cayce The Sleeping Prophet - Jess Stearn
The life, the prophecies, and readings of America's most famous mystic.
Reunions - Raymond Moody, M.D.
I had read something about Raymond Moodey - the author of the great classic book "Life after Life" constructing a psychomanteum - a mirror similar to one that Nostradamus used to "see" into the after life. This mirror is the subject of his new book "Reunions". I was curious as to his scientific results using this mirror and wondered if it held any value to my own remote viewing. That said, I found the book to be most disappointing. Dr. Moody uses the mirror as a method for others to contact close relatives and friends who have passed away. The book merely relates various anecdotal stories, but is very unscientific in it's interpretation of those stories. Nothing is offered up as proof. James also is under the false notion that this special mirror is required in some way to see into the after life. Although, it may help some get into the correct frame of mind, as we know from our own remote viewing experience, all that is really required is to close your eye lids. Much less expensive and way more convenient!
Secrets of the Shaman - Gini Graham Scott
Step by step, Gini recounts her personal experience with her shaman teachers. Much of what she learned from them is very subjective and she offers no objective evidence that anything she or her teachers were able to do, actually happened. I don’t recommend this book.