Reality’s lenses: science, spirituality and the paranormal dimension

To read previous installments, click HERE

6. Books: some doorways to the Source

Although it may seem unusual to offer a booklist at the end of a memoir, I decided to do so for the particular benefit of those readers who may just be embarking on an investigatory journey of those dimensions I have been exploring, and are looking for accessible and inspiring reading to start them off. I have confined my recommendations purely to selecting a few personal favourites from my own reading  since 2002.

“ The Arkana Dictionary of New Perspectives ” I found to be a succinct, accurate and invaluable guide to  – Worldview, Science, Spirituality and Esoteric Thought, Psychology, The Paranormal, Medicine and Health and Society, Environment and Technology – to use Stuart Holroyd’s own categorisation of his very useful reference book. At the end of it is an extensive and wide-ranging bibliography which will further advance the journey!

Archie E. Roy is the Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Present member and past-President of the UK’s Society for Psychical Research, also the Founding President of the Scottish Society for Psychical Research, he is an internationally known and respected psychical researcher. His two books included here will provide those seeking  thoroughly researched case material on various facets of the paranormal with all they need to come to their own conclusions.

The booklists and references given in Professor Roy’s books, as well as offering a broad spectrum of contextual literature, give entry to an immensely well researched and detailed body of international evidence, validating the existence of paranormal phenomena, which has been accumulating world-wide since the Society for Psychical Research was founded in 1882 in Cambridge, England, UK by a group of eminent Victorian scientists and academics.

Enjoy your reading!

Considering the Meaning of Life – Mediaeval style

www.jillrogoff.com/education.html

Medieval woodcut; from Spiegel des menschlichen Lebens, published in Augsburg about 1475-6

***********

Abram, David  “The Spell of the Sensuous”
Armstrong, Karen  “A Short History of Myth”
Benson, Herbert  “Timeless Healing”
Berry, Thomas  “The Great Work”
Cranston, Sylvia & Williams, Carey  “Reincarnation”
De Duve, Christian  “Life Evolving”
Dillard, Annie  “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”
Dossey, Larry  “Healing Beyond the Body”
Eliade, Mircea  “The Sacred and the Profane: the nature of religion”
Friedman, Norman  “Bridging Science and Spirit”
Grof, Stanislav  “The Holotropic Mind”
Holroyd, Stuart  “The Arkana Dictionary of New Perspectives”
James, William  “The Varieties of Religious Experience”
Jung, C.J. “Memories, Dreams, Reflections”
László, Ervin “Science and the Akashic Field”
Lorimer, David (Editor) “The Spirit of Science” and “Science,Consciousness & Ultimate Reality”

McTaggart, Lynne  “The Field”
Moody, Raymond  “Life before Life”
Morse, Melvyn M.D  “Parting Visions”
Roy, Archie “A Sense of Something Strange” and  “The Archives of the  Mind”
Russell, Peter “From Science to God”
Sheldrake, R, McKenna, T & Abraham, R “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic     Consciousness”
Smith, Gordon “Spirit Messenger” and “The Unbelievable Truth”
Swimme, Brian “The hidden heart of the cosmos”
Targ, Russell & Jane Katra “Miracle of Mind”
Tarnas, Richard “The Passion of the Western Mind”
Tilby, Angela “Science and the soul”

CONTACTS

As a spur to developing the reader’s own perspectives on the new world-wide paradigm emerging, out of the many contacts which could be listed I feel that the Wrekin Forum UK provides a major point of entry to become ‘part of a world-wide movement towards personal and planetary transformation at a time of  major social change’ as their mission statement puts it. To explore the range of resources and contacts which Associateship provides, email

info@wrekinforum.org,or phone 01452 840 033.

Website : http://www.wrekinforum.org/wrekin_forum/

**********************

600 words copyright Anne Whitaker 2010
Licensed under Creative Commons – for conditions see Home Page

**********************

Advertisement