Selected Bibliography (A to E)
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The Zen scholar, Daisetz T. Suzuki, said that one of the fundamental principles of the Zen approach to learning is,"Whatever art or knowledge a man gets by an external means is not his own, does not intrinsically belong to him; it is only those things evolved out of his inner being that he can claim as truly his own."
This is especially true when starting an experiment in learning afresh, free from the influence of all external authorities. So why do I need to read any books at all? As the professor discovered, it cannot all make sense from reading books. We can only make sense of what it means to be a human being in the Universe by looking inward.
Nevertheless, I have needed to read widely to develop a synthesis of everything. I have done this for three main reasons:
- I have needed a language in which to present omniology. I cannot create a language out of thin air if I am to be understood. To some degree, I need to use words and phrases as they are understood by others, modifying their meaning when necessary, and only in the last resort creating new words, such as omniology, itself.
- I need to understand the cultural context in which I am communicating, both from an historical perspective and currently. I have been particularly concerned to find others with similar experiences to my own. For it is through shared experience that we can open doors in what otherwise might look like an impenetrable wall.
- Relational logic provides just the skeleton on which to build a coherent body of knowledge that corresponds to all our experiences. So I have needed to read widely to put some flesh on this skeleton, particularly those people who are working with ideas and experiences that are based on the principle that Consciousness in the primary reality.
So on this page and on the following three pages I list some of the books that have had an influence on my development to some degree or other, both positively and negatively. I must emphasize that in including this list, I am not building on the ideas of these authorities, as is done in conventional scholarship. Only when the gnostic, ontological, and epistemological foundations are firmly laid in Consciousness is it possible to build a coherent body of knowledge that is soundly based on the Truth.
Alexander, Christopher. 1979. A Timeless Way of Building. New York: Oxford University Press.
Alexander, Christopher, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein with Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, and Shlomo Angel. 1977. A Pattern Language: Towns · Buildings · Construction. New York: Oxford University Press.
Allen, Phil, Alastair Bearne, and Roger Smith. 1977. Energy, Matter & Form: Toward a Science of Consciousness. Second edition. Original edition, 1975. Boulder Creek, Calif.: University of the Trees Press.
Alphen, Jan Van and Anthony Aris, eds. 1997. Oriental Medicine: An Illustrated Guide to the Asian Arts of Healing. Boston: Shambhala.
Anderson, Alan Ross, ed. 1964. Minds and Machines. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Anthony, Robert N. 1965. Planning and Control Systems: A Framework for Analysis. N. p.
Aristotle. 1933. Metaphysics. Books I-IX. Translated by Hugh Tredennick. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann.
Aristotle. 1935. Metaphysics. Books X-XIV. Translated by Hugh Tredennick. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann.
Aristotle. 1938. Categories, On Interpretation, and Prior Analytics. Translated by Harold P. Cooke and Hugh Tredennick. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann.
Aristotle. 1960. Posterior Analytics & Topica. Translated by Hugh Tredennick and E.S. Forster. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann.
Assagioli, Roberto. 1975. Psychosynthesis: A Manual of Principles and Techniques. 1965. Wellingborough, England: Turnstone Press.
Assagioli, Roberto. 1984. The Act of Will: A Guide to Self-Actualization and Self-Realization. Turnstone Press.
Attenborough, David. 1979. Life on Earth: A Natural History. London: Collins and British Broadcasting Corporation.
Aurobindo, Sri. 1987. The Essential Aurobindo. Edited by Robert A. McDermott. Original edition, New York: Schocken Books, 1973. Reprint, Hudson, NY: Lindisfarne Press.
Ayer, A.J. 1956. The Problem of Knowledge. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin.
Ayer, A.J. 1971. Language, Truth and Logic. Original edition, Victor Gollancz, 1936. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin.
Ayer, A.J. 1976. The Central Questions of Philosophy. Original edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin.
Bandler, Richard and John Grinder. 1982. Reframing: Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Transformation of Meaning. Moab, Ut.: Real People Press.
Baron, Naomi S. 1988. Computer Languages: A Guide for the Perplexed. Original edition, Anchor Books, 1986. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin.
Barrow, John D. 1992. Theories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation. Original edition, Oxford University Press, 1990. London: Vintage.
Barrow, John D. and Frank J. Tipler. 1986. The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
Barwise, Jon and John Etchemendy. 1991. The Language of First-Order Logic. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information.
Batchelor, Stephen. 1994. The Awakening of the West: The Encounter of Buddhism and Western Culture, 543 BCE—1992. London: Thorsons, HarperCollinsPublishers.
Batchelor, Stephen. 1997. Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening. London: Bloomsbury.
Bateson, Gregory. 1972. Steps to an Ecology of Mind. New York: Ballantine.
Bateson, Gregory.1980. Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity. Original edition, Wildwood House, 1979. London, Fontana: Flamingo.
Beard, Ruth. 1969. An Outline of Piaget's Developmental Psychology for Students and Teachers. London and Henley, England: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Beck, Charlotte Joko. 1993. Nothing Special: Living Zen. New York: HarperSanFrancisco.
Becker, Ernest. 1973. The Denial of Death. New York: MacMillan, Free Press.
Beer, Stafford. 1966. Decision and Control: The Meaning of Operational Research and Management Cybernetics. Chichester, England and New York: John Wiley.
Beer, Stafford. 1975. Platform for Change. Chichester, England and New York: John Wiley.
Bell, Daniel. 1976. The Coming of Post-Industrial Society. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin.
Bell, Daniel. 1979. 'The Information Society' in The Computer Age: A Twenty-Year View. Edited by Michael L. Dertouzos and Joel Moses. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Bender, Gretchen and Timothy Druckery. 1994. Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology. Seattle, Wash.: Bay Press.
Bergson, Henri. 1983. Creative Evolution. Translated by Arthur Mitchell. Original edition, New York: Holt, 1911. Reprint, Lanham, Md.: University Press of America.
Berry, Adrian. 1983. The Super-Intelligent Machine: An Electronic Odyssey. Jonathan Cape.
Bertalanffy, Ludwig von.1968. General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications. Revised edition. New York: George Braziller.
Birnbacher, Dieter. 1995. Artificial Consciousness in Metzinger, Thomas, ed. Consciousness Experience. Thorverton, England: Imprint Academic and Schöningh.
Blau, Evelyne. 1995. Krishnamurti: 100 Years. New York: Stewart, Tabori and Chang.
Bloom, William. 1996. Money, Heart, and Mind: Financial Well-Being for People and Planet. Original edition, 1995, Viking. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, Arkana.
Blum, Milton L. and James C Naylor. 1949. Industrial Psychology and its Social Foundations. Harper.
Blumental, Sherman C. 1969. Management Information Systems: A Framework for Planning and Development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Bly, Robert. 1992. Iron John: A Book about Men. 1990. Shaftesbury, Dorset: Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element.
Bly, Robert. 1996. The Sibling Society. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.
Boden, Margaret A. 1977, 1987. Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man. Basic Books.
Boden, Margaret A. 1979. Piaget. Glasgow: William Collins, Fontana.
Boden, Margaret A. 1992. The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms. 1990. London: Sphere Books, Cardinal.
Bohm, David. 1980. Wholeness and the Implicate Order. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Bohm, David. 1992. Thought as a System. London and New York: Routledge.
Bohm, David. 1996. On Dialogue. Edited by Lee Nichol. London and New York: Routledge.
Bohm, David and Mark Edwards. Changing Consciousness: Exploring the Hidden Source of the Social, Political, and Environmental Crises Facing Our World. New York: HarperSanFrancisco.
Bok, Sissela. 1978 Lying: Moral Choice in Private and Public Life. New York: Pantheon, Random House.
Bok, Sissela. 1982. Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation. New York: Pantheon, Random House.
Bolen, Jean Shinoda. 1985. Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology of Women. 1984. New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, HarperPerennial.
Bolen, Jean Shinoda. 1990. Gods in Everyman: A New Psychology of Men's Lives & Loves. 1989. New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, HarperPerennial.
de Bono, Edward. 1971a. The Use of Lateral Thinking. Original edition, Jonathan Cape, 1967. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, Pelican.
de Bono, Edward. 1971b. The Mechanism of Mind. Original edition, Jonathan Cape and Simon and Schuster, 1969. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, Pelican.
de Bono, Edward. 1977. Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity. Original edition, Ward Lock, 1970. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin.
Booch, Grady. 1991. Object-Oriented Design with Applications. Redwood City, Calif: Benjamin/Cummings.
Boole, George. 1958. An Investigation of The Laws of Thought on Which Are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities. Original edition, 1854. Reprint, New York: Dover.
Brace, C. Loring. 1979. The Stages of Human Evolution: Human and Cultural Origins. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Brandt, Willie. 1980. North-South: A Programme for Survival. London and Sydney: Pan Books.
Bucke, Richard Maurice. 1991. Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind. Original edition, 1901. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, Arkana.
Buckminster Fuller R. 1970. Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity. New York: Overlook.
Buzan, Tony. 1974. Use your Head. London: British Broadcasting Corporation.
Campbell, Eileen, and J. H. Brennan. 1990. Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit: Ideas, People and Places. London: HarperCollinsPublishers, Aquarian Press.
Campbell, Joseph. 1968. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Second edition. Original edition, 1949. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Campbell, Robert. 1985. Fisherman's Guide: A Systems Approach to Creativity and Organization. Boston: Shambhala.
Capra, Fritjof. 1982. The Turning Point: Science, Society and the Rising Culture. London: Wildwood House.
Capra, Fritjof. 1983. The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism. With afterword. Original edition, Wildwood House, 1975. London: Fontana, Flamingo.
Capra, Fritjof. 1996.The Web of Life. London: HarperCollinsPublishers.
Chalmers, A. F. 1980. What Is This Thing Called Science? An Assessment of the Nature and Status of Science and Its Methods. Second edition. Original edition, 1978. Milton Keynes, England: Open University Press.
Charniak, Eugene, and Drew McDermott. 1985. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.
Chen, Peter Pin-Shan. 1976. 'The Entity-Relationship Model--Toward a Unified View of Data' in ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 1, No. 1.
Chomsky, Noam. 1957. Syntactic Structures. The Hague: Mouton.
Chomsky, Noam. 1965. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Chomsky, Noam. 1976. Reflections on Language. Glasgow: William Collins, Fontana.
Chopra, Deepak. 1993. Ageless Body, Timeless Mind. New York: Harmony Books.
Clark, Jane. 1994. 'Toward a Scientific Basis for Consciousness', Journal of Consciousness Studies, 1, No. 1.
Codd, Ted. 1970. 'A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks' in Communications of the ACM, 13, No. 6, June 1970.
Cohen, Jack, and Ian Stewart. 1995. The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World. Original edition, Viking Penguin, 1994. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin.
Cole, H.S.D., Christopher Freeman, Marie Jahoda, and K.R.L. Pavitt, eds. 1973. Models of Doom: A Critique of the Limits to Growth. New York: Universe Books.
Cole, Sam. 1988. Global Models: Garbage In--Guidance Out? Stockholm: Institutet för Framtidsstudier.
Connolly, Dan, ed. 1997. XML: Principles, Tools, and Techniques. Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly.
Crick, Francis. 1981. Life Itself, Its Origin and Nature. Macdonald.
Crick, Francis. 1994. The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul. London: Simon & Schuster.
Crockett, Andrew. 1973. Money; Theory, Policy and Institutions. Thomas Nelson.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. 1996. Flow: the Psychology of Happiness. Original edition, 1992, Harper & Row. London: Rider, Random House.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. 1997. Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. 1996. New York: HarperPerennial, HarperCollinsPublishers.
Cupitt, Don. 1984. The Sea of Faith: Christianity in Change. London: British Broadcasting Corporation.
Darwin, Charles. 1968. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Edited by J.W. Burrow. Original edition, John Murray, 1859. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin.
Dauncey, Guy. 1996. After the Crash: The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy. New edition. Original edition, 1988, Marshall Pickering. Rendlesham, England: Merlin, Green Print.
Davies, Glyn. 1996. A History of Money: From Ancient Times to the Present Day. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
Davies, Paul. 1984. God and the New Physics. Original edition, J.M. Dent, 1983. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin.
Davies, Paul. 1985. Superforce: The Search for a Grand Unified Theory of Nature. Original edition, Heinemann, 1984. London: Unwin Hyman.
Davis, Philip J., and Reuben Hersh. 1981. The Mathematical Experience. Boston, Birkhauser; Brighton, England: Harvester Press.
Davis, Philip J., and Reuben Hersh. 1988. Descartes' Dream: The World According to Mathematics. Original edition, Harvester Press. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin.
Dawkins, Richard. 1987. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design. First edition, 1986. New York, Norton.
Dawkins, Richard. 1989. The Selfish Gene. Original edition, 1976. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.
Dennett, Daniel C. 1991. Consciousness Explained. London: Allen Lane.
Dennett, Daniel C. 1996. Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. New York: Touchstone, Simon & Schuster.
Dertouzos, Michael L., and Joel Moses. 1979. The Computer Age: A Twenty-Year View. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Descartes, René. 1968. Discourse on the Method of Properly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking the Truth in the Sciences. Translated by F.E. Sutcliffe. 1637. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin.
Dewey, Melvin. 1876. Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index. Eighteenth Edition. Forest Press.
Dicke, Robert H. and James P. Wittke. 1960. Introduction to Quantum Mechanics. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.
van Dieren, Wouter, ed. 1995. Taking Nature into Account: Toward a Sustainable National Income, A Report to the Club of Rome. New York: Springer-Verlag, Copernicus.
Dreyfus, Hubert. 1992.What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason. Original edition (without Still), 1972. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Drucker, Peter F. 1993. Post-Capitalist Society. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann
Easwaran, Eknath, trans. 1986. The Bhagavad Gita. Original edition, Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, 1985. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, Arkana.
Easwaran, Eknath, trans. 1987. The Upanishads. London: Routledge, Arkana.
Edwards, Paul, ed. 1967. The Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. MacMillan.
Einstein, Albert. 1960. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory. Translated by Robert W. Lawson. Original Edition, 1920. London: Methuen.
Eisler, Riane. 1993. The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future. Original edition, Harper & Row, 1987. Reprint, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, Pandora.
Ekins, Paul, ed. 1986. The Living Economy: A New Economics in the Making. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Elgin, Duane. 1993. Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness. New York: William Morrow.
Elmwood Institute. 1986. 'Charting Paradigm Shifts'. The Elmwood Newsletter. 2, No. 2. Spring/Summer 1986.
Euclid. 1956. The Thirteen Books of the Elements. Second edition. 3 volumes. Original edition, Cambridge University Press, 1908. Translated by Thomas L. Heath. Reprint, New York: Dover.
Evans, Christopher. 1979. The Mighty Micro: The Impact of the Computer Revolution. London: Victor Gollancz.
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