..Suggested Reading and Viewing..

Caveat Lector: We have at one time or other enjoyed these works and found them useful. In recommending them, we hope you may enjoy them in the same spirit as the rest of the material on our website: i.e. as entertaining, moving and (we hope) enlightening; as good stories or movies, but not as dogmatic substitutes for the ever-living, unspeakable, and imperishable Truth of yourSelf itSelf — That which inspires all stories and all movies.

Books & Articles

  • Tsultrim Allione, “Feeding Your Demons” article in Tricycle at http://www.tricycle.com/-practice/feeding-your-demons
  • Joseph Atwill, Caesar’s Messiah
  • Alice A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar
  • __________, A Treatise on the Seven Rays: The Rays and the Initiations
  • Jim Bailey, Sailing to Paradise: The Discovery of the Americas by 7000 B. C.
  • Itzhak Bentov, Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness (Inner Traditions – Bear and Co., 1988)
  • __________, A Brief Tour of Higher Consciousness: A Cosmic Book on the Mechanics of Creation(Inner Traditions – Bear and Co., 2000)
  • Jean Shinoda Bolen, Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology of Women
  • __________, Gods in Everyman: A New Psychology of Men’s Lives & Loves
  • __________, Ring of Power: The Abandoned Child, the Authoritarian Father and the Disempowered Feminine
  • P. E. I. Bonewits, Real Magic: An Introductory Treatise on the Basic Principles of Yellow Magic (Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Co., 1971 and 1979)
  • Rob Cox, Creating the Soul Body: The Sacred Science of Immortality
  • Alain Danielou, The Myths and Gods of India
  • __________, Gods of Love and Ecstasy: The Traditions of Shiva and Dionysus
  • Barry Fell, America B.C.
  • __________, Saga America
  • __________, Bronze Age America
  • Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, The Jesus Mysteries: Was the “Original Jesus” a Pagan God? (1999)
  • __________, Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians (2002)
  • Fulcanelli, The Mystery of the Cathedrals
  • Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometery of Thinking
  • __________, Synergetics 2: Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
  • Thaddeus Golas, The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment (1972)
  • Shyam Sundar Goswami, Laya Yoga: Advanced Method of Concentration
  • Robert Graves, The Greek Myths, Vol. I and II
  • __________, The White Goddess
  • Steven M. Greer, Hidden Truth – Forbidden Knowledge (2006)
  • Joan Shivarpita Harrigan, Kundalini Vidya: The Science of Spiritual Transformation
  • Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks, Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Commitment
  • Emma Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz, The Grail Legend (Boston: Sigo Press, 1986)
  • Byron Katie, Loving What Is
  • John E. Mack, Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens
  • Jed McKenna, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing
  • __________, Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment
  • __________, Spiritual Warfare
  • John Michell, The Dimensions of Paradise: Sacred Geometry, Ancient Science, and the Heavenly Order on Earth
  • __________, The New View Over Atlantis
  • Philip and Phylis Morrison and The Office of Charles and Ray Eames, Powers of Ten: About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe (Scientific American Library, 1982)
  • Margaret A. Murray, The Divine King in England (1954)
  • __________, God of the Witches (1933)
  • __________, The Witch-Cult in Western Europe(1921)
  • Dorothy and Charlton Ogburn, This Star of England:”William Shake-speare,” Man of the Renaissance
  • Carol Pearson, Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World
  • Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali, The Vedanta Society of Southern California, 1953, 1981
  • Alwyn and Brinley Rees, Celtic Heritage: Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales
  • John J. Robinson, Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry
  • Anne Ross, Pagan Celtic Britain (Academy Chicago Publishers, 1996)
  • Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechen, Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge And Its Transmission Through Myth
  • Susan Setzer, “Whitman, Transcendentalism and the American Dream: Alliance with Nature’s Government through Language,” Journal of Modern Science and Vedic Science, Vol. 9, No. 1, online at http://www.mum.edu/pdf/msvs/v09/setzer.pdf
  • Anne Wilson Schaef, When Society Becomes an Addict
  • __________, Escape From Intimacy: The Pseudo-Relationship Addictions – Untangling the “Love” Addictions, Sex, Romance, Relationships
  • Shadwynn, The Crafted Cup: Ritual Mysteries of the Goddess and the Grail
  • Whitley Streiber, The Secret School: Preparation for Contact (New York: HarperCollins, 1997)
  • Choa Kok Sui, Pranic Healing
  • Keith Thompson, Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination (New York: Addison-Wesley, 1991)
  • Barbara G. Walker, The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
  • Frances Yates, The Art of Memory (1966)
  • __________, Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century (1975)
  • __________, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (1964)
  • __________, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (1979)
  • __________, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972)
  • __________, Shakespeare’s Last Plays: A New Approach (1975)
  • Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
  • Maharish Mahesh Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the Bhagavad Gita
  • __________, Love and God
  • __________, The Science of Being and the Art of Living

    • Films

  • Groundhog Day, 1993
  • Maharish Mahesh Yogi, The phonology of creation. Videotaped lecture, 28 December, 1972, La Antilla, Spain. Cited in Susan Setzer, “Whitman, Transcendentalism and the American Dream: Alliance with Nature’s Government through Language,” Journal of Modern Science and Vedic Science, Vol. 9, No. 1, online at http://www.mum.edu/pdf/msvs/v09/setzer.pdf
  • Pleasantville, 1998
  • The Office of Charles and Ray Eames, Powers of Ten, 1977
  • The Truman Show, 1998