Bibliography Of Researched Sources

Current through 2005

Descriptions under each source may cross-referenceother sources within this list by author's last name.

Arguelles, Jose, The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology, Bear and Company, Rochester, VT, 1996, 224 pages.

This is a great book for anyone who has heard of the accuracy of Mayan mathematics, astronomy, calendars, and prophecy. It has information about what many different sources claim to be the end of the world-- December 21, 2012...coming right up!.

Ball, Philip, Stories of the Invisible: A Guided Tour of Molecules, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 204 pages.

This is an easy-to-follow guide to how atoms make molecules, and how molecules are put together to form compounds that always behave quite differently from the attributes of their elemental building blocks. Barbour, Ian G., When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners?, Harper, San Francisco, 2000, 205 pages. Very good book, with plenty of anecdotal (and logical) "proofs" for how science and religion are actually two sides of the same coin...truth.

Berman, Bob, Astronomy: Strange Universe--Do Black Holes Exist? December, 2001, pages 96-97.

This is an article that cast doubt on the explanation for black holes, specifically because "infinite mass" must be impossible in a finite universe.

Bohm, David, Wholeness and the Implicate Order, Routledge Classics, New York, NY, 1980, 284 pages.

For those who can stick with Bohm's arguments enough to weather his rather heavy use of math formulae, he could be seen as perhaps the greatest original source of what is sometimes called, "quantum psychodynamics" (see Wolf). No wonder! Bohm is a Nobel Prize winner who was good friends with Einstein, helped invent quantum mechanics, and was the first and most respected theoretical physicist to attempt to prove that there is a non-material aspect to physical reality. I personally find his writing to be very dry. But the informative and precise nature of his astoundingly unique ideas (backed up by perfected math and logic) can be exciting in its own way! Bohm occupies a bold and unique standpoint in physics (and metaphysics), though sometimes it is one that is very hard for us mere mortals to understand. However, his theory about quantum superposition (the "implicate order") of all reality, as opposed to what we commonly see and accept as reality (what Bohm calls the "explicate order", based on matter fields), is now very well respected by the "new physicists", and anyone can understand its basics. This is important to me because it may allow metaphor to be used in physical ways, not just philosophical ways. I believe the person who comes up with a Final Unified Field (Reality) Theory will base it on a mixture of: (1) a Bohmian Theory of Consciousness (supported by Talbot, Wolf, B. Green and many others), (2) M Theory (supported by Hawking, Wheeler, Whitten, Weinstein, Greene, etc.), and (3) the perfectly consistent, logically deductible, metaphysical, and cosmological framework of the Urantia revelation (see Urantia Book). If this were to become the case, no possible aspect of reality would remain unclassifiable. There would then be a basis to find any explanation. Though, of course, even then there would be only a few immediate answers. But at least a true reality scaffolding can be conceptually built upon. As it stands now there are only comparatively shaky and incomplete theories of reality.

Casati, Roberto, The Shadow Club: The Greatest Mystery in the Universe -- Shadows -- and the Thinkers Who Unlocked Their Secrets, Random House, New York, NY, 2003, 230 pages.

Excellent and entertaining book about shadows--which we have mistakenly been taken for granted. Lots of surprises. Good book.

Collins, Graham P., Scientific American: Physics--Trillions Entwined, December, 2001, p. 26.

Physics article that explains the quantum mechanical reasons for instant communication between certain particles (a concept rejected by Einstein, but proved by many recent experiments).

Davies, Paul, Space, Superspace, and the Quantum Universe, Penguin USA, New York, NY, 1997, 208 pages.

Excellent source for explaining how string theory and quantum gravity can explain higher dimensions and how quantum mechanics has exposed these physical situations.

Davies, Paul, The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About the Ultimate Fate of the Universe, Basic Books, New York, NY, 1994, 162 pages.

This is essentially a book to theorize what physical reactions of the universe if it were to retract upon itself, collapsing back into a new Big Crunch. Essential Substances, (Get Info.) Good, but somewhat limited and broad-spoken, source for the use of psychoactive plants in history and among many world cultures.

Ferguson, Kitty, Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything, the Story of His Life and Work, Bantam Books, New York, NY, 1992, 192 pages.

Flattering, but realistic, portrayal of this great man.

Greene, Brian, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, W. W. Norton & Co., New York, NY, 1999, 448 pages.

I read this book and viewed (several times) the excellent Nova (PBS) presentation of Greene's book. This is a rare book being simultaneously of high-quality and easy to understand. If you want to understand the very latest theories about strings and unified field physics, as well as the history leading up to them, this is the book to read.

Greene, Brian, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, Random House, New York, NY, 2004, 569 pages.

A continuation and clarification of many concepts from "Elegant Universe".

Guillen, Michael, Five Equations that Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics, Hyperion, New York, NY, 1995, 277 pages.

A specific focus on equations such as the Pythagorean Theorem, the discovery of pi and phi, and Einstein's energy to mass equivalency. There are many other discussions in this book about how humans come to such theories and laws.

Gospel According to Thomas, on 4 Audio Tapes, approximately 6 hours, (Get Info.)

Wonderful (and alternate) concepts about Christ, told by Thomas (a gospel rejected by the Catholic church, while assembling the Bible). It is quite revealing about the real (non-institutionally-friendly) person of Jesus.

Haber, Howard E., and Gordon L. Kane, Scientific American: Is Nature Super symmetric? June, 1986, pages 28-34.

This article discusses the newest concepts of "Supersymmetry" (the M- theory, of how every particle in our universe has a twin of differing strength, in other dimensions).

Harris, Timothy, Mysteries of the Universe, A One-Part Video, 1991 (need more info).

Good visualizations of different physical levels. A little dated, but still very informative.

Hawking, Stephen, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, Bantam Books, New York, NY, 1993, 182 pages.

Just what it says. This is a good intro for those who don't have time to read Hawking's books.

Hawking, Stephen, A Brief History of Time, Bantam Books, New York, NY, 1993, 287 pages.

Great detail on black hole radiation, theories about universal shapes (ie. open or closed), and also interesting comments about Relativity, Quantum Mechanics and Big Bang theories.

Hawking, Stephen, The Universe in a Nutshell, 4 Audio CD's, approximately 4 hours, (Get Info).

Terrific source for learning Hawking's theories.

Herbert, Nick, On Eve of Physics Symposium New Particles Found, Internet Document, Site: deoxy.org, 1997, 2 pages.

Fascinating paper about how a group of particle physicists discovered a link between mind and matter.

Kaku, Michio, Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth Dimension, Anchor Books, New York, NY, 1995, 359 pages.

A good, well-described source about the newest theories of physics.

Kaku, Michio, Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize The 21st Century, Bantam Books, New York, NY, 1998, 403 pages.

Interesting ideas about how technology will shape our future. Krauss, Lawrence M., with Foreword by Stephen Hawking, The Physics of Star Trek, Harper Perennial, New York, NY, 1995, 188 pages. Interesting and entertaining book about the consistency and imaginative science behind the many versions of the Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek series. Roddenberry was a Urantia Book reader.

LaViolette, Paul A., Beyond the Big Bang: Ancient Myth and the Science of Continuous Creation, Park Street Press, Rochester, VT, 1995, 374 pages.

Very well written and respected academic argument against the Big Bang, routing the discoveries of current physics in the ancient sources of early (and prehistorical) Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Mezzo-and South American cultures. This book also ties in the Indian Vedas, the I-Ching, and even Tarot Cards to physical theory. This is an excellent and unique perspective about how there are "sub-quantum" processes that lead to all visible phenomena. LaViolette is also a Urantia Book reader.

Lorentz, H.A., Einstein, A., Minkowski, H., and Weyl, H., with notes by Sommerfeld, A., the Principle of Relativity: A Collection of Original Papers on the Special and General Theory of Relativity, Mineola, NY, 1952, 216 pages.

These are the classics from 100 years ago that still ring true and revolutionized all understanding about physical theory. They are somewhat difficult to understand in that they are often technical and written to be understood by mathematicians and other physicists. Still, this book is a comprehensive and a necessary read if one is to truly understand Relativity.

Muvrin, Alexander E., Grand Unified Theory MU-27, Internet Document, Site: tripod.com, University of Toronto, Canada, Updated April 11, 2002, 17 pages.

This is graphic interpretation of one theorist's Unified Field Theory.

Sagan, Carl, Cosmos, A Six-Part Video Series, 1988 (need more info).

This is the classic 1980's PBS television series. There is still a lot to learn from Sagan. He was the first of the great physics communicators.

Seaborn, James B., Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Physics and Astrophysics, Springer, New York, NY, 1998, 304 pages.

This textbook covers it all. Mastering the experiments in this book would allow one to pass both a first and second level college physics class.

Smolin, Lee, Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Basic Books, New York, NY, 2001, 230 pages.

Great discussion of the most believable new physics theories (from the string theory and M-Theory camps), who's research may be used to finally describe how gravity works at the quantum level. Smolin is a leading theorist of "loop quantum gravity" (see also two Scientific American articles).

Swimme, Brian, Canticle to the Cosmos, A Twelve-Part Video Lecture Series, 1991 (need more info).

Unusual and completely unique perspectives about the new physics and the link between consciousness and matter--especially from tape #3 on... Swimme is a master communicator and lecturer (as is evidenced on these tapes). He is professor of Physics at Toronto University. He uses ideas of ethics from psychology and religion to explain new physics phenomena (and vice versa). He has radical but strangely believable theories about how everything is "alive", because we've made it so. In his line of reasoning, the proverbial tree that fell in the woods out of the range of human experience (sight, sound, touch, etc.), not only doesn't make a noise, but probably never even fell in the first place (as seen with

Talbot and Wolf). Talbot, Michael, The Holographic Universe, Harper Perennial, New York, NY, 1991, 338 pages.

Talbot uses a physics-based argument (holography--which the whole is made up by pieces which are each ((each one)) a perspective of that same whole) to explain paranormal events, and the brain-body connection. Talbot gives convincing arguments supporting the idea that mind creates all reality. In this way he leaves some room for non-material explanations as well. Talbot cites Wolf and Bohm.

Thorne, Kip S., Frederick Seitz, and Stephen Hawking (Introduction), Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy, W. W. Norton & Co., New York, NY, 1995, 619 pages.

More about how concepts found in science fiction may be fact after all.

Urantia Foundation, The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation, Chicago, IL, 1986, 2097 pages.

This is the most believable of any supposedly "revealed" source of knowledge. It is a brilliant, sweeping, and--for all intents and purposes--perfectly consistent cosmology, including details about the origins of divinity, descending and ascending (other than human) beings, history and geography of every level of administrative construct and physical masses--from Master Universe to the smallest particle, as well as information on nearly all religions. It is also quite conveniently consistent with modern physical theory (though it was written in the very early years of the 20th Century, before quantum mechanics). The Urantia revelation seems the best place to base the more metaphysical aspects of my own theories on. I figure I could use a less complete source, but what sense would that make? Every source listed in this bibliography can be fitted to the Urantia cosmology in some way. Otherwise I wouldn't have chosen them. Still, anyone can see they are very well-known and objective sources, and they are unlike any reference works I would have philosophically chosen based on the revelations of any one of the institutionalized religions, nor from atheism, humanism, or agnosticism. Any one of these bibliographical sources might line up with aspects of the fore-mentioned philosophies of mankind, but they wouldn't ALL line up, and then fit together in any other kind of belief system but that of the Urantia Book.

Von Baeyer, Hans Christian, Taming the Atom: The Emergence of the Invisible Microworld, Random House, New York, NY, 2000, 223 pages.

History and art atomic and quantum physics, along with a little bit of fiction (Asimov and Clark).

Weinberg, Steven, Physical Review Letters: "Observation of the Top Quark," Vol. 74, No. 14, April 3, 1995, pages 2626-2631.

Announcement from the Nobel Prize-winning physicist about the final discovery of particles in what is now called The Standard Model for bosons and matter constituents.

Weinberg, Steven, Scientific American: "A Unified Physics by 2050," December, 1999, page 32-38.

More about the possibility of completeing a Unified Field Theory in our lifetime.

Wilber, Ken, A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science, and Spirituality, Shambhala Publications, New York, NY, 2000, 189 pages.

Interesting and ambitious (though somewhat rambling and unfocused) account that attempts to literally unify all aspects of known reality. This is a good read for most people because it is not heavy on math or science proofs.

Wolf, Fred A., The Spiritual Universe: One Physicist's Vision of Spirit, Soul, Matter, and Self, Moment Point Press, Inc., San Francisco, CA, 1998, 325 pages.

I started this book but was unable to finish at the time of reading. It is largely a restatement of many of Wolf's concepts; being more philosophical than his other science-oriented work. Wolf is largely Bohmian. He also cites Talbot.

Wolf, Fred A., The Dreaming Universe: A Mind Expanding Journey into the Realm Where Psyche and Physics Meet, Touchstone Books, New York, NY, 1991, 413 pages.

This is a very convincing work by Wolf. If the reader can keep up with his extremely keen intellect and long explanations, one might become utterly convinced that mind (on different levels) creates all reality.

Wolf, Fred A., Parallel Universes: The Search for Other Worlds, Touchstone Books, Boston, MA, 1991, 284 pages.

This is interesting because (unlike some other books by Wolf) it integrates the use of mind alteration (with psychoactive substances and/or other means) to examine reality, without the typical persecution and political correctness associated ignorant views condemning--but not understanding--the potential for inner exploration.

Wolf, Fred A., Star*Wave, Moment Point Press, Inc., San Francisco, CA, 1990, 289 pages.

This is the first book I read by Wolf. It sets up a basis for many of his future concepts involving mind and matter. But more specifically, it starts with the assumption that Schrodinger's quantum wave probability theory extends to all things. Great start for the reader who wants alternative theories that still stand up to physical scrutiny.

Zaehner, R. C., Hindu Scriptures (Including Selections From: The Rig-Veda, The Atharva-Veda, The Upanishads, and The Bhagavad-Gita), Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1992, 411 pages.

I have read most of this very colorful, and eloquently written collection of ancient Hindu sources. They give insight into the Indian psyche and complex cosmology of Hinduism. Its myths and symbolism also tends to back up many of the theories of modern science including the kind of "sub-quantum kinetics" described by LaViolette.

[Other literary, audio, and video sources must still be added before this list is complete.]