The bookshelf
The books behind the books. Every title Brendan draws on in his writing, shelved by theme. Take one down to see why it’s here and where to find it. Brendan cites or recommends every book here, which does not mean he agrees with all of it.
Brendan’s books
The two books these shelves grew out of.
Mind and Consciousness
What consciousness is, and why the brain-produces-mind story struggles.
Death, Dying and Afterlife
Near-death experience, past lives and what happens when the body stops.
Out of the Body
Astral projection, lucid dreaming and travelling beyond the body.
Physics, Fields and Holograms
Nonlocality, the implicate order, the aether and the shape of space.
Plasma and the Electric Universe
Plasma, the electric universe and the case that the afterlife has a plasma setting.
Subtle Bodies and the Occult
Theosophy, chakras, the aura and thought-forms.
Psi and the Limits of Science
Telepathy, remote viewing, mind over matter and the politics of paradigms.
Mysticism and the Perennial Philosophy
Mystics, yogis, esoteric traditions and the case that they describe the same thing.
Healing, Biology and Belief
Bioenergy, DNA, water and the body as something belief can change.
Hidden History and Suppressed Science
Lost civilisations, 2012, UFOs and inventions that never reached the textbooks.
Brendan’s books
Reverse Engineering the Afterlife, Brendan D. Murphy
Book Two. If consciousness is not produced by the brain, what happens to it at death? It introduces the Consciousness Transition Model, a cross-tradition map of what consciousness moves through after the body.
The Grand Illusion, Brendan D. Murphy
Thirteen chapters on consciousness, quantum physics, psi and the subtle bodies, with over a thousand citations. Book One of the series, and the source of nearly every book on these shelves.
Mind and Consciousness
Stalking the Wild Pendulum, Itzhak Bentov
Bentov’s picture of the universe and mind as vibration, part physics and part mysticism.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience; The Occult Aether; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram; The Occultist’s Seven Planes)
The Self-Aware Universe, Amit Goswami
A quantum physicist makes the case for a consciousness-first universe, with matter arising within awareness rather than the other way round.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Mystical Experience; Thought-Forms)
LSD Psychotherapy, Stanislav Grof
Grof’s clinical account of psychedelic therapy and the deep states of consciousness it can open.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Mystical Experience; The Human Aura)
The Holotropic Mind, Stanislav Grof
Grof on the three levels of human consciousness and how they shape our lives.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Mystical Experience)
Man and His Symbols, C.G. Jung
Jung’s last work, with contributors, introducing archetypes and the unconscious to general readers.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness)
Psychology and the Occult, C.G. Jung
Jung’s writings on the occult.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Synchronicity, C.G. Jung
Jung’s essay on meaningful coincidence and the idea of acausal connection.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; Telepathy; Clairvoyance; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
C.G. Jung Speaking, William McGuire and R.F.C. Hull (eds)
Collected interviews and encounters with Jung.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness)
The Roots of Consciousness, Jeffrey Mishlove
A wide survey of the history of parapsychology and consciousness research, from the early psychical researchers onwards.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness)
The Biology of Transcendence, Joseph Chilton Pearce
Pearce on the brain, development and transcendent experience.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram; The Occultist’s Seven Planes; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Shadows of the Mind, Roger Penrose
A mathematical physicist argues that human understanding cannot be reduced to computation, and looks to quantum physics for what is missing.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness)
Culture, Crisis and Creativity, Dane Rudhyar
Rudhyar separates the culture mind, which preserves the existing order, from the civilising mind, which breaks new ground.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness)
Mind Machines You Can Build, Harry C. Stine
Stine’s guide to building devices that influence brainwaves.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness)
DMT, Rick Strassman
A psychiatrist’s account of the first modern human trials of DMT, and the experiences his volunteers reported.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Mystical Experience; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram; The Human Aura)
The Atman Project, New Edition, Ken Wilber
Wilber’s model of human development from a transpersonal view.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience)
Quantum Psychology, Robert Anton Wilson
Wilson on how mind and language shape what we perceive, through the lens of quantum physics.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (A Different Viewpoint; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Quantum Consciousness, Stephen Wolinsky
Wolinsky’s guide to quantum psychology.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram; Thought-Forms)
Death, Dying and Afterlife
The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences, P.M.H Atwater
An encyclopedic guide to near-death experience from a researcher who had three of her own.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; The Mystical Experience; Thought-Forms)
21 Days into the Afterlife, Piero Calvi-Parisetti
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Thought-Forms)
Illuminating the Afterlife, Cyndi Dale
Cyndi Dale’s guide to the afterlife, drawn from her work as an intuitive and healer.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Human Aura)
We Are Their Heaven, Allison DuBois
DuBois, a medium, on how the dead remain connected to the living.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Clairvoyance; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Physics of the Soul, Amit Goswami
Goswami applies quantum ideas to reincarnation, dying and immortality.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (A Different Viewpoint; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Occultist’s Seven Planes; The Human Aura)
The Human Encounter With Death, Stanislav Grof and Joan Halifax
Grof and Halifax on psychedelic therapy with the dying, and what people facing death report.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience)
Experiencing the Next World Now, Michael Grosso
A philosopher draws on near-death and mystical experience to ask how we might prepare for dying while we are still alive.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram; The Human Aura; Telepathy)
Light After Life, Konstantin Korotkov
Korotkov’s bioelectrography research and what it suggests about the energy body, including after death.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience; The Occult Aether; The Occultist’s Seven Planes; The Human Aura)
The Wheel of Life, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Kübler-Ross’s memoir of a life spent with the dying.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Selected Bibliography)
Life After Life, Raymond Moody
The 1975 book that brought the near-death experience into public view and gave its common features their names.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Science Ain’t Always Scientific)
The Last Laugh, Raymond A. Moody
Moody’s philosophical reflections on near-death experiences, apparitions and the paranormal.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Science Ain’t Always Scientific; A Different Viewpoint)
Heading Toward Omega, Kenneth Ring
Ring’s study of what near-death experiences might mean.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience)
The Omega Project, Kenneth Ring
Ring’s study of near-death experiencers and UFO experiencers, and what they have in common.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience)
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche
A Tibetan teacher presents the Buddhist view of life, death and the in-between states in plain language.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; The Mystical Experience)
Recollections of Death, Michael B. Sabom
Sabom, a cardiologist, investigates what people report when they are close to death.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience; The Occult Aether; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
The Truth About Medium, Gary E. Schwartz
Gary Schwartz, a University of Arizona psychologist, on his research into mediums.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience)
The Country Beyond, Jane Sherwood
A study of the doctrine of rebirth.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Selected Bibliography)
Transformed by the Light, Cherie Sutherland
Sutherland on the life changes that follow near-death experiences.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience)
Tears in Heaven, Ian Ross Vayro
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Selected Bibliography)
Many Lives, Many Masters, Brian Weiss
A psychiatrist recounts a patient whose regression sessions took an unexpected turn into past lives.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; Science Ain’t Always Scientific; Telepathy)
Mediums and Messages from the Dead
Out of the Body
Astral Dynamics, Robert Bruce
A practical manual of astral projection and out-of-body techniques.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram; The Occultist’s Seven Planes; The Human Aura)
Out-of-Body Exploring, Preston Dennett
A beginner’s guide to leaving the body.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram; The Occultist’s Seven Planes)
Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, Stephen LaBerge and Howard Rheingold
LaBerge’s guide to lucid dreaming, the science behind it and how to practise it.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; The Mystical Experience; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Far Journeys, Robert A. Monroe
Monroe’s second book of out-of-body travel.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether; Thought-Forms; Clairvoyance)
The Projection of the Astral Body, Sylvan Muldoon and Hereward Carrington
Muldoon and Carrington’s classic account of astral projection.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Physics, Fields and Holograms
Flatland, Edwin Abbott
A Victorian satire about a two-dimensional world, and a classic way to picture dimensions beyond our own.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Selected Bibliography)
Modern Aether Science, Harold Aspden
A physicist argues for a physical aether and reworks ideas about gravity and inertia around it.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Excalibur Briefing, Tom Bearden
Tom Bearden’s controversial argument that scalar energy and the vacuum underlie psychic and healing phenomena.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Science Ain’t Always Scientific; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
The Tao of Physics, Fritjof Capra
Capra’s classic comparison of modern physics and Eastern mysticism.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness)
Antimatter, Frank Close
Frank Close’s popular account of antimatter and where it fits in physics.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Selected Bibliography)
Chaos, James Gleick
Gleick’s account of the birth of chaos theory.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Selected Bibliography)
The Fabric of the Cosmos, Brian Greene
Greene on space, time and the nature of reality.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Occult Aether)
Masks of the Universe, Edward Harrison
Harrison’s history of how people have pictured the cosmos.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness)
Cymatics, Hans Jenny
Photographs of sand, powders and liquids shaped into geometric forms by sound, showing vibration as a pattern-maker.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether)
Hyperspace, Michio Kaku
A physicist’s tour of extra dimensions and the theories that need them.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness)
Parallel Worlds, Michio Kaku
Kaku on the multiverse, higher dimensions and the future of the cosmos.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Occult Aether)
The Physics of the Impossible, Michio Kaku
Kaku weighs which science-fiction technologies might be physically possible.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Mystical Experience; The Occult Aether)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn
The classic account of how science moves in paradigm shifts rather than in a straight line.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; Science Ain’t Always Scientific; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
CosMos, Ervin Laszlo and Jude Currivan
Laszlo and Currivan on a holistic, information-based view of the universe.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Occult Aether; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram)
Genesis of the Cosmos, Paul A. LaViolette
LaViolette’s theory that the universe is continuously created.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Sacred Geometry, Robert Lawlor
Lawlor’s illustrated introduction to sacred geometry.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether)
The Field, Lynne McTaggart
McTaggart on the zero point field and the science behind it.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram; The Human Aura; Clairvoyance)
Extra-Sensory Perception of Quarks, Stephen M. Phillips
Compares the clairvoyant observations in Occult Chemistry with modern quark theory.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether)
The Quantum Enigma, Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner
Rosenblum and Kuttner on how quantum mechanics raises the question of consciousness.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness)
The Presence of the Past, Rupert Sheldrake
Sheldrake proposes that nature has a collective memory, so that habits spread across a species through morphic resonance.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Human Aura; Telepathy)
The Cosmic Landscape, Leonard Susskind
Susskind on string theory and the landscape of possible universes.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram)
The Holographic Universe, Michael Talbot
Brings together Bohm’s physics and Pribram’s brain research into the idea that reality is a hologram. Brendan credits it with starting his own research.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram; The Human Aura; Clairvoyance)
Extra-Dimensional Universe, John R. Violette
Violette’s argument that the universe has more dimensions than we perceive.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience; The Occult Aether; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
The Source Field Investigations, David Wilcock
Wilcock’s synthesis of science and ancient wisdom around a universal source field.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Occult Aether; The Human Aura; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Parallel Universes, Fred Alan Wolf
Wolf on parallel universes and the search for other worlds.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram; Clairvoyance)
Seeing Past the Edge, David G. Yurth
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Mystical Experience; The Occult Aether; The Human Aura)
Dance of the Photons, Anton Zeilinger
Zeilinger on entanglement and quantum teleportation.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram)
Plasma and the Electric Universe
Between the Moon and Earth, Jay Alfred
Argues that the afterlife realms can be understood in terms of plasma physics and the near-Earth environment.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Clairvoyance)
Our Invisible Bodies, Jay Alfred
A case for subtle bodies that draws together biofield, plasma and clairvoyant research.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Occult Aether; The Occultist’s Seven Planes; The Human Aura)
Subtle Bodies and the Occult
Occult Chemistry, Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater
Two Theosophists describe what they report seeing of atoms and elements through clairvoyant observation.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether; The Human Aura)
Thought Forms, Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater
An illustrated 1901 study of the shapes and colours that thoughts and emotions are said to take.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Human Aura)
Hands of Light, Barbara Ann Brennan
A former NASA physicist describes the human energy field as she perceives it, and how it relates to health.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occultist’s Seven Planes; The Human Aura; Telepathy)
How to See and Read the Human Aura, Judith Collins
A practical guide to seeing and interpreting the human aura.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occultist’s Seven Planes; Clairvoyance)
High-Voltage Photography, H.S. Dakin
Dakin’s practical guide to Kirlian photography.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Human Aura; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Infinite Mind, Valerie Hunt
Hunt reports her laboratory measurements of the human biofield and how they matched what sensitives saw.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Human Aura; Clairvoyance)
Breakthrough to Creativity, Shafica Karagulla
Karagulla’s research on people with higher sense perception.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Selected Bibliography)
The Chakras and the Human Energy Fields, Shafica Karagulla and Dora Van Gelder Kunz
A neurologist and a clairvoyant healer compare what the sensitive saw with what the physician diagnosed.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Selected Bibliography)
Clairvoyance, C.W. Leadbeater
Leadbeater on how clairvoyance works and how it is developed.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram; The Occultist’s Seven Planes; Clairvoyance)
Man Visible and Invisible, C.W. Leadbeater
Leadbeater’s illustrated study of the aura and the bodies of a human being, with colour plates.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occultist’s Seven Planes; The Human Aura; Thought-Forms)
The Astral Plane, C.W. Leadbeater
Leadbeater on the astral plane: its scenery, inhabitants and phenomena.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether; The Occultist’s Seven Planes; The Human Aura)
The Chakras, C.W. Leadbeater
The Theosophical account of the energy centres of the subtle body, in Leadbeater’s own descriptions.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether; The Occultist’s Seven Planes; The Human Aura; Thought-Forms)
The Inner Life, C.W. Leadbeater
Leadbeater’s lectures on spiritual development and the unseen.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occultist’s Seven Planes; The Human Aura; Telepathy; Clairvoyance)
Theories of the Chakras, Hiroshi Motoyama
A Japanese researcher and priest takes the chakras into the laboratory with instruments built to measure them.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occultist’s Seven Planes; The Human Aura; Telepathy; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Clairvoyance and Occult Powers, Swami Panchadasi
An early twentieth-century manual on clairvoyance and occult powers.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occultist’s Seven Planes; The Human Aura; Thought-Forms; Telepathy)
The Astral Body, Arthur E. Powell
Powell on the astral body in the Theosophical writings.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occultist’s Seven Planes; The Human Aura; Thought-Forms; Telepathy)
The Etheric Double, A.E. Powell
Powell gathers the Theosophical writings on the etheric body, the layer closest to the physical.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occultist’s Seven Planes)
Harry Oldfield’s Invisible Universe, Jane Solomon and Grant Solomon
Oldfield’s imaging work and the biofield.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Human Aura; Thought-Forms)
Edgar Cayce on the Akashic Records, Kevin J. Todeschi
Todeschi on the Akashic records, as Edgar Cayce described them.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Human Aura; Clairvoyance; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Psi and the Limits of Science
The Coincidence File, Ken Anderson
Looks at synchronicity and coincidence, and asks whether chance alone can explain them.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Telepathy)
Future Memory, P.M.H Atwater
Atwater on people who seem to have glimpsed the future, and what that might say about time and memory.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether; The Human Aura)
Primary Perception, Cleve Backster
Backster’s experiments on whether plants and living cells respond to people’s thoughts and intentions.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Human Aura; Telepathy; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Beyond the Five Senses, L. Margery Bazette
A mid-century account of psychic experience and perception beyond the ordinary senses.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Telepathy; Clairvoyance)
The Divine Matrix, Gregg Braden
Braden presents a field-based view of reality, and what it might mean for healing and belief.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Occultist’s Seven Planes; The Human Aura; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Cosmic Explorers, Courtney Brown
Courtney Brown on his remote viewing sessions.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Mystical Experience; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram; Clairvoyance)
The Seventh Sense, Lyn Buchanan
Buchanan’s memoir of her years as a remote viewer in the US Army unit.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Selected Bibliography)
Modern Psychical Phenomena, Hereward Carrington
Carrington’s early twentieth-century survey of psychical research.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Selected Bibliography)
The Soul of Things, William Denton and Elizabeth M.F.
The 1863 psychometry classic: the Dentons’ experiments in reading an object’s history by touch.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Clairvoyance)
The Power of Premonitions, Larry Dossey
A physician explores presentiment and premonition, and what it would mean if time does not work the way we assume.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Clairvoyance)
The World of Ted Serios, Jule Eisenbud
A psychiatrist reports on a man who appeared to project images onto Polaroid film by thought.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Thought-Forms)
PSIence, Marie D. Jones
Marie Jones on the science of psi and consciousness.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Mystical Experience; The Occult Aether)
The Medium, The Mystic and The Physicist, Lawrence LeShan
LeShan’s attempt at a general theory of the paranormal.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Mystical Experience; Clairvoyance)
PSI Spies, Jim Marrs
A journalist’s history of government interest in psychic spying.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; The Mystical Experience; Clairvoyance; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Mind Trek, Joseph McMoneagle
A veteran of the US Army remote viewing unit explains how the work was done and what it was used for.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Clairvoyance)
The Intention Experiment, Lynne McTaggart
McTaggart on experiments testing whether intention can affect the world.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Human Aura; Clairvoyance; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Psychic Discoveries, Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder
The revised edition of Ostrander and Schroeder’s report on Soviet psi research.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Occult Aether; The Human Aura; Telepathy)
Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder
Ostrander and Schroeder report on Soviet psi research.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Occult Aether; The Human Aura; Telepathy)
Entangled Minds, Dean Radin
Radin links psi research to quantum entanglement, asking whether minds can be connected the way particles are.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; Telepathy; Clairvoyance; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
The Conscious Universe, Dean Radin
A scientist lays out the experimental evidence for psychic phenomena, with the meta-analyses and the statistics.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; Telepathy; Clairvoyance; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Psychokinesis, John Randall
A history of psychokinesis and the evidence for it across the ages.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Human Aura; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Remote Viewing, Tim Rifat
A history of remote viewing and psychic spying.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Human Aura; Clairvoyance)
The Parapsychology Revolution, Robert M. Schoch and Logan Yonavjak
An anthology of paranormal and psychical research.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; Science Ain’t Always Scientific; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; Telepathy)
Awakening Intuition, Mona Lisa Schultz
Schultz’s guide to developing intuition.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Human Aura)
Penetration, Ingo Swann
Swann’s own account of his remote viewing work and the research programme that grew from it.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Clairvoyance)
Mind-Reach, Russell Targ and Harold E. Puthoff
Two physicists describe their laboratory work on remote viewing at the Stanford Research Institute.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; The Mystical Experience; Telepathy; Clairvoyance)
Psychoenergetic Science, William Tiller
A Stanford materials scientist reports experiments on whether focused human intention can change physical systems.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Science Ain’t Always Scientific; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Human Aura; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Genuine Mediumship, or, The Invisible Powers, Swami Bhakta Vishita
An early twentieth-century guide to mediumship.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
How to Hunt Ghosts, Joshua P. Warren
Warren’s practical guide to ghost investigation.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Thought-Forms)
Supernature, Lyall Watson
Watson’s natural history of the supernatural.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram; The Occultist’s Seven Planes; The Human Aura)
Sixth Sense, Stuart Wilde
Wilde on intuition and developing the sixth sense.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Telepathy)
Thoughts Through Space, Hubert Wilkins and Harold M. Sherman
The 1937-38 telepathy experiment between Sir Hubert Wilkins in the Arctic and Harold Sherman in New York.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Telepathy; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Cosmic Trigger, Robert Anton Wilson
Wilson’s account of his own experiments with belief, coincidence and altered states.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Occult Aether; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Prometheus Rising, Robert Anton Wilson
A playful and demanding manual on how conditioning builds the reality tunnels we live inside.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Science Ain’t Always Scientific; Thought-Forms; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Mysticism and the Perennial Philosophy
History of Mysticism, S. Abhayananda
A survey of mystical experience and its teachers across traditions, arguing that the core testimony never changes.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience)
The Key to Theosophy, H.P. Blavatsky
Blavatsky’s question-and-answer introduction to Theosophy, from the soul to karma and reincarnation.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; Science Ain’t Always Scientific; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Occult Aether)
The God Code, Gregg Braden
Braden’s argument that a message from our creators is written into human DNA.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether)
Cosmic Consciousness, Richard Maurice Bucke
A classic 1901 study of mystical illumination, and Bucke’s attempt to place it in the evolution of the human mind.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience)
The Bible Fraud, Tony Bushby
Bushby argues that the Gospel story is a borrowed myth rather than history.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Selected Bibliography)
Secret Wisdom, David Conway
Conway’s survey of occult and esoteric traditions.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Telepathy)
Nothing in This Book Is True, But It’s Exactly How Things Are, Bob Frissell
Frissell’s account of the metaphysical ideas he took from a Flower of Life workshop.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether)
Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, Melton, J. Gordon (ed.)
A two-volume reference work on occultism and parapsychology.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Selected Bibliography)
The Secret Teachings of All Ages, Manly Palmer Hall
Hall’s illustrated encyclopedia of esoteric, Masonic, Hermetic and Rosicrucian symbolism.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Human Aura)
Supernatural, Graham Hancock
Hancock on altered states, shamanism and encounters with entities across cultures.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Mystical Experience; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram)
The Perennial Philosophy, Aldous Huxley
Huxley’s anthology of mystical writings, arranged to show a common core.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness)
Tao Te Ching, D.C. Lau
Lau’s translation of the Tao Te Ching.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience)
The Conquest of Illusion, J.J. Van der Leeuw
van der Leeuw’s Theosophical study of illusion and the spiritual path.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Science Ain’t Always Scientific; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram)
The Lost Key, Robert Lomas
Lomas on the esoteric roots of Freemasonry.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience)
The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life, Drunvalo Melchizedek
Melchizedek on sacred geometry and the history of human consciousness.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience; The Occult Aether)
Sacred Contracts, Caroline Myss
Myss on archetypes and finding a person’s life purpose.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Human Aura)
Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism, Yogi Ramacharaka
The follow-up to Fourteen Lessons.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience; The Occult Aether)
Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism, Yogi Ramacharaka
Ramacharaka’s early twentieth-century introduction to yoga philosophy and occultism.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occultist’s Seven Planes; The Human Aura; Thought-Forms; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
The Science of Yoga, I.K. Taimni
Taimni’s commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Science Ain’t Always Scientific; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Occult Aether; The Human Aura)
Man and the Supernatural, Evelyn Underhill
Underhill on how the supernatural has been understood in religion and psychology.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Mystical Experience; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram)
God Save Us from Religion, Ian Ross Vayro
Vayro’s critique of organised religion.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Selected Bibliography)
They Lied to Us in Sunday School, Ian Ross Vayro
Vayro’s critique of how religion is taught.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Selected Bibliography)
Therese Neumann, Adalbert Albert Vogl
Vogl’s biography of the Bavarian mystic and stigmatist.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Human Aura)
The Mystic Sciences, Margaret Waite
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Occult Aether; The Human Aura; Telepathy)
Conversations with God, Book 3, Neale Donald Walsch
Walsch’s dialogue with God, Book 3.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience)
Conversations with God, Books 1 & 2, Neale Donald Walsch
Walsch’s dialogue with God, Books 1 and 2.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience)
Gifts of Unknown Things, Lyall Watson
Watson’s true story of nature, healing and initiation on an Indonesian island.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Isaac Newton, Michael White
White’s biography of Newton, which gives his alchemy its due.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness)
The Occult, Colin Wilson
A broad history of occult thought and practice, arguing for a faculty of the mind that modern life neglects.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience; Telepathy; Clairvoyance; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda
The life story of an Indian yogi, with accounts of the masters and the powers attributed to them.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Science Ain’t Always Scientific; The Human Aura; Telepathy; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Healing, Biology and Belief
The Physics of Miracles, Richard Bartlett
Bartlett’s account of Matrix Energetics, which treats consciousness as a field that can change physical reality.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Human Aura; Telepathy; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
The Body Electric, Robert O. Becker and Gary Selden
Becker’s research on bioelectricity and regeneration, and the case that the body runs on electromagnetic signalling.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Human Aura)
Light Emerging, Barbara Ann Brennan
Brennan on healing and the human energy field, building on Hands of Light.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occultist’s Seven Planes; The Human Aura; Thought-Forms; Clairvoyance)
The Fluoride Deception, Christopher Bryson
An investigative journalist’s case against water fluoridation.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Human Aura)
The Genie in your Genes, Dawson Church
Church on epigenetics and the effect of intention on genes.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram; The Occultist’s Seven Planes; The Human Aura; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
The True Power of Water, Masaru Emoto
Emoto’s work on how water responds to words, music and intention.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Vibrational Medicine, Richard Gerber
Gerber’s survey of energy-based therapies and the physics proposed for them.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram; The Occultist’s Seven Planes; The Human Aura; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
World Without Cancer, G. Edward Griffin
Griffin’s case for laetrile (vitamin B17) as a cancer therapy, and the controversy around it.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Selected Bibliography)
It’s the Thought that Counts, David Hamilton
Hamilton, a chemist, on how intention changes the body.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Human Aura; Telepathy; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Why Do People Get Ill?, Darien Leader and David Corfield
Leader and Corfield on the mind-body connection in illness.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Spontaneous Evolution, Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman
Lipton and Bhaerman on biology, belief and human evolution.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness)
The Biology of Belief, Bruce Lipton
A cell biologist argues that beliefs and the environment shape the body more than genes do.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram)
Conscious Healing, Sol Luckman
Luckman on his Regenetics method of healing through DNA.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether; The Human Aura; Thought-Forms; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Potentiate Your DNA, Sol Luckman
Luckman’s guide to activating DNA through consciousness.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience; The Occult Aether; The Human Aura; Telepathy)
Electric Body, Electric Health, Eileen Day McKusick
McKusick on the body as an electrical system, and how its field can be tuned for health.
Tuning the Human Biofield, Eileen Day McKusick
McKusick’s account of Biofield Tuning, which uses tuning forks to find and clear disturbances in the body’s energy field.
The Cosmic Serpent, Jeremy Narby
Narby on shamanism, DNA and where knowledge comes from.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Mystical Experience; The Occult Aether; The Human Aura)
The Emotion Code, Bradley Nelson
Nelson’s system for releasing trapped emotions.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Human Aura; Clairvoyance)
The Reconnection, Eric Pearl
Pearl on the healing practice he calls the Reconnection.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Human Aura)
Conversations With the Body, Robyn Elizabeth Welch
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Human Aura; Clairvoyance)
Hidden History and Suppressed Science
Fractal Time, Gregg Braden
Braden on cycles of time and what the 2012 date was supposed to mean.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Occult Aether; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
The Energy Grid, Bruce Cathie
Cathie’s theory of a global energy grid of harmonic points across the Earth.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
Anti-Gravity and the World Grid, David Hatcher Childress
A collection on anti-gravity research and the idea of an Earth energy grid.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Selected Bibliography)
Sky Creatures, Trevor James Constable
Constable’s study of reports of UFOs as living creatures of the sky.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Science Ain’t Always Scientific; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Occult Aether)
Edgar Cayce On The Indigo Children, Peggy Day and Susan Gale
Collects Edgar Cayce’s readings and commentary on gifted, spiritually aware children.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Telepathy)
Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries, Jonathan Eisen
Eisen’s collection of inventions and discoveries said to have been suppressed.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Science Ain’t Always Scientific)
Reich of the Black Sun, Joseph P. Farrel
Farrell’s study of Nazi secret weapons programmes and the legend that grew around them.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Human Aura)
Fingerprints of the Gods, Graham Hancock
Hancock’s case for a lost civilisation from the ice age.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether)
The Message of the Sphinx, Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval
Hancock and Bauval on the Giza monuments and how old they might be.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether)
The Monuments of Mars, Richard Hoagland
Hoagland’s claims about structures on Mars.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Occult Aether)
UFOs, PSI and Spiritual Evolution, Christopher Humphrey
Humphrey on UFOs, psi and the possible link between interstellar travel and consciousness.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram; The Human Aura)
Tales from the Time Loop, David Icke
Icke’s account of his theory of a manipulated reality and hidden rulers.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience)
The 2012 Story, John Major Jenkins
Jenkins on the Maya calendar and the 2012 date.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Preface; The Mystical Experience)
Alien Agenda, Jim Marrs
Marrs’s survey of UFO and extraterrestrial reports.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience; Thought-Forms)
The View Over Atlantis, John Michell
Michell on ley lines and lost ancient knowledge.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Selected Bibliography)
2012, Daniel Pinchbeck
Pinchbeck’s journey into 2012 and the Maya.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (The Question of Consciousness; Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Mystical Experience; The Occult Aether)
The Secret School, Whitley Strieber
Strieber’s account of preparation for contact.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness)
Serpent in the Sky, John Anthony West
West on the wisdom of ancient Egypt, following Schwaller de Lubicz.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Selected Bibliography)
Wilhelm Reich in Hell, Robert Anton Wilson
Wilson’s irreverent look at Wilhelm Reich and the fight over his work.
Cited in The Grand Illusion (Science Ain’t Always Scientific; The Human Aura)
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