The best books on plasma and the Electric Universe
Plasma is the fourth state of matter, and most of the visible universe is made of it. Some researchers argue that it matters for more than astronomy: that electric currents and plasma shape the cosmos, and that the subtle body and the afterlife have a plasma setting. This shelf is small, because Brendan D. Murphy cites few books that make that case directly.
Start with the two books by Jay Alfred, then read the research on bioelectricity, the aether and the field that the argument leans on. These ideas are contested, and the page says so: a book is here because Brendan cites it, not because he agrees with everything in it.
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Our Invisible Bodies
Jay Alfred, 2005
Jay Alfred’s case for subtle bodies, drawing together biofield, plasma and clairvoyant research. The place to start with his argument.
Brendan cites it in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Occult Aether; The Occultist’s Seven Planes; The Human Aura)
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Between the Moon and Earth
Jay Alfred, 2006
Alfred argues that the afterlife realms can be understood in terms of plasma physics and the near-Earth environment. Read it after Our Invisible Bodies.
Brendan cites it in The Grand Illusion (Clairvoyance)
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The Body Electric
Robert O. Becker and Gary Selden, 1998
Robert Becker’s research on the body’s electrical currents and fields, and what they do in healing and regeneration. The most solid science on this list, and the ground for the idea that the body is an electrical system.
Brendan cites it in The Grand Illusion (The Human Aura)
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Harry Oldfield’s Invisible Universe
Jane Solomon and Grant Solomon, 1998
Oldfield’s work on imaging the energy fields around people and things, which he read as showing a layer of the body that is not visible.
Brendan cites it in The Grand Illusion (The Human Aura; Thought-Forms)
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Modern Aether Science
Harold Aspden, 1972
A physicist argues for a physical aether and reworks gravity and inertia around it. It sits between the plasma proposals and the standard model.
Brendan cites it in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
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Genesis of the Cosmos
Paul A. LaViolette, 2004
Paul LaViolette’s alternative to the Big Bang, built on a physical medium behind space. A challenge to standard cosmology rather than an explanation of the afterlife.
Brendan cites it in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
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The Source Field Investigations
David Wilcock, 2011
David Wilcock gathers the claims about a field behind physical reality and reads them in the light of ancient and esoteric traditions.
Brendan cites it in The Grand Illusion (Quantum Weirdness And Cosmic Oneness; The Occult Aether; The Human Aura; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
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Extra-Dimensional Universe
John R. Violette, 2001
John Violette on extra dimensions and what a universe with more than three of space would allow, including a place for the unseen.
Brendan cites it in The Grand Illusion (The Mystical Experience; The Occult Aether; Psychokinesis And The Belief Effect)
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The Field
Lynne McTaggart, 2003
Lynne McTaggart on the zero point field and the experiments she reads as showing that everything is connected.
Brendan cites it in The Grand Illusion (The Occult Aether; Creating And Perceiving The Superhologram; The Human Aura; Clairvoyance)
Brendan reads the plasma proposals as one candidate for what some of the layers of the Consciousness Transition Model are made of. The model is the map; plasma is one way of describing the material it is a map of.
Brendan cites every book here. That does not mean he agrees with all of it.
All 9 books
Take one down to see why it is here and where to find it.
What is the Electric Universe?
A set of ideas that give electromagnetic forces and plasma a bigger role in shaping stars, galaxies and the cosmos than mainstream cosmology does. Most astronomers do not accept it as a replacement for the standard model, though plasma physics itself is part of mainstream astrophysics. None of the books on this list is an Electric Universe textbook.
What is plasma?
The fourth state of matter after solid, liquid and gas: a gas so energised that its atoms split into charged particles. Lightning, flames, auroras and the Sun are plasma, and most of the visible matter in the universe is.
What does plasma have to do with the soul and the afterlife?
In the two Jay Alfred books at the top of this list, the proposal that subtle bodies and the afterlife realms can be understood in terms of plasma physics and the near-Earth environment. It is a proposal, not a finding of mainstream science. Brendan D. Murphy discusses it in his own work on the afterlife.
Is the Electric Universe science?
Parts of it are contested and others are rejected by most astronomers. Reading a book on this list is not agreeing with it: the shelf lists the books Brendan cites, and he does not endorse everything in them.
Where should I start?
With Jay Alfred’s Our Invisible Bodies, then Between the Moon and Earth. For the research on the body’s electrical nature, read Robert Becker’s The Body Electric.
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