BOOKS of Interest  i have read:

1. Exploring Atlantis, vol.1   by Frank Alper   

somewhat disappointing

2. Healing Mantras    by Thomas Ashley-Farrand

      excellent

3. Lying, Stealing, and Cheating    edited by Sara Nickles

    amusing

4. the Alchemy of Sacred Living    by Emory J. Michael

      inspiring

5. Plants of Love     by Christian Ratsch

     a compendium of aphrodisiacs

6. Water and Sexuality     by Michael Oden

    a study of the connections between birth,water,sex

7. Opium    by Martin Booth

    critical and somewhat slanted look at opium culture, good historical view

8. Can (the Book)

    history of the German band

9. Theremin, Ether Music and Espionage    by Albert Glinsky

  excellent biography and good history (1920s and 30s)
 

10. the Secret Chief     by Myron Stolaroff

    biography of a healer using psychedel*cs

11. Hypatia of Alexandria    by Maria Dzielska

      good but somewhat vague history of Hypatia the brilliant woman scholar

12. the Age of Spiritual Machines    by Raymond Kurtweil

       predictions of human/computer merging

13. the Body Electric     by Robert O. Becker and Gary Seldon

     info on the electrical substrate of the human body

14. the Name of This Band is Talking Heads

    history of the band
 

15. the Dream Drugstore    by J. Allan Hobson

   good but quite technical
 

16. Sythetic Panics     by Philip Jenkins

    drug scares and how they are created
 

17. Psychic Warrior     by David Morehouse

        heavy info about US government involvement in psychic research
 

18. DMT: The Spirit Molecule     by Rick Doblin

      fascinating
 

19. the Ambient Century     by Mark Prendergast

    from Mahler to trance- the evolution of sound in the electronic age
 

20. Cloud-Hidden Whereabouts Unknown    by Alan Watts

   my favorite author and one of my greatest inspirations
 

22. Psychoactive Sacrementals    edited by Thomas B. Roberts

 
 

23. the Secret Power of Music   by David Tame

    a look at the influence of music on a society
 

24. All Yesterdays' Parties, the VU in Print   by Clinton Heylin 
 
 

25. Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill        by Udo Erasmus

    republished as Oils That Heal, Oils That Kill.--- this book could save one's life  

 

26. the Shock Doctrine        by Naomi Klein

     a simple , in-depth explanation of how global capitalism works. excellent

 

27. What's the Matter with Kansas?        by  Thomas Frank

        good look at how the fundamentalist republicans have seized power in places like Kansas

 

28. Nickel and Dimed                          by  Barbara Ehrenreich

   funny, but not so funny,  investigtion of how the 'low income' segment of US lives

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

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