Bibliography

Here is a list of some of books that I've read, that have helped to shape my ideas and develop my presentations. They are grouped in various and I hope sensible categories.

Religion and Spirituality

World Religions - John Bowker 1997

Beliefs that changed the World - John Bowker 2007

Battle for God - Karen Armstrong 2000

A History of God - Karen Armstrong 1993

The World's Religions, Lion publishing Handbook - Various 1994

A Handbook of Living Religions - Ed. John R.Hinnells

The Jesus mysteries - Freke & Gandy 1999

Introducing Buddha - Hope and Van Loon 1994

Introducing Muhammad - Sardar & Abbas Malik 1994

Muhammad - Karen Armstrong 1991

Imams and Emirs - Fuad I. Khuri 1990

Paul, The Mind of the Apostle - A.N. Wilson 1997

Twelve World Teachers - Manly P. Hall 1965

The Lives of Jesus - Mark Tully 1996

Jesus the Evidence - Ian Wilson 2000

The Spirit of China - David Burnett 2008

Holy Scriptures from World Religion

Sacred Texts of the World - Ninian Smart & Richard D. Hecht 1982

The Dhammapada - Translated by Ananda Maitreya 1995

The Lotus of the Wonderful Law - Translated by W.E. Soothill 1987

Bhagavad Gita - Translated by W.J. Johnson 1994

Bhagavad Gita - Translated by Juan Mascaro 1962

The Bible - NIV 1973

The Koran - Translated by N.J. Dawood 1956

The Bible for Dummies - Geoghegan & Homan 2003

The Complete Jesus - Ricky A. Mayotte 1998

Hidden sayings of Jesus - William Morrice 1997

The Essential Koran - Thomas Cleary 1993

World Scripture, A comparative Anthology of Sacred texts - Ed. Andrew Wilson 1995

The Complete Works of Lao Tzu - Hua-Ching Ni 1979

The Bible - Karen Armstrong 2007

Mysticism, Mythology and Mystery

The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell 1949

The Masks of God, Creative Mythology Joseph Campbell 1968

The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers 1988

Introducing Jung - Hyde & McGuinness 1992

Tantric grounds and paths - Geshe Kelsang Gyatso 1994

Mysticism, Holiness East and West - Carmody & Carmody 1996

Tantra, The path of ecstasy - Georg Feuerstein 1998

Introduction to Tantra - Lama Yeshe 2001

Mysticism in the World's religions - Geoffrey Parrinder 1976

Gnosis, The Nature and History of Gnosticism - Kurt Rudolph 1977

The Gnostics - Tobias Churton 1987

The Reincarnation Controversy - Steven Rosen 1997

Mythology for Dummies - Blackwell & Blackwell 2002

The Complete Guide to World Mysticism - Freke & Gandy 1997

Jesus and the Goddess - Freke & Gandy 2001

Introducing Eastern philosophy - Osborne & Van Loon 1996

The Tantric Way - Ajit Mookerjee and Madhu Khanna 2003

Prophecy and Eschatology

The Coming Deliverer - Ed. Fiona Bowie 1997

Nostradamus, The New Revelations - John Hogue 1994

Apocalypse 2012 - Lawrence E. Joseph 2007

Messiahs: The visions and prophesies for the second coming - John Hogue 1999

The End of Time - Damian Thompson 1996

Prophecy - Eds. Bertand Taithe & Tim Thornton 1997

Messianic Revolution - David S. Katz & Richard H. Popkin 1999

Apocalypses - Eugen Weber 1999

The Lost Messiah - John Freely 2001

Hitler's Millennial Reich - David Redles 2005

New Religious Movements, Cults and Sects

The New Believers - David V. Barrett 2001

Prophets, Cults and Madness - Stevens & Price 2000

Spying in Guru Land - William Shaw 1994

Encyclopedia of New Religions - Christopher Partridge 2004

The Devil's party - Colin Wilson 2000

Feet of Clay - Anthony Storr 1996

Shopping for a God - John Allan 1986

The Cult at the End of the World - Kaplan & Marshall 1996

The God that Failed - Hugh Milne 1987

The World's Most Evil Cults - Peter Haining 2006

Cults, Faith Healing & Coercion - Marc Galanter 1999

Mystics and Messiahs - Philip Jenkins 2000

Perspectives on New Religious Movements - John A. Saliba 1995

The Rise and Fall of the Nine o'Clock Service - Roland Howard 1996

God's Chinese Son - Jonathan D. Spence 1996

New Religions and the Nazis - Karla Poewe 2006

The Occult Roots of Nazism - Nicholas Goodrick 2003

The True Believer - Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements - Eric Hoffer 1951

Religion and Mysticism meets Science

Mysticism and the New Physics - Micheal Talbot 1993

The Tao of Physics - Fritjof Capra 1975

The Mind of God - Paul Davies 1992

The God who would be known - Templeton & Herrmann 1989

Science & Theology, An introduction - John Polkinghorne 1998

Belief in God in an age of science - John Polkinghorne 1998

A Brief History of Everything - Ken Wilbur 1996

The Fire in the Equations - Kitty Ferguson 1995

Science and Mathematics

The Recursive Universe - William Poundstone 1985

Labyrinths of reason - William Poundstone 1988

Evolution, The Grand Synthesis - Ervin Laszlo 1987

Introducing Mathematics - Sardar, Ravetz & Van Loon 1999

The Fabric of Reality - David Deutsch 1997

Who's afraid of Schrodinger's cat - Ian Marshall & Danah Zohar - 1997

Artificial life - Ed. Chris Langton 1989

Artificial Life - Stephen Levy 1992

The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins 1986

The Web of Life - Fritjof Capra 1996

Chance and Chaos - David Ruelle 1991

Randomness - Deborah J. Bennett 1998

Introducing quantum theory - McEvoy & Zarate 1996

Information - Hans Christian von Baeyer 2003

The Colors of Infinity - Various 2004

Fractal Geometry - Lesmoir-Gordon, Rood & Edney 2000

The Bit and the Pendulum - Tom Siegfried 2000

The Quantum Brain - Jeffery Satinover 2001

Introducing chaos - Sardar & Iwona 1998

Makers of Mathematics - Stuart Hollingdale 1989

Information and the internal structure of the Universe - Tom Stonier 1990

Chaos under control - Peak & Frame 1994

Frontiers of Complexity - Coveney & Highfield 1995

Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas R. Hofstadter 1979

Between inner space and outer space - John D. Barrow 1999

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking 1988

The Universe in a nutshell - Stephen Hawking 2001

The large, the small and the human mind - Roger Penrose 1997

The Emperor's new mind - Roger Penrose 1989

Small world - Mark Buchanan 2002

Complexity - Mitchell M. Waldrop 1992

Complexity - Roger Lewin 2001

Complexity - Melanie Mitchell 2009

The User Illusion - Tor Norretranders 1998

Chaos - James Gleick 1987

Searching for Certainty - John Casti 1992

The Broken Dice - Ivar Ekeland 1994

The New Quantum Universe - Anthony Hey and Patrick Walters 2003

The Trouble With Physics - Lee Smolin 2006

Meta Maths, The Quest for Omega - Gregory Chaitin 2005

New Theories of Everything - John Barrow 2007

A Passion for Mathematics - Clifford A. Pickover 2005

The End of Time - Julian Barbour 1999

Endless Universe, Beyond the Big Bang - Paul J. Steinhardt & Neil Turok 2007

Deciphering the Cosmic Number - Arthur I. Miller 2009

Philosophy

The Story of Philosophy - Bryan Magee 1998

Philosophy for beginners - Richard Osborne 1992

The mystery of consciousness - John.R.Searle 1997

The Idea of Consciousness - Max R. Bennett 1997

Consciousness explained - Daniel C.Dennett 1991

The Quantum self - Danah Zohar 1991

Sophies world - Jostein Gaarder 1991

Quantum philosophy - Roland Omnes 1999

Great thinkers on great questions - Ed. Roy A. Varghese

The Passion of the Western Mind - Richard Tarnas 1991

The philosophy of religion - B.R. Tilghman 1994

I Am A Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter 2007

Neurophilosopy - Patricia Smith Churchland 1989

Politics, History and Social commentary

Political Ideology Today, 2nd Edition - Ian Adams 2001

Comparative Politics: Continuity and Breakdown in the Contemporary World - Paul W. Zagorski 2009

Introducing Political Philosophy - Dave Robinson & Judy Groves 2006

The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein 2007

International Relations - Stephanie Lawson 2003

International Relations - K.M. Fierke & Michael Nicholson 2002

Issues in 21st Century World Politics - Mark Beeson & Nick Bisley 2010

The End of Certainty - Stephen Chan 2010

Justice - Michael Sandel 2010

World in Crisis - Gabriel Kolko 2009

The Crisis of Civilization - Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmad 2010

2012 Surviving the Next Crisis - Nicholas Boyle 2010

The Enigma of Capital - David Harvey 2010

The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements - David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule & Hanspeter Kriesi 2003

Diffusion of Social Movements - R.K. Givan, K.M. Roberts, S.A. Soule 2010

Political and Social Movements that Changed the Modern World - Edited by Heather M. Campbell 2010

How Social Movements Matter - Editors M. Giugni, D. McAdam, C. Tilly 1999

The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity and the Radical Remaking of Economics - Eric D. Beinhocker 2006

Sociology and Complexity Science - Brain Castellani & Frederic Hafferty 2009

MacMafia - Misha Glenny 2009

Freefall - Joseph Stiglitz 2010

Bonfire of Illusions - Alex Callinicos 2010

The Meaning of the 21st Century - James Martin 2007

Superclass: How the Rich Ruined Our World - David J. Rothkopf 2009

Black Mass - John Gray 2007

Straw Dogs - John Gray 2003

The End of Certainty - Stephen Chan 2010

Hitler, Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet - Fritz Redlich M.D. 1998

Hitler, Profiles in Power - Ian Kershaw 2000

The Birth of the Nazis - Nigel Jones 1987

The Man who Invented the Third Reich - Stan Lauryssens 2002

The Devils Disciples - Anthony Read 2004

PanzerKrieg - Peter McCarthy & Mike Syron 2002

When China Rules the World - Martin Jacques 2009

The Beijing Consensus - Stephan Halper 2010

China Shakes the World - James Kynge 2007

The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers - R. McGregor 2011

The Three Faces of Chinese Power Might, Money and Minds - D. Lampton 2008

In Spite of the Gods - The Strange Rise of Modern India - Edward Luce 2006

The New Silk Road - Ben Simfendorfer 2009

China and Iran - Edward Burman 2009

The Shia Revival - Vali Nasr 2006

Ahmadinejad - The Secret History of Iran's Radical Leader -Kasra Naji 2008

Taliban - Ahmad Rashid 2010

God's Terrorist's: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad - Charles Allen 2007

Does Israel have a Future? - Constance Hilliard 2009

The Isreal Lobby and US Foreign Policy - John J. Mearsheimer & Stephen M. Walt 2007

The New Rulers of the World - John Pilger 2003

The Clash of Civilizations - Samuel P. Huntington 1996

In the Blood - Steve Jones 1996

Techgnosis - Erik Davis 1998

Our Final century - Martin Rees 2003

Religion in America, since 1945 - Patrick Allitt 2003

Religion in the modern world - Steve Bruce 1996

Religion in the twenty-first century - Mary Pat Fisher 1999

Cyberia - Douglas Rushkoff 1994

Assassins - J. B. Bartlett 2002

The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins 2006

Miscellaneous

Dragons of Eden - Carl Sagan 1977

The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield 1994

Mavericks of the mind - Various 1993

Robots Rebellion - David Icke 1994

Magic White & Black - Franz Hartmann 1888

The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail - Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh 1982

Macachivellian Intelligence - Dario Maestripieri 2007

Chimpanzee Politics - Frans De Waal

Demian - Herman Hesse 2006

The Music of the Spheres - Jamie James 1993

The Secret History of the World - Jonathan Black 2007

Food of the Gods - Terennce McKenna 1992

Acid, The secret history of LSD - David Black 1998

Albion Dreaming - Andy Roberts 2008

Storming Heaven - Jay Stephens 1998

The Mystery of Manna - Dan Merkur 2000

Soma, The Divine Hallucinogen - David L. Spess 2000

The Philosophers Stone - Peter Marshall 2001

The Madness of Adam and Eve - David Horrobin 2001

Evil Genes - Barbara Oakley 2008

The Dopaminergic Mind in Human Evolution and History - Fred H. Previc 2009

Brain Science & Psychology

The Frontal Lobes - Eds. Jarl Risberg & Jordan Grafman 2006

The Executive Brain - Elkhonon Goldberg 2001

The Genius Engine - Kathleen Stein 2007

The Prefrontal Cortex - Joaquin Fuster 1989

The Prefrontal Cortex, 4th Edition - Joaquin Fuster 2008

The Orbital Frontal Cortex - Eds. David H. Zald & Scott L. Rauch 2006

The Human Frontal Lobes - Eds. Bruce L. Miller & Jeffrey L. Cummings 2007

Principles of Frontal Lobe Function - Eds. Donald T. Stuss & Robert T. Knight 2002

Subcortical Structures and Cognition - Leonard Koziol & Deborah Ely Budding 2010

Handbook of Brain Microcircuits - Gordon Shepard & Sten Grillner 2010

Cingulate Neurobiology and Disease - Brent Vogt 2009

Handbook of Basal Ganglia Structure and Function - Heinz Steiner and Kuei Y. Tseng 2010

Anatomy of Neurophychiatry - Lennart Heimer, Gary W. Van Hoesen, Micheal Trimble & Daniel S. Zahm 2008

Frontal-Subcortical circuits in Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders - Editors David G. Lichter & Jeffrey L. Cummings 2001

A Theory of the Striatum - J. Wickens 1993

The Mesolimbic Dopamine System - Eds. P. Wilner & J. Scheel-Kruger 1991

The Hippocampus Book - Editors Anderson, Morris, Amaral, Bliss & O'Keefe 2007

Concise Learning and Memory - John H. Byrne 2008

Memory - Alan J. Parkin 1993

Human Memory - Allan Baddeley 1990

Memory and Brain - Larry R. Squire 1987

The Amygdala - Ed. John P. Aggleton 1992

The Amydala, 2nd Edition - Ed. John P. Aggleton 2000

The Human Amygdala - Paul J. Whalen and Elizabeth A. Phelps 2009

The Brain and Emotion - Edmund T. Rolls 1999

The Behavioural Neuroscience of the Septal Region - Ed. Robert Numan 2000

Exploring the Thalamus and its Role in Cortical Function - S. Murray Sherman and R.W.Guillery 2006

Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience - Ed. Dale Purves 2008

Neuroscience 4th Edition - Ed. Dale Purves 2008

the Students Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience - Jamie Ward 2006

Cognition, Brain and Consciousness: Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience - Eds. Bernard J. Baars & Nicole M. Gage 2007

Physiology of Behaviour, Ninth Edition- Neil R. Carlson 2007

The Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology 6th Edition - Bryan Kolb & Ian D. Whishaw 2008

The Biology of Behaviour and Mind - Bruce Bridgeman 1988

Physiology of Behaviour, 8th Edition - Neil R. Carlson 2004

The Human Brain, An Introduction to its Functional Anatomy 6th Edition - John Nolte 2008

The Synaptic Organization of the Brain - Gordon M. Shepard 1990

Functional Neuroanatomy - Adel K. Afifi & Ronald A. Bergman 2005

Atlas of Functional Neuroanatomy - Walter J. Hendelman 2006

The Neural Basis of Motor Control - Vernon B. Brooks 1986

The Cerebellum and Adaptive Control - John S. Barlow 2002

Neural Activity and the Growth of the Brain - Dale Purves 1994

Body and Brain - Dale Purves 1990

From Brains to Consciousness - Ed. Steven Rose 1998

Drugs and the Brain - Soloman Snyder 1986

The Undiscovered Mind - John Horgan 1999

Principles of Brain Evolution - Georg F. Streidter 2005

On Intelligence - Jeff Hawkins 2004

The 21st Century Brain - Steven Rose 2005

Rhythms of the Brain - Gyorgy Buzsaki 2006

Computational Neuroscience of Vision - Edmund T. Rolls & Gustavo Deco 2002

Mirrors in the Brain - Giacomo Rizzolatti & Corrado Sinigaglia 2006

Broca's Region - Editors Yosef Grodzinsky & Katrin Amunts 2006

Cortical Memory Functions - C.M. Fair 1992

Corticonics, Neural Circuits of the Cerebral Cortex - M. Abeles 1991

Neuronal Serotonin - Editors N. N. Osborne and M. Hamon 1988

Noradrenergic Neurons - Marianne Fillenz 1990

The Universe Within - Morton Hunt 1983

Windows on the Mind - Erich Harth 1985

In the Palaces of Memory - George Johnson 1992

Secrets of Sleep - Alexander Borbley 1988

The Dreaming Brain - J. Allan Hobson 1990

Sleep - J. Allan Hobson 1995

Newton's Madness - Harold L. Klawans 1990

Toscanini's Fumble - Harold L. Klawans 1989

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat - Oliver Sacks 1985

Brain Washing - Kathleen Taylor 2004

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