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

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 Coming Deliverer - Ed. Fiona Bowie 1997

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

Holy Scriptures from World Religion

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

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 Music of the Spheres - Jamie James 1993

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

Hidden sayings of Jesus - William Morrice 1997

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 Mystery of Manna - Dan Merkur 2000

Soma, The Divine Hallucinogen - David L. Spess 2000

The Tantric Way - Ajit Mookerjee and Madhu Khanna 2003

Prophecy and Eschatology

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

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

Evolution, The Grand Synthesis - Ervin Laszlo 1987

Introducing Mathematics - Sardar, Ravetz & Van Loon 1999

The Recursive Universe - William Poundstone 1985

Labyrinths of reason - William Poundstone 1988

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

Infomation - 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

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

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

Food of the Gods - Terennce McKenna 1992

Acid, The secret history of LSD - David Black 1998

The philosophers stone - Peter Marshall 2001

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

Storming Heaven - Jay Stephens 1998

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

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 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

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

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

The Amygdala - Ed. John J. Aggleton 1992

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

Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience - 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

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

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

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

From Brains to Consciousness - Ed. Steven Rose 1998

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

The brain and emotion - Edmund T. Rolls 1999

The madness of Adam and Eve - David Horrobin 2001

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

The Universe Within - Morton Hunt 1983

Windows on the Mind - Erich Harth 1985

Memory - Alan J. Parkin 1993

Memory and Brain - Larry R. Squire 1987

In the Palaces of Memory - George Johnson 1992

The Biology of Behaviour and Mind - Bruce Bridgeman 1988

Secrets of Sleep - Alexander Borbley 1988

The Dreaming Brain - J. Allan Hobson 1990

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

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

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

The World's Most Evil Cults - Peter Haining 2006

Cults, Faith Healing & Coercion - Marc Galanter 1999