MY READING LIST

For any who may be interested; the following is my current reading list, meaning that they are actively on my bookshelf and I make use of them in my discussions on the three main topic headings listed. I also have an Expanded Reading List which includes my own synopsis of the book and a brief bio of the author - available for some, but not all, of the books on the main list.


                                                            READING LIST


The fundamental task of philosophy is the analysis of concepts and the criticism of beliefs.
(quoting the Dartmouth College Philosophy Department home page.)

The following reading list is but an introduction to questions posed by critical thinkers and hypothesized answers for those who are not afraid to be critical of their life of misinformation. You may not agree with all that you read here; but with an open mind and heart, it’s possible that you may learn from your quest – for the way to Truth does herein lie.

ANCIENT HISTORY / ARCHEOLOGY / HUMANITY’S BEGINNINGS (How are we to not question continually? gb)

Armstrong, Karen: A Short History of Myth
Bauval, Robert, & Gilbert, Adrian: The Orion Mystery
, & Hancock, Graham: The Message of The Sphinx; “A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of
Mankind”
: Fingerprints of the Gods
Bramley, William: The Gods of Eden
Brown, Courtney, Ph.D.: Cosmic Voyage **
Cannon, Dolores: Keepers of the Garden
Campbell, Joseph: The Masks of God (series): Primitive, Oriental, Occidental, & Creative Mythology
Dennett, Preston: UFO Healings: True accounts of people healed by extraterrestrials
Evans, Lorraine: Kingdom of the Ark; “The startling story of how the ancient British race is descended from the Pharaohs”
Friedman, Stanton T., MSc.: Flying Saucers and Science: Interstellar Travel, Crashed, and Government
Cover-ups **
Fuller, John G.: The Interrupted Journey (story of Betty & Barney Hill’s UFO sighting) **
Grun, Bernard: The Timetables of History: An Horizontal Linkage of People and Events
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen: Harper’s Encyclopedia of Mystical & Paranormal Experience
Haisch, Dr. Bernard: The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields and What’s Behind It All
Hancock, Graham: Supernatural; “Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind”
Hamilton, Edith: Mythology
Hoagland, Richard C.: The Monuments of Mars: “A City on the Edge of Forever”
Hope, Murray: The Sirius Connection (and others by her authorship)
Horn, Dr. Arthur David: Humanity’s Extraterrestrial Origins
Jenkins, John Major: Maya Cosmogenesis 2012
Jones, Prof. Dr. Steve: Almost Like a Whale: Origin of Species UPDATED
Katz, Prof. Dr. Friedrich: The Ancient American Civilizations
Kolosimo, Peter: Spaceships in Pre-History**
Kramer, Dr. Samuel Noah: History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History
Lake, Gina: ET Contact; “Blueprint for a New World”**
: The Extraterrestrial Vision**
Mackenzie, Donald A.: Myths of China and Japan
Marciniak, Barbara: Bringers of the Dawn; “Teachings from the Pleiadians”
Moncrieff, A.R. Hope: Romance and Legend of Chivalry
Morehouse, David: Psychic Warrior: Inside the CIA’s Stargate Program: The True Story of a Soldier’s
Espionage and Awakening **
O’Brien, Christopher: Enter The Valley
: The Mysterious Valley
Oldenbourg, Zoe: Massacre at Montsegur; “A History of the Albigensian Crusade”
: The Crusades
Pennick, Nigel: Sacred Geometry
Picknett, Lynn, & Prince, Clive: The Templar Revelation
Randle, Kevin D., Capt. USAFR: Faces of the Visitors; “An Illustrated Reference to Alien Contact”**
: Project Mood Dust; “Beyond Roswell-Exposing the Government’s Continuing
Covert UFO Investigations & Cover-Ups”**
: UFO Crash at Roswell**
Royal, Lyssa & Priest, Keith: Visitors From Within
Sagan, Dr. Carl: Billions & Billions
: Contact**
: Cosmos
& Page, Dr. Thornton: UFO’S: A Scientific Debate **
Schlemmer, Phyllis, V.: The Only Planet of Choice; “Essential Briefings from Deep Space”
Schock, Dr. Robert: Voyages of the Pyramid Builders: the True Origins of the Pyramids from Lost Egypt
to Ancient America
Silva, Freddy: Secrets of the Fields: The Science and Mysticism of Crop Circles **
Sitchin, Zecharia: Genesis Revisited
: The Earth Chronicles (series): Book One: The 12th Planet; Book Two: The Stairway to Heaven;
Book Three: The Wars of Gods and Men; Book Four: The Lost Realms; Book Five: When Time Began; Book Six: The Cosmic Code; Final Book: The End of Days
: Divine Encounters
: God, The Extraterrestrial
: Journeys to the Mythical Past (Earth Chronicles Expeditions)
Steiger, Brad & Francie: The Star People
Story, Ronald D. Sightings; “UFOs and the Limits of Science”**
Streiber, Whitley: Communion; “A True Story” **
: Transformation; “The Breakthrough” **
Temple, Robert K.G.: The Sirius Mystery; “Was Earth Visited by Intelligent Beings from a Planet in the System of the Star of Sirius?”**
: Netherworld
von Daniken, Erich: Chariots of the Gods?
: Pathways of the Gods
: Gods from Outer Space
: The Eyes of The Sphinx; “The Newest Evidence of Extraterrestrial Contact in Ancient Egypt”
White, John: Pole Shift
Zapp, Ivar & Erikson, George: Atlantis In America; “Navigators of The Ancient World”

Legend: ** = Deals with Ufology, ETs &/or the research into our cosmic origins

RLIGION, BIBLE HISTORY & ITS INTERPRETATION (Belief in Ancient Mythologies is Degrading to the Rational Mind. gb)

Allegro, John: The Dead Sea Scrolls and The Christian Myth
Allen, Brooke: Moral Minority
Armstrong, Karen: A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
: The Battle for God
: The Bible: A Biography
: Beginning the World
: The Great Transformation; “The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions”
: The Gospel According to Woman: Christianity’s Creation of the Sex War in the West
: Holy War; “The Crusades and Their Impact on Today’s World”
: In The Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis
: Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths
: Through the Narrow Gate
Baigent, Michael: The Jesus Papers
Baigent, Michael & Leigh, Richard: The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception
: The Temple and the Lodge
Baigent, Michael; Leigh, Richard; & Lincoln, Henry: The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (Rev. 1996)
: The Messianic Legacy
Bechthold, Henry: Right Wing Politics and Religion: The Unholy Alliance Exposed
Cantor, Prof. Dr. Norman: The Sacred Chain
Dawkins, Prof. Dr. Richard: The God Delusion
Dennett, Prof. Dr. Daniel C: Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Dever, William G.: Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?
: What Did The Biblical Writers Know & When Did They Know It? (What Archaeology Can Tell Us about the Reality of Ancient Israel)
Domke, Dr. David: God Willing? Political Fundamentalism in the White House, the “War on Terror,” and
the Echoing Press
Ehrman, Dr. Barton D.: A Brief Introduction to the New Testament
: God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question –
Why We Suffer
: Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Don’t Know About Them)
: Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
: Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
: Peter, Paul & Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend
: Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know About
Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine
Eisenman, Dr. Robert: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the First Christians: Essays and Translations of the
Dead Sea Scrolls
: The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered
: James, the Brother of Jesus; “The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity
and the Dead Sea Scrolls”
Fiorenza, Dr. Elizabeth Schussler: In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins
Forrest, Prof. Dr. Barbara & Gross, Prof. Dr. Paul R.: Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design
Freke, Timothy & Gandy, Peter: The Jesus Mysteries: Was the “Original Jesus” a Pagan God?
: Jesus and the Lost Goddess
: The Gospel of the Second Coming: Jesus is back …. and this time he’s funny!!!
: The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs
: The Laughing Jesus: Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom
Gardner, Laurence: Bloodline of the Holy Grail
: Genesis of the Grail Kings
: Realm of the Ring Lords
Gilbert, Robert A.: Casting The First Stone; “The Hypocrisy of Religious Fundamentalism and its Threat to Society”
Godwin, Malcolm: The Holy Grail; “Its Origins, Secrets & Meaning Revealed”
Gordis, Daniel: Does the World Need the Jews?
Graham, Lloyd M.: Deceptions & Myths of the Bible
Greenberg, Dr. Gary: 101 Myths of the Bible: How Ancient Scribes Invented Biblical History
: The Moses Mystery: The African origins of the Jewish People (a.k.a. The Bible Myth)
Haisch, Dr. Bernard: The God theory: universes, zero-point fields, and what’s behind it all
Harris, Sam: Letter to A Christian Nation
: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Hecht, Jennifer Michael: Doubt: A History
Hitchens, Christopher: god is not Great; “How Religion Poisons Everything”
: the Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
Holmes, David L.: The Faiths of the Founding Fathers
Howarth, Stephen: The Knights Templar
Johnsen, Linda: The Living Goddess: Reclaiming the Tradition of the Mother of the Universe
Jonas, Hans: The Gnostic Religion; “The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity”
Josephus: The Jewish War “Bellum Judaicum”
Lash, John: The Seeker’s Handbook; “The Complete Guide to Spiritual Pathfinding”
Kimball, Dr. Charles: When Religion Becomes Evil
Knight, Christopher & Lomas, Robert: The Hiram Key: Pharaohs, Freemasons & the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus
: The Second Messiah; “Templars, The Turin Shroud and the Great Secret of Freemasonry”
Mack, Dr. Burton L.: Who Wrote the New Testament? The Making of the Christian Myth
M.C.: Light on the Path
Mills, David: Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person’s Answer to Christian Fundamentalism
Murphy, Cullen: The Word According To Eve (Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own)
O’Faolain, Julia and Martines, Lauro: Not In God’s Image; “Women in History from the Greeks to the Victorians”
Pagels, Dr. Elaine: Adam, Eve & The Serpent : The Gnostic Paul
: The Gnostic Gospels
: Beyond Belief; “The Secret Gospel of Thomas”
: The Origin of Satan
Patterson, Dr. Linda J.: Hate Thy Neighbor: How the Bible is Misused to Condemn Homosexuality
Picknett, Lynn & Prince, Clive: The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ
Ridley, Jasper: The Freemasons: A History of the World’s Most Powerful Secret Society
Rinpoche, Bokar: Tara, The Feminine Divine
Rogerson, John: Chronicles of the Bible Lands; “A History of The Holy Land”
Saranam, Sankara: God Without Religion: Questioning Centuries of Accepted Truths
Schaberg, Dr. Jane: Mary Magdalene Understood
: The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: Legends, Apocrypha, and the Christian Testament
Sharlet, Jeff: The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
Spong, Bishop John Shelby: Born of A Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Birth of Jesus
: Living in Sin? A Bishop Rethinks the Human Sexuality
: Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning
Of Scripture
: The Sins of Scripture
Stenger, Dr. Victor J.: GOD: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
Stone, Merlin: When God Was A Woman
Thiering, Dr. Barbara: The Book that Jesus Wrote; “John’s Gospel”
: Jesus, The Man
Unknown mystics: The Holy Bible (King James or any other version)
Voillarme: Faith & Contemplation
Wells, Prof. G. A.: The Jesus Legend
White, Mel: Religion Gone Bad: The Hidden Dangers of The Christian Right
Wilson, Ian: Jesus: The Evidence
Yadin, Dr. Yigael: Masada; “The Momentous Archaeological Discovery Revealing the Heroic Life & Struggle of the Jewish Zealots”

PHILOSOPHICAL ENQUIRIES & TREATISES (To Think is To Be. gb)

Anshen, Ruth Nanda: Morals Equals Manners
Armstrong, Karen: The Spiral Staircase – My Climb Out of Darkness
Bach, Richard: Biplane
: Illusions; “The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”
: Johathan Livingston Seagull
: One
: The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story
: There’s No Such Place As Far Away
Bergson, Henri: Creative Evolution
Berne, Dr. Eric: Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships
Bolen, Jean Shimoda, M.D.: Gods In Everyman
: Goddesses in Everywoman
: Goddesses in Older Women
Brill, Dr. A. A.: Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry
Brockway, Laurie Sue: A Goddess is a Girl’s Best Friend; “A Divine Guide to Finding Love, Success, and Happiness”
Buscaglia, Leo F., Ph.D.: Love
: The Way of the Bull
Campbell, David, Ph.D.: If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, You’ll Probably End Up Somewhere Else
Carse, Dr. James P.: The Religious Case Against Belief
Doi, Takeo: The anatomy of dependence; “The key analysis of Japanese behavior”
Durant, Will: The Story of Philosophy
Eisler, Riane: The Chalice and the Blade
Ferm, Vergilius: A History of Philosophical Systems
Fisher, Joe: The Case for Reincarnation
Fromm, Dr. Erich.: The Art of Loving
Gibran, Kahlil: The Prophet
Hood, Prof. Dr. Bruce M.: Supersense
Kahane, Howard: Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life
Hillman, James: The Soul’s Code
Minkoff, Harvey & Melamed, Evelyn B.: Visions and Revisions; “Critical Reading and Writing”
Montgomery, Ruth: Herald of the New Age (and others by the same author)
Morgan, Marlo: Mutant Message Down Under
Morehouse, David: Psychic Warrior
Paine, Thomas: Age of Reason
Redfield, James: Book One: The Celestine Prophecy
: Book Two: The Tenth Insight
: Book Three: The Celestine Vision
: Book Four: The Celestine Prophecy: An Experiential Guide
Russell, Dr. Bertrand: An Outline of Philosophy
: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, including the essay “Why I Am Not a Christian”
Scheffer, Victor B.: A Biologist Looks At Religion
Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter: Morality Without God?
Suzuki, Edward: beyond the CLOUDS
Van Doren, Charles: A History of Knowledge: The Pivotal Events, People, and Achievements of World History
Walsch, Neale Donald: Conversations with God * an uncommon dialogue * Book 1
Wylie, Philip: An Essay on Morals
: Night Unto Night
: Generation of Vipers

Rev: Monday, August 23, 2010