Three Books
I read three books recently that I want to recommend.
The first two are:
My Big Toe: A Trilogy Unifying Philosophy, Physics, and Metaphysics: Awakening, Discovery, Inner Workings by Thomas Campbell
… and …
Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That Is Changing the World by Betty Kovacs
Are we eternal souls (or units of consciousness) here to discover that we evolve when we love and de-evolve when we fear? Does our personal improvement (by loving) bring order to (and improve the quality of) the infinite and eternal whole?
Do our hearts provide access to the wisdom of intuition and feeling, the wisdom of the divine feminine? Did humanity celebrate the feminine and the masculine, the spiritual and the earthly, the feeling and the rational, for long stretches of thousands of years? Did we record that understanding on thousands of cave walls and pieces of art? Will a rediscovery of the spiritual, intuitive, and feeling restore balance? Or will the disenchanted, overly materialistic, rational, and dead-matter mindset continue the path of competition and resource-exploitation until we implode into extinction?
Thinking we are divine, immortal, and creative helps me overcome the immaturity of childhood, the immaturity of fear and ego and competition and resentment and anger and hatred and revenge. It helps me practice the maturity of adulthood, the maturity of taking responsibility for being born into this adventure of being a human being; the sanity of doing unto others as we would have done unto us – for if we are parts of a whole, we DO to ourselves what we do to others (for at the foundation, there are no others). With responsibility comes power and peace.
Thinking these things frees me to experiment and be playful, a miracle, a balance to the negativity of the world and current events.
It is empowering to see in history many accounts testifying to the power of these ideas and to find many, when you write or talk about these things, who also are hopeful and joyful in the face of our earthly challenges.
The third book is …
Cold Mountain, a novel by Charles Frazier
Amazon.com: Cold Mountain: 20th Anniversary Edition: 9780802126757: Frazier, Charles: Books
It moved me as the movie version did years ago. Natural goodness struggling to survive in the face of fear, anger, hatred, and cruelty. Moments as evocative as some in Moby Dick.
Here are their Amazon descriptions.
Happy Labor Day!
Bruce
My Big Toe: A Trilogy Unifying Philosophy, Physics, and Metaphysics: Awakening, Discovery, Inner Workings by Thomas Campbell
“The Complete My Big Toe Trilogy. My Big TOE, written by a nuclear physicist in the language [of]contemporary culture, unifies science and philosophy, physics and metaphysics, mind and matter, purpose and meaning, the normal and the paranormal. The entirety of human experience (mind, body, and spirit) including both our objective and subjective worlds is brought together under one seamless scientific understanding. If you have a logical, open and inquisitive mind – an attitude of scientific pragmatism that appreciates the elegance of fundamental truth and the thrill of breakthrough – you will enjoy this journey of personal and scientific discovery. This trilogy delivers the next major scientific conceptual breakthrough since relativity and quantum mechanics raised scientific eyebrows in the first half of the twentieth century. No catch, no megalomania, no hypothetical wackiness, no goofy [beliefs?], no unusual assumptions – just straight forward science that better describes the totality of our experience and provides a wealth of practical results and new understanding that can be applied personally and professionally by scientists and nonscientists alike. This is the real thing.”
Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That Is Changing the World by Betty Kovacs
NAUTILUS SILVER BOOK AWARD
THE SCIENTIFIC & MEDICAL NETWORK 2019 BOOK PRIZE
“Why did the Roman Church wage a centuries-long campaign to destroy Classical culture and all previous spiritual traditions? What was the secret at the heart of these traditions that was so powerful that an organization would feel justified in torturing and murdering men, women, and children; in burning Christian gospels, Gnostic texts, Jewish texts, Arabic manuscripts; and in destroying temples, monasteries, sanctuaries, Mystery Schools and academies of higher learning? This persistent repression of the shaman-mystic-scientist traditions has left Western culture addicted to a tragically limited and negative worldview that now threatens to destroy the world. Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That Is Changing the World returns to us these spiritual secrets on which our survival now depends:”
“Our soul stories that carry the blueprint for our evolution”
“The sacred knowledge that we are immortal, divine, and creative”
“The wisdom of the heart that was nurtured by the ancient shaman-mystic-scientist cultures and is now being validated by the new science”
Cold Mountain, a novel by Charles Frazier
Amazon.com: Cold Mountain: 20th Anniversary Edition: 9780802126757: Frazier, Charles: Books
“An instant, international bestseller, Charles Frazier's debut novel of love and peril at the end of the Civil War was a publishing sensation, the inspiration for an Oscar-nominated blockbuster starring Nicole Kidman and Jude Law, and the subject of an acclaimed opera. Over 20 years later, it stands as an essential, modern classic.”
“Charles Frazier’s debut novel Cold Mountain made publishing history in 1997 when it stood at the top of the New York Times best-seller list for sixty-one weeks, won numerous literary awards, including the National Book Award, and went on to sell over three million copies. Now reissued for its twentieth year, this extraordinary tale of a soldier’s perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the Civil War is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished land. Adapted into an Oscar-nominated movie starring Nicole Kidman and Jude Law, and a 2015 opera co-commissioned between Santa Fe Opera, Opera Philadelphia and the Minnesota Opera, Cold Mountain portrays an era that continues to speak eloquently to our time.”
If only one could buy time along with the books. They sound like great reads! I will put them on my list of books to read, when I have time, but you broadcast their main message so eloquently, that helps me find the inner strength to find energy when bombarded by the psychobabble of dystopian nonsense that is so pervasive.
Some interesting reflections, and thanks for sharing, Bruce. Always nice to have some quality book recommendations from someone like yourself. Based on the bibliography / sources from your own book, I've no doubt these will be fruitful sources. And good to have movie recommendations, too, now that the darker nights have already started drawing in - have added Cold Mountain to the watch list.