Shamanism for the Age of Science: Awakening the Energy Body - Kenneth Smith 2018
Endnotes
CHAPTER 1. SHAMANISM FOR THE AGE OF SCIENCE
1. Under the name Ken Eagle Feather, I have written Traveling with Power (Charlottesville, Va.: Hampton Roads Publishing, 1992); A Toltec Path (Charlottesville, Va.: Hampton Roads, 1995), re-titled On the Toltec Path and re-released as a tenth-anniversary edition (Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions/Bear & Co., 2006); Tracking Freedom (Charlottesville, Va.: Hampton Roads, 1998); The Dream of Vixen Tor (Charlottesville, Va.: Tracker One Studios, 2001); and Toltec Dreaming (Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions/Bear & Co., 2007).
2. Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968).
3. UCLA Department of Anthropology, e-mail correspondence, October 5, 2005.
4. Carlos Castaneda, The Fire from Within (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984), 49.
5. Gerald Piel, The Age of Science: What Scientists Learned in the Twentieth Century (New York: Basic Books, 2001).
6. His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality (New York: Morgan Road Books, 2005).
7. Susan Blackmore, Consciousness: An Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 2.
8. Ibid., 14; Barbara Platek, “The Good Red Road,” The Sun (April 2005): 5—12; and Houston Smith, The World’s Religions (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), 380.
9. Sidney Spencer, Mysticism in World Religion (Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1971), 9—17; and Paul Radin, “Monotheism among American Indians,” Dennis Tedlock and Barbara Tedlock, eds., Teachings from the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy (New York: Liveright, 1975), 219—47.
CHAPTER 2. A WORLD OF ENERGY
1. Portions of this chapter were first published as “Bioenergetics: A New Science of Healing,” Shift: At the Frontiers of Consciousness no. 10 (March—May 2006): 11—13, 34.
2. American Heritage College Dictionary, 3rd ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000), 139.
3. Alexander Lowen, Bioenergetics (New York: Penguin Arkana, 1994), and Fred P. Gallo, Energy Psychology: Explorations at the Interface of Energy, Cognition, Behavior, and Health (Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, 1999).
4. James Oschman, Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis (Edinburgh, Scotland: Churchill Livingston Press, 2000), 232.
5. Ted J. Kaptchuk, The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 2000), 14.
6. Chakra, http://en.wikipedia.org, August 27, 2008; and Libby Barnett and Maggie Chambers with Susan Davidson, Reiki Energy Medicine (Rochester, Vt.: Healing Arts Press, 1996), 20—21.
7. Samuel Hahnemann, Wenda Brewster O’Reilly, ed., Organon of the Medical Art (Palo Alto, Calif.: Birdcage Books, 1996), 4, 235—37.
8. Paracelsus Clinic website, www.paracelsus.ch, July 15, 2007.
9. “The Royal Rife Story,” www.rifehealth.com, September 30, 2006.
10. Clark A. Manning and Louis J. Vanrenen, Bioenergetic Medicines East and West: Acupuncture and Homeopathy (Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, 1988), 9.
11. “Energy Medicine: An Overview,” Backgrounder, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, March 2007.
12. Oschman, Energy Medicine, 76—79; Hong-Chang Yang, Jau-Han Chen, Shu-Yun Wang, Chin-Hao Chen, Jen-Tzong Jeng, Ji-Cheng Chen, Chiu-Hsien Wu, Shu-Hsien Liao, and Herng-Er Horng, “Superconducting Quantum Interference Device: The Most Sensitive Detector of Magnetic Flux,” Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering 6, no. 1 (2003): 9—18; and Takenaka Corporation website, www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka_e/techno/19_sldrm/19_sldrm.htm, August 16, 2007.
13. Dr. Korotkov Co. website, www.korotkov.org, August 18, 2007.
14. PIP Bio Imaging website, www.pipbiofieldimaging.com, September 12, 2007; The Centre for Biofield Sciences website, www.biofieldsciences.com, September 15, 2007; and presentation by Brian Dailey, MD, at a conference sponsored by The Institute for Therapeutic Discovery, September 8, 2007.
15. University of Colorado at Colorado Springs website, www.uccs.edu/rjones, August 1, 2005.
16. As of the writing of this book, I was employed by The Institute for Therapeutic Discovery (www.tiftd.org) and Beech Tree Labs, Inc. (www.beechtreelabs.com).
17. Larry Dossey, Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing (New York: HarperCollins, 1999), 27, 58—59; and Marilyn Schlitz and William Braud, “Distant Intentionality and Healing: Assessing the Evidence,” Alternative Therapies 3, no. 6 (November 1997): 62—73.
18. James Oschman, “Energy and the Healing Response,” Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies 9 (2005): 3—15.
19. Oschman, Energy Medicine, 11.
20. James Oschman, e-mail correspondence, May 19, 2005, and June 11, 2005.
21. Milo Wolff, e-mail correspondence, October 14 and 15, 2005.
22. Institute of Transpersonal Psychology website, www.itp.edu, October 2, 2005.
23. Stuart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak, and Alwyn C. Scott, eds., Toward a Science of Consciousness: The Tucson Discussions and Debates (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1996, 1998, 1999); and Philip David Zelazo, Morris Moscovtich, and Evan Thompson, eds., The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
24. Abraham H. Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being, 3rd ed. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999), 85; and Paul Pearsall, The Beethoven Factor: The New Positive Psychology of Hardiness, Happiness, Healing, and Hope (Charlottesville, Va.: Hampton Roads Publishing Co., 2003), 203—19.
25. Andrew M. Colman, A Dictionary of Psychology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 739; and Moti Ben-Ari, Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2005), 24.
26. Published by Simon & Schuster and its imprint Washington Square Press, Carlos Castaneda wrote The Teachings of Don Juan (1968), A Separate Reality (1971), Journey to Ixtlan (1972), Tales of Power (1974), The Second Ring of Power (1977), The Eagles Gift (1981), The Fire from Within (1984), and The Power of Silence (1987). HarperCollins then published The Art of Dreaming (1993) and The Active Side of Infinity (1998).
27. Violet S. de Laslo, ed., R. F. C. Hull, trans., The Basic Writings of C. G. Jung (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990), 147—48.
28. Maslow, Psychology of Being, 20, 32.
29. A. R. Lacey, A Dictionary of Philosophy (New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1996), 205; and Dagobert Runes, Dictionary of Philosophy (Totowa, N.J.: Littlefield, Adams, and Co., 1980), 219.
30. Colman, Dictionary of Psychology, 443—44, 600; and Sally P. Springer and Georg Deutsch, Left Brain, Right Brain, 4th ed. (New York: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1993), 272; and Richard M. Restak, The Brain: The Last Frontier (New York: Warner Books, 1979), 49—71.
31. Carlos Castaneda, The Power of Silence (New York: Washington Square Press, 1987), 155—90.
32. Tom Weber, “Life Altering,” UMaine Today (March/April 2008): 11—13.
CHAPTER 3. ANATOMY OF THE ENERGY BODY
1. Oschman, Energy Medicine, 74, 206, 209.
2. Paul Davies, “The New Physics: a synthesis,” in Paul Davies, ed. The New Physics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 1—6.
3. Robert M. Berne, Matthew N. Levy, Bruce M. Koeppen, and Bruce A. Stanton, eds., Physiology, 4th ed. (St. Louis: Mosby, 1998), 653.
4. James Austin, Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999), 83—88; Bruce Lip-ton, The Biology of Belief (Santa Rosa, Calif.: Elite Books, 2005), 163—65; and Blackmore, Consciousness, 246—48.
5. Robert O. Becker and Gary Selden, The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life (New York: William Morrow, 1985); and Oschman, Energy Medicine, 61.
6. International Association for Biologically Closed Circuits website, www.iabc.readywebsites.com, September 22, 2006.
7. World Health Organization, Standard Acupuncture Nomenclature, 2nd ed. (WHO Regional Office, Manila, 1993).
8. Kaptchuk, Web, 41—74.
9. Ibid., 75—104.
10. Presentation on Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging studies conducted by Joie Jones, Professor of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, and subsequent conversation, November 2008.
11. Caroline Myss, Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (New York: Harmony Books, 1996), 69.
12. Nadi (yoga), http://en.wikipedia.org, December 14, 2007.
13. Milo Wolff, e-mail correspondence, October 14, 2005.
14. Castaneda, The Fire from Within, 50.
15. Christopher J. Conselice, “The Universe’s Invisible Hand,” Scientific American (February 2007): 35—41; and Timothy Clifton and Pedro G. Ferreira, “Does Dark Energy Really Exist?” Scientific American (April 2009): 48—55.
16. James Oschman, e-mail correspondence, September 10, 2005.
17. Barbara Ann Brennan, Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field (New York: Bantam, 1987); and personal observations.
18. Rollin McCraty, The Energetic Heart: Bioelectromagnetic Interactions Within and Between People (Boulder Creek, Calif.: Institute of Heartmath, 2003), 3—6.
19. Castaneda, The Fire from Within, 157—59.
20. Ibid., 108; and Castaneda, The Power of Silence, xv—xvi.
21. Jon Whale, The Catalyst of Power: The Assemblage Point of Man (Findhorn, Scotland: Findhorn Press, 2001).
22. Castaneda, The Power of Silence, 6—7.
23. Ibid., 166, 244; Blackmore, Consciousness, 13; and Runes, Dictionary of Philosophy, 198.
24. Castaneda, The Fire from Within, 83.
25. Castaneda, Tales of Power, 95—96.
26. Oschman, Energy Medicine, 29.
27. Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence (New York: Bantam Books, 1995), 83—86, 136—38.
28. Valerie V. Hunt, Infinite Mind: Science of the Human Vibrations of Consciousness (Malibu, Calif.: Malibu Publishing, 1996), 104—31; Antonio Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1999), 41; Candace Pert, Molecules of Emotion (New York: Scribner, 1997); and Candace Pert, “Molecules and Choice,” Shift: At the Frontiers of Consciousness (September—November 2004): 21.
29. Castaneda, Tales of Power, 95.
30. Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne, ed., The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1, 2 (New York: Dover Publications, 1969).
31. IBS Research Update website, www.ibs-research-update.org.uk, September 22, 2006.
32. De Laslo, Basic Writings, 41—43.
33. Ibid., 56.
34. Ibid., 59.
35. Ibid., 43, 57, 140.
36. Ibid., 59, 122.
37. Castaneda, The Fire from Within, xiii.
CHAPTER 4. THE FORMATION OF REALITY
1. Entrainment references, http://en.wikipedia.org, October 2, 2006.
2. Irving M. Copi, Introduction to Logic, 6th edition (New York: Macmillan, 1982), 99—105.
3. Damasio, Feeling of What Happens, 308; and Castaneda, The Fire from Within, 176, 213.
4. The Quotations Page website, www.quotationspage.com, December 10, 2006.
5. Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming, 22; and Eagle Feather, Toltec Dreaming, 94.
6. Colman, Dictionary of Psychology, 404.
7. Glen O. Gabbard and Stuart Twemlow, With the Eyes of the Mind: An Empirical Analysis of Out-of-Body States (New York: Praeger, 1984), 150.
8. Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming, 142.
9. Robert Monroe, Journeys Out of the Body (New York: Doubleday, 1971).
10. Eagle Feather, Toltec Dreaming, 44; and Joseph McMoneagle, Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space through Remote Viewing (Charlottesville, Va.: Hampton Roads Publishing Co., 1997), 15.
11. Arnold Mindell, Dreaming While Awake: Techniques for 24-Hour Lucid Dreaming (Charlottesville, Va.: Hampton Roads Publishing Co., 2000), 6.
12. Maslow, Psychology of Being, 85.
13. De Laslo, Basic Writings, 148; and Abraham H. Maslow, Maslow on Management (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998), xx.
14. Gerber, Vibrational Medicine, 17.
15. Catherine Arnst, “Biotech, Finally,” BusinessWeek (June 13, 2005): 30.
16. Henry Petroski, Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 1—2.
17. Lionel R. Milgrom, “Entanglement, Knowledge, and Their Possible Effects on the Outcomes of Blinded Trials of Homeopathic Provings,” The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 12, no. 3 (2006): 271—79.
18. Oschman, Energy Medicine, 154.
19. Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 3rd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 77—82.
CHAPTER 5. EXPANDING THE BOUNDARIES
1. Charles T. Tart, States of Consciousness (Lincoln, Neb.: http://iUniverse.com, Inc., 2000), 5—9.
2. Blackmore, Consciousness, 248.
3. Castaneda, The Fire from Within, 23.
4. Maslow, Psychology of Being, 31—33, 170—75.
5. Castaneda, The Fire from Within, 50.
6. Seymour H. Mauskopf and Michael R. McVaugh, The Elusive Science: Origins of Experimental Psychical Research (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980), 5, 169; and Charles T. Tart, Open Mind, Discriminating Mind: Reflections on Human Possibilities (Lincoln, Neb.: http://iUniverse.com, Inc., 2000), 61, 76—82, 85.
7. Mauskopf and McVaugh, Elusive Science, 3, 13.
8. Gabbard and Twemlow, Eyes of the Mind, 15—23.
9. Joseph McMoneagle, Memoirs of a Psychic Spy: The Remarkable Life of U.S. Government Remote Viewer 001 (Charlottesville, Va.: Hampton Roads Publishing Co., 2006), xi—xii; and personal conversations with Joseph McMoneagle and a client during 2005—2006.
10. Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005), 11—12.
11. Philip C. Almond, Mystical Experience and Religious Doctrine: An Investigation of the Study of Mysticism in World Religions (Berlin: Mouton Publishers, 1982), 122—23.
12. Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism (Boston: Shambhala, 2000), 52—54.
13. Hunt, Infinite Mind, 163.
14. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (New York: New American Library, 1958), 292—94; and Maslow, Psychology of Being, 93—106.
15. Runes, Dictionary of Philosophy, 203; and Spencer, Mysticism in World Religion, 213—17, 176—86, 305.
16. P. D. Ouspensky, The Fourth Way (New York: Vintage Books, 1971), 97—104.
17. Charles T. Tart, ed., Altered States of Consciousness, rev. ed. (New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1990), 581—99.
18. Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart: A Guide through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life (New York: Bantam Books, 1993), 120—22.
19. Almond, Mystical Experience, 69—91.
20. Leah Buturain, “Materializing the Mystery: Body Imagery in Catholic Visual Culture,” presented at the Luce Colloquium, Fuller Seminar, February 16, 2005, www.brehmcenter.com/mediafiles/Buturain_paper.pdf, June 24, 2008.
21. Springer and Deutsch, Left Brain, Right Brain, 1—17, 272.
22. F. Holmes Atwater, “The Hemi-Sync Process,” The Monroe Institute Research Division (June 1999).
23. Raymond Moody, Life After Life (Harrisburg, Penn.: Stackpole Books, 1976), 29—49; and Gabbard and Twemlow, Eyes of the Mind, 136—38.
24. The Nobel Foundation website, www.nobelprize.org, June 20, 2008; and “An Atmosphere of Change,” Breakthrough: The Changing Face of Science in America, Boston PBS Video: Blackside, Inc., 1996.
25. Eagle Feather, Toltec Dreaming, 76—77; and Marcus Chown, The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow’s Science (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 25—26.
26. Paul J. Nahin, Time Travel (Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer’s Digest Books, 1997), 167—168.
27. Michio Kaku, Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension (New York: Anchor Books, 1994), 15—16; and James Trefil, ed., Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (New York: Routledge, 2001), 463—64.
28. Kaku, Hyperspace, 49—51.
CHAPTER 6. STOCKROOM OF A THOUSAND MIRRORS
1. Arthur S. Reber and Emily Reber, eds., The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology, 3rd ed. (London: Penguin Books, 1995), 570.
2. Tart, States of Consciousness, 264; and Martin Heidegger, trans., John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson, Being and Time (San Francisco: Harper-SanFrancisco, 1962), 371, 414.
3. Arthur J. Deikman, “Deautomatization and the Mystic Experience,” Tart, ed., Altered States, 34—57.
4. Tart, States of Consciousness, 117; and Castaneda, The Fire from Within, 154.
5. Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind (New York: Weatherhill, 1973), 116—17.
6. Hunt, Infinite Mind, 104—11.
7. Castaneda, The Fire from Within, 118.
8. Austin, Zen and the Brain, 227.
9. Eagle Feather, Toltec Path, 109—13.
10. Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan, 82—87.
11. Castaneda, The Fire from Within, 108.
12. Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan, 82—87.
13. De Laslo, Basic Writings, 147—48.
14. More explanation is provided throughout Carlos Castaneda’s The Fire from Within and in Ken Eagle Feather’s Toltec Dreaming.
15. Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan, 87.
CHAPTER 7. CLOSING IN ON FUNDAMENTALISM
1. Barnett and Chambers, Reiki Energy, 2.
2. Reber, Dictionary of Psychology, 125.
3. Elliot Dacher, Integral Health: The Path to Human Flourishing (Laguna Beach, Calif.: Basic Health Publications, Inc., 2006), 139—46.
4. Maslow, Psychology of Being, 39—41.
5. Patrick Bernhagen, “Power: Making Sense of an Elusive Concept,” Journal of Postgraduate Research 2 (2003): 62—82.
6. Gerald M. Edelman, Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006), 95.
7. Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being, 20.
8. Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming, 238—39; and Eagle Feather, Toltec Path, 110.
9. John Horgan, Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border between Science and Spirituality (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003), 118—19; and Paul E. Johnson, Psychology of Religion, Revised (Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, 1959), 223—26.
10. De Laslo, Basic Writings, 54—55; and Maslow, Psychology of Being, 166—73.
11. Johnson, Psychology of Religion, 104, 220.
12. Castaneda, The Fire from Within, 74—75.
13. Castaneda, The Active Side of Infinity, 224.
14. Castaneda, The Fire from Within, 176.
15. Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming, 104; and Arthur Deikman, The Wrong Way Home: Uncovering the Patterns of Cult Behavior in America (Boston: Beacon Press, 1990), 96.
16. Deikman, Wrong Way Home, 101, 105.
17. John Van Auken, “Guides, Angels, and the Holy One,” Venture Inward 10, no. 6 (July/August 1994).
CHAPTER 8. BUILDING A CREATIVE LIFE
1. Steven Strogatz, Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (New York: Hyperian, 2003), 103—4.
2. Howard Gardner, Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (New York: HarperCollins, 1983), xii, xviii.
3. J. P. Chaplin, Dictionary of Psychology (New York: Dell Publishing, 1975), 263; and Gardner, Frames of Mind, 60, 68.
4. Thomas Donaldson and Patricia H. Werhane, eds., Ethical Issues in Business: A Philosophical Approach, 5th ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1996), 3—11.
5. American Heritage Dictionary, 284; and Castaneda, A Separate Reality, 20—23.
6. Castaneda, The Active Side, 179; Castaneda, The Fire from Within, xii; and Tart, Open Mind, 227.
7. Johann Christoph Arnold, Why Forgive? (Farmington, Penn.: Plough Publishing House, 2000).
8. Martin Doblmeir, The Power of Forgiveness (Alexandria, Va.: Journey Films, 2007).
9. Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming, 73.
10. Castaneda, The Power of Silence, 82; and Castaneda, Tales of Power, 58.
11. Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan, 87.
12. Spencer, Mysticism in World Religion, 47—66; and Castaneda, Tales of Power, 294.
13. Castaneda, The Fire from Within, 159—60.
14. His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Ethics for the New Millennium (New York: Riverhead, 1999), 161—71.
15. Charles Q. Choi, “Quantum Afterlife,” Scientific American (February 2009), 24—25.
16. Richard Sennett, The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), 10—11, 28—29, 104.
17. Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan, 43.
18. Castaneda, Tales of Power, 287.
19. J. C. Cooper, Taoism: The Way of the Mystic (York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1972), 20; and Maslow, Maslow on Management, 205.
20. De Laslo, Basic Writings, 299—304.
21. Castaneda, The Fire from Within, 138.
22. Ibid., 14, 80.
23. Ibid., 110, 119; and The Art of Dreaming, 33.
24. Colman, Dictionary of Psychology, 58.
25. Castaneda, The Fire from Within, 14.
26. Cooper, Taoism, 13, 85—86.
27. Milo Wolff, “Einstein’s Last Question,” Temple University Frontier Perspectives (Spring 2005); and J. Adriaan Bouwknecht, Francesca Spiga, Daniel R. Staub, Matthew W. Hale, Anantha Shekhar, and Christopher A. Lowry, “Differential effects of exposure to low-light or high-light open-field on anxiety-related behaviors: Relationship to c-Fos expression in serotonergic and non-serotonergic neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus,” Brain Research Bulletin 72, no. 1, (April 2, 2007): 32—43.
28. Lipton, Biology of Belief, 15—27, 49—73.
29. Donaldson and Werhane, Ethical Issues, 424—58; and Michael Lerner, Spirit Matters (Charlottesville, Va.: Hampton Roads Publishing, 2000), 138—64.
30. Maslow, Psychology of Being, 39—41, 175—76, 197—205.
31. Lipton, Biology of Belief, 26—27; and Lionel R. Milgrom, “Entanglement, Knowledge, and Their Possible Effects on the Outcomes of Blinded Trials of Homeopathic Provings,” The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 12, no. 3 (2006): 271—79.
32. Oschman, Energy Medicine, 175—86, 201—3.
33. David W. Sollars, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Acupuncture & Acupressure (New York: Alpha Books, 2000), 25; Hahnemann, Organon, 224; and Hunt, Infinite Mind, 9—36.
34. Castaneda, The Fire from Within, 49, 57.
35. Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming, 45; and The Fire from Within, 109.
36. David Darling, Teleportation: The Impossible Leap (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2005), 168—88.
37. Neil A. Stillings, Steven E. Weisler, Christopher H. Chase, Mark H. Fein-stein, Jay L. Garfield, and Edwina L. Rissland, Cognitive Science, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995), 55—63.
38. Castaneda, Power of Silence, 29—32.
39. Dalai Lama, Ethics, 219—21; and Johnson, Psychology of Religion, 102.
40. Leon R. Kass, Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge of Bioethics (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2002), 8—12, 29—49.
41. James F. Drane, More Humane Medicine: A Liberal Catholic Bioethic (Edinboro, Penn.: Edinboro University Press, 2003), 1—6.
42. Mastery Learning references: Thomas H. Allen, Humboldt State University, www.humboldt.edu/~that1/mastery.html; www.funderstanding.com/mastery_learning.cfm, May 30, 2007; and http://en.wikipedia.org, December 6, 2007.
43. Kornfield, Path with Heart.
44. Castaneda, Ixtlan, 26—35.
45. Eagle Feather, Toltec Path, 170—72.
46. Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year As If It Were Your Last (New York: Bell Tower, 1997), 39—40, 52.
47. Pearsall, Beethoven Factor, 7—19, 31.
CHAPTER 9. LIVING THE UNFOLDING MOMENT
1. Heidegger, Being and Time, 22—23.
2. Ibid., 78, 415—18.
3. Maslow, Psychology of Being, 85—94.
4. Ibid., 130—37; and Colman, Dictionary of Psychology, 443—44.
5. Maslow, Psychology of Being, 169.
6. Ibid., 170, 222.
7. Castaneda, The Fire from Within, 4—5, 147—48.
8. Castaneda, Tales of Power, 97—98.
9. Jones, Physics, 212—16.
10. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (New York: HarperPerennial, 1990), xi; and Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, 90.
11. Michael Murphy and Rhea A. White, In the Zone: the Transcendent Experience in Sports (New York: Penguin Books, 1995), 149—50.
12. Heidegger, Being and Time, 411—15.
13. Castaneda, The Fire from Within, 23.
14. Ibid., 170—71.
15. Ibid., 171.
16. Csikszentmihalyi, Flow, 26.
17. Ibid., 27.
18. Castaneda, A Separate Reality, 84.
19. Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, 62, 21.
20. Ibid., 293.
21. Colman, Dictionary of Psychology, 369, 379.
22. Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking (New York: Bay Back Books, 2005), 107; and Tart, Open Mind, 167; and Rupert Sheldrake, A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance (Rochester, Vt.: Park Street Press, 1995), 170—81.
23. Castaneda, The Fire from Within, 168—69.
24. Eric R. Kandel, James R. Schwartz, and Thomas M. Jessell, eds., Principles of Neural Science, 4th ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000), 388—92.
25. Russell Targ and Jane Katra, Miracles of Mind: Exploring Nonlocal Consciousness and Spiritual Healing (Novato, Calif.: New World Library, 1998), 251; Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1982), 226; Castaneda, The Power of Silence, 14; and David G. Myers, “The Powers and Perils of Intuition: Understanding the Nature of Our Gut Instincts,” Scientific American Mind (June/July 2007): 24—29.
26. Jerome Groopman, How Doctors Think (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007), 44; and Suzuki, Zen Mind, 21.
27. Julian Jaynes, The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990), 236—46.
28. Eagle Feather, Toltec Dreaming, 139—42.
29. Tart, Open Mind, 182—83.
30. Sharon Begley, “How the Brain Rewires Itself,” Time (January 29, 2007): 79; and Targ and Katra, Miracles, 257.
31. Castaneda, A Separate Reality, 153.
32. Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee, The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better (New York: Random House, 2007), 181—89.
33. Castaneda, The Fire from Within, 176.
CHAPTER 10. ENERGY MANAGEMENT SKILLS
1. Castaneda, Ixtlan, 181—99.
2. Tart, States of Consciousness, 117.
3. Castaneda, The Fire from Within, 148, 154.
4. Castaneda, A Separate Reality, 91.
5. Castaneda, Ixtlan, 18—19; and Eagle Feather, Toltec Dreaming, 175—76.
6. Castaneda, Power of Silence, xii—xiii.
7. Castaneda, Ixtlan, 59—70, 88—104.
8. Ibid., 70; and Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, 65.
9. Tart, Open Mind, 225.
10. Oschman, Energy Medicine, 111—15; and Barnett and Chambers, Reiki, 43.
11. Taisha Abelar, The Sorcerer’s Crossing: A Woman’s Journey (New York: Penguin Arkana, 1992), 42—65; Castaneda, Eagle’s Gift, 285—89; Eagle Feather, Toltec Dreaming, 185—88; and Victor Sanchez, The Toltec Path of Recapitulation: Healing Your Past to Free Your Soul (Rochester, Vt.: Bear & Company, 2001).
12. Suzuki, Zen Mind, 29—31; and personal discussions with Tantra teacher Roberta Williams, March 2009.
13. Tart, Open Mind, 187—88.
14. Herbert Benson with Miriam Z. Klipper, The Relaxation Response (New York: Harper, 2000), xvi; and Rollin McCraty, “From Depletion to Renewal: Positive Emotions and Heart Rhythm Coherence Feedback,” Biofeedback 36, no. 1 (2008): 30—34; and Antonio Damasio, Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain (Orlando: Harcourt, 2003), 130—33.
15. Tart, Open Mind, 39, 247—50; and Tart, States of Consciousness, 25.
16. Gallo, Energy Psychology, 4.
17. Castaneda, The Power of Silence, 220; and Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan, 106—7.
18. Suzuki, Zen Mind, 119—21.
19. Tart, States of Consciousness, 280—81.
20. Castaneda, A Separate Reality, 151.
21. Donald B. Calne, Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behavior (New York: Pantheon Books, 1999), 243.
22. Ouspensky, Fourth Way, 159, 258, 310.
23. Tart, States of Consciousness, 156—62, 278.
24. B. Alan Wallace, The Taboo of Subjectivity: Toward a New Science of Consciousness (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 166.
25. Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (New York: Ace/Penguin, 2003), references to “Fair Witness” are found throughout the book.
26. Clifford A. Pickover, Time: A Traveler’s Guide (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1998), 57.
CHAPTER 11. THE HEARTBEAT OF LEARNING
1. Daniel J. Siegel, The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience (New York: The Guildford Press, 1999), 23—24; and Castaneda, Tales of Power, 47—48.
2. Siegel, The Developing Mind, 24, 60—63; Norman Doige, The Brain That Changes Itself (New York: Viking, 2007), 219—20; and Eric R. Kandel, In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2006), 212—18.
3. Doige, The Brain That Changes Itself, 117, 203, 224.
4. Pert, Molecules of Emotion, 144—45.
5. E-mail correspondence with James Oschman during December 2008 and January 2009. He will examine the role of the extracellular matrix and memory in the second edition of his book, Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis.
6. Kandel, In Search of Memory, 116—34; Austin, Zen and the Brain, 187—89; Blakeslee, The Body Has a Mind of Its Own, 29—32; and Lipton, Biology of Belief, 38—39.
7. Tart, States of Consciousness, 105—9.
8. Castaneda, The Power of Silence, 124—25, 84—86.
9. Castaneda, The Fire from Within, 113.
10. Frank T. Vertosick Jr., The Genius Within: Discovering the Intelligence of Every Living Thing (New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2002), 5.
11. Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works (New York: Scientific American/W. W. Norton & Co., 1997), 62.
12. Vertosick, The Genius Within, 53—55.
13. Doige, The Brain That Changes Itself, 250—52.
14. Tart, Open Mind, 283; and Copi, Introduction to Logic, 444—48.
15. Nancy Andreasen, The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius (New York: Dana Press, 2005), 33—35.
16. “Hollow earth,” http://en.wikipedia.org, June 16, 2008.
17. William Byers, How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007), 23—24, 59; and Reber, Dictionary of Psychology, 774.
18. Wallace, Taboo of Subjectivity, 12, 22.
19. Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, 145—47, 266.
20. American Heritage Dictionary, 791.
21. Castaneda, The Power of Silence, ix—xiii.
22. Ibid., 147, 47—48.
23. Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming, 75.
24. Schopenhauer, World as Will, vol. 2, 72.
25. Castaneda, The Power of Silence, xiv; and Castaneda, The Eagle’s Gift, 54.
26. Norbert Classen, Das Wissen der Tolteken (Freiburg, Germany: Hans-Nietsch-Verlag, 2002); and e-mail correspondence, June 15—16, 2008.