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The books, articles, papers and reports in this library are recommended reading for evolutionary learning and practice. They each in their own way set the context for Conscious Evolution, and the opportunities and challenges of our time.

LIVING SCHOOL RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Listed below in alphabetical order by author

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Adrienne, Carol, Ph.D: Find your Life Purpose, Change Your Life: Getting to the Heart of Your Life's Mission. HarperCollins, New York, NY 1999. Carol, provides a practical workbook that shows us how to tap the unexpected potential of synchronicity to find life purpose and achieve the rewards that come from living in harmony with the soul's code.

Almaas, A.H.: Essence: The Diamond Approach to Inner Realization (Samuel Weiser, Maine, 1986) This is one of the very best in depth descriptions of the nature of essence and how to access it, written by Hameed Ali, founder of the Diamond Approach, offering sacred path to inner realization, now training teachers throughout the world.

Anderson, Carolyn & Roske, Katherine: The Co-creators Handbook; An Experiential Guide for Discovering Your Soul’s Purpose and Building a Co-Creative Society (Self Published, www.globalfamily.net.) Excellent resource for processes to help you and your core group explore life purpose. Provides guidelines and tools to support cocreative cores who are working toward a shared purpose or project.

Assogioli, Robert: Psychonsynthesis; A Manual of Principles and Techniques. (Penguin, New York, 1976). Another seminal work that rediscovered the concept of a transpersonal self beyond the behavior ego, initiating the field of transpersonal psychology.

Aurobinbdo, Sri: The Synthesis of Yoga. Pondicherry, India: Sri Aurobindo Ashram. 1955. A master work from the great Eastern yogi, who along with Teilhard de Chardin established the ground work for evolutionary spirituality and the emergence of the universal human.

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Bache, Christopher M.: Dark Night Early Dawn: Steps to a Deep Ecology of the Mind (State University of New York Press, 2000) An exploration of the further reaches of the mind leading to an experience of a planetary awakening of our species as a whole.

Baldwin, Christina: Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture. (Bantan Books, NY, NY 1998) In this book Christina explains the simple yet profound practice of a council circle. Another great resource for circle formation.

Banathy, Bela H.: Guided Evolution of Society: A Systems View (Kluweer Academic/Plenum Publishers, NY 2000) A superb text, bringing together for the first time the dynamics of conscious evolution, with key concepts, scholars, references. Bela establishes the new field for us. A Must for any student of conscious evolution.

Beck, Don and Cowan, Christopher: Spiral Dynamics; Mastering, Values, Leadership and Change (Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1996, ISBN, USA orders to 238 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02124, phone 800-216-2522) Spiral Dynamics reveals the hidden codes that shape human nature, create global diversities, and drive organizational change. Through the STREAMS and TEMPLATES frameworks, it offers specific guidelines for designing better organizations, improving communication, more effective leadership, and enhanced interpersonal relations based on how people—as individuals and groups—sense their worlds to be now and what they are likely to become next.

Bleiman, Joyce & Boisen, Kathleen: Love Among the Wild Gods:Reclaiming True Power and Peace (Fithian Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1998). This book reveals an inspirational and powerful method for transforming our lives from domination and control to dominion and partnership.

Boldt, Laurence G.: Zen and the Art of Making a Living, Penguin Group, New York, N.Y. 1993

Bruteau, Beatrice: God's Ecstasy: The Creation of a Self-Creating World (New York: A Crossroads Book, 1997) A magnificent scientifically-based exploration into the mystery of the self-organizing universe, seen from the perspective of a Teihlardian, Catholic evolutionary philosopher and mystic contemplative.

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Carey, Ken: The Third Millennium: Living in the Posthistoric World (New York, NY, HarperCollins Publishers, 1991) A keen, poetic description of the emerging spiritual awareness.

Chandler, Keith: The Mind Paradigm: A Unified Model of Mental and Physical Reality (NY, NY Author's Choice Press 2001) A fascinating inquiry into the origin of design in evolution rejecting reductionist "fundamentalism" seeking a scientifically based understanding of Cosmic Mind at work "thinking" the universe.

Chaisson, Eric J.: Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, 2001) A latest scientific version of cosmic evolution.

Chaisson, Eric: The Life Era: Cosmic Selection and Conscious Evolution (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1989). A profound description of our possible entrance into the Life Era - the first phase of conscious, ethical evolution, and its potential in the long distant future.

Chardin, Teilhard de: The Human Phenomenon (Brighten, Portland , Sussex Academic Press, new addition by Sarah Appleton-Webber, 1999) The new translation of the seminal work that discovered the meaning and pattern in evolution toward higher order. A challenging work, but a true spiritual revelation that stands as the premier work in the field.

Chopra, Deepak: The Path to Love; Renewing the Power of Spirit in Your Life. (Harmony Books, New York, NY. 1997) The Path to Love is a remarkable melding of eastern wisdom and western pragmatism, of ancient knowledge and scientific research. Philosophical, inspiring, and ultimately very practical, this book is a rich read and offers great insight into the transformation of ourselves through our relationships.

Chopra, Deepak: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide To The Fulfillment of Your Dreams, Amber-Allen Publishing and New World Library, San Rafael, CA. 1994. Based on natural law, this book shatters the myth that success is the result of hard work, exacting plans, or driven ambition. Deepak offers us a life-altering perspective on the attainment of success.

Cole, K.C.: Sympathetic Vibrations: Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life (New York, NY, Bantam Books 1985) - She offers an excellent guide to understanding the meaning of new physics for our lives.

Combs, Allan: The Radiance of Being: Complexity, Chaos and The Evolution of Consciousness (Paragon House, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1995). Allan takes us by the hand in the search "that takes place in this world where truth itself is woven from the clear chronicles of science and the profound tales of mystics."

Cutright, Paul and Layne: Straight from the Heart, An Essential Guide for Developing, Deepening, and Renewing Your Relationships (Heart to Heart, La Costa, CA 1996) This book provides step-by-step guidance and practical processes you can do with your romantic partner, your business colleagues, family members or friends that will bring you new levels of intimacy, trust and understanding.

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Edwards, Paul and Sarah: Finding Your Perfect Work: The New Career Guide to Making a Living, Creating a Life. Tartcher/Putnam, New York, N.Y. 1996

Eisler, Riane: The Chalice and the Blade (Harper San Francisco, 1987,1995). The major work in cultural anthropology that reveals the devastating effect of the patriarchy.

Eisler, Riane: The Partnership Way, New Tools for Living and Learning. (HarperCollins, New York, NY 1990) This book offers practical information and experiential exercises to help you create more healthy, productive, and satisfying new ways of thinking, feeling and acting in all aspects of our lives.

Elgin, Duane: Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness (New York, William Morrow & Co., 1993) A work of genius, synthesizing the whole story of creation, the rise of Homo sapiens, and our possible evolution. A master work.

Elgin, Duane: Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future (New York, NY. HarperCollins, 2000) A breathtaking view of the future that is relevant to anyone seeking to navigate through our profoundly changing world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Introduction by Alfred Kazin, (The Belknap Press of Harvard University, Combridge, 1987 edition) The source document of Emerson's great exposition of the one divine source inherent in each of us as sovereign persons.

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Ferguson, Marilyn: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in Our Time, (A Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam Book, G.P Putnam’s Sons, New York. 1980)

Fillmore, Charles: Atom-smashing Power of Mind. (Unity books, Unity Village, MO 64065) A key text by the co-founder of the world-wide Unity movement, which brings the teachings of Jesus into application in a practical spirituality that teaches us that we too are cocreators with the divine.

Fox, Mathew: The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood, (HarperCollins, New York, N.Y., 1994). This book puts our vocations in the context of the shifting worldview and helps us to see our "work" in a whole new light. It is deep, inspiring, revealing and practical.

Fuller, Buckminster: Critical Path, (St. Martin’s Press; ISBN: 0312174918). Available through Amazon.com or directly from the Buckminster Fuller Institute at 707-824-2242.

Fuller, Buckminster: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, (Lars Muller Publishers; ISBN: 3907078233). Available through Amazon.com or directly from the Buckminster Fuller Institute at 707-824-2242.

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Gangadean, Ashok, K.: Meditative Reason: Toward a Universal Grammar (Peter Lang, New York, 1993). A professional philosopher's description to show that the birthing of Universal Law and its expression as Universal Grammar has been a primary generative principle or moving force in the global evolution of cultural life.

Gorney, Dr. Roderic: The Human Agenda: The Evolution of Human Values -- Man's Way to Survival, (Simon and Schuster New York, 1972 ) Dr. Gorney challenges the popular view that human violence results from immutable instinct, and shows that it is learned.He illuminates the nature, sources, and social provocation of human aggression.

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Harvey, Andrew: The Direct Path: Creating a Journey to the Divine Using the World's Mystical Traditions. (Broadway Books, New York, 2000). Andrew writes: "The Direct Path is the Path to God without dogma or priests or gurus, the Path of DIRECT self-empowerment and self-awakening….what the Direct Path does is take all these highest illuminations and aspirations of all the mystical traditions and focus them in an overwhelming and divinely empowered sacred passion to labor, in every inner and outer way, to "birth" transformation in all conditions of world life."

Hendricks, Gay and Kathlyn: Conscious Loving; A Way to Be Fully Together Without Giving Up Yourself (Bantam Books, New York, NY. 1990) This books takes you from unconscious loving and co-dependence to conscious loving, co-commitment and co-creativity. It is a practical guide, offering the reader the vision, the path and the practice.

Hock, Dee: Birth of the Chaordic Age (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc SF, CA, 1999). Visionary yet pragmatic ideas about the nature of money, information, organization, and community, and hope for a better future in an increasingly complex and troubled world.

Holmes, Ernest: The Science of Mind (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 50th Anniversary Edition, New York) This is the seminal text that sets forth the basic premises of the New Thought Movement, and Religious Science in particular. He writes: "The study of the Science of Mind is a study of First Cause, Spirit, Mind, or that invisible Essence, that ultimate Stuff and Intelligence from which everything comes, the Power bask of creation -- the Thing Itself." Through Science of Mind we learn to become cocreative. With that Power in alignment with the deepest patterns of evolution.

Houston, Jean: Jump Time: Shaping Your Future in a World of Radical Change (New York, Penquin Putnam Inc., 2000) A comprehensive look at the forces that are leading us to a quantum leap forward, and how each of us can harness our existing day-to-day activities and consciousness to remake the world.

Houston, Jean: The Possible Human: A Course in Enhancing Your Physical, Mental and Creative Abilities ( J.P. Tarcher, Inc., Los Angeles, 1982)

Houston, Jean: Passion for the Possible: A Guide to Realizing Your True Potential. (Harper SanFrancisco, 1997) Great encouragement and excellent exercises from one of the world's premier teachers and evocateurs of our creative potential.

Hubbard, Barbara Marx: Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential (Novato, CA, New World Library, 1998). Focusing on the social aspect of Conscious Evolution Barbara offers a spirit-motivated design of action which can assist us in taking the quantum jump. It is a basic text book for Gateway.

Hubbard, Barbara Marx: Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence - 10 Steps to the Universal Human. (Hampton Roads, Charlottesville, VA 22902, 2001) The key text for the Emergence Process with guidelines for every step from "birth" through Infancy, Childhood and Youth, culminating in a vision of the next stage of human evolution in which the Adult Universal Human comes forth.

Hubbard, Barbara Marx: The Evolutionary Journey: A Personal Guide to a Positive Future (San Francisco, CA, Evolutionary Press, 1982) A dramatic presentation of the "Story" with a dynamic vision of positive future - what it might be like if everything works! Taken from The Theater for the Future.

Hunt, Valerie: Infinite Mind: Science of Human vibrations of Consciousness. (Malibu, CA: Malibu Publishing Co.) Valerie Hunt's research into the human energy fields shows that the mind and emotions are not restricted to the brain and nervous system, but rather originate in the aura, out of which the body is originally formed. Dr. Hunt discusses telepathy, emotions, the mind, body and brain in healing and mystical experiences, and the soul's journey through lifehoods.

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Jackson, Hildur, edited by: Creating Harmony, Conflict Resolution in Community. (Permanenet. 2000) An outstanding book on the art, science, and application of conflict resolution practices by outstanding community pioneers.

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Kaner, Sam: Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decisions-Making, (New Society Publishers/Canada Gabriola Island, BC. 1996 ) This book gives readers tolls and insights to enable effective participatory action and the potential to achieve strong principled results and positive social change.
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Kingma, Daphne Rose: The Future of Love; The Power of the Soul in Intimate Relationships (Doubleday, New York, NY, 1998) This book illuminates the topic of intimate relationships with the true light of the soul. Daphine describes beautifully the evolution our relationships from ones created by our personalities, to relationships that reflect our souls.

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Laszlo, Ervin: Macroshift: Navigating the Transformation to a Sustainable World. Barrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc, San Francisco, 2001

Laszlo, Ervin: The Whispering Pond: A Personal Guide to the Emerging Vision of Science (Rockport, MA: Element, 1996). A wonderfully clear guide to the new view of the cosmos. He brings together the established vision of scientists with the paradoxes for which they cannot offer any explanation. It is an inquiry into the mystery through the eyes of a brilliant scientific visionary.

Leakey, Richard: Origins

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Maslow, Abraham: Toward a Psychology of Being (Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY. 1968) The seminal work that founded Humanistic Psychology, mapped the self actualizing person, the precurssor of the cocreative universal human, and also identified the heirarchy of human needs. A profound background text to the Gateway from a master guide.

Maslow, Abraham H:. Further Reaches of Human Nature ( New York, New York, 10166). The master founder of the human potential movement gives us powerful insights as to the ways in which we reach self actualization and self transcendence.

Miller, Ron, edited by: Creating Learning Communities: Models, Resources, and New Ways of Thinking About Teaching and Learning (Solomon Press, The Foundation for Educational Renewal, Inc Brandon, VT. 2000) This is a wonderful, extremely useful book illustrating how creative partnership-oriented learning communities are springing up all over the world. The contributors speak from successful experiences – and with great passion - about this important self-organizing educational movement that can help lay the foundations for a more equitable, peaceful, truly democratic way of life.

The Mother: Mind of the Cells (Institute for Evolutionary Research, 200 Park Avenue, N.Y. 10166). An extraordinary exploration into the actual physical transformation of our cells by the partner of the great Indian yogi Sri Aurobindo.

Morrissey, Mary Manin: Building Your Field of Dreams (Bantam Books, New York, 1996) A practical guide to assist the cocreator in releasing bondages, and self imposed limits to free our creative genius in the world, by one of the leading New Thought ministers, spiritual director of the Living Enrichment Center, and president of the Association for Global New Thought

Morrissey, Mary Manin: No Less Than Greatness (Bantam Books, New York, 2001)

Murphy, Michael: The Future of the Body: Exploration into the Further Evolution of Human Nature ( Jeremy Tarcher, Inc., Los Angeles) An exhaustive study of the very growing edge of human transformation from every culture and field. A seminal background work for our emergence.

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Pearce, Joseph Chilton: The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit (Park Street Press. Rochester,Vermont, 2002) Joseph Chilton Pearce examines the current biological understanding of our neural organization to address how we can transcend our current capacities and limitations. An excellent book.

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Russell, Peter: Waking Up in Time: Finding Inner Peace in Times of Accelerating Change (Novato, CA. Origin Press, Inc. 1992) A beautiful description of the evolution of consciousness.

Russell, Peter: From Science to God: The Mystery of Consciousness and the Meaning of Light (www.peterrussell.com) One of our master guides he blends physics, psychology, and philosophy leading us to a new world view in which consciousness is as fundamental to the cosmos as space, time, and matter. He shows that the bridge between science and spirit is light.

Russell, Peter: The Global Brain Awakens: Our Next Evolutionary Leap ( Palo Alto, CA: Global Brain, 1992) The masterful story of our evolution from cosmos to cosmic consciousness.

Russell, Peter: Waking Up in Time: Finding Inner Peace in Times of Accelerating Change (Novato, CA. Origin Press, Inc. 1992) A beautiful description of the evolution of consciousness.

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Sahtouris, Elisabet: Earth Dance: Living Systems in Evolution (Metalog Books. 124 Justin Circle, Alameda, CA 94502) A brilliant and loving description of nature's fabulous intelligence by a pioneering evolutionary biologists and social innovator.

Sher, Babara: I Could Do Anything, If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It. (Dell Publishing, New York, N.Y., 1994).

Small, Jacquelyn: Transformers: The Artists of Self-Creation (DeVorss and Co., 1994) A beautiful guide by one of our best teachers in human transformation.

Some', Sobonfu: The Spirit Of Intimacy: Ancient African Teachings in the way of Relationships. (Quill William Morrow, New York, NY 1997) An amazing book by an amazing woman, bringing us wisdom of her people about the importance of living, breating, continual connection with spirit and each other; about the ways to experience a genuine intimacy with life itself.

Stewart, John: Evolution's Arrow: The Direction of Evolution and the Future of Humanity (Canberra, 2611 Australia, The Chapman Press, 2000) A key work that identifies another mechanism beyond "natural selection" that is the selection of that which cooperates best. This leads to a hypothesis that the cooperators will inherit the Earth.

Stock, Gregory: Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism (New York, Simon & Schuster, 1993). A major description of the evolution of the noosphere provides humanity with the power to transcend the limits of its current condition and flourish as a universal species.

Swimme, Brian and Berry, Thomas: The Universe Story:From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era (San Francisco, HarperCollins, 1992). The best story of cosmogenesis ever written.

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Tolle, Eckhart: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (New World Library, Novato, CA, 1999). A marvelously clear guide to accessing essence by focus on the presence in the present. "[Being] is your very essence, and it is immediately accessible to you as the feeling of your own presence, the realization that I am is prior to I am this or I am that.

Toms, Michael: A Time for Choices (New Society Pub, September 2002). Addresses contemporary challenges to democracy through dialogues that expand the field of possibilities with the views of leading thinkers, educators, political analysts, activists, social innovators, clergy, journalists, philosophers, and spiritual teachers.

Toms, Michael: An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms (HarperCollins (paper); May 1990). In the tradition of The Power of Myth, a conversation with Joseph Campbell that distills the mature wisdom and eclectic spiritual thinking of the world-renowned scholar and mythologist.

Toms, Michael and Justine: True Work: Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do (Three Rivers Press; Reprint edition March 1999).

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Walsch, Neale Donald: The New Revelations: A Conversation with God (Atria Books, New York, 2002)

Wheatley, Margaret / Kellner-Rogers, Myron: A Simpler Way (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc SF, CA, 1996) This book looks at the deeper elemental forms which make up not only our organizations, but human life itself. It is about preserving the color and texture of a vital individual life while joining together to work with others; it is about a lived simplicity that enables vitality and creativity amidst complexity.

Wheatley, Margaret: Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future. (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.; 2002)
"I believe we can change the world if we start listening to one another again, says Meg. Simple, honest, human conversation. Not mediation, negotiation, problem solving, debate, or public meetings. Simple, truthful conversation where we each feel heard, and we each listen well. This is how great changes begin, when people begin talking to each other about their experiences, hopes, and fears."

Wilber, Ken: A Brief History of Everything (Boston and London, Shambhala, 1996). A wonderful exposition of "everything" - by the "Einstein of consciousness."

Wilber, Ken: Journals of Ken Wilber: One Taste (Shambhala, Boston, 1999). An intimate description of the inner states of being of one of the world's pioneers in psycho-spiritual transformation.

Wilber, Ken: A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science, and Spirituality, (Shambhala, Boston, 2000)

Wolf, Fred Alan: The Spiritual Universe. (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996) Another major work from who is affectionately called "our cosmic rabbi," a leading physicist who is probing the relationship between quantum physics and consciousness.

Wright, Michelle Small: Cocreative Science: A Revolution in Science Providing Real Solutions For Today's Health and Environment. (Perelandra, Ltd. Warrenton, VA 1997) This book is a must read for anyone who wishes to enter into a cocreative partnership with nature.

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Yatri: Unknown Man: the Mysterious Birth of a New Species (New York, A Fireside Book, Simon & Schuster Inc., 1988). One of the most beautiful works of prose with original art describing the emergence of the universal human - the new species being born through so many of us.

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Zukav, Gary: Dancing Wu Li Masters (Bantam Books, NY. 1979). A brilliant exposition of the new physics from the author of The Seat of the Soul.