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Dr. Walker left with his Memoirs an annotated list of books and articles related to his experiences and research. Rivah provided some of the titles. Many are available for purchase through www.Amazon.com and other online sources. Or you can find them at your local library. A few of the obscure or scholarly works may be obtained from university libraries or through interlibrary loan services. I'll add more related links from time to time. Many of the works cited by Walker are available online.

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Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Mass Market Paperback. Reissue Ed., 1995.

Akkadian language site: http://saturn.sron.ruu.nl/%7Ejheise/akkadian/.

Arnold, Edwin, tr. The Bhagavad-Gita. Kessinger Pub. Co., 1942. Original translation published in 1885. Many other translations are available. The Sanskrit text is available online at: http://www.iconsoftec.com/gita/. Arnold's translation is online at: http://www.sirtis.org.uk/gita/.

Assyrian and Aramaic site: http://members.aol.com/assyrianme/aramaic/aramaic.html.

Astell, Ann W. The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990. This work is a good survey of the evolution of various Christian interpretations of the Song during the Middle Ages.

Ball, Charles James. Chinese and Sumerian. London: Oxford University Press, 1913. Linguists have been unsure which language family Sumerian belongs to, and many continue to leave it unassigned. Ball, a lecturer in Assyriology at Oxford, assembled this work, which is essentially a Chinese-Sumerian dictionary as evidence for the hypothesis that those two languages are related, both in their speech sounds and in their writing systems. The Chinese material is generally reliable, and the Sumerian looks good also, although I am not an expert in that. This work and that of Ong will not be popular with most Chinese, who proudly think of themselves as an independently evolved and self-sufficient culture. (According to this view Buddhism is dilettantism.) Unfortunately the Sumerians are not around to protest the association with the Chinese.

Barrett, Francis. The Magus: A Complete System of Occult Philosophy. NY: Citadel Press, 1989. Reprint of London, 1801 ed. This is an example of a work on Western kabbalistic magic. There is some interesting material scattered among a great deal of hugger-bugger.

Ben-Yehuda, Ehud and David Weinstein. Ben Yehuda's Pocket English-Hebrew Hebrew-English Dictionary. New York: Pocket Book, 1975. This is a handy Hebrew dictionary, widely used.

Bible, The Holy. Several versions are available online, including the authorized King James Version, at http://www.genesis.net.au/~bible/, the Douay-Rheims version at www.cybercomm.net/~dcon/drbible.html/, and the Latin Vulgate.

Bloch, Ariel and Chana Bloch. The Song of Songs: A New Translation with an Introduction and Commentary. Afterword by Robert Alter. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995. The viewpoint of this book is that the Song is "poem about the sexual awakening of a young woman and her lover. In a series of subtly articulated scenes, the two meet in an idealized landscape of fertility and abundance - a kind of Eden - where they discover the pleasures of love. The passage from innocence to experience is a subject of the Eden story, too, but there the loss of innocence is fraught with consequences. The Song looks at the same border-crossing and sees only the joy of discovery."

Bloom, Harold, ed. The Song of Songs: Modern Critical Interpretations. NY: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988. The critical essays in this volume cover a wide range of traditional and modern interpretations of the Song. Particularly relevant to the ideas Rivah was leading me to is the essay by Phyllis Trible, "Love's Lyrics Redeemed" excerpted from her book, q.v. Other interesting essays include William Phipps on "The Plight of the Song of Songs" in its Judaeo-Christian hermeneutical history, Marvin Pope speculating on various Mesopotamian evidence he thinks may throw light on the "Love and Death" theme in the Song, Marcia Falk on "The Wasf," a chapter on "Beauty and the Enigma" from Francis Landy's excellent book, (q.v.), Robert Alter on "The Garden of Metaphor," and Arthur Green on "The Song of Songs in Early Jewish Mysticism."

Bomhard, Allan. "The I.E.-Semitic Hypothesis Re-examined." Journal of Indo-European Studies. Spring, 1977, pp. 55-99. Revisions of reconstructed proto-Indo-European phonology by Hopper, Gamkrelidze, Ivanov, et al., led Bomhard to identify 165 pairs of tentative cognates between proto-semitic and proto-indo-european roots. Bomhard theorizes that the third letter of the Semitic root and the characteristic I.E. inflectional suffixes were added after the two language families separated.

Brennan, Barbara Ann. Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field. NY: Bantam, 1988. Brennan is a former NASA scientist specializing in atmospheric physics. After she discovered her aptitude for psychic perception and healing, she shifted careers and became a healer. This book and its sequel, Light Emerging: Journey Through the Personal Healing Process, form an excellent introduction and reference to the study of subtle energy structures in the human body. It's a start, at least.

Briggs, John and F. David Peat. Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness. A good introduction to fractals and chaos theory. The classic on the subject is Benoit Mandelbrot's book on fractals.

Brin, David. The Uplift Saga. Brin's blockbuster is a sci-fi fantasy novel in 6 volumes (Sundiver, Startide Rising, The Uplift War, Brightness Reef, Infinity's Shore, Heaven's Reach). This work begins to explore some of the aspects of deliberate evolution and symbiotic evolution. It's a good start, but barely scratches the surface of the possibilities inherent in "uplift" games. The whole thing hinges on a Thomistic regression. There are four possibilities for the location of the Primum Mobile: (1) An "external" sentient Source (He's not me, but I owe everything to Him; it's His reality and He takes care of me and everything else); (2) A collective Higher Self (It's all of us together; we make agreements and create a conventional reality); (3) A randomly generated set of Natural Laws (Nobody did it, but it just randomly turned out this way; it's an objective reality we can all see and experience); (4) An "internal" personally responsible Source (I did it all and it's all my subjective reality). These four basic viewpoints respectively generate Religion, Socialism, Science, and Individualism in varying intensities and mixtures. For a more detailed discussion, see Palmer's Living Deliberately, especially Chapter 9.

Budge, E. A. Wallis. An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary. 2 Vols. NY: Dover, 1978. Reprint of John Murray's edition, London, 1920, with a few format changes. This is an excellent introductory resource on the Egyptian hieroglyphs, with some comparisons to Hebrew, as well as other related languages.

Budge, E. A. Wallis. Egyptian Language: Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics. NY: Dover, 1983. Reprint of original edition published by Kegan Paul, London, 1910. This is a good introductory text by a recognized master in the abstruse field of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. For some online study of Egyptian hieroglyphs, try http://geocities.datacellar.net/~amenhotep/language/, or http://www.friesian.com/egypt.htm by Kelly Ross, Ph.D., especially noting his caveats about following Budge's transcriptions of pronunciation. Another good site for getting into the Egyptian language: http://hosting.netvision.be/egyptologica/e_hiero.htm.

Budge, E. A. Wallis. Egyptian Magic. New York: Wings Books, 1991. This little volume is useful for its compendium of Egyptian amulets, many of which correspond to Hebrew letter symbols. It is also worth perusing for its mention of such things as the seven cows of Hathor and the Bull of Ra.

Budge, E. A. Wallis. The Gods of the Egyptians. Vols 1, 2. NY: Dover, 1969. These volumes contain excellent introductions to the gods and mythology of the Egyptians. The illustrations are clear and exhibit the symbology well.

Budge, E. A. Wallis. The Book of the Dead. The Hieroglyphic Transcript of the Papyrus of ANI, the Translation into English and An Introduction by E.A. Wallis Budge, Late Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in The British Museum. New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1960. The murals in the tub room at Pandora's Box were based on drawings in the Papyrus of ANI.

Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Illustrated by John Tenniel. Grosset & Dunlap, 1946. This is a pair of classic children's dream stories by Charles Dodgson, an imaginative English mathematician, logician, amateur photographer and story teller. Alice material can be found on line at http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres/Literary_Fiction/Authors/Carroll__Lewis__1832_1898_/Alice_s_Adventures_in_Wonderland/. Specifically the text is available at: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/rgs/alice-table.html. Looking Glass material is at: http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres/Literary_Fiction/Authors/Carroll__Lewis__1832_1898_/Through_the_Looking_Glass_and_What_Alice_Found_There/ including the text.

Case, Dr. Paul Foster. Builders of the Adytum (BOTA). There is a course and a lot of esoteric materials available from BOTA, including a beautiful set of Tarot cards that is similar to the Rider-Waite deck. BOTA can be contacted online at www.bota.org. They are based in Los Angeles.

Chuang-tzu. This collection of Taoist anecdotes and parables by the man of the same name is unique. I usually use Jame Legge's version, but Burton Watson has a translation out from Columbia University Press. Chinese text is available for a fee from Academia Sinica: http://www.sinica.edu.tw/ftms-bin/ftmsw3. There's a lot of material scattered around on the web, and various translations available through Amazon.

Danielou, Alain. Gods of Love and Ecstasy: The Traditions of Shiva and Dioonysus. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1992. Original English title, Shiva and Dionysus. The author explores ancient tantric traditions of India and Europe. There is some material about the role of the bull and the serpent in ancient cultures. The work is marred by Danielou's bias in favor of polytheistic nature religion. Nevertheless, it is a rich source of information. His other works are also of interest.

Dolan, Chris. Home Page: "The Constellations and Their Stars." www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/. This is an excellent well-illustrated resource for identifying constellations and stars.

D'Olivet, Fabre. The Hebraic Tongue Restored. Translated by Nayan Louise Redfield from the 1815 French original. York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1991. The first English version was published in 1921. It was republished in 1976 and reissued in 1991. This important work represents an early attempt at restoring the original meaning of Hebrew roots on the basis of an analysis of the component letters. It is greatly hampered by the author's failure to go back to the original pictographic and ideographic forms of the letters to identify their basic meanings. For instance, he fails to note that ALePh, the first letter of the alphabet, originally is a pictogram of a bull's head, and has a Hebrew name that means 'bull.' Nevertheless, there is a great deal of useful material in this historic work.

Evola, Julius. The Yoga of Power: Tantra, Shakti, and the Secret Way. Tr. By Guido Stucco from the 1968 Italian original. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International, 1992. This is a fairly good introductory book on tantra.

Falk, Marcia. Love Lyrics from the Bible: A Translation and Literary Study of The Song of Songs. Bible and Literature Series. Sheffield, England: The Almond Press, 1982. Falk divides the Song into 31 short lyrics. Of particular interest is her discussion of the wasf sections, so-named after the Arabic literary device of describing a lover's body parts in a series of poetic images, a device also used in the Song.

Fauna and Flora of the Bible. 2^nd Edition. Helps for Translators Series. London: United Bible Societies, 1972, 1980. This is an excellent reference work, with black-and-white drawings of most entries, numerous synonyms in both Hebrew and Greek, indices of Hebrew (with Aramaic), Greek, and English terms, as well as biblical references. This work draws on a number of sources, including Bare, Bodenheimer, Moldenke, Parmelee, and others.

Frissell, Bob with Brett Lilly contributing. Nothing in this Book is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are: The Esoteric Meaning of the Monuments on Mars. Frog, Ltd., 1994. Frissell summarizes Drunvalo Melchizedek's Flower of Life material and adds some of his own comments.

Fox, Michael V. The Song of Songs and the Ancient Egyptian Love Songs. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. Fox is a professor of Hebrew and Semitic Studies at Wisconsin. This detailed study includes the hieroglyphic texts of the Egyptian poems. Fox discusses the two literary corpi, noting the appearance of the wasf (descriptive catalog of the beloved's anatomy) in both. He feels that the Song as a literary work goes beyond the Egyptian poems "in the sensuousness of its language, the richness of its imagery, and the ardor of the love it depicts." (p. xxvii) Nevertheless, he admits that "the Song's author . . . was heir to the resources of a long tradition . . . [that] evolved from its auspicious Egyptian beginnings into the masterwork of love songs, . . . the Sublime Song." (p. xxvii)

Gardiner, Sir Alan. Egyptian Grammar. Oxford University Press, 1927, 1964. A great resource. See also, Egyptian Hieroglyphic Grammar: With Vocabularies, Exercises, Chrestomathy (A First-Reader), Sign-List & Glossary by S.A. Mercer, reprinted from 1926 by Ares Publishers (Chicago).

Ginsburgh, Rabbi Yitzchak. The Alef-beit: Jewish Thought Revealed through the Hebrew Letters. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1991. This book by a Chasidic rabbi teaching in Israel gives a good look at a traditionalist view. He has an appendix explaining gematria, and the substitution systems such as atbash and atbach. His endnotes are plentiful and interesting. He provides lots of bibliography with many Hebrew sources.

Goldman, Jonathan. Healing Sounds: the Power of Harmonics. Shaftesbury, Dorset, Great Britain: Element, Inc., 1992. Much of this book deals with the recent systematic study of the ancient practice of harmonic singing by modern singers of both East and West. Some aspects are speculative and would be classed as New Age, but the singing techniques are real and demonstrable. The esoteric theories and healing claims need more thorough investigation. This book includes excellent discography.

Goulder, Michael D. The Song of Fourteen Songs. Sheffield, England: JSOT Press, 1986. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 36. This interpretation of the Song is an example of an attempt to identify a suite of fourteen poems in it.

Graves, Robert. The Song of Songs: Text and Commentary. Illustrated by Hans Erni. London: William Collins Sons, 1973. This is an example of an interpretation of the Song as ritualistic drama. Graves identifies as characters Bride, Bridegroom, and choruses of Bridesmen and Bridesmaids. His discussion is strongly flavored with his historical views and his interest in myths and symbols. For some of his speculation on myths and alphabets, see his work, The White Goddess.

Harris, James R. and Dann W. Hone. "The Origins and Emergence of West Semitic Alphabetic Scripts." http://www.lib.byu.edu/~imaging/negev/. This is a detailed and documented site covering the history and recent findings concerning the early development of the alphabet. See also a short summary at: http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/class.pages/eil199/webprojects/Individuals/Aanaya/alphabet.html, author unknown.

Heline, Corinne. The Bible & the Tarot. Marina Del Rey, CA: DeVorss Publications, 1993. This book presents a fair amount of material, some of which is speculative and some of which I personally disagree with, mainly in certain details. There are no sources given, and the book lacks footnotes and bibliography, but it is worth examining for comparison purposes.

Herbert, Nick. Faster Than Light: Superluminal Loopholes in Physics. A Journey Beyond the Einstein Limit. New American Library, 1995. Physicist Herbert speculates in a popular vein on the search for possible ways to exceed the speed limit of light. Also by him: Quantum Reality.

Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text. 2 Vols. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1955. This contains the original Hebrew and an English translation of the Torah, Nebiyim, and Katovim.

Hurtak, J.J. The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch. 3^rd ed. Los Gatos, CA: The Academy for Future Science, 1987. This is a channeled book containing visions of future science in many disciplines. Much of the material is incomprehensible and/or wrong. On the other hand, much is based on real science and some probabilities of technological evolution. There is considerable material in this book about the Language of Light (Hurtak's version). There is a strong Hebrew influence. Hurtak includes permutations of the tetragrammaton and correlates them to DNA codes and the hexagrams of the I-ching. (New Age)

Jing, Chen, et al. Anatomical Atlas of Chinese Acupuncture Points. Jinan, China: Shandong Science and Technology Press, 1982. This joint work produced by Shandong Medical College and the Shandong College of Traditional Chinese Medicine is a good reference work on the various traditional acupoints and their therapeutic values, identifying the points precisely in terms of modern western anatomy.

Kaplan, Aryeh. Meditation and Kabbalah. York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1982, 84-5. This book covers many important aspects of Jewish kabbalistic meditation traditions, also throwing much light on the principles of the secret SheM tradition (he doesn't use this term) as preserved (usually in a garbled form) in Kabbalistic practices.

Kaplan, Aryeh. Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation in Theory and Practice. Rev. ed. York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, rev. ed. 1997. This is a classic work in Hebrew on the Kabbalistic method with Kaplan's translation and comments. Kaplan has many other interesting books with a Chasidic slant. Another book probably of interest which I haven't examined is Derech HaShem: The Way of God, written with Moshe Chaim Luzzatto. Another translation by Bob Zucker is available online. The first six chapters are available at www.opus1.com/emol/para/SEFERYETZIRAH/sftext.html.

Kaplan, Stuart R. Encyclopedia of Tarot. 6 Vols. Stamford, CT: United States Games Systems, 1978-1999. Kaplan is founder and owner of USGS. He collects and sells Tarot cards and many other items. His Encyclopedia contains reproductions of Tarot cards down through the ages. He keeps adding to the collection. You can get a taste of what Kaplan has to offer by visiting his web site at www.usgamesinc.com.

Kaplan, Stuart R. The Rider Tarot Deck. Stamford, CT: United States Games Systems, 1971. This is the original and only authorized edition of the famous Tarot Deck designed by Pamela Colman Smith under the direction of Arthur Edward Waite and reissued in collaboration with Miss Sybil Waite and Rider & Company, London. It is one of the best "traditional" style Tarot decks. It is widely used and generally represents the symbolism very clearly. See Kaplan's web site listed in the previous entry.

Kilham, Chris. In Search of the New Age: A Humorous Look at an Emerging Culture. Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 1988. This is very funny, but also gives an overview of various movements and lifestyles that have been emerging in recent years. Underlying the zany humor lie powerful insights and hints.

Labat, Rene. Manuel d'Epigraphie Akkadienne: Signes, Syllabaire, Ideogrammes. 6^th ed. Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1988. This is Labat's classic Manual of Akkadian Epigraphy, containing the reconstructed evolution of written forms, from Sumerian ideograms through various stages of stylization into cuneiform up through neo-Babylonian. It also has various attested readings and numerous useful indices.

Landy, Francis. Paradoxes of Paradise: Identity and Difference in the Song of Songs. Sheffield, England: The Almond Press, 1983. This book contains a fascinating comparison of the paradise of Genesis with the paradise of the Songs, including detailed exploration of the syntax and vocabulary of the Songs and some exploration of wordplay and imagery that carry over between the two paradises.

Lanphear, Roger, G. Unified: A Course on Truth and Practical Guidance from Babaji. Marina Del Rey, CA: DeVorss & Co., 1991. This is a useful work on the notion of getting in touch with your Higher Self and developing a working relationship with your Self. It is a systematic six-month self-study course.

Lao-tzu. Tao-Te-Ching. This Chinese Taoist classic is available in many translations. James Legge is an early translator I often use, but he's not very good with Lao-tzu's text. Chinese text can be found at: http://zhongwen.com/dao.htm. Legge's text is at: http://classics.mit.edu/Lao/taote.html.

Lawlor, Robert. Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice. NY: Thames & Hudson, 1992 repr. This excellent book contains nine workbooks in the exploration of various aspects of sacred geometry.

Lenard, Alexander, tr. Winnie Ille Pu. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard. Revised Ed. E.P. Dutton, 1991. The Latin translation of Milne's classic, Winnie-the-Pooh. Brian Staples has translated The House at Pooh Corner into Latin as Winnie Ille Pu Semper Ludet.

Low, Colin. http://www.digital-brilliance.com/kab/index.htm. This is a good website for getting into traditional and modern approaches to Kabbalah. There are many other links to explore and books to read on the subject.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The Transcendental Meditation program. (This is an experience, not a book.) TM is a very simple, natural, and innocent procedure of meditation. In fact it is perhaps the simplest method of getting direct experience of pure consciousness quickly and without any fuss. The TM movement in recent years has become tangled up in its own oriental-style internal politics, and so TM may become a technique only available to people with lots of money and special connections. But, if you are ready for it, you probably will find a way to learn. TM is part of the ancient Indian tradition of Ajapa, which involves the use of mantras. The science of the creation and use of mantras is an important part of SheM science. I would class TM as a New Age phenomenon because it is an integration of Vedic Science and Modern Science, an ancient tradition adapted to life in our busy society, and part of the wave of rising consciousness that is taking the planet into a new dimension of group experience. Maharishi's other programs are mostly consumer products aimed at maintaining cash flow into the movement. But Maharishi has made many interesting lecture tapes in which he discusses the theory of "name and form," a notion that Sanskrit has a special relationship between the sounds of its words and the things they refer to. However, he never really demonstrates this theory in any convincing detail beyond a couple of examples that he keeps repeating. So far he has not confronted the linguists head on. So he is definitely "New Age" until such time as his claims are systematically substantiated and documented.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The Science of Creative Intelligence. Fairfield, IA: Maharishi International University (now called Maharishi University of Management) Press, 1972. This set of 33 lessons covers the source, course, and goal of creative intelligence. Of particular interest is lesson 25, which discusses the role of speech and language. This course is only available to people who have learned the TM program. It is flawed by a number of hidden assumptions and contradictions, but is generally interesting as a theoretical framework for discussing meditation experiences. (New Age 'Science')

Marchetti, Victor and John D. Marks. The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. New York: Dell Publishing, 1974. "The book that the CIA tried to suppress. THE FIRST BOOK THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT EVER WENT TO COURT TO CENSOR BEFORE PUBLICATION. Published with spaces indicating the exact location and length of the 168 deletions demanded by the CIA." We have here a tedious rehearsal of the clandestine ways our taxpayers have allowed the government to spend money on the worthy cause of protecting us from our own fears. All of this has resulted only in the expansion of "international terrorism" and the steady progress of the intelligence community toward a high-tech secret police force with ever-growing powers and almost unlimited funding.

Marciniak, Barbara. Bringers of the Dawn: Teachings from the Pleiadians. Santa Fe: Bear & Co., 1992. This channeled book has some discussions of a 'language of light.' (New Age)

Mathers, S. Liddell MacGregor, translated and edited. The Key of Solomon the King (Clavicula Salomonis.) York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1992. This is a reissue of an important work on Western style kabbalistic ritual magic translated by an influential 19^th century magician who became the head of the Order of the Golden Dawn. Some of the Seals illustrate kabbalistic principles that are important in the SheM tradition, although not necessarily in the ways envisioned by the kabbalistic magicians (unless they do not reveal their complete knowledge, which is likely), but for important linguistic reasons.

Melchizedek, Drunvalo. The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life. Wimberley, TX: Hummingbird, 1993. This is an intensive six-day seminar primarily on the subject of sacred geometry, but also covering many other areas of interest to New Agers. Drunvalo documents all his material, but much of it comes from channeled sources or personal anecdotes. On the other hand, much of it is demonstrable science and mathematics. A paperback book with this title is just out from Light Technology Publications. For an online introduction to his Flower of Life material and other activities, books, and resources try www.transformation.net/drunvalo/.

Milne, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. Classic stories for children with subtle humor that also appeals to adults. The Pooh business is now run by Disney, I believe.

Morris, William, ed. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. New Collegiate Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. The edition bound in red with the indexing of Indo-European Roots by Harvard Professor Calvert Watkins gives a good view of the way modern etymologists have developed their view of the origins of English. There are numerous errors and gaps. Also, careful comparison of this work with Mozeson's book on the Hebrew sources of English reveals the strong anti-Semitic bias that has prevailed in Indo-European linguistics research. Still, this edition of AHD is a very useful tool.

Mozeson, Isaac E. The Word: The Dictionary that Reveals the Hebrew Source of English. NY: Shapolsky Publishers, 1989. This work, although not done by a professional linguist or etymologist, is definitely a paradigm buster. There may be numerous mistakes or questionable etymologies, but Mozeson has garnered so much evidence that you say to yourself: Hey, what kind of a cover-up has been going on? The deep debt of English to Hebrew is quite obvious in his word lists. Mozeson also has 'rediscovered' the metathesis (Thashrag) and permutation (Temurah) principles that come down to us through the kabbalah. Although Mozeson is outside the establishment, he deals with concrete data that anyone can verify, even if the interpretation of the data is still debatable in many points.

Murphy, Roland Edmund. The Song of Songs: a Commentary on the Book of Canticles or the Song of Songs. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress, 1990. Murphy's interpretation takes the poem as a "delightful poetic exploration of human sexual love, unencumbered by mythological drama, marriage sacraments, or rites of fertility." His discussion is fairly detailed, and he includes considerable bibliographic sources.

Nasrudin. See Shah, Idries.

The Necronomicon. Believed by many to be by H.P. Lovecraft. Edited by George Hay with an introduction by Colin Wilson. Skoob Books, 1993. This is a zany collection of garbled Sumerian texts presented as magical spells and attributed to a mad Arab.

Nelson, Ray Faraday and Kelly Freas. Blake's Progress. This is a fantasy based on William Blake's mythology of the Zoas. It is a must-read for any Blake fan, and throws some light on some of the challenges encountered during the dinoid harvest.

Ong, Hean-Tatt. The Chinese Pakua: an Expose. Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia: Pelanduk Publications, 1991. Ong takes off from the observation that the magic square of the Lo-shu in the I-ching is essentially the same as the kabbalistic Sigil of Saturn. He reproduces Barrett's drawing. Ong proposes a theory that China's high civilization - writing and technology - mostly came from the ancient Middle East, or at least from a common source. He discusses the gan-zhi zodiac, the heraldic beasts, Fu Xi's origins, ancient Taoist shamanism, the circumpolar star system, Shang-ti, and other evidences of cultural interaction between China and Mesopotamia in very early times. Of particular interest is his observation that the gan-zhi symbols fit nicely over the kabbalistic Hebrew alphabet of the 10 mothers and doubles plus the 12 simples. Much is speculative, but he may well be on to something.

Palmer, Harry. ReSurfacing. Altamonte Springs, FL: Star's Edge International, 1994, 1997. (www.starsedge.com) Palmer's workbook introduction to the Avatar materials has thirty simple exercises to play with. There's an adventure called YOU, waiting to happen. Explore and enjoy. (Another little book by Palmer worth careful perusal: Living Deliberately.)

Pennick, Nigel. Magical Alphabets: The Secrets and Significance of Ancient Scripts - Including Runes, Greek, Ogham, Hebrew and Alchemical Alphabets. York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1992. This work has a useful chapter on Hebrew, including kabbalistic traditions.

Ponce, Charles. Kabbalah: An Introduction and Illumination for the World Today. Wheaton, IL: Quest Books (Theosophical Publishing House), 1991. This is a good introduction to Kabbalah from the purely Jewish tradition.

Purce, Jill. The Mystic Spiral: Journey of the Soul. NY: Thames & Hudson, 1980. This beautifully illustrated book deals with the geometry and mysticism associated with the spiral in cultures around the world.

Redfield, James. The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure. Hoover, AL: Satori Publishing, 1993. This work of fiction about the discovery of an ancient document written in Aramaic in an Inca pyramid that dates back to an early Mayan sacred site is a popular New Age topic. The 'document' purports to contain a set of principles that would guide the transformation of man during the New Age. The insights are generally sound principles based on a tradition that works with the Language of Light.

Rhoades, James, tr. The Poems of Virgil. University of Chicago Great Books Series, Vol. 13. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952. This is my source for Virgil's Georgic IV on bees, an amazing poem which contains many esoteric references to the ancient mystery cults of Bacchus, Apis, Orpheus, and so on, groups that actively participated in the development of the Hebrew alphabet and the SheM tradition.

Royal, Lyssa, and Keith Priest. The Prism of Lyra; An Exploration of Human Galactic Heritage. Scottsdale, AZ: Royal Priest Research Press, 1991. This book provides a broad stroke summary of various civilizations rumored to inhabit our sector of the Galaxy and some of their interactions with Earth. This material is mostly channeled, but seems to agree with the general gist of New Age interpretations of mankind's recent cosmic history.

Saraswati, Sunyata and Bodhi Avinasha. Jewel in the Lotus: The Sexual Path to Higher Consciousness. San Francisco, CA: Kriya Jyoti Tantra Society, 1987. (Recently republished out of Fairfield, IA.) This is a rich textbook of traditional Tantric Yoga presented in a modernized, well-illustrated, and very practical handbook form. In this and other works by Sunyata and other writers on yoga and tantra one may find traditional information about the Indian system of using mantric sounds in various aspects of meditation and ritual. All these sources copy one another without looking into the possibility of an actual scientific principle for deriving the sounds. Sunyata is a master of the Cosmic Cobra Kriya Pranayam tantric breathing technology that traditionally is taught as coming down from the third century yogi who attained a type of physical immortality - Babaji. Sunyata's former tantric partner, Bodhi, is now teaching this technique around the world. It is a simple, yet very powerful method for clearing the lower chakras and integrating them with the higher chakras. It is a master key to the unfolding of tantric ecstatic experiences that can be practiced alone or with a partner, with or without sexual stimulation, or even in a group.

Shah, Idries. The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin. Arkana, 1993. Idries Shah is a prolific writer on Sufism, with three books of Mullah Nasrudin stories: the above title, The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin, and The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin. Also by Shah: Wisdom of the Idiots, The Way of the Sufi, and numerous other related titles. The Mullah Nasrudin (or Nasruddin) is Turkey's Holy Fool. Read some of the Nasrudin stories to get a feel for the Turkish sense of humor. Hidden inside many of the stories are insights into pre-Islamic Turkish culture.

Sitchin, Zechariah. The Twelfth Planet. Mass Market Paperback. Harpe, 1983. This is Book I of the Earth Chronicles, which include titles such as The Stairway to Heaven, The Wars of Gods and Men, The Lost Realms, and When Time Began. Although I think Sitchin's theory is incorrect in many basic ways, he has made a bold attempt at assimilating the materials discovered and deciphered by archaeologists over the past hundred years or so. You may not accept his hypotheses about the history of our solar system, the genesis of mankind, and the development of civilization. But, in any case, he has gathered in one set of books a lot of useful material, including copious bibliographic information about primary and secondary sources on these subjects, which the interested reader can peruse for himself. It is clear that the authors of the Bible cribbed most of the Genesis stories from ancient cuneiform records and edited them with a peculiar bias for the Israelite tribes. Most of the world has no inkling these important pre-biblical resources even exist. Unfortunately much material is in Iraq, which (for some reason) is very inconvenient to visit these days. Read the clay tablets of the Lamentations of Ur (for example), and decide for youself.

Smith, Joseph, (translated?). The Book of Mormon. Revised Authorized Version. Herald Publications House, 1973. This apocryphal work on American pre-history is the basis of the religion of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, commonly known as Mormonism. This work is available online at: http://www.new-jerusalem.com/scripture/bom/contents.htm.

Stadelmann, Luis, S.J. Love and Politics: A New Commentary on the Song of Songs. NY and Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1992. Nihil Obstat. Stadelmann is one of the leading Old Testament scholars in Latin America. According to him the Song is an elaborate political metaphor to restore the Davidic family to power in Jerusalem after the exile and during the Persian Empire's control of the Holy Land. Stadelmann's view reminds me of some of the interpretations of the Chinese classic Book of Songs by traditional Confucian scholars. Although I am not convinced of the learned Jesuit's hypothesis, his scholarship is profound, and his book contains much useful information.

Strong, James. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Greek and Hebrew Dictionaries. Gordonsville, TN: Dugan Publishers, Inc., no date. The biblical Hebrew dictionary portion of this work is useful, although the etymologies are sometimes off base.

Suares, Carlo. The Song of Songs: The Canonical Song of Solomon deciphered according to the original CODE OF THE QABALA. Berkeley and London: Shambala, 1972. This is an example of analysis of the Song according to kabbalistic gematria principles. Suares uses the system he developed in his Cipher of Genesis. I can not make much sense out of most of his writing, but occasionally he has a flash of insight when he studies the various roots and etymologies or creatively parses the text. My view is that gematria is far too abstract a system to produce meaningful interpretation of a text.

Sumer, Faruk, Ahmet Uysal, and Warren Walker, ed. The Book of Dede Korkut: A Turkish Epic. University of Texas Press, 1991. The Geoffrey Lewis edition is available in Penguin reprint. This is an epic poem about the early Turkish tribes.

Sumerian Text Archive: http://oasis.leidenuniv.nl/ub/sta/sta.htm.

Tenen, Stan. "The Alphabet in Our Hands." Videotape. San Anselmo, CA: Meru Foundation, 1993. This tape is a two-hour exposition of Tenen's latest work on the mathematical bases of alphabets. He particularly focuses on Hebrew. He also demonstrates a very interesting gestural version of the Hebrew alphabet. Other tapes, charts, and pamphlets on Tenen's creative work are available from Meru Foundation, P.O. Box 1738, San Anselmo, CA 94979. Although his mathematics looks good, I do not accept his interpretation because it is not based on the earliest versions of the alphabet. His web site is www.meru.org. See material by Dan Winter for some contrast. Winter and Tenen had a long controversy over the nature and provenance and interpretation of the material, a real storm in a teacup. Winter has apologized, and maybe they can now both forget their cultural biases and enjoy playing with the math.

Torah is available online in the entire Hebrew text and an English translation with lots of additional material and Hebrew fonts to download at: http://torahscroll.com/.

Trible, Phyllis. God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1978. Trible is the first scholar (I know of) to treat in detail the relationship between the Genesis 2-3 Garden of Eden story and the garden environment of the Song. Landy also discusses it at length in his book.

Tzadok, (Rabbi) Ariel Bar. Yikrah B'Shmi (Call Upon My Name): The Path of Ma'aseh Merkava. Fairfield, IA: Yeshivat Benei N'vi'im (The Children of the Prophets,) 1991. This curious little book self-published by a kabbalistic rabbi TM meditator in Fairfield, IA, reveals several important principles of the SheM tradition. Tzadok publishes tables of the sacred permutations of the Holy Name and the Tree of Life. The kabbalistic permutation principle exemplified in Tzadok's book is expressed in the Song on a macroscopic level by the use of chiasmus, an important Hebrew rhetorical device.

Virgil. (Publius Vergilius Varo.) The Georgics. Translated by L.P. Wilkinson. Penguin Classics. Viking Press, 1983. See also Virgil's epic poem, The Aeneid. Virgils writings are available in several different translations, and you can use the Loeb Classics edition if you want to see the Latin text.

Walker, Winifred. All the Plants of the Bible. Illustrations by author. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1979. Walker (no relation) has provided 113 magnificent full-page watercolor illustrations of the plants, all drawn from life except four from pressed specimens. She is primarily a plant and animal illustrator, so her identifications are mostly based on those of Harold Moldenke, a curator at the New York Botanical Garden, who did extensive research on biblical plants. There are no indices, and she does not give alternates or synonyms.

Waterman, Leroy. The Song of Songs Translated and Interpreted as a Dramatic Poem by Leroy Waterman. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1948. Waterman is an Old Testament scholar who follows a dramatic reading of the text. This is his attempt to present the poem as a short play involving Solomon, the queen and concubines, the other harem ladies, the servant girl from Shunem (the Shulammite), the girl's rural lover named Dodai, and her brothers. Waterman rearranges the sequence of the text to fit his vision of the drama.

Whicher, Olive. Projective Geometry: Creative Polarities in Space and Time. London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1971. Second Impression, 1985. Although this book gets a bit mathematical, it is quite approachable. Get a feel for the simple axioms of community and infinity, and the theorems of duality, perspectivity, projectivity. Look at harmonic forms, conjugates, and proportions. Then explore the illustrations. A few hours with this book can change the way you see the world.

White, John Bradley. A Study of the Language of Love in the Song of Songs and Ancient Egyptian Poetry. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1978. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series, Number 38. This is J.B. White's Ph.D. dissertation under Roland Murphy at DePauw University. The style and imagery of the Egyptian poems is really quite different from the Song, but White's exploration is worthwhile. About the best he can say is that "the commonality of love-language denotes archetypal vehicles through which human sexual love was celebrated in the ancient world." (p. 162) See also Fox's work and Landy's comments on both.

Wilhelm, Richard. Cary F. Baynes, tr. The I Ching or Book of Changes. Bollingen Series XIX. 9^th printing. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972. This is a Chinese classic that contains much fundamental knowledge about the language of light. Wilhelm translated from Chinese into German. Baynes translated the German into English.

Wilson, Robert Anton. With contributions from Miriam Joan Hill. Everything is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-ups. Paperback, 1998. This volume is an A-Z encyclopedia of conspiracy theories, including a lot of other weird stuff that Wilson has collected during his zany career as a writer for Playboy and a novelist of conspiratorial fantasy sci-fi stories such as Illuminatus! a 1975 trilogy (The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, and Leviathan) that he wrote with Robert Shea. He runs a regularly updated website and has authored over 30 books, as well as many articles.

Wolf, Fred Alan Star Wave: Mind, Consciousness, and Quantum Physics. NY: Collier Books, 1986. This amazing book by a well-known physicist is written for the serious lay reader. It does not shrink from the mathematics as most popularized science books do. Yet it remains very readable. Wolf brings forward striking ideas about rigorous ways of dealing with the relationship between consciousness and the physical world using the techniques of modern quantum physics.

Zohary, Michael. Plants of the Bible: A Complete Handbook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Zohary is professor of Botany at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His book is copiously illustrated with color photos of the plants identified.

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