George Norwood
I was raised in Petaluma, California, north of San Francisco. Started out as a Catholic. Moved to New York City while in high school. . Graduated RCA Institutes (Electronic Engineering Technology) and moved to Texas where I received a AS degree from Richland College Texas. Been doing technical writing for over 30 years. Now living in Richardson, Texas.
Found that religions believe in many of the same things, if you over look the words they use and listen for meaning. Actually was for various lengths of time a Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, Baha'i at different times while searching for the truth. Feel that I am a little of all these religions. Recently taken courses in Church of Religious Science and Yung Psychology.
Like photography, but books to me are really special to me. They are the immortal words of the greatest people that ever lived on earth. The meanings we find in the written word transcend time and space. However, many book authors take the ideas they find in their research and simply restate it and add little original meaning.
What I think is true, is that their is no absolute truth, only truth for humans. Other creatures on other planets would sense the world with completely different eyes and emotions. Oh yes they are there, but so far away that they exist only in theory. It would take many generations to reach the nearest star with much faster rockets than we have today.
My source is my Christ Consciousness intuition, and ideas I have found in many different texts. I try to take a little here, a little there and put it all together. I seem to be always growing and updating my ideas. Some of the books I that felt spoke to me include:
by Ernest Holmes
G.P. Putman, New York, New York , ISBN 0-87477-865-4
Like poetry, this book teaches Christ Consciousness. Holmes takes some study but is worth it. This is the main text book for the Church of Religious Science.
by Ernest Holmes
HI Productions, Encino, California , ISBN 0-9626597-2-X
In this earlier edition Holmes gives provides additional information concerning the Metaphysical Charts and should be read in conjunction his 1938 edition.
by Henry A. Weil
Bahá'í Publishing Trust, New Delhi India, ISBN 81-85091-07-2
This is a Baha'i book and for those who believe and follow their teaching,
this book really gives in depth information on the philosophy and teachings
of the religion. It defines some of more difficult aspects of the inner life
such as how divine guidance works.
Crown Publishing
Transformation from Dr. Richard Albert into Baba Ram Dass
This is an strange book for some, but for the reader with a love of
Eastern Religion, this book has much to offer. This one of the basic 1960's
era books. It is several books in one, within a blue cover. Each book is printed
on different colored paper. It gives the history of the transformation of Dr.
Albert to a guru named Ram Dass as he went from the drug-taking professor to
one of the world's famous gurus teaching mediation and mantras. Contains many
word definitions, spiritual quotes, yoga instructions. Centers on Zen Buddhism.
Mind you it contains many wild illustrations.
by Charles T. Tart
Shambhala Publications
ISBN 0-87773-426-7(pbk), 087773-374-0
Underlines what we have been saying about everyone being asleep, absorbing
their local culture for better or worse. Tart takes the psychological approach
to explain States of Consciousness, Hypnosis, and what he calls the "Consensus
Trance."
by Guy Murchie
Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN 0-395-30537-3(pbk), 0-395-26310-7
Guy shows us how everything is connected together. The earth is one
organism. This is a Bahá'í biology book. Learn that a few people are born with
tails, extra fingers. There are strange facts presented, but focus is on seeing
one united universe.
by The Sufi Order,
USA
PO Box 1233
San Rafael, Calif. 10022
Harber & Row Publishers
SBN 06-090352-X
AH! Towards the One, the perfection of Love, Harmony, and Beauty. The
only Being united with all the Illuminated souls who form the embodiment of
the master, the Spirit of Guidance. The Sufis are free thinkers, dance and chant
to find God (very hypnotic). They are descendants of the Islamic Faith. Wonderful
path to soothe the savage soul. This book is light brownish blue paperback 676
pages. All print is in capitals and has many old drawings. Each chakra has a
sound and a mantra. Many prayers and very inspirational. Also recommended is
the Sufi Message, a series of 20 books written by Hazrat Inayat Khan.
by A. H. Maslow
SBN 670-30853-6 (Hardbound)
SBN 670-00360-3 (Paper bound)
An Esalen Book, Viking Compass Edition 1973
Maslow broke the traditional psychology point of view which concentrated
on the study of diseased and otherwise broken minds. It was like going
to a junk yard to study engineering (perhaps an excellent idea, now that I think
about it). This new psychology studied the best human beings. Traditional
psychology ignored what made great people. Maslow introduced words like,
creativeness, values, education, society, being cognition, transcendence, metamotivation
and the psychology of being. He also wrote another fine book "Toward a
Psychology of Being" published by D.Van Nostrand Co.
by Ken Keyes, Jr.
Living Love Center
SBN 0-9600688-8-0 Paperback Edition
SBN 0-9600688-9-9 Clothbound Edition
Ken Keyes takes some of the main psychology of Buddhism, and made cookbook
so we can find happiness. This book teaches living love, the Seven Centers of
Consciousness. He helps understand how to think, love and be centered through
simple and well present ideas. There are methods such as The Five Methods plus
the Instant Consciousness Doubler, Being Here Now, Interacting with others,
Discovering Conscious-Awareness. We all have addictions even if we never do
drugs. Addictions include sex, power, money and love.
by Sri Chinmoy
Aum Publications
86-10 Parsons Blvd.
Jamaica, New York 11432
Agni Press ISBN 0-88497-115-5
A thick green (non-Baha'i) paperback book that teaches about consciousness-light,
the body, soul, vital, mind, heart, fear, doubt, purity, the inner voice, freedom,
yoga, detachment, renunciation, ego love devotion, God and the guru. Very spiritual
reading. Perfection is the tree, perfect perfection is the fruit.
by John S. Hatcher
Bahá'í Publishing Trust ISBN 0-87743-208-2
A Baha'i book that includes: the Search for Divine Justice in the Physical
World, Paradigm of Physical Reality, Physical Classroom and Experience. Explains
why everything is not perfect. God is allowing us to grow through the fire of
experience.
by Abdu'l Baha, Bahá'í Publishing Trust London
Duty of Kindness, Need for Union, Sun of Truth, Twelve Principles, Progress
of the Soul, Four Kinds of Love
by Rupert Sheldrake
Sheldrake has a theory that as information is created it is stored as
a morphic field and this field is used by matter, plants, and animals to build
new life based on this information. May not be true, but very interesting.
ISBN 0-440-05925-9
hardcover
ISBN 0-440-05924-0 paperback
Delacorte Press 1977
Mr. Young was the inventor of the Bell helicopter. Like a Bahá'í he
talks about the sequence of kingdoms: light, particles, atoms, molecules, plants,
animals and man. He notes that these kingdoms form an arc, going down to molecules
and then rising with plants, animals and man. He is scientific and very smart.
There are actual gaps in his tables were a Bahá'í could fill in without any
trouble. He goes beyond three dimensions with such things as hexavertons and
moebius strips.
ISBN 0-922233-17-9
Blast Books, Cooper Station, New York, NY 10276-0051
The Bible is a mixture of God's message and well some pretty nasty, crazy stuff.
Word of warning; the author is an atheist! He slams the Bible. I wonder if I
should even include this book, but it makes a clear message. Pick what is good
and leave the rest behind. I believe that some parts of the Bible are the word
of God and some are not even inspired by God.
One needs to read this thing with perspective, probably with with a few prayers of forgiveness. Hey, read this book in conjunction with other books that speak well of the Bible. But looking at the Bible from his point of view, only for a minute, will bring home the fact that the Bible is hardly the word of God on many pages.
There are passages that must have been the result of translation error, misprints or just poor judgment. It points out that the Bible clearly places the man as the head of the family and in one passage directs that a women must have her head shaved if she talks in church. Surprising enough, quite a few Bible stories are downright crude. Often people are killed for silly reasons. . For example, if a son curses his Father he should be put to death. Babies are killed, even within the mother, with Gods blessing. I cannot understand why somebody did not clean the Bible up at some point in history.
Copyright © 1996 -2005 George Norwood
Originally, this was my first web page created on March 16, 1996.
Current version 4, dated August 2005