This is an abbreviated reading list addressing science, consciousness, spirit, healing, and the sacred. These books provide a background and inspiration for The Sacred Promise. All twenty-one titles are available at www.amazon.com and other major booksellers.
Science and Survival of Consciousness
D. Blum. Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death (Penguin Press, 2006).
S. E. Braude. Immortal Remains: The Evidence for Life After Death (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003).
D. Fontana. Life Beyond Death: What Should We Expect? (Watkins Publishing, 2009).
S. Horn. Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena, from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory (Ecco, 2009).
G. E. Schwartz, with W. L. Simon. The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence for Life After Death (Atria Books, 2003).
G. E. Schwartz, with W. L. Simon. The Truth about Medium: Extraordinary Experiments with the Real Allison DuBois of NBC’s Medium and Other Remarkable Psychics (Hampton Roads Publishing, 2005).
P. van Lommel. Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience (HarperOne, 2010).
Science and the Paranormal
L. Dossey. The Power of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Shape Our Lives (Dutton, 2009).
D. H. Powell. The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena (Walker & Company, 2009).
D. Radin. Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality (Paraview Pocket Books, 2006).
C. T. Tart. The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal Is Bringing Science and Spirit Together (New Harbinger Publications, 2009).
R. Sheldrake. Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation (Park Street Press, 2009).
D. J. Benor. Consciousness, Bioenergy and Healing: Self-Healing and Energy Medicine for the 21st Century (Healing Research, vol. 2, Professional Edition) (Wholistic Healing Publications, 2004).
L. Dossey. Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine (HarperOne, 1995).
R. Gerber. Vibrational Medicine for the 21st Century: A Complete Guide to Energy Healing and Spiritual Transformation (William Morrow, 2001).
J. Oschman. Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance (Butterworth-Heinemann Publishing, 2003).
G. E. Schwartz, with W. L. Simon. The Energy Healing Experiments: Science Reveals Our Natural Power to Heal (Atria Books, 2008).
Science, Spirituality, and God—Skeptical and Possible
A. Goswami. God Is Not Dead: What Quantum Physics Tells Us about Our Origins and How We Should Live (Hampton Roads Publishing, 2008).
B. B. Hagerty. Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality (Riverhead Books, 2009). G. E. Schwartz, with W. L. Simon. The G.O.D. Experiments: How Science Is Discovering God in Everything, Including Us (Atria Books, 2007).
V. J. Stenger. Quantum Gods: Creation, Chaos, and the Search for Cosmic Consciousness (Prometheus Books, 2009).