Notes

Introduction

1   Thompson, W I, Transforming History: A New Curriculum for a Planetary Culture, 2009, Lindisfarne Books, p14

2   Cited in Harman, W, Global Mind Change: The Promise of the 21st Century, 1998, Berrett-Koehler, p129

Chapter One

1   Tarnas, R, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, 2007, Plume, p4

2   Tarnas, R, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, 2007, Plume, p4

3   Tarnas, R, ‘Is the Modern Psyche Undergoing a Rite of Passage?’, 2001, http://www.cosmosandpsyche.com/Essays.php

4   Tarnas, R, ‘Is the Modern Psyche Undergoing a Rite of Passage?’, 2001, http://www.cosmosandpsyche.com/Essays.php

5   Cited in Thompson, W I, Passages About Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture, 1974, Harper & Row, p155

6   Thompson, W I, Passages About Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture, 1974, Harper & Row, pp119–20

7   Tarnas, R, ‘Is the Modern Psyche Undergoing a Rite of Passage?’, 2001, http://www.cosmosandpsyche.com/Essays.php

Chapter Two

1   Mitchell, W J, E-Topia: Urban Life, Jim – But Not As We Know It, 1999, MIT Press, p132

2   Kern, S, The Culture of Time and Space: 1880–1918, 2000, Harvard University Press

3   Kern, S, The Culture of Time and Space: 1880–1918, 2000, Harvard University Press

4   Cited in Kern, S, The Culture of Time and Space: 1880–1918, 2000, Harvard University Press, p15

5   See Tainter, J A, The Collapse of Complex Societies, 1988, Cambridge University Press

6   This subject has been dealt with in greater detail in my book The Struggle for Your Mind

7   Jean-François Lyotard’s ‘incredulity towards meta-narratives’

8   See the work of Jean Baudrillard

9   Laszlo, E, Evolution: The General Theory, 1996, Hampton Press

10  Negroponte, N, Being Digital, 1995, Alfred A Knopf

11  Russell, B, The Impact of Science on Society, 1985/1952, Routledge

12  Black, E, IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation, 2001, Crown Publishing Group

13  Marcuse, H, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, 2007/1964, Routledge

14  McLuhan, M, Understanding Media, 2002/1964, Routledge

15  Baudrillard, J, Simulacra and Simulation, 1994, The University of Michigan Press

16  Shah, I, Reflections, 1969, Octagon Press

17  Heinberg, R, Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Decline in Earth’s Resources, 2007, Clairview Books

18  Tarnas, R, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, 2007, Plume, p40

Chapter Three

1   Rifkin, J, The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis, 2010, Polity Press

2   An extract from the writings of G I Gurdjieff taken from http://www.gurdjieff.org/needleman2.htm

3   Heinberg, R, Memories & Visions of Paradise: Exploring the Universal Myth of a Lost Golden Age, 1990, The Aquarian Press

4   Grosso, M, The Final Choice: Playing the Survival Game, 1985, Stillpoint Publishing, p5

5   Tarnas, R, ‘Is the Modern Psyche Undergoing a Rite of Passage?’, 2001, http://www.cosmosandpsyche.com/Essays.php, p19

6   Dark Night of the Soul is the title of a poem and treatise written by 16th-century Spanish Roman Catholic mystic Saint John of the Cross

7   Elgin, D, Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness, 1993, William Morrow & Company, p24

8   Elgin, D, Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness, 1993, William Morrow & Company, p121

9   Elgin, D, Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness, 1993, William Morrow & Company, p150

10  Snow, C B, Mass Dreams of the Future, 1989, McGraw-Hill

11  Snow, C B, Mass Dreams of the Future, 1989, McGraw-Hill, p50

12  Ring, K, The Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, UFO Encounters, and Mind at Large, 1992, William Morrow, p190

13  Cited in Ring, K, The Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, UFO Encounters, and Mind at Large, 1992, William Morrow, p170

14  Heinberg, R, Memories & Visions of Paradise: Exploring the Universal Myth of a Lost Golden Age, 1990, The Aquarian Press, p117

15  Heinberg, R, Memories & Visions of Paradise: Exploring the Universal Myth of a Lost Golden Age, 1990, The Aquarian Press, p119

16  An alternative view of the Yuga cycle and time scale was taught by the 19th/20th-century Indian yogi Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri. By his interpretations humankind is currently within the Dwapara Yuga.

17  Heinberg, R, Memories & Visions of Paradise: Exploring the Universal Myth of a Lost Golden Age, 1990, The Aquarian Press, p116

18  Lovelock, J, ‘The fight to get aboard Lifeboat UK’, The Times, 8 February 2009

19  Rees, M J, Our Final Century, 2003, Heinemann, pp23–4

20  Rees, M J, Our Final Century, 2003, Heinemann, p74

21  de Rosnay, J, The Symbiotic Man: A New Understanding of the Organization of Life and a Vision of the Future, 2000, McGraw Hill

22  Rees, M J, Our Final Century, 2003, Heinemann, p61

23  Rees, M J, Our Final Century, 2003, Heinemann, p186

24  Laszlo, E, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain, 2008, Inner Traditions, introduction

25  Ring, K, The Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, UFO Encounters, and Mind at Large, 1992, William Morrow

26  Grosso, M, The Final Choice: Playing the Survival Game, 1985, Stillpoint Publishing

Chapter Four

1   Tainter, J A, The Collapse of Complex Societies, 1988, Cambridge University Press

2  Diamond, J M, Collapse: how societies choose to fail or survive, 2005, Allen Lane

3   Tainter, J A, The Collapse of Complex Societies, 1988, Cambridge University Press

4   Rifkin, J, The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis, 2010, Polity Press

5   Greer, J M, The Long Descent: A User’s Guide to the End of the Industrial Age, 2008, New Society Publishers, p19

6   Hirsch, R; Bezdek, R; Wendling, R, ‘Peaking Of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management’, SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation), 2005

7   Hirsch, R; Bezdek, R; Wendling, R, ‘Peaking Of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management’, SAIC, 2005

8   Hirsch, R; Bezdek, R; Wendling, R, ‘Peaking Of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management’, SAIC, 2005

9   Greer, J M, The Long Descent: A User’s Guide to the End of the Industrial Age, 2008, New Society Publishers; Kunstler, J H, The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century, 2006, Atlantic Books

10  Ruppert, M C, Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy & Money in a Post Peak Oil World, 2010, Chelsea Green Publishing Company

11  See the work of John Michael Greer, The Long Descent: A User’s Guide to the End of the Industrial Age, 2008, New Society Publishers

12  Engdahl, F W, Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation, 2007, Global Research, p50

13  Engdahl, F W, Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation, 2007, Global Research, cited p63

14  Rockerfeller and Ford Foundation funding of the Harvard University study titled ‘Harvard Economic Research Project on the Structure of the American Economy’ (led by Wassily Leontief) helped to identify US corporate interests and expansions.

15  Engdahl, F W, Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation, 2007, Global Research, p138

16  Engdahl, F W, Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation, 2007, Global Research, cited p146

17  Dixon, P, Futurewise: Six Faces of Global Change, 2007, Profile Books, p71

18  See http://edition.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/09/22/un.food.security. poverty/index.html

19  Rifkin, J, The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis, 2010, Polity Press, pp36–7

20  McLuhan, M, The Gutenberg Galaxy: the making of typographic man, 1962, Routledge & Kegan Paul

Chapter Five

1   Ellul, J, The Technological Society, 1964, Vintage Books

2   Marcuse, H, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society 2007/1964, Routledge, p10

3   See Burrows, W E, Deep Black: Space Espionage and National Security, 1986 Random House; Laidler, K, Surveillance Unlimited: How We’ve Become the Most Watched People on Earth, 2008, Icon Books

4   Laidler, K, Surveillance Unlimited: How We’ve Become the Most Watched People on Earth, 2008, Icon Books, cited p127

5   Laidler, K, Surveillance Unlimited: How We’ve Become the Most Watched People on Earth, 2008, Icon Books

6   Laidler, K, Surveillance Unlimited: How We’ve Become the Most Watched People on Earth, 2008, Icon Books, cited p98

7   http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/oct/13/humanrights.mobilephones

Chapter Six

1   Shah, I, Thinkers of the East, 1971, Jonathan Cape, p123

2   Heinberg, R, Memories & Visions of Paradise: Exploring the Universal Myth of a Lost Golden Age, 1990, The Aquarian Press, xxviii

3   Cited in Heinberg, R, Memories & Visions of Paradise: Exploring the Universal Myth of a Lost Golden Age, 1990, The Aquarian Press, p49

4   Cited in Heinberg, R, Memories & Visions of Paradise: Exploring the Universal Myth of a Lost Golden Age, 1990, The Aquarian Press, pp68–9

5   Eisler, R, The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future, 1987, Harper & Row

6   Cited in Heinberg, R, Memories & Visions of Paradise: Exploring the Universal Myth of a Lost Golden Age. 1990, The Aquarian Press, p210

7   Eliade, M, The Sacred and the Profane, 1961, Harper & Row

8   Heinberg, R, Memories & Visions of Paradise: Exploring the Universal Myth of a Lost Golden Age. 1990, The Aquarian Press, pp240–1

9   de Santillana, G & Von Dechend, H, Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time, 1970, Macmillan

10  Pratt, L, ‘Astrological World Cycles’, East West Magazine, 1932

11  For a concise and comprehensive summary of the binary star theory read Walter Cruttenden’s Lost Star of Myth and Time

12  Men, H, The 8 Calendars of the Maya: The Pleiadian Cycle and the Key to Destiny, 2010, Bear & Company, pp66–7

13  Yukteswar, S, The Holy Science, 2010, Self-Realization Fellowship

14  Pratt, L, ‘Astrological World Cycles’, East West Magazine, 1932

15  Yukteswar, S, The Holy Science, 2010, Self-Realization Fellowship, p14

16  Pratt, L, ‘Astrological World Cycles’, East West Magazine, 1932

17  Shah, T (ed), The Middle East Bedside Book, 1991, The Octagon Press

18  See the work of Rupert Sheldrake, especially his book A New Science of Life

19  Miller, R A and Miller, I, ‘The Schumann Resonances and Human Psychobiology’, Nexus Magazine 10 (3), April–May 2003

20  Miller, R A and Miller, I, ‘The Schumann Resonances and Human Psychobiology’, Nexus Magazine 10 (3), April–May 2003

21  Cruttenden, W, Lost Star of Myth and Time, 2006, St Lynn’s Press, cited p183

22  Yukteswar, S, The Holy Science, 2010, Self-Realization Fellowship, p8

23  For a concise and comprehensive summary of the binary star theory and its influence upon the life of humanity read Walter Cruttenden’s Lost Star of Myth and Time.

24  Cruttenden, W, Lost Star of Myth and Time, 2006, St Lynn’s Press, p192

Chapter Seven

1   Scott, E, The People of the Secret, 1985, Octagon Press, p248

2   For a more in-depth study of the great transformative changes in human history that have occurred in relation to changing cycles I would refer the reader to Richard Tarnas’s Cosmos and Psyche.

3   For an in-depth study of the rise of occult movements at this time I refer the reader to James Webb’s The Occult Establishment.

4   See my other book The Struggle for Your Mind for more on the adverse uses/effects of technology.

5   Lévy, P, Cyberculture, 2001, University of Minnesota Press, pp174–5

6   Teilhard de Chardin, P, Building the Earth, 1969, Avon Books

7   Rheingold, H, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, 2003, Perseus Publishing

8   Rifkin, J, The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis, 2010, Polity Press

9   Gardner, H, Five Minds for the Future, 2009, Harvard Business School Press

10  Cited in Strassman, R, Wojtowicz, S, Eduardo Luna, L, Frecska, E, Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies, 2008, Park Street Press, p112

11  Rifkin, J, The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis, 2010, Polity Press, p604

12  Lyrics from the song ‘Ballad of a Thin Man’, taken from the album Highway 61 Revisited

Chapter Eight

1   The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is estimated to contain a hundred billion or so stars. It is part of a local group of 19 galaxies (each with 100 billion stars), which in turn is part of a larger local super-cluster of thousands of galaxies. Astronomers currently estimate that there are perhaps 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe.

2   Cited in Pfeiffer, T & Mack, J E (eds) Mind Before Matter: Visions of a New Science of Consciousness, 2007, O Books, p96

3   Elgin, D, Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity’s Future, 2000, William Morrow, p67

4   Rees, Alun, Mail on Sunday, London, August 8, 2004

5   Hancock, G, Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind, 2006, Arrow, p591

6   Hancock, G, Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind, 2006, Arrow, p600

7   Lewis-Williams, D, The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art, 2004, Thames & Hudson

8   Cited in Hancock, G, Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind, 2006, Arrow, p602

9   Hancock, G, Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind, 2006, Arrow, p202

10  Cited in Hancock, G, Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind, 2006, Arrow, p356

11  Cited in Hancock, G, Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind, 2006, Arrow, p756

12  Strassman, R, Wojtowicz, S, Eduardo Luna, L, Frecska, E, Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies, 2008, Park Street Press, p80

13  Scott, E, The People of the Secret, 1985, Octagon Press, p237

14  Pfeiffer, T & Mack, J E (eds), Mind Before Matter: Visions of a New Science of Consciousness, 2007, O Books, p229

15  James, W, The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1983/1902, Penguin, p388

16  Huxley, A, The Doors of Perception, 1994/1954, Flamingo, p11

17  Cited in Loye, D, An Arrow Through Chaos: How we see into the future, 2000, Park Street Press, p171

18  Mcfadden, J, Quantum Evolution: Life in the Multiverse, 2000, Flamingo, p295

19  Becker, R O & Seldon, G, The Body Electric, 1998, William Morrow

20  See my book The Struggle for Your Mind for more discussion on this subject.

21  Mcfadden, J, Quantum Evolution: Life in the Multiverse, 2000, Flamingo, p314

22  Bischof, M, ‘Introduction to Integrative Biophysics’ in Popp, F-A & Beloussov, L V (ds) Integrative Biophysics, 2003, Kluwer Academic Publishers

23  See Hammeroff, S R, ‘Quantum coherence in microtubules: A neural basis for emergent consciousness?’, Journal of Consciousness Studies 1:91118, 1994; Marcer, P J, Schempp, W, ‘Model of the Neuron Working by Quantum Holography’, Informatica 21:519534, 1997; and Penrose, R, The Emperor’s New Mind, 1999, Oxford University Press

24  See Capra, F, The Web of Life: A New Synthesis of Mind and Matter, 1996, HarperCollins; Capra, F, The Hidden Connections, 2002, HarperCollins; Chaisson, E, The Life Era: Cosmic Selection and Conscious Evolution, 1987, Atlantic Monthly Press

25  Capra, F, The Turning Point: Science, Society and the Rising Culture, 1985, Fontana

26  Sheldrake, R, A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance, 1981, JP Tarcher

27  http://www.sheldrake.org/Articles&Papers/papers/morphic/morphic_intro.html

28  Sheldrake, R, Seven Experiments That Could Change The World, 1994, Fourth Estate; Sheldrake, R, The Sense of Being Stared At: and other aspects of The Extended Mind, 2003, Hutchinson

29  Kuhn, T, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1996/1962, The University of Chicago Press

30  Sheldrake, R, The Sense of Being Stared At: and other aspects of The Extended Mind, 2003, Hutchinson

31  Radin, D, The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena, 2009, HarperOne

32  Sheldrake, R, The Sense of Being Stared At: and other aspects of The Extended Mind, 2003, Hutchinson, p283

33  Ostrander, S & Schroeder, L, Psychic Discoveries: The Iron Curtain Lifted, 1997, Souvenir Press

34  Vasiliev, L, Mysterious Phenomena of the Human Psyche, 1965, University Books

35  Dr Shafica Karagulla, cited in Ostrander, S & Schroeder, L, Psychic Discoveries: The Iron Curtain Lifted, 1997, Souvenir Press, p306

Chapter Nine

1   Popp, F-A, Li, K H, Mei, W P, Galle, M & Neurohr, R, ‘Physical Aspects of Biophotons’, Experientia, 1988, 44, 576–85

2   Ho, M-W & Popp, F A, ‘Gaia and the Evolution of Coherence’, 3rd Camelford Conference on The Implications of The Gaia Thesis: Symbiosis, Cooperativity and Coherence, 1989, The Wadebridge Ecological Centre, Camelford, Cornwall

3   Bischof, M, ‘Synchronization and Coherence as an Organizing Principle in the Organism, Social Interaction, and Consciousness’, 2008, NeuroQuantology, 6, 440–51

4   Bischof, M, ‘Synchronization and Coherence as an Organizing Principle in the Organism, Social Interaction, and Consciousness’, 2008, NeuroQuantology, 6, 440–51

5   Ho, M-W, The Rainbow and the Worm: The Physics of Organisms, 1998, World Scientific, p116

6   Becker, R O, The Body Electric, 1998, William Morrow

7   Siegel, D, Mindsight: Transform your Brain with the New Science of Kindness, 2010, Oneworld Publications, p43

8   Siegel, D, Mindsight: Transform your Brain with the New Science of Kindness, 2010, Oneworld Publications, p52

9   Krishna, G, Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man, 1997, Shambhala, p226

10  Laszlo, E, Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything, 2004, Inner Traditions

11  Narby, J, Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge, 1999, Phoenix

12  Narby, J, Intelligence in Nature, 2006, Jeremy P Tarcher

13  Cited in Ornstein, R & Ehrlich, P, Humanity on a Tightrope, 2010, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, p14

14  Bischof, M, ‘Man as a Cosmic Resonator: Re-Imagining Human Existence in the Field Picture’, 11th Annual International Research Consciousness Reframed Conference for Art and Technology ‘Making Reality Really Real’, 2010, Trondheim, Norway

15  Cited in Pfeiffer, T & Mack, J (eds), Mind Before Matter: Visions of a New Science of Consciousness, 2007, O Books, pp78–9

16  Ede Frecska is chief of psychiatry at the National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Budapest; he is specifically interested in the neurobiological mechanism of initiation ceremonies and healing rituals and similar states of altered consciousness.

17  Strassman, R, Wojtowicz, S, Eduardo Luna, L, Frecska, E, Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies, 2008, Park Street Press

18  Strassman, R, Wojtowicz, S, Eduardo Luna, L, Frecska, E, Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies, 2008, Park Street Press

19  Hancock, G, Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind, 2006, Arrow

20  Strassman, R, DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor’s Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences, 2001, Inner Traditions

21  Narby, J, Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge, 1999, Phoenix

22  Strassman, R, DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor’s Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences, 2001, Inner Traditions

23  Hancock, G, Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind, 2006, Arrow, p222

24  Ring, K, The Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, UFO Encounters, and Mind at Large, 1992, William Morrow, p168

25  Ring, K, The Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, UFO Encounters, and Mind at Large, 1992, William Morrow

26  Cited in Strassman, R, Wojtowicz, S, Eduardo Luna, L, Frecska, E, Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies, 2008, Park Street Press, p191

27  Strassman, R, Wojtowicz, S, Eduardo Luna, L, Frecska, E, Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies, 2008, Park Street Press, p196

28  Bucke, R, Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind, 1972/1901, The Olympia Press

29  Krishna, G, Higher Consciousness and Kundalini, 1993, F.I.N.D. Research Trust, p166

30  Gulbekian, S E, In the Belly of the Beast: Holding Your Own in Mass Culture, 2004, Hampton Roads, p251

31  Atwater, P M H, Beyond the Indigo Children: The New Children and the Coming of the Fifth World, 2005, Bear & Company, p80

32  Cited in Atwater, P M H, Beyond the Indigo Children: The New Children and the Coming of the Fifth World, 2005, Bear & Company, p134

33  Strauss, W & Howe, N, Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation, 2000, Vintage

34  Carroll, L & Tober, J, The Indigo Children 10 years later, 2009, Hay House

35  Carroll, L & Tober, J, The Indigo Children 10 years later, 2009, Hay House, ix

36  Cited in Carroll, L & Tober, J, The Indigo Children 10 years later, 2009, Hay House, p86

37  Atwater, P M H, Beyond the Indigo Children: The New Children and the Coming of the Fifth World, 2005, Bear & Company

38  See http://www.indigoexecutive.com/page/page/3616153.htm

39  See his website at http://www.dreamhealer.com

40  Adam, Complete Dream Healer, 2009, Piatkus, p174

41  Adam, Complete Dream Healer, 2009, Piatkus, p307

42  Adam, Complete Dream Healer, 2009, Piatkus, p403

Chapter Ten

1   Shah, I, The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin, 1985, Octagon Press, p27

2   Ornstein, R & Ehrlich, P, Humanity on a Tightrope, 2010, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

3   Ornstein, R & Ehrlich, P, Humanity on a Tightrope, 2010, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, p30

4   Siegel, D, Mindsight: Transform your Brain with the New Science of Kindness, 2010, Oneworld Publications

5   Siegel, D, Mindsight: Transform your Brain with the New Science of Kindness, 2010, Oneworld Publications, p42

6   McLuhan, M, The Gutenberg Galaxy: the making of typographic man, 1962, Routledge & Kegan Paul

7   Bache, C M, Dark Night, Early Dawn, 2000, Suny

8   Siegel, D, Mindsight: Transform your Brain with the New Science of Kindness, 2010, Oneworld Publications, p261

9   Laszlo, E, The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads, 2006, Hampton Roads, pp80–1

10  Csikszentmihalyi, M, The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium, 1993, HarperCollins, p248

11  Spencer, J, ‘Lessons from the Brain-Damaged Investor’, The Wall Street Journal, July 21, 2005

12  De Bono, E, New Thinking for the New Millennium, 2000, Penguin, p45

13  De Bono, E, New Thinking for the New Millennium, 2000, Penguin, p279

14  Some of these ideas were inspired from reading Thompson, W I, Transforming History: A New Curriculum for a Planetary Culture, 2009, Lindisfarne Books

15  See Diamond, J M, Collapse: how societies choose to fail or survive, 2005, Allen Lane; Tainter, J A, The Collapse of Complex Societies, 1988, Cambridge University Press

16  Cohn, C, ‘Sex and Death in the Rational World of the Defense Intellectuals’, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, (12), 1987, pp687–718

17  Grof, S, The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives, 1993, HarperCollins, p220

18  McKenna, T, Food of the Gods – The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge, 1992, Bantam, New York

19  Grof, S, ‘Roots of Human Violence – Psychospiritual Perspective on the Current Global Crisis’. Presented at a conference at the Eranos Foundation in Ascona on Lago Maggiore in the Swiss Alps in June 2008

Chapter Eleven

1   Adapted from a parable presented by Kryon during one of his numerous talks. A collection of these talks is available online at http://www.kryon.com/k_25.html

2   Kaku, M, Physics of the Future: How science will shape human destiny and our daily lives by the year 2100, 2011, Doubleday

3   Kaku, M, Physics of the Future: How science will shape human destiny and our daily lives by the year 2100, 2011, Doubleday, p347

4   Kaku, M, Physics of the Future: How science will shape human destiny and our daily lives by the year 2100, 2011, Doubleday

5   Kaku, M, Physics of the Future: How science will shape human destiny and our daily lives by the year 2100, 2011, Doubleday, p234

6   Kaku, M, Physics of the Future: How science will shape human destiny and our daily lives by the year 2100, 2011, Doubleday, p38

7   Elgin, D, The Living Universe, 2009, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, p143

8   Elgin, D, The Living Universe, 2009, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, p159

9   A reference to C P Snow’s lecture ‘The Two Cultures’ (1959) which spoke of the gulf between science and the humanities.