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[MilesColtrane]

36. Always wanted to re-buy another copy of R.D. Laing's 'Knots', though.

I miss that one. It has 'a history' as well, that many people don't know.

I found out about Laing after hearing an English band named Gentle Giant. They had a song called "Knots", its lyric derived straight out of Laing's book.


I think I have that Sexton Biography. What a nutty character.
Love her 'fairy tale' poems though.

Another author I came to through music. Started reading her poetry after hearing the Peter Gabriel song Mercy Street.

Looking Glass Universe?

Overview of the ideas of David Bohm, Ilya Prigogine, Rupert Sheldrake, and Karl Pribram

Engines of Creation?

K. Eric Drexler's seminal work on nanotechnology and what it portends.
He has been gracious enough to post it online for all to read.

http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/EOC/EOC_Table_of_Contents.html


Budd Schulberg?

"What Makes Sammy Run?" Before there was uber-agent Ari Gold in Entourage, there was Sammy Glick.

Philip Roth?

"The Plot Against America"...radical Republican Senators convince Charles Lindbergh to run against FDR in 1940. He wins the presidency and hilarity does not ensue.

Julian Jaynes...I think I'd heard of bicameral consciousness.
Isn't it the idea that people used to 'talk to God' through their brain lobes being less connected through the corpus whateverhtheheckitscalled? And that, what we consider to be, consciousness evolved with the connection of these two lobes?

You've got it, exactly.

Thanks for the interesting thread.