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Here is a list of some of the books I read (I usually listen to the audiobook version) during the last two years (in no particular order). There may have been others, but these are most worthy of mention. I have read many of these books more than once, as I consider them to be seminal works of English literature, or fundamental to an understanding of Life, Universes and Other Stuff.
I have discovered that not all “spiritual” books are necessarily spiritual. Likewise, I find that some books in the science fiction and history genre reveal a profound
understanding of the nature andbehavior of humans. For example, there is no doubt in my mind that foibles and follies described in The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon reveal in painfully absurd detail the reality that the humans who populate modern Western civilization of Europe and the United States are the very same beings who built and destroyed the civilizations of Rome and it’s immediate predecessor, Greece. And, we are the very same spiritual beings who build and destroy every civilization, life after life, again and again, in the Eternal Now.
The more things change, the more humans remain the same. If you have read the bookAlien Interview, you will understand the cyclical nature of human insanity and the wicked wizards and witches
behind the “curtain of lies” that perpetuate our stupidity, brutal depravity and the inability to confront the evil beings who perpetuate our pain. Factually, the serpentine parasites who enslave the “untouchables of Earth” are terrified that innocent and honest inquiries of children and small dogs will expose and depose them from their brutal thrones of power, control and possession of the physical universe, without which they would perish in the frigid, eternal dark from which they were spawned! Likewise, The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine and the books of E.E. Doc Smith and Robert Heinlein reveal profound understandings of philosophy and spirituality that are forbidden, and unknown, in religious texts on Earth. Reading the autobiographies of Yogananda, and Gandhi, and Nikola Tesla and Mark Twain exposed me to “Spiritual Skyscrapers” who tower with magnificent wisdom and courage above the barren landscape of human inhumanity.
Such beings, who demonstrate the most powerful empathy for their fellow beings, are magnified in contrast to a race of spiritual monstrosities (the “Edorians” of The Lensman Series, for example) as elucidated with demonic eloquence by Hitler in Mein Kampf. Although the “bad guys” are just as powerful and “intelligent” as any “good guy” they are utterly and irreversibly antipathetic to every spiritual entity in every universe, including themselves! I suspect that the game of “good guys” versus “bad guys” is simply an eternal, intergalactic struggle for survival between two equally opposed races of spiritual beings who originated in different times and places, but who now coexist in the space / time continuum of the physical universe.
Personally, I have grown weary of mortal games. I write books that suggest alternatives to the physical universe logic of dichotomies: life /death, good /bad, black / white, life / death, up /down, in / out, etc.,. I prefer the “illogic” of immortal spirits, infinite possibilities and unlimited imagination! Life, and Universes, and Other
Stuff are created from and sustained by the “no-thing” of Eternal Spiritual Beings. However, I have read that the spiritually ignorant physicists of western universities are finally beginning to “grok” that Quantum Mechanics has been known and understood by the Vedic sages and gurus of India for more than 10,000 years. Light, energy, matter, forms and spaces are contrivances of our own imaginations.
In spite of all the books I’ve read, I have, as yet, not discovered the solution to escaping the “Wheel of Life”, or the Cycle of Birth and Death. I hope that the books I am planning to read during the next year will provide me with some real answers, as I’m not getting any younger. Religious lies and rhetoric notwithstanding, not a single author of a book I’ve read has died and returned to tell us how to “escape from Earth”. If you have read a book that verifiably solves this problem, please let me know. I will add it to my list of “must read” books.
— Lawrence R. Spencer
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The History of The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire (Unabridged), by Edward Gibbon
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
The Cat Who Walked Through Walls, by Robert Heinlein
Strangers in A Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures, by Virginia Morell
The Art of Happiness, by Howard C.Cutler, with the Dalai Lama
Mein Kampf, by Aldolph Hitler
Vermeer: Portraits of A Lifetime, by Lawrence R. Spencer
The Skylark of Space: Skylark Series #1, by E.E. Doc Smith
Skylark Two, by E.E. Doc Smith
Skylark of Valeron (#3), by E.E. Doc Smith
Skylark DuQuesne: Skylark Series #4, by E.E. Doc Smith
The Lensman Series, (6 books) by E.E. Doc Smith
Triplanetary
First Lensman
Galactic Patrol
Gray Lensman
Second Stage Lensman
Children of The Lens
The Spacehounds of IPC, by E.E. Doc Smith
The Oz Factors, by Lawrence R. Spencer
Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Valis, by Philip K. Dick
Alien Interview, Edited by Lawrence R. Spencer
The Dying Earth, by Jack Vance
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, by Mohandas (Mahatma) K. Gandhi
1,001 Things to Do While You’re Dead: A Dead Persons Guide to Living, by Lawrence R. Spencer
The Bhagavad Gita, by Phoenix Books , Barbara Stoler-Miller (translator)
The Big Bleep: Mystery of A Different Universe, by Lawrence R. Spencer
Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius, by Marc J. Seifer
Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda
Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens?, by Jim Marrs
My Inventions, by Nikola Tesla
Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott
Sherlock Holmes: My Life, by Lawrence R. Spencer
Ubik, by Phillip K. Dick
Vermeer: Portraits of A Lifetime, by Lawrence R. Spencer
The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break: A Novel, by Steven Sherrill
Winter of the World: The Century Trilogy, Book 2, by Ken Follett (partial)
Coming of Conan The Cimmerian, by Robert E. Howard
A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1, by George R. Martin
The Dispossessed: A Novel, by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: The millennium Trilogy, Book 1, by Steig Larsson
The Vortex Blaster, by E.E. “Doc” Smith
The Republic, by Plato
Fall of Giants: The Century Trilogy, Book 1, by Ken Follett
The Confession: A Novel, by John Grisham
Sherlock Holmes: My Life, by Lawrence R. Spencer
Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman
Enders Game, by Orson Scott Card
Autobiography of Mark Twin (Unabridged), by Mark Twain
American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
Tao Te Ching: A New English Version, by Loa Tzu, translated by Stephen Mitchell
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers, by Will Durant
You See But You Do Not Observe, by Robert J. Sawyer
The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine
The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1 and 2, by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fear, by Arthur Conan Doyle
His Last Bow, by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Under the Dome, by Stephen King
The Rape of The Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing, by Joost A. M. Meerloo, M.D.
The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, by Frances Stonor Saunders
The Magus of Strovolos: The Extraordinary World of a Spiritual Healer, by Kyriacos C. Markides,
1984, by George Orwell
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov
The Rise of The Fourth Reich, by Jim Marrs
The Face, by Dean Koontz (and, about a dozen of his other books in years past! )
Meditation on Living, Dying and Loss, by Graham Coleman with the Dalai Lama
Tick Tock, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Here is a simple demonstration by Earth scientists of the obvious existence and use of “telepathy” — direct, spirit to spirit communication (called telepathy by people who don’t know that they are spiritual beings). Of course, spiritual communication is universal among all sentient spiritual beings and life forms, including plants. This has been known and demonstrated on Earth for thousands of year. Indian Gurus, Tibetan Llamas, Buddhists, Hindus, Taoists and many, many other spiritually aware beings have understood and enjoyed spirit-to-spirit communication forever. The following article is a very small, mechanical demonstration of the spiritual phenomena of “telepathy”.
The problem is that Earth scientists still haven’t “discovered” the “spirit”…. the Immortal Spiritual Being that is the Source of life, the Animator and Creator of life forms. They think everything sentient is contained inside a BRAIN! And, in the universe everything is a “physical machine”. This includes human beings, rats, and every other Life Form on the planet that is Animated by a Spirit! Sadly for them, and tragically for the rest of us, who are victimized by their inability to perceive the spiritual essence of Life, we are still living in The Dark Ages of Wisdom on Earth. However, there are millions of beings on Earth who have excellent understanding of Spirits. Thousands of book have been written about this….including several that I have written or edited myself. I recommend them to you, if you are interested in discovering more about Who You Really Are. — LRS
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In what might be the first documented case of technologically-assisted inter-species telepathy, an international team of researchers has successfully created a non-invasive brain-to-brain interface that allows humans to make a rat move involuntarily. The breakthrough could lead to more advanced techniques in which a person can control the parts of another person’s body with their thoughts.
This announcement comes only weeks after another team of scientists created an electronic link between the brains of two rats. But unlike that study, in which brain implants were inserted into a rat’s motor cortex, the new brain-to-computer interface (BCI) utilizes transcranial focused ultrasound (FUS) and electroencephalography (EEG) technology, which simply requires the wearing of external devices.
To make it work, Seung-Schik Yoo of Harvard Medical School in Boston and colleagues anaesthetized a rat and hooked it up to a device that could channel focused ultrasound directly (and noninvasively) to its motor cortex. Human volunteers were equipped with an EEG cap to collect and transmit signals. Then, by using a computer as an interface between the two, a fairly straightforward mind-to-mind link was established.
When a thought-process was evoked in a human participant’s brain — namely the intention to move the rat’s tail — the computer was able to detect it in the form of an EEG pattern (an EEG-based steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP)).
From there, after distinguishing it from other signals (like visual stimulation), the computer triggered the focused ultrasound to stimulate the motor cortex of the rat, resulting in the movement of its tail. And interestingly, all six human participants were successful at moving the rat’s tail and with little difficulty. The BCI achieved an accuracy rate of 94% and with a time delay of 1.6 seconds from the moment of thought initiation to the tail movement.
The researchers hope to see their new interface connected between two humans, particularly for therapeutic purposes (what’s called “neural coupling”). Ideally, it could help people relearn how to use previously paralyzed limbs.
Or, it could lead to more profound applications in which humans voluntarily couple themselves and move each other’s body parts. Combine this with other brain-to-brain linkages, such as sensory/somatomotor communication, and it suddenly becomes a prospect that the researchers say could have a positive impact on human social behavior.”