The Church of All Worlds reading list
CHURCH OF ALL WORLDS - Basic Bibliography
Hundreds of books have contributed to the constellation
of ideas and world-view that is the CAW. Of these, the following
bibliography includes the most vital, essential, basic,
challenging, and revolutionary. We have organized the list into
a number of topics, which are here presented in order of
essential relevance to our present gestalt. Within each category,
individual books are listed in what we consider the ideal order
in which they should be read for the most coherent presentation
of the ideas involved, as in a course of study.
ref: Mircea Ellade, SHAMANISM
I. THE VISION
1. Paul Williams, DAS ENERGI
2. Robert Heinlein, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND
3. Mack Renolds, EARTH UNAWARES (OF GODLIKE POWER,
previous title)
4. Tom Robbins, ANOTHER ROADSIDE ATTRACTION
ref: Joe Pintauro & Alicia Bay Laurel, EARTH MASS
ref: Ramon Sender & Alicia Bay Laurel, BEING OF THE
SUN
II. THE PARADISAL COMMUNITY
1. Aldous Huxley, ISLAND
2. Robert Graves, WATCH THE NORTH WIND RISE
3. D. M. Bryant, THE COMFORTER
ref: John h. Noyes, HISTORY OF AMERICAN SOCIALISMS
III. SUPPRESSED HISTORY
1. Elizabeth Gould Davis, THE FIRST SEX
2. Immanuel Velikosky, WORLDS IN COLLISION
ref: THE EMERGENCE OF MAN (Time Life Books)
IV. HUMAN SEXUALITY
1. Ursula LeGuin, THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS
2. Robert Rimmer, THE HARRAD EXPERIMENT
ref: G. Ratray Taylor, SEX IN HISTORY
V. TRANSPERSONAL PSYCOLOGY APPLIED
1. Abraham Maslow, MOTIVATION AND PERSONALITY
2.Louis Savary & Marianne Andersen, PASSAGES
ref: Christopher Hills & Robert d. Stone,
CONDUCT YOUR OWN AWARENESS SESSIONS
VI. ACTUALIZATION ETHICS
1. Erich Fromm, MAN FOR HIMSELF
2. Bertrand Russell, WHY I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN
3. Bertrand Russell, MARRIAGE AND MORALS
VII. THE OLD RELIGION: PALEO-PAGANISM
1. Erick Neumann, THE GREAT MOTHER
2. Clide Keeler, SECRETS OF CUNA EARTH MOTHER
3. Desmond & Ramona Morris, MEN AND SNAKES
ref: Doreen Valiente, AN ABC OF WITCHCRAFT
ref: Richard Cavendish, ed., MAN, MYTH & MAGIC: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE
SUPERNATURAL
ref: Carl Jung, Man AND HIS SYMBOLS
VIII. SHAMANISM
1. Carlos Castaneda, THE TEACHINGS OF DON JUAN
Carlos Castaneda, A SEPERATE REALITY
Carlos Castaneda, JOURNEY TO IXTLAN
Carlos Castaneda, TALES OF POWER
2. Michael J. Harner, ed., HALLUCINOGENS AND SHAMANISM
3. Brad Steiger, SECRETS OF KAHUNA MAGIC
ref: Mircea Ellade, SHAMANISM
IX. MONISM AND EVOLUTION
1. Lewis Thomas, LIVES OF A CELL
2. N.M. Wilders, AN INTRODUCTION TO TEIHARD DE CHARDIN
X. PERCEPTION AND REALITY
1. J.C. Pearce, THE CRACK IN THE COSMIC EGG
2. Andrew Well, THE NATURAL MIND
XI. PLANETARY ECOLOGY
1. Rene Dubos, THE GOD WITHIN
2. Garrett de Cell, THE ENVIRONMENTAL HANDBOOK
ref: TIME-LIFE NATURE LIBRARY
ref: MOTHER EARTH NEWS (magazine)
XII. "SO HUMAN AN ANIMAL"
1. Robert Ardrey, AFRICAN GENESIS
2. Elaine Morgan, THE DESENT OF WOMAN
ref: THE EMERGENCE OF MAN (Time Life Books)
XIII. HOMO NOVUS
1. Robert Heinlien, ASSIGNMENT IN ETERNITY
2. Zenna Morgan, THE PILGRIMAGE
3. Theodore Sturgeon, MORE THAN HUMAN
XIV. NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGION
1. T.C. McLuhan, ed. TOUCH THE EARTH
2. Hyemeyohsts Storm SEVEN ARROWS
XV. COMPARATIVE RELIGION
1. Robert Ellwood, RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL GROUPS IN MODERN AMERICA
2. Arkon Daraul, A HISTORY OF SECRET SOCIETIES
ref: Herbert Robinson & Knox Wilson, MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ALL
NATIONS
XVI. PSYCHIC PHENOMENA
1. Sheila Ostrander & Lynne Schroeder, PSYCHIC DISCOVERIES BEHIND
THE IRON CURTAIN
2. Nandor Fodor, THE HAUNTED MIND
XVII. OCCULT PRACTICES
1. P.E.I. Bonewits, REAL MAGIC
2. Paul Huson, MASTERING WITCHCRAFT
3. Helen Chappell, THE WAXING MOON
XVIII. CULTURAL MYTHOLOGY
1. Joseph Campbell, MYTHS TO LIVE BY
2. J.R.r. Tolkien, LORD OF THE RINGS (Trilogy)
XIX. SOCIAL REVOLUTION
1. R.J. Shea & R.A. Wilson, LEVIATHON
R.J. Shea & R.A. Wilson, THE GOLDEN APPLE
2. R.A. Heinlien, THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS
3. Phillip Slater, THE PURSUIT OF LONELINESS