Deepak Chopra wrote a great Book…How to Know God.

 

Below is the Bibliography from that book.

 

Great Reading.

 

ONE:   A REAL AND USEFUL GOD

 

1.  A number of short answers to the question “What does the experience of God feel like?” can be found in Jonathan Robinson, Bridges to Heaven (Walpole, N.H.: Stillpoint Publishing, 1994), pp. 54—62. Responses were all provided by spiritual writers and teachers.

 

2. The beginning of “spiritual physics” is complex, and becausequantum theory has now expanded into at least forty different and often conflicting interpretations, the whole subject remains extremely thorny. I first attempted to unravel the basic ideas in Quantum Healing (New York: Bantam Books, 1989), but for more technical resources, I can lead the reader to several books that have made a deep impression on me over the past decade. They are all classics in one way or another and recognized as starting points into the quantum maze.

 

 

David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980).

 

Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics (Boston: Shambhala Press, 1991).

 

Roger Penrose, The Emperor’s New Mind (New York: Penguin USA, 1991).

 

Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe (New York: HarperCollins, 1991).

 

Fred Alan ~\Vo1f, Star Wave: Mind Consciottsness and Quantwn Physics (New York: Macmillan, 1984).

 

Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters (New York: Bantam Books, 1980).

 

                       The best collection of original writings from great physicists on metaphysical matters was edited by Ken Wilber, Quantum Questions Boston: Shambhala Press, 1984). Wilber went on to publish authoritative books about mysticism and physics that combine com­passion and great depth of knowledge. A good appreciation of his insights can be gained from one of his earliest books and one of his most recent: Eye to Eye (Garden City, N.Y: Anchor Books, 1983) and Eye of the Spirit (Boston: Shambhala Press, 1997).

 

                       The Duke project, formally known as the Monitoring and Actualization of Noetic Training, presented its findings in fall 1998 to the American Heart Association.

 

                       Readers will vary widely in how much quantum theory they’ll wish to read about. For an introduction to the paradox of how light behaves, nothing is wittier or more palatable for the layman than a series of freshman physics lectures given by the late Nobel laureate Richard P. Eeynman: Six Easy Pieces (New York: Addison-Wesley, 1995). Big Bang theory changes so rapidly that it is difficult to find an up-to-date treatment outside the pages of the journals Nature and Scientific American. I have relied upon Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1988), now ten years old but still reliable in the essentials on how time and space came into existence.

 

 

       An eye-opening book on the many conflicting aspects of Jehovah, as he careens through the turmoil of the Old Testament, is Jack Miles, God: A Biography (New York: Vintage Books, 1995). For a large compendium of modern spiritual writings, the reader is referred to Lucinda Vardey, ed., God in All Worlds (New York: Vintage Books, 1995).

 

       I am referring to students and devotees of Kabbalah. An intro­ductory explanation of Shekhinah can be found in David S. Ariel, What Do Jews Believe? (New York: Shocken Books, 1995), Pp. 22—23ff.

 

TWO. MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES

 

1. Although there are thousands of written scriptures in the Indian tradition, much of the wisdom is passed down from master to disciple. The most inspiring modern example of this relation­ship, in my experience, can be found in Sudhakar S. Dikshit, I Am That (Durham: Acorn Press, 1973). But the reader is also referred to the many books centering on other notable voices of Vedanta, such as Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Aurobindo, Ramana Maharishi, Parama­hansa Yogananda, J. Krishnamurti, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, to name some of the best-known exponents in the West of a five-thousand-year-old tradition.

 

2. For the most literal translation of Christ’s words I have relied upon the New English Bible translation, except for some instances where the King James version was inescapable, having become part of our language. For scriptural quotations outside the recognized gospels, see Ricky Alan Mayotte, The Complete Jesus (South Royalton, Vt.: Steerforth Press, 1997). I should also point out that all inter­pretations of Christ’s words in this book are my own and not derived from any sect or authority.

 

3. Hawking himself does not deal in the connections between spirituality and quantum physics. The latest and best summary of those connections is made in Paul Davies, The Mind of God (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992). in this follow-up to his classic God and the New Physics, Davies deals with the central issue of whether an intelligent creator is consistent with modern cosmology.

 

THREE. SEVEN STAGES OF GOD

 

An excellent discussion of addictions from the social and per­sonality level can be found in Angelus Arrien, The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior; Teacher,  Healer and Visionary  (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco: 1993), which I have adapted to fit my spiritual argument.        

                    
2. Sister Marie’s miraculous feats are recounted in Patricia Treece,     The Sanctified Body (Liguori, Mo.: Triumph Books, 1993), pp. 276—80.  This is the most reliable, detailed account of miracle-working in the Catholic church over the past century.

                       
3. The deeply moving story of Father Maximilian is in Treece, Sanctified Body, pp. 140—43. She has also written a complete biography, A Man for Others (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1982).

                       
FOUR. A MANUAL FOR SAINTS

                       

1.    Griffith’s experience is recounted in full in Vardey, ed., God in All Worlds p. 88.  


2. My version of the night of Qadr is derived from Thomas W. Lippman, Understanding Islam (New York: Penguin/Meridian, 1995), pp. 38—39.

 

3.  Some of the first and best arguments for the “mind field” were 1996 made in Penfield’s The Mystery of the Mind (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1975).

 

4.  Fascinating connections are made between brain function and spiritual experiences in Valerie V Hunt, Infinite Mind (Malibu, Calif.: Malibu Publishing, 1996).             

                                            
5.  I am making a strong argument for the notion that mind is not localized in the brain but extends like a force field beyond space and time. To make this argument, I have relied upon the most eloquent thinker on nonlocalized mind, Rupert Sheldrake. His major work to date is The Presence of the Past (New York: Times Books, I 988), but readers will be drawn to his more informal conversations on science and spirituality in Michael Fox and Rupert Sheldrake, Natural Grace (New York: Doubleday, 1996)  Sheldrake is unique in offering ingenious experiments that would prove the existence of the mind field (he refers to it as the field of morphogenesis). The most recent proposals, which invite the reader to participate, appear in his book  Seven Experiments That Could Change the World (New York: Riverhead Books, 1995).

 

 

FIVE. STRANGE POWERS

 

 

I.     Dr. Bruce L. Miller reported his findings in the April 1998 issue of the journal Neurology.

 

2.    The best popular writing on this mystery is still found in Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987). Connections between spiritual awaken­ing and brain disease have been speculated about for a long time but never proven. A striking modern example, however, can be found in Suzanne Segal, Collision With the Infinite (San Diego: Blue Dove Press, 1996).

 

 

SIX. CONTACTING GOD

 

Credible attempts to explain the soul in scientific terms are rare. The best is found in Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989).