Eliciting a Universe of Meaning
(Non-Kairos references)
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Jim Al-Khalili. Paradox: the nine greatest enigmas in physics. Broadway, 2012
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/ / / . The Alchemy of Growth: practical insights for building the enduring enterprise. Basic Books, 2000.
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Erik Davis. TechGnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information. Three Rivers Press, 1999
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Thomas Homer-Dixon. The Upside of Down: catastrophe, creativity and the renewal of civilization. Knopf, 2006
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The Body in the Mind: the bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason. University of Chicago Press, 1987
Michael Jordan. Encyclopedia of Gods: over 2,500 deities of the world. Facts on File, 1993
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In Search of the Missing Elephant: selected essays. TriarchyPress.com, 2010 [summary]
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Lawrence M. Principe. The Secrets of Alchemy. University of Chicago Press, 2012
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Nicholas Rescher. The Strife of Systems: an essay on the grounds and implications of philosophical diversity. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985
Jeremy Rifkin. Time Wars: the primary conflict in human history. Henry Holt and Company, 1987 [summary]
Science, Paradox and the Moebius Principle: the evolution of the transcultural approach to wholeness. State University of New York Press, 1994 [summary]
Dreams, Death, Rebirth: a multimedia topological odyssey into alchemy's hidden dimensions. 2013 [text]
Topologies of the Flesh: a multidimensional exploration of the lifeworld. Ohio University Press, 2006 [excerpts]
Dimensions of Apeiron: a topological phenomenology of space, time, and individuation. Value Inquiry Book Series of Editions Rodopi, 2004 [excerpts]
/ / . Micronations: The Lonely Planet Guide to Home-Made Nations. Lonely Planet, 2006.
Theory of Process 1: Prelude - Search for a Paradigm, 1991 [excerpt]
Theory of Process 2: Major Themes in 'The Reflexive Universe' (by Arthur M Young). 1991 [excerpt]
Michael A. Sells. Mystical Languages of Unsaying. University of Chicago Press, 1994
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone. The Primacy of Movement. John Benjamins, 2011
Lee Smolin. Time Reborn: from the crisis in physics to the future of the universe. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013
Pitirim Sorokin. Social and Cultural Dynamics: a study of change in major systems of art, Ttruth, ethics, law and social relationships. Extending Horizons Books, 1957
The Alchemy of Finance. Wiley, 2003
The Alchemy of Finance. Simon and Schuster, 1988
Erwin S. Strauss. How To Start Your Own Country. Paladin Press, 1999
Antifragile: how to live in a world we don't understand. Allen Lane, 2012 [summary]
The Black Swan: the impact of the highly improbable. Allen Lane, 2007 [summary]
Cesidio Tallini. The Fifth World: micronationalism on steroids. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2009
Altered States of Consciousness. Harper, 1990
States of Consciousness. iUniverse, 2001
Apologie du Logos. Hachette, 1990
Morphogenèse et Imaginaire. Circé, 1978, 8-9
Esquisse d'une Sémiophysique: physique aristotélicienne et théorie des catastrophes. Interéditions, 1989
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Larry Tye. The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the birth of public relations. Picador, 2002
Jacques Vallee. The Four Elements of Financial Alchemy: a new formula for personal prosperity. Ten Speed Press, 2001
Casualties of Credit: the English Financial Revolution 1620-1720. Harvard University Press, 2011
The Alchemical Roots of the Financial Revolution. Berfrois, 14 March 2012 [text]
How Alchemists Invented Modern Finance. Bloomberg Echoes, 8 March 2012 [text]
Philip L. White. Globalization and the Mythology of the Nation State. In: A.G.Hopkins (Ed.), Global History: Interactions Between the Universal and the Local, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 257-284
/ . Bankrupting Nature: denying our planetary boundaries. Routledge, 2012.
Alan E. Wittbecker. Global Government: Creating a System for Conducting the Planet. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011
Erik Olin Wright. Envisioning Real Utopias. Verso, 2010
/ . A General Theory of Generic Modelling and Paradigm Shifts (part 1): the fundamentals. Kybernetes, 44, 2015, 2, pp. 283-298. [abstract]
/ . A General Theory of Generic Modelling and Paradigm Shifts (part 2): cybernetic orders. Kybernetes, 44, 2015, 2, pp. 299-310. [abstract]
/ . A General Theory of Generic Modelling and Paradigm Shifts (part 3): the extension. Kybernetes, 44, 2015, 2, pp. 311-328. [abstract]
Maurice I. Yolles. Knowledge Cybernetics: a metaphor for post-normal science. In: Steve Wallis (Ed.)., Cybernetics and Systems Theory in Management: Tools, Views and Advancements, IGI Global, Hershey, 2010
/ / . Toward a formal theory of socioculture: a yin-yang information-based theory of social change. Kybernetes, 37, 2008, 7, pp. 850 - 909. [abstract]
The Reflexive Universe: evolution of consciousness. Delacorte Press, 1976
The Geometry of Meaning. Delacorte Press, 1976
The Bell Notes: a journey from physics to metaphysics. Delacorte Press, 1979
John T Young. Isaac Newton's alchemical notes in the Royal Society. Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 60, 22 January 2006, 1, pp. 25-34 [text]