Reversing Societal Programming

Paradigm Reprogramming

A NEW SCIENCE OF LIFE: THE HYPOTHESIS OF FORMATIVE CAUSATION, 1982,
Rupert Sheldrake. Ingenious explanation of the transference of behavior across large distances, suggesting that biological systems an regulated by invisible organizing blueprints: "morphogenic fields."

THE AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s, 1987, Marilyn Ferguson. Many of the trends pointing to a new age and a paradigm shift are outlined in this optimistic and visionary classic Unfortunately, Ferguson entirely omits the Neo-Pagan movement.

CHAOS: MAKING A NEW SCIENCE, 1987, James Gleick. Homeostasis vs. paradigm shifts in Nature, or how Eris went to M.I.T.

THE GLOBAL BRAIN AWAKENS, 1982; 1995, Peter Russell. A vision of the immanent emergence of collective planetary consciousness.

THE HUNDREDTH MONKEY - And Other Paradigms of the Paranormal, 1991, Ken Keyes.

LIFTING THE VEIL: THE FEMININE FACE OF SCIENCE, 1993, Linda Shepherd.

PARADIGMS IN PROGRESS: Life Beyond Economics, 199l, Hazel Henderson.

THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS, 1962; 1970, Thomas Kuhn. The original and definitive work on scientific paradigms and paradigm shifts.

THE TIME FALLING BODIES TAKE TO LIGHT: Mythology, Sexuality, and the Origins of Culture, 1981, William Irwin Thompson. Mythology, sexuality and the origins of culture at the threshhold of our future evolution.

THE TURNING POINT: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture, 1982, Fritjof Capra. Evidence leading to the immanent emergence of a new phase in the evolution of human consciousness.

WHAT THE #$*! DO WE KNOW?!, 2004, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente, "WHAT THE #$*! DO WE KNOW?!" is part documentary, part story, and part elaborate visual effects and animations. The protagonist, Amanda, played by Marlee Matlin, finds herself in an Alice in Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of the quantum field hidden behind what we consider to be our normal, waking reality. The fourteen top scientists and mystics interviewed in documentary style serve as a modern day Greek Chorus. The chorus members act as hosts who live outside of the story, and from this Olympian view, comment on the actions of the characters below. They are also there to introduce the Great Questions framed by both science and religion, which divides the film into a series of acts. Through the course of the film, the distinction between science and religion becomes increasingly blurred, since we realize that, in essence, both science and religion describe the same phenomena.(DVD)

WHAT THE DORMOUSE SAID: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer, 2005, John Markoff. While there have been several histories of the personal computer, well-known technology writer John Markoff has created the first ever to spotlight the unique political and cultural forces that gave rise to this revolutionary technology. Focusing on the period of 1962 through 1975 in the San Francisco Bay Area, where a heady mix of tech industries, radicalism, and readily available drugs flourished, What the Dormouse Said tells the story of the birth of the personal computer through the people, politics, and protest that defined its unique era.

Psychedelia