Related Readings and Links

The following readings and links offer supporting evidence for the tenets of Self Creation Therapy. If you need to understand why a technique works before you can use it, I invite you to examine the readings that are relevant to your interests.

In support of the universe being a Unified Field that permeates all existence, that it is alive and in constant motion and that all of its parts are interconnected, I recommend the following readings and links:

• Bateson, Gregory, 1988. Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, Bantam, New York
• Bohm, D. and B.J. Hiley, 1993. The Undivided Universe, Routledge, New York, N.Y.
• Bohm, D. and F.D. Peat, 1987. Science, Order and Creativity,
• Bohm, David, Wholeness and the Explicate Order,
• Bohm, Sarah, 1994. Thought as a System, Routledge, London
• Briggs, J., and Peat, F.D., 1984. Looking Glass Universe, Simon & Shuster, N.Y.
• Jantsch, Eric, 1980. The Self Organizing Universe, Pergamon, New York
• Mandelbrot, Benoit, 1983. The Fractal Geometry of Nature, Freeman, New York
• Sheldrake, Rupert. 1988. The Presence of The Past,Park Street Press, Rochester, Vermont.
• Talbot, Michael, 1992. The Holographic Universe, Harper Perennial, New York, N.Y

In support of the power of thought, and the transformative effects of intention, attention and focus on the body and the world around us, I recommend the following readings and links:

• Jean Shinoda Bolen, The Tao of Psychology.
• Simonton, O. Carl, Stephanie Mathews Simonton and James L. Chreighton, 1980. Getting Well Again: A Step by Step Self Help Guide to Overcoming Cancer for Patients and their Families. Bantam, New York, N.Y
• Weil, Andrew, 1995. Spontaneous Healing: How to Discover and Enhance Your Body’s Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself. Knopf, New York, N.Y.
• Brennan, Barbara, 1987. Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field, Bantam, New York, NY.
• Richard Gerber M.D. 2001. Bear & company, rochester, Vermont
• Carolyn Myss, 1997. Why People don’t Heal and How They Can, Random House, New York, N.Y.
• Carolyn Myss, 1996. Anatomy of Spirit,Random House, New York, N.Y.
• Hawkins, David M.D. Ph.D., 1998. Hay House, Inc. Sedona, Arizona
• Valerie Hunt, Infinite Mind: Science of the Human Vibrations of Consciousness
• Sheldrake, Rupert, The Sense Of Being Stared At & Other Aspects of the Extended Mind
• Masaru Emoto, Messages From Water. Shifting Frequencies, P.O.Box 702956 Dallas
• http://www.hado.net

For supporting evidence of the fact that our thoughts and emotions, with or without objective foundation, cause physiological and chemical changes in our bodies, and that we actually create our bodies, our minds and the messaging systems between them through our cognitive interactions with our environment, I recommend the following readings:

• Pert, Candace, 1992. PeptideT: A New Therapy for AIDS. Elmwood Symposium with Candace Pert, 5 November, 1992. San Francisco. Audiotapes are available from Advanced Peptides Inc. 25 East Loop. Stony Brook N.Y. 11790
• Pert, Candace, 1997. The Molecules of Emotion, Scribner, New York, N.Y.
• Pert, Candace, Michael Ruff, Richard Weber and Miles Herkenham,” Neuropeptides and their receptors: A Psychosomatic Network,” The Journal of Immunology, vol.135, no.2, pp. 820-26.
• Maturana, Umberto and Varela, Francisco, 1980. Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living, D.Dreidel. Doredecht, Holland.
• Maturana, Umberto and Varela, Francisco, 1987. The Tree of Knowledge, Shambala, Boston
• Varela, Francisco, 1995. Biological Research, 28. pp.81-95

Other readings that document how the discovery of subtle patterns at the subatomic level forced a shift in the scientific paradigm, you may find the following to be of interest:

• Capra, Fritjof, 1996. The Web of Life, Doubleday, 1996.
• Gleick, James, 1987. Chaos. Penguin, New York, N.Y.
• Heisenberg, Werner, 1971. Physics and Beyond, Harper & Row, N.Y.
• R. Penrose, The Emperor’s NewMind: Concerning Computers, Minds and the Laws of Physics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1989.
• Zukov, Gary, The Dancing Wooly Masters
• Moorehouse, David, 1996. Psychic Warrior, St. Martin's Press, New York, N.Y.
• Prigogine, Ilya and Stengers, Isabelle, Order Out of Chaos, Bantam, New York, N.Y.
• Sheldrake, Rupert, 1991. The Greening of the Rebirth of Nature: Science and God, Park Street, Rochester.
• Wolf, Fred Alan,.1994. The Dreaming Universe: A Mind Expanding Journey into the Realm Where Psyche and Physics Meet Touchstone, New York, N.Y..
• Grof, Stanislas, The Holotropic Mind
• Wilber, Ken, (ed.) 1985. The Holographic Paradigm and Other ParadoxesShambala, Boston, Mass.