Books I Have Known And Loved - BIHKAL

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Irish manuscript from the 11th century of the four Apostles.

A few books I have found useful, in no particular order.


  • Hakim Bey, T. A. Z. , Automedia, New York, 1993.

  • Joseph Campbell, Occidental Mythologies Penguin, New York, 1980.

  • Frederic Jameson, Post-Modernism, or the Logic of Late Capitalism, Duke University Press (UP), Durham, NC 1991.

  • David Lindley, The End of Physics, Basic Books, New York 1993.

  • Stephen Toulmin, Cosmopolis, or the Hidden Agenda of Modernity, Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago IL 1990.

  • Frances Y. Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, Routledge & Kegan Paul, New York 1986.

  • Richard Westfall, The Life of Isaac Newton, Cambridge UP, New York 1993.

  • Douglas Hofstadter, Godel, Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Basic Books, New York 1979.

  • Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Princeton UP, Princeton NJ 1979.

  • Ilya Progigine and Isabelle Stenger, Order out of Chaos, Man's Dialogue with Nature , Bantam Books, New York 1984.

  • Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes, Basic Books, New York 1985.

  • Mira Zussman, The Grammatical Nature of God, Conference for the Anthropology of Consciousness, Phoenix, AZ, April 1994.

  • Adam McLean, Kabbalistic Cosmology and its Parallels to the Big Bang of Modern Physics, Hermetic Journal, 39, 11 (1988).

  • Roger Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind, Oxford UP, New York, 1989.

  • Babylonian Talmud, Chagigah 14b in Aryeh Kaplan, Meditation and Kabbalah , Jason Aronson Inc., Northvale NJ, 1995.

  • Daniel Matt, Essential Kabbalah, Harper, San Francisco, 1995.

  • Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, Schocken Books, New York 1969.

  • Martin Buber, , Tales of the Hasidim, Early Masters , Schoken Books, NY, 1974.

  • Michael Mahoney, Scientist As Subject, Ballinger Publishing, Cambridge, MA 1976.

  • Sandra Harding, in Nicholson, Ed., Feminism/Postmodernism, Routledge, New York 1990.

  • Evelyn Fox Keller, in Abel & Emily K. Abel, Eds., The Signs Reader, Women, Gender & Scholarship, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL 1983.

  • Arthur I. Miller, Imagery in Scientific Thought: Creating 20th- Century Physics, Birkhauser, Boston, MA 1984.

  • Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Dell Publishing, New York, 1984.

  • Ed Krol, The Whole INTERNET, O' Reilly and Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA 1992.

  • Herman Hesse, Magister Ludi, Bantam Books, for Holt, Reinhart and Winston, New York 1970.

  • Aryeh Kaplan, Sefer Yetzirah, translation and commentary, Samuel Weiser, New York 1990.

  • Gershom Scholem, The Kabbalah,Meridian Books, New York 1978.

  • Michael Hamburger, Poems of Paul Celan, Persea Books, New York, NY 1972.

  • John Felstiner, Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 1995.

  • Irena Klepfisz and Melanie Kay/Kantrowitz, Eds., Tribe of Dinah - A Jewish Women's Anthology , Beacon Press, Boston, MA 1986.

  • Z'ev ben-Shimon Ha-Levi,The Anointed, Arkana Books, New York, 1987.

  • Z'ev ben-Shimon Ha-Levi,The Way of the Kabbalah, Samuel Weiser, New York 1976.

  • Israel Regardie,The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic, Falcon Press, Santa Monica, CA 1984.

  • Israel Regardie, The Garden of Pomegranates, Falcon Press, Santa Monica, CA 1984.

  • Israel Regardie, The Middle Pillar, Falcon Press, Santa Monica, CA 1984.

  • Aleister Crowley, Magick, Theory and Practice, Dover, New York 1976.

  • Umberto Eco , Foucault's Pendulum, Ballantine Books, New York, 1990.

  • Leonard Shlain, Art and Physics, W. Morrow and Co., New York 1991.

  • Herbert Weiner, 9 1/2 Mystics, Collier Books, New York 1969.

  • John Murray Cuddihy, The Ordeal of Civility, Dell Publishing, New York 1974.

  • Raphael Patai, The Hebrew Goddess, Wayne State UP, Detroit, MI 1990.


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    Reproduction from J. Campbell's Occidental Mythology.

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