I just wanted to say that the layout for reading that online is fantastic.

My thoughts exactly!

I am leaning toward the holographic universe or the 3rd Jesus.

I think you'll find T.H.U. a very fast read.
And I do hope you feel inclined to discuss it here - warts and all - after you're done.

Has anyone else on the board read this book or tried Dunne's experiment? I have never spoken to anyone else who has and would really like to hear other people's opinions on it.

I would love to hear about other people's experiences, too.

As for myself, I do suffer from precognition - and/or telecognition, if you will - but not via dreams.
I never dream about my "daily life" or anything mimicking it.
As a matter of fact, my dreams are more often than not impossible to describe once I am awake.

I really enjoyed

Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition
by Ed Regis
Concerning cryogenics, immortality and the future evolution of the human race.


AND

The Emperor´s New Mind
by Roger Penrose
Concerning the nature of minds and artificial intelligence.

I have a suggestion for a book:
The Holotropic Mind: The Three levels Of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives (1992) with Hal Zina Bennet.
The auteur is Stanislav Grof.
If any one has read this book then I will be interested to hear from them.
Kacou.

Fiction? Fiction that involves psychology, philosophy and metaphysics?

Try Time's Arrow, by my favourite author, Martin Amis. It's a novel in which time flows backwards, meaning that everything goes in reverse. For example, in New York, the narrator finds that

This business with the cabs, it surely looks like an unimprovable deal. They're always there when you need one, even in the rain or when the theatres are closing. They pay you up front, no questions asked. They always know where you're going. They're great. No wonder we stand there, for hours on end, waving goodbye, or saluting - saluting this fine service. The streets are full of people with their arms raised, drenched and weary, thanking the yellow cabs. Just the one hitch: they're always taking me places where I don't want to go.

- Time's Arrow

Amis has a rollicking good time with this conceit (just imagine his description of what happens in bathrooms), but as the story moves on we realize that there's a lot more substance - moral and philsophical substance - to it than appears at first glance. And as we move towards the end of the narrative, we realize that we are being prepared to take a close, searching look at one of the ultimate horrors of human history, and to be compelled to discover the humanity at the root of the horror. Making time run backwards, far from being a piece of literary showing-off, turns out to be the only possible way the author can achieve this.

I guarantee that, if you read this book, you will never, ever forget it.

[edit on 22-7-2008 by Astyanax]

Originally posted by Karlhungis
In The Holographic Universe, the author makes several references to Carlos Castaneda. I thought that the general consensus was that Carlos was a fraud? I like his work, but I still have reservations. I feel like the references to him may hurt the credibility of the book.

What is your take on Castaneda?

According to Castanedas ex-wife Amy Wallace in "The Sorcerers Apprentice" Castaneda is a complete fraud.

But having read that anti-castaneda book and also the anti-castaneda site www.sustainedaction.org, I must say I gained more from reading Castanedas books than from reading this anti stuff.

Maybe the message is more important than the messenger. Even if he was a fraud, he sure knew how to tell a good story.