Notes
1. Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising (Las Vegas, NV: New Falcon Publications, 1992).
2. Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice (London, 1929).
3. Stephen LaBerge, Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. (New York: Ballantine Books, 1991).
4. Dana R. Carney, et al, “Power Posing: Brief Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance” Psychological Science 21, no. 10 (September 2010): 1363–68.
5. Philip H. Farber, The Book of Exhilaration and Mastery (e-book) (Kingston, New York: Hawk Ridge Productions, 2006).
6. D. Overton, “Major theories of state-dependent learning.” In B. Ho et al. Drug discrimination and state-dependent learning (New York: Academic Press, 1978).
7. R. Fischer, “A cartography of ecstatic and meditative states.” Science 174 (1971).
8. Robert Dilts and Judith DeLozier. Encyclopedia of Systemic Neuro-Linguistic Programming and NLP New Coding (Scotts Valley, CA: NLP University Press, 2000), 1467.
Chapter Two
1. Richard Bandler and Will MacDonald. An Insider’s Guide to Sub-Modalities (Capitola, CA: Meta Publications, 1988).
2. Karim Nader and Oliver Hardt,
“A single standard for memory: the case for reconsolidation.” Nature Reviews Neuroscience
10 (March 2009): 224–234.
3. Marcus E. Raichle et al., “A default mode of brain function.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98, no. 2 (January 16, 2001): 676–682.
4. Aleister Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (New York: Penguin, 1989), 810.
5. Do you really need a citation to know that? Test the idea out in the laboratory of your consciousness.
Chapter Three
1. Aleister Crowley, Ed. The Goetia of Solomon the King (Foyers, England: The Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth, 1904. Reprint. New York: Magickal Childe Publications, 1992).
2. S.L. MacGregor Mathers, Trans. The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin, the Mage (New York: Dover Publications, 1975).
3. Farber, Philip H. Meta-Magick: The Book of Atem (San Francisco: Weiser Books, 2008).
4. Milton H. Erickson; Ernest L. Rossi Ed. The Collected Papers of Milton H. Erickson, III. Perceptual and Psychophysiological Processes (New York: Irvington, 1980).
5. Vittorio Gallese, et al, “Action Recognition in the Premotor Cortex.” Brain 119, no. 2 (April 1996).
6. V. S. Ramachandran, A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness (Essex, England: Pi Press, 2005).
7. Rizzolatti, Giacomo, et al. “Mirrors in the Mind.” Scientific American, November 2006.
8. ibid.
9. Farber 2008.
10. Andreas, Connierae and Tamara Andreas. CORE Transformation: Reaching the Wellspring Within (Moab, Utah: Real People Press, 1994).
Chapter Four
1. Uddin, Lucina Q., et al. “The self and social cognition: the role of cortical midline structures and mirror neurons.” Trends in Cognitive Science 11, no. 4 (2007).
2. Adapted from Farber 2006.
Chapter Five
1. Joseph E. LeDoux, Synaptic self: how our brains become who we are (New York: Viking, 2002).
2. CD Nichols and E. Sanders-Bush, “A single dose of lysergic acid diethylamide influences gene expression within the mammalian brain.” Neuropsychopharmacology, 26, no. 5 (2002):
634–42.
3. Santarelli L, Saxe M, Gross C, et al. “Requirement of hippocampal neurogenesis for the behavioral effects of antidepressants”. Science 301 (5634): 805–9, August 2003.
4. Henriette van Praag, “Neurogenesis and Exercise: Past and Future Directions.” NeuroMolecular Medicine 10, no. 2, (June 2008): 128–40.
5. Crowley 1929.
6. Richard Davidson and Antoine Lutz, “Buddha’s Brain: Neuroplasticity and Meditation,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, January 2008,172–6.
7. Richard Bandler, Using Your Brain for a Change. (Moab, Utah: Real People Press, 1985).
Chapter Six
1. Mark Stavish, “Assumption of Godform.” Hermetics Resource Site, 1998. http://www.hermetics.org/stavish/Godforms.html.
2. Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, The Sacred Cord Meditations (Wellingborough, Northhamptonshire: Aquarian Press, 1990).
3. Ernest L. Rossi, and Kathryn L. Rossi,
“The Neuroscience of Observing Consciousness and Mirror Neurons in Therapeutic Hypnosis.” American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 48, no. 4 (April 2006): 263–78.
4. V. S. Ramachandran, “Brain in a Vat.” Edge, 2006. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran06/ramachandran06_index.html.
5. Vittorio Gallese and George Lakoff. “The Brain’s Concepts: The Role of the Sensory-Motor System in Conceptual Knowledge.” Cognitive Neuropsychology, 2005.
http://www.unipr.it/arpa/mirror/pubs/pdffiles/Gallese-Lakoff_2005.pdf.
Chapter Seven
1. If you’re not familiar with this ritual, that’s okay. It is easily found in many books and online.
But read on, you’ll get the idea.
2. Philip H. Farber, FutureRitual: Magick for the 21st Century (Chicago: Eschaton Productions, 1995).
3. Crowley 1929.
Chapter Nine
1. Lynden K. Miles, et al. “Moving Through Time.” Psychological Science, 2010.
2. Rafael E. Núñeza and Eve Sweetser, “With the Future Behind Them: Convergent Evidence From Aymara Language and Gesture in the Crosslinguistic Comparison of Spatial Construals of Time.” Cognitive Science 30, (2006).
3. Farber 2008.
4. Steve Andreas and Connierae Andreas. Change Your Mind and Keep the Change. (Moab, Utah: Real People Press, 1987).
Chapter Ten
1. Lucina Q. Uddin, et al. “rTMS to the right parietal lobule disrupts self-other discrimination.” Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2006.
Chapter Eleven
1. Konrad Lorenz, King Solomon’s Ring. (London: Methuen, 1961).
2. Wilson 1992.
3. Nichols 2002.
4. Mircea Eliade, Rites and Symbols of Initiation. (New York: Harper and Row, 1958).
5. Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985).
6. Fanny Wurm, et al. “Effects of Skilled Forelimb Training on Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Spatial Learning After Focal Cortical Infarcts in the Adult Rat Brain.” Stroke, 2007.
Chapter Twelve
1. William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. The Third Mind. (New York: Viking Press, 1978).
2. John Nichols, “Election Matters: Campaigner in Chief.” The Nation, Nov. 1, 2004.
3. Michael Grunwald, “How Obama is Using the Science of Change.” Time, April 2, 2009.
4. Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism. Third Edition. (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1980).
5. Farber 2008.
6. C.T. Lawrence Butler and Amy Rothstein. On Conflict & Consensus: A Handbook on Formal Consensus Decisionmaking. Third Edition. (Takoma Park, MD: Food Not Bombs Publishing, 2007).
Chapter Thirteen
1. Chuang-Tzu. The Inner Chapters. (Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co., 2001).
2. Farber 2008.
Appendix One
1. V. S. Ramachandran, “Mirror neurons and imitation learning as the driving force behind ‘the great leap forward’ in human evolution.” Edge, 2000. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran/ramachandran_p1.html.
2. Philip H. Farber, The Great Purple Hoo-Ha: A Comedy of Perception, Part One. (Oxford: Mandrake of Oxford, 2010).
3. Paschal Beverly Randolph, Sexual Magic. (Magickal Childe Publications, 1988).
4. Adapted from Farber 2008.
Appendix Two
1. V. S. Ramachandran and Lindsay M Oberman, “Broken Mirrors: A Theory of Autism.” Scientific American, November 2006.
2. Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge. (New York: Bantam, 1993).
3. Terence McKenna, quoted from “Terence McKenna: Mushrooms, Sex and Society.” Interview by Philip H. Farber. Paradigm Shift, 1998.
4. Peter Meyer, “Apparent Communication with Discarnate Entities Related to DMT.” Psychedelic Monographs and Essays 6 (1993).
5. Richard Evans Schultes and Albert Hofmann. Plants of the Gods. (Rochester, Vermont: Healing Arts Press, 1992).
6. Matthew Whalley, et al. “Enhancement of suggestibility and imaginative ability with nitrous oxide.” Psychopharmacology, 2008.
7. Crowley 1929.
8. Bill Deakin, et al. “Glutamate and the Neural Basis of the Subjective Effects of Ketamine.” Archives of General Psychiatry 65, no. 2 (February 2008).
9. Farber 1995.
10. Jansen, Karl. Ketamine: Dreams and Realities. (New York: MAPS, 2004.)
Appendix Three
1. Istvan Molnar-Szakacs and Katie Overy. “Music and Mirror Neurons: From Motion to ‘E’ Motion.” Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 1, no. 3 (2006): 235–41.