Asimov, Isaac. The Eureka Phenomenon. Chapter 2 in: The Edge of Tomorrow. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1985: 020-032, 13 pages (PS 3551).
  I would find that I had written myself into a hole and could see no way out. To take care of that, I developed a technique that invariably worked. I went to the movies. I had to pick an action movie that made no demand on the intellect. I did my best to avoid any conscious thinking. When I came out of the movie, I knew exactly what I would have to do to put the story back on the track. I never failed!


Bach, Richard. Jonathan Livingston Seagull. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1970: 001-093, 93 pages (PZ 10).
  The following excerpt illustrates "driven" rational being. Contrast this with "laid back" intuitive being in James Kavanaugh's Celebrate the Sun in this same section: "He spared no time that day for talk with other gulls, but flew on past sunset. He discovered the loop, the slow roll, the point roll, the inverted spin, the gull bunt, the pinwheel. When Jonathan Seagull joined the flock on the beach, it was full night. He was dizzy and terribly tired. Yet in delight he flew a loop to landing, with a snap roll just before touchdown. When they hear of it, he thought, of the breakthrough, they'll be wild with joy. How much more there is to living! Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's a reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!"


Bach, Richard. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah. New York: Delacorte Press, 1977: 001-144, 144 pages (PZ 4).
  I noticed something strange about the book. "The pages don't have numbers on them, Don." "No," he said, "You just open it and whatever you need most is there." "A magic book!" "No, You can do it with any book. . . Haven't you done that, hold some problem in your mind, then open any book handy and see what it tells you?" "No." "Well, try it sometime."


Bly, Robert. A Little Book on the Human Shadow. San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988: 001-081, 81 pages (PS 3552).
  Problems in the ark, The long bag we drag behind us, Five stages in exiling, hunting, and retrieving the shadow (Projection, Troublesome rattles, Call to repair the rattle, Feeling diminished, Eating the shadow), Honoring the shadow: an interview with William Booth, Wallace Stevens and Dr. Jekyll.


Bly, Robert. The Human Shadow. New York: Sound Horizons Audio Video, 1989: Audio recordings, 180 minutes (PS 3552).
  Your parents make it clear there are certain parts of us they don't like. One image is to say we take that part and put it into a bag. Our independence and feeling goes into the bag, the bag is getting heavy and two miles long. You could say we spend our life until we're twenty deciding what to put into the bag and we spend the rest of our life trying to get it out again.


Cleary, Thomas, trans. The Taoist I Ching. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1986: 001-339, 339 pages (PL 2464).
  Introduction, Book I: the text, Book II: the commentary (Overall images, Mixed images), Appendixes (Using the Taoist I Ching, How to consult the I Ching). The "Book of Change" is considered the oldest of the Chinese classics, and has throughout its history commanded unsurpassed prestige and popularity. Containing several layers of text and given numerous levels of interpretation, it has captured continuous attention for well over two thousand years.


Dossor, Howard F. The Philosophy. Chapter 2 in: Colin Wilson: The Man and His Mind. Shaftesbury, England: Element Books, 1990: 045-078, 34 pages (PR 6073).
  New Existentialism is an examination of the ways that human consciousness might be extended to enrich human life. This is a matter of both broadening and deepening our perceptions. New Existentialism becomes a quest for instruments and exercises which may be used to extend consciousness. One of the most important instruments is imagination. For Wilson, imagination is an extension of the powers of survival and an instrument of self knowledge.


Elliott, Ralph W. V. The Use of the Runes. Chapter 6 in: Runes: An Introduction. New York: Philosophical Library, 1959: 062-075, 14pages (PD 2013).
  The primary characteristic of runes is the important part they played in the realms of Germanic ritual and magic. Runic writing did not lend itself readily to the practical uses which we associate with most forms of alphabetic writing. It never developed into a cursive script, but remained epigraphic


Fuller, R. Buckminster. Intuition: Metaphysical Mosaic. Chapter 1 in: Intuition. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1972: 011-075, 65 pages (PS 3511).
  These thoughts regarding the acquisition, commissioning and naming (INTUITION) of a new seventeen ton ocean cruising sloop occurred throughout the morning hours, immediately preceding the moment the craft was lowered by a giant motorized sling into her destined realization of waterborne existence. If all humanity attains planetary success, central to that attainment will be the magnificently regenerative power of the Greek's intuitive synergetic spontaneity of thought.


Hoff, Benjamin. The Tao of Pooh. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1982: 001-158, 158 pages (PR 6025).
  Foreword, The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? Spelling Tuesday, Cottleston pie, The Pooh way, Bisy Backson, That sort of bear, Nowhere and nothing, The now of Pooh, Backword. The author shows from the character and original dialogue how Pooh Bear expresses the Tao in the way he relates to the world.


Hoff, Benjamin. The Te of Piglet. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1992: 001-257, 257 pages (PR 6025).
  What? Another one? Interjection, The–What was that again–of Piglet, Very small animal, The Eeyore effect, The Tigger tendency, Things as they might be, Things as they are, The upright heart, The day of Piglet, Farewell. The author continues his exploration of the Taoist qualities of the characters in Winnie the Pooh.


Kavanaugh, James J. Celebrate the Sun. Los Angeles: Nash Publishing, 1973: 001-087, 87 pages (PZ 4).
  The following excerpt illustrates "laid back" intuitive being. Contrast this with the "driven" rational being in Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull in this same section: "You live with illusions, Harry Langendorf," they said. "Perhaps," he said, "But at present, for me, time is the illusion – and striving. Titles are an illusion – and progress." "But you want us to change, Harry Langendorf, and to be like you." "No," he said, "I can only tell you who I am. You must decide who you are." "But if everyone did as they pleased, Harry Langendorf, we would destroy ourselves," they said. "I think we destroy ourselves when we do not do what pleases us," he said. "Life is harder than you make it, Harry Langendorf." "Maybe we make it hard by trying to live up to what (we perceive) others expect of us." "You are weird and strange, Harry Langendorf. Perhaps you are very sick." "I feel very good," said Harry Langendorf. "But I have talked too much. After a point, words seem futile."


Osgood, Charles E., and Richards, Meredith Martin. From Yang and Yin to And or But. Language. 1973, 49: 380-412, 33 pages (P 1).
  Positive evaluation is the essence of Yang and contrastive negative evaluation of Yin. Do humans have an innate system of differential positive - negative polarity? Earliest experience in the womb (surely all Yang) is persistently and harshly tempered by later experiences in the world (surely much Yin). Do humans spend much of life in futile attempts of "ands" and "buts" to regain that equanimity?


Page, R. I. Runes. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1987: 001-062, 62 pages (PD 2013).
  The script and its problems, Rune names and Futharks, The early inscriptions, Anglo Saxon Runes, Runes and the Vikings, Scandinavian Runes in the British Isles, Runes in North America, Where to look for runes.


Ponce, Charles. A Guide to the Hexagrams. In: An Audio Exploration of I Ching. Los Angeles: Audio Renaissance Tapes, 1988: 001-072, Audio recording, 72 pages, 60 minutes and Coins (PL 2997).
  Introduction, Coin oracle method, Diagram of the trigrams, 64 hexagrams (One page description for each hexagram with Judgement and Lines).


Shah, Idries. There is More Light Here. Parable in: The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1972: 026, 1 page (PN 6231).
  Someone saw Nasrudin searching for something on the ground. "What have you lost, Mulla?" he asked. "My key," said the Mulla. So they both went down on their knees and looked for it. After a time the other man asked: "Where exactly did you drop it?" "In my own house." "Then why are you looking here?" "There is more light here than inside my house."


Shchutskii, Iluian K. Introduction. Parts I and II in: Researches on the I Ching. Translated by William L. MacDonald and Tsuyoshi Hasegawa with Hellmut Wilhelm. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1979: 003-012, 129-131, 12 pages (PL 2464).
  We must consider the Book of Changes unquestionably the first among classical books and the most difficult both to understand and to translate. According to the theory of the Book of Changes, all processes of the world are the interchanges of situations which emerge from the interaction and struggle of the forces of rigidity and pliability. The 64 signs are regarded as the symbols of reality.


Wilhelm, Hellmut. Change: Eight Lectures on the I Ching. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1960: 001-104, 104 pages (PL 2464).
  Preface, Origins, Concept of change, Two fundamental principles, Trigrams and hexagrams, Hexagrams Ch'ien and K'un, Ten wings, Later history of the Book of Changes, Oracle book.
___. Origins. Lecture 1 in: Ibid: 003-012, 10 pages.
  There are images representing the primary needs of man, the evolution of personality, situations taken from social life, individual character traits, and images of suprapersonal significance. The text evolved over a period of 1000 years. Its beginnings go back to times when a rational separation of objective from subjective nature did not yet exist.
___. The Concept of Change. Lecture 2 in: Ibid: 013-022, 10 pages.
  There is a remarkable parallel between Heraclitus' view of life as a movement that develops through the conflict of opposites within a harmonious order and the Chinese idea of movement and the unchanging law governing it. These ideas emerged in same historical period (500 B.C.). The name "I" in the title has three significant meanings: the easy, the changing, and the constant.
___. The Two Fundamental Principles. Lecture 3 in: Ibid: 023-034, 11 pages.
  The basic tension between the sexes originating in the fundamental antithesis of cosmic forces is symbolized in the I Ching by the polar opposites captured in concepts such as above and below, heaven and earth, and the creative and the receptive. The creative is the strongest of all things in the world. The receptive is the most devoted of all things in the world.
___. The Oracle Book. Lecture 8 in: Ibid: 092-104, 13 pages.
  A man who regards development of the personality as the most important of all tasks does not need the oracle aspect of the I Ching since he absorbs its wisdom in quiet reflection. But when this mature individual is confronted with far reaching decisions affecting more than his own person, he has recourse to the book for guidance. Then he approaches the book for its intuitive insights.


Wilhelm, Richard, trans. from Chinese. The I Ching or Book of Changes. Translated from the German by Cary F. Baynes. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1950: 001-731, 731 pages (PL 2997).
  Foreword by C. G. Jung (Best summary (19 pages) available in English), Introduction (Use of the Book of Changes (Book of Oracles, Book of wisdom)), Book I: the text, Book II: the material, Book III: the commentaries, Appendixes (On consulting the oracle (The yarrow stalk oracle, The coin oracle)). The I Ching is one of the first efforts of the human mind to place itself within the context of the universe.


Williams, Ann. Images from the I Ching: Visual Meditations on The Book of Change. Dorset, England: Prism Press, 1987: 001-151, 151 pages (PL 2464).
  Introduction (Ralph Metzner), Note on practical divination, The images and hexagrams (Two page spread for each hexagram–title, brief text, and gorgeous painting).


Wing, R. L. The Illustrated I Ching. New York: Doubleday/Dolphin, 1982: 001-176, 176 pages (PL 2464).
  Notes on the translation, Art and the I Ching, The I Ching–An explanation (The hexagrams, The sequence, The trigrams, The lines), How to consult the I Ching (The question, The coin method, Changing lines, Finding the hexagram, Learning the answer), The sixty-four hexagrams, The changing lines, Hexagram table.

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