News Notes
Up to now, this website has been a blog in the sense that my most recent post has made up the home page and stayed there until the next most recent post. These cumulative posts are still all present on the site (to the right, see the vertical column). Instead, I will now regularly update the home page with news, features, and outreach.
Most Recent Book (see posts of chapters on this website under Features)
In his three-volume work Dark Pool of Light, Richard Grossinger weaves neuroscience and the phenomenology of being and reality together with psychospiritual views of “that single thing which is most difficult to understand or vindicate: our own existence.” Dark Pool of Light Volume One addresses the mystery of how subjective consciousness gets into a material universe to witness itself objectively in egoic systems. In particular, it gauges the various degrees and qualities of gap between mindedness as an experiential state and the brain as a physical object, calling out the schizophrenia of scientists who assert that consciousness is a mirage while living as if they themselves are real. Volumes Two and Three explore the remote ranges and exquisite meanings of consciousness, whether it is real or not. Volume Two leads the reader from a consideration of the psychic aspects of everyday life to engagement with energies outside the human range. Volume Three addresses mortality and the nature of evil while presenting a unified theory of the universe that includes consciousness.
Dark Pool of Light: Reality and Consciousness:
The Convergence of Physical, Philosophical, Psychological, Psychospiritual, and Psychic Views
Table of Contents
Volume One
The Neuroscience, Evolution, and Ontology of Consciousness
Introduction
Chapter One: What the Fuck is This?
Chapter Two: The Scientific View of Reality and Consciousness
Chapter Three: Consciousness: Everything and Nothing
Chapter Four: Degrees of Consciousness: Protoconsciousness, Preconsciousness, and the Freudian Unconscious
Chapter Five: Systemic Consciousness: Nonconsciousness and the Loss of Consciousness
Chapter Six: Qualia or Zombies?
Chapter Seven: Consciousness as an Emergent Phenomenon: The Psycholinguistics and Phylogenesis of Meaning
Chapter Eight: The Quantum Brain
Chapter Nine: The Ontology and Cosmology of Consciousness
Chapter Ten: The Subtexts of Science
Deleted Scenes
Volume Two
Introduction
Chapter One: Theosophy and the Hermetic Tradition
Chapter Two: Psychic Tools
Chapter Three: We Are Already Psychic
Chapter Four: The Seven Planes of Consciousness: Human Home Energy
Chapter Five: The Seven Planes of Consciousness: Frequencies Above the Range of Ordinary Experience
Chapter Six: The Seven Planes of Consciousness: Tuning Outside the Axis of Human Home Energy
Chapter Seven: Surfing the Operation of the Real
Chapter Eight: Focusing on What Is Happening
Chapter Nine: Buddhism and Theosophy: A Comparison
Hyperlinks
Volume Three
The Crisis and Future of Consciousness
Introduction
Chapter One: Demonic Entities and Their Symbols of Transformation
Chapter Two: Fear Has an Intelligence
Chapter Three: How Did Evil Get into the Universe?
Chapter Four: One Encounter, One Chance
Chapter Five: Converting Thoughtforms and Riding Synchronicity: Roses, Tarot Cards, and Scapula Bones
Chapter Six: Family Constellations
Chapter Seven: The Cosmic Eternity System
Chapter Eight: We Are In Existence
Hyperlinks
I am presently revising and updating The Night Sky, using a fresh OCR scan of the 1988 J. P. Tarcher edition. I am updating the astronomy and cosmology and bringing the book into line with Dark Pool of Light (see below), so that it might almost be considered Volume Four: The Universe. The text will be republished in both print and e-book at the start of 2014. The new title and subtitle will be The Night Sky: Soul and Cosmos–The Physics and Metaphysics of the Stars and Planets.
Table of Contents
Preface: The Night Sky in the Human Universe
Introduction to the 1981 Edition
Introduction to the 1988 Edition
Introduction to the 2014 Edition
I. Histories and Philosophies
1. The Night Sky
2. Scientific and Occult Astronomy
3. Ancient Astronomy
4. The History of Western Astronomy i. The Sun in the Center
5. The History of Western Astronomy ii. The Planets
6. The History of Western Astronomy iii. The Gravitational Field
7. The History of Western Astronomy iv. The Stars
8. The History of Western Astronomy v. The Elements
9. The History of Western Astronomy vi. The Space-Time Continuum
10. The History of Western Astronomy vii. The Atom
11. The History of Western Astronomy viii. The Big Bang
12. The History of Western Astronomy ix. Pulsars, Quasars, and Black Holes
13. The History of Western Astronomy x. Creation
14. Language, Mind, and Astrophysics
II. Planets
15. The Solar System
16. Molten Worlds: Mercury and Venus
17. Rocky Habitation Zone: The Moon, the Earth, and Mars
18. Gas and Ice Giants: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
19. The Moons and Rings of Jupiter and Saturn
20. The Moons of Uranus and Neptune, Pluto and Other Kuiper Belt Objects
21. Astrology
III. Mythologies and Legends
22. Star Myth
23. Science Fiction I. The Origin of Celestial Worlds
24. Science Fiction II. Self and Cosmos
25. Science Fiction III. Jesus of Nazareth
26. Flying Saucers and Extraterrestrial Life
Endnotes
Index
Maine Psychic Group
My psychic group meets at 7 PM on Tuesday nights in Manset when I am in Maine (next meeting later in 2013). Inquire if interested. Everyone welcome. Please call 207-244-0471 for directions.
Here is a great group I have gone to see many times in Central Park: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x243eDl-M78
New, Current, and Forthcoming Publications
Migraine Auras: When the Visual World Fails; On the Integration of Nature: Post-9/11 Biopolitical Notes; Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings: How the Universe Makes Life; Homeopathy: The Great Riddle; Planet Medicine: Origins; and Planet Medicine: Modalities have all been prepared for e-books and will be coming out between December, 2012, and March, 2013. On the Integration of Nature, Homeopathy, and Planet Medicine have new prefaces that I am also posting on this website. All the books have been corrected with minor changes throughout. The two volumes of Planet Medicine have several hundred changes combined.
The Bardo of Waking Life, 2013: Raising the Earth to the Next Vibration, and New Moon are in e-book format and available. For The Bardo of Waking Life, I corrected typos and added a note indicating where a gap in the book takes place during our trip to Europe (http://www.richardgrossinger.com/2010/03/trip-journal/).
For 2013, I corrected typos and wrote a different conclusion to my Introduction on the 2012 cosmic shift.
For New Moon, I removed the entire last section (“The Alchemical Wedding”), restoring the book to its original form. I also returned the names of many of the people to what they actually were, fixed a confusion of narrative version early in the book, and added a note to cover sections omitted in the “Teen Tour” chapter (in the print version too, as part of the transition from Salty and Sandy, my high-school novel, to New Moon). I also added an Afterword explaining all these changes and related issues; it is available on this website: http://www.richardgrossinger.com/2011/04/afterword-to-e-book-version-of-new-moon/.
Family
My Wife: Lindy Hough had a new collection of selected poems come out in the spring of 2011. It is her first book since 1976 and is called Wild Horses, Wild Dreams. Check it out:
She also has a new anthology on granparenting entitled Wondrous Child: http://www.amazon.com/Wondrous-Child-Joys-Challenges-Grandparenting/dp/1583943625/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357225476&sr=8-1&keywords=wondrous+child
It also has a video trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PG3FF3Mysw
My Daughter: Miranda July’s new movie is The Future: http://thefuturethefuture.com/.
Her new book, It Chooses You, is a series of portraits of Los Angeles PennySaver advertisers:
http://www.amazon.com/Chooses-You-Miranda-July/dp/1938073010/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357225562&sr=1-3&keywords=miranda+july
My Son: Robin Grossinger is writing a book on Napa County for University of California Press publication in spring 2012: Napa Valley Historical Ecology Atlas.
My Son-in-Law: Mike Mills’ new movie is Beginners: http://www.focusfeatures.com/profile/mike_mills
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