William Samuel: A Guide to Awareness and Tranqullity
2 + 2 = Reality
The Awareness of Self- Discovery
"Nothing serves unfoldment like reading a book
- especially one with which you disagree."
--Margaret Laird, Christian Science Re-explored
Harold Lund: The Clarity of Christian Science
J. J. Van Der Leeuw: The Conquest of Illusion
Gods in Exile
Irene S. Moore: The Bridge
Identity
The Harmony of Being
.Richard Maurice Bucke: Cosmic Consciousness
S.I. Hayakawa: Language in Thought and Action
Symbol, Status, and Personality
"It is hoped that this book will act as a challenge to the individual, original thinking. While I do not intentionally write or speak to confuse or disturb, I recognized that unconditioned thinking, the Science of being, is always a disturber of the peace and is unsettling to the status quo. Unless one is startled out of the rut of conditioned, traditional thinking, the dis-ease of not seeing clearly becomes a habit (chronic). Doubt and questioning are useful tools in divine self-discovery. The only hell lies in attempts to rigidify or mold Truth, confine Good to its concept, trying to snatch the Good as it flows. Conform and uniform are words for the thinking that denies the conscious infinitude of each individual. To read a book, which challenges one’s thinking is very conducive to individual growth." - Margaret Laird, Christian Science Re-eplored.
John Dorsey & Walter Seegers:
Living Consciously: The Science of Self (1959)
Joel Goldsmith: Parenthesis in Eternity
Thunder of Silence
The Infinite Way
Art of Spiritual Healing
Realization of Oneness
Notes on Reading:
This writing serves as a salutary enchiridion for its author. In its radical idea of the allness of selfhood and its strict devotion to the subjectivity of human life, it brings his psychiatry down to earth. Every reader must supply his own comprehension of any instruction he chooses to give himself about new ideas, particularly about his author’s overall idea of explaining the problem’s of his life’s vicissitudes by the extension of his self-tolerance. To the extent that my reader conceives himself as creating all that he reads, thereby finding it intelligible, I shall of course be uniquely pleased, for he thereby delicately adjusts his organ of consciousness to the function it subserves: the sentience of his being. Dorsey - Illnes or Allness, pg. 15
Reading is very important -- the proper kind of reading, because at the present level of belief we do not always know what we are thinking until we see it expressed. Understandding is what gives meaning to the words; but it is equally important, indeed it is extremely important, that we understand our reading and the reason for reading. However, knowledge of Truth is Truth Itself; it is not "I" with knowledge of Truth.
Reading the Christian Science textbook, the Bible or anything else, requires that we read with understanding., not words. We should learn not to read words and mistake them for ideas. The ideas are always within ourselves --- they are not in any textbook. Truth is an inner revelation -- always it comes from within. ...Truth is Self-revelation or Self-discovery. The facts of Being come as individual revelation, as intuition or inspiration -- because they are Principle or Intelligence in action as inspired spontaneous Consciousness or Awareness: Infinity pressing for recognition. Therefore we have no choice but to be original.
Harold Lund, The Clarity of Christian Science, pg. 41-42)
