Applied Physics

After reading a spate of Zero Point Field books and articles, I have been reading the spinoff applications. A few titles emerge from the tumult:

The Prosperity Game: The Wealthy Way of Heart, Mind and Spirit by Steve Nobel, Findhorn Press, 2006.
Merging NLP techniques with a business background has led to a brilliant discussion of individual limits to prosperity. Mr. Nobel's discussion of scarcity and the arguments for scarcity that permeate our culture is eye-opening, and alarming. He uses many real life examples of the limiting nature of scarcity based viewpoints and offers illuminating possibilities for abundance in our lives, work and world. An enlightening and profound book.

Creating Affluence by Deepak Chopra, New World Library 1998.
Deepak Chopra uses an alphabetical list to layout similar points as Mr Nobel does; this slim volume is closer to a user's guide. A short, succinct and profound guide to positive steps for a richer life, this book balances money and wealth against quality of life. The result is a snapshot of ebb and flow, a balance between acknowledgment and giving. By combining an alphabetical list of steps with a numeric list of qualities, the author has made intention and wealth an accessible concept.

The Spirit of Silence: Making Space for Creativity by John Lane, Chelsea Green Press, 2006.t
Another gem of a book by John Lane, author of Timeless Simplicity: Creative Living in a Consumer Society. Mr. lane extends the sensible observations of his earlier book into the joys of a considered life. A manifesto of silence, this book looks at our society as an enemy of our essential nature and a disruption that challenges the core value of living. "In my view, the fully active life, if necessary and often hugely stimulating, always needs, like the fallow years that follows a period of intensive agriculture, a period of rest."(p. 65) John Lane falls in with Annie Dillard, Thomas Merton, and contemporary Buddhist writers in advocating a life of attention and intention, filled with reverence and bliss. A lovely, necessary book!

A Tuvan epic!

Galsan Tschinag's stunning novel, The Blue Sky, shimmers with crisp descriptions of his Tuvan homeland. A coming-of-age narrative that contrasts a boy's universal feelings of loss, change and fear against the unfamiliar backdrop of the yurt, the family herds and the limitless landscape. The vivid images Galsan evokes leave you charged with memories of a landscape suddenly familiar and longings for the steamy, pungent interior of the yurt. A book not to be missed.

The Blue Sky, Gassan Tschinag, Milkweed Editions, 2006. ISBN 9781571310552