Bibliography

[webmaven]

I have no idea where on the forum this should be posted, but I thought it might be useful to have a list of books that influenced the development of David's ideas. These are books that David told me had a profound influence on his thinking, or that he was in the process of reading when I visited, or that he recommended.

I thought this might help to understand some of the "betweens" of David's thinking.

Note: As I knew David mostly in the 90's, I'm sure others can share their knowledge of what books David found useful either earlier or later, and add to this list, if they care to.

Here goes:

"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig (David told me he had taken a "literary journey" and visited some of the places Pirsig describes in this book.)

"Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas R. Hofstadter (David said this was a germinal work for him)

"Fire in the Crucible: The Self-Creation of Creativity and Genius" and "Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos" by John Briggs

"The Grail Legend" by Emma Jung

"He: Understanding Masculine Psychology" by Samuel A. Johnson

"She: Understanding Feminine Psychology" by Samuel A. Johnson

"Encounter with the Self: A Jungian Commentary on William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job" by Edward Edinger

Joseph Campbell: "The Hero with a Thousand Faces," and "The Power of Myth"

[JamesLawley]

Thanks everso webmavern for your list - fascinating.

I can add several to your list but one will have to do for now. In 2003 (or maybe 2004) David was staying with Penny and I. The day before he was leaving to fly off somewhere, he picked a book off of our bookshelves and started reading it. He didn't finished it before he had to leave. Imagine our surprise when two hours after leaving he returned saying he had decided to miss the flight because he wanted to finish the book!

David ended up reading the book twice straight through. It was:

Mark Buchanan "Nexus: small worlds & the groundbreaking science of networks."

James