Works That Matter

The following is a list of books, periodicals and links that have, over the last couple of decades, vastly influenced my thinking, both as a person, a teacher, and as a science fiction writer. I heartily recommend that you look them up as several of them have the potential to shatter many of the paradigms we hold sacred about evolution, astronomy, the mind, and the universe at large.

(This site is currently under construction. More will appear soon.)

 

Science Frontiers
The Unusual & Unexplained

Strange Science * Bizarre Biophysics * Anomalous astronomy
From the pages of the World's Scientific Journals

Science Frontiers
is a bimonthly newsletter providing digests of reports that describe scientific anomalies; that is, those observations and facts that challenge prevailing scientific paradigms. Over 2000 Science Frontiers digests have been published since 1976.

These 2,000+ digests represent only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The Sourcebook Project, which publishes Science Frontiers, also publishes the Catalog of Anomalies, which delves far more deeply into anomalistics and now extends to sixteen volumes, and covers dozens of disciplines.

Over 14,000 volumes of science journals, including all issues of Nature and Science have been examined for reports on anomalies. In this context, the newsletter Science Frontiers is the appetizer and the Catalog of Anomalies is the main course.

Subscriptions

Subscriptions to the newsletter Science Frontiers cost US$7.00 for six issues or the equivalent in UK or Canadian funds. Checks should be made payable to William Corliss, and orders sent to:

Sourcebook Project
P.O. Box 107
Glen Arm, MD 21057. USA

Science Frontiers

 

I have been receiving Science Frontiers for about ten years now and each issue (they're just newsletters) contains findings in all of the sciences that run counter to what most scientists today believe to be the truth. For example, Science Frontiers was the first to report, back in 1979, that the dinosaurs might have been killed off by an asteroid. SF has long reported that humans came to the New World as far back as 12,000 B.C.E. SF has reported that the Earth might be cooling, not warming; that the Universe might be infinitely old rather than 13 billion years old; that the speed of light might be variable instead of fixed; that light might actually get "tired" as it travels over the billions of years; and finally that life itself was created (and is still being created) somewhere between 3 and 6 miles below the surface inside solid rock.

William Corliss has, for decades, compiled these "anomalies", taking them, not from crank UFO journals, but standard and accepted mainstream scientific journals. You can click here. Send Corliss $7 and you'll get a bimonthly newsletter. Corliss makes his living selling a wide variety of science books that examine these same anomalies. In fact, the books listed below all came from Corliss' catalog.

 

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The Journal for Scientific
Exploration

I've subscribed to this journal for years. It's the only journal of its kind. It is put out by the Society of Scientific Exploration and is an academic journal devoted to scientific papers that analyze anomalous phenomenon.

It's very serious and sometimes resembles journals that publish refereed papers in Philosophy or Mathematics, but it also has excellent reviews of books that tackle (and take seriously) anomalous phenomenon. I came across this in William Corliss's SCIENCE FRONTIERS (which is mentioned above). Corliss is often a contributor to the JSA.

The regularly have serious investigative essays on ESP, telekinesis, reincarnation, quantum physics, evolution, the Big Bang theory. Their main thrust is to tackle aspects of science that seem anomalous or phenomenon that "regular" scientists look askance from (such as cryptids - Nessie, Bigfoot, etc. and UFOs).

 

Click on the picture to the right or the title above to go to the main web site of the SSE.

Caution, a subscription is expensive - it's $75 a year - but it's worth it. You'd be surprised at how many sacred cows of science (evolution, the Big Bang, the appearance of Modern Man in the Americas around 12,000 BP, HIV being the sole cause of AIDS, global warming, etc.) are actually sustained either by flimsy evidence or no evidence at all.

Science Frontiers and The Journal of Scientific Exploration are my holy books.

 

 Journal of Scientific Exploration

 

AND SPEAKING OF SACRED COWS:

 

 

 

KICKING THE SACRED COW

by

James P. Hogan

 

I've long been a fan of James P. Hogan, but lo, and behold, Mr. Hogan has many of the same interests in anomalous phenomenon as I do. This book should be read by everyone.

What Hogan does (and what the members of the Society for Scientific Exploration do) is to consider on sacred cow of science sacred and instead look at what the data suggests.

 

For example, you probably susgect that the universe is about 13 billion years old. This is the standard cant of the Big Bang theory. Yet the average lifespan of the average white dwarf star in our galaxy is 20 billion years. How can some stars in the galaxy be older than the age of the universe? Astronomers say that the universe is missing 95% of its mass and that therefore it must be held together by "dark matter" and be riddled with "dark energy". According to Hogan, those concepts are only needed if one needs a kind of "duct tape" to hold the Big Bang Theory together. If you remove the (nearly religious) need most astronomers have to believe in a Big Bang (which comforts a lot of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim astronomers) then you don't need dark matter or dark energy and it would certainly explain why such things have never been found.

As Hogan suggests in just ONE chapter, the universe is probably trillions of yeas old, if not infinite in age. Hogan tackles evolution, AIDS, global warming, just about every sacred cow in science that you can imagine.

But what he really does is posit a radical concept which goes like this: What would science be like if we just went on the evidence alone?

There's quite a lot of evidence that humans migrated (and sailed) to the Americas long before the ancestors of Native Americans left Siberia around 13,000 BP. There is evidence that black Africans may have influenced the Olmec culture of Mexico, that Egyptians may have met the Mayans, and that Polynesians may have settled parts of Chile and Argentina.

Check out this book.

But remember: Hogan is only throwing out suggestions in certain sciences. You neededn't become a skeptic overnight. But look closely at the chapter on the Big Bang and galaxy formation. It's possible that stars and galaxies (as Fred Hoyle said in the 1950s) form and reform constantly and that there never was a Big Bang. I love this stuff!

Kicking the Sacred Cow

 

Click on the picture for a link to amazon.com

The book is also out now in paperback.

 

This is an extraordinary book wherein about 100 top scientists, thinkers, emeriti professors are asked a question basic to human nature:

Given your background and knowledge, what do you think is true but cannot prove.

Too few Americans think beyond the present moment; too few Americans really care about the world of ideas.

Here's a book where a bunch of them speculate about the nature of the universe, time, the mind/brain issue, evolution, computers, learning and social engineering.

I highly recommend this book.

Just click on the image and it'll take you to amazon.com (and, no, I'm not in this book).

But here are a few things I know but cannot prove:

1) That matter is infinitely divisible.

2) That the universe is infinite in all directions.

3) That the universe is infinitely old.

4) That the Big Bang never happened.

5) That I'm dreaming this on my deathbed in August of 2043.