Apart from works with immediate relevance to my research for Tanah Tujuh, I have included a reading list of supplementary references which may be useful to readers who wish to embark on their own research; or who may be curious to know what eclectic inputs have (for better or worse) influenced my current ‘mythic perspectives.’
BAIGENT, MICHAEL, RICHARD LEIGH, AND HENRY LINCOLN. The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. The Messianic Legacy. London: Jonathan Cape, 1986.
BAILEY, ALICE A. Initiation, Human and Solar. London: Lucis Press, 1930. From Intellect to Intuition. London: Lucis Press, 1932. The Externalisation of the Hierarchy. London: Lucis Press, 1957.
BENJAMIN, GEOFFREY (National University of Singapore, Department of Sociology). Personal facsimile communication on the possible origins of the Malay Language, 4 November 1997.
BIERLEIN, J.F. Parallel Myths. New York: Ballantine Books, 1994.
BLAVATSKY, H.P. The Secret Doctrine. Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1963.
BOUCHER, ALAN, translator. Elves, Trolls and Elemental Beings: Icelandic Folktales II. Reykjavik, Iceland: Iceland Review Library, 1977.
BUENFIL, ALBERTO RUZ. Rainbow Nation Without Borders: Toward an Ecotopian Millennium. Santa Fe, NM: Bear 8c Co, 1991.
CAMPBELL, JOSEPH. The Masks of God, Vols. I-IV. New York: Viking Penguin, 1959-1967. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. New York: Doubleday, 1969. With BILL MOYERS. The Power of Myth (Betty Sue Flowers, ed.) New York: Doubleday, 1988.
CAPRA, FRITJOF. The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism. US/UK: Wildwood House, 1975.
CAREY, KEN. The Starseed Transmissions - An Extraterrestrial Report. Kansas City, MO: Uni*Sun, 1982. Vision. Kansas City, MO: Uni*Sun, 1985.
CARINO, JOJI (International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests). Statement of Indigenous Peoples. Talk delivered at UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) 23-27 June 1997.
CARTER, LIN, editor. Dragons, Elves, and Heroes. London: Ballantine Books, 1969.
CHARTERS, DAPHNE. A True Fairy Tale. England: Private Edition, 1956.
CHRISTIAN, CATHERINE. The Pendragon: Variations on a theme of Sir Thomas Malory. London: Macmillan, 1978; Pan Books, 1979.
CHURCHWARD, COLONEL JAMES. The Cosmic Forces of Mu. New York: Paperback Library, 1968.
The Sacred Symbols of Mu. New York: Paperback Library, 1968
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CLOW, BARBARA HAND. The Mind Chronicles: Eye of the Centaur - A Visionary Guide into Past Lives. Minneapolis: Llewellyn, 1986. Heart of the Christos - Starseeding from the Pleiades. Santa Fe, NM: Bear & Co, 1989. Signet of Atlantis: War in Heaven Bypass. Santa Fe, NM: Bear & Co, 1992. The Pleiadian Agenda: A New Cosmology for the Age of Light. Bear 8: Co, 1995.
DÖBEL, REINALD. Oral Traditions and Scientific Knowledge – Some Remarks on the Epistemological Validity of the Indigenous Perspective. Paper presented at the ‘Conference on Tribal Communities in the Malay World: Historical, Cultural and Social Perspectives,’ 24-27 March 1997, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.
DOREAL, translator. The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean. Sedalia, CO: Brotherhood of the White Temple, 1939.
ENDICOTT, K.M. An Analysis of Malay Magic. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1970.
ESBENSEN, B.]. and H.K. DAVIE. Ladder to the Sky: How the Gift of Healing Came to the Ojibway Nation. London: Little, Brown and Co, 1989.
FARMER, PHILIP JOSÉ. The Riverworld Series: To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1970). The Fabulous Riverboat (1971). The Dark Design (1977) The Magic Labyrinth (1980). England: Granada Publishing Ltd.
FERGUSON, V.S. Inanna Returns. Seattle, Washington: Thel Dar Publishing Co, 1995. Inanna Hyper-Luminal. Seattle, Washington: Thel Dar Publishing Co, 1996.
FOX, MATTHEW The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and the Birth of a Global Renaissance. San Francisco: Harper 8c Row, 1988.
FRISSELL, BOB. Nothing in This Book Is True, But It’s Exactly How Things Are. Berkeley, CA: Frog, Ltd, 1994. Something in This Book Is True... Berkeley, CA: Frog, Ltd, 1997.
FULLER, R. BUCKMINSTER. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1968, 1969. Utopia or Oblivion. England: Pelican, 1972. Critical Path (Kiyoshi Kuromiya, adjuvant). New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1981. Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity (Kiyoshi Kuromiya, adjuvant). New York: Macmillan, 1992.
GRAVES, ROBERT. The White Goddess: A historical grammar of poetic myth. London: Faber & Faber, 1961. The Greek Myths, Vols I & II. London: Penguin Books, 1955.
GRAVES, ROBERT and RAPHAEL PATAI. Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis. London: Cassell 8c Co, 1964.
GROF STANISLAV. The Adventure Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1988.
GURDJIEFF, G.I. Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson: An objectively impartial criticism of the life of man. London: Arkana, 1985 (copyright 1950).
GURUNATHAN, K. Grounded in Loss. Special Issue feature in The SUN Megazine, 15 November 1994.
HANCOCK, GRAHAM. Fingerprints of the Gods: A Quest for the Beginning and the End. London: Heinemann, 1995.
HESSE, HERMANN. Siddhartha (1922). Steppenwolf (1927). Narcissus and Goldmund (1930). Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game) (1943). UK/US: Various publishers.
HOOD SALLEH, PROF (Institut Alam Sekitar dan Pembangunan, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia). ‘Officers not willing to take on Orang Asli grassroot woes.’ Letter to the New Straits Times, 10 November 1994.
HOWE, DR E. GRAHAM. The Mind of the Druid. London: Skoob Books, 1989.
HURTAK, J.J. The Keys of Enoch. Los Gatos, CA: The Academy for Future Science, 1977.
JAYNES, JULIAN. The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976.
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JUNG, C. G. The Collected Works (Vol V): Symbols of Transformation. New York: Pantheon Books, 1956. And C. KERENYI. Essays on a Science of Mythology. New York: Pantheon Books, 1949.
KENYON, TOM and VIRGINIA ESSENE. The Hathor Material: Messages from an Ascended Civilization. Santa Clara, CA: S.E.E. Publishing, 1996.
KEEL, JOHN A. Operation Trojan Horse: An Exhaustive Study of Unidentified Flying Objects. London: Souvenir Press, 1971.
KNAPPERT, JAN. Malay Myths and Legends. Kuala Lumpur: Heinemann Educational Books, 1980.
KNIGHT, GARETH. The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend. Wellingborough, England: The Aquarian Press, 1983.
LEEMING, DAVID with MARGARET. A Dictionary of Creation Myths. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
LE POER TRENCH, BRINSLEY. The Sky People. London: Neville Spearman, 1963. Secret of the Ages: UFOs from inside the Earth. England: Souvenir Press, 1974.
LESLIE, DESMOND and GEORGE ADAMSKI. Flying Saucers Have Landed. London: Neville Spearman, 1970 (first published 1953).
LESSING, DORIS. Briefing for a Descent into Hell. England Jonathan Cape, 1971. ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’ (Shikasta; The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five; The Sirian Experiments). England: Triad/ Granada, 1979-1981.
LETHBRIDGE, T.C. The Legend of the Sons of God. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972.
LEWIS, C.S. Out of the Silent Planet. London: Pan Books, 1952. Voyage to Venus. London: Pan Books, 1953. That Hideous Strength. London: Pan Books, 1955.
LILLY, M.D. JOHN C. Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer. New York: The Julian Press, 1972. Simulations of God. New York: Bantam, 1976.
LINDSAY, DAVID. A Voyage to Arcturus. London: Victor Gollancz, 1920; Sphere, 1980.
LONG, BARRY. The Origins of Man and the Universe: The Myth That Came To Life. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984.
LOVECRAFT, H.P. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. New York: Ballantine Books, 1970 (first published by Arkham House, 1939). The Call of Cthulhu. England: Panther Books, 1975 (first published by Popular Fiction Publishing Co, 1927).
MARCINIAK, BARBARA. Bringers of the Dawn: Teachings from the Pleiadians. Santa Fe, NM: Bear & Co, 1992. Earth: Pleiadian Keys to the Living Library. Santa Fe, NM: Bear & Co, 1995.
MCFADDEN, STEVEN. Profiles in Wisdom: Native Elders Speak About the Earth. Santa Fe, NM: Bear & Co, 1991.
MCKENNA, TERENCE, interviewed by MARK DERY. The Trip: Journey to the Center of Terence McKenna’s Inner Elf. Article in 21*C Scanning the Future: #3 (1996).
MEADOWS, KENNETH. Earth Medicine: A Shamanic Way to Self Discovery. Dorset, UK: Element Books, 1989.
MELCHIZEDEK, DRUNVALO. The Flower of Life Workshop (Videotaped Lectures, Dallas, TX, 1992-1993. Available from Hummingbird, PO Box 310, Paulden, Arizona 86334, USA (Phone 512-847-5567). [http: www.drunvalo.com] A Conversation with Drunvalo, Higher Self Connection, Mayan Solar Initiation, New & Ancient Teachings, etc. Videotape Series: Global Vision, PO Box 246, Brunswick Heads, NSW 2483, Australia (email: globalvision@omcs.com.au).
MICHAEL, HENRY N., ed. Studies in Siberian Shamanism (Translations from Russian Sources). Toronto, Canada: Arctic Institute of North America, 1963.
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ROBERTS, JANE. The Seth Material. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970.
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TANAH TUJUH (PLANET #7): A short documentary I put together in March 2007 for the launch of my book Tanah Tujuh ~ Close Encounters with the Temuan Mythos that offers a slightly romanticized glimpse of Pertak Village, Ulu Selangor, where I have grown a deep root since 1992. Music courtesy of Akar Umbi & Kilema (Madagascar).
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