[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]You recommend?

He has written so many spy novels that you could easily spend several years catching up If you like this stuff, start with "The Born Identity" and don't look back! If you like this kind of novel, you have several years of reading in front of you. I think I read my first Ludlum novel in the 70's.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I'm reading James Rollins right now and I guess that qualifies as similar? Suspense/action, etc? I enjoy it when a little paranormal mystery is thrown into the mix, too, like the Prendergast novels from Preston & Child.

I didn't realize Ludlum wrote the Bourne stories. Saw the first movie, but not the others. I'll check his books out. Thanks for the recommendation!

I play soul music for my garden plants. They seem to like it they come back every year!

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]All those double-blind, reproducible results, controls and all that. Confirmation is often slow in coming.

After all, what is magic and mystery but science we haven't figured out yet?

Someone's got to be the last to know. We know things are true when we've finally confirmed them on every level. I think it's the way our culture works.

Christmas cactus failed to bloom. Less love in the air, I assume!

Today I unearthed, I believe the second one. It is waiting for shelving. I remember looking over at it and seriously thinking about cracking it open.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I haven't read them in years, but still have the first book. I remember I didn't like the 2nd one as much, but I don't remember why.

And I didn't even know there were two more books in the series after that. Now I have to get them all and start all over!

--Wow I was just talking about Findhorn with a friend yesterday!

http://www.findhorn.org/

And there's a place in Virginia called Perelandra that occasionally has tours, they sell flower essences. Michaele wrote the book 'Behaving as if God in all Life Mattered'

http://www.perelandra-ltd.com/

(I wonder if it is all of these planets in Earth signs? Jupiter in Taurus, Mars in Virgo, and Pluto in Capricorn?)

http://www.astrologyweekly.com/chart.php (I keep this page and then refresh for updates)

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Wow. Another book I haven't read in years... decades, even. It was my favorite C.S. Lewis book when I was a spring chicken. Wonder if I could even find a copy now. Powell's, maybe.

Thanks for the links! Have to get back to work for a couple more hours, but I will definitely check them out.

I bought it years ago and loved it. Maybe I should reread it.

I am going to look up Perelandra trilogy

Out of the Silent Planet, book one, Perelandra, book two, and That Hideous Strength, book three.

The books are science fiction and Christian allegory. Like much of Lewis' work, it is beautiful, but it shows its age. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

I became interested in his work when I was a library cataloger in Wheaton, IL. Wheaton College had a small, but lovely C.S. Lewis museum. They had his greatcoat, his desk and his wardrobe(!!!). They had his manuscripts, too, and were in the process of acquiring more items. At that time, the museum was open by appointment only. I don't know what it is like now.

but the message is phenomenal
yes, read it

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[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Overly contrived, but the message did need a vehicle. And that's just Book I, which I still have. I really don't remember much of Book II, except that I didn't like it nearly as much.

So the only thing to do now, of course, is go find copies of Books II-IV and read them all in order.

had great messages, about raising one's consciousness; then, how all things work out.
About how there there are no coincidences at all, only messages and symbols
it really is phenomenal

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]It was ahead of its time in many ways. Just look at the ideas coming out of noetics now, the concept that "thoughts are things." The story line used as the vehicle was a bit of a stretch, but worth getting through.

I found my copy of Book I and ordered Books II through IV from Powell's today. Time for a refresher course.

Primary Perception: Biocommunication with Plants, Living Foods, and Human Cells by Cleve Backster

http://www.amazon.com/Primary-Perception-Biocommunication-Plants-Living/dp/0966435435/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333929601&sr=1-1

Beyond Supernature: A New Natural History of the Supernatural by Lyall Watson

http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Supernature-Natural-History-Supernatural/dp/0553344560/ref=pd_sim_b_4

and many other books on plant communication

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_19?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=plant+communication&sprefix=plant+communication%2Cstripbooks%2C271

If plants can communicate and have their own unique intelligence, how can vegetarians eat plants. They are, after all, living things.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Very interesting.

As for how can vegetarians eat plants... well, we have to eat something and they're lower on the food chain than animals. At least plants don't have brains, hearts, or sad eyes (that we're aware of).

You might change your mind about that if you read Cleve Backster's book.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I'm not denying a kind of natural intelligence, but an organ such as we and other animals have.

Then again, maybe I'll agree with you when I get to read Backster's book.

came about. If I have it right, they only eat what has fallen from the limb or bush, ( or no longer growing,dead).

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]You got me curious, so I looked it up.

Very interesting Wikipedia article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruitarianism#Fruitarian_definitions_of_fruit