I did not read my way into uncovering the presence of the universe on Earth. I was curious and found it. But Loren Eiseley and Rachel Carson and, believe it or not, Oswald Spengler’s Decline Of The West, were what I was reading at the time that I developed my technique, and these books were part of the platform from which I took off, as it were. Later on, I found authors who confirmed my research or extended it in new directions. For example, Derek Bickerton showed me how language interferes with what we perceive, and this explained to me why the presence of the universe here is hard to find. I also spent an inordinate amount of time reading philosophy because I wanted to understand how perception got buried. A fool’s errand. Perception gets buried because people talk too much. But the original experiment was conducted without teachers and without much in the way of intellectual preparation. I was eighteen and had not yet been to college. This means that educated people may have to unlearn a bunch of stuff if they want to imitate what I did. No book or article can substitute for just looking.

Rachel Carson (1961) The Sea Around Us. (New York: Signet Science)

Annie Dillard (1990) Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (New York: Harper Collins)

Edwin Dobb (1995, February) “Without Earth There Is No Heaven” Harper’s Monthly 289, 33-41.

Loren Eiseley (1959) The Immense Journey (New York: Vintage)

Martin Heidegger (1967) What Is a Thing? (Chicago:Henry Regnery)

National Audubon Society Pocket Guide (1995) Planets and Their Moons (New York: Alfred A. Knopf)

Norwegian film series “Wild North” (2015)

MORE ACADEMIC

J. L. Austin (1962) Sense and Sensibilia (Oxford:Oxford University Press)

Derek Bickerton (1990) Language and Species (Chicago:University of Chicago)

Edmund Blair Bolles (1991) A Second Way of Knowing (New York:Prentice Hall)

William James (1977) “Percept and Concept — The Import of Concepts” The Writings of William James, ed. by John McDermott, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press)

Hilary Putnam 1999 “The importance of being austin: the need for a second naïveté”
the threefold cord mind, body, and world (New York: Columbia University Press)