Abraham, Ralph. Chaos Gaia Eros. Harper Collins, San Francisco, 1994. Written by one of the pioneers of Chaos Theory. Ralph analyses history in the light of dynamical systems theory. He claims that an Orphic revival is happening within global culture, hence the resurgence of the concepts of Chaos and Gaia within mainstream science. Book also contains Ralph's own original guide to mythogenesis. Essential reading for anyone with a love of social chaos.

Adamson, Joy. Born Free. Collins, 1960. Joy's autobiography of how she and her husband, George, lived among lions, the most famous of which became Elsa. Fascinating accounts of how their leonine friends moved between the world of humans and the wild with ease. Later made into the well-known film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers.

Carroll, Peter. Psychonaut. Mid-1980s. Occultism and philosophy. Contains a tiny hint of Carroll's hypothesis of the solar link between psychedelic and psychasperic youth culture.

Crass. Mindless Shock Slogans and Temper Tantrums. An underground publication by the seminal anarcho-punk band, Crass. Came free with, "Christ the Album" and then later published as a booklet. Contents include free festival culture, Wally Hope, Windsor Park, Stonehenge and the fusion of the hippie-punk vibe.

DeHamel, Christopher. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. Phaidon Press, 1986. A detailed and colourful guide to medieval calligraphy and illustration. If you like looking at the Book of Kells then you'll really enjoy this book. The book shows one example of an early Wheel of Fortune picture minus its title and dating back to the 8th Century. It gives an excellent guide as to where much of Tarot symbolism (and therefore transactional analysis) stems from.

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, first published in 1908. A delightful children's guide to the transactional analysis grid. The best guides to transactional analysis are the simplest ones. Reread this classic and you might be in for a surprise.

Harris, Thomas MD. I'm OK, You're OK. Pan, 1973. An early guide to transactional analysis. Contains the first attempt to analyse the sequential description of the transactional analysis grid.

Jung, C.J. Collected Works. Various imprints. One of the pioneers of understanding synchronicity and the subconscious mind.

Kaplan, Stuart. The Encyclopedia of Tarot (3 volumes). US Games Systems, 1978. Possibly the most detailed and illustrated guide to Tarot symbolism. If you wish to study the evolution of Tarot symbolism from the 1400s to the present day then this is where to look.

Leary, Timothy. Chaos and Cyberculture. Ronin, 1995. The late Timothy's massive guide to cyberculture. One of his most comprehensive works. Includes an analysis of the breakdown of orthodox Christianity, youth culture, drug hysteria, social perceptions of sex and death and lots more.
If you want to explore Leary's pioneering work on the transactional analysis grid you have to dig into his early works from the 1950s, mostly out of print or difficult to track down.

Lowe, Richard and Shaw, William. Travellers: Voices of the New Age Nomads. Fourth Estate, 1993. Every facet of modern nomadic culture from the people themselves. If you've never lived on the road this is one of the few guides which gives a feel for what it's like. Honest and to the point. Cuts through the projected romance and fears of the tabloids.

MacKay, George. D.I.Y. Culture. Verso, 1998. A guide to radical politics as born out of youth culture. Mainly based on Rave culture and its spawning of road protesting, the Exodus collective, Squall magazine and other examples of social realism which lie beyond the 'arty' side of Rave. Also puts the historical side of D.I.Y. culture into perspective with references to anarcho-punk, hippies and the C.N.D. fusion with skiffle in the 1950s.

Savage, Jon. England's Dreaming, Sex Pistols and Punk Rock. Faber and Faber, 1991. Massive guide to the initial Punk current. Explores both the psychology of the participants of the early scene plus the collective psychasperic mood of the time. Covers the entrepreneurial spirit of Maclaren, Westwood, Jordan and everyone else in the scene. Like the title of the book suggests, Savage treats the whole subject as if he's analysing a social dream. Looks into the playful, 'Theatre of Hate' side of early Punk as well as the real violence which followed in late 1977 and 1978.

Sheldrake, Rupert. The Rebirth of Nature. Random Century, 1990. After the success of his first book, 'A New Science of Life', Rupert goes on to philosophise on the subject of nature (derived from the the goddess, Natura), treated as being sacred and feminine. The three main sections in the book include; the historical roots of our relationship to nature, the rebirth of nature in science and the revival of animism. Topics explored include, chaos theory, cyclical attractors, morphogenetic field theory, early vitalism giving way to field theory, Darwinism, materialism, the Gaia hypothesis and lots more.

Wilson, Robert Anton. Prometheus Rising. Falcon Press, 1983. R.A. Wilson inspired much of the Hare hypothesis. In this book he makes a casual reference to the Flower Child archetype having similarities with the Gentle Angel out of the Tarot but he doesn't take the idea any further. If you want to explore the transactional analysis grid in detail, this is a good place to start. Prometheus Rising was my source for the correspondences between Joyce's four timeless men and the four Apostles.
All of Mr. Wilson's books have a chatty warmth which makes them enjoyable to read. Too many titles to mention here.

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