Diagram & Excerpt - Playing with The Picture of Man
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from Awareness Journal, Vol IV, No 1, Winter 1996
Canopus in Argos: Archives - (1) Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta; (2) The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five; (3) The Sirian Experiments; (4) The Making of the Representative for Planet 8; and (5) The Sentimental Agents by Doris Lessing
These books are out of print, alas, but I find them all the time in used book stores. [They can also be found on Amazon via third party sellers.] These are Teaching books, maybe the most complete exposition of the Principles outside of Rhondell's work. They are all about self-knowing. I am just finishing my umpteenth reading and am amazed at the information snuggled into an elaborate space-fiction. Be forewarned some contain a bit of politics, almost tedious at times ... but if you are familiar with Lessing's work, you will see why it's there. You can skip some of that, but if you do, you will miss several excellent one-liners ... who knows, maybe the key to the very question that has plagued you for years. I have given workshops on "Zones" and everyone marveled at the author's perception and revelation of the Process of integration - it's one of my all time favorite books. "Zones" is a little like a fairy tale for grown-ups and has an ethereal quality to it, even when it gets down and dirty.
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If you can enjoy the "space-fiction" genre (and I am aware it doesn't suite everyone's taste), please start reading these books. You can find them if you make up your mind to. By the way, if you didn't know, Lessing is apparently a student of the Sufi Idries Shah.
