Remote viewing, parapsychology, Middle East Studies, philosophy of mind, consciousness, guitar, trout fishing, sailing,
(Not necessarily in order of importance): * James Garner * Colin Powell * Richard Dean Anderson * Tony Blair * Jaegwon Kim * Ken Wilber * Oprah * Rupert Sheldrake * Gordon B. Hinckley * Daniel Dennet * Richard Dutcher * Ray Hyman * Richard Dawkins * Gen. David Petraeus * Harrison Ford *
I like: Steeleye Span * AC/DC * Jethro Tull/Ian Anderson * Mad Agnes * Kitaro * The Cult * 3 Doors Down * Billy Squier * The Duhks * Loreena McKennet * Scott August * John Hiatt
* Close Encounters of the Third Kind * Serenity * The Longest Day * The Empire Strikes Back * Ice Age * Babe * The Horse Soldiers * October Sky * Brigham City * The Best Two Years * Saints & Soldiers * Suspect Zero (bonus features) * Prairie Home Companion *
Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Lost, Jericho, Firefly (curse those who cancelled it!), X-Files, 24, Band of Brothers (miniseries),
REMOTE VIEWING
* Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate -- America's Psychic Espionage Program (my own book!)
* Remote Viewers: The Secret History of American's Psychic Spies (Jim Schnabel)
* Mind Trek (Joe McMoneagle) * Mind Reach (Targ&Puthoff) * Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul (Atwater) * Remote Viewing Secrets (McMoneagle)
PARAPSYCHOLOGY / ESP
Conscious Universe & Entangled Minds (Radin) * Parapsychology: The Controversial Science (Broughton) * Mind to Mind (Warcollier) *
LITERARY
* The Magus (John Fowles) *
Islands in the Stream (Hemingway) *
East of Eden (Steinbeck) *
MILITARY
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The Killer Angels (Michael Shaara) *
Once an Eagle (Anton Myrer) *
SCIENCE-FICTION and FANTASY
-- Authors: *
Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game, Seventh Son) * Zena Henderson (Pilgrimage, The People) * Robert A. Heinlein (too many to mention) * Frank Herbert (up through Heretics of Dune) *
MIDDLE EAST
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
HISTORICAL FICTION
* Northwest Passage & A Rabble In Arms (Kenneth Roberts) * The Source (Michener) * The Wall (Hersey) * The Hornblower books (C.S. Forester) *
* Col. Joshua Chamberlin * Teddy Roosevelt * Lewis Carrol * Winston Churchill * Mark Twain * T.E. Lawrence *