[33] See discussion and clinical analysis in Reed, G. The Psychology of Anomalous Experience, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. The film Lost Highway (1996) explores personal identity aspects of anomalous experiences. Also useful viewing are the identity-confusion sequences from Last Year At Marienbad (1961); the hallucination sequences from Naked Lunch (1991); the artificial creation of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) from Raising Cain (1992); the time-distortion sequences from Groundhog Day (1992); dream sequences as warnings from alternate universes from Prince of Darkness (1987); fugue states from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode All Good Things . . . (1994); and the leaking from the writer's subconscious mind into the objective universe from In The Mouth of Madness (1995).

[34] The most authoritative biography on Philip K. Dick and his 3 February 1974 encounter with a Vast Active Living Intelligence System (VALIS) is Sutin, L. Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick, HarperCollins, 1994. Dick's own subsequent private writings on the experience are contained in Sutin, L. ed. In Pursuit of VALIS: Selections From the Exegesis, Underwood-Miller, 1991. Newly discovered writings are contained in Sutin, L. ed., The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary & Philosophical Writings, Vintage Books, 1995. Fictional depictions of this incident include Dick, P. VALIS, Vintage Books, 1991; Dick, P. The Divine Invasion, Vintage Books, 1991; Dick, P. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, Vintage Books, 1991; and Dick, P. Radio Free Alebemuth, Vintage Books, 1985. Dick wrote material that eventually appeared under different forms as the films Blade Runner (1982) and Total Recall (1990), which both explore personal identity and philosophy of mind issues. The Truman Show (1998) features a Totally Controlled Environment scenario very close to several of Dick's stories.

[35] Terence McKenna has discussed this encounter in the context of a 1971 trip to the Amazon Basin. His initial philosophical insights were collected in McKenna D. & T., The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching (2nd ed.), Harper SanFrancisco, 1994, a highly influential volume on its initial release in 1975. His depiction of the trip itself is detailed in McKenna, T. True Hallucinations, Harper SanFrancisco, 1994. Also see the Hyperborea Web site for the latest information on the 2012 Singularity Point and the Time-wave.

[36] Three excellent early distillations of cyberculture are Sirius R.U. and Mu, Q., Mondo 2000: User's Guide to the New Edge, Thames & Hudson, 1993; Dery, M. ed., Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture, ed. Mark Dery, Duke University Press, 1994; and Dery, M. Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century, Grove-Atlantic Press, 1996, particularly pp. 227-320. A useful if eye-opening environmental scan is Swezey S. and King, B. AMOK Fourth Despatch: Sourcebook of the Extremes of Information in Print, AMOK Books, 1994. Useful fictional depictions specifically concerning Identity Confusion would include Gibson, W. Neuromancer, Victor Gollancz, 1984; Egan, G. Permutation City, Millenium Books, 1994; Dick, P. Blade Runner, Ballantine Books, 1982; and Stephenson, N. Snowcrash, Roc Books, 1995. An excellent critical anthology from an Australian perspective is Crawford, A. and Edgar, R. Transit Lounge: Wake-Up Calls & Travellers' Tales From The Future, Interface/21C Books, 1997.

[37] The two most cited and influential theorists are the feminist cultural critic Donna Haraway and the MIT robotics engineer Hans Moravec. See Moravec, H. Mind Children: The Future of Robot & Human Intelligence, Harvard University Press, 1988 and Haraway, J. Simians, Cyborgs and Women: Reinvention of Nature, Free Associates, 1991. On the genesis of her original thesis see Haraway, J. "A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology and Socialialist Feminism in the 1980s", Socialist Review March/April 1985 (vol. 15 no. 2), pp. 65-107. Important scientific, ethical, and moral criticisms of the popular Moravec mind downloading thesis are detailed in Dublin, M. Futurehype: The Tyranny of Prophecy, Penguin Books, 1992, pp. 68-71. An important early criticism of the research priorities and perceptual thinking of AI is Dreyfus, H., What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Intelligence Reasoning, MIT Press, 1992. For a brief contemporary overview of the philosophy of human psychology issues see Burns, A. Will Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, in 21C, edited by Ashley Crawford and Ray Edgar, New York: Gordon and Breach Publishers S.A., (1/97), pp. 22-27. A related idea is the Lynn Margulis/James Lovelock Gaia hypothesis, which was preceded by the Andrei Tarkovsky film Solaris (1972). See also the films The Terminator (1984), Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1992), Robocop (1987), and Blade Runner (1982).

[38] See The Extropy Institute Web site; The Extropian Principles 3.0, and More, M. The Diachronic Self: Identity, Continuity, Transformation, Doctoral Dissertion in Philosophy, University of Southern California, 1995.

[39] Neuro-linguistic Programming techniques are particularly useful for temporal location, age regression, left/right brain hemispheric synchronisation, and activating early (possibly even pre-birth perinatal) memories. NLP anchoring, embedding, mirroring, reversals, and double-bind techniques are incredibly powerful and dangerous if used by personnel without ethical training. See dialogue by David Bowie in the film Labyrinth (1985). On the physiological processes behind NLP see Dilts, R. Roots of Neuro-linguistic Programming, Meta Publications, 1983. Scientific data relating to split-brain research and bi-modal brain structures and cognitive processing see Albert, M.L. The Bilingual Brain: Neuro-psychological and Neuro-linguistic Aspects of Bilingualism, Academic Press, 1978. Valuable case studies are contained in Bandler, R. Magic in Action, Meta Publications, 1984. Basic NLP praxis is outlined in Dilts, R. et al., The Study of the Structure of Subjective Experience, Meta Publications, 1980; Bandler, R. and Grinder, J. Reframing: Neuro-linguistic Programming and the Transformation of Meaning, Real People Press, 1982; and Bandler, R. Using Your Brain – For A Change, Real People Press, 1985. Two simplified populist studies aimed specifically at business managers are McDermott, I. and O'Connor, J. Practical NLP For Managers, Gower, 1996; and Brooks, M. The Power of Business Rapport: Use NLP Technology to Make More Money, Sell Yourself and Your Product, and Move Ahead In Business, HarperCollins Publishers, 1991.

[40] Term coined by Mass Psychology expert Howard Bloom, who founded The Howard Bloom Organization in 1976 that developed the careers of Michael Jackson, Paul Simon, Joan Jett, Bette Middler, AC/DC, The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, and Billy Joel, amongst many entertainment industry clients. Bloom currently runs the prestigious International Paleo-psychology Project. Very highly recommended by the author is Bloom, H. The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Exploration into the Forces of History, The Atlantic Book Company, 1995, which was publicly acclaimed by 22 world scientists when first published, and discusses the Super-organism (group-mind), Memes, and the Pecking Order. See also the forthcoming work-in-progress Bloom, H. Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the Twenty First Century, John Wiley & Co, 2000.