A Small Furry Prayer (28 page)

217
   C. Jung,
Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
(Princeton University Press, 1969).

219
   Thomas Berry, “The Viable Human,”
Re-vision
16 (1993).

220
   James Lovelock,
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
(Oxford University Press, 1979), 9.

221
   For a great discussion of the conflict, see Lynn Margulis's “Gaia Is a Tough Bitch,” available at
http://www.edge.org/documents/ThirdCulture/n-Ch.7.html
.

221
   Steven Johnson,
Emergence
:
The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software
(Touchstone, 2001).

224
   Personal communication with Rick Granger. That said, Granger and Gary Lynch lay out the entire argument in their excellent
Big Brain: The Origin and Future of Human Intelligence
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

225
   Paul Shepard,
The Others
(Island Press, 1996), 54.

227
   Pauline Anderson, “Hurricane Katrina Survivors Face Increasing Mental Health Problems,”
Medscape Medical News,
November 15, 2007.

227
   E. O. Wilson,
Biophilia
(Harvard University Press, 1986).

227
   Richard Louv,
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
(Algonquin Books), 2005.

227
   This is from Coren's blog, “The Canine Corner,” found on the Psychology Today website:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/canine-corner/200901/dogs-therapists-the-case-actor-mickey-rourke
.

229
   Mircea Eliade,
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques in Ecstasy
(Princeton University Press, 1964), 94.

230
   Carlos Castaneda,
Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan
(Simon and Schuster, 1972), 251.

232
   William James,
The Varieties of Religious Experience
:
A Study in Human Nature
, 1902.

233
   Andrew Newberg and Vincent Rause,
Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief
(Ballantine, 2001).

234
   Rupert Sheldrake,
Dogs That Know When Their Owners are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals
(Three Rivers Press, 1999).

235
   For more information about Ken Robinson and the work he does, see
http://www.unseendimensions.com
.

238
   Oskar Pfungst,
Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. von Osten): A Contribution to Experimental Animal and Human Psychology
, trans. C. L. Rahn (Henry Holt. 1911 [originally published in German, 1907]).

238
   Mary Kilbourne Matossian,
Shaping World History
(M. E. Sharpe, 1997), 43.

239
   Malcolm Gladwell,
Blink
(Little, Brown, 2005), 200.

240
   Ibid., 202.

241
   K. Guo, K. Meints, C. Hall, S. Hall, and D. Mills, “Left Gaze Bias in Humans, Rhesus Monkeys and Domestic Dogs,”
Animal Cognition
12, 3 (May 2009): 409–18.

241
   Gladwell,
Blink
, 197–214.

242
   Iacoboni said this to WebMD journalist Jeanie Lerche Davis in an April 8, 2003, article entitled “Mimicking Emotions Creates Empathy.”

242
   A. Senju, R. Joly-Macheroni, and A. Shepherd, “Dogs Catch Human Yawns,”
Biology Letters
4 (2008): 446–48.

243
   Simon Baron-Cohen,
Mindblindedness
(MIT Press, 1997).

243
   Jocelyn Selim, “Dog-Faced Humans,”
Discover
, July 2004.

244
   C. Payne and K. Jaffe, “Self Seeks Like: Many Humans Choose Their Dogs Following Rules Used for Assortative Mating,”
Journal of Ethology
23, 1 (January 2005).

247
  
http://www.americancatholic.org/features/francis/stories.asp#wol
.

249
   C. Robert Cloninger,
Feeling Good: The Science of Well-being
(Oxford University Press, 2004).

250
   Dean Hamer,
The God Gene
(Doubleday, 2004), 18.

250
   Ibid., 26.

250
   Ibid., 79–89.

251
   Arthur C. Clarke, “Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination,”
Profiles of the Future
(Harper & Row, 1973 [1962]).

PART NINE

255
   J. D. Salinger, “Zooey,”
New Yorker
, May 4, 1957.

256
   S. Kotler,
West of Jesus
(Bloomsbury, 2006), 162.

258
   Karen London and Patricia McConnell,
Play Together, Stay Together
(McConnell Publishing, 2008), 5.

261
   Bill Russell and Taylor Branch,
Second Wind
(Random House, 1979).

261
   Ann Marsh, “The Art of Work,”
Fast Company
, December 2007.

262
   James Gleick, “New Appreciation of the Complexity in a Flock of Birds,”
New York Times
, November 24, 1987.

263
   Bruce Sterling, “Artificial Life,”
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
, December 1992.

264
   Eliade,
Shamanism
, 93–94.

264
   Michael Harner,
The Way of the Shaman
(Harper and Row, 1980), 60.

265
   Ibid., 77–78.

266
   John Colapinto, “Brain Games,”
New Yorker
, May 11, 2009, 76.

268
   Andrew Weil and Winifred Rosen,
From Chocolate to Morphine
(Houghton Mifflin, 1983), 15.

268
   Marc Bekoff, “Do Animals Have Emotions?”
New Scientist
, May 23, 2007.

269
   Laura Mirsch, “The Dog Who Loved to Suck on Toads,” NPR, October 30, 2006.

269
   Ronald K. Siegel,
Intoxication
(Park Street Press, 1989), 11.

269
   Ibid., 208.

269
   Ibid., 11.

271
   M. Huffman et. al., “Ethnobotany and Zoopharmacognosy of
Vernonia amygdalina,
a Medicinal Plant Used by Humans and Chimpanzees,”
Proceedings of the International Compositae Conference, Kew
2 (1994): 351–60.

271
   Siegel,
Intoxication
, 71.

271
   Barbara G. Myerhoff, “The Deer-Maize-Peyote Symbol Complex Among the Huichol Indians of Mexico,”
Anthropological Quarterly
43, 2 (April 1970): 64–78.

272
   R. Gordon Wasson,
Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality
(1968).

272
   Siegel,
Intoxication
, 64.

272
   Laura Huxley,
This Timeless Moment
(Celestial Arts, 2001).

273
   S. Kotler, “The New Psychedelic Renaissance,”
Playboy
, April 2010.

273
   Michael Hughes, “Sacred Intentions,”
Baltimore City Paper
, October 16, 2008.

274
   Siegel,
Intoxication
, 71.

274
   Joyce Poole,
Coming of Age with Elephants
(Hyperion, 1996).

274
   Natalie Angier, “Do Animals Grieve over Death like We Do?”
New York Times,
September 2, 2008.

276
   Rabindranath Tagore,
Sahana: The Realization of Life
(Macmillan, 1915), 33.

284
   Linda Ward, “What Is Rage Syndrome?” Rage Syndrome Information Centre.

287
   Andrews,
Animals Speak.

A Note on the Author

Steven Kotler
is the author of the novel
The Angle Quickest for Flight
, a
San Francisco Chronicle
bestseller, and
West of Jesus
, a 2006 PEN West finalist. His work has appeared in the
New York Times Magazine
,
GQ
,
Wired
,
Discover
,
Outside
,
National Geographic
,
and elsewhere, and he writes “The Playing Field,” a blog about the science of sport for PsychologyToday.com. Kotler runs the Rancho de Chihuahua dog sanctuary with his wife in rural New Mexico.

By the same author

The Angle Quickest for Flight

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    Origins of Belief

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