Cary Neeper--Writings
© 2002 Carolyn A. Neeper

List of Works
Complexity Summary
UFFDA
The Crystal Diadem
The View Beyond Earth
The Unheard Song
The Webs of Varok
Conn:The Alien Effect
Shawne:An Alien's Quest

Course
Summary notes and definitions for chaos, complexity and its indicators, a bibliography including theological references, and implications for human organizations.
Exploration of complexity, its indicators, embedded chaos, and value in human organization.
BOOK and MUSICALS
THE CRYSTAL DIADEM/UFFDA/PETRA & THE JAY
Personhood of animals, the definition of family, and what it means to be human challenge the assumptions of third millenium people.
Books-Literary Science Fiction
THE VIEW BEYOND EARTH: AN ALIEN METAPHOR
Dr. Jean Bolen (author of Goddesses in Every Woman) calls this story "…a perfect metaphor of Jungian individuation." This 81,289-word book is based on my first science fiction novel A PLACE BEYOND MAN, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1975; Millington, London, 1976; and Dell Publishing Co., New York, 1977.
THE UNHEARD SONG
80,803 words. Can two individuals, alien to each other, find a way to communicate before their species destroy each other in a clash of values?
THE WEBS OF VAROK
90,000 words.Disruption and re-instating of the steady-state on Varok serves as an example for Earth
CONN: THE ALIEN EFFECT
96,302 words. Dangerous alien venture on a recovering Earth.
Books-Literary Science Fiction/Complexity Philosophy
SHAWNE: AN ALIEN'S QUEST
118,424 words. Exploration of self-actualization and theology on the aquatic world of ellls.
Sermons
Chaos, Complexity, and the Search for Meaning Observation-Derived Faith
Complexity defines meaning for our lives, even if the long run cannot be predicted.

Book Reviews and Essays

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November, 2002

Sourcebooks for Meadville Workshop on Complexity:
-Wheatley, Margaret J. Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World 1999.
-Chaisson, Eric J. Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature 2001.
-Sole, Ricard and Brian Goodwin Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology 2000.
-Capra, Fritjof The Web of Life 1996.

Science and Religion:
-Taylor, Barbara B. The Luminous Web 2000.
-Polkinghorne, John Quarks, Chaos, and Christianity 1998.
-Raymo, Chet Skeptics and True Believers 1998.
-Feynman, Richard The Meaning of It All 1998 (Lectures 1963).
-Barlow, Connie Green space, Green Time 1997.

Complexity:
-Holland, John H. Emergence 1998.
-Prigogine, Ilya The End Of Certainty 1997.
-Kauffman, Stuart At Home in the Universe 1995.
-Waldrop, M. Mitchell Complexity 1992.
-Peitgen, H.-O. and P.H.Richter The Beauty of Fractals 1986.

Evolution
-Chaisson, Eric J. Cosmic Evolution 2001.
-Dingus, Lowell and T. Rowe The Mistaken Extinction 1998.

Steady-State Economics:
-Prugh, Thomas and Herman Daly et al Natural Capital and Human Economic Survival 1995.