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 TheCow
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 Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Lion]
#8390216 - 05/11/08 06:45 PM (3 months, 9 days ago) |
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ha your avatar looks almost exactly the same as my copy of henderson the rain king
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b0red5tiff
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: TheCow]
#8390248 - 05/11/08 06:54 PM (3 months, 9 days ago) |
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***if you're reading this then you're already asleep***
***if we're gonna kill each other how are we gonna live forever? if we're gonna live forever how are we gonna kill each other?***
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 automan
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: halo]
#8390326 - 05/11/08 07:19 PM (3 months, 9 days ago) |
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i just finished The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
what a great life that guy had
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wiccan you need a big glass of shut the fuck up ~ Stein
No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical. ~ Niels Bohr
I wish my lawn was emo, cuz then it would cut itself ~ paraphrased by coda
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sheehan17
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: automan]
#8392990 - 05/12/08 02:23 PM (3 months, 8 days ago) |
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Failed States by Noam Chomsky.
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Amelia
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: sheehan17]
#8393717 - 05/12/08 06:16 PM (3 months, 8 days ago) |
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A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter. So far, so overrated.
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shaggy101
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Amelia]
#8395549 - 05/13/08 05:34 AM (3 months, 7 days ago) |
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Deprogramming for the Common Consciousness
and General Concepts of Global Awakening
J.J. Waterson
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WoodsCall
Potential
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: shaggy101]
#8395573 - 05/13/08 06:05 AM (3 months, 7 days ago) |
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Devil on the Cross by Ngugi
Kenyan literature. Completely different style of writing than anything I've ever read. It's a hard read, but really wonderful.
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XbollweevilX
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: WoodsCall]
#8398048 - 05/13/08 07:16 PM (3 months, 7 days ago) |
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The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking
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There is no such thing as a civilian.
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KetamineKatalyst
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I just got a bunch of good books for cheap! Used book stores are the shit!
I got 5 Carlos Castaneda titles, Beyond the Brain by Stanislov Grof, House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski, a 800 page compendium of H.P. Lovecraft tales, Agel Tech by Anterro Ali, The Holographic Paradigm by Ken Wilber and Galactic Human Handbook: Entering the New Time, Creating Planetary Groups by Jose Arguelles and Sheldon Nidle.
Score! I've been reading H.P. Lovecraft, not being so familiar with his work. I can see, smell and hear some of the settings he describes, it's great. I wonder if he's the reason I dreamt of a HUGE ass spider the other night..
I've been quite the book junky this year, I enjoy reading such a broad spectrum of thoughts. I've obtained and/or read quite a few books mentioned in this thread alone.
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Madtowntripper
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Let me know if that Grof book is any good.
I was thinking about reading before I realized "The Holographic Universe" was a work of fiction, but I'm still vaguely interested.
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OneMoreRobot3021
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A collection of poetry by Matthew Rohrer, and the latest issue of SEED Magazine, best Mag. ever.
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The Drug Policy Alliance  Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
"The psychedelic experience - it has a tremendous force to revivify the spirit, particularly because it is not an ideology. It is not something someone 'figured out.' It is an EXPERIENCE. And this is important to bear in mind." - McKenna.
"We're not mad, we're just doing what we want. You rigid thinkers can't recognize the healthy sanity of that." - Harlan Ellison, "Crackpots"
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Hyper_Panda_GO
Team Action!
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School books
Finals week dontcha know
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There is no valid reason you should be reading this
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bradley
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just finished big sur, it is about jack kerouac's alcohol addiction. i enjoyed but i think kerouac is sort of a douche.
reading robert heinlein's stranger in a strange land - awesome. it is mostly philosophy unraveled with a story, but not your standard zen, atheism, or psychedelicism...very original and hard to pin down.
and reading paul stamet's mycelium running - awesome. mushrooms are actually extremely interesting outside of the psychedelic context. go figure.
and throwing in a few alan watts essays from cloud hidden, wherabouts unknown, so far "the future of ecstasy" and "the reality of reincarnation" have both been really good essays
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Lion
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Re: reading between the lines [Re: bradley]
#8402758 - 05/14/08 09:36 PM (3 months, 5 days ago) |
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I just started Nature, Man, and Woman by Watts. Have you read many of his books?
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bradley
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Re: reading between the lines [Re: Lion]
#8402782 - 05/14/08 09:39 PM (3 months, 5 days ago) |
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nah, i've only read "does it matter", where he gets down to specifics on certain topics. i've listened to a lot of his talks though...i don't think i would quite grok the meaning of some of his essays if I didn't have the tonal inflection to pair them with
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bradley
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Re: reading between the lines [Re: bradley]
#8402794 - 05/14/08 09:41 PM (3 months, 5 days ago) |
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i mean certain phrases jump out, and i remember how he says them and they make more sense that way
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theorganicdomino
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Re: reading between the lines [Re: bradley]
#8404041 - 05/15/08 03:52 AM (3 months, 5 days ago) |
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Belfast Confidential - Colin Bateman
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"You've got to get hold of the thread of marching time, pull the fuck thing down, get on the end of it and pang yourself to the infinitude of absolute mind"
Ken Campbell - Furtive Nudist
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Lion
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Re: reading between the lines [Re: bradley]
#8404360 - 05/15/08 08:00 AM (3 months, 5 days ago) |
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He's written a lot of good stuff. For a Westerner looking for an introduction to Eastern philosophy, he's a great place to start. The only thing I find disconcerting about him is that occasionally he seems to have something of a misogynistic bent - maybe just a product of the time he lived.
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bradley
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Re: reading between the lines [Re: Lion]
#8404430 - 05/15/08 08:31 AM (3 months, 5 days ago) |
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does he seem misogynistic in his writing or from what you have heard about his actual behavior? i've heard that he didn't treat his wife very well, but i'm not really looking at him as a role model - just using his words.
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Lion
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Re: reading between the lines [Re: bradley]
#8404444 - 05/15/08 08:39 AM (3 months, 5 days ago) |
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In his writing. In The Book (On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are), his most famous work, I remember feeling that he held unfair views of women. Misogyny is too strong a word. I don't know anything about his personal life.
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