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formeillists
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5 Desert Island books - Books that changed your life or just damn GOOD books
#5023420 - 12/06/05 01:14 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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-------------------- If entheogens have spiritually changed your Life, you HAVE to read this book: The Stormy Search for the Self - Stanislav Grof
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-------------------- If entheogens have spiritually changed your Life, you HAVE to read this book: The Stormy Search for the Self - Stanislav Grof
Edited by formeillists (12/09/05 09:32 AM)
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- Illuminatus / Wilson & Shea - Half asleep in frog payamas / T. Robbins - The power of now / E. Tolle - The new inquisition / R.A. Wilson - Zen / D.T. Suzuki ( can?t recall the exact title right now.. )
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formeillists
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Re: 5 Desert Island books [Re: trinity7]
#5028493 - 12/07/05 01:01 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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trinity7 said: - Zen / D.T. Suzuki ( can?t recall the exact title right now.. )
Yes, you must mean either this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/038548349X/ - Zen Buddhism - by Daisetz T. Suzuki Or this one: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802130550
You'll like this one: Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375705090
And of course any Alan Watts, like this one: The Book : On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679723005/ What Is Zen? by Alan Watts - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1577311671/
Keep 'em coming.
-------------------- If entheogens have spiritually changed your Life, you HAVE to read this book: The Stormy Search for the Self - Stanislav Grof
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Re: 5 Desert Island books - Books that changed your life [Re: formeillists]
#5028854 - 12/07/05 02:32 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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In no particular order -
A Separate Reality. Journey to Ixtlan. A Separate Reality. Journey to Ixtlan. A Separate Reality. Journey to Ixtlan.
Carlos is God. God is Carlos. Carlos is God. God is Carlos. Carlos is God. God is Carlos.
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formeillists
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Re: 5 Desert Island books - Books that changed your life [Re: LunarEclipse]
#5028874 - 12/07/05 02:36 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Good, I haven't read those yet, just Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan. Are those any better then?
-------------------- If entheogens have spiritually changed your Life, you HAVE to read this book: The Stormy Search for the Self - Stanislav Grof
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Re: 5 Desert Island books - Books that changed your life [Re: formeillists]
#5029527 - 12/07/05 04:56 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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The Bible(just started reading it, finally)
Wisdom of James Allan
LOTR
SAS survival Handbook
Herbal encyclopedia
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MushmanTheManic
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Re: 5 Desert Island books - Books that changed your life [Re: formeillists]
#5029925 - 12/07/05 06:09 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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- Principia Discordia / Mal2 - Prometheus Rising / Robert Anton Wilson - The Way of Zen / Alan Watts - The Stranger / Albert Camus - Siddhartha / Herman Hesse
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Re: 5 Desert Island books - Books that changed your life [Re: MushmanTheManic]
#5030182 - 12/07/05 07:10 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Think On These Things - J. Krishnamurti
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Re: 5 Desert Island books - Books that changed your life [Re: formeillists]
#5031185 - 12/07/05 09:47 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Journey to Ixtlan The Four Agreements The Book of Five Rings Tao Te Ching Where the Wild Things Are
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Re: 5 Desert Island books - Books that changed your life [Re: formeillists]
#5031638 - 12/07/05 11:02 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Damn just reading above...I don't know If I'm not with it or just out classed. I have near no clue on more then half of those books.
I must really be lame here they are.
1. Webster dictionary (or equivalent) 2. Dictionary of Mathematics (The Harper Collins) 3. Hitchhikers Guide (if all book could be one) 4. The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire (Edward Gibbon) 5. How to survive on a desert island
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Re: 5 Desert Island books - Books that changed your life [Re: Snaggletooth]
#5031818 - 12/07/05 11:23 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Goosebumps.
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Re: 5 Desert Island books - Books that changed your life [Re: formeillists]
#5032138 - 12/08/05 12:18 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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thousand plateaus ethics (spinoza) on becoming a person lessons in the fundamentals of go the diceman
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formeillists
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Re: 5 Desert Island books - Books that changed your life [Re: crunchytoast]
#5032847 - 12/08/05 04:53 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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1. A Theory of Everything : An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality - Ken Wilber 2. In Search of the Miraculous - Ouspensky 3. Cosmic Consciousness : A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind 4. The Story of Art, 16th Edition - Gombrich 5. Complete Works of Jiddu Krishnamurti
-------------------- If entheogens have spiritually changed your Life, you HAVE to read this book: The Stormy Search for the Self - Stanislav Grof
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Re: 5 Desert Island books - Books that changed your life [Re: formeillists]
#5033671 - 12/08/05 11:18 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ishmael- Daniel Quinn; This book was the fire starter for me. Teachings of Don Juan- C. Castenada The Alchemist- Paulo Coelho Siddhartha- H. Hesse Grandfather- Tom Brown The Prophet- Kahlil Gibran
These are in no particular order, and of course, always changing.
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Edited by SilentSeed (12/16/05 09:21 AM)
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Re: 5 Desert Island books - Books that changed your life [Re: formeillists]
#5033820 - 12/08/05 11:55 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Most have been mentioned here already. It was the shroomery that introduced me to the books that have most made an impact on me. The shroomery changed my life!
BE HERE NOW Ishmael Conversations With God (not sure what I think of this now, but it helped me when I needed it) Cosmic Serpent
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Re: 5 Desert Island books - Books that changed your life [Re: Revelation]
#5033965 - 12/08/05 12:44 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Revelation said: Cosmic Serpent
Revelation! Have you read that book? It's been on my must-read list for a while! What can you tell us about it? I had visions of spirals and DNA strands on one of my trips, that's why I wanted to check it.
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Re: 5 Desert Island books - Books that changed your life [Re: formeillists]
#5034061 - 12/08/05 01:15 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
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Re: 5 Desert Island books - Books that changed your life [Re: formeillists]
#5034222 - 12/08/05 01:57 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Well, I could write a book on what spirals mean to me, and the strange synchronicities I have experienced, but I won't.
To quote William Blake:
The nature of infinity is this: That everything has its Own vortex, and when once a traveller thro' Eternity Has pass'd that Vortex, he perceives it roll backward behind His path, into a globe itself unfolding like a sun. Thus is the heaven a vortex pass'd already, and the earth A vortex not yet pass'd by the traveller thro' Eternity.
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Re: 5 Desert Island books - Books that changed your life [Re: Revelation]
#5034294 - 12/08/05 02:18 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'll have to check that book. Understanding what DNA is surely is a mystery.
Blake, great. You just described a wormhole there:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole
Check this: http://www.hypermaths.org/cropcircles/chap7/Spiral.htm
-------------------- If entheogens have spiritually changed your Life, you HAVE to read this book: The Stormy Search for the Self - Stanislav Grof
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