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Reading Recommendations Requested: comparative religion, theology, mythology, wisdom traditions
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Well I think the title says it all but anyway, stemming from my recent ayahuasca ceremony (you can click on the link in my sig to get to a thread where you can download and read it) I feel an extra impetus to really start downloading more knowledge into mindspace pertaining to religions, theology and wisdom traditions. I'm starting where most college courses would - with Huston Smith's The World's Religions but would appreciate any other suggestions.

I have been thinking about going back to school to study perhaps the philosophy of religion or comparative religion but I've decided to go the auto-didactic route at least for now rather than pursue an M.A.


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis

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Re: Reading Recommendations Requested: comparative religion, theology, mythology, wisdom traditions (moved) [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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This thread was moved from Music, Art, and Media.

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I think this would fare better in this forum. Perhaps. Who knows? Tee-hee!

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Re: Reading Recommendations Requested: comparative religion, theology, mythology, wisdom traditions (moved) [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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I do like to see where some of these people are comming from, but in the end it's a bunch of metaphors taken generally too literally, IMHO.

Symbolism I would find to be more intriguing, as you could see the repressed idea's of people that had to be hidden from plain sight throughout history.

As well as apply it to the metaphors of religion.

I wonder what does your interest stem from?




Edited by teknix (06/25/10 09:15 AM)

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Re: Reading Recommendations Requested: comparative religion, theology, mythology, wisdom traditions (moved) [Re: teknix]
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Have you read Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces?

I like it a lot and I'm going to quote this book review in my attempt to sell it to you :smile:

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The most classical and well accepted book of Campbell is his 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces" appeared originally in 1949 by Bollingen Foundation and published by Pantheon Books is now offered to us in its third edition by the Joseph Campbell Foundation and with revisions. In point of fact, "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" is a book- I would prefer to say it is like a project of life and thought- of outstanding significance and essential reference not only to the Compared Religion and Mythology but also in order to understand the Time we live with its uniqueness, its greatness and default. This book is also a self-presentation of Joseph Campbell himself as a man who always searches the deepest interpretation of the Myths and of Mythology in its dappled and rich manifestations and influences in our Postmodern Culture and Society.


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In fact, one of the greatest legacies of Joseph Campbell is about the accept and experience of Mythology as a Value and a Reality that "touches" us in almost every aspect of the Human Voyage: from the philosophical, psychological and religious sides unto the fine arts, the modern artistic- sophisticated and trivial- expressions and, last but not least, our daily life with its search of Meaning and Purpose.  It is remarkable to observe that this view of Myth and Mythology is present, certainly with a non identical approach, in the Contemporary Philosophy (for example, Paul Ricoeur,etc.).




This book really helped me understand story telling, mythology and symbolism. I'm about to read it for the fourth time.

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Re: Reading Recommendations Requested: comparative religion, theology, mythology, wisdom traditions (moved) [Re: teknix]
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Hey there Freedom - thanks for the rec, I have in fact read Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces already...I found it to be one of the greatest and possibly most important reads of my life...I should revisit it again soon.

teknix said:
I wonder what does your interest stem from?



I was raised in a militantly atheist secular household but was always pretty fascinated by mythology and religion. If you read my ayahuasca story (linked in my sig) it would be a pretty clear indicator as to why I want to read up on this subject...I'm not so interested in dogma and organized religion as I am in the wisdom traditions that are at the core of each, and the commonalities between these wisdom traditions scattered all about the world.

Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy is a great one in this vein. I plan on re-reading William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience soon as well.


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis

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Re: Reading Recommendations Requested: comparative religion, theology, mythology, wisdom traditions (moved) [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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Think you can just summarize it? thats hella lot of reading.

I would imagine you have prob read this, but if not . .

Epic of Gilgamesh
http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/


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Re: Reading Recommendations Requested: comparative religion, theology, mythology, wisdom traditions (moved) [Re: JustinTime]
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JustinTime said:
Think you can just summarize it? thats hella lot of reading.



Everyone who's balked at 26 pages has then said once they started, they couldn't stop.

So...no. :tongue:


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis

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Re: Reading Recommendations Requested: comparative religion, theology, mythology, wisdom traditions (moved) [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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plzzzzzzzzzz!

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Re: Reading Recommendations Requested: comparative religion, theology, mythology, wisdom traditions [Re: OneMoreRobot3021] * 1
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OneMoreRobot3021 said:
I have been thinking about going back to school to study perhaps the philosophy of religion or comparative religion but I've decided to go the auto-didactic route at least for now rather than pursue an M.A.




Do the M.A. for heaven's sake!Just look where your autodidacticism is leading you: you're asking trippers on the web for advice! Snap out of it.


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" ... and then there are the unknown unknowns. Those things that we don't know that we don't know that we don't know."

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Re: Reading Recommendations Requested: comparative religion, theology, mythology, wisdom traditions [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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I've read hundreds and here are my favorites, I highly recommend everything by Joseph Campbell and Alan Watts for comparative mythology, they cover the best of the classics.

Manly P. Hall - The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Jed McKenna - Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment
Joseph Campbell - The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Dr. C. S. Hyatt - Undoing Yourself with Energized Meditation
Dr. Timothy Leary - Info-Psychology: A Re-Vision of Exo-Psychology
Jeremy Narby - The Cosmic Serpent - DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
E. J. Gold - The Human Biological Machine as a Transformational Apparatus
Israel Regardie - The Middle Pillar: The Balance Between Mind and Magic
Pema Chodron - The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
Bob Wilson - Prometheus Rising: An Amalgam of Timothy Leary's 8-circuit Model of Consciousness
Dr. John Lilly - Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments
Dr. Stan Grof - The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives
Dr. Tim Leary - Exo-Psychology: A Manual on The Use of the Nervous System According to the Instructions of the Manufacturers

VALIS by P.K.D.
The Book by Alan Watts
Be Here Now by Ram Dass
Pronoia by Rob Brezsny
I Am That by Nisargadatta
The Book of Lies by Crowley
The Cosmic Trigger by Wilson
Man and His Symbols - C.G. Jung
In Search of the Miraculous by Ouspensky
Emptiness Dancing by Adyashanti
Modern Sex Magic by Donald Kraig
Stalking The Wild Pendulum by Bentov

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Re: Reading Recommendations Requested: comparative religion, theology, mythology, wisdom traditions [Re: Middleman]
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Do the MA


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" ... and then there are the unknown unknowns. Those things that we don't know that we don't know that we don't know."

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Re: Reading Recommendations Requested: comparative religion, theology, mythology, wisdom traditions [Re: blinkybill]
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Don't do the MA.

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Re: Reading Recommendations Requested: comparative religion, theology, mythology, wisdom traditions [Re: Freedom]
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Freedom said:
Don't do the MA.


In other words, don't take a disciplined approach and produce research that we can all access and benefit from. Be sloppy and keep it to yourself!


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" ... and then there are the unknown unknowns. Those things that we don't know that we don't know that we don't know."

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Re: Reading Recommendations Requested: comparative religion, theology, mythology, wisdom traditions [Re: blinkybill]
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I'm yangin your yin.

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Re: Reading Recommendations Requested: comparative religion, theology, mythology, wisdom traditions [Re: Freedom]
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Check out Tao: The Pathless Path by OSHO

You can get a free PDF of it at http://oshoworld.com/ (along with all his other books)


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The number of times I edit my post is directly related to the number of times I've hit the bong :bonghit2:

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Re: Reading Recommendations Requested: comparative religion, theology, mythology, wisdom traditions [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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Mircea Eliade's History of religious ideas. Some of his other books are good too, even though they are getting old, like Shamanism: Archaic techniques of ecstacy.

When all else has failed -----> Julius Evola: The Doctrine of Awakening. Just IMO. :wink:

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