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shirley knott
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Registered: 11/11/02
Posts: 9,114
Loc: London

books that changed your life

#1376211 - 03/14/03 12:31 PM (23 years, 4 months ago)

what books have you rread that changed the way you saw the world?

here's some i love:

:grin:

:grin:

luke rheingold - the dice man
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j r r tolkien - the lord of the rings
:grin:

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lonely planet - guide to southeast asia (my first backpacking bible, 12 years ago!)
:grin:

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richard bandler - using your brain for a change (NLP)
:grin:

:grin:

john steinbeck - the grapes of wrath

got some to recommend?

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mjshroomer
Sage

Registered: 07/21/99

Posts: 13,774
Loc: gone with my shrooms

Re: books that changed your life

[Re: shirley knott]
#1376288 - 03/14/03 01:04 PM (23 years, 4 months ago)

Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Musrhooms, Russia and History by R. Gordon and TIna Wasson.
Harvard Botanical Museum Leaflets, atrticles by Schultes, and andrew Weil,
Marrigae of the Sun and the Moon, by Andrew Weil.
Sir WIlfred of Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.
Poems by Robert Service, Kipling and
Henry Fieldings Tom Jones.

The Declaration of Independence by many.

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Effed

Registered: 05/15/02
Posts: 7,370
Loc: Daylight Slavings

Re: books that changed your life

[Re: shirley knott]
#1378126 - 03/15/03 10:17 AM (23 years, 4 months ago)

Terence Mckenna - Food Of The Gods :smile:

:smile:

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ODhaze
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Registered: 03/06/02
Posts: 502
Loc: in the haze
Last seen: 19 years, 9 months

Re: books that changed your life

[Re: shirley knott]

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#1378460 - 03/15/03 12:59 PM (23 years, 4 months ago)

Bury my heart at wounded Knee- Dee Brown

Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions- John Fire Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes

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I believe i will go out to the seashore, let the waves wash my mind. Gunna open up my head now just to see what i can find...

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Posts: 7,571
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Re: books that changed your life

[Re: shirley knott]
#1378511 - 03/15/03 01:25 PM (23 years, 4 months ago)

that book about sneeches taught me a lot way back in like 1st grade

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Insert an "I think" mentally in front of eveything I say that seems sketchy, because I certainly don't KNOW much. Also; feel free to yell at me.
In addition: SHPONGLE

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AislingGheal
A wave on the ocean

Registered: 02/22/03
Posts: 988
Loc: Northern Ohio
Last seen: 4 years, 5 months

Re: books that changed your life

[Re: shirley knott]
#1388066 - 03/18/03 11:04 AM (23 years, 4 months ago)

Here is a short list;

Food of the Gods- Terence McKenna (right on Effed!)
Storming Heaven- Jay Stevens
Lord of the Flies- William Golding
The Abolition of Man- C.S. Lewis
Danse Macabre- Stephen King
Anthem- Ayn Rand
Watership Down- Richard Adams
Angry Candy- Harlan Ellison
The Weir and other Plays- Conor McPherson
Four Quartets- T.S. Eliot
The People, Yes- Carl Sandburg
The Clam-Plate Orgy- Wilson Bryan Key

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"I hate having to pick between the lesser of two evils. But I'm glad Obama was elected. McCain was another war monger. I'd rather deal with our country going into debt than trying to take on afghanistan...oh wait FUCK!" - Fungus_tao

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Evolving
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Registered: 10/01/02
Posts: 5,385
Loc: Apt #6, The Village

Re: books that changed your life

[Re: shirley knott]
#1388583 - 03/18/03 02:26 PM (23 years, 4 months ago)

Horton Hears a Who - by Dr Seuss
The World Book Encyclopedia - by Various Authors
Why I Am Not a Christian - by Bertrand Russell
On Liberty - by John Stuart Mill
The Seven Mysteries of Life - by Guy Murchie
For The New Intellectual - by Ayn Rand
The Prodigy (The Story of William James Sidis, who had an I.Q.estimated at 250-300) - by Amy Wallace
Forgotten Founders - by Bruce E. Johansen
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - by Henry David Thoreau
Tao Te Ching - by Lao Tsu (translation by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English)
Economics in One Lesson - by Henry Hazlitt
The Goal - by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
Cosmic Trigger (Final Secret of the Illuminati) - by Robert Anton Wilson

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To call humans 'rational beings' does injustice to the term, 'rational.' Humans are capable of rational thought, but it is not their essence. Humans are animals, beasts with complex brains. Humans, more often than not, utilize their cerebrum to rationalize what their primal instincts, their preconceived notions, and their emotional desires have presented as goals - humans are rationalizing beings.

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shirley knott
not my real name

Registered: 11/11/02
Posts: 9,114
Loc: London

Re: books that changed your life

[Re: Evolving]
#1393502 - 03/19/03 10:55 PM (23 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

Tao Te Ching - by Lao Tsu (translation by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English)

I have this too - the one with all the beautiful photographs? It is truly a work of genius, good call.

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buh

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chunder
marker

Registered: 08/11/02
Posts: 966
Loc: The City

Re: books that changed your life

[Re: shirley knott]
#1394860 - 03/20/03 08:16 AM (23 years, 4 months ago)

The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot. This was the first book I read that pertained to psychedelia, and at the time I was a staunch enemy of drugs and drug culture.

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Middleman

Registered: 07/11/99
Posts: 8,417

Re: books that changed your life

[Re: chunder]
#1395466 - 03/20/03 12:43 PM (23 years, 4 months ago)

The Holographic Universe changed the way i percieve reality.

also,

BE HERE NOW by Ram Dass

The Middle Pillar by Israel Regardie

True Hallucinations by Terence Mckenna

The Cosmic Serpent - DNA and the origin of knowledge by Jeremy Narby

Tetragrammaton by Donald Tyson

"...the Secret is reading the right books" ~ Carl Sagan

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EvolutionaryMovements

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Re: books that changed your life

[Re: shirley knott]
#1460819 - 04/15/03 03:13 PM (23 years, 3 months ago)

the little prince

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Blastrid
e l e m e n t al i t y

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Loc: The Desert
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Re: books that changed your life

[Re: shirley knott]
#1460996 - 04/15/03 04:09 PM (23 years, 3 months ago)

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The Way of Zen by Alan Watts

Entry into the Inconceivable by Thomas Cleary

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Blas'?trid (bl?s tr?d)
n. 3rd generation derivitave of a combination of 'bastard' and 'blasted'. Used as both an insult or an expletive.
ex. Blastrid!

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infidelGOD
illusion

Registered: 04/18/02
Posts: 3,040
Loc: there

Re: books that changed your life

[Re: shirley knott]
#1461052 - 04/15/03 04:30 PM (23 years, 3 months ago)

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Roger_irrelevant
War's boring,change thechannel!

Registered: 11/22/01
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Re: books that changed your life

[Re: infidelGOD]
#1462825 - 04/16/03 01:36 AM (23 years, 3 months ago)

Be Here Now...yep yep yep :wink:

:wink:

VALIS Philip k Dick...shit everything by dick has touched me deeply

Psilocybin: A magic mushroom growers guide

While not books they still deserve a mention as they have been a great aid and a big influence:

The Shroomery
Erowid.org
Deoxy.org
and links...links...links and more links

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funkymonk
Get's down, withthe get-down.

Registered: 11/29/02
Posts: 8,160
Loc: saskatchewan

Re: books that changed your life

[Re: Roger_irrelevant]
#1462958 - 04/16/03 03:58 AM (23 years, 3 months ago)

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dieing......a tibetan name that i havent memorized :/
Faerie's...Brian froud
Alice in Wonder Land..Carroll Lewis
Cat in the hat...Dr.Seuss

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Scvotto_Turellskey
officially old

Registered: 03/03/03
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Re: books that changed your life

[Re: funkymonk]
#1464860 - 04/16/03 06:21 PM (23 years, 3 months ago)

The Archivist by Gill Alderman.
None of that new age earth mind "stuff" :tongue:

:tongue:

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"They think we are retarded - they are retarded." - The Sultan of Spin.

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atomikfunksoldier
T'was born oftrue in the yearof the cock!

Registered: 04/07/03
Posts: 1,500
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Re: books that changed your life

[Re: Scvotto_Turellskey]
#1477371 - 04/20/03 08:13 PM (23 years, 3 months ago)

-the zhuangzi
-breakfast of champions: kurt vonnegut
-fight club: chuck pahlaniuk
-the trial: franz kafka
-a wild sheep chase: huraki murakami
-ham on rye: charles bukowski
-stanley kubrick interviews
-1984: george orwell

none of these books "changed my life", but they were nice additions to my mental atmosphere. I think, if anyone is interested in daoism, they should skip Laotzi, and read the zhuangzi, it is, in opinion, the superior daoist text...."superior" meaning, that if I had to make a choice between being able to read one of them, i would choose the zhuangzi. and another thing....fuck Ayn Rand, she was a total fascist. She was involved with the HUAC, (house of unamerican acitvities) in the 1950s, which persecuted anyone left of the extreme right. anyways........

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Re: books that changed your life

[Re: atomikfunksoldier]
#1478149 - 04/21/03 01:48 AM (23 years, 3 months ago)

Dianetics by L Ron hubbard

j/k

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Blastrid
e l e m e n t al i t y

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Posts: 3,323
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Re: books that changed your life

[Re: Faaip_De_Oiad]
#1478668 - 04/21/03 10:15 AM (23 years, 3 months ago)

Also,
Oh the Places You'll Go
By Dr. Seuss

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Blas'?trid (bl?s tr?d)
n. 3rd generation derivitave of a combination of 'bastard' and 'blasted'. Used as both an insult or an expletive.
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atomikfunksoldier
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Re: books that changed your life

[Re: Blastrid]
#1479218 - 04/21/03 02:20 PM (23 years, 3 months ago)

yeah....fuck new age....

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