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Re: Books that have helped you on your path... [Re: Dogomush]
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Chronicles of Tao looks like a wicked book. Ive just added it on my amazon wish list!

The Magus of Java by Kosta Danaos is a book along a similar sounding theme. This Greek guy studies with him for five years, its an interesting tale.


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Re: Books that have helped you on your path... [Re: GazzBut]
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yea, I read the beginning of that book but I just wasn't in the mood I guess. I know I'll revisit it someday though.

Good to hear you're going to check out chronicles of tao.. did I mention it's a true story? Makes it all the bit cooler.

Edited by Dogomush (04/09/03 03:46 PM)

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Re: Books that have helped you on your path... [Re: Revelation]
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The Electric Acid Kool-aid Test by Tom Wolfe

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Re: Books that have helped you on your path... [Re: tekramrepus]
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I'm supprised nobody mentioned Ram Dass's "Be Here Now."

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Re: Books that have helped you on your path... [Re: pattern]
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The bible

The silmarillion

The internet, its reeeally long though :smirk:

Quote:

Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking



good call, very nice run-thru of fairly modern scientific theories with a touch of philosophy and hint of spirituality :blush:

I need some more books, you guys always recomend so many good philosophical, psychedelic ones I need to start buying some.. I think I will buy start off with three this pay day.
Specific recomendations? 

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Re: Books that have helped you on your path... [Re: shaggy101]
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Well what are you into?

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Re: Books that have helped you on your path... [Re: psychopsilocyber]
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Life! :laugh:

Im thinking maybe Ram Dass- Be here now
Dmt The spirit molecule
and maybe something by Carlos Casteneda(sp?)

I have read stuff on the net from these dudes and tons of others,
Plato,Aristotle,Nietsche

although I guess I am more interested in Psychedelic inspired(at least somewhat) stuff theses days
and theres something about reading a book with pages you can feel..heh

I wasnt completely honest there is a "pamphlet" book called "As a Man Thinketh" that nourished and put words to thoughts I have had for years.

I like far out ideas, but prefer when writers have at least some sense of logic.. What do you recomend? 

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Re: Books that have helped you on your path... [Re: shaggy101]
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Tom Robbins

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Re: Books that have helped you on your path... [Re: tekramrepus]
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'Food of the Gods' by Terence McKenna. He makes perfect sense.


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Re: Books that have helped you on your path... [Re: Revelation]
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Incarnations of Imortality series - Piers Anthony
Celestine prophecy - James Redfield


Incarnations was first series i read, about the entities of life......Death, Time, Fate, Nature, War, Evil, Good. Each entity is human.

Celestine prophecy just really gives you some hope and a good feeling about humans after reading it =)


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Re: Books that have helped you on your path... [Re: shaggy101]
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buy 3 this payday?
the book (on the taboo against knowing who you really are)
///alan watts
cosmos
///carl sagan
stranger ina strange land
///robert a heinlein
~
next payday:
be here now
///ram dass
island
///aldous huxley
this season's people
///stephen gaskin
& the payday after that:
lsd & the human encounter with death
///stanslav grof (or anything recent by him, eh?)
pharmacotheon
///jonathan ott
meetings with remarkable men
///georges ivanovitch gurdjieff
& the next paycheck:
the joyous cosmology
///alan watts
the perennial philosophy
///aldous huxley
prometheus rising
///robert anton wislon
~
~
ymmv...
:wink:
...


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old enough to know better
not old enough to care

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Re: Books that have helped you on your path... [Re: Murex]
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But reading is better than watching TV.

Reading The National Enquirer is better than watching The History or Discovery channels? I don't think so. It is the content that is important, not the media.


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The proof is in the pudding.

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Re: Books that have helped you on your path... [Re: tekramrepus]
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The first book to really turn me on to philosophy was The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Ayn Rand

The book that really opened up the possibility of a psychedelic path was Storming Heaven by Jay Stevens and it also introduced me to Terence McKenna. Food Of The Gods got me thinking in different directions and by a long, strange process lead me to the Shroomery.

Other books with definite impact on me;
The Closing Of The American Mind- Allan Bloom
Celtic Heritage- Alwyn and Brinley Rees
Danse Macabre- Stephen King
Collected Poems 1909-1962- T.S. Eliot
Religions: Values And Peak Experiences- Abraham Maslow
The Lord Of The Rings- J.R.R Tolkien
Watership Down- Richard Adams
Julius Caesar- Shakespeare
Shella- Andrew Vachss

That's what comes to mind for the moment.


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Re: Books that have helped you on your path... [Re: AislingGheal]
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I'm an 18-year-old young'n with not too much reading experience in the esoteric... I'd have to say

The Warrior Within - John Little..... This book is about the philosophies of Bruce Lee. His martial arts and cinema he is famous for is merely an extention of his philosophy. This book taught me to bend and survive with any adversity... to be calm and do your best to get through your troubles. There's no use stressing yourself out over something you need to go through.

1984 - Orwell. I list this because this book was amazing to me... particularly because I read it in my senior year in high school right when I was really getting into politics. I saw and still see many parallels between it and what's been going on in the real world.

Any other reading really doesn't have anything to do with "my path"... at least that I can think of right now.

However, I'm really interested in reading some Castaneda, some Alan Watts, and some Aldous Huxley. Does anyone have recommendations for where I should start?


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Re: Books that have helped you on your path... [Re: SlapnutRob]
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The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Moksha by Aldous Huxley
Key to the Sacred Pattern by Henry Lincoln ( will make you want to go to the south of France)
Most importantly: The Lucifer Principle by Howard Bloom


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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Paul Valery

www.dailygrail.com

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Re: Books that have helped you on your path... [Re: aeonblue]
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Thanks guys!

Right now Im reading:

The Power of Now by Tolle

I just ordered off of ebay

Zen Mind, Beginners Mind by SHUNRYU SUZUKI

Evreyday Zen by charlotte Beck

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Re: Books that have helped you on your path... [Re: pattern]
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The Invisible Landscape, 'nuff said.


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"this lebowski he called himself 'the dude'. now, 'dude', that's a name no one would self-apply where i come from but there was a lot about the dude that didn't make sense to me...."--the Stranger

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Re: Books that have helped you on your path... [Re: tekramrepus]
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Farenheit 451


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"It's only wrong if you get caught.
If consequences dictate
my course of action
I should play GOD."

Maynard James Keenan, Tool

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Re: Books that have helped you on your path... [Re: tekramrepus]
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This has been a lifesaver...


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Note: In desperate need of a cure...

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Re: Books that have helped you on your path... [Re: psychopsilocyber]
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The Art of Happiness by The Dalai Lama & some M.D.. It's partially written by a western psychologist & his interviews with the Dalai Lama attempting to gain insight into his philosophy. Some of it can be skipped over because it gets redundant, but I think it's an excellent read. Compassion based on Logic.

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I'm supprised nobody mentioned Ram Dass's "Be Here Now."


I saw it mentioned 2 or 3 times.. I may check it out.


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