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Lazerouth
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What are your top 3 books?
#1794791 - 08/09/03 06:48 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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If you could recomend any 3 books what would they be? I'll get the ball rolling.
1. The Thunder: Perfect Mind 2. The Marriage of Heaven and Earth by William Blake 3. The Book of Lambspring
These are the books that really inspired me spiritualy. I'm a major book worm and im going to make a serious atempt to read everything you guys suggest.
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tak
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Lazerouth]
#1794796 - 08/09/03 06:50 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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1. THE SECRET OF SHAMBHALA In Search of the Eleventh Insight
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: tak]
#1794797 - 08/09/03 06:52 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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The Silmarillion [Tolkien] Contact [Sagan] The Mushroom Cultivator [Stamets]
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ololiuqui
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: neutralizer]
#1794916 - 08/09/03 09:02 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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A Brave New World - Aldous Huxley LSD My problem Child - Albert Hoffman The Fire Within - Carlos Castenada
I haven't read steel this book yet from Abbie Homann but it has great potential
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atomikfunksoldier
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: ololiuqui]
#1795144 - 08/09/03 11:36 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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hmmm, good philosophy books? hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: haruki murakami the essential zhuangzi a wild sheep chase: haruki murakami
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Lazerouth]
#1795284 - 08/09/03 12:41 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Ishmael by Daniel Quinn The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
and last but not least...
BE HERE NOW by Ram Dass
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Revelation]
#1795319 - 08/09/03 01:00 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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The Stranger - Camus Catcher in the Rye
Pretty much the only two fiction books I can stand to read
and the last book that made any sense to me, A Message from Arunachala by Paul Brunton
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Ravinoff
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: ]
#1795338 - 08/09/03 01:05 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Fight Club and Invisible Monster(my favorite) by Chuck Palahniuk
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Lazerouth
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Ravinoff]
#1795427 - 08/09/03 01:41 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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i forgot to mention, if any of you are interested in reading them all three of the books i listed are available on the internet.
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Swami
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Lazerouth]
#1795488 - 08/09/03 02:04 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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1. Webster's Dictionary
2. Yurtle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss
3. Endurance (Shackelton's Incredible Voyage) by Alfred Lansing
-------------------- The proof is in the pudding.
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Elvish
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Swami]
#1795516 - 08/09/03 02:16 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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1.Watermelon Sugar-Richard Braughtigan 2.Knots-R.D. Laing and 3.Ringavelio(sp?)-Emmitt Grogan
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gnrm23
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Swami]
#1795566 - 08/09/03 02:36 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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uh oh.... well, maybe ummmm stranger in a strange land/r a heinlein island/aldous huxley the book on the taboo against knowing who you are/alan watts ~ wait there's more, more, more mmmmmmffff.... *(gnrmi gagged & dragged offstage by the book police)*
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the universe
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: gnrm23]
#1795666 - 08/09/03 03:02 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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The Electric Acid Kool-Aid Test by Tom Wolfe Human, All Too Human by Nietzche The Diary of A Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley
These 3 books changed me more spiritualy than any other book not listed above.
-------------------- "If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the 'Fuck you' signs in the world."- J. D. Salinger
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: the universe]
#1795689 - 08/09/03 03:08 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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1. Stalking the Wild Pendulum by Itzhak Bentov 2. The Reenchantment of the World by Morris Berman 3. A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
With honorable mention to Manuel de Landa for War in the Age of Intelligent Machines and A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
Amber
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Amber]
#1795712 - 08/09/03 03:19 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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the Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson the tibetan book of the dead the koran
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Amnesiac
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Way of the Peaceful Warrior - Dan Millman
Thiaoouba Prophecy, aka Abduction to the 9th Planet - Michel Desmarquet www.thiaoouba.com
The Celestine Prophecy and the Tenth Insight - James Redfield
-------------------- Here we are, in these bodies, on this planet in an endless universe. This is not the extent of who we are... merely an extension of who we really are.
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Amnesiac]
#1796163 - 08/09/03 06:03 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman healing Miracles by William A. McGarey (About Edgar Cayce)
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fireworks_god
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: tekramrepus]
#1796177 - 08/09/03 06:08 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Handbook to Higher Consciousness (Alan Keyes)
um, let's see..
Teach Yourself Norwegian: A Complete Course for Beginners
and...
not sure. Peace.
-------------------- If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
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1. The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life - Drunvalo Melchizedek 2. A Light on in the Attic - Shel Silversteen 3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Of course there are sooooo many more... this should really be a top TEN list. that would make it a lot easier these arent my TOP 3 btw.. I decided to choose one spiritual, one poetry, and one fiction.
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ganesh
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: DoctorJ]
#1831351 - 08/19/03 08:49 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Always changing... but currently... they are:
On the Road - Jack Kerouac The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Ultimate Journey - Robert Monroe
it was hard - wanted to include some Castaneda, Burroughs and Huxley... but not enough room!
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Lazerouth]
#1831382 - 08/19/03 09:03 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Right now I've only had time for one book, which is "Food of the Gods" by Terence McKenna.... I highly recommend it.
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: ganesh]
#1831594 - 08/19/03 10:08 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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My favorite three books are as follows: 1. The perks of being a wallflower 2. The Celestine Prophecy 3. The Doors of Perception 4. Siddhartha 5. The Mantram Handbook 6. On the Road 7. ANY NOAM CHOMSKY BOOKS CUZ HE IS THE MAN
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: ]
#1831613 - 08/19/03 10:15 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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1.) The Art of Shen Ku <~Awesome book
2.) The Farther Reaches of Human Nature <~~Really heavy book
3.) What to say when you talk to yourself <~~~Amazingly helpful book
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buddhathehut
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For my money it's Tristessa, Around The World in Eighty Days, and anything Rumi was responsable for.
-------------------- "If you do not want to go within, do you want to go out? But where will you go, since He ie everywhere in this universe, and surrounding this universe?" - Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Lazerouth]
#1833779 - 08/20/03 02:01 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Stranger In A Strange Land - Heinlein Time Storm - Dickson Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Adams
Not necessarily in that order.
-Diploid
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Diploid]
#1833841 - 08/20/03 02:11 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle Wherever you go there you are - Jon Kabat-Zinn Going on Being - Mark Epstien and If I might dare add a few: Journey to Ixtlan - Castaneda The Active Side of Infinity - Castaneda Thoughts without a Thinker - Mark Epstien Going to Pieces without falling apart - Mark Epstien Fight Club and anything by Krishnamurti
-------------------- "no-mind un-thinks no-thought..."
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Seuss
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: ganesh]
#1833902 - 08/20/03 02:26 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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> 2. Yurtle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss
A true classic
-------------------- Just another spore in the wind.
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Seuss]
#1834873 - 08/20/03 07:15 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Let's see.... 1. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. It's also a great set of CD's. He does the reading and has one of those psychologist/calming/grandfather type voices.
2. Bach Flower Therapy - Theory and Practice by Mechthild Scheffer A good introduction into this amazing system of healing. (I could write a whole thread on this stuff if I had the time)The flower essences are used in a manner similar to homeopathics.
*Looking at my bookshelf*......
3. The Essential Jung by Anthony Storr A good overview of all the works of Jung (selections from Jung's writings). Can be a bit heavy, but its worth it. Tells you all about your Anima and Animus
Some honorable mentions
- Vibrational Medicine by Gerber - A very through into to the theory and practices involving energy medicine
- The Secret Life of Plants by Tompkins and Bird - Every time I meet someone that is a vegetarian I wish they would read this book. Tells about some very cool things about plants and how they are more like "higher life forms" then we might guess.
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Otto]
#1836617 - 08/21/03 09:22 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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1. Pihkal 2. Tihkal 3. Prometheus Rising
(4. and 5. The Spirit Molecule & Astral Dynamics)
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: gir]
#1836654 - 08/21/03 09:35 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Reading True Hallucinations by Terence McKenna atm. Was the only McKenna work at the library (so much for rural university libraries). It's great, looking forward to some of his other works
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forevadazin
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Digs]
#1838221 - 08/21/03 05:40 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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1. On the Road - Jack Kerouac 2. Nakid Lunch - William Burroughs 3. Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
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FileSoup
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Ravinoff]
#1839187 - 08/21/03 10:45 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Invisible Monster is a great book.
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Swami
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Digs]
#1839238 - 08/21/03 11:23 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Reading True Hallucinations by Terence McKenna
Try "Wizard of the Upper Amazon", an allegedly true story about a young rubber harvester whose group was slaughtered, yet he was captured and integrated into a primitive tribe and initiated into the mysteries of ayahuasca.
-------------------- The proof is in the pudding.
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MindTrap
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Swami]
#1839280 - 08/21/03 11:47 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu Hyperspace - Michio Kaku Cosmos - Carl Sagan It's interesting how not a single person here listed the Christian Bible as one of their top 3. I wonder what that means.
Edited by MindTrap (08/21/03 11:47 PM)
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: MindTrap]
#1839465 - 08/22/03 01:16 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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hmmm..
memoirs of a geisha Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Alice in Wonderland/ Alice through the looking glass
-------------------- making you want to be a better person since 2008. TrippinTeddy said: sometimes when I'm raping a bitch, I like to tickle her ribs and under neath her arms, and I say "loosen up bitch, lets have fun now because if I have to kill your squirming ass, only one of us will be having fun, and you can't have a party all by yourself can you?" Then its usually all laughs and good times from there.
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: alakona]
#1847137 - 08/24/03 11:54 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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The Cosmic Game by Stanislav Grof The Power of Silence by Carlos Castaneda Theif of Time by Terry Pratchett
I can't leave this one out because it's damn hilarious- Fluke by Christopher Moore.
-------------------- yeeeahh, it's gonna be well wicked
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GanjaManDan
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: KackleDude]
#1847171 - 08/25/03 12:19 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Top 3 books?
1 - The Bible 2 - The Bible 3 - The Bible
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blink
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: GanjaManDan]
#1847191 - 08/25/03 12:25 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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heheh
Digital Biology - Peter Bently Doors of perception Anything "ihkal"
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Adom
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: blink]
#1847891 - 08/25/03 09:55 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle Tracker - Tom Brown Jr. Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered - Lester Grinspoon and James B. Bakalar <------highly recommended for trippers.
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Swami]
#1847940 - 08/25/03 10:25 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
Swami said: Try "Wizard of the Upper Amazon"
Sounds fun, I'll check it out
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lunatic_in_my_head
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Digs]
#1848058 - 08/25/03 11:05 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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1. The Lord of the Flies - The only book I like that I have been made to read. 2. The Tulip Touch - I loved it when I was 13, read it compulsively. 3. Prozac Nation - Wurtzel is totally self obsessed, but that is what I love about her.
Currently reading Naked Lunch, it will probably be added to my list when I'm finished.
-------------------- "Why dance to the music when we are all slouching toward the same, inevitable conclusion." Elizabeth Wurtzel "So I'm packing my bags for the Misty Mountains Where the spirits go now, Over the hills where the spirits fly."
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Mithril
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1. Power vs. Force by Dr. David Hawkins 2. Prometheus Rising and 3. Quantum Psychology by R.A. Wilson
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I_Stain_Blue
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Digs]
#1849590 - 08/25/03 08:10 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Zen and the Brain by James H. Austin
incredible
-------------------- Be Here Now
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Malachi
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Mithril]
#1849601 - 08/25/03 08:14 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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1. the sirens of titan, by kurt vonnegut
2. manchild in the pomised land by claude brown
3. soul on ice by eldridge cleaver
4. Do It! scenarios of the revolution by jerry rubin
5. the eden express by mark vonnegut
(kurts son's story of his descent into schizophrenia, amazing how similar it is to a "bad"- or profound- mushrooms trip. the schizophrenia is helped along by a few key mescaline trips... very interesting read)
-------------------- The ultimate meaning of our being can only be fulfilled in the paradoxical leap beyond the tragic-demonic frustration. It is a leap from our side, but it is the self-surrendering presence of the Ground of Being from the other side. - Paul Tillich
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Malachi
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: Malachi]
#1849603 - 08/25/03 08:16 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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oh, and the electric kool aid acid test (of course!) is the bible of tripping enthusiasts (i.e. my bible).
-------------------- The ultimate meaning of our being can only be fulfilled in the paradoxical leap beyond the tragic-demonic frustration. It is a leap from our side, but it is the self-surrendering presence of the Ground of Being from the other side. - Paul Tillich
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Re: What are your top 3 books? [Re: forevadazin]
#1851335 - 08/26/03 12:31 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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1984 - George Orwell Animal Farm - George Orwell The Hobbit/L.O.T.R. - Tokien
-------------------- The only thing permanent is change.
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