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notsureyet
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what book changed your life?
#23799759 - 11/04/16 05:00 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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or what books do you recommend?
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: notsureyet]
#23799766 - 11/04/16 05:14 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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"influenced by Eva and John Pierrakos, who founded a system for self-transformation called the Pathwork, drawing on the ideas of Wilhelm Reich and Alexander Lowen. Brennan worked with the Pierrakos, and became a Pathwork Helper and Core Energetics therapist"
Not easy to find anymore online.
Ah, here it is:
http://pathwork.org/lecture-categories/pathwork-lectures-1996-ed/
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: notsureyet]
#23799768 - 11/04/16 05:22 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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The Turning Point: Fritjof Capra
"Whereas the hidden variables in classical physics are local mechanisms, those in quantum physics are nonlocal; they are instantaneous connections to the universe as a whole. In the ordinary; macroscopic world nonlocal connections are relatively unimportant, and thus we can speak of separate objects and formulate the laws of physics in terms of certainties. But as we go to smaller dimensions, the influence of nonlocal connections becomes stronger; here the laws of physics can be formulated only in terms of probabilities, and it becomes more and more difficult to separate any part of the universe from the whole"
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: notsureyet]
#23800060 - 11/04/16 08:38 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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well the first one was by Alan Watts titled Cloudhidden Whereabouts Unknown. It was found several years post my VERY life-changing LSD trips in my 15th year (ie I had them when I was a 15 year old). I had needed some help with integration and had gone through quite a few authors who just didn't do it, and then I found that book and nearly read it in the shop before I got it. Why? because he is SO eloquent, and unpretentious, and knows how to get complex ideas across, and it was his explaining polar-relational reality which really gelled with my psychedelic experience and general reality. How you cannot have light without dark, or know light without dark and vice verse, and life without death etc etc etc.
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: zzripz]
#23800078 - 11/04/16 08:47 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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The road less traveled by M. Scott Peck
also The emotional life of your brain by Richard J Davidson
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: zzripz]
#23800083 - 11/04/16 08:48 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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what books would I recommend? I would rather that you kind of allow them to come to you. That is how I feel of how I met many books. Just be open and questioning, but there aint nuthin wrong with recommendations also of course
OK that one, also:
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, by John Allegro;
The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power;
Shamanism: Foundations of Magic, by Ward Rutherford;
Shamanism and the Drug Propaganda, by Dan Russell;
The Manufacture of Madness, by Thomas Szasz;
The Most Dangerous Book in the World, by S.K.Bain;
Return of the Dark/Light Mother or New Age Armegeddon? by Monica Sjoo;
From a Broken Web, by Catherine Keller.
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: notsureyet] 1
#23800138 - 11/04/16 09:11 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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VALIS by Philip K. Dick
Wholeness and the Implicate Order by David Bohm
Be Here Now by Ram Dass
The Only Dance There Is by Ram Dass
Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
The Game of Life by Timothy Leary
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Cannabis Alchemy by D Gold
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: sunshine]
#23800682 - 11/04/16 01:28 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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"The Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot.
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: zersha]
#23800742 - 11/04/16 01:59 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
zersha said: "The Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot.
nice dude, how you ever listened/watched a old program called "Thinking Allowed" with Mishlove(sp?)
he does an interview about the book, and he hosts tons of talks with others about various interesting topics with the top of humanities minds.
thats a link to the one with Talbot in it.
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I Thinking Allowed. Such a great program.
Mine is The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson.
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A Course in Miracles is the most profound book I've ever read.
It didn't change my life in the sense that it taught me something, rather it confirmed and reminded me of everything I already knew in the core of my being, but had forgotten.
I don't speak highly of things in this way and the author as it happens, doesn't take credit to be commended, since she proposed to be a mere scribe of Christ.
https://www.amazon.com/Course-Miracles-Foundation-Inner-Peace/dp/1883360269
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: Duncan Rowhl] 1
#23808003 - 11/06/16 08:32 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Lord of The Rings - from the silmarilion and the hobbit to the trilogy.
Dune - the series
The Writings of Plato
The Bible
The Vedas
The Upanishads
The Shobogenzo
The entire Hinayana Buddhist Cannon
The Joyous Cosmology
The Book on the Taboo AGainst Knowing who you really Are
The Way of Zen - by allan watts
Be Here Now - richerd alpert
The 8 circuit Model - timothy leary
Siddartha - hesse
Star Wars Trilogy - lucas
The Khabbalah Mysteries
The Elusian Mysteries
The Perennial Philosophy - huxley
The Dark Night of the Soul - st john of the cross
Seven Story Mountain - thomas merton
William Blake - jerusalem and the marriage of heaven and hell and select prose
Game Of thrones - rr martin
The double Helix -
The Iliad, and the Odyssey - homer
The Bhagavad Gita
A Course in Miracles
The Bible
The Giver
1984
A Brave New World
Atiyoga - Dzogchen - The Great Perfection - longchenpa rinpoche - on finding ease in enchantment
Gorgias, Protagoras, Meno, Phaedrus, Symptosium, Repbulic, Sophist, Statesman, Timaeus, Critias, Laws - by Socrates and Plato
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: zersha]
#23808440 - 11/07/16 01:08 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
zersha said: "The Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot.
Same here. Just amazing.
So sad that such great people leave so soon.
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: ZacksJourney]
#23808589 - 11/07/16 04:33 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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SoulSword by Roshi Vernon Kitabu Turner. Such an easy read too.
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Woah I've never heard of this.
Thank you I will be spending the rest of my 30 minutes listening.
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: zersha]
#23810248 - 11/07/16 05:03 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I agree. Holographic Universe is a fantastic read.
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: Duncan Rowhl]
#23810895 - 11/07/16 07:51 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Illusions by Richard Bach. Also, Ishmael by Daniel Quinn was pretty revolutionary for my brain.
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Yeah Daniel Quinn's all right.
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: notsureyet]
#23811945 - 11/08/16 08:00 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I found 'Ascent of Humanity' by Charles Eisenstein to be full of great ideas that helped shift my views on things 
Also 'New Self, New World' by Philip Shepherd is great (though I haven't finished reading it) - full of great insights
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