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what book changed your life?
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or what books do you recommend?
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: notsureyet]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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
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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]
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"The Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot.
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: zersha]
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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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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]
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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]
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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]
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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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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: deff]
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Quote:
HagbardCeline said: I Thinking Allowed. Such a great program.
Do you know anywhere where I can find all the episodes?
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: oakley]
#23812121 - 11/08/16 09:14 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yes, youtube has many many full ones.
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oh cool, thanks
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: oakley]
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Im 33 and read many of the books listed... But really lifechanging A few months ago I read
The Book on the taboo against knowing who you are by Alan Watts
I recomend you read it on mescaline especially the last few chapters
Kagr
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: Kagrenac]
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Transformation of America....that was some messed up shit, right there. I don't look at politicians the same.
Oh and "dmt the spirit molecule", of course! Because of that book, I would never had experienced dmt and am grateful.
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: Jenjens]
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Supernatural by Graham Hancock was an eye opener. Before reading I knew nothing of ancient cave drawings in, for example, Pech Merle , and the way Mr. Hancock tied in these drawings with current reports of therianthropic beings has changed the way I view life and existence, as well as plant induced visions.
Also thank you to those above who've given me new reading ideas, especially in Blind Ass' post.
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Quote:
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Mine is The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson.
Same here.
I would also note The Teachings of Don Juan and The Singularity Is Near. All three were read around the same time by me. The Illumatus Trilogy by RAW really hit the hardest, though, and opened up the path for future understanding the most.
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So many books have influenced me that Im only going to list what Ive been reading recently
The Secret and the Truth of the Ages by Mark Cordova -
This is an incredible book for anyone interested in gnosticism but who doesn't want to have to take the time reading and interpreting all the gnostic gospels. The writing is not very good but the ideas are so profound it is an amazing book.
Soma Shamans - this is an incredible book on how to use amanita muscaria mushrooms for spiritual growth.
Teachings of the Peyote shamans - I learned an amazing tool for directing attention in this book called the five points of attention. Im actually shocked this teaching isn't talked about more, since before reading this I had absolutely no idea what to do with my attention and constantly wasted it.
From a Broken Web - Zzrips recommended me this book. I am still not done reading it because it is not an easy read, and the ideas are very profound for me.
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^ I liked that one a lot All of his books are great
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: deff]
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The Art of Sexual Ecstasy - Margot Anand
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Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D
and other Milton H. Erickson books
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_H._Erickson
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: laughingdog]
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Quote:
laughingdog said: Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D
and other Milton H. Erickson books
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_H._Erickson
I read the Wiki long ago about him. Revisiting it just now and wow, its very interesting. May have to check out the book if I can find at at a local library.
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Talks with Ramana Maharshi, it revealed the changeless in the changing.
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: notsureyet]
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notsureyet said: or what books do you recommend?
Awaken the Giant within - Anthony Robbins
Way of the Superior man - David Deida
Way of the peaceful Warrior - Dan Millman
Stillness Speaks - Eckhart Tolle
Reality Transurfing - Space of variations - Vadim Zeland
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Quote:
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laughingdog said: Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D
and other Milton H. Erickson books
I read the Wiki long ago about him. Revisiting it just now and wow, its very interesting. May have to check out the book if I can find at at a local library.
some free pdfs here including ME complete books, they download quickly no registration
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=milton+erickson+pdf&t=h_&ia=web
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: laughingdog]
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Thank you brother. Love what that man was onto.
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I only use the links that are automatic and free ones that ask for registration often ask for credit card info and are suspect I just close them and move on there's more than enough reading from the free ones
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: laughingdog]
#23883615 - 12/01/16 04:07 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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https://scihub.org/
check it, kind of like a JSTOR data base/vault but free.
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Relentless by Tim. S. Glover I just picked up recently. It is pretty fucking awesome thus far. Great read if anybody is looking for something new.
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Behold the spirit by Alan watts. It met me where I was stuck in christianity and led me to more eastern minded thought. so now I'm more open open minded and like watts, I've become an alcoholic.
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: yeah]
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I recently read the "Journey of Socrates" by Dan Millman (same guy who wrote Peaceful Warrior) and that was definitely his best work in my opinion. I highly recommend reading the trilogy. Start with "Peaceful Warrior" then read "Journey of Socrates" and then "Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior". I just really resonated with Socrates and the story telling in that book is off the charts, unlike any of his other books. I Highly recommend!!! Oh and yes of course "Autobiography of a Yogi"
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I've never finished a book, maybe dr.seuss. The first half of Magicians or the God's by Graham Hanock was very eye opening
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'Godel, Escher, Bach' by Douglas Hofstadter
'Your invisible power' by Geneviève Behrend
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: notsureyet]
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Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
it helped solidify a lot of things i was feeling but couldn't fully come to terms with
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Miuten cross the boundonly renitiated me into al book that i aries and thea throught prodcess was Initiaintontion Hermemticsns by Franz Bardon
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Power of Now and anything by Eckhart Tolle definately great books. His talks are great as well.
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For me it was Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. I read it last year after a LONG hiatus from books and it got me hooked again. I've been on a mad tear and have been reading one book per month ever since.
Recent and upcoming books...I just wrapped up The God Delusion yesterday and I picked up The Third Chimpanzee earlier tonight.
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My Side of the Mountain. Don't bother with it now - it's essentially a children's book combining pared down elements of Walden with a Defoe adventure novel. I read it in elementary school, loved it, and it started me on a path of reading so many other things. I sometimes wonder if that would have happened if I'd passed it up. Maybe. But maybe not, at least not this way.
Also, yes, The Sun Also Rises. Incredibly written, relatively short, and densely packed with meaning. It will stay with you a long time.
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: Bloto]
#23933836 - 12/16/16 10:07 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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It seems as each book has enough insight to change mind enough to see a change in life. A conversation with another is of enough significance to change life. Is as a PinBall table, a bump here sends to here then on over to there, never in same order or direction as before, continually forward into what is of now.
-------------------- Hip, hip... WhoRAy!!! Eye was thinking the other day... ahh, thinking never done me no good.
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Enlightened_Dark
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: WhoManBeing]
#23944671 - 12/20/16 09:26 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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If the Buddha Got Stuck: A Handbook for Change on a Spiritual Path
By, Charlotte Sophia Kasl
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Big Worm
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The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
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The Cellestine Prophecy by James Redfield
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Re: what book changed your life? [Re: Big Worm]
#23945600 - 12/21/16 09:49 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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All books have changed me in one way and some others. Read, read and read more
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crkhd
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Quran Mubeen - Yours, Mohammed Afikur Rahman
-------------------- "Everything there is, and all that there is, is a Pattern of unspeakable proportion. The Pattern contains everything that is, completely fixed in succession, all the minimal particles interconnected in every way that is. Every way that is is not every conceivable way, because not everything that can be conceived is manifest in the pattern." "THE Human, you, is a miniscule but essential part of that pattern. In it lies complete fulfillment. It will never become something it is not, but it will never need to be anything else." - Wiccan_Seeker "If boring drudgery was the way of the universe, everything would have killed itself long ago." - Spacerific
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