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toad857
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favorite book.....
#2866562 - 07/07/04 08:06 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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what's yours?
i'm looking for some new reads.
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Huehuecoyotl
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: toad857]
#2866601 - 07/07/04 08:18 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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"Journey to Ixtlan" by Castaneda or "Deliverance" by James Dickey. Both are thought provoking, intense reads.
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: toad857]
#2866846 - 07/07/04 09:26 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Rondezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: toad857]
#2866852 - 07/07/04 09:26 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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"The Seven Mysteries of Life " by Guy Murchie is one of my favorites.
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: toad857]
#2867618 - 07/08/04 02:28 AM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Illusions
Richard Bach
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: toad857]
#2867872 - 07/08/04 05:52 AM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: toad857]
#2867884 - 07/08/04 06:09 AM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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True Hallucinations-Terence McKenna....anything McKenna really. The Doors of Perception-Aldous Huxley....outdated but makes for an interesting read if you have the time.
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: toad857]
#2868742 - 07/08/04 12:26 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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The Milagro Beanfield War, by somebody.
The Green King, by somebody else.
But these books are just for fun, but damn were they good.
How about a really good movie, which I finally found on the internet for purchase? It's called "Paris, Texas" and if you ever get a chance to watch it, do so.
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: Frog]
#2868769 - 07/08/04 12:37 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Somebody else IS an awesome writer.
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tyke
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: toad857]
#2868770 - 07/08/04 12:37 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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-The Cosmic Serpent - Jeremy Narby -A Language Older than Words - Derrick Jensen -DMT: The Spirit Molecule - Rick Strassman -The Human Evasion - Celia Green -Underworld - Don DeLillo -The Archaic Revival - Terence McKenna -Breaking Open the Head - Daniel Pinchbeck -Meetings with Remarkable Men - G.I. Gurdjieff -Wholeness and the Implicate Order - David Bohm -The Teachings of Don Juan - Carlos Castaneda -Americana - Don DeLillo -Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -Brainscapes - Richard Restak, M.D. -Your Brain is God - Timothy Leary -Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson - G.I. Gurdjieff -Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin - Ashley Montagu -Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse -High Priest - Timothy Leary -Food of the Gods - Terence McKenna -PiHKAL - Ann and Alexander Shulgin -The Dead Sea Scrolls - Various Authors -On the Road - Jack Kerouac -White Noise - Don DeLillo -The Access Bible (NRSV) - Various Authors -Science, Order, and Creativity - David Bohm and F. David Peat -TiHKAL - Ann and Alexander Shulgin -Angel Tech - Antero Alli -Waking Up in Time - Peter Russell -Unfolding Meaning - David Bohm -A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce -Anthem - Ayn Rand -Dark Night of the Soul - Saint John of the Cross -Ulysses - James Joyce -The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell -The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand -Evolution's End - Joseph Chilton Pearce -Finnegans Wake - James Joyce -The Body Artist - Don DeLillo -Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand -The Biology of Trancendence - Joseph Chilton Pearce -The Sense of Being Stared At - Rupert Sheldrake -Nothing In This Book Is True . . . - Bob Frissell -Psychology and Alchemy - Carl Gustav Jung -Theosophy - Rudolph Steiner -The Presence of the Past - Rupert Sheldrake -Your Are a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience - Bob Frissell -Thought as a System - David Bohm -A New Science of Life - Rupert Sheldrake -Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond -The Self-Aware Universe - Amit Goswami -Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse -The Story of B - Daniel Quinn -True Hallucinations - Terence McKenna -Demian - Hermann Hesse -Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche -The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse -Ishmael - Daniel Quinn -Island - Aldous Huxley -A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle -Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -My Ishmael - Daniel Quinn -Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach -Frankenstein - Mary Shelley -Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness - Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, and Ralph Abraham -Speedology - Timothy "Speed" Levitch
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: tyke]
#2868791 - 07/08/04 12:44 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Now THAT is a good list of books.
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Out-of-print but an awesome compare and contrast of Eastern and Western mystical thought is: "The Private Sea: LSD and the Search for God" by William Braden
Another great book is "Beyond the Frontiers of the Mind" by Osho
-ergot
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Words of My Perfect Teacher - Patrul Rinpoche Wonders of the Natural Mind - Tenzin Wangyal Heart Drops of Dharmakaya - ? Castaneda Everything Book of Lies/Magick in Theory and Practice/Equinox - Crowley Sixty Upanishads of the Vedas - VM Bedekar Wen Tzu - Understanding the Mysteries - Lao Tzu Tools for Tantra - Harish Johari Aghora - The Left Hand of God - Svoboda
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: toad857]
#2868860 - 07/08/04 01:09 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Handbook to Higher Consciousness by Ken Keyes Jr.
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
The Truth Machine by James L. Halperin
Peace.
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: toad857]
#2868870 - 07/08/04 01:12 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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I guess for now I'll have to go with The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life books by Drunvalo Melchizedek oh and fight club was awesome
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: SpecialEd]
#2869032 - 07/08/04 02:18 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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I'll second Illusions by Richard Bach. Everyone should read this book. Edit: May I also suggest: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski I warn you in advance, this book is mind fucking.
Edited by Samuel (07/08/04 02:20 PM)
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tyke
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Quote:
McKennaFan200 said: Now THAT is a good list of books.
thanks
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: toad857]
#2869523 - 07/08/04 04:59 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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"Lies And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" - Al Franken "Worse Than Watergate" - John W. Dean
Some good, recent, political food-for-thought.
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: toad857]
#2870009 - 07/08/04 07:19 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Go Ask Alice --Anonymous * Flowers for Algernon--Daniel Keyes * anything by Barbara Kingsolver * The Great and Secret Show --- Clive Barker A Walk in the Woods -- Bill Bryson Napalm and Silly Putty -- George Carlin The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test -- Tom Wolfe The Tao of Pooh -- Benjamin Hoff * Magical Herbalism -- Scott Cunningham Out of Body Adventures --- Rick Stack Soul Traveler -- Albert Taylor Wilderness -- Jim Morrison
* = can be found at a public library
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: toad857]
#2870208 - 07/08/04 08:07 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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"The Holographic Universe" -MIcheal Talbot, my bad... RIP "Invisible Landscapes: Mind Hallucinogens and the I-Ching" T. Mckenna and Dennis Mckenna "Hearts of Atlantis" Stephen King. <-awesome read "Tropic of Cancer" and "Tropic of Capricorn" should get you started on Henry Miller, he has lots of great stuff
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: toad857]
#2871894 - 07/09/04 06:15 AM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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oh man, thgere have been some excellent threads about reading lists over the past few years here @ shroomery... maybe somebody can search&link to 'em, i dunno...
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robert heinlein's _stranger in a strange land_ aldous huxley's _the perennial philosophy_ alan watts _the book_ " _nature, man & woman_ " _the joyous cosmology_ " _the two hands of god_ " _cloud hidden, whereabouts unknown_ ram dass _BE HERE NOW_ wilson & shea _ILLUMINATUS!_ john lilly _the center of the cyclone_ " _programming and metaprogramming in the human biocomputer_ patrick le nestour _the mystery of things_ fritjof capra _the tao of physics_ itzak bentov _stalking the wild pendulum_ pir vilayat inayat khan _toward the one_ suzuki roshi _ zen mind, beginner's mind_ lao tzu _tao te ching_ chuang tzu _inner chapters_ carl jung _man and symbol_ wilhelm reich _listen little man_ jonathan ott _pharmacotheon_ albert hoffman _ lsd: my problem child_ " _insight, outlook_ theodore sturgeon _ godbody_ cordwainer smith (just get the complete works, mmkay?) zenna henderson (the "people stories") gary snyder _regarding wave_ " _turtle island_
ummm, that's enough for now ...
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: toad857]
#2874947 - 07/10/04 12:16 AM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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From Here to Eternity by James Jones
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: tyke]
#2874953 - 07/10/04 12:17 AM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
tyke said: -PiHKAL - Ann and Alexander Shulgin
Oh come on man, PIHKAL? You've got to be kidding me! That's like saying you found reading the dictionary interesting. PIHKAL is boring as hell. It's a reference text with some stories at the beginning.
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tyke
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Quote:
Phencyclidine said:
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tyke said: -PiHKAL - Ann and Alexander Shulgin
Oh come on man, PIHKAL? You've got to be kidding me! That's like saying you found reading the dictionary interesting. PIHKAL is boring as hell. It's a reference text with some stories at the beginning.
No, I'm not kidding you. It's pretty helpful when you're shopping for research chemicals. And yes, I also find the dictionary interesting.
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tyke
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: gnrm23]
#2874994 - 07/10/04 12:34 AM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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gnrm23 said: aldous huxley's _the perennial philosophy_
john lilly _the center of the cyclone_ " _programming and metaprogramming in the human biocomputer_
carl jung _man and symbol_
jonathan ott _pharmacotheon_
albert hoffman _ lsd: my problem child_
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: toad857]
#2875377 - 07/10/04 04:51 AM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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#1-The hobbit-J.R.R. Tolkien White Oleander-? Living with the Dead-Rock scully Fear and Loating in Las Vegas-Hunter Thompson Hells Angels-H.T. Toa-Te-Ching luciddreaming in 30 days (sounds cheasy, but lots of great technique) Interview with a Vampire- Ann Rice Vampire Lestat-AR Enders Game-Orson Scott Card Seventh Son-O.S.C Collected works of-Harlan Elison that story about the kids dieing from masturbation, by the guy who wrote fight club
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: Dreamer987]
#2875596 - 07/10/04 08:43 AM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Dreamer, some of the books you listed are my favorites, also. My son had to read Enders Game in junior high school. I was bored one day with nothing to read and picked it up just out of boredom. Excellent book, and I bought the sequel when it came out. Has the third come out yet?
White Oleander was excellent, all Ann Rice books are excellent. I love intelligently written books. There's a series of books by Susan Howatch that are very, very good.
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: Frog]
#2875629 - 07/10/04 09:26 AM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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whoa crazy, after making that list i went and read enders game again. I think its a chopped up version of the original. Only like 50 pages. My friends described the version they read as being alot longer and more involved. haven't read enders shadow. if you dug enders game you should check out that 7th son.
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: Dreamer987]
#2875735 - 07/10/04 10:59 AM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah, 7th son was cool. Did you guys know that O.S. Card is mormon? Kinda interesting.....
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: toad857]
#2877768 - 07/11/04 10:04 AM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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kurt vonnegut: "breakfast of champions" "cats cradle" "slaughterhouse 5"
joseph heller: "catch 22"
Orson scott card: The Ender series (ender's game, speaker for the dead, etc.) "treason" call to earth series
john steinbeck: "cannery row" "of mice and men" "east of eden"
ken keyes "handbook to higher consciousness"
-------------------- Annnnnnd I had a light saber and my friend was there and I said "you look like an indian" and he said "you look like satan" and he found a stick and a rock and he named the rock ooga booga and he named the stick Stick and we both thought that was pretty funny. We got eaten alive by mosquitos but didn't notice til the next day. I stepped on some glass while wading in the swamp and cut my foot open, didn't bother me til the next day either....yeah it was a good time, ended the night by buying some liquor for minors and drinking nips and going to he diner and eating chicken fingers, and then I went home and went to bed.
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: dorkus]
#2878331 - 07/11/04 02:45 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: toad857]
#2878424 - 07/11/04 03:19 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Robert Anton Wilson's Cosmic Trigger volume I is essential.
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Re: favorite book..... [Re: toad857]
#2884063 - 07/12/04 09:38 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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the demon-haunted world - carl sagan the great and secret show - clive barker the analects - confucious lord of the flies - william golding the tao of physics - fritjof capra totem and taboo - sigmund freund the prince - machiavelli parallel myth - joseph campbell lies my teacher told me - james lowen taoteching - lao tzu manufacturing consent - noam chomsky the art of war/sun tzu
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