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 toad857
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 favorite book..... 
#2866562 - 07/07/04 08:06 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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what's yours?
i'm looking for some new reads.
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 Re: favorite book..... [Re: toad857]
#2866601 - 07/07/04 08:18 PM (19 years, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago) |
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Illusions
Richard Bach
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#2867872 - 07/08/04 05:52 AM (19 years, 9 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, 9 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outdated but makes for an interesting read if you have the time.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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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
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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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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.
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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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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
Edited by sheister (07/10/04 10:15 PM)
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