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maxzar100 said:
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky

One of the best books ever written.
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Completely true. 19th-century Russian literature is an incredible blend of philosophy and art.

Trickster said:
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self by Thomas Metzinger
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That is indeed a recommended book from me, as well.

Pandora said:
I'm 100 or so pages into Rudy Rucker's "Postsingular." It is FILLED with tryptamine/hyperspace/mind expansion/tripping references.
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I recently ordered this book based upon this recommendation; I will likely read it soon.

As for me, I recommend Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained, Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works, David Barash's Natural Selections: Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, and Other Realities of Evolution, Richard Joyce's The Evolution of Morality, Patricia Churchland's Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy, W.V.O. Quine's Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W. V. Quine, F.A. Hayek's The Fatal Conceit, Harold Winter's Trade-Offs: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and Social Issues, Pierre Hadot's Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision, Ken Wilber's Eye to Eye, Bryan Caplan's The Myth of the Rational Voter, Paul Seabright's The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life, John Leslie's Immortality Defended, Pope Benedict XVI's The Essential Pope Benedict XVI: His Central Writings and Speeches, Plato's Republic, Thomas Nagel's The Last Word, Kabir Helminski's The Knowing Heart: A Sufi Path of Transformation, Stephan Beyer's Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon, and on and on it goes.

Finally, to echo another member,

entheogenadvocate said:
I would just like to send out my heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has contributed here. This is definitely one of my favorite threads. I just purchased my Christmas present to myself, which consists of a stack of books from this thread 😁

Peace and Happy reading to all of you.
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Cleansing the Doors of Perception : The religious significance of Entheogenic Plants

By Huston Smith


GOLD, GOLD I TELL YOU!
 
I recommend Tomorrow and Beyond
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It has an amazing collection of sci-fi art!
 
I just got the book "The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and its Applications"

Its by Christian Ratsch

Look..Listen to me.. you all need to hear me out. GET THIS BOOK.. Whether you buy it on amazon or rent it from your local library( what I did).

You need to see how much information this book has..

I would start listing things that blew me away but I would be typing all night.

They have every plant you can think of and list them very well and are indepth..

Just do yourself a favor and get this book...Wow..
 
currently reading this :

The Heart of Recognition: The Wisdom and Practices of the Pratyabhijna Hrdayam by Swami Khecaranatha.

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Quite cool. It seems Kashmir Shaivism and a lot of the tantric philosphies give 'names' to concepts i've thought of before but not had them arranged as consisely with an actual conceptual 'gloassary' to bring perspective to how it all fits together.

Tis basically the art of liberation through direct recognition of the non-dual source of one-ness that is in all things that manifests into multiplicy , and sepeartion,veil of maya, ego etc. Just to find it's self again and pierce the veiel.
 
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

New Collected Poems

Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Christ's Teachings About Love, Compassion and Forgiveness

- Wendell Berry


Especially that last book, gave me a new perspective on Christianity and exactly how its changed over the last 2000 years, at least in terms of beliefs/actions of Christians. Wendell berry is a true intellectual and Renaissance man, with a way with words few have.

Jesus was a revolutionary who was nailed to a cross for having too much love to give. Then we founded a hypocritical institutionalized religion with him as a false martyr. Everything he would be against, :cry:, but not all Christians are like that. Coming from a christian scientist upbringing, i can say they are pretty close to what Jesus was all about more or less.

And off the topic of Wendell Berry, one of my all time favorite pieces of literature-

Walden and Civil Disobedience

-Henry David Thoreau

Like Berrys work, best read deep out in the heart of nature, preferably with the enhanced perception psychedelics can offer, for me it was mescaline and an rock mound known to the native Americans for hundreds of years near my mountainous town of residence. Like changing experience :thumb_up: .
 
Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas-Hunter S Thompson
What Dreams May Come- Richard Matheson
A Scanner Darkly-Philip K Dick
Survivor-Chuck Palanuik
American Gods-Neil Gaimen
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep-Philip K Dick
Neuromancer- William Gibson
 
I'm not well-read but these are some of the finest and most important (to me) books that I've read:

Glass Bead Game and Siddhartha by Hesse
Gorgias by Plato
Catch-22 by Heller
Slaughterhouse-Five and Mother Night by Vonnegut
Girl with Curious Hair and Oblivion: Stories by DFW
Kafka on the Shore by Murakami
The Castle by Kafka
A Personal Matter and The Silent Cry by Oe
On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
The Birds by Aristophanes

Hmph, there are some I'm forgetting. Well, I guess I'm a sucker for fiction.



The Day Tripper said:
Jesus was a revolutionary who was nailed to a cross for having too much love to give. Then we founded a hypocritical institutionalized religion with him as a false martyr. Everything he would be against, :cry:, but not all Christians are like that. Coming from a christian scientist upbringing, i can say they are pretty close to what Jesus was all about more or less.
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Jesus was a nut, and fictional besides. :p
 
Amy S said:
I'm not well-read but these are some of the finest and most important (to me) books that I've read:

Glass Bead Game and Siddhartha by Hesse
Gorgias by Plato
Catch-22 by Heller
Slaughterhouse-Five and Mother Night by Vonnegut
Girl with Curious Hair and Oblivion: Stories by DFW
Kafka on the Shore by Murakami
The Castle by Kafka
A Personal Matter and The Silent Cry by Oe
On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
The Birds by Aristophanes

Hmph, there are some I'm forgetting. Well, I guess I'm a sucker for fiction.



The Day Tripper said:
Jesus was a revolutionary who was nailed to a cross for having too much love to give. Then we founded a hypocritical institutionalized religion with him as a false martyr. Everything he would be against, :cry:, but not all Christians are like that. Coming from a christian scientist upbringing, i can say they are pretty close to what Jesus was all about more or less.
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Jesus was a nut, and fictional besides. :p
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Well lets not get too off topic, but its open to interperetation. I know a countryfull of people that would call us "nuts" for doing what we do, taking the drugs we take, and saying what we say.

And fictional or not (got some evidence either way bud?), you can't read what people say he said in the bible and say its all BS. Theres truth in everyones perspective, in varying amounts. And yes, Jesus was there to rage against the machine, and the STORY (metaphorical, true, fiction or not, isnt worth arguing about without evidence) of how things went down is pretty much in line with my post. He was there to bring religion out of the temples and into the streets, ad-hoc, decentralize the whole affair. Look how things turned out.
 
There's no evidence he existed, that's evidence enough right there. 😉

I would say things didn't turn out very well at all! A lot of his teachings are pretty messed up, if you think about them carefully. Not that they really got followed. But I'd say there were quite a few people much more influential than Jesus that actually shaped Christianity over the centuries.
 
House, I read a post by you yesterday and was opened up to the author Philip K. Dick.

He is amazing!

I got a collection of his stories, Volume II.

He write in such a cynical, creepy way. So fantastic!!

Thank you for mentioning him on the forums!
 
Amy S said:
There's no evidence he existed, that's evidence enough right there. 😉

I would say things didn't turn out very well at all! A lot of his teachings are pretty messed up, if you think about them carefully. Not that they really got followed. But I'd say there were quite a few people much more influential than Jesus that actually shaped Christianity over the centuries.
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Never said he existed. I said the story of jesus, fictional, metaphorical, or whatnot, tells a tale of an enlightened individual who preached decentralized reform of theism at the time, and unrestrained love/understanding/empathy for everyone, including your enemies.

You can't read the bible and call anything in there non-fiction. But you can read it as a book and say, hey, whats being said here makes sense. Theres a lot of moral/ethical stuff in that book that cannot be marginalized, and yes, it shares many commonalities with other religions throught the ages.

I think you are mistaking me for a christian, or someone who takes the biblical text as factual in any way. I walk under no banner, and pick up spiritual bits and pieces from many different spiritual teachings, some religious, some not.
 
Not sure if anyone mentioned these books but I will repeat them even if someone has!

-Out of The Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
-The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
-The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
-The Shadow of the Torturer(And following books in series if you like) by Gene Wolfe

All are SciFi, enjoy!
 
DeDao said:
Not sure if anyone mentioned these books but I will repeat them even if someone has!

-Out of The Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
-The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
-The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
-The Shadow of the Torturer(And following books in series if you like) by Gene Wolfe

All are SciFi, enjoy!
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Ah, Out of The Silent Planet, i remember reading that back in my jr high years. Fantastic book, makes me want to get a copy and run through it again. :thumb_up:
 
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