Book bin

[DMTripper]

If I had to name one book it should be the book that had the greatest impact on my life.

That book is 14 Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism by Yogi Ramacharaka

http://www.hermetics.org/pdf/YogiPhilosophy.pdf

 

[gammagore]

Clive Braker's Great and secret show. Just awesome, couldnt take my eyes off the pages. Im busy with Everville now.

I just love his style of writing.

 

[soulman]

I am currently 2/3rds of the way through the Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton.
A very interesting and enlightening read!

 

[maxzar100]

The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky

One of the best books ever written.

 

[cellux]

I just discovered that Google Books provides preview versions of quite a number of published books.

It's not too joyful to read a book in preview form - most of the pages are cut out -, but I would like to take this opportunity to call your attention (again) to the magnificent books of Chögyam Trungpa (my favorite interpreter of the Buddhist tradition):

Shambhala: Sacred Path of the Warrior

Shambhala

Since ancient times, the path of the enlightened warrior has been a powerful and inspiring ideal, showing us how we can master the challenges of life and draw power not from violence or aggression but through the cultivation of gentleness, courage, and self-knowledge. The "Shambhala" "Book and...

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^^^ Esp. recommended to Antrocles!!!

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

This modern spiritual classic highlights a trick we play on ourselves and offers a brighter reality: liberation by letting go of the self rather than working to improve it The Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa calls attention to the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the...

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If you can read through this book without raising serious doubts regarding the genuinety of you spiritual practice, motivations and intentions, then you are on the right path.

The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation

The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation

Featuring a new foreword by Pema Chödrön, this Tibetan Buddhist classic explores the meaning of freedom and how we can attain it through meditation Freedom is generally thought of as the ability to achieve goals and satisfy desires. But what are the sources of these goals and desires? If they...

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Can be seen as a companion guide to "CTSM", but also great on its own.

These writings all have the quality of a diamond.

 

[nadir]

The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky

One of the best books ever written.

russian classical literature is very powerful .)

 

[sunshineandsmiles]

These two read side by side was really interesting for me:

'The Gospel of The Second Coming' by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy

'The Gospel of Thomas' by St.Thomas (one of the Greek disciples)

I love the first because it explains the nature of spiritual texts as psychological allegory (maybe not to the extent Jung did, but as an intro to Jungian concepts...it's not bad).

And the second has got to be one of the most profound spiritual works of Western origin (no wonder why it was left out of The Bible )

I would also recommend 'Four Archetypes' by Carl G. Jung...that is simply a work of pure genius

 

[ghostman]

Half asleep in frog pajamas was my least favorite of Robbins' novels (friend of T. McKenna) but it was still good in it's own way...
R.A.Wilson is the man...

I have been a fan of Robbins since forever.

I read Villa Incognito years ago, before I discovered DMT, and it left me very dissatisfied.

I could never understand the significance of why the main character had, as a child, a Chrysanthemum seed planted into the roof of her mouth.

It was only after reading about the Pineal gland, which starts life in the roof of your mouth, and the first time I encountered the Chrysanthemum in a DMT trip that I realised the references to DMT (Robbins was a friend of McKenna)

Villa Incognito is riddled with shamanic references.

It was so satisfying to have this revelation all those years down the line. Robbins likes to leave cryptic clues, and that one was a jewel. I wonder how many people have picked up on it.

As far as Robbins goes... Even Cowgirls get the Blues and Jitterbug Perfume rocks, socks... off.

 

[ragabr]

Clive Braker's Great and secret show. Just awesome, couldnt take my eyes off the pages. Im busy with Everville now.

I just love his style of writing.

Oh man, Thief of Always terrified me as a child! I've had Great and Secret Show and Imajica on the bookshelf for a while; I'll have to break into them!

 

[ragabr]

Got Tom Robbins half asleep in frog pajamas today, along with The Holographic Universe and the other Cosmic Trigger volumes i didn't have.

If you've read Prometheus Rising and Wilson's books you should check out Antero Alli's Angel Tech.(art of being light).Im reading it now. he's a former friend of Leary and Wilsons and goes deep into great detail about personal application of the models they describe.

Angel Tech is awesome! Also highly suggest his new The Eight-Circuit Brain.

 

[ragabr]

If anyone is interested, there's a book club for Robert Anton Wilson's Quantum Psychology. FOAF is participating, and its really fun having people to do the exercises with.

 

[Xt]

Thank you all so much for this thread. I have a list of books as long as my arm to read now.
I just re-read Necromancer again because i enjoy a fiction novel once in a while.

Thank you folks.

 

[ambi-lysergance]

speaking of fiction, has anyone read the sci fi epic " altered carbon" ??

a guy I used to work with reccomended this to me, just wondered if any you guys/gals have read it

 

[ragabr]

speaking of fiction, has anyone read the sci fi epic " altered carbon" ??

a guy I used to work with reccomended this to me, just wondered if any you guys/gals have read it

No, but it looks awesome!

 

[Thorz]

I like how this thread started with Cosmic Trigger, I just finished that book yesterday.
Now I am reading:

Info-Psychology:A MANUAL ON THE USE OF THE HUMAN NERVOUS SYSTEM by Timothy Leary

This book is where the 8-circuit brain model was first introduced. I am about 20 pages in and it is a VERY interesting book, highly recommended to everyone here and psychonauts alike Can't get enough of this 8-circuit model, it makes too much sense.

 

[cellux]

russian classical literature is very powerful .)

Which reminded me of another Russian masterpiece:

Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Insanely good stuff.

 

[Researcher]

I have read all of these, I would recommend any one of them. The links are to free, full online books. In no particular order:

The Science of Breath by Yogi Ramacharaka

The Secret Destiny of America by Manly P. Hall

Regulators by Richard Bachman

Desperation by Stephen King

America 2014 by Dawn Blair

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

Aztec by Gary Jennings

Dark Tower Series by Stephen King

Main Street, It Can't Happen Here and Babbit by Sinclair Lewis

Animal Farm, 1984, Homage to Catalonia, Why I Write, Politics and the English Language by George Orwell

The Millenium by Upton Sinclair

Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson

The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, The Shape of Things to Come, The New World Order by HG Wells

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

Behold A Pale Horse by William Cooper

A People's History of the World by Chris Harman

The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin

1491 by Charles C. Mann

Future Shock by Alvin Toffler

Language and Myth by Ernst Cassirer

How We Think by John Dewey

Food of the Gods by Terrence McKenna

Billions and Billions, The Dragons of Eden, Pale Blue Dot, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Cosmos, Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan

The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall

Tao Teh Ching by Lao Tzu

The Art of Loving and Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

Shop Class as Soul Craft by Matthew B. Crawford

The Republic by Plato

 

[cellux]

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

That was a fine little book.

 

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Generation Hex

If the modern world is crumbling, then magic is what’s growing up between the cracks. InGeneration Hex, editor Jason Louv assembles a collection of dispatches from the edge—a generation of young adults who are inventing and imagining radically new directions for spirituality and human evolution...

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generation hex

 

[Shadowlord]

This and the Documentaries thread have to be some of my favorite threads here.
Have read some of the above and others are now on my list or already have been and have gotten bumped up a few places on the list.
One of those threads that hopefully people will keep adding on to for years to come.