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RE: FIVE FAVOURITE BOOKS - Lulu - 04-24-2012
(04-24-2012, 10:30 PM)abstrktion Wrote:others do cause troubles. hehe.(04-24-2012, 10:25 PM)Lulu Wrote: haha! wow 4 virgos --how can we start a thread.
Virgos and how they relate (or would that be, how they over analyze) Law of One?
Can we sub-title it "the problems we cause ourselves by over-analyzing the problems we think others cause"...!
;-)
and: how excellent virgos can be at sifting and discerning.
RE: FIVE FAVOURITE BOOKS - Monica - 04-24-2012
(04-24-2012, 05:18 PM)Lulu Wrote: I'm just curious if this were a completely different forum but the same question asked, would you post different books or are these really truly your favorite books?
I asked myself the question after I realized why my impulse not to share my own list was.
These are my fav spiritual books. The Mists of Avalon is fiction, but I consider it spiritual. It's all about Goddess worshiping.
The Oversoul Seven Trilogy is also fiction, but also spiritual. Very trippy!
No, I probably wouldn't list all these books in a community that wasn't so open-minded, or if they were asking for a list of fav fiction books.
I have top favs in different categories. My other favs are listed in my profile.
(04-24-2012, 06:37 PM)Ankh Wrote: 1. The Law of One, book 1.
2. The Law of One, book 5.
3. The Law of One, book 4.
4. The Law of One, book 2.
5. The Law of One, book 3.
Oh, that's interesting how you like some of them better than others.
I sort of think of them all as one book.(04-24-2012, 10:25 PM)Lulu Wrote: haha! wow 4 virgos
What are the odds?
RE: FIVE FAVOURITE BOOKS - oguz - 04-25-2012
1- p'taah books
2- Law of One
3- Cassiopaean transcripts
4- bringers of the dawn/ pleiadians
5- Conversations with God
RE: FIVE FAVOURITE BOOKS - Meerie - 04-25-2012
yeah, Bringers of the dawn, definitely!
the Seth books, by Jane Roberts
ALL the astrology books by Liz Greene
Culpepers Colour Herbal - a great book bout herbs and their medicinal use
Stauffers clinical homeopathy
and of course, Snoopy and the peanuts!
RE: FIVE FAVOURITE BOOKS - Lycen - 04-26-2012
Books that have left an impression, can't say favorite as each is unique in its own way I feel.
"Way of the Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman
"Priestess of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley: Funny thing happened, because of weird circumstances I believed I was reading "The Mists of Avalon"
After reading quite a while I realized my "mistake" but decided to keep reading. Was glad that I did "The Mists of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley
"White Fang" by Jack London: It was the dead of winter, cold and fierce. The darkness was so comforting withe the bronze street light shining in my apartment. Being alone, listening very quietly to some great trance music, that was on during that winter.. I felt so much for this book, the journey was magical.
"The Richest Man In Babylon - George S. Clason": I remember being exited after listening to a audio recording of this a few years back. Though it escapes my mind why.
Had to settle withe 2 books on profile as it didn't allow to add more -_- *mumbels*
Hehe I am quite sure I did something to make my life harder withe that though
Soo I just checked my profile, there are actually 4 books listed... WELCOME TO MAKING MISTAKES WITHE ME hah *0.O*
RE: FIVE FAVOURITE BOOKS - Bring4th_Austin - 04-26-2012
(04-24-2012, 03:02 PM)plenum Wrote: @Austin, that Ishmael is a book I have heard referenced in a few different places, but never figured out what it was lol
I highly recommend it. It's an easy read and offers a great perspective on the world. Some concepts may already be familiar to alternative thinkers, but his ideas on the origins of certain mythologies and cultural progressions are fascinating. Most of the book is a Socratic dialogue between an ape and a man.
RE: FIVE FAVOURITE BOOKS - Patrick - 04-26-2012
(04-24-2012, 05:18 PM)Lulu Wrote: I'm just curious if this were a completely different forum but the same question asked, would you post different books or are these really truly your favorite books?
I asked myself the question after I realized why my impulse not to share my own list was.
sorry... I'm doing that virgo thing --hehe.
I listed Harry Potter books in my profile. So yes, my answer is the same on all forums.
RE: What's your "canon"? - DMCubic - 05-19-2012
For spiritual books:
"The Enlightenment Trilogy" by Jed McKenna: This guy is totally different than anyone else I've read on the concept of what enlightenment is and what it is to realize oneness. He has been very misunderstood, as he has an approach that makes some people think he has no compassion and a big ego. But if you read between the lines, you'll see that's not the case, and that he mirrors other teachers who are widely respected.
But he does make explicit certain consequences of their teaching that they usually leave implicit for others to discover on their own, namely what the death of distorted emotion actually entails. He exemplifies Ra's "truly balanced entity," who doesn't feel emotional reactions anymore, and that's what scares people about him - he points out that there is fearful emotionality in their (attachment-centric) love of individual people and things, and that most of them have an addictive love of their self-image as spiritual seekers and the feeling of "going somewhere" that following teachings and methods gives them. He is clear that a path exists, but that it's an absolutely mind-melting personal existential crisis that leaves nothing behind, which is in contrast to the kind of path that makes people feel like they're at such and such stage of enlightenment or have mastered such and such meditation and are therefore ready for such and such.
He is happy, though, as a given, and calls his state "agape" at times - impersonal, constant love, and a sense of well-being which is there for no reason. He says that's just not what people want out of their spirituality most of the time, truth told, because it can only be present in the absence of their addictions, which he says they are usually subconsciously trying to perpetuate.
He also has a *lot* to say about synchronicity, especially in "Spiritual Warfare." He says that because he doesn't interfere with the natural work of the universe out of fear anymore, it just gives him the cushiest possible life as it leads him to do whatever he has to do to further the plan - all green lights, all the best parking spaces, money at the right moment, a dream house in Mexico, you name it. McKenna is well worth a read if you don't mind feeling criticized.
"The Center of the Sunlit Sky" by Karl Brunnholzl: It's a thick, academic introduction to Buddhist philosophy (Madhyamaka, or "the middle way"), but I found it readable. I was a philosophy major at the time and loved it. "Center" is a useful tome on how to reason your way into a realization of oneness. My mind was way too busy and unruly at that stage of my life to do calming meditation without just freaking out, so I felt greatly validated by being told, hey, there are some people who use their linear minds for this path and it's not all necessarily about sitting and meditating. The philosophy can be used to advance meditation, and the meditation can be used to digest the philosophy. They're a symbiosis in Buddhism.
Everything by Dean Radin: Dean Radin, the parapsychologist, gave me just what I needed to overcome my doubts about ESP, PK, et cetera. I was in some real denial about the existence of such things and he helped crack my shell, big time. Recommended for people with a strict physicalist outlook who want scientific proof that true interconnectedness exists.
Everything by Adyashanti: Adyashanti (Steven Gray) is a brilliant spiritual teacher, period. He's from Zen, but he doesn't cling to the lineage, and what he teaches is entirely in line with Ra/LoO. It's interesting that some people suspect Adyashanti is actually Jed McKenna (which is a pen name for an anonymous author). Adya has great videos on YouTube, and anyone would be helped by viewing them.
Others: Mooji (Anthony Paul Moo-Young) and John Sherman are two other nondual teachers whose YouTube videos I found indispensable. Gangaji (forget her real name) is good too. I also recommend Nisargadatta Maharaj's "I Am That," which can be found as a .pdf online by just searching for it on Google.
RE: What's your "canon"? - Cyan - 05-19-2012
Bible
Star Trek Chronicles Book(cant remembeer the exact name). Never Properly thanked my brother for it. It was a nice gift, i was too full of anger to feel anything.
Conversations with god
Law of One
X-Com Ufopaedia