What's your "canon"?

[abstrktion]

Hi All,
I realize that we do have a "favorite" books section on our profiles, but I'm interested to see a thread where people offer up their favorites--mainly because I think most of us will have chosen things that provide support and clarification (sometimes hearing the same thing in different terms helps) for the Ra material--so then when I look for the next book I want to read, they will have been pre-screened!

Anyways, so if you were to pick your top metaphysical books/book series or resources (might be a channeler/entity) you trust and see in light of the Ra material, what would they be?

My Cannon:

All books, including novels, written by Dion Fortune
The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception and The Web of Life by Max Heindel
The Michael channelings in the books put together by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Lady Ashtar - http://www.ladyashtar.com/ladyashtar.html
Oversoul Seven by Jane Roberts (great for "experiencing" the idea of being more than one intelligence at a time)
The Ra Material

Somewhat recently read and enjoyed

Dolores Cannon - The Three Waves of Volunteers
The 12th Insight - James Redfield (Read this last summer)

[norral]

check out a wanderers handbook by Carla. i believe u will like it

[abstrktion]

Thanks Norral--I'll read that next!

[3DMonkey]

The Kabbalah Tree: A Journey of Balance & Growth
Rachel Pollack

[Ruth]

Wow, I typed out a pretty long answer to your question abstriktion, but it vanished. I usually take that to mean I'm not meant to give the long answer. The short answer is the Bible. It is what I grew up on and, in my opinion, it's all "in there" if you have the eyes to see.

Love and Light

[AnthroHeart]

Neale Donald Walsh - Conversations with God
Dolores Cannon - Convoluted Universe (I've only read Book 1, which I'm rereading)
David Wilcock - Source Field Investigations (A little dry in parts)

[norral]

heres another that was written over 100 years ago.

advanced course in yogi philosophy

and oriental occultism

by yogi ramacharaka

the truth is in there for sure.

he was an englishman and he wrote several worth while books

on these topics.

[Unbound]

UMM

The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall

Seth Speaks, and A Nature of Personal Reality by Jane Roberts

The Other Bible - collection of gnostic scriptures, nag hammadi, dead sea scrolls, etc

The Ra Material, of course

The Holy Knowledge and Places of Power by Ljubisa Stojanovic

Bringers of the Dawn was also inspiring

But really, the vast majority of my ideas I have constructed myself through bits and pieces of information all over.

[TheFifty9Sound]

Anything by Tom Robbins.

[Ruth]

My canon is love the Creator first, and love everyone else as yourself.

And a chorus we used to sing when I was a kid attending Sunday School that taught me

J = Jesus first
O = Others next
Y = yourself last

C.S. Lewis space triology: Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra; That Hideous Strength
C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy etc.

I also have transcripts from a series of channelings with messages from a group entity called MAG - but they are in a box somewhere and I haven't read them for a long time. The messages are very similar to the Ra material.

And of course the Ra material - I read the first book sometime between 1989 & 1991 - don't recall exactly. I had been reading the Light Lines newsletters for awhile - a friend was sharing them. Still working on 2nd book, but have been sidetracked by the Wanderer's Handbook.

[abstrktion]

Yay Ruth!--so you found your list? I LOVED CS Lewis's Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity.

Thank you all for sharing!

[Ruth]

Well, truthfully, that's only a very small portion of my list of "favorites". But concepts from those few I listed cross my mind daily.

And if you loved Screwtape letters and Mere Christianity - you really MUST read the space triology! I have read them several times, but for the first time when I was about 15. I'd love to get your reaction to them! Especially Perelandra (which has been renamed, I believe to something about Venus).

[Plenum]

Ra books

Thinking and Destiny

Flow

almost any Pleiadian material

A Course in Miracles

Zen and the Brain

Shift of the Ages/Science of Oneness/The Divine Cosmos

Dragonlance Chronicles (great archetypes)

Cosmic Consciousness by Richard Bucke

The Third Eye by Lobsang Rampa

Frames of Mind: a theory of Multiple Intelligences

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these all inform my understanding of Ra.

[JustLikeYou]

The Ra Material
A Course in Miracles
Metu Neter
Tao Te Ching
I Ching
Bible
Israel Regardie's The Golden Dawn
Dewey Larson's work
Dion Fortune's Mystical Qabala (just found this thanks to abstrktion) (available on scribd.)
Siddhartha
The BoL Tarot cards

[Plenum]

what are your 5 Favourite Books?

I'll go first -

1)Law of One (of course lol)

2) Thinking and Destiny (deals with thought forms)

3) Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience (despite the title, a very easy read, and one that shifted my perspective in my 19/20 years)

4) A Course in Miracles (this book does NOT sound real.)

5) Bhagavad Gita, Yogananda commentary (this was my 'Law of One' before I discovered the Ra Material a decade later. Still fond of it).

[Bring4th_Austin]

It would be hard to narrow down a list to five, I do have one favorite book that will stick with me for the rest of my life.

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn was the book that really helped me raise my awareness of how I related to the rest of the world. It is a philosophical examination of the ethics behind the evolution and current state of world societies and ways of life. This book was truly a breakthrough for me and set me on a path of discovery and eventually spirituality.

[godwide_void]

At this point in life I'd say the 5 books that have had the most profound impact upon me and are most resonant with me are:

- The Law of One Ra Material
- From Science To God: A Physicist's Journey Into The Mystery of Consciousness
- The Meditator's Atlas: A Roadmap of the Inner World
- The Emerald Tablets of Thoth
- The Impersonal Life

[Ruth]

Top 5 huh? Well . . . .

1. The Bible -- especially the New Testament (as I am very familiar with it and feel that it gave me a good foundation for understanding the Law of One.
2. The Ra Material - and all the other books from L.L. Research
3. The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis (ok, so this is really 7 books)
4. The Ransom Trilogy by CS Lewis (ok, so this is really 3 books - but you really have to read them all as if they are just one)
5. The "book" of my life's experience - haven't written it yet, but it's been pretty interesting so far.

[Monica]

The Law of One
The Education of Oversoul Seven Trilogy by Jane Roberts
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Esoteric Philosophy of Love and Marriage by Dion Fortune
Dreamscape: Voyage in an Alternative Reality by Bruce A. Vance
The Shared Heart by Barry and Joyce Vissell
Spiritual Midwifery by Ina Mae Gaskin
The Essene Gospel of Peace Book 1 (attributed to Jesus, edited by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely)

oops sorry I can't narrow it down to just 5...and these are just the spiritual books that blew my mind and changed my life.

[Plenum]

thanks for the lists Austin, GV, Ruth, Monica.

some things to add to my read list

@Austin, that Ishmael is a book I have heard referenced in a few different places, but never figured out what it was lol

@GV, the Meditator's Atlas sounds like a buy from the title alone!

@Ruth, I'm positive I read some CS Lewis when I was a kid, but don't recall the stories themselves. I remember staring dreamily into the cover of Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe when I first found it in the library

@Monica, some lesser known picks there. I've read a bit of Dion Fortune, as well as Jane Roberts. Both sound like fascinating individuals in their real life as well as their work.

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your collective wisdom is much appreciated

[Lulu]

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.

[Ruth]

Lulu

I'd post the same list - but I would want to add (and meant to yesterday when I made my first post) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy & subsequent books by Douglas Adams, and The Fellowship of the Ring (and include the Hobbit) by Tolkien.

I'm a virgo, too, so I get it!

plenum - what I like about the CS Lewis books I mentioned is that they cover many of the aspects of the nature of the universe, but in story form instead of a teaching form. I like having the opportunity to allow my own imagination/memories to be triggered by the story line.

[Ankh]

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.

What is "that virgo thing"? I am a Virgo too. And what did you realize?

[Lulu]

what did I realize? well...that the ones posting would not really relate to my list, none of it supports Ra and the Law of One so it doesn't connect, and also that my list changes with my mood. I could never say Yellow is my Favorite color. My favorite color would be whatever shows up on a mood-ring. ;-)
Lulu

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the "virgo thing" is analyzing.

[Oldern]

1) Robert Jordan: The Wheel Of Time series. Because no other novel was with me, inspired me, pushed me forward to this long. Rest in peace. And looking forward to the last novel... the Light will be strong in that one : )
2) R.A. Salvatore: Homeland - Because I do not remember reading any other book this much. The story of one lone dark elf who recognizes that he is not like everyone else around him. He does not hate everyone else like they do. He is not egoistic. Oh, Drizzt! : )
3) Kazuya Minekura: Gensomaden Saiyuki / Saiyuki Reload / Saiyuki Gaiden: I could list a lot of mangas that were ultimately important for me in my spiritual growth, but really, this one takes the crown. It introduced me properly to the concept of buddhism, gave the idea of Journey to the West a different spin, and made me survive my darkest years. It is very dear to me, therefore.
4) Law of One: No single material has opened my eyes this strongly over such a short period of time. I am not putting it in the first place because I am subject to a linearity: whether every other thing in my life was preparing me for this, or whether needing to read this prepared me for reading those - the fact remains that everything else was also neeeded so I could even encounter this in the
first place.
Tied for fifth place:
5a) Kosztolányi Dezső: Esti Kornél: A Wonderful, wonderful series of short stories. Set in the 1920's Hungary, right in the middle of interesting problems - with an interesting writer and his interesting - invisible to others - "alterego". Kornél stays with me, even if I am not noticing him anymore. Just like I should not.
5b) J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye - being lost, not knowing your place? Falling to care how to live up to other people's expectations? It hits all the right notes, all the time. It is timeless, it is near-perfect.

[Ankh]

what did I realize? well...that the ones posting would not really relate to my list, none of it supports Ra and the Law of One so it doesn't connect, and also that my list changes with my mood. I could never say Yellow is my Favorite color. My favorite color would be whatever shows up on a mood-ring. ;-)
Lulu

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the "virgo thing" is analyzing.

Aha. I see. Yeah, if the list is changing with the mood, then it's difficult to have a list that would be constant.

I agree with the aspect of the personality that is analyzing. =)

My list:

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.

I wouldn't be posting this list on the forum for the psychiatrists though.

[Lulu]

I wouldn't be posting this list on the forum for the psychiatrists though.

awww but they need a reason to be STO!
;-)

[abstrktion]

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.

What is "that virgo thing"? I am a Virgo too. And what did you realize?

I'm another Virgo...hmm do we need a poll?

I started a thread a while ago on your personal "canon" --my favorites...

All Dion Fortune's novels, channeled material, and writings
The Ra Material
Messages from Michael
The Screwtape Letters
The Celestine Prophecy (and the sequels...not great lit, but makes the right points very simply)


But if I were on a literary forum...

Cry, The Beloved Country
The Stranger
The Poisonwood Bible
Pride and Prejudice/Sense and Sensibility
Bless Me, Ultima

[Lulu]

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?

[abstrktion]

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"...!