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Posted: 07 November 2009 03:06 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 46 ]  
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Some of my faves: Autobiography of a Yogi, The Doors of Perception, The Road Less Traveled, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Bringers of the Dawn - Teachings from the Pleiadians.

Fiction wise, love the Dune series.

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Posted: 05 December 2009 12:54 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 47 ]  
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Surprised theres no Iain M Banks here, Simon youve got the Wasp Factory down, now you need to try Iain Banks when he really lets his imagination go! (+ M) seriously involved, thought provoking utopian sci-fi. And if that puts anyone off, then, well, im not a huge sci-fi fan, but this is something else. Try Consider Phlebas..

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Posted: 05 December 2009 04:45 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 48 ]  
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Ishmael-Daniel Quinn
The Story of B-Daniel Quinn
Cosmos-Carl Sagan
Fight Club & Surviver-Chuck Palahniuk
Thus Spoke Zarathustra- Nietzsche
True Hallucinations-Mckenna

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Posted: 17 December 2009 02:39 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 49 ]  
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I have to but they are in a series so i think it counts. The first book in the series is called Twilight and the sequal is called New Moon. It is the coolest story EVER! so its about this chick who moves to a small rainy town and meets a vampire and they fall in love. but her vampire lover has to save her from a roage vampire who wants to kill her. it is AWESOME!!! i highly recomend it

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Posted: 23 December 2009 10:09 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 50 ]  
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How about the last book to make you cry?


The Halfblood Prince

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Posted: 25 January 2010 07:58 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 51 ]  
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Perennial Philosophy - Aldous Huxley

Madnesss and Civilization - Michel Foucault
The Politics of Experience… - R.D. Laing
The Theater and its Double - Antonin Artaud
The Masks of God - Joseph Campbell

Mind Parasites - Colin Wilson
We can build you - P.K.Dick
The Gods themselves - Isaac Asimov
Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco

Clan of the Cave bear - Jean M. Auel
Possession - A.S.Byatt
Angela Carter

Gulliver’s Travels - J. Swift
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The Painted Word - Tom Wolfe
No Turn Unstoned - Mrs. Peel
The Si ChChing - My Fiance
Antic Stuff - Tom Sharpe
The Book of Ultimate Truths - Robert Rankin
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Posted: 05 February 2010 12:21 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 52 ]  
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Finished the first three Zamonia books by Walter Moers, incredibly zany and more imaginative than anything I’ve read for years. I loved book #3, The City of Dreaming Books. I think if you dig Douglas Adams, you’ll probably love these.

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Posted: 07 February 2010 10:04 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 53 ]  
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I just finished ‘White tiger’ by Aravind Adiga…. i can highly recommend it, especially if you’ve been to india…. it’s darkly funny and engaging.
Now i’m going for a quantum physics hit…. just got some david bohm, fritjof capra and carl sagan… science is brilliant!

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Posted: 08 February 2010 03:51 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 54 ]  
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Hallucinogen - 07 February 2010 10:04 PM

Now i’m going for a quantum physics hit….

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I really should start reading books.
I’ve only finished one (non-academic) book, ever.
Alice in Wonderland. (heartily recommended btw)

Meh…it’s all a matter of what you choose to do with your time.  oh oh

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Posted: 08 February 2010 04:58 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 55 ]  
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Guess what I read?

Schrodinger bilocatted when he took the blue pill.
But he wound up in a world called RajaFans.
So he took another one.
And wound up back here.

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Posted: 08 February 2010 05:23 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 56 ]  
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Cloudwalker - 08 February 2010 03:51 AM

Alice in Wonderland. (heartily recommended btw)

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“...we each must become like fishermen and go out on to the dark ocean of mind and let your nets down into that sea…
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Posted: 08 February 2010 05:45 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 57 ]  
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Ah, here we have another one!

Listen…

Who cast the first stone?

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Posted: 08 February 2010 05:51 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 58 ]  
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Geez, wiccita…decipher that, would ya?

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“...we each must become like fishermen and go out on to the dark ocean of mind and let your nets down into that sea…
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Posted: 08 February 2010 06:00 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 59 ]  
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I’m on with a few books simultaneously.
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life. Jon Kabat-Zinn.
I’ve found this very interesting and also very helpful in the way I can deal with certain things. Also how to just cleanse the mind of thoujghts and distractions and be in the now.

The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton Ph.D.

Stunning new discoveries have been made about the interaction between your mind and body and the processes by which cells receive information. It shows that genes and DNA do not control our biology, that instead DNA is controlled by signals from outside the cell, including the energetic messages emanating from our thoughts.

What I’ve read and that is only the first 30 pages or so it seems like it will be an interesting read. I think it wants to kick Darwins arse. It goes against the dogma of traditional Biology. I have to approach this with an open mind as I can’t dispute things he says with facts as I’m no Ph.D dude myself. There are mixed reviews to this book and I’m not saying what he writes is gospel. I’ve just started to read it.

I’m also reading a baby book. The Contented Baby’s First Year: The Secret to a Calm and Contented Baby: A Month-by-month Guide to Your Baby’s Development. It’s scaring the shit out of me but is also very informative. People have said to me it will come naturally, what to do etc. However I’m glad that I’m getting a little heads up and not going into it blindly.

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Posted: 08 February 2010 06:26 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 60 ]  
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Wow! Great books, guys smile

The Volcano Lover by Susan Sontag.

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