What books have expanded your consciousness, changed how you experience the world?

[CurtisW]

I'm asking which books, no matter the genre, whether sci-fi, horror, literary, classic, cookbook, philosophy, religious tome, grimoire, social science, how-to, history, military history, biography, book of poems, anthology of poems, pulp, fantasy, thriller, contemporary, ancient, etc has really offered you a fuller, richer appreciation of some aspect of the nature of your existence by the time you had finished it. What books did it feel like you were 'experiencing' while you were reading them? Have you ever had a feeling that a book has actually changed you?

[Anchor]

Yes, I can cite three right off:

1) The Cosmic Doctrine (Dion Fortune)
2) The Law Of One (LLResearch: D Elkins, J McCarty, C Ruekert)
3) The Handbook for a new paradigm (George Green)

[billyji]

To many to mention them all. but a few stand out.

1.The book of Enoch
2. The only planet of choice
3. Fingerprints of the Gods
4. All ancient scriptures, and myths and legends incl. Egyptian, Greek,Celtic, Hindu, Islam, Hebrew, Bible etc.

[enfoldedblue]

Seth SPeaks (Jane Roberts)
The Cosmic Trigger (Robert Anton Wilson)
The War beteen Zones 3 4 & 5 (Doris Lessing)
A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle) -As a child
Journey of Souls (Michael Newton)
Carlos Casteneda books

These are the ones that first spring to mind

Looking forard to seeing the progression of this thread

love

[Pony Express]

Posted by CurtisW (here)
I'm asking which books, no matter the genre, whether sci-fi, horror, literary, classic, cookbook, philosophy, religious tome, grimoire, social science, how-to, history, military history, biography, book of poems, anthology of poems, pulp, fantasy, thriller, contemporary, ancient, etc has really offered you a fuller, richer appreciation of some aspect of the nature of your existence by the time you had finished it. What books did it feel like you were 'experiencing' while you were reading them? Have you ever had a feeling that a book has actually changed you?

The Controversy of Zion -- Douglas Reed -- Where it all began
The Apocryphon Of John -- John the Apostle -- Where life began to make sense
The Apocalypse of Adam -- Adam -- Birth of honest compassion for human beings
The LoveSong of the Universe -- Mary Sparrowdancer -- Refreshing
Black Genesis -- Robert Bauval -- helpful

[Limor]

In no particular order- (Books that left me with a feeling of catharsis or with new profound insights!)

1) The celestine prphecy- James Radfield
2) The tenth insight - James Radfield
3) Initiation - Elisabeth Haich
4) The lost teaching of Atlantis - Jon Peniel
5) ET 101 - Zoev Jho
6) Mr pye - mervyn peake
7) The allies of humanity - book two - Marshal Vian Sumers
8) Vibrational Medicine - Richard Greber MD
9) Seth Books series - by Jane roberts
10) Walking between worlds,belonging to none - Ann Andrews
11) Family of light - Barbara Marciniak
12) Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
13) Infidel - Ayyan Hirsi Ali

[Someoneson1]

Kool post ... Enjoy

1 the Celestine prophecy
2 anything by Paulo coelho
3 a course in miracles

[Ilie Pandia]

Hey Limor, thank you for being so careful in crafting your post . I shall follow your example.

There are many books that have had a big impact on me, but the more recent ones are:

1) The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
2) Seth - Nature of personal reality - as channeled by Jane Roberts
3) Into a timeless realm - Michael Roads
4) Conversations with God, Book 1 - Neale Donal Walsch

And a notable mention is: How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World - Harry Browne

[CurtisW]

Posted by Ilie Pandia (here)
Hey Limor, thank you for being so careful in crafting your post . I shall follow your example.

Yes, that's a great idea!(hint hint.)

[WhiteFeather]

I'm currently reading. The Source Field Investigations by David Wilcock. Amazing, especially about consciousness. What we think, we become in the source field of consciousness.

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

Great thread! Thanks

"Soft" stuff:
1) Tons of fairy-tales in childhood
2) Tons of scifi and fantasy books...
3) Hobbit, Lord of The Rings (J.R.R Tolkien)
4) Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis)

"Hardcore" stuff:
0) Catholic Bible
1) The Handbook for a new paradigm and two other parts (George Green)
2) WingMakers material
3) The Urantia Book
4) Magical Child (J.C. Pearce)
5) Teaching of Don Juan (C. Castaneda)
6) The Crack in the Cosmic Egg (J.C. Pearce)

[Nortreb]

Super Duper Thread! Many thanks

Cosmic Creation (Prof. Hilton Hotema)
The Light of Egypt: The Science of the Soul and the Stars I & II (Thomas H. Burgoyne)

[Heyoka_11]

Thanks for the thread CurtisW,

1: 2001: A Space Odyssey (all) - Arthur C. Clarke
2: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all) - Douglas Adams
3: The Holy Bible - Various Authors
4: Anastasia (all) - Vladimir Megré
5: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
6: The Cosmic Conspiracy - Stan Deyo
7: The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium - Gerald Durrell

In the final book, by Durrel, which is a collection of shorts, the last chapter is an apparently true account of an encounter with a malevolent entity, trapped behind the mirrors hanging in a single house. Scared the living daylights out of me! I had to hang a towel over every mirror that night. I am not given over to that kind of behaviour. Powerful read!

[Star1111]

Soooooo many CurtisW and not enough time left to read everything I want to but I'm giving it a good try.
and I know when I reply to this I will think " ah, and THAT one", but for now here goes: (* = life changing)

Destiny of Souls - Michael Newton *
Field guide to the Soul - James Thornton
The Essential Whisper - La Rue Eppler/Vanessa Tabour Wesley *
Awareness - Anthony De Mello *
Spiritual Growth - Sanaya Roman *
Overcoming Grief - Sue Morris
Hello anyone Home - Joseph M Higgins
Life After Death - Depak Chopra
The five stages of the Soul - Harry R Moody/David Caroll
Exploring the Eternal Soul - insights from life between lives - Andy Tomlinson
As one is: to free the mind from conditioning - J Krishnamurti
Your Soul's Plan - Robert Schwartz
Inward Harmony - Marcey Hamm
8 Minute Meditation - Victor Davich

Non - spiritual

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte *
Madame Bouvery - Gustave Flaubert
Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Graheme
Have space suite will travel - Robert A. Heinlein
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery
Silas Marner - George Eliot
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe *
The madness of a seduced woman - Susan Fromberg Shaeffer *

So many more but I can't remember them all now........................

[Loveisall21]

Starsigns - Linda Goodman
Gooberz - Linda Goodman
Children of the Matrix - David Icke
A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
Conversations with God - Neal Donald Walsh
The Border Trilogy - Cormac McCarthy
Communion - Whitley Strieber
The Gnostic Gospels - Elaine Pagels

[ulli]

In order of appearance

The Supreme Adventure by Robert Crookall
The Foundation Trilogy and later additions by Isaac Asimov
Dune by Frank Herbert
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Time Enough fgor Love by Robert Heinlein
Many books by Ray Bradbury
In Search of the Miraculous...P.D.Ouspensky
A ton of astrology books
Several books by J. Krishnamurti
Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda
The Roots of Coincidence by Arthur Koestler
The Book of Certitude by Baha'u'llah
The Seven Valleys by Baha'u'llah
Tablets of Baha'u'llah
Synchronicity-Through the Eyes of Science by Allan Coombs and Mark Holland
The Day Aftwer Roswell by Col. Phillip Corso
Alien Agenda by Jim Marrs
The Hunt for Zero Point by Nick Cook

[bearcow]

the magus of java by Kosta Danaos
Opening the Dragon Gate by thomas cleary
Initiation into Hermetics by Franz Bardon
hands of light by barbara brennan
Bioenergetics by alexander lowen
Faust by Goethe

[Lost Soul]

George Green's four book series beginning with Handbook for the New Paradigm
Jon Peniel's Children of the Law of One and the Lost Teachings of Atlantis. Ties in with Thoth's Emerald Tablets.
Red Elk's Short Stories. Just released this year, it provides a lot of spiritual teachings, outdoor survival and humor.
I also enjoyed Inelia Benz's two books: Personal and Global Ascension 101, Vol. 1 and Interview With an Alien

[Lefty Dave]

Many of the books listed above I have read and concur their value...however no book taught me more than...

THE AGE OF REASON ...by Thomas Paine

[pie'n'eal]

Carefree Dignity and Fearless Simplicity by Tsoknyi Rinpoche.