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

Curt

13th October 2011, 11:10

Anchor

13th October 2011, 11:14

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)

Billy

13th October 2011, 11:21

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

13th October 2011, 11:28

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

13th October 2011, 11:53

Limor Wolf

13th October 2011, 11:55

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

1) The celestine prphecy (http://www.amazon.com/Celestine-Prophecy- James-Redfield/dp/0446671002#reader_0446671002)- James Radfield
2) The tenth insight (http://www.amazon.com/Tenth-Insight-Holding-Celestine-Prophecy/dp/0446674575/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b#reader_0446674575) - James Radfield
3) Initiation (http://www.amazon.com/Initiation-Elisabeth-Haich/dp/0943358507) - Elisabeth Haich
4) The lost teaching of Atlantis (http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Teachings-Atlantis-Jon-Peniel/dp/0966001532#reader_0966001532) - Jon Peniel
5) ET 101 (http://www.amazon.com/T-101-Instruction-Emergency-Remedial/dp/0962695807) - Zoev Jho
6) Mr pye (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mr-Pye-Mervyn- Peake/dp/0099283263#reader_0099283263) - mervyn peake
7) The allies of humanity - book two (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/esp_allies_humanity_6.htm) - Marshal Vian Sumers
8) Vibrational Medicine (http://www.amazon.com/Vibrational-Medicine-Handbook-Subtle-Energy-Therapies/dp/1879181584) - Richard Greber MD
9) Seth Books (http://www.amazon.com/Seth-Speaks-Eternal-Validity-Soul/dp/1878424076) series - by Jane roberts
10) Walking between worlds,belonging to none (http://www.amazon.com/Walking-Between-Worlds-Belonging-None/dp/0979175038) - Ann Andrews
11) Family of light (http://www.amazon.com/Family-Light-Pleiadian-Lessons-Living/dp/1879181479) - Barbara Marciniak
12) Ishmael (http://www.amazon.com/Ishmael-Adventure-Spirit-Daniel-Quinn/dp/0553375407) - Daniel Quinn
13) Infidel (http://www.amazon.com/Infidel-Ayaan-Hirsi-Ali/dp/0743289684) - Ayyan Hirsi Ali

Someoneson1

13th October 2011, 12:09

Kool post ... Enjoy

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

Ilie Pandia

13th October 2011, 12:21

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 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Now-Guide-Spiritual-Enlightenment/dp/0340733500) - Eckhart Tolle
2) Seth - Nature of personal reality (http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Personal-Reality-Practical-Techniques/dp/1878424068) - as channeled by Jane Roberts
3) Into a timeless realm (http://www.amazon.com/Into-Timeless-Realm-Metaphysical-Adventure/dp/0915811669) - Michael Roads
4) Conversations with God, Book 1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Conversations-God-Uncommon-Dialogue-cover/dp/0340693258/) - Neale Donal Walsch

And a notable mention is: How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World (www.amazon.co.uk/How-Found-Freedom-Unfree-World/dp/0965603679) - Harry Browne

Curt

13th October 2011, 12:30

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.) :director:

WhiteFeather

13th October 2011, 12:35

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

13th October 2011, 12:37

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

13th October 2011, 12:46

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

13th October 2011, 13:07

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

13th October 2011, 13:15

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

13th October 2011, 14:12

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

13th October 2011, 14:28

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

13th October 2011, 14:48

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

13th October 2011, 17:39

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

13th October 2011, 18:02

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

Tony

13th October 2011, 18:10

Carefree Dignity and Fearless Simplicity by Tsoknyi Rinpoche.

shadowstalker

13th October 2011, 18:23

http://the-unseen.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=11203244
All these book have helped me expand and learn,
Sorry i put a link up its just easier then writing it all out again.
There are a few more I have to read tho, but not in that list.

Lifebringer

13th October 2011, 18:41

Urantia Book of Celestials before Mankind and the Earth as well as the whole story of Jesus/Yashuah's life.
Zacharia Sitchen's Wars of Gods and Men
UFO 1973 edition
K'oran
Gideons Bible
Book of Enoch
Book of Apostles
Book of Agnostics
King James's version
Translation of the Tora
and the Bible Codes and Pyramid Codes
However the Urantia Book answered all the questions I had concerning the former books and reaffirmed me that you don't have to belong to the church houses on the Material world, to go to Heaven.
You just have to love God and your neighbor so you can be sociable to move to other dimensions.

Tarka the Duck

13th October 2011, 19:06

When I first became interested in Buddhism, I read Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by the Tibetan lama, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. It is relentless and hard-hitting, but it gave me a grounded and unsentimental foundation for the path I was to follow.

The "Spiritual Materialism" of the title refers to the way in which we apply the same goal-orientated approach of everyday life to the spiritual path.

It makes you question your motives for embarking on the spiritual journey i the first place, and hopefully begin the recognise the myriad of subtle tricks that your ego will play in order to try to survive - and how painful that can be.

It's tough, but it's written in an easy to read, humorous way...

laughs-last

13th October 2011, 19:13

Dune (both triologies) Frank Herbert
The Teachings of Don Juan : Carlos Castaneda
Urban Shaman: Serge Kahali King

and finally

The Very Hungry Caterpillar : Eric Carle (this set my mind in motion, I guess the colorful kids book, and the butterfly ending sums me up to a tee)

BIG HUGZ LOVE AND LIBRARIANS (shhhhh) :jester:

John Parslow

13th October 2011, 19:34

Hello CurtisW

A brief list of the many:

A tale of two Cities - Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Far from the madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Silas Marner - George Eliot
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
Nana - Emile Zola
Selected Short Stories - Guy de Maupassant
Tess of the d’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
The Earth Chronicles by Zecharia Sitchin
The Holy Bible – With emphasis on the four Gospels and Revelations
The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) by Umberto Eco
The old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens

… and many others far too numerous to mention here.

Best regards. JP :cool:

another bob

13th October 2011, 19:37

Greetings, Friends!

A few that come to mind:

Lives of the Saints
Ashtavakra Gita
Diamond, Prajnaparamita, and Lankavatara Sutras
Autobiography of a Yogi, Yogananda
The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way, Anonymous
Ramakrishna and His Disciples, Isherwood
Daughter of Fire, Tweedie
Play of Consciousness, Muktananda
I Am That, Nisargadatta Maharaj
Zen Mind Beginners Mind, Suzuki
Journey of Souls, Newton
Be As You Are, Godman

Blessings!

cloud9

13th October 2011, 19:49

I've read thousands of books, many of them have inspired me but the ones than stand out for me:

Coversations with God (all 3)
Home with God

The reason why I love those books is because they gave me a sense of peace and knowing that no matter what's going on everything is as it should be but at the same time the universe is so incredible we always have options.
Home with God is by far the most uplifting one, an incredible read but you need the background of the first 3.

crosby

13th October 2011, 19:51

Nausea ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The Age of Reason ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The First Man ~ Albert Camus
The Interrogation ~ J.M.G. LeClezio
regards, corson

noprophet

13th October 2011, 19:53

Three books in this order. Anyone who asks me or is interested in spiritual, true nature of reality kind of stuff I tell to read these three in order.

Mystical kabalah (right eye of horus)
God is a verb (left eye of isis)
Secrets of the flower of life parts one and two

ktlight

13th October 2011, 20:32

All of
Shakespeare
Charles Dickens
Vedanta
Vedas
Tao
The Old and New Testaments
Torah
Obscure African religions
Ouspensky
Madam Blavatsky
Alice Bailey
Annie Besant
Almost all of Jiddu Krishnamurti
Debates between Krishnamurti and Prof David Bohm
Patrick Tilley
Greg Bear

Many, many others.

noprophet

13th October 2011, 21:10

Annie Besant

Easily one of my favorite theosophical writers. Way ahead of her time.

Mare

13th October 2011, 21:37

Not known as prolific in the birthing of threads on this forum, I do wish I had thought of this one first! The universe after all is made of language, and here we can all enjoy eath others stepping stones across the streams of discovery.

Pandaemonium: The Coming of the Machine Age as Seen by Contemporary Observers ~ Humphrey Jennings

The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise ~ R.D Laing

The Legend of the Holy Drinker ~ Joseph Roth

The Archaic Revival ~ Terence McKenna

Birthday Letters ~ Ted Hughes

Down and Out in Paris and London ~ George Orwell

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ~ James Joyce

Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self ~ Claire Tomalin

All Quiet on the Western Front ~ Erich Maria Remarque

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time ~ Mark Haddon

Orlando ~ Virginia Woolf

Just a few off the top of my head and in no particular order..

haibane

13th October 2011, 22:59

Most of the sci-fi and such like I read when I was a kid:

Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
1984 (a samizdat edition) by George Orwell
Brave New World (a sanitized translation published by a major communist-times publisher as 'The End of Civilization') by Aldous Huxley
The Ten Cities by Marcello Argilli
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
Escape Attempt, Limping Fate, Roadside Picnic, The Inhabited Island by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Non-fiction:

The Morning of the Magicians by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier
Telepatie a jasnovidnost (Telepathy and clairvoyance) by Zdeněk Rejdák

(^__^ )

EileenCookies

13th October 2011, 23:11

Books open up the idea that something could be different. It is a testament to the spirit that direct contact with a person of a higher frequency activates us. So I refer people to talks verses reading material....unless they are pretty spirit-less.

etheric underground

14th October 2011, 04:10

ONENESS by rasha
CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD By neale donald walsh
VOICES IN MY EAR by doris stokes

mosquito

14th October 2011, 04:46

1) The Healing Power of Illness (Thorwald Dethlefsen & Rudiger Dahlke) - This is the closest I have to a bible !!
2) Secrets of the Talking Jaguar (Martin Prechtel)
3) Journey to You (Ross Heaven)
4) How to Stop Worying and Start Living (Dale Carnegie)
5) Dao De Jing (Lao Zi)
6) Excerpts Frpom Zen Buddhist Texts (Various)

I've also learned so so much from literature, the ones which spring to mind are :

Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien)
Journey to The West (Wu Cheng En)
The Woodlanders (Thomas Hardy)
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
Canterbury Tales (Geofrey Chaucer)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Just William books (Richmal Crompton)
The Diskworld series (Terry Pratchett)

Dawn

14th October 2011, 05:49

I can't remember so many of them that were truly turning points however here are a few:
Whipping Star by Frank Herbert
The Bartimaeus Trilogy
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran ... poems like this allowed me to experience something beyond words
Diary of a Yogi by Yogananda
Halfway Up the Mountain: The Error of Premature Claims to Enlightenment by Mariana Caplan
Earth: Pleiadian Keys to the Living Library by Barbara Marciniak
any of the books by Mantak Chia
Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing by Coleman Barks ... these poems were a road for me to high states indeed
The Dosadi Experiment by Frank Herbert
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences by Peter A. Levine
Walden by Henry David Thoreau

I have found that when I open a book I am able to connect directly to the frequency where that information exists and experience the knowledge directly for myself. It took a lot of reading before this started happening, however it was worth every moment of 'practice'.

Earthship

14th October 2011, 06:51

Thanks for your question, CurtisW.

My books:
1. Hara: The Vital Center of Man. Karlfried Graf Durckheim
2. Zen in the Art of Archery. Eugen Herrigel
3. Aikido and the Harmony of Nature. Mitsugi Saotome

kersley

14th October 2011, 07:40

The 12th planet - Sitchin
Gods of the new mellenium - Alan Alford

Curt

14th October 2011, 08:46

This is great. Lots of good stuff here. Some things I've never heard of, and some others I wouldn't have expected. Absolutely love this. Thanks to everyone and keep 'em coming.

By the way,
"Ironweed" by William Kennedy
"40 Stories" by Donald Barthelme (If you want to laugh your face clean off your head then I highly recommend this one)
"Down and Out in Paris and London" by George Orwell
"A Moveable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway
"Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman
"Long Day's Journey Into Night" by Eugene O'Neil

markpierre

14th October 2011, 08:47

Oh this is good....I gotta think.

I have to say the most influential is the workbook of "A Course in Miracles". I was mandated to do it, struggled with it, , played undisciplined and distracted and did everything wrong. I did the one year workbook in about eight years but ate it and breathed it and taught it and made an *ss of myself over it before I gave up and put it away. It wasn't long after, that I noticed I was completely different. And I was still 'me'.
Not the most pleasurable read. Not rest room material.

Next would be Ken Carey's Classic "The Starseed Transmissions". Formative years. We were all hippies, anything was cool. But it got me beginning to question whether just escaping hell for brief moments was the best option. You had to actually take hell on and convert it. There would be no such thing as hell when we were done. No one mentioned anything to the first wavers just how hard this was going to be, and how LONG. That's the story of the vineyard. I hate that story.

My childhood favorite, "The Martian Chronicles". "How can one man be right, when the whole world thinks him wrong?" Good mantra when you try to always do the right thing. Nobody respects you for that.

Then "Journeys Out of the Body" by Bill Monroe. He drove my boat right out of the harbor when I was just about 18. I realized I wasn't really that weird, and I never really questioned my sanity again.
Excellent restroom or anywhere material, extremely entertaining.

That was good fun, thanks.

meeradas

14th October 2011, 08:49

i "lived" these:

Mother of All - Richard Schiffman
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna - Mahendranath Gupta
The Law of Undulation - Ikuro Adachi
Chasm of Fire/ Daughter of Fire - Irina Tweedie
Tripura Rahasya - Dattatreya (?)
Mother of the Universe - Lex Hixon/ Ramprasad
The Hidden Fire - T.S. Anantha Murthy
The Adventure of Consciousness - Satprem

Curt

14th October 2011, 08:49

Oh, and "The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry," an anthology of poems that speak in a language and about a world you can more easily identify than much of the stuff you were forced to read in school.

Tony

14th October 2011, 08:55

Oh I forgot. George Orwell-1984 and Animal farm. Aldous Huxley - Brave New World.

Both reveal how 'they' think.

ktlight

14th October 2011, 09:16

Oh I forgot. George Orwell-1984 and Animal farm. Aldous Huxley - Brave New World.

Both reveal how 'they' think.

Me too, I forgot.

And Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, and subsequent works.

And URANTIA

And Stevensborg

And Arabian Nights

Eric J (Viking)

14th October 2011, 09:20

About 25 years ago I was going through a pretty rough stage in my life. I was spiraling downward rapidly, and I couldn't undestand what was going on. All I thought of was why me...why me. Anyway after asking above for help and to put me on the right track, I was in a book store looking for answers and a book caught my eye. It was all about thought projection and how we create our reality before us. It went on to say that this book will change your life as long as you keep within the rules of the content. So there you go I bought the book and haven't looked back since. I now have a lovely house am married with 4 great kids. I also run my own business which allows me to support my family comfortably, and all this was done with my thought processes/consciousness. I realized that I could create my own little bubble regardless of what is going on around you. I am proof that this works. Since then I have read all sorts of books about this subject. St Germaine is a master at this process!

I have also found great connection and comfort within the Phoenix Journels. Its far more than just a spiritual lesson and goes into detail just about everything. The information contained is hugely profound and correct IMO. Please note that the Journels were not channeled but messages recieved via radio signal so as not to distort the true 'meaning or message' .

Anyway its all a journey and we all have to go with what we feel comfortable with. There are many truths out there for us all to discover in different ways. If we ask then we will be directed on the right path.

I would like to add that I have found an awakening here at Avalon as well with all sorts of information presented daily. It gets a bit mind boggling at times, but we somehow get through the mist and recognize the 'truths'.

I would also like to say that at this moment in time we are all underging massive change and will witness the transformation of a new world. The old is about to crumble. And the new is about to be birthed.

~~~~~~~~

viking

guido

14th October 2011, 09:41

- life and teachings of the masters of the far east; Baird T. Spalding
- autobiography of a yogi; paramahamsa Yogananda
- the holy science; swami Sri Yukteswar
- Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba; Ram Dass

Sky

14th October 2011, 10:35

1. The Holy Bible
2. The 64 Keys of Enoch - Dr JJ Hurtak
3. Pistus Sophia - Dr JJ Hurtak
3. Nag Hammadi Scrolls
4. The Dead Sea Scrolls

"We are spiritual beings here for a human experience..."

mahalall

14th October 2011, 11:15

The life of Milarepa by lobzang jivaka
Tale of love and magic by Alexandra David-Neel

Books based on true events always seem to take you deeper, following these stories takes one into the shadow of the hero.
Observing a tibetan magician attempting to achieve immortality by extracting the vital energy through sacrificing their victims is well argh!!
Your'll respect and value your teacher more after reading these tales

ThePythonicCow

14th October 2011, 11:29

The C Programming Language, by Kernighan and Ritchie.

GaelVictor

14th October 2011, 11:40

1. Meetings with remarkable men, Life is real only then, when 'I AM' by G.I.Gurdjieff
2. The KYBALION
3. The secret teachings of ALL AGES by Manly P. Hall
4...

aranuk

14th October 2011, 12:12

Carlos Casteneda books. Zen Budhism, The Bible, Gurdjieff
Carl Gustav Jung book Dreams, reflections and something I can't remember. Occult Science by Rudolf Steiner
Books by: Yogananda, J. Krishnamurti, Shivapuribaba, Ramana Maharshi, Alan Watts, Rudolf Steiner, Astrology books. Project Camelot all videos and transcripts.

Stan

Russ1959

14th October 2011, 12:43

Great thread, I remember illusions by Richard Bach being a pivotal read amongst many that have been afore mentioned. I think of the many I have read including occult books the most powerful book for me is the New Testament. Having studied the parables of Jesus at length I found myself being directed to different chapters and different verses creating a very different story. I experienced enlightenment to the height of elation which estranged my family and friends at that time! The best way to describe is, imagine a book with hundreds of pages. All the page numbers, paragraphs and verse numbers removed. Each verse cut from the main page so there are literally thousands of mixed up verses. Somehow I was directed to reading these verses in a specific order that told a very different story. So much so it blew my mind more than anything I had read previously! I would say that the the revelations I learned from that time changed my life. The strange thing is that since then I have not read the new testament since as my experience was so profound I was medically sectioned. I know I must return to the holiest of books quite soon and hopefully enjoy stability this time!

phimonic

14th October 2011, 17:40

i don't want to make a list right now, and i don't read a lot, except specialised literature, but what i really want to recommend is:

The Power of Limits
By Gyorgy Doczi

One of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in nature - the designs revealed by slicing through a head of cabbage or an orange, the forms of shells and butterfly wings. These images are awesome not just for their beauty alone, but because they suggest an order underlying their growth, a harmony existing in nature. What does it mean that such an order exists, how far does it extend?

The Power of Limits was inspired by those simple discoveries of harmony. The author then went on to investigate and measure hundreds of patterns - ancient and modern, minute and vast. His discovery, vividly illustrated here, is that certain proportions occur over and over again in all these forms. Patterns are also repeated in how things grow and are made - by the dynamic union of opposites - as demonstrated by the spirals which move in opposite directions in the growth of a plant.

The joining of unity and diversity in the discipline of proportional limitations creates forms that are beautiful to us because they embody the principles of the cosmic order of which we are a part; conversely, the limitlessness of that order is revealed by the strictness of its forms. The author shows how we, as humans, are included in the universal harmony of form, and suggests that the union of complementary opposites may be a way to extend that harmony to the psychological and social realms as well.

Gyorgy Doczi has practiced architecture in Hungary, Sweden, Iran and the United States. He initiated a permanent exhibit on form in nature and art at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, and is a founder of the Friends of Jungian Psychology Northwest. He lives in Seattle.

Fina

14th October 2011, 22:58

Books I am so glad I discovered. In roughly chronological order, from age 2

- 'The Little Red Hen' - Ladybird Book. Taught me to become independent.
- 'The 13th is Magic' by Joan Howard. Introduced the idea of hidden worlds & portals!
- Ray Bradbury short stories - Introduced me to time travel, mind control, aliens,
- "The Complete Book of Fortune" 1936 - found my late Granny's copy about age 10.
- Kurt Vonnegut - 'Breakfast of Champions' aged 12 - showed me that rules can be broken, boundaries pushed back and risks can be taken. Alltime favourite one - 'Slapstick, or Lonesome No More".
- Carlos Casteneda - 'Don Juan' series. Felt oddly 'familiar/natural'?
- Lyall Watson, 'Supernature'. Always remembered that plants have feelings.
- 'Hitchhikers Guide' terribly inaptly-named Trilogy of 5 books. A friend recently described Douglas Adams as "Probably the best 20th Century Philosopher".
- Doris Stokes / Silver Birch / White Eagle / Michael Bentine / Gordon Higginson etc

Recently re-read 'Supernature', discovered he wrote a book 2- "Beyond Supernature". Read 5 of his so far & collecting the rest from Ebay. "Gifts of Unknown Things" was an amazing & beautiful book!

seehas

14th October 2011, 23:16

just two that settled my start...

1. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
2. The Tibetian Book of Living and Dying - Sogyal Rinpoche

and two other ones that did my start for anther topic the curiosity is that the two topics today are one ;)

1. The Gulf Breeze Ufos - Ed Walters
2. Abduction, Human Encounters with Aliens - Prof. Dr. John E Mack

when i was maybe 13years old i found the book "Back to the Stars" from Erich von Däniken from 1969 in my GrandGrand Fathers Book Collection and i was realy fascinated, somehow this stuff interested me when i was at a real young age. Erich von Däniken is a Pioneer in Preastronautic research.

TraineeHuman

14th October 2011, 23:50

1. If you go to www.barrylong.org (http://www.barrylong.org), you will find some audios and videos, plus some other sites from which you can obtain some of the late Barry Long's books, videos and audios.

2. The Life Divine, by Sri Aurobindo

Poly Hedra

14th October 2011, 23:56

Carlos Casteneda books - 2o's
Seth Speaks - 20's
Awakened Imagination - Neville Goddard- available as a free download here - http://www.archive.org/details/AwakenedImagination
Life After Death (not deepak chopra) had a chapter on how to have an OBE, I was 14.
Ahh this is too hard, so many, but the Casteneda series had a huge effect on me.

DeDukshyn

15th October 2011, 00:11

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 Third Millennium" by Ken Carey (Brilliant!)
"The Four Agreements" by don Miguel Ruiz
"Journey of Souls" by Michael <something>
"A Course in Miracles" by <some old lady who wouldn't take credit>

And I have to add the video "What The <Bleep> Do We Know?" also is in this list - even though its more of a documentary.

No one can be searching, read these four books above and the video, and not be a completely changed person afterwards. There's a ton more that I can add to the list: "The Door of Everything" by Ruby Nelson should be on there as well for a good spiritual / new agey title. oh and Alan M Alfords "Gods of the new millennium" for alternative theories on earth's past was also great.

EDIT: "Big Pharma" is another good one ... lays out the hidden realities of the business of drug dealing ("legal" drugs that is ;-)

East Sun

15th October 2011, 00:27

Each one was part of the jig saw puzzle of life.

Short stories by James Joyce.
The Bible
Books on Edgar Cayce
Books by Joseph Campbel
The Tibetan book of Living and Dying
Some Sitchin Books
Law of One
Gnostic Gospels
Dead Sea Scrolls
Nag Hammadi Scrolls
The RA Material
Lost Scriptures by Bart D. Rhraman
Forbidden Science - Edited by J. Douglas Kenyon

Jig saw will never be complete.

TraineeHuman

15th October 2011, 00:29

I forgot to mention that you can download a free one hour audio from http://www.barrylong.org. If you listen very sincerely and very honestly to that audio alone, you will be a changed being.

Samsara

15th October 2011, 00:41

Many books have made their mark in my life. Books are wonderful teachers. They let you think and find your own way. Here are a few favourite:

The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Jonathan Livingston Seagull; Illusions; One - Richard Bach
The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
The Peaceful Warrior; The Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior - Dan Milman
The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo
the Bible (my favourite books being Ecclesiastes and the Psalms)
in a very dark period of my life this book help me understand the anguish that was biting my soul "Le chemin des nuages ou la folie de Dieu: de l'angoisse à la sainteté" (sorry don't know of any translation in English) - DR Mardon-Robinson, frère Ephraïm
during that period I also read many books on the life of St-Francis, my little brother
The Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer - Gregg Braden
De l'Enfance au Paradis; Le Petit Livre de Joshua - Marjolaine Caron

And of course The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley

Curt

24th January 2012, 19:03

....It's not a spiritual book in any way shape or form, but a book called, 'reWork' is pretty great for anyone who wants to be a freelancer, or even for anyone who otherwise wants to be free to pursue a goal, and work independently.

xbusymom

25th January 2012, 13:23

I started reading- as a pre-teen – a couple of books by Dick (Richard) Sutphen [“past lives, future loves” and “you were born again to be together”], and followed along with my parents study group material (which happened to be “A Search for God” using the Edgar Cayce stuff collected by the Area for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) foundation in Virginia Beach; as well as many of Richard Bach’s books- [Jonathan Livingston Seagull, One, Illusions, etc.]. In the early years of my first marriage, I was heavy into the entire collection of Robert Heinlein, and the teen books by Madeleine L’Engle [the “Wrinkle in Time” trilogy].