What book would you recommend everyone read in their lifetime

[Richter]

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.

[thepainterdoug]

Blindness by José Saramago | Goodreads
From Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations, and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides her charges—among ...
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[rgray222]

Posted by DNA (here)

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Posted by DNA (here)
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield.

DNA, I concur, The Celestine Prophecy is great, definitely changed things for me.
I especially loved how they discussed working with plants, and how to regard all life forms for their inherent sentience, although it is different than ours, it can still be engaged with via consciousness connection. These concepts helped me a lot as I traveled through the wilderness landcapes in my many years of backpacking and park ranger work and wilderness guiding, and the later settled down to where I began to garden and do permaculture. Listening to the plants is the key to all successful relationships with one’s garden.

Picking the Celestine Prophecy was hard because there are better works in my opinion but none in just one short book that can be read in literally two or three sittings like the Celestine Prophecy.

If I didn't pick the Celestine Prophecy I would pick The Michael Teachings by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.

I remember reading the Celestine Prophecy years ago and I had not thought about it until you brought it up. My recollection is that this was a wonderful book which was a joy to read but it was way too short. I am going to revisit this book once again and I definitely will give 'The Michael Teachings' a read.

[Craig]

I subconsciously thought of The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub, unsure why, haven't thought of it previously for decades but do remember reading the hell out of it on the commute to and from work last century

[Vicus]

Not in His Image (15th Anniversary Edition)


With clarity, author John Lamb Lash explains how a little-known messianic sect propelled itself into a dominant world power, systematically wiping out the great Gnostic spiritual teachers, the Druid priests, and the shamanistic healers of Europe and North Africa. Early Christians burned libraries and destroyed temples in an attempt to silence the ancient truth-tellers and keep their own secrets.

“Sometimes a book changes the world. Not in His Image is such a book. It is clear, stimulating, well-researched, and sure to outrage the experts. . . .


https://ia800902.us.archive.org/27/i...h%20(2006).pdf

[sunwings]

Under the guidance of such celebrated masters as Ed Parker and the immortal Bruce Lee, Joe Hyams vividly recounts his more than 25 years of experience in the martial arts. In his illuminating story, Hyams reveals to you how the daily application of Zen principles not only developed his physical expertise but gave him the mental discipline to control his personal problems-self-image, work pressure, competition.

[seehas]

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying



this book contains universal spiritual knowledge about death and transition, regardless of whether you are a buddhist or not.

[onawah]

Must-read list for conspiracy theorists

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[edina]

For many years my top book to recommend was A Course in Miracles. It's not an easy book to read, in part, because as you read it the logic of one's mind is turned almost inside-out. The experience of reading the book and doing the workbook lessons is transformative.

Recently, I've been looking at Joe Dispenza's book, Becoming Supernatural. I think if people "get" the ideas and apply them, it too, can become personally, individually, and culturally at the the human species level, equally transformative, maybe even more so. Still investigating it...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=V_-K4GUX53k

(Support documents mentioned at the beginning of the audiobook)

[Ioneo]

As A Man Thinketh by James Allen published in 1903 and still as relevant as it was then.

[Mike]

Maybe 'The Alchemist'.

It's not my favorite book. My tastes are far darker and weirder. But it might be the most important book re the marriage between fate and free will, and having the courage to follow your "personal legend".

[Bright Skies]

Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
Journey of Souls - Dr Michael Newton. An exploration of reality.

Wow! What a synchronicity!

Last night I reunited with an old work colleague who I have not had contact with for four years.

We worked on the COVID frontline together as welfare officers stationed at the airport where we identified the health and welfare concerns of passengers who were directed into quarantine. (Note: I was suspicious of the p(l)andemic from the beginning and I applied for the position in order to see what was going on from the inside.)

Due to changes in the system our team was disbanded before the harmful mandates were implemented. Indeed I resisted the mandates as they were in contravention to the principles of patient advocacy and I am currently assisting those who were injured and abandoned by the system. (See: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...tern-Australia )

It turns out my old work colleague has the same feelings as I do on this matter. I did not know this since we have not had contact for four years.

Our conversation then turned to spiritual matters and it became rather synchronous as we ended up sharing similar thoughts and feelings on spiritual matters. During the conversation my old work colleague sent me a photo and suggested I read this book:



"Journey of Souls (Case Studies of Life Between Lives)" by Michael Newton PhD

This morning one of the first things I have done is check Project Avalon.

It is a huge synchronicity that you have also recommended this very same book Dennis Leahy!

P.S. In the last couple of months I have make an effort to follow your posts Dennis Leahy (since I am in agreeance with your stance in regards to resisting Zionist supremacy and I cannot fault anything you say on this and related matters). Cheers to you and thank you!

[grapevine]

Posted by rgray222 (here)
Ultimately, the best book may vary based on personal interests and life experiences. What resonates with one person may not hold the same significance for another. But if you could limit your recommendation to one must-read book, which would it be? It makes no difference if it is War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy or Sahara by Clive Cussler. Please add a brief reason for your choice. Thanks

It's hard to pick just one book but in the spirit of the OP my recommendation would be

"The Biggest Secret" by David Icke

Considered by many to be the foundation of David's work The BS is all about the global elite, who and what they are, and their plan to create a totalitarian global New World Order, from which we will never escape.

When I first read this book in 1999, the content was almost unbelievable, but it's staggering how much has come to pass since then.

[Kryztian]

Posted by drneglector (here)
The Secret Life of Plants, originally published in 1973, by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, completely changed the way I look at plants.

And I bet plants look at you differently since you read a book about them!

They say "finally, a human who understands us!!!"

[arwen]

The Little Prince by Antoine de SAINT-EXUPERY



I just came back from the Library with a new stack of books, I am a hopeless bibliophile.

So this was the hardest question for me to answer. Pick ONE?????? Anyhow, after some pondering, my small contribution:

When I was a baby and my mother was out walking me in the pram, this older woman came up to my mother, and placed a copy of "The Little Prince" in her hands. She told my mother to keep it for me until I was old enough to read it. Which my mother did, and at age 4, I could read, and read it. It was the Perfect Book. It had all I needed to know about life, and what is important in life, right there.

And the mystery woman who gifted me the book, whom my mother never saw again was part of the magic, like an angel. True story.

Today, many many moons later, it still holds true for me. I go back and read it periodically and "yep" - all we ever needed to know.

[Artemesia]

Posted by DNA (here)
3. Carlos Castaneda, let's you know that the chief feature that everyone is born with is actually a living entity that feeds on us everytime we are offended. And gives the methods and practices one would need to utilize to detach from this entity. These practices work.
It's ironic I think that right now we are learning that most diseases are caused by parasites.

If the Demiurge is real. And I'm leaning in that direction. He would come under other names like Baal,Saturn,Moloch,Yaldaboath, Belial in Atlantis and Yehweh. If so these ingrained parasites are cords leading our energy back to the Demiurge. The ultimate cording if you will.

I found the Castaneda series in about2009/2010 when I was really starting to get my memories back (from use in all the experiments, and all the torture and just sort of general naricisstic abuse) and was starting to put together that the long strange trip I had been on, running around all over the USA and particularly the wilderness landscapes, endlessly finding a low paying job in the most beautiful places on Earth only to be persecuted and chased away to the next landing zone… all was indicating that there was indeed A SEPARATE REALITY going on that I had long understood and been speaking (out) about, and that this awareness was what was largely leading to the endless parasitic persecution etcetera. Nevermind that the gov-ment and handlers had had a pretty visible ‘unseen hand’ in a lot of those forced moves. It wasnt even ‘hidden out in the open’ it wasnt hidden at all, I just wasnt ‘supposed’ to beleive my own intuition and reality perception.

So anyways, finding Castaneda’s work when I did was so important to me. I discovered David Icke’s books around the same time, and was also chiming in here on Avalon as well as writing my own blog that I compiled into a book of short stories, basically teachable moment/parables largely written to remind myself of what the hell had actually been happening, because with the DID and continued manipulation I was then still under, I kept ‘forgetting’… which was so impossibly annoying and kept me churning in those ‘oh no, not another learning experience’ groundhog day-esque repeat cycles of looping, when at least some of me’s knew I should be far beyond falling for that sh*t over and over again. But of everything that I ‘tried’ back then to heal, the Lucia Rene stuff I found after watching Bill’s interview with her, the Holographic Kinetics stuff that I discovered when George Kavasilas discussed it on a show with James Gilliland, hypnosis, gobs of other ‘alternative modalities’ and ‘release work’ meditations… it was basically all just training wheels when I needed to learn how to fix the dang motorcycle myself, right?

But the Castaneda teachings always sorta stuck, even after I was ‘picked up’ again in 2013, held in a big city ER for 3 days and re-accessed (that means re-tortured with electricity, drugs, sexual torture, advanced mind control/splitting techniques that can ONLY be done in a place with access to extensive medical equipment and cult-trained personnel). I never fully forgot what was done to me in 2013, but it lost context. And I forgot most of the other teachings and modalities completely — like gone, erased. Only in 2019 did I finally remember some of that. By then I had been getting ‘blips’ of the really old programming tortures back for about 2 years, since 2017 when a lot of awakened people got the ‘mission change/upgrade’ energy message and things shifted majorly for many, in terms of focus.

So… anyways, I think that speaks to the power, truth and multidimensional endurance of the Castaneda work. That the mind control torture couldnt erase that from my consciousness. Indelible. Real truths are like that. Its why amidst all the stupid circumstance right now and that will surely go down this next year, I dont ‘worry’ like I used to. I know I will have what I need to know what to do when I am faces with whatever I am faced with. Its the warrior stance Castaneda spoke of: to be capable of facing the unknown where many cannot. Its where I am convinced the quantum entanglement and quatum field impacts of ‘the thems’ doing all these hideous experiments to me for decades is really going to be the last laugh on them. I just keep working my toolbox, holding kindness and compassion for myself and those I love and whom deserve my care, and I keep training that warrior spirit of mine in whatever way makes sense or is possible at each moment, given the totality of that moment of my lived experience. Everything else is maya, and frankly most of it had nothing to do with me at all anyways. It was a storyline of someone else’s creation, and knowing that, and knowing how to make the choice to step off that wheel of ‘NOT MINE!’ Is the ultimate shifting of the assemblage point and re-owning one’s self sovereignty and care for our own ‘luminous egg’. The energy doesnt lie. And the quantum field never forgets.

I don’t think the controllers, in all their manical and medical mind control project machinations, really considered that at all.

Sucks for them!

[Artemesia]

Posted by Kryztian (here)

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The Secret Life of Plants, originally published in 1973, by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, completely changed the way I look at plants.

And I bet plants look at you differently since you read them book about them!

They say "finally, a human who understands us!!!"

I love plants. Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway was like that too.

Also Stephanie Kaza’s ‘The Attentive Heart: Conversations with Trees’

Current book of similar feel is Asia Suler’s ‘Mirrors in the Earth’

[Kryztian]

I have to pick two:

• Plato's The Last Days of Socrates - which is really four dialogs: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo
  
  
• The Gospel of John

The story of two individuals who felt so strong about truth and righteousness that they lost their lives.

[aoibhghaire]

A long time ago after becoming awake to a new reality, I was just shortly after given this book which catapulted me to the next stage of my adventure of life.

The book "Dancing in the Shadows of the Moon" by Machaelle Small Wright

Dancing in the Shadows of the Moon is the grown-up version of the Harry Potter books — only Dancing is nonfiction. It examines our perceptions of life, death, and reality.

Although an amazing and inspiring adventure. Dancing is a book about expansion -- big expansion -- the kind that knocks the breath out of us, disorients us, makes us question our sanity. It's the kind of expansion that challenges us to let go of the reality we have always known -- and grown to trust -- in order to move into a completely new reality that we previously did not know existed.

It is recommended to go out and buy a large box of chocolates to ground yourself before reading this book.
I read the first two chapters six times because I could't integrate this big expansion I was having and try to integrate its reality.
By then I had eaten every chocolate and had to go out again for another box the next day.

Dancing reminds us that we are not moving through today's challenges alone, that wonderful options for moving forward are right in front of us and that death is not an end to anything. Dancing gives us new ways of seeing -- including how we see the present state of the world. In turn, we are put more at ease, we are strengthened and we can function.

If you are trying to make sense of life and the universe, the author's experience will give you a new, unique and useful perspective that can change how you understand and interact with the world around you.

[Artemesia]

Posted by seehas (here)
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying



this book contains universal spiritual knowledge about death and transition, regardless of whether you are a buddhist or not.

Your ‘footer’ signature…" Loka samasta sukhino bhavantu / May all beings in all worlds be happy and free and may the thoughts, words and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and to that freedom for all "
tibetian mantra

SO beautiful!! Thanks for sharing that mantra!