When I was a young man of 23 I walked into this furniture store looking for a futon.
This really friendly young man helped me and when I went to pay I had found that I had the exact dollar amount right down to the penny in my pocket and not a penny more or less.
I felt like this was a omen.
I felt the weight of celestial social workers manipulating events giving extra tangibility and weight to this environmental synchronicity.
As such I stayed in the store and talked and no one came into the store for nearly an hour.
It was really a profound conversation, we had each written down two books for the other that we considered must reads.
It was January of 96'.
He had recommended Michael Tolbots The Halographic Universe and William Coopers Behold a Pale Horse. Both excellent reads that changed my view of the world at that time.
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Concerning a personal recommendation re the broadly applicable declaration in the OP:
Journey of Souls - Case Studies of Life Between Lives by Michael Newton (Part 1 of 2):
This remarkable book uncovers for the first time the mystery of life in the spirit world after death on earth. Dr. Michael Newton, a hypnotherapist in private practice, has developed his own hypnosis technique to reach his subjects' hidden memories of the hereafter. The resulting narrative acts as a progressive "travel log" of the accounts of twenty-nine people who were placed in a state of superconsciousness. While in deep hypnosis, these subjects movingly describe what has happened to them between their former reincarnations on earth. They reveal graphic details about how it feels to die, who meets us right after death, what the spirit world is really like, where we go and what we do as souls, and why we choose to come back in certain bodies.
Destiny of Souls is a book by Michael Newton (9 December 1931 – 22 September 2016), published in 2000. Newton was a hypnotherapist who claimed to have developed his own age regression technique.
Learn the latest details and most recent groundbreaking discoveries that reveal, for the first time, the mystery of life in the spirit world after death on Earth―proof that our consciousness survives―in Journey of Souls by Michael Newton, Ph.D.
Using a special hypnosis technique to reach the hidden memories of subjects, Dr. Newton discovered some amazing insights into what happens to us between lives. Journey of Soulsis the record of 29 people who recalled their experiences between physical deaths. Through their extraordinary stories, you will learn specifics about:
How it feels to die
What you see and feel right after death
The truth about "spiritual guides"
What happens to "disturbed" souls
Why you are assigned to certain soul groups in the spirit world and what you do there
How you choose another body to return to Earth
The different levels of souls: beginning, intermediate, and advanced
When and where you first learn to recognize soulmates on Earth
The purpose of life
Journey of Souls is a graphic record or "travel log" by these people of what happens between lives on Earth. They give specific details as they movingly describe their astounding experiences.
After reading Journey of Souls, you will gain a better understanding of the immortality of the human soul. You will meet day-to-day challenges with a greater sense of purpose. You will begin to understand the reasons behind events in your own life.
Journey of Souls is a life-changing book. Already, over 165,000 people have taken Journey of Souls to heart, giving them hope in trying times.
In his second book, and through what he calls research into the afterlife, Michael Newton claims to have documented the results of his clinical work in spiritual hypnotherapy. These are presented in a form of case studies and Newton asserts that they uncover the hidden aspects of the spirit world.
Michael Newton, Ph.D., born in 1951, holds a doctorate in Counseling Psychology, is a certified Master Hypnotherapist, and is a member of the American Counseling Association. He has also been on the faculty of higher educational institutions as a teacher while active in private practice in Los Angeles. Over many years, Dr. Newton developed his own intensive age regression techniques in order to effectively take hypnosis subjects beyond their past life memories to a more meaningful soul experience between lives. He is considered to be a pioneer in uncovering the mysteries about life after death through the use of spiritual hypnotic regression. He now trains other advanced hypnotherapists in his techniques.
Dr. Newton is the author of three best-selling books, Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives (Llewellyn, 1994) , Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives (Llewellyn, May 2000), and Life Between Lives: Hypnotherapy for Spiritual Regression (Llewellyn, 2004). Dr. Newton has an international reputation as a spiritual regressionist who has mapped out much of our life between lives experience. He has appeared on numerous national radio and TV talk shows to explain our immortal life in the spirit world.Journey of Souls
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The time I was reading, let's call 'em spiritual books, was in my teens, the very early 80's, Castaneda, Paul Brunton made a big impression, and some others, but what really shaped my thinking and convictions were all the science fiction books I was reading, loads and loads of them, as Kurt Vonnegut wrote in his God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater:
“I love you sons of bitches. You’re all I read any more. You're the only ones who’ll talk all about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space voyage, and not a short one, either, but one that’ll last for billions of years. You’re the only ones with guts enough to really care about the future, who really notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what cities do to us, what big, simple ideas do to us, what tremendous misunderstanding, mistakes, accidents, catastrophes do to us. You're the only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distance without limit, over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right now determining whether the space voyage for the next billion years or so is going to be Heaven or Hell.”
These days, and for quite a lot of years I'll read anything, right now I'm almost done with E. du Perron's excellent Country of Origin... One book that really made a huge, huge impact and that I think everybody should read is Robert Fisk's The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. It's one of the very, very few books that made me weep, literally weep. I'll let goodreads and especially the comments there speak for it:
And speaking of the Middle East, I can really recommend No God But God by Reza Aslan, about the history of Islam, it'll surprise many of you.... When I first came to Indonesia, 28 years ago, as a backpacker (and before 9/11) I always thought that Indonesia was mainly Hindu, well, as most of you know now I quickly found out that it's actually 90% Muslim. I met a woman and she's been my wife (and still is) for all the years that I've been living here. She is a Muslim and so, to try and understand I've read quite a few books on the subject and this book, by Reza Aslan really is the best book about the subject that I've come across. To put it mildly, the Islam practiced nowadays by most is not what the Prophet Muhammad envisioned... Then of course, Indonesia's version of Islam is very, very different anyway, as mixed up it is with Buddhism, Hinduism and specially the old more animist belief systems from before Islam arrived here like Kejawen and Wiwitan....
To Your Scattered Bodies Go, from Philip Jose Farmer is another book that I thought was fantastic. From goodreads:
To Your Scattered Bodies Go is the Hugo Award-winning beginning to the story of Riverworld, Philip José Farmer's unequaled tale about life after death. When famous adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton dies, the last thing he expects to do is awaken naked on a foreign planet along the shores of a seemingly endless river. But that's where Burton and billions of other humans (plus a few nonhumans) find themselves as the epic Riverworld saga begins. It seems that all of Earthly humanity has been resurrected on the planet, each with an indestructible container that provides three meals a day, cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, a lighter, and the odd tube of lipstick. But why? And by whom?
Really, some amazing ideas, some amazing characters like Hermann Goring, who keeps committing suicide and keeps coming back, every time more deformed, more psychotic, Sam the cigar chomping Neanderthal and others.....
Then there is A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr., one of THE best post-apocalyptic science fiction books that I've read. It follows a Catholic monastery that tries to keep science and knowledge in a world where just knowing how to read and write is an automatic death sentence and it spans hundreds of years......
One last writer I can really recommend, and I apologize if this post is getting too long so I'll keep it to this, is Dan Simmons. Just incredible writing. In fact, when he was taking a course in creative writing by none other than the great Harlan Ellison, Harlan, after reading a short story by Dan, in class, walked out. Dan found him outside, weeping, and Harlan, the indestructible, always rude, always fighting Harlan, told him, in tears, basically, " you will have a tortured life because you, sir, are a WRITER!!". Dan Simmons Hyperion series (based on The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer) his The Terror and his Gothic horror book Drood are simply amazing.....
So much more to recommend but for now..... enough me thinks
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I don't think I could come up with a book I would recommend to everyone, so after thinking about it for a week, I'll just go with the one that popped into my head first: There Is a River: The Story of Edgar Cayce by Thomas Sugrue. It was part of my mother's collection of books, and I first read it when I was thirteen, about a week after my first OOBE (Oct 1975, in Acton, Massachusetts), which happened while I was playing a musical instrument, and I suddenly realized I was watching myself and listening to myself play from about thirty feet above my head. After about one minute of that, it was so weird, I stopped playing, and couldn't focus on playing for the rest of the night.
Edgar Cayce came to be known as the "father of holistic medicine" and the founding voice of alternative spirituality.
The Sunday Times of October 9, 1910, profiled the Christian mystic and medical clairvoyant in an extensive article and photo spread headlined "Illiterate Man Becomes a Doctor When Hypnotized". At the time, he delivered daily trance-based medical readings in which he would diagnose and prescribe natural cures for the illnesses of people he had never met. By the time of his death in January 1945, Cayce had amassed a record of more than 14,300 clairvoyant readings for people across the nation, with many of the sessions captured by stenographer Gladys Davis.
In the 1920s, Cayce’s trance readings expanded beyond medicine (which nonetheless remained at the core of his work) to include “life readings,” in which he explored a person’s inner conflicts and needs. In these sessions, Cayce employed references to astrology, karma, reincarnation, and number symbolism. Other times, he expounded on global prophecies, climate or geological changes, and the lost history of mythical cultures, such as Atlantis and Lemuria. Cayce had no recollection of any of this when he awoke, though as a devout Christian the esotericism of such material made him wince when he read the transcripts.
Contrary to news coverage, Cayce was not illiterate, but neither was he well educated. While his knowledge of Scripture was encyclopedic, Cayce’s reading tastes were somewhat limited, but he did spend several early years as a clerk in bookstores, but never did write any of the books that bear his name, he had a son named Edgar and many others that assembled his readings into popular form along with a bevy of independent authors.
Thomas Sugrue (1907–1953) was a widely respected and world-travelled print journalist who wrote for many of the nation’s leading newspapers and magazines, including the New York Herald Tribune and The American Magazine. Born in Connecticut on May 7, 1907, Sugrue discovered the work of psychic Edgar Cayce (1877–1945) when he roomed with Cayce’s son, Hugh Lynn Cayce, at William and Lee College in Virginia. Sugrue later sought medical help through Cayce’s channeled readings, and went on to become both Cayce’s biographer and a lifelong supporter. Sugrue’s There Is a River appeared in 1942 (he revised it in 1945) and was the sole biography written of Cayce during his lifetime. The book popularized Cayce’s work in alternative healing and channeling, and became a founding document of New Age spirituality. Sugrue died in New York City on January 6, 1953.
Re: What book would you recommend everyone read in their lifetime
The book Autobiography of a Yogi, which I first read in 1992, profoundly changed my life. It lifted a huge weight off my shoulders regarding the mystery of what happens after death, revealing the timeless truth that we are souls encased in human bodies, temporarily experiencing this physical existence. Ditto the matter-of-fact accounts of spiritual masters like Sri Yukteswar performing feats of clairvoyance, bilocation, and other extraordinary acts inspired a deep belief in the boundless potential of spiritual realization.
I came to understand the profound science of Kriya Yoga, but what particularly struck me was Sri Yukteswar’s explanation of humanity’s cycles of spiritual evolution through the yugas, or ages. Unlike conventional understandings of progress, he revealed a vast cosmic cycle of ascending and descending ages that influence the collective consciousness of humanity. According to Sri Yukteswar, the dark and materialistic Kali Yuga, which reached its lowest point around AD 500, concluded in AD 1700, ushering in the current Dwapara Yuga. The Yuga we're in, Dwapara, while a period of expanding awareness, itself carries inherent challenges and dangers: overemphasis on technological advancement without sufficiently high spiritual principles, for example, is what leads to mass environmental destruction, insane cut-throat competition and wars over resources.
If you only read but one chapter, please do check out The Tiger Swami, an absolute delight.
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Concerning a personal recommendation re the broadly applicable declaration in the OP:
Journey of Souls - Case Studies of Life Between Lives by Michael Newton (Part 1 of 2):
This remarkable book uncovers for the first time the mystery of life in the spirit world after death on earth. Dr. Michael Newton, a hypnotherapist in private practice, has developed his own hypnosis technique to reach his subjects' hidden memories of the hereafter. The resulting narrative acts as a progressive "travel log" of the accounts of twenty-nine people who were placed in a state of superconsciousness. While in deep hypnosis, these subjects movingly describe what has happened to them between their former reincarnations on earth. They reveal graphic details about how it feels to die, who meets us right after death, what the spirit world is really like, where we go and what we do as souls, and why we choose to come back in certain bodies.
Destiny of Souls is a book by Michael Newton (9 December 1931 – 22 September 2016), published in 2000. Newton was a hypnotherapist who claimed to have developed his own age regression technique.
Learn the latest details and most recent groundbreaking discoveries that reveal, for the first time, the mystery of life in the spirit world after death on Earth―proof that our consciousness survives―in Journey of Souls by Michael Newton, Ph.D.
Using a special hypnosis technique to reach the hidden memories of subjects, Dr. Newton discovered some amazing insights into what happens to us between lives. Journey of Soulsis the record of 29 people who recalled their experiences between physical deaths. Through their extraordinary stories, you will learn specifics about:
How it feels to die
What you see and feel right after death
The truth about "spiritual guides"
What happens to "disturbed" souls
Why you are assigned to certain soul groups in the spirit world and what you do there
How you choose another body to return to Earth
The different levels of souls: beginning, intermediate, and advanced
When and where you first learn to recognize soulmates on Earth
The purpose of life
Journey of Souls is a graphic record or "travel log" by these people of what happens between lives on Earth. They give specific details as they movingly describe their astounding experiences.
After reading Journey of Souls, you will gain a better understanding of the immortality of the human soul. You will meet day-to-day challenges with a greater sense of purpose. You will begin to understand the reasons behind events in your own life.
Journey of Souls is a life-changing book. Already, over 165,000 people have taken Journey of Souls to heart, giving them hope in trying times.
In his second book, and through what he calls research into the afterlife, Michael Newton claims to have documented the results of his clinical work in spiritual hypnotherapy. These are presented in a form of case studies and Newton asserts that they uncover the hidden aspects of the spirit world.
Michael Newton, Ph.D., born in 1951, holds a doctorate in Counseling Psychology, is a certified Master Hypnotherapist, and is a member of the American Counseling Association. He has also been on the faculty of higher educational institutions as a teacher while active in private practice in Los Angeles. Over many years, Dr. Newton developed his own intensive age regression techniques in order to effectively take hypnosis subjects beyond their past life memories to a more meaningful soul experience between lives. He is considered to be a pioneer in uncovering the mysteries about life after death through the use of spiritual hypnotic regression. He now trains other advanced hypnotherapists in his techniques.
Dr. Newton is the author of three best-selling books, Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives (Llewellyn, 1994) , Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives (Llewellyn, May 2000), and Life Between Lives: Hypnotherapy for Spiritual Regression (Llewellyn, 2004). Dr. Newton has an international reputation as a spiritual regressionist who has mapped out much of our life between lives experience. He has appeared on numerous national radio and TV talk shows to explain our immortal life in the spirit world.Journey of Souls
The last time I logged in to Project Avalon I failed to check back on this important thread and therefore I have only just seen the excellent follow up posts about the Journey of Souls book now by Mark (Star Mariner) and ExomatrixTV.
Thank you very much both of you. I will work my way through the old thread, watch the Michael Newton interview and save the links to the audiobook videos. I will also inform my old colleague who initially recommended the book to me about the developments in this growing thread.
I was going to write it seems someone or something is gently tapping me on the shoulder and whispering into my ear "read this book". But at this stage it's more akin to someone holding a megaphone in front of me and yelling "READ THIS BOOK!"
And I really need to go through this thread from the very beginning. All posts here definitely deserve to be 'thanked'.
The following is not my own list of books (I have been thinking but selecting only one will be very difficult!) but a list of books that has been compiled by the person who runs the excellent Clif High Videos website, a website that lists and summarises all of Clif High's appearances: https://clifhighvideos.com/
On the website there is a page titled Clif High Library:
This is a collection of books that Clif High deems as important to humanity—or at least influential—based on the number of times he mentions them.
Have a look! I have heard of some of the books listed but certainly not all of them. Some of the books listed have already been mentioned by members in this very thread.
Re: What book would you recommend everyone read in their lifetime
The Gods Of Eden by William Bramley. Should be a must read on every book shelf.
Also, The Gift Of Fear by Gavin de Becker.
Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock
The View Over Atlantis by John Michell
The genius consistently stands out from the masses in that he unconsciously anticipates truths of which the population as a whole only later becomes conscious! Speech-circa 1937
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Wow! What a synchronicity!
I will work my way through the old thread, watch the Michael Newton interview and save the links to the audiobook videos. I will also inform my old colleague who initially recommended the book to me about the developments in this growing thread.
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