Books that have rearranged your head and helped you think better about life in gener

with almost every book i read i feel as though i've gained...something

Star Signs - Linda Goodman
Edgar Cayce on the Akashic Records
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
Power Vs. Force - Dr. David R. Hawkins
An Actors Purpose - Stanislavski
1984 - Orwell
Brave New World/The Perrenial Philosophy - Aldous Huxley
The Foam of the Daze - Boris Vian

so many more

 

What luck! Here I was thinking to look up Aldous Huxley at the library and my mom got a slew of them at the dump. Some people on here who have otherwise great taste like him so I am looking forward to some reading tonight.

 

Huxley can be hard to read because he's a scientist before he's a creative writer--but nonetheless very interesting.

 

erich fromms "escape from freedom" was a mind blowing book for me. It changed my views on life as well as my attitude towards it.

 

dont you just love books? such an awesome thing......to be able to grow and learn from virtually endless & various experiences

 

Oh my, I forgot the book that REALLY changed my life forever,

http://www.cobcottage.com/handsculpt.html

I have to share this wonderful cob stuff with everyone. There are some pictures of cob houses here-

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/7148/cobpics.html

 

You read the lucifer principle too, what a dark book, really disturbing, makes you wonder.

 

The turning point for me was 'the magic of mind'by U.S.Anderson. It inspired me to write my own.
the inspiration hasn't died, but one day I'l put it all together.

Besides that one:
In order

Introduction:
Sidharta
Autobiography of a yogi
Man's search for meaning
Lazy man's guide to enlightment
Beyond good and evil
The art of positive thinking
The science of mind
Journeys out of the body
The teachings of Don Juan
Tales of Power

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The wisdom of God
The Bahagavad gita
The play of conciousness
The Aquarian gospel of Jesus the Christ
The Shrimad Bhagavatam
The Urantia Book
The Vasistha Yoga

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I am that

The experience of nothingness
The greatest medicine
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I have read now all the books by Carlos Castaneda
all of Emerson's essays, and many others too like,'Be here now' 'the God particle' 'the starseed transmition' 'the music of the spheres''in tune with the infinite' 'thoughts are things' 'the budhist bible' 'the awakened one' hundreds of astrolgy books, a few biographies, and many of the vedas, like sri isopanisads,yagur veda, the bible, the Ramayana, the Mahabarata, yet very few fiction. Few more about near death experiences like 'Life after life' and 'Saved by the light' and a host about UFO's.

The ones on top were the ones that I can say they really motivated me to believe in man, in myself and in God, yet all have influence me, and even movies have done that, and if anyone reads them I I guarantee they will not be the same inside again.

Many books fill in more detail about what you know, but few are a catalist to your way of thinking. Others are ones that one should not stop reading them but use them as a guide for life. Those are the best.

 

Thanks for the list man, I was looking for some books like that!!

 

I agree man books are wonderful!!

 

"the visitation"
by Frank Peretti

 

i agree with Jaz...the Bible is all i need

 

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller was an amazing book to scramble your mind a bit. It's amazing, you need to read it right now (and watching the movie doesn't count)!

 

I read that book back in 6th grade, I LOVED that book!

 

Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

 

I'm happy to serve.

 

I apologize if someone has already mentioned this, but Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance asks readers to reconsider how they look at the world.

 

Read them all and enjoyed every one of them..

 

the bell jar was a little morbid. but then again, it is sylvia plath...

 

"No One Here Gets Out Alive"
"Discovering Your Past Lives"
Other than that, self-help books have been good:
"Toxic Parents" by Susan Forward
"Games People Play" and "What Do You Say After You Say Hello?" by Eric Berne
"Scripts People Live" by Claude Steiner

I would like to read the Alan Watts one about being who you are, that sounds right up my alley.