Favourite/Most Interesting book ?

[????????]

Ahh those are the audio books I had found.. I was hoping a pdf existed because I find it much more enjoyable to read... anyway I guess I can transfer the mp3s to my cellphone and listen to it while laying down :roll:

 

[Guest]

i really hate audiobooks, as i hate documentaries. they set the rythm of ideas at a pace that sometimes it is not your own. i sometimes think slower than the flow of the documentary/audiobook, sometimes faster when i already know what they are talking about. reading will always be, IMHO, the best way to learn, because you have time to question, study, memorize and understand what is being said, at your own pace, without the hurry of always being with what you hear.
and they are so much more enjoyable to read!
by the way, there is a written text named "the way of zen", by alan watts, i am 100% sure. it is the transcription of the lecture. it is several chapters long, and has been compiled by his son. i don't know where it is, i just heard someone shout it on the street :wink:

 

[????????]

Hehe thanks, you wrote my feelings about the subject

Well if you say there's text somewhere, I'm gonna find it! :twisted:

 

[magickmumu]

i got a bunch of books on zen by diffrent writers: Alan Watts
, Shunryu suzuki, D T Suzuki, Thich Nhat Hanh,

The books of ram dass are great. Be here now, the only dance there is.
Great stuff. :thumbsup:


These books are not on psychedelics however. But they can be tools for psychedelic use.
I could go on for ever talking about books.

 

[Guest]

please, magickmumu, talk more about books. what more good authors can you advise ?

 

[endlessness]

nice books:
Robert Anton Wilson - Cosmic Trigger
Tendler - Brotherhood of eternal love, from flower power to hippie mafia
Wolfe - The Electric Koolaid Acid Test
Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception / Island
Herman Hesse - Siddharta
Schultes - Plants of the Gods
Strassman - DMT The Spirit Molecule
Grof - LSD Psychotherapy / Psychology of the future
Michio Kaku - Hyperspace
Kip Thorne - Black Holes and Time Warps


but the best of all:
Gurdjieff - Beelzebub´s tales to his grandson

its the story of a very evolved being in a spaceship talking to his grandson about us, humans.. It basically talks about everything, the world´s (occult) history, ancient civilizations, psychology, meaning of life/spirituality, science, religion, consciousness, art, etc etc etc Its mind boggling

This book really changed my life as much as my psychedelic experiences

 

[Guest]

I think I've mentioned it before: The Illuminated Rumi
Has poems by Rumi in it and every page is a new dimension.

Definitely my all time favorite book, although it's not really a story.
It is a journey though

 

[spice]

also.....

'Lord of Light' by Roger Zelazny

''Art of War' by Sun-Tzu (extremely relevant to todays world)

'Politics of Ecstacy' by Tim Leary

'The Center of the Cyclone' by John Lilly


'Archaic Revival' by Uncle Terence


'The Cosmic Serpent' by Jeremy Narby


'The Idiot' by Fepdor Dostoyevsky (sp?)

'Animal farm' by George Orwell

The first two books by Carlos Castenada

.....and some more i'm not thinking of right now...

 

[Forkbender]

I think I've mentioned it before: The Illuminated Rumi
Has poems by Rumi in it and every page is a new dimension.

I concur.

Funny, though, how the front cover has a picture of Sri Ramana Maharshi on it...

 

[endlessness]

I think I've mentioned it before: The Illuminated Rumi
Has poems by Rumi in it and every page is a new dimension.


Definitely my all time favorite book, although it's not really a story.
It is a journey though

If you enjoy Rumi, definitely check out his MASNAVI book.. Add that to my favs list

 

[Guest]

- "the republic", by plato. the book that changed my view about the way you can look at things. in the peak of a mushroom trip, i fully understood what he meant and it is truly psychedelic (the archetypes theory). by far, the book that i would be buried with.
- i don't have a favourite book of fernando pessoa, but check his wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa and you won't regret it, there are plenty of quotes and poems. i think it is the most genious poet ever to live...just my opinion. it is a portuguese poet, and although i don't carry the flag on my nickname here, it is only because i am ashamed of the way that portugal is today, i don't deny my nationality (just if you are wondering)
- mikhail bulgakov (don't know if it is spelled right) - "the master and margarita"
- friedrich nietzshe (check the spelling again) - "thus spoke zaratrustra", "the antichrist" "beyond good and evil", between many others. he was my favourite author during my teens.
- albert camus - "the plague", "the stranger" (beautiful ideas on the absurd and really small things that you ignore daily)
- marquis de sade (for course!) - le 120 jours de sodome -we are psychonauts, aren't we ? it's all manifestations from the mind.
- bill bryson - "a short history of nearly everything" - nice and funny. and also instructive! very nicely written.

and last, but not the least (and this is no joke), walt disney comics! they always make me laugh and that's always a good sign of brain activity. donald duck, goofy, mickey mouse... :lol:

 

[Guest]

If you enjoy Rumi, definitely check out his MASNAVI book.. Add that to my favs list

Thanks i will
Man there are too much books to read :roll:

 

[endlessness]

and another 2..


The exploits of the incomparable Mulla Nasrudin
(super funny deep meaningful little stories from folklore sufi character)

and

Howard Marks - Mr Nice
(autobiography of one of the biggest weed/hash smugglers, with all sorts of schemes he used, funny stories, people he met, prison experiences, etc)

 

[magickmumu]

please, magickmumu, talk more about books. what more good authors can you advise ?

I've got this book Programming the human biocomputer by John C Lilly
It reads like a guide to the mind. It tells about reprogramming your mind by psychedelics and the use of a water tank.

shamanism Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircia Eliade. A true classic on the subject of world wide shamanism. Mircia Eliade's other books are also good reading. His book The Sacred & The Profane, a good book on myth and ritual.

Robert Erwin is a good writer. His novels are surreal en multilayerd.
Check out: satans wants me. a strange tale about a hippy who becomes an adept an occult group known as the black lodge.
Another book by Erwin is exquisite corpse. A novel set in europe around 1940's and 50's. It's about a group of surrealist and the obsessions of the main characters.

I enjoy Joseph Campbells work. He is a genius in the field of comparative mythology.

 

[spice]

I agree...reading Jung led me to Campbell...fascianted with archetypal images for a while now....

John Lilly is worth every second of your time, too.

He knows (knew) as much about LSD and its subtle effects on the mind as anyone.

 

[druglessdouglas]

the Cosmic trigger trilogy by robert anton wilson. it answers no questions but it makes you think and laugh

 

[Goran.Hrsak]

Wasson, R. Gordon:
The Wondrous Mushroom: Mycolatry in Mesoamerica.
The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries.
Maria Sabina and Her Mazatec Mushroom Velada.
A Review of Carlos Castaneda's "Tales of Power." Economic Botany.
A Review of Carlos Castaneda's "Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan."

Jeremy Narby:
Cosmic Snake, DNA, and origin of knowledge-- THIS IS BOOK YOU MUST, WHAT MUST, ESSENTIAL TO READ


Castaneda Carlos
All books from him--But only if you like fairy tales for grownup. OK, something is strictly ethnology-entheogens study and ethnology-archeology but rest is garbage, seriously!

 

[Forkbender]

Nagarjuna - Mulamadhyamakakarika

Just because it is ineffable. :wink:

And because it shows that all assertion is just bogus. There goes the neighbourhood! :rock: :rock:

 

[magickmumu]

the psychology of kundalini yoga - Jung
The secret of the golden flower - R Wilhelm - C G Jung
Shamanism and the psychology of C G jung The great circle - Robert E Ryan. isbn 1-84333-588-3

 

[silv]

Strangely I've got alot of psychedelic related e-books waiting to be read but I just can't get to it. However, I'll post a couple of favourites. Might inspire people?

Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevski
Extremely psychological and a trip into the mind of someone slowly going mad.

The Windup Bird Chronicles - Murakami
I think this might very well be the single book that I have while reading understood the least of. Surreal to an extremely high degree, still retaining an emotional attachment to the reader. Definite mustread.