Any good spiritual books u read and can recommend?

[mellow mood]

Hi folks!

i started a new book and its pretty interesting. talking about the meaning of life, by the view of the author, mixed in a roma.

anyway id like to read more of these books u know, seeing the author's view (when its interesting). so if any of you read some very good books talking about meaning of life, spirituality, etc or books that almost changed you by their amount of knowledge and etc, well please share it with us.

ill tell u the book im reading right now but its upstairs and i forgot the name in english so ill tell it later.

well thx for sharing, making us better ppl each day!

peace

[F L E S H]

Read The Pagan Christ by Tom Harpur. It's a great book about the true origins of Christianity, and how Christians have got it all wrong today.

[mellow mood]

bwah thx but i dont wanna hear someone saying others are wrong. plus i dont really care bout christians. my book is called The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield

[mrdevious]

well, I have a good book called:

The Buddha And His Teachings
edited by samuel bercholz and sherab chodzin kohn.

there's a lot of indian mythology mixed up in there, but it still gives a great deal of insight into the buddha's philosophy and how he came to realize it.

[peji]

I was reading thru a site & stumbled upon this or is it the calling :rolleyes: I found it very interesting & can relate to it,,, :) http://www.fromthestars.com/page158.html

[jkg114]

The Purpose Drive Life, get it!!!

[oldfred]

I've read The Celestine Prophesy also. How your consciousness has its own vibration and you can raise it to higher and higher levels.

The one book I would definitely recommend for you is "Power Vs. Force" by
Dr. David Hawkins. This book will make you see everything differently.

Also, on a side note, since you are on this website you will be interested in Carlos Casteneda's books about a Yaqui medicine man who teaches an apprentice the ways of mescalito and weed. "The Teachings of Don Juan" by Carlos Casteneda is my recommendation. Enjoy!

[Garden Knowm]

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[Garden Knowm]

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[Lulu]

'The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying' by Sogyal Rinpoche

[Garden Knowm]

That one too -

We talk to ourselves incessantly
about our world. In fact we maintain our
world with our internal talk. And whenever
we finish talking to ourselves about
ourselves and our world, the world is
always as it should be. We renew it, we
rekindle it with life, we uphold it with our
internal talk. Not only that, but we also
choose our paths as we talk to ourselves.
Thus we repeat the same choices over
and over until the day we die, because we
keep on repeating the same internal talk
over and over until the day we die. A warrior
is aware of this and strives to stop
his internal talk.

Once inner silence is attained, everything
is possible. The way to stop talking
to ourselves is to use exactly the same
method used to teach us to talk to
ourselves; we were taught compulsively
and unwaveringly, and this is the
way we must stop it: compulsively and
unwaveringly.

Your mind will make endless excuses... Only when it is silent, IS THE ANSWER...
But it is no answer at all.

[ADaisyChain]

The Lucid View

it's my Bible

[Melton420]

How about the BIBLE, i think thats a religious book

[meloncoly]

I think you're a prick

[stoner spirit]

A Wanderer in The Spirit Lands, The Tebettan Book of the Dead, the vetic texts, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Gosple of the Witches, God of Witches, Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, Spirit Teachings, Spirit World and Spirit Life, and Robert Bruce's books. You can find most of those books on the web, except for Robert Bruce's books. If you go to www.sacred-magick.com, you'll have to become a member in order to download spiritual books from there. If you're still looking for spiritual books, have fun with those.

[Trichocereus Panza]

Definitely read anything by Ram Dass, but especially Be Here Now. It will blow your mind..

Ram Dass is a yogi formerly known as Richard Alpert, a psychologist who worked with Timothy Leary. They got fired together after doing LSD research with grad students at Harvard. Be Here Now is a groovy psychedelic and artistic rendering of his experiences in India after Harvard, where he went to look for answers to the questions about spirituality he was encountering through drug experience.

It's the kind of book that speaks to the secret truth hidden in everybody. The author seems culturally Hindu/Buddhist at first glance, but he was born Jewish and considers himself a practitioner of all faiths.

Please don't read books by people who claim to have the only path to truth. The teachings of the mystics tell us that even distinctions between God and no-God are false... Reality is One and we all share it.

[Trichocereus Panza]

Also,
if you consider complex theological questions that go too deep into philosophy to be in some ways irrelevant to your spirituality,
if you're like me and you just want to know how to live a simple, peaceful and harmonious life,

please check out books by Thich Nhat Hahn (such as Peace is Every Step) and the Dalai Lama (such as Sleeping, Dreaming and Dying).
These guys are both Buddhists but don't consider their practice incompatible with other religions. They say to stick to your roots.
Nhat Hahn is a Vietnamese monk who was nominated by Martin Luther King for the Nobel Peace Prize. He writes about mindfulness, a deceptively simple technique that has transformed the experience of daily life for millions of people for thousands of years. You would be amazed at the way his words speak to you.

He is a Zen master, and yet his teachings are all about love.

[emeraldcalm]

Pharmako/Poeia -Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft
Pharmako/Dynamis -Stimulating Plants, Potions & Herbcraft
by Dale Pendell

These books are amazing. They include sections on psychoactive plants that incorporate poetry, history, chemistry and experience. The first book includes a section on cannabis.

[robert42]

The Buddha And His Teachings book

[mrdevious]

The Buddha And His Teachings book

what?

[robert42]

v.good book isnt it By Ven. Narada Thera? sorry if im mistaken

[hempity]

i thought this deserved a bump
i have read five translations of this book
even tim leary did a translation in the 70's

this new translation is only120 pages
by francesca fremantle and chogyam trungpa

if you haven't read the bardo this is a good one to start

[Ferre]

Check out World Mind Society (http://www.eoni.com/%7evisionquest/), interesting stuff.

[Polymirize]

I'll agree with the Tibetean book of living and dying...

And also (just posted this elsewhere, hmmm) check out
Mutant Message from Down Under

it's all about the aboriginal beliefs and philosophies... very affirming. And remarkably parallel to some other good works...

[acidtrip]

The Buddha, Geoff and Me

It's an excellent book to read if your interested in Buddhism, even if your not. It provides a very good insight into how we think, how to solve problems in life etc. I've just started reading it for the second time cuz I enjoyed it so much. I'd recomend it to anyone whos a bit confused with life, I was (and still am to an extent) and this book really helped me through shitty times.

Peace

[STDzRus]

Necronomicon

OR

The Buddha and his Sword by some guy I forgot.

[beachguy in thongs]

You need a hell of a lot of spirit to read the Dictionary.

Whenever I go to Barnes & Noble, I always browse that section, too bad I don't log any of the information into my memory banks.

The most spiritual book I've read is "The Celestine Prophecy", but if you view "The Bible" as a spiritual book, it will make it a lot easier to understand (and believe), as well as probably the best spiritual book. The connection made through milleniums, with The Bible, is, only, a spiritual connection.

[STDzRus]

I seen a book four times the size of the bible. They narrated every chapter.

[Starchild]

Kahlil Gibran I find is most inspiring