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This one definitely shot to the top of my list recently since I finished it - Children of the Matrix by David Icke. I can also recommend The Biggest Secret and The Robot's Rebellion: The Story of the Spiritual Reniassance.
Great lists. I can't wait to get my hands on some of these titles!
Since I'd probably end up repeating titles that have been mentioned numerous times, I'm posting books that I read again and again, reference books that never get old:
1) THE WISDOM OF THE ENNEAGRAM - Riso & Hudson - most valuable book I've ever read for understanding myself. Recommended for anybody who wants to know what formed and drives their personality. Talk about "freeing your mind." When you learn why you have certain perceptions and make the decisions you do, you're no longer in bondage. Sometimes I wonder if people who read this book have an unfair advantage in life. Truly truly enlightening.
2) HEALING WITH WHOLE FOODS - Paul Pitchford - my health bible along with Prescriptions for Nutritional Healing by Balch.
3) WOMEN'S BODIES, WOMEN'S WISDOM - Christiane Northrup - Must have for female health issues.
4) THE POWER OF NOW - Tolle - i think this book was mentioned more than once. It's one of those books that I can open to any page and it calms me. I read so much stuff that revs me up good, that it's nice to have a book that can keep me centered. As much as I try to learn and discover, for me, staying balanced/centered and acutely aware in the moment is the force that'll break down my "negative" programming in the end.
Once & Future,
thank you very much for being the first person on this thread to post a book about proper eating as one of their favorites.
It is absolutely impossible to have a sound, correctly functioning mind without putting the correct foods into the body.
I could, and should, have put a nutrition book in my list.
I have an entire bookshelf of books devoted solely to proper nutrition and eating, and I practice what I have learned in those books.
You are what you eat! And all you folks out there eating cows and other mammals every day, well, there just might be a 4D-insect-entity getting ready to return the favor to you!
But really, eating the right stuff is as important as thinking the right stuff! In fact, the latter is impossible without the former.
FICTION
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, & A Swiftly Tilting Planet
by Madeleine L'Engle 
PLAYS
(Ecletic mix):
Equus by Peter Shaeffer
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
(A post-mortem argument between Bohr and Heisenberg)
Laughter on the 23rd Floor by Neil Simon
(About Simon's experience of writing for the Sid Caesar show and how the writers were censored by McCarthyists--serious lining, very funny)
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
True West by Sam Shepard
(About a rift between brothers and a metaphor for the death of the Old West and the birth of Hollywood)
What Every Woman Knows by Sir James M. Barrie
(A play by the author of "Peter Pan" about the woman behind a politician's rise to power
WASP by Steve Martin
(A very funny and sadly true one-act about the prototypical American family)
NON-FICTION
Astral Dynamics & Practical Psychic Self-Defense by Robert Bruce 
Ishmael, The Story of B, and My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz
(Not too heavy on the psyche terminology. The thesis is that a majority of what is termed mental illness is socially defined)
The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
The Undiscovered Self by Carl Jung!!!
Pretty much all of Castaneda
Prescription For Nutritional Healing - Phyllis & James Balch - The only book you'll ever need for everything and anything to do with natural medicine. AWESOME book jam packed with so much useful information on herbs, supplements, and every disorder under the sun and all the natural ways to treat them. An absolute MUST have.
Totally! I just flip through that book sometimes, amazed.
Aaron Cometbus: Despite Everything. 600+ pages of Cometbus in one volume. Also recommended are any individual issues and any reprinted collections. Kerouac's a shut-in compared to Cometbus. the new yorker was interested. shouldn't you be too?
Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow. i'll be very proud of myself when i actually get all the way through this epic. every sentence sparks a wild meditation.
William Kotzwinkle: The Fan Man. a lark, a goof. significant for the description of the fan man's apartment, as it closely resembles mine.
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons: Watchmen (graphic novel). who watches the watchmen? Moore's ultimate deconstruction of the comic book super-hero.
that's what jumps out at me from my bookshelf. when i unpack my boxes, i'll have a much longer list. for now, out of sight, out of mind.
Alright now my little children, in an hour montalk will be deleting these last few posts. montalk doesn't like it when people are mean to each other. people have feelings and it's not nice to hurt other people's feelings. Be good! .
HA HA Oh so funny!!!! 
Here are a few of my favorite recent fiction books. Has anyone here read any of these?
Starpeople : The Sirian Redemption by Linda Tuck-Jenkins
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de … mp;s=books
Getting There: A Novel by Michael Roads http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de … mp;s=books
The Shift: An Awakening by John English http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de … p;n=507846
A new non-fiction I'm currently reading: Warped Passages-Unraveling The Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimentions, by Lisa Randall. The author is a leading theoretical physicist and expert on particle physics, string theory, and cosmology. She explains in a way that is easy to understand -good illustrations to get her point across and a sense of humor. She proposes some interesting ideas such as: Do we inhabit a three dimentional universe floating in a four dimentional space? What if the extra dimentions required by string theory were not curled up and unobservably small, but unfurled and vast, extending forever? Could an invisible universe only a tiny fraciton of an inch apart in another dimeniton explain phenomena that we see today in our world?
Great going through folk's favorites. If there be one author I'd suggest it would be Joseph Chilton Pearce. Most written years ago, but like so many other greats, never dated. "Crack in the Cosmic" eg shook my world, when I read it in the late 70's... I'm an old timer.
To understand the matrix, you must understand child development and the role that upbringing plays in how the matrix works. No one does this better than Pearce.
His most recent "The Biology of Transcendance" is his best. Awesome peice of work... by an author now well into his 80's.
So, that's my plug.
Thanks for shareing everyone.
Flinter
Book Series mentioned was LARGE in this Feed-Back-Loop also
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Message: 14
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:04:10 -0500
From: "Jason Cook"
This may be off-topic, but talk of going through patterns reminds me so
strongly of the Chronicles of Amber series by my favorite author, Roger
Zelazny. Amber was the prime reality, from which Shadow dimensions were
reflected, that produced more distorted realities the farther from Amber one
travelled. The Pattern in that series was a two-dimensional reflection of
the creational pattern of the universe (Hyperdimensional Sacred Geometry?)
that members of the royal blood had to first walk to gain the ability to
"walk between worlds", to pass into dimensions that matched templates of
different realities that they held in their minds. They weren't sure if
they were creating the realities they could walk to or just tuning their
energy to those realities. The Pattern was large and complex, and
resistance grew the farther one walked into the pattern, until sparks flew
up from every step and gradually waves of fire and sparks flew in sheets as
one progressed and it was all one could muster to place one foot in front of
the other. Leaving the pattern, going backwards, or even slowing down too
much or stopping as one approached the end was fatal. Walking the pattern
would bring memories of one's life and one re-experienced one's life with
new perspective. So the Pattern-walk was truly a trial by fire on many
levels. When one completed the Pattern walk, one was rewarded with the
ability to instantly transport oneself to anywhere in the dimensions (one
transport per Pattern-walk). Most would only walk the Pattern once, the
minimum necessary to gain the ability to walk the dimensions, but those who
chose to walk it more than once and examine their actions over and over
would gain more ability, and those who had conquered the Pattern many times
became god-like.
I've lately come to the conclusions that artistic types suchs as writers,
artists, musicians (and now ORMUS users) are spiritually open enough to
sense the truth of reality perhaps a little more than those who aren't as
receptive to creative impulses (perhaps even being sent to us consciously by
more advanced beings), and Zelazny's work, especially on this series, is
literally saturated with iconic images and concepts that always fascinated
me, even at 12 years old when I first read the series. I hope some others
here will be tempted to read and enjoy the series. I've read thousands of
fiction books (probably over 6,000) and this series has to be in the top
two.
Jason
*************
There is even more to the Amber series than I described. The opposite
"pole" to Amber was Chaos, which one moved closer to the farther from Amber
one journeyed. True to the definition of chaos, things were more and more
unpredictable and chaotic the closer one moved to Chaos, to the point that
spiritually/psychically weaker explorers were no longer sure of their
reality/sanity/consciousness/sense of self. Another parallel is that the
members of the "pure" bloodline of Amber considered the Shadow universes
reflected from Amber to be not as "real" as Amber, and in their opinion, had
no rights, not being "real" in their eyes.
YES, the "Zone" that musicians, writers, artists, athletes, , etc speak of
or where physical activity sublimates the ego-consciousness. I used to live
in the Zone as a child and teenager as an artist. The Amber series was one
of the strongest series of books that could put me in the Zone as I was
reading it, to the point where I was not conscious of reading at all, I was
just there in the story. It seems to me there is a very strong chance that
Zelazny was tapping into some of the "cosmic truth" as he was writing the
series.
I'm looking for a few recommendations, if anyone is willing. Does anyone know of any good conspiracy theory-type books? I'm interested in how an author can take an idea most people are trained to find laughable, and make a believable story out of it. I think the only real conspiracy book I've read is also one of my favorites: "Judgement Day" by Jane Jensen. That's the paperback, when it was hardcover it was "Millenium Rising" but both are the same book. It deals with NWO population reduction, Vatican intrigue, prophecy and more prophecy, it's an excellent novel and I can pretty much guarantee everyone on here would love it. It does an excellent job of blending huge amounts of fact (religion, philosophy, prophecy, etc.) in the fiction. Jane Jensen did the Gabriel Knight computer games which are also excellent.
So I'd be most interested in something like that if anyone knows. Preferrably something that is more or less in agreement with what we talk about here (as opposed to fake conspiracies! lol). I'm also interested in books like "1984" or "Brave New World." One that I discovered and liked was "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis, about a fascist takeover of the U.S. (written in 1935, no less). Some like this I intend to read soon include "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, "The Handmaid's Tale" by (I think) Margaret Atwood. "Jennifer Government" I forgot the author sounds awesome, it's about a future where corporations control our lives to the point that they own children from birth, who then take the company's name as their surname (Like Joe Nike, or the title character).
I'm also interested in reading more landmark sort of books, books that are widely acknowledged to have changed history, for better or worse. Like "Uncle Tom's Cabin," "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. Or any extraordinarily controversial books, or those deemed dangerous to governments or religions and the like. I also need to read biographies of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. And of course one of these days I'm going to have to get around to reading "Mein Kampf." It's one of those things that I know I'm going to have to do, but it's just not the sort of thing you take to the beach, you know?
So if anyone has recommendations along the lines of conspiracies, dystopias, manifestos for revolution or the like, let me know. Hope some of the ones I listed are helpful to someone in exchange. Most of my non-fiction/metaphysical favorites have already been mentioned in this thread many times. Thanks!
The Children's Hour by James Clavell -- communist/militarly take over - this is an awesome book.
Alas, Babylon -- nuclear war in Florida - Pat Frank
Both are novels -- I wasn't exactly sure if you wanted fact type conspiracy books only because you included 1984 and Brave New World.
Christine B.
Fiction- anything by Kurt Vonnegut and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galazy.
Nonfiction- Them by John Ronson, and a book called Toxic Sludge is Good for You.
Does anyone have digital versions of some of Robert Bruce's books? That'd be great...
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