Which books changed your life? (Page 2 of 5)

I came to reading early.  My mom used to dump me in the playpen with loads of picture books, and when I got tired of screaming,  I
"read" the pictures until I went to sleep.

As a child, I read voraciously.  The "Alice" books by Carroll entranced me, also Grimm's Fairy Tales,
C.S. Lewis' Narnia books, the Oz books by L. Frank Baum, the Mary Poppins series, E. Nesbit (Five Children And It, The Phoenix and the Carpet), George MacDonald (The Light Princess, The Princess And The Goblin), Tanglewood Tales, etc.  I liked escaping into a fantasy world that was much more exciting than my everyday life. I think this helped create an openness in me to subjects that most
would dismiss as "far out", such as nonphysical realities and spiritual concepts in general.

I got into poetry at a young age also. My favorite poets may be  William B. Yeats and Tennyson, but I appreciate many others.

In adult literature, I appreciate writers like Kafka whose work integrates ideas and philosophy.  Paul Auster's early work has this quality too (The New York Trilogy). I read little fiction these days, though I have a lot stacked up, waiting to be read. Metaphysics has kind of taken over my reading. 

I believe Cosmic Consciousness by Richard Maurice Bucke was an important stimulus to my own experience of cosmic consciousness. 

Seth was my introduction to channeling and I was fascinated by the concepts of time as an illusion, that we choose our parents, and of how everything we experience is a reflection of ourselves.  I started with The Nature of Personal Reality, but it was Seth Speaks that really blew my socks off. That book took me to a whole different place. I felt like I was tripping while I was reading it, though I wasn't on anything except that book.

Ken Carey's Starseed Transmission books. They are like poetry.

All the Pleiadians books thru Marciniak, Bringers of the Dawn and Path of Empowerment especially.

Well, there's more, but I have to stop somewhere

Alien Liasion - After 3 months of putting off setting up my newly acquired hi-fi tuner, I gave in to a strong impulse to do so right away. First station I got to was Radio 1, Nicky Campbell interviewing Timothy Good about his new book. That was the very beginning of me waking up.

Robots Rebellion - After talking to another awakening friend in a pub, bought this on his recomendation. More pieces started to fit....

Biggest Secret - Not so much the info provided, but the relief that Icke had finally come across the reptillians.

Tried to stick to the thread request, certainly not my favs.

I also recommend listening to every lecture you can find by Terence Mckenna. Listen in the car, at work, whilst cooking......

Cool!  I'm hearing impaired so can't use the audio lectures, but I've been reading a lot by Terence.  Just wondering, what is the main message you get from his work, and why do you think it is so important?

I've just finished reading this book called Dear God! What's Happening To Us?...Halting Eons of Manipulation by Lynn Grabhorn, so it's not necessarily a book that changed my life like as is noted by most in this thread, nor would it likely contain nuts and bolts information that would change the life of an already well seasoned NR member. I think though, well seasoned or not, reading this book would likely be consciousness enhancing, even if just to know what else is being said "out there."

For me, there were very many synchs to come together while reading this book, old and new ones (there were a few quick turn around times for some recent heavy duty "puzzle pieces" I've been lookin' at), and there were some alike practices I've already implemented in my life like mentioned in the book (like Flip Switching), but, the particular "method" Grabhorn describes will also not go without my employ...for sure . My point is--for some there'll not be totally new info in the book, but there's good info in the book.

Her self-named "fairy tale" story of creation is an interesting one, and one to add to many other creation stories out there. Even so, I enjoyed her delivery style/persona, and the perspective. I found the perspective agreeable, but not necessarily full ended, though she makes it clear that it wasn't her ability or intention to write an all encompassing book about Infinity at large, just about our neck of the cosmic woods, and the how and why humans are being manipulated...from her perspective. The method she describes is simple and free, not timely, and requires no one but yourself to implement. Now that's refreshing!

It's a short book, 180 pgs., and written for ease of understanding. I read it in no time, and I urge you to also.

Don't expect anything mind blowing, just enjoy it.

Oh, and by the way, the book is made of the stuff to be mind expanding, depending on where one's head is at before reading . It was very timely for me to read the book.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance.
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If you spin around on your chair really fast, things around here will make a lot more sense.

Well, I'm always trying to figure out our origins and the fall.  Just from the title I wouldn't be able to resist it!  Here's another that I'm going to get:

If I had to pick one book that would describe my beliefs, it would have to be The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz.

That WAS a book too, wasn't it. I saw the movie. Christopher Walken was magnificent (I thought). Though I did find the short black entities and the scene inside the ship where the children were all dissociative to be particularly horrifying.

I read that book when I was in my early teens and I've never been able to look at the Planter's Peanut Man without unease again. The book positively terrified me. Ever since I read it I've been terrified of the oval eyes, but then, unlike many, I don't believe they're benificent for a second.

By the way, did anyone hear that Walken's running for president?