benzyme wrote:
hyperspace ~ michio kaku
yes true, thats a very nice one.. Have you read it recently? it has been a few years since I did.. How outdated do you think it is nowadays? warrensaged wrote:check out:
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
yes! I very much liked this one the thing is, one has to get used to the writting style first.. It is written in a way that seems to express how tripping is.. So there are loads of very far associations, crazy expressions, going back and forward, etc.. but once you get used to it, specially if you like to read about the 60´s and psychedelic scene, its very nice btw, another one I forgot to mention: Mr Nice... The story of howard marks, a cannabis/hash smuggler.. Very very good stuff too, loads of smuggling schemes, money laundry, connections, etc.. interesting stuff hehe
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Quote:P.S - Reading Steppenwolf.
Thanks for putting me on to HESSE - Nobel Prize for literature?! Cant be too shoddy. I think you won't regret it  Another very beautiful, psychedelic book: 2001 - a space odyssee
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endlessness wrote:benzyme wrote:
hyperspace ~ michio kaku
yes true, thats a very nice one.. Have you read it recently? it has been a few years since I did.. How outdated do you think it is nowadays? aside from a couple new parallel universes, can't be too outdated. the guy still refers to theories in it on the Art Bell show, and Nat Geo/Disc "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." ~ hassan i sabbah
"Experiments are the only means of attaining knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." -Max Planck
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Quote:the thing is, one has to get used to the writting style [Tom Wolfe] first.. Yeah, you are right about that! Just like " On The Road" by Jack Kerouac for me. I own it & I've tried to read that fucker probably six times!! I like what I've read, it just bores the shit out of me the way this guy tells a story!! I can't get through more than a couple of chapters and after that I feel like I read the goddamn encyclopedia!!  Yeah, I hate that fuckin' book!  Another good one I just remembered is: Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins One of the greatest books I've ever read!!!!! (like 4 times now, I think) Its about an ancient king who figures out that if you decide not to die, you don't have to!! He ends up running from death for centuries. From living in small hunting villages before history, to a perfume artst in modern day Louisiana. Very unique story!! I want to read it again now, after thinking about it!! Unfortunately, I only own lame books. If I read one that I really love, I usually give it away to someone I think would really enjoy it as well. So I have to go get a new copy when ever I want to read something a second time. WS All posts are fictional short stories depicting the adventures of WSaged!! None of these events have actually happened and any resemblance to any real persons or incidents is totally coincidence!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Joseph Campbell- The Hero with a thousand faces. This is a great book i have not made it all the way through, but if anyone has read this book you would know. Campbell does a great job with telling the myths through out history and , tying them with stories told through the world and how they all correlate to each other, but has a different label. "You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness."
— Terence McKenna
"They Say It helps when you close yours eyes cowboy"
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Sam Harris' "The End of Faith" and "The Moral Landscape" are great and important books.
Victor J. Stengers "God: The Failed Hypothesis", "The Fallacy of Fine Tuning" and "Quantum Gods" should also be read.
"The End of Faith" shows how retarded and dangerous religions are in a rigorous and intelligent way, and also has a nice chapter about eastern mysticism (not critique here, but an interesting discussion). "The Moral Landscape" argues for a morality based in reason and science, and shows how science actually has something to say on morality. In all of Victor J. Stengers books ridiculous beliefs are argued against with solid argumentation in science, and he debunks creationism, quantum new age nonsense, and other nonsensical beliefs and modern myths. Furthermore, he shows how science can actually show how improbable a traditional God is. I think some of these books are very appropriate reading for many on the nexus.
I really recommend these books, and these authors are serious people. Sam Harris is a neuroscientist and have also studied philosophy and lots of eastern mysticism, while Stenger is a physicist.
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The long walk to freedom.
Autobiography of one of the greatest persons of our time.
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2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatle
Breaking Open The Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism
by Daniel Pinchbeck
The Secret Life of Plants
Secrets of the Soil
by Thompkins & Bird
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Brave New World Rum Diary Thikal/Phikal Coming of age in the milky way Declaration of independents Doors of Perception & H/H Scar Tissue (Anthony Kiedis biography) Walden & Civil Disobedience My Side of the Mountain Heart of Darkness LOTR Series (including the hobbit and silmarillion) Food of the Gods Lord of the Flies Rascal And i just got Aldous Huxley's Island for Christmas and am totally psyched to read it. "let those who have talked to the elves, find each other and band together" -TMK
In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one's own place and economy.
In such a society, also, our private economies will depend less upon the private ownership of real, usable property, and more upon property that is institutional and abstract, beyond individual control, such as money, insurance policies, certificates of deposit, stocks, etc. And as our private economies become more abstract, the mutual, free helps and pleasures of family and community life will be supplanted by a kind of displaced citizenship and by commerce with impersonal and self-interested suppliers...
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.” - Wendell Berry
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Left in the dark Ayahuasca in my blood Wizard of the upper amazon Anything by narby, wilson, mckenna
<Ringworm>hehehe, it's all fun and games till someone loses an "I"
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The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching By Terence McKenna and Dennis McKenna The Tibetan Yogis Of Dream and Sleep By Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche The Secret Life Of Plants By Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird The Tibetan Book Of The Dead By Chogyam Trungpa Permaculture A Designers Manual By Bill Mollison Gifts Of Unknown Things By Lyall Watson Food Of The Gods By Terence McKenna Into The Wild By Jon Krakauer Theatrum Chemicum Much Peace and Happiness
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-The Bhagavad Gita
-The Upanishads
-Food of the Gods.
-The Invisible Landscape
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The Lord Of The Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien (duh) Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey Touching The Void - Joe Simpson Hatchet - Gary Paulsen Siddhartha - Herman Hesse The Chronicles of Prydain - Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis Oh the Places You'll Go - Dr. Seuss I could go on... What are we but stupefied dancers to a discordant stystem, we believe - so we're mislead
we assume - so we're played
we confide - so we're deceived
we trust - so we're betrayed
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The Merck Index *edit* s#!t, i just repeated myself...didn't realize how old this thread was. "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." ~ hassan i sabbah
"Experiments are the only means of attaining knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." -Max Planck
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Glad i decided to do a late-night perusing of the nexus...ive stumbled upon so many suggested gems  thanks, suggesters!
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