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books that changed your life.

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yep great stuff!

the tao of pooh
catcher in the rye (cheesy i know)
the way of life according to Lao-Tzu (amazing writings)
 
Atlas Shrugged...wonderful wonderul
Right now I am into Tim Sandlin's 2nd novel, Sorrow Floats.
 
siddhartha - herman hesse

web of life and tao of physics - fritjof capra

what is life - lynn margulis

the book on the taboo against knowing who you are - alan watts

doors of perception and island - aldous huxley

archaic revival and true hallucinations - terrence mckenna

there are others but apparently they didn't change me that much, cause i can't remember them at the moment
 
The Tao of Pooh

1984 and Animal Farm- Orwell

Anthem, The Fountainhead, We, the Living- Rand

Slaughterhouse 5- Vonnegut

Lolita- Nabakov

Hobbit & Lord of the Rings- Tolkien

Philosophy in the Bedroom and Confessions of a Dying Man to a Priest(?)- Desade

Lady Chatterly's Lover- Lawrence
 
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Conversations with God: Book 1
Illusions by Richard Bach
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. (not a book, but it still changed my life)
Hind Swaraj by Gandhi
A Course in Miracles
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
 
I really liked The freedom of chioce By Thomas Chalko.
Has anyone else here read it??
 
The HiVe MiND said:
'The Celestine Prophecy' is currently changing my life (or anticipating it)
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Yeah, i just finsihed that book last week. Wow. Can't say it changed my life, but it was a GREAT affirmation of everything I beileve in. Make sure you check out the guys website www.Celestinevision.com

But don't read all the insights till you finish the book !!!

Peace and Love to All

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^ i love your name.

anyways, i cant think of any book s that changed my life but i will name some of my favs.
crime and punishment- dostoyevsky
narcissus and goldmund, steppenwolf, demian- hesse
the death of ivan illyich- tolstoy
the stranger- camus
the flowers of evil- baudelaire
junky-burroughs

could go on for a long time but i think ill stop here
 
The power of silence - carlos castaneda
Beyond Fear/The Master of Love - Don Miguel Ruiz
 
Some of the following books have changed my life, for the better or worse, at certain critical periods; others I feel have the potential to change my life if I ever feel inclined to take their advice. In no particular order:

Quantum Psychology and Cosmic Trigger, by Robert Anton Wilson.

Beyond the Occult and Mysteries, by Colin Wilson

Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature, Edited by Connie Zweig and Jeremiah Abrams

Missing Time and Intruders, by Budd Hopkins

The Threat, by David Jacobs

The Eden Express, by Mark Vonnegut.

Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger.

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.

An Experiment With Time, by JW Dunne.

A Little Book on the Human Shadow, by Robert Bly

Beyond Good and Evil, by Neitzche

The Soursebook of Magic: A Comprehensive Guide to the Technology of NLP, by L. Michael Hall, PhD & Barbara P. Belnap, MSW

The writings of Bricoleur (now off-line, unfortunately, but I believe it's because he is putting together a book based off these writings).

Various writings by Carl Jung.

The Hero With a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell.

The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, by Shel Silverstein.

Alchemy: The Art of Transformation, by Jay Ramsay, particularly chapter 4.

Jung and the Alchemical Imagination, by Jeffrey Raff.

The Principia Discordia, by Macalypse the Younger.

Who Moved my Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, MD

Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl

DMT: The Spirit Molecule, by Rick Strassman.

Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Prisig.
 
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I have to say the single most important book ever written that I had the wonderful experience of laying my young yeti eyes on was nothing else other than "The Book of the Subgenius." Yeah, everyone who isn't a pink should have a copy, and if you are, you should too, as then you will not be as you once were before. ;)
 
the books i mentioned previously were all great books and im sure affected me in some way. but the book im reading now is helping me make a consious change in my life.
the book is "escape from freedom" by erich fromm. great book, and i recomend it to everyone.
 
prometheus rising by robert anton wilson
my introduction to psychedelics, drugs, magick, hedonism

ever since ive been getting more and more into the mind
 
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