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Zopiclone bandit said:
So when you first got hold of the book you had no idea who Robert Anton Wilson was, never heard of Eris & Discordia, never heard the music of KLF?
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I had vaguely heard of RAW because my dad had some record lying around that was a collaboraion between him and this Irish band called the Golden Horde. The album was called "The Chocolate Biscuit Conspiracy." Obviously I had no clue what they were on about but I did like it and listen to it as a young kid. But other than that I had no clue about any of it, except for a vague notion that Robert was a bit of a freak. In a good way.
Zopiclone bandit said:
I was living with & scoring mushrooms & weed off people who were very aware of this stuff.
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After I read this book I got big into RAW and read all of the stuff you'd think I would've read. (Prometheus Rising was the biggest deal for me). What I was doing mostly at the time was large quantities of what was supposedly dextroamphetamine (and it probably was, or close enough anyways.) So I would just blab about it to my friends until they had really had enough. For about six months straight. Very different scene I than yours I think.
Zopiclone bandit said:
I wasn't a fan of The USA, well the part I was at anyway, the USA is huge, it is my dream to go see some of the South.
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I'm not a big fan of the USA either, but did spend a summer in the South (NE Florida, aka Floridabama) and I loved it. I live in Arizona mostly when I am over there. I sort of hate that place, although there are some amazing people, as there are everywhere.
 
Zopiclone bandit said:
Just started "Pimp: The Story of my Life" by Iceberg Slim
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"“Why did Justice really always wear a blindfold? I knew now. It was because the cunning bitch had dollar signs for eyeballs”
“I smelled the stink that only a street whore has after a long, busy night.”
“No more small towns for me. I was going to the city to get my degree in pimping.”
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I have a close friend that reads nothing except for this book, about once a year. I just texted him and he said he's currently reading it for the fifth time. Funny book. This guy treats it as his bible basically. Is it actually a good read? I've always been skeptical...
 
Zopiclone bandit said:
Youtube has so many videos of Reactions of people around your age & usually from The USA filming their first time reaction to 3am Eternal video etc, it always makes me smile how the people love it & they are all shocked at the year it came out. They are well worth having a look at I promise you.
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I've never watched any of these videos, but I loved their music when I listened to it after reading the book. Especially "It's Grim up North" and that album with the sheep on it. The music video for It's Grim is really funny to me. It does help that the North of England is the only England that I am familiar with, I worked at a bar in Hebden Bridge for a couple of months last year, which was good. I've never been south of Manchester airport though.
Birmingham general area I am totally unfamiliar with, although I do know that my cousin went to Uni down there for a bit and absolutely hated it. I'm sure it's fine though.
 
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I'm bumping this thread. Peeps, I want to know what you're reading! I'm reading David Attenborough's "A Life On Our Planet" atm and I've got a whole stack of other books to get through. I kind of cycle them a bit if I get a bit bored with one particular subject.
 
BK38 said:
I'm bumping this thread. Peeps, I want to know what you're reading! I'm reading David Attenborough's "A Life On Our Planet" atm and I've got a whole stack of other books to get through. I kind of cycle them a bit if I get a bit bored with one particular subject.
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Yessss BK pop off!!

How do you like the book?
 
streaM Freak said:
Yessss BK pop off!!

How do you like the book?
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It's really good as you would expect with someone like Attenborough. It paints a really good picture of life and how its evolved on our planet, our role within in it and how it has changed over time, as well as some changes man needs to make I believe. I still have the conclusive part to finish though. Are you reading anything at the moment man?
 
BK38 said:
It's really good as you would expect with someone like Attenborough. It paints a really good picture of life and how its evolved on our planet, our role within in it and how it has changed over time, as well as some changes man needs to make I believe. I still have the conclusive part to finish though. Are you reading anything at the moment man?
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Sounds like something I'd enjoy to read too. Thing is I'm so hot and cold with reading. I have a lot of activities I like to do and it seems like I rotate between them, even being here on BL. As you know, I am moody with the seasons!

But anyway, I'm reading Subtle Energy by John Davidson. A couple weeks ago it was The Conscious Universe by Dean Raton. Next it will probably be Awaking to Zero Point: The Collective Initiative by Gregg Bradon.

They all have a common theme of exploring the relationship between physics and spirituality, concepts and theories that are not found in school curriculums and textbooks. From eperiments to personal accounts to actual mathematics.

A lot of the ideas directly conflict with what I have learned, but when I keep an open mind and remember how little we actually know, the things they are saying are incredibly interesting.

At the end of the day, my life has a different focus than what I'm reading about. But my hope is that, in my spare time or when things become confusing, I will remember these ideas I'm reading about and they will keep me grounded.

Because they claim pretty ground-breaking ideas but with a general positive message of something like, "trust in yourself and free your mind".
 
streaM Freak said:
Sounds like something I'd enjoy to read too. Thing is I'm so hot and cold with reading. I have a lot of activities I like to do and it seems like I rotate between them, even being here on BL. As you know, I am moody with the seasons!

But anyway, I'm reading Subtle Energy by John Davidson. A couple weeks ago it was The Conscious Universe by Dean Raton. Next it will probably be Awaking to Zero Point: The Collective Initiative by Gregg Bradon.

They all have a common theme of exploring the relationship between physics and spirituality, concepts and theories that are not found in school curriculums and textbooks. From eperiments to personal accounts to actual mathematics.

A lot of the ideas directly conflict with what I have learned, but when I keep an open mind and remember how little we actually know, the things they are saying are incredibly interesting.

At the end of the day, my life has a different focus than what I'm reading about. But my hope is that, in my spare time or when things become confusing, I will remember these ideas I'm reading about and they will keep me grounded.

Because they claim pretty ground-breaking ideas but with a general positive message of something like, "trust in yourself and free your mind".
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Those all sound really interesting. I've been pretty fascinated with the idea of energy, consciousness, science, nature and spirituality recently. I know what you mean about being hot and cold with reading, but personally I'm trying to integrate it more into my every day instead of mindlessly scrolling youtube and stuff. I've a whole stack of books to get through at the minute, but I will come back to this thread to check out new things I ought to read. Thanks for some interesting titles to look into.
 
@BK38 - i don't think it's a coincidence that you and many others are interested in those ideas. The world is changing and we all can feel it. Understanding our interconnectedness and how physics, biology, nature, philosophy and spirituality are actually one cohesive part of an incredibly complex world but with a quite simple commonality we all share: which is that we are all unique expressions of the same unbounded universal consciousness.
 
streaM Freak said:
@BK38 - i don't think it's a coincidence that you and many others are interested in those ideas. The world is changing and we all can feel it. Understanding our interconnectedness and how physics, biology, nature, philosophy and spirituality are actually one cohesive part of an incredibly complex world but with a quite simple commonality we all share: which is that we are all unique expressions of the same unbounded universal consciousness.
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Very well said man. I also feel this collective energy and all these shifts happening. I definitely agree that we can all feel it. I love that phrase; "unbounded universal consciousness"
 
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