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Reading is good for your brain

I'm reading The Case for Israel at the moment. It provides a viewpoint I haven't been exposed to much over in Australia at my university (though I study medicine not politics or anything). I think it's a very interesting read regardless of your specific views relating to the Arab / Israeli conflict
 
ResinTeeth said:
The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot
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This is good stuff, I highly recommend it. It will definitely make you think twice about yourself, your surroundings, and the universe.

Also, Be Here Now is another fabulous book. Its the only book that has actually brought tears to my eyes.

If you are just looking for some trippy fiction, read Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis. Its a short story (about 60 pages) about a man who transforms into some weird creature. I just started reading it last night, about half way through.


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smokenjoke said:
Filth by irvine walsh/welsh , about a corrupt copper who has a parasitic worm in him madness
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Filth tried just a bit too hard to live up to its title. IMO his best works are The Acid House, Glue, Trainspotting and Porno.

To the OP:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez-One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Marcus Zusak-The Book Thief, Michael Ondaatje-The English Patient, William Gibson-Neuromancer, Paulo Lins-City of God, Cormac McCarthy-The Road.

+1 to The Dark Tower, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Slaughterhouse Five and most of Flarestar89's list!
 
Nothing in This Book Is True... But It's Exactly How Things Are

Something in This Book Is True...

You Are a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience

all by Bob Frissell
 
reading while tripping

I have tried to read while tripping, but it was a bit difficult to visually focus, likely due to my gigantic pupils. Does anyone have tips for making reading easier while tripping? Are there any drugs that shrink pupils without other major effects? Would glasses help (I normally do not wear glasses.)?
 
it depends what are you tripping on?

Personally i LOVE to read while im tripping on acid mushys mdma because i find my renitence of knowledge increases and the same with my level of understanding.

Also reading while tripping can make it more interesting :D
 
PepperSocks said:
I started reading the Hitchhiker's Guide but I didn't get through it. I was feeling very lazy at the time so it just kind of got put back on the shelf but I plan to really read it. :)
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I just finished The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; absolutely amazing, one of the best I've ever read.

I have it in a big bible sized thing of Douglas Adams' 4 "hitchkiker's" books in one, in order:

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe, and Everything
So long, and Thanks for All the Fish

The way Hitchhiker's Guide ended I'm totally just going to turn the next page and start The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. I think I'm going to read this whole bible sized thing before I get other books. :)
 
First off, awsome idea for a thread. Reading is a way to get into your mind the way you want to. Too bad its not as popular as it should be.

Right now im reading the Electric Kool-Aid Acid test. Very interesting on the movement of LSD and how dedicated Ken Keesey and his pranksters were.

On the list of things to get into my brain.
1. Breaking open the head
2. Anything Terrence Mckenna has written. Guy is a psychedelic genious. Love his work.
 
Electric Kool-Aid was a fun book, loved when he was talking about Kesey giving a bunch of Hell's Angels DMT lol...
 
The only gripe I have with The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is how it imagines Kesey to be the main focus of the whole scene-- which wasn't the case. If anybody could have been labeled the most far out dude that everybody looked up to, it would have been Neal Cassady. Otherwise, though, it's a hell of a read for sure. :) I love that book.
 
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss is one of the best fantasy books I've picked up since Lord of the Rings or Robert Jordans Wheel of time series. It is outstanding writing, a must read.
 
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Books on nuero-linguistic-programming are absolutely powerful, I get deju vu constantly when I pull through my favorite one "Introducing NLP" by joseph o connor and john seymour.

Tools for the mind, insight into options and the dynamic ability to structure ones reality into new territory and capabilities, I find it very good for getting past mental blocks and much of what I find beneficial is the ability to name and define what your unconscious is doing so therefore you can begin to differentiate the happenings within your mind and therefore structure them to change them.

Its very empowering and just wonderful to read http://www.amazon.ca/Introducing-NLP-Joseph-Oconnor/dp/1855383446
 
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