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What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction.
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Coolchick 
User ID: 427959
8/30/2008 2:36 PM
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The Artist's Way - can't remember author
When Things Fall Apart- Pema Chodron
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 493893
8/30/2008 2:36 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
BoOkS r GhEy |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 491732 (OP)
8/30/2008 2:39 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
We have had similar threads in the past but it is good to give a chance to newcomers. New ideas and suggestions may appear.
Let's get out of the way:
1)The Bible
2)Atlas Shrugged
3)Think and Grow Rich
Take it away...
Who are you....Fredrich Nieche?
Or a real-estate salesman? Quoting: Hiram 493922
Both!...(In past lives) |
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LifesReflections*
User ID: 472548
8/30/2008 2:48 PM
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It was not a book, but rather a short story by Edgar Allan Poe , " Mesmeric Revelation "
Mesmeric Revelation
Whatever doubt may still envelop the rationale of mesmerism, its startling facts are now almost universally admitted. Of these latter, those who doubt, are your mere doubters by profession - an unprofitable and disreputable tribe. There can be no more absolute waste of time than the attempt to prove, at the present day, that man, by mere exercise of will, can so impress his fellow, as to cast him into an abnormal condition, of which the phenomena resemble very closely those of death, or at least resemble them more nearly than they do the phenomena of any other normal condition within our cognizance ; that, while in this state, the person so impressed employs only with effort, and then feebly, the external organs of sense, yet perceives, with keenly refined perception, and through channels supposed unknown, matters beyond the scope of the physical organs ; that, moreover, his intellectual faculties are wonderfully exalted and invigorated ; that his sympathies with the person so impressing him are profound ; and, finally, that his susceptibility to the impression increases with its frequency, while, in the same proportion, the peculiar phenomena elicited are more extended and more pronounced.......
[link to www.online-literature.com]
Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued. It must ensue. And it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.Victor Frank
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 479417
8/30/2008 2:58 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
I am replying to this thread in particularly for the 'newbies' who may not yet have an understanding or acceptance of certain topics discussed here at GLP.
I had allready taken the 'red pill' unknowingly by getting a computer and being led to certain web sites of discovery.
The books.
[I read this one first ]
Dark Majesty: The Secret Brotherhood and the Magic of a Thousand Points of Light by Texe Marrs. { I do not agree with all of Texe Marrs views. And at the end of the post I will tell you about peculiar incident about this book. }
[ I read this one second }
Hope of the Wicked by Ted Flynn. { This one is where I learned about "trapping." }
[ I read this one third]
Rule by Secrecy by Jim Marrs[no relation to Texe Marrs] { I highly recommend this book if you have not read any others in this genre. It wraps up all the topics of this nature in one very fascinating read. }
Additionally: Body of Secrets by James Bamford { A historical expose of the entity called the: NSA }
Behold the Pale Horse by William Milton Cooper { It is the ONLY book that I have read that made the hairs stand up on the
back of my head. }
Now the peculiar story. I had purchased the Texe Marrs book way back in the mid 90's sometime at a new age type of store. Put it on a shelf where it sat for years. I never picked it up not even just to glance at it. Come the year 2000. Rented the movie called The Skulls. Watched it, thought it was a decent flick,just a 'story.' Later on that night I'm in the mood to read. Randomly picked up the Texe Marrs book off the shelf I had bought years earlier. As often a habit of mine, I do not start at the beginning of a non-fiction book. Randomly flipped through it. Began reading a section toward the end of the book. The content? It was about Yale's Skull and Bones Society. Imagine my surprised shock at discovering such an organization existed.
Two mantra's to remember: " There are no coincidences. " And " What we have been taught as 'truth' is myth and what we have been taught as 'myth' is truth."
Apology for the rambling. Didn't mean to hijack the thread. |
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fërú.
User ID: 494023
8/30/2008 3:00 PM
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12 planet sitchin
the 4 agreements migule ruiz
8U5H - L1E5... 9/II 1N51D3 J08
A 2 1/2 años del Regreso de Quetzalcoatl.
Enki en mi Corazón |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 491732 (OP)
8/30/2008 3:02 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Beginner's Guide to Shamanism Quoting: canislatrans
Which one in link below? I have heard of Sandra I. before, but not the other.
[link to www.amazon.com] |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 433091
8/30/2008 3:02 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn |
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R...
User ID: 490829
8/30/2008 3:02 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Nonfiction:
Esoteric Psychology - Alice Bailey
Esoteric Psychology - Orwald Dethlefsen
The Secret Doctrine- H.P. Blavatsky
A Conversation With God - N.D. Walsh
The Keys Of Enoch - J.J.Hurtak
and many many more (loads of Theosophy, Besant in particular, and Bailey, also new age stuff by Barbara Hand Clow for example)
Fiction (these helped me appreciate literature, or gave new insights on psychology or other issues)
House Of Leaves - M.Z.Danielewski
Crime And Punishment - F. Dostojevski
Lolita - Nabokov
Oblomow - Gontsjarow
The Silmarillion - J.R.R.Tolkien
all books by Haruki Murakami
and many others |
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Me114
aka ladynada
User ID: 323570
8/30/2008 3:03 PM
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 491732 (OP)
8/30/2008 3:05 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
I am replying to this thread in particularly for the 'newbies' who may not yet have an understanding or acceptance of certain topics discussed here at GLP.
I had allready taken the 'red pill' unknowingly by getting a computer and being led to certain web sites of discovery.
The books.
[I read this one first ]
Dark Majesty: The Secret Brotherhood and the Magic of a Thousand Points of Light by Texe Marrs. { I do not agree with all of Texe Marrs views. And at the end of the post I will tell you about peculiar incident about this book. }
[ I read this one second }
Hope of the Wicked by Ted Flynn. { This one is where I learned about "trapping." }
[ I read this one third]
Rule by Secrecy by Jim Marrs[no relation to Texe Marrs] { I highly recommend this book if you have not read any others in this genre. It wraps up all the topics of this nature in one very fascinating read. }
Additionally: Body of Secrets by James Bamford { A historical expose of the entity called the: NSA }
Behold the Pale Horse by William Milton Cooper { It is the ONLY book that I have read that made the hairs stand up on the
back of my head. }
Now the peculiar story. I had purchased the Texe Marrs book way back in the mid 90's sometime at a new age type of store. Put it on a shelf where it sat for years. I never picked it up not even just to glance at it. Come the year 2000. Rented the movie called The Skulls. Watched it, thought it was a decent flick,just a 'story.' Later on that night I'm in the mood to read. Randomly picked up the Texe Marrs book off the shelf I had bought years earlier. As often a habit of mine, I do not start at the beginning of a non-fiction book. Randomly flipped through it. Began reading a section toward the end of the book. The content? It was about Yale's Skull and Bones Society. Imagine my surprised shock at discovering such an organization existed.
Two mantra's to remember: " There are no coincidences. " And " What we have been taught as 'truth' is myth and what we have been taught as 'myth' is truth."
Apology for the rambling. Didn't mean to hijack the thread. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 479417
Interesting story, are the coincedences still happening? |
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3rd Eye Open
User ID: 477574
8/30/2008 3:19 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Changed the course of my life ...?
Defintely the "Handbook to Higher Consciousness"
by Ken Keyes.
It may seem simplistic to some, but his writing emphasizes
the One-ness of All Creation, and gives advice on how to re-program our demands into "preferences", so that we can free ourselves from being ego addicted to demanding certain responses from others,
and truly learn to be Happy in the flow !
I was 18 and my family home was very discordant {to put it lightly)
a co-worker gave me the book and I began practicing the recommended meditations and affirmations with great success...
it truly enabled me to find the Core of Peace within me
to transcend my crazed surroundings at the time.
Great simple profound powerful.
Believe  |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 491281
8/30/2008 3:22 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
A Course in Miracles |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 494021
8/30/2008 3:23 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Food of the gods by Terrance Mckenna
Anything written by David Omer Bearden
OH the places you'll go- Dr Suece |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 494044
8/30/2008 3:27 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Food of the gods by Terrance Mckenna Quoting: Anonymous Coward 494021
eBook...
[link to outwardjourney.net] |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 491732 (OP)
8/30/2008 3:28 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Quoting: LifesReflections*
Thanks for this. Very interesting> MAy I ask how it changed the course of your life, or how it affected you? |
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scottc
User ID: 478012
8/30/2008 3:41 PM
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the historical illuminatus chronicles by robert anton wilson. i read these eighteen years ago, when i was eighteen. thus, history's course was changed.
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fërú.
User ID: 494023
8/30/2008 3:50 PM
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Quoting: Anonymous Coward 494044
thanks man... I will enjoy this reading thanks
8U5H - L1E5... 9/II 1N51D3 J08
A 2 1/2 años del Regreso de Quetzalcoatl.
Enki en mi Corazón |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 479417
8/30/2008 4:32 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Hey 1echo. Great thread subject. Some of the books mentioned by others I've heard of and have always wanted to read. I've never heard of The Five Thousand Year Leap. Sounds intriguing.
Oh I've had many, many coincidences since those early days of enlightenment that started in the year of 2000 for me. Or as I prefer to call them: synchronicities. It's gotten to the point now where they occur on a regular basis for me. Just thought of another one for ya.
I can tell you the 'exact day' my awareness changed, a paradigm shift occurred for me, a fracture, I don't know what you'd want to call it.
October 13th, 2000. A Friday the 13th at that. I just got up that day with a different way of feeling and thinking. I just somehow 'knew" things just weren't right in the world. Of course on that infamous 13th day, other than the usual, oh it's " Friday the 13th being an unlucky day; I had no knowledge yet of the historical significance of Friday the 13th. On a Friday October 13, 1307 - Jacques de Molay, the Grand Master of the Order of the Knights Templar was imprisoned on that day by King Philip the Fair via the Catholic church and Pope Clement V. { I learned this information after reading Rule by Secrecy. } Which reminds me of another book.
The Hiram Key by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas { An accounting of two members of Freemasonry who set out to discover the origins of the symbolism connected to the organization. A good book that may change your mind about the Masons. } |
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R...
User ID: 490829
8/30/2008 4:37 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
ah yes, Celestine Prophecy (as one of the first spiritual books I read) and books by Castaneda belong in my list as well |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 494099
8/30/2008 4:49 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
T. Lobsang Rampa
Because I was 15 when I started to read his books and it helped me so much a few years ago when I lost my mum.
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 472548
8/30/2008 4:56 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
It was not a book, but rather a short story by Edgar Allan Poe , " Mesmeric Revelation "
[ link to www.online-literature.com]
Thanks for this. Very interesting> MAy I ask how it changed the course of your life, or how it affected you?
it opened my eyes to the ALL POSSIBLE.. From a church based belief where everything had to fit into a box, to an all out what if...
From the " Mesmeric Revelation "
The following conversation then ensued:
- V. in the dialogue representing the patient, and P. myself.
P. Are you asleep ?
V. Yes - no I would rather sleep more soundly.
P. [After a few more passes. ] Do you sleep now ?
V. Yes.
P. How do you think your present illness will result ?
V. [After a long hesitation and speaking as if with effort .] I must die.
P. Does the idea of death afflict you ?
V. [Very quickly .] No - no !
P. Are you pleased with the prospect ?
V. If I were awake I should like to die, but now it is no matter. The mesmeric condition is so near death as to content me.
P. I wish you would explain yourself, Mr. Vankirk.
V. I am willing to do so, but it requires more effort than I feel able to make. You do not question me properly.
P. What then shall I ask ?
V. You must begin at the beginning.
P. The beginning ! but where is the beginning ?
V. You know that the beginning is GOD. [ This was said in a low, fluctuating tone, and with every sign of the most profound veneration .]
P. What then is God ?
V. [Hesitating for many minutes. ] I cannot tell.
P. Is not God spirit ?
V. While I was awake I knew what you meant by "spirit," but now it seems only a word - such for instance as truth, beauty - a quality, I mean.
P. Is not God immaterial ?
V. There is no immateriality - it is a mere word. That which is not matter, is not at all - unless qualities are things.
P. Is God, then, material ?
V. No. [This reply startled me very much. ]
P. What then is he ?
V. [ After a long pause, and mutteringly. ] I see - but it is a thing difficult to tell. [Another long pause. ] He is not spirit, for he exists. Nor is he matter, as you understand it . But there are gradations of matter of which man knows nothing ; the grosser impelling the finer, the finer pervading the grosser. The atmosphere, for example, impels the electric principle, while the electric principle permeates the atmosphere. These gradations of matter increase in rarity or fineness, until we arrive at a matter unparticled - without particles - indivisible - one and here the law of impulsion and permeation is modified. The ultimate, or unparticled matter, not only permeates all things but impels all things - and thus is all things within itself. This matter is God. What men attempt to embody in the word "thought," is this matter in motion.
P. The metaphysicians maintain that all action is reducible to motion and thinking, and that the latter is the origin of the former.
V. Yes ; and I now see the confusion of idea. Motion is the action of mind - not of thinking. The unparticled matter, or God, in quiescence, is (as nearly as we can conceive it) what men call mind. And the power of self-movement (equivalent in effect to human volition) is, in the unparticled matter, the result of its unity and omniprevalence ; how I know not, and now clearly see that I shall never know. But the unparticled matter, set in motion by a law, or quality, existing within itself, is thinking.
P. Can you give me no more precise idea of what you term the unparticled matter ?
V. The matters of which man is cognizant, escape the senses in gradation. We have, for example, a metal, a piece of wood, a drop of water, the atmosphere, a gas, caloric, electricity, the luminiferous ether. Now we call all these things matter, and embrace all matter in one general definition ; but in spite of this, there can be no two ideas more essentially distinct than that which we attach to a metal, and that which we attach to the luminiferous ether. When we reach the latter, we feel an almost irresistible inclination to class it with spirit, or with nihility. The only consideration which restrains us is our conception of its atomic constitution ; and here, even, we have to seek aid from our notion of an atom, as something possessing in infinite minuteness, solidity, palpability, weight. Destroy the idea of the atomic constitution and we should no longer be able to regard the ether as an entity, or at least as matter. For want of a better word we might term it spirit. Take, now, a step beyond the luminiferous ether - conceive a matter as much more rare than the ether, as this ether is more rare than the metal, and we arrive at once (in spite of all the school dogmas) at a unique mass - an unparticled matter. For although we may admit infinite littleness in the atoms themselves, the infinitude of littleness in the spaces between them is an absurdity. There will be a point - there will be a degree of rarity, at which, if the atoms are sufficiently numerous, the interspaces must vanish, and the mass absolutely coalesce. But the consideration of the atomic constitution being now taken away, the nature of the mass inevitably glides into what we conceive of spirit. It is clear, however, that it is as fully matter as before. The truth is, it is impossible to conceive spirit, since it is impossible to imagine what is not. When we flatter ourselves that we have formed its conception, we have merely deceived our understanding by the consideration of infinitely rarified matter. |
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True Man
User ID: 473627
8/30/2008 5:07 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Bible
Road less travled
All the Gnostic texts (Enoch, Qumron, Nag hamadi, Ext)
occult (Crowely, Hall, Blavasky, )
esoteric philosophy Theosophy
Anthem
Ayn Rand Philosophy
Fredrich Nitchie
Eric Hoffer
Jung
The power of Now
The Dragon Court
Midevel Empire of the Israelites
Anatoly Fomenko's works
Book of Civilization
Way to may to write down here cause
there are thousands that changed the course my life cause when I read a book it become apart of me. I reading another one right now. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 342885
8/30/2008 5:16 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
"Your Erroneous Zones" by Wayne Dyer.
.I was 17 and it opened my mind to the reality of mass programing and a vision of living free |
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Captain Photon
User ID: 490512
8/30/2008 5:25 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
The Bible, definitely. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 486952
 be here now, by baba ram daas |
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Captain Photon
User ID: 490512
8/30/2008 5:29 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
The Bible, definitely.
be here now, by baba ram daas
who saw my NLP? holla if you saw it |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 491928
8/30/2008 5:38 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Hitchhikers guide, its my bible lol |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 373123
8/30/2008 5:39 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
"history of religions and religious beliefs" mircea eliade |
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Forfarian
User ID: 370443
8/30/2008 5:54 PM
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'Cosmic Trigger' by Robert Anton Wilson.
'Illusions' - Richard Bach (Author of 'Jonathon Livingston Seagull') |
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Uncarved Block
User ID: 451005
8/30/2008 6:00 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
The Chuang Tzu
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Japanese Death Poems |
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