[John] Let me see how many of mine you've read: The River Why, David James Duncan Vineland, Pynchon The First Third, Neal Cassady The Humiliation of the Word, Jaques Ellul Bluebeard, Vonnegut Dharma Bums, Kerouac Desert Solitaire, Ed Abbey The Great Controversy, EG White A Different Drum, M. Scott Peck Natural Way of Farming, Masanobu Fukuoka
[Willblake2] Here you go: ZMM -Robert Pirsig A thousand Years of Solitude -G.G. Marquez Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey The French Lieutenant's Woman -John Fowles Labyrinths and other short stories -J.L Borges Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson Kafka on the Beach -Murakami Gravity's Rainbow -Thomas Pynchon Cat's Cradle -Kurt Vonegut Even Cow Girls Get the Blues -Tom Robbins [Krimel] Here are ten books that most inform my view of the MoQ. Lao Tsu is first but the others are in no particular order: The Tao te Ching, Lao Tsu The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams Chaos, James Gleick On Human Nature, E.O. Wilson Walden Two, B.F. Skinner Some Problems of Philosophy, William James Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, Charles Seife The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagles The Neuromancer, William Gibson Blink, Malcolm Gladwell Hi Krimel, I've read 6 of those. Which were all great. I find that I read fiction for the joy of adventure and non fiction for the joy of learning and thinking. There is a lot of overlap of course. Sometimes I wonder how much of an autobiography is non-fiction. I just grabbed a few books from my shelf, which is my most recent readings to try to understand what we call Quality. Some I read many years ago and had to reread. I would consider these non-fiction: In no particular order. The Perennial Philosophy -Aldus Huxley Krishnamurti to Himself - J. Krishnamurti The I Ching - trans. by Wilhelm The Last Barrier -Reshad Field The Active Side of Infinity - Carlos Castaneda The Return of the Perennial Philosophy -John Holman Tree of Saphires - David Goddard Life on Other Planets -Emanuel Swedenborg The Secret Teachings of all Ages -Manly P. Hall One: Essential Writings of Nonduality -ed Jerry Katz I am not sure why I bought some of these books originally, but they all were interesting. I am not sure if there are favorites there, although some were pretty inspiring. I'm not even sure why I pulled these off my shelf. Must be Quality at work. [Krimel] I found John Hogan's Ration Mysticism to be an effect antidote to many of these. Like any good wizard, I was involved in Freemasonry for a time and am familiar with Hall and that branch of the esoteric. Ultimately I found the whole thing to be a mishmash of folklore, wishful thinking and confusion. I think Castaneda is a great example of my problem with all of this. I have read all of his books except the one you mention. He is a great writer, one of my favorites but the sad truth is Castaneda was a fraud. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
