What Book Have You Read Recently?

[wil]

Gospel of the Redman....great stuff

The Secret....by Rabbi Berg (not the new secret but an old one)

Currently into The Hidden Parables...

[ChristianMyst]

Man, the Measure of All Things. Just finished, now starting the sequel.

[ChristianMyst]

A history of India from (literally) the physical creation of the continent to 3BCE and the reign of King Asoka.

A good introduction to a profoundly interesting time and place.

Snoopy, ... 3 BCE? I have deep sense that India is much older than this??? In fact, wasn't a great part of the Middle East referred to as India early on?

[ChristianMyst]

I'm about midway through The Hebrew Goddess by Raphael Patai. It's a really fantastic survey of Goddess worship from biblical times up through the present.

Dauer, I sense an Atlantean connection, ... that round of life before the current Man. I have been picking up the atlantean thing as well as a Goddess connection among many of those I have been doing Readings for lately at the larger New Age expositions. Makes me thing the "Goddesses," are now swarming to the cities. :LOL "Snap! You get back in that water and fish!" I am also noticing they seek the mountains. I wonder if large cities with a cental mountain relates to the island (Continent?) of Atlantis?

[Snoopy]

Originally Posted by ChristianMyst

Snoopy, ... 3 BCE? I have deep sense that India is much older than this??? In fact, wasn't a great part of the Middle East referred to as India early on?

I was referring to the time period covered by the book (i.e. the "birth" of India as a distinct land mass through to 3 BCE).

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[dauer]

ChristianMyst,

The book's got nothing to do with New Age theories. It's a scholarly analysis of the Historical record with an intent to investigate and chronicle what we do know and hypothesize a little further based on what may be likely or possible. There's no mention of atlanteans, ascended masters, thoth, etc.

[fourgrtkidos]

The Biology of Belief by bruce Lipton, Ph.D.
Bruce Lipton Ph.D.

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

I recently "read" a book about La Cosa Nostra (I believe that is what the Sicilian Mafia is called) for a visually impaired person. I don't recall the author, either.

I've also read a few interesting mangas (I can list them later since I have to get to class real soon.)

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[Snoopy]

A Concise History of Buddhism – Andrew Skilton.


Skilton’s intention was to provide a short history of Buddhism, showing how its doctrines developed over time as the teachings spread out from India. In this I believe he has entirely succeeded. It is written in a clear and straightforward way, and anyone with so much as a passing interest in Buddhism will find it a useful means of getting an overview of how all the parts of the jigsaw came to be and relate to each other.

The book is in two parts. Part one is concerned with Buddhism in India and the chapter headings include The Buddha’s Teaching, The Early Sangha, The Councils, The Tripitaka, Origins of the Mahayana, The Tantra and Vajrayana Buddhism. Part two is concerned with Buddhism “beyond India” and these chapters deal with Sri Lanka, Tibet, Japan, Nepal etc.

Amazon.com: Reviews for A Concise History of Buddhism: Books: Andrew Skilton



The book does not concern itself with Buddhism in “the West” so the perfect follow on from this would be such a history. Step forward All is Change by Lawrence Sutin…

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[Snoopy]

All is Change – by Lawrence Sutin

Although ostensibly a history of Buddhism in the West, Sutin’s book is so wide ranging I think I would recommend it to quite a few of my brothers and sisters here on CR. (Sutin is not a Buddhist so has no “axe to grind.”) So as well as the usual suspects (e.g. the Dalai Lama, DT Suzuki, Thich Nhat Hanh), the book takes in such people and topics as: Gnosticism, Leibniz, Thoreau, Emerson, Heidegger, LSD, Theosophy, Transcendentalism, Stephen Batchelor, Aquinas, Aristotle, Jesuit missionairies, Alexander the Great, Meister Eckhart, Thomas Merton, Islam, Schopenhauer, Walt Whitman and Voltaire (to mention but a few to give a taste) within its 340 pages.

Amazon.com: All Is Change: The Two-Thousand-Year Journey of Buddhism to the West: Books: Lawrence Sutin

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[Snoopy]

Big Mind - Big Heart. by Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel.

“Big Mind” is Merzel’s term for the transcendent mind, that to which we may not be awakened, but is always there. As a Zen practitioner his, er, practice had been one of meditation. Then he discovered the Voice Dialogue of Hal and Sidra Stone. This is based on the Jungian idea that we all have many sub-personalities that (unknown to us) control us, rather than us controlling them. There may also be ones we don’t want to exhibit so we try to suppress and disown, but they come out in us anyway, in some form. The central practice of Voice Dialogue is that a facilitator “dialogues” directly with these sub-personalities so they can be acknowledged and integrated into a more healthy personality. That’s my understanding based on this book anyway. The link with Zen comes from the fact “Big Mind” is, from the Voice Dialogue perspective, just another sub-personality; so it can be accessed in just the same manner. The facilitator should be trained in both Voice Dialogue and Zen. Enter Merzel.

I found the book intriguing but rather drawn out in all the “dialogues”. But I’m sufficiently interested to look into it further. I didn’t find the CD too much of an addition.


Amazon.com: Big Mind - Big Heart: Finding Your Way: Books: Dennis Genpo Merzel



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[juantoo3]

I'm not much of one for "storybooks" (fiction), but I found a copy of a recent Michael Creighton (sp?) book I heard about last year and wanted (but not at full retail $). I couldn't remember the name, but the dust jacket in the second hand store was a dead giveaway. Turns out it is titled "Next," and it deals with a lot of the ramifications of applied genetic science, especially the commercial and legal aspects, along with a very subtle dose of ethics regarding a subject brought up around here before: how do we treat a transgenic human / animal hybrid?

So, who owns your genes? You might be surprised...it isn't you.

[Ahanu]

Amazon.com: Release the Sun: An Early History of the Bahai Faith: Books: William Sears

Release The Sun by William Sears is electrifying. It literally made my hair stand up when I read the following: "When He came into the hall, He saw that every seat was occupied except one, which had been reserved as the seat of honor for the heir to the throne, the king's son. The Bab courteously greeted the assembly. He knew they planned to humiliate Him by making Him stand. Without hesitation He walked to that seat of honor and sat down. A silence, long and intense, fell over the gathering. Their plans had been frustrated, and their anger was apparent in their faces. At last the stillness was broken by the presiding officer of the gathering. 'Who do you claim to be?' he asked the Bab. 'What is the message which you have brought?'" Well, everybody knows what happened after that (). This book introduced me to the Baha'i Faith and shed a whole new light on Islam for me. I am sending props to the people on the Baha'i forum for telling me to check it out, because it is mad interesting, and I plan on reading it again.

Amazon.com: The Prophet: Books: Kahlil Gibran

Currently I am reading The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.

[Ahanu]

Originally Posted by YO-ELEVEN-11

Right now im reading A LONG WAY GONE , MEMOIRS OF A BOY SOLDIER" by Ishmael Beah

So far it is a good book.

That is one of my favorite books!

[flowperson]

I haven't read this book, but this review knocked me out.

Science has discovered many things regarding the positive effects that music has upon brain development and maintenance in humans. As you will see it is also useful in healing brain deficiency and damage.

I would also recommend anything else written by Dr. Sachs. I've read a couple of his books and have benefitted greatly from it.

flow....

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/bo...=1&oref=slogin