reads & viewing
The Story of B by Daniel Quinn.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
The Little Prince
The Education of Little Tree, by Forrest Carter
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
Autobiography of a Yogi-- by Paramahansa Yogananda
Walden................................Henry D. Thoreau
To Kill a Mockingbird.................Harper Lee
The Spyglass, by Richard Paul Evens
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach
Illusions, by Richard Bach
The Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan - read excerpt
Nineteen Eighty-four, George Orwell
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, by John Taylor Gatto Remaking Society, by Murray Bookchin
Peril at Polchis Lake, by Anthony Reader
King of Travelers, by E. Martin
Siddhartha, By Hermann Hesse
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
"Guns, Germs, and Steel" The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond.
The Exhausted School (1993);
A Different Kind of Teacher (2000);
and The Underground History Of American Education (2001), by John Taylor GattoThe River Why, by David James Duncan
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World, by Harry Browne
Enthusiasm Makes the Difference, by Norman Vincent Peale
the cultural contradictions of capitalism, by daniel bell
Soloing by Harriet Rubin
The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life, by Os Guinness
"EN ROUTE TO GLOBAL OCCUPATION" , Gary H. Kah, Huntington House Publisher
zen and the art of motorcycle maintence, by Robert Persig
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest, by Wade Davis
I'm a Stranger Here Myself and A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
The bridge across forever, by Richard Bach
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, by Dan Millman
The Monk who sold his Ferrari, by Robin Sharma
Tom Brown's Field Guides
Tuesday`s with Morrie, by Mitch Album
Welcome to the Monkey house, Kurt Vonnegut
Going Wild: Alaska Wilderness survival Diary, by Miles Martin
The Ethical Slut
The Making of Harry Cossaboom, by Jerrod Edson
-anything by either scott nearing or colman mccarthy
Voice of the Rivers
Ghetto Celebrity, By Donnel Alexander
Trout fishing in America, Richard Brautigan
In Patagonia, and The Songlines, by Bruce Chatwin
The Naked Lunch, by William S. Burrows
The Lucifer Principle, by Howard Bloom
"The Art of Living" by Joseph Campbell
"Discourse on Method " by René Descartes
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get A Real Life and Education, by Grace Llewellyn.
Michael Crichton's book, "Travels"
'How to Build a mind'
The once and Future King
Heart of Darkness....Joseph Conrad
The Dark Tower, by Stephen King
Joseph Campbell, "The Power of Myth"
"The Power of Kaballah" written by Rabbi Berg
Wild at Heart: Discovering a Life of Passion, Freedom, and Adventure; by John Eldredge.
Teaching of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, by Carlos Castenada
One, by Richard Bach
The Mayan Factor, by Jose Arguilles
The Hobbit............................J.R.R. Tolkien
On the Road...........................Jack Kerouac
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.....Robert M Pirsig
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
The Tao of Physics by Fritoj Capra
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
A video called "Ancient Futures" about a city in Tibet and the impact of western ways.
Lord of the Rings.... J R R Tolkien
The Communist Manifesto...............Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Brave New World.......................Aldous Huxley
Cory
I finished the book you gave me. "It's here now, are you".
It took me a while to read it because I got "stuck" half way through. I hated it....... can't explain why. I just didn't want to read it. It made me angry. If I had bought it, I had probably never finished it. But because you gave it to me, I picked it up again and kept reading.......... and I'm really glad I did!
The last chapter is amazing! There I found what I was looking for....... I can't put it in words.
It made me realize once again that we are all coming from the same (whatever you want to call it), moving to the same, living in the same, but we have to walk our own paths and each one is different.
The whole book was about Bhagavan Das's path...... except the last chapter.
"Everyone must create his own religion. You must start your own religion. I have my own religion...... find the way you can genuinely be you. What do you like to do? Find God there. Find out what your special gift is and where you find that connection, what really makes you happy, and follow that way..........We need to break through the money, sex, and power trips we're on and find our way back to our hearts. The heart is the real destination. The important thing is how much we love, not what we have. We all want love, but the love of God, of the Divine Mother, is the only true love that never disappoints........"
I just wrote yesterday that "the best teacher is a small child. It can teach you more than you can ever learn at school or from an adult."
In the book it says "The kingdom is of the child. It is our child, it is that freshness and openness and spontaneity and glow of the child. All the great saints that I've been with are children.............. completely spontaneously childlike in every sense, but not childish."
Why does everyone want to grow up?
Cory, it's very difficult to put my thoughts into words. You are much better at that. But I can tell when I "feel" something, when something is "touching" me. Thanks for lending me the book.
Stay warm,
Edith
Cool site. It has to be said.
I stumbled into your books page while following a web search for 'Richard Bach', and thought 'I've read that, and that, and that ... (and so on and on). Fortunate karma to have encountered such teachings.
If you ever get time - such a lot of reading and writing done and so much more to do - add Robert Heinlein's 'Time Enough For Love' to the list of books you've read.
It was a pleasure to visit and I send you my best wishes on your adventure. Can't send you money, being relatively poor because we only work part time so that we can educate our two children at home, but I have faith that you'll find all the support that you need to do your being here now.
Kane
www.kane.emslie.btinternet.co.uk
Films:
Adaptation
Momento
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Grass
Brother sun, sister moon
Steal This Movie, by Abbie Hoffman
Brother sun, sister moon
WHAT I'VE LEARNED ABOUT U.S. FOREIGN POLICY, by Frank Dorrel, fdorrel@hotmail.com
Roger and Me
Man Bites Dog
Coming Apart
Black Sundays
Naked Lunch
Harold and Maude
Four Rooms
Time Code
The Deer Hunter
