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01-07-2008, 06:57 PM
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The Book Thread - What You're Reading & Everything Book Related
I just bought The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger yesterday and plan to finish it this week. What is everyone reading? I plan to order:
1632 by Eric Flint The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, & the I Ching by Terence McKenna Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr., et al Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson The Art of War by Sun Tzu Behold a Pale Horse by William Cooper
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Because the fact is, what blinds us to the presence of alien intelligence is linguistic and cultural bias operating on ourselves. The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world, you see. We operate on a very narrow slice based on cultural conventions. So the important thing, if synergizing progress is the notion to be maximized (and I think it's the notion to be maximized), is to try and locate the blind spot in the culture -- the place where the culture isn't looking, because it dare not -- because if it were to look there, its previous values would dissolve, you see. For Western Civilization that place is the psychedelic experience as it emerges out of nature. -- Terence McKenna |
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01-07-2008, 07:04 PM
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The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
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01-07-2008, 07:31 PM
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01-07-2008, 07:42 PM
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The Wild Trees by Richard Preston. An amazing book about some real modern day pioneers.
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01-07-2008, 07:51 PM
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Just finished Cannabible 3, waiting for 4 to come out. I'm also reading The Introduction to Tantric, a form of Buddhism.
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02-21-2008, 08:04 AM
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Godspeed to your Mind Hamster
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Just finished A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke. Dissident literature at it's finest.
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Because the fact is, what blinds us to the presence of alien intelligence is linguistic and cultural bias operating on ourselves. The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world, you see. We operate on a very narrow slice based on cultural conventions. So the important thing, if synergizing progress is the notion to be maximized (and I think it's the notion to be maximized), is to try and locate the blind spot in the culture -- the place where the culture isn't looking, because it dare not -- because if it were to look there, its previous values would dissolve, you see. For Western Civilization that place is the psychedelic experience as it emerges out of nature. -- Terence McKenna |
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02-21-2008, 08:15 AM
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HEAT - bill buford. A good cooking book, not a cookbook.
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02-21-2008, 10:41 AM
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Eric Claptons Bio at the moment
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02-21-2008, 11:16 AM
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac.
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02-21-2008, 11:23 AM
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Legal Drug by clamp...#3
manga action rules, but reading backwards took a minute to get use to. my fav read of all time would be The Iron Men. |
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