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Id like to start this thread for RI readers to list books that they would like to suggest others read.

I will start with a few of my favorites:


The Shadow over Santa Susanna: Black Magic, Mind Control and the Manson Family Mythos by Adam Gorightly

The Lightning and the Sun by Savitri Devi

A Secret History of Consciousness by Gary Lachman

The Occult Roots of Nazism by Nicholas Goodrick Clarke

Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult by Peter Levenda

Madam Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of Mystics, Mediums and Misfits who Brought Spiritualism to America by Peter Washington

The Plot to Sieze the White House by Jules Archer (a Rare and VERY expensive book, sadly. Luckily I own a first edition)

THEM By Jon Ronson

The Men who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson

Hitler's Priestess: The Story of Savitri Devi by Nicholas Goodrick Clarke

The Dark Arts of Immortality: Transformation through War, Sex, & Magic by Ross Shott

The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly Palmer Hall

Anxious Gravity: A Novel by Jeff Wells (Our Host)

Anything by Rudolf Steiner

Hitler's Willing Executioners - Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

The Lucifer Principle - Howard K. Bloom

The Alchemist - Paul Coehlo

Wishfull Thinking(A Theological ABC) - Frederick Beuchner

Anything and everything by Cordwainer Smith.

The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital: The Masons and the Building of Washington, D.C. by David Ovason

CONSPIRATORS' HIERARCHY: THE COMMITTEE OF 300 by Dr. John Coleman
ISBN: 0-922356-57-2
ISBN: 0963401947 (1997)

Diplomacy By Deception
By Dr. John Coleman
ISBN: 0-9640104-8-8 (1998)

One World Order: Socialist Dictatorship
By Dr. John Coleman
ISBN: 0-9640104-9-6

What You Should Know About the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights by Dr John Coleman
ISBN: 1893157032 (1999)

Foundation Series - Isac Asimov

Dune - Frank Herbert

I've been meaning to read the Peter Levanda book....


Foundations and Public Policy, by Joan Roelofs, on the role of the big "liberal" foundations

The Cultural Cold War, by Frances Stoner Saunders, on the CIA's Congress For Cultural Freedom, which funded anti-socialist liberal groups throughout the west

The Big White Lie, by Michael Levine, a former DEA agent exposing his story of CIA drug dealing in South America

The Phoenix Program, by Douglas Valentine

Thy Will Be Done: Rockefeller's Conquest of the Amazon, by Gerard Colby

Molloy by Samuel Beckett.

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien.

Almost anything anything by the great, strange, wise, erratic, still-living, still under-recognised and hereby loudly publicised Alan Garner.

From `The Unofficial Alan Garner Website':

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~xenophon/times3.html

[MacCruiskeen is the poster formerly known as Bismillah.]

The shifting Realities of Philip K Dick - great collection of essays and various other writings. Oh, and read his novels of course... not sure which to recommend, A Scanner Darkly, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and the VALIS trilogy especially good tho.

Hmm anything by William Burroughs but especially his essay "The Electronic Revolution" which is easily findable online via google...

Using Your Brain For A Change - Dr. Richard Bandler
The Structure of Magic (I & II) - R. Bandler & J. Grinder
Affirmations - Stuart Wilde
The Trick To Money Is Having Some - Stuart Wilde
Infinite Self - Stuart Wilde
(okay, pretty much anything by Stuart Wilde - the guy is a bonafide 21st Century genius).
Wheels of Life - Anodea Judith
Useful Mathematical and Physical Formulae - Matthew Watkins
The Occult - Colin Wilson
Beyond the Occult - Colin Wilson
Chance and Chaos - David Ruelle
The Silva Mind Control Method - Jose Silva
The Writer's Journey - Christopher Vogler
The Hero With A Thousand Faces - Jospeph Campbell
Introducing Psychology - DS Wright, Ann Taylor
The Giant Book of Conspiracies (ROFL, seriously - it's a highly amusing and pithy book) - John Vankin & John Whalen
Supernature - Lyall Watson

Time Enough For Love - robert heinlein (a novel)
Steel Beach - John Varley (a novel)
Against A Dark Background - Iain M Banks (a novel - all of his science fiction is worth a look actually, with perhaps the exception of Fearsum Enjin)

About to read:

The Spirit Molecule - Dr. Rick Strassman (Looking forwards to it, pineal gland, point of amnesia etc)

Thanks,

Telexx

PS: Foundation! What a series of books, specially the latter ones. Phillip K Dick also.

Dark alliance : the CIA, the Contras, and the crack cocaine explosion by Gary Webb

The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control
by John D. Marks

America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones
by Antony C. Sutton

Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassinationa of JFK? by Mark Lane

Deep Politics And The Death Of JFK, by Peter Dale Scott

Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, By Peter Dale Scott

American Theocracy: The Peril And Politics Of Radical Religion, Oil, And Borrowed Money In The Twenty-First Century, by Kevin Phillips

Emperor Wears No Clothes: Hemp and the Marijuana Conspiracy, by Jack Herer

The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska, by John de Camp

some of my favorite novels of all time are;Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy;Ancient Lights, by Davis Grubb; and The Hereafter Gang, by Neal Barrett,Jr. Some books I've been reading lately(that I found out about from this website) that are really, really good, are by Charles Upton.

Always a good subject for a thread.

Some good books within my reach that I don't think I've referred to yet on the blog:

Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness - Sheldrake, McKenna and Abraham

From Sun Tzu to XBox: War and video Games - Ed Halter

Visitors from Hidden Realms - Brent Raynes

The Bleeding Mind: An Investigation into the Mysterious Phenomenon of Stigmata - Ian Wilson

Aleister Crowley and the Ouija Board - J Edward Cornlelius

The Lucid View: Investigations into Occultism, Ufology and Paranoid Awareness - Aeolus Kephas

Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons - George Pendle

Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan, among many others. All of his collected writings I believe can be found online, including that story.

Machen put Lovecraft's you-know-what in the dirt.

Sara Scott - "Beyond Disbelief: The politics and experience of ritual abuse"

Andrew Boyd - "Blasphemous Rumors: Is Satanic Ritual Abuse Fact or Fantasy?"

Valerie Sinason (ed) - "Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse"

(Why is the good RA stuff all British???)

David Sakheim and Susan Devine (eds) - "Out of Darkness: Exploring Satanism and Ritual Abuse"

Jeanne Marie Lorena and Paula Levy (eds) - "Breaking Ritual Silence : An Anthology of Ritual Abuse Survivors' Stories"

Judith Herman - "Trauma and Recovery"

Julia Kristeva - "Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection"

excellent idea for a thread!

a few books that come to mind:

saving the appearances by owen barfield
(a brilliant little book, inspired by r. steiner, on the evolution of consciousness)

contingency, irony, and solidarity by richard rorty
(outlines the "liberal ironist" position, a sort of post-modern pragmatism, and draws on sklar's definition of a liberal as someone who thinks "cruelty is the worst thing we do." particularly good on orwell and nabokov.)

wie die grossen mit den menschen spielen by ekkehardt krippendorf
(don't know if it's been translated. wonderful exposition of goethe's politics in weimar.)

hopeful monsters by nicholas mosley
(good novel by the son of a famous british fascist. our future depends on the actions of a few souls who have made great moral leaps and have special insightful abilities....some of them probably are readers of RI!)

another vote for
anything by flann o'brien - extremely funny

My first two rec's are what I am currently absorbing:

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - Jaynes

The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise - Laing

One that I finished recently is:

In Denial Of Death by Becker
I highly recommend it. Even if you believe consciousness continues after death, I would still recommend reading it, perhaps more so.

Others that spring to mind:
fiction -
Image Of The Beast by Phillip Jose Farmer
PKD's books
Etidorhpa by John Uri Lloyd
Dhalgren - Samuel R. Delany

others:
The Cipher Of Genesis by Carlos Suares
The Holgraphic Universe - Talbot
Morals & Dogma - Pike
Footprints of The Gods - Hancock