Book recommendations?

[winstonsmith]

Recently I've been feeling compelled to pursue a path of spiritual enlightenment and self-awareness. Can anybody recommend any books that might help me on my way? Thanks...

Harvey

[them]

Albert Camus
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide

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The book I'm recommending is The Plague by Albert Camus.

http://www.camus-society.com/the-plague-albert-camus.htm

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... only when a strong wind was blowing did a faint, sickly odour coming from the east remind them that they were living under a new order.

[winstonsmith]

Albert Camus


http://www.camus-society.com/albert-camus/images/camus_01.jpg (http://www.camus-society.com/index.htm)

The book I'm recommending is The Plague by Albert Camus.

http://www.camus-society.com/the-plague-albert-camus.htm

http://www.barnabyrudge.com/photos/015459.jpg



Thanks man but I've already read The Plague. Camus is one of my all time favourite novelists actually. Do you like any other existentialist fiction, such as Sartre or Kafka? I don't really agree with existentialist philosophy these days but I find it interesting nonetheless....

[raffles]

Supernatural By graham hancock is well worth a read, im halfway thru DMT the spirit molecule by Dr. Rick Strassman thats been interesting so far.

[winstonsmith]

Supernatural By graham hancock is well worth a read, im halfway thru DMT the spirit molecule by Dr. Rick Strassman thats been interesting so far.


Thanks Raffles, these both look very interesting. I'll be sure to check them out...

[them]

Thanks man but I've already read The Plague. Camus is one of my all time favourite novelists actually. Do you like any other existentialist fiction, such as Sartre or Kafka? I don't really agree with existentialist philosophy these days but I find it interesting nonetheless....

I do like Sartre & Kafka but have read neither for many years. However, I've been revisiting Camus recently after hearing Alan Watt disscusing him in one of his lectures.

As you've read The Plague I'll offer something else instead.

The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

About The Outermost House

The Outermost House has long been recognized as a classic of American nature writing. This chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach was written in longhand at the kitchen table, in a little room overlooking the North Atlantic and the dunes. Although Henry Beston had originally planned to spend just two weeks in his house on the shore, he was so possessed by the "beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea ... that (he) could not go." As he wrote then, and as many hold to be true nearly 70 years later, "the world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot." In The Outermost House we find all of these wonders of life -- the migrations of shore and sea birds, the ceaseless rhythms of wind and sand and ocean, the pageant of stars in the changing seasons. Beston's words capture the vividness of nature and bring us that much closer to understanding man's true relation to the cosmic picture. In a 1964 ceremony, the Cape Cod house was officially proclaimed a National Literary Landmark. In 1978 a massive winter storm swept it off its foundation and out to sea.

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http://www.henrybeston.com/outermost.html


Henry Beston
When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness and integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity