--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > I can unreservedly pass along wayback's recommendation > for Dan Eagleman's "SUM: Forty Tales from the Afterlife." > It's just what the title implies, and brilliant. And the > stories are short, so it's perfect bedtime reading. You > can drop off to sleep after any story without feeling > that you still need to read more.
Thanks, I just wrote it down along with Rick's recommendation. I realize I have a predjudice against Eastern or Indian type books. So although I plan to check out Rick's recommendation, I've been avoiding that genre. Of course my standby is Thinking and Destiny by Harold Percival. That books is so thick that you can always find something new. > > > I am so narrow minded that I can't bring myself to read > > > fiction and usually stick with something "spiritua"l in > > > nature. > > In comparison, I read primarily fiction and avoid anything > "spiritua"l like it had a big herpes sore on its lip. :-) I understand. BTW, you spelled "spirtiua"l wrong (-: > > > But most of the modern new agey type books seem dull > > > and full of platitudes. > > More than "seem," I'm afraid. > > > > Lately I've been reading some of the lesser known early > > > theosophists. Even that has been somewhat dull. Right. Steiner, Leadbetter, Percival, Crowley. They were all around the beginning of a new spiritual chapter. I know Madame Blavatsky gets a lot of flak here (and elsewhere), (I'm thinking Curtis especially doesn't have a high opinion of her), but I haven't really gone into her writings. But the others seems to have some unique insights into the so called "occul"t. Their books or essays were written in a different time in a different style, and different language that I find interesting. > > Herpes city for me. I'm re-reading a book now because I > need to analyze the author's writing style. He used a > mechanism in this book that I need to use in something > I am writing. The book is by Orhan Pahmuk, and is called > "My Name Is Red." It's a murder mystery. But by a Nobel > Prize-winning author. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Name_Is_Red >
