I too am reading Thinking and Destiny by Harold Percival, but very slowly. I
was given this copy in the late eighties, by someone close.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" <steve.sundur@...> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> > > > I am so narrow minded that I can't bring myself to read
> > > > fiction and usually stick with something "spiritua"l in
> > > > nature.
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> > In comparison, I read primarily fiction and avoid anything
> > "spiritua"l like it had a big herpes sore on its lip. :-)
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> I understand. BTW, you spelled "spirtiua"l wrong (-:
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> > > > But most of the modern new agey type books seem dull
> > > > and full of platitudes.
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> > More than "seem," I'm afraid.
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> > > > Lately I've been reading some of the lesser known early
> > > > theosophists. Even that has been somewhat dull.
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> 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.
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> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Name_Is_Red
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