Fire from Within

6 best books like Fire from Within (Carlos Castaneda): Time Out of Joint, The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 1: Science. Bad., The Sorcerer's Crossing: A Woman's Journey, The Witch's Dream: A Healer's Way of Knowledge, Being-in-Dreaming: An Initiation into the Sorcerers' World, Raízes do Brasil

Time Out of Joint

Author

Philip K. Dick

Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick’s classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn’t know that. He thinks it’s 1959. He also thinks that he served in World War II, that he lives in a quiet...

The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 1: Science. Bad.

Author	Jonathan Hickman
ISBN	1607066084

Picked this up on a whim, just because I've been impressed with Hickman's work in the past....

And I wasn't disappointed. Weird story, funny bits, interesting premise.

I liked it well enough that I bought the rest of the series based on the strength of this single book. That says something...

I'll...

The Sorcerer's Crossing: A Woman's Journey

Author	Taisha Abelar
ISBN	0140193669

Highlights:
1. Intent is the power that upholds the universe. It is the force that gives focus to everything. It makes the world happen.

2. We are convinced that a dualism exists in us; the mind is the insubstantial part of ourselves and the body is the concrete part. This division keeps our...

The Witch's Dream: A Healer's Way of Knowledge

Author	Florinda Donner
ISBN	0140195319

For those who have followed Carlos Casteneda and Don Juan Matus, this will be familiar territory. And this comes as no surprise when you learn that the writer, Florinda Donner-Grau, was a disciple Casteneda. This book follows the literary formula that was established by Casteneda very closely. That...

Being-in-Dreaming: An Initiation into the Sorcerers' World

Author	Florinda Donner
ISBN	0062501925

A book that looked lost and lonely and out of place amongst the others sat in a reduced box made me look again. It interested me for the Carlos Castaneda recommendation, and any that have read his books would be intrigued, so of course I bought it. Like Castaneda's books it is intriguing and surreal. You...

Raízes do Brasil

Author	Sérgio Buarque de Holanda
ISBN	8503001772

Publicada em 1936, Raízes do Brasil aborda aspectos centrais da história da cultura brasileira. O texto consiste de uma macro-interpretação do processo de formação da sociedade brasileira. Destaca, sobretudo, a importância do legado cultural da colonização portuguesa do Brasil, e...