Flashbacks
10 best books like Flashbacks (Timothy Leary): The Doors of Perception, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, The Hippie Handbook: How to Tie-Dye a T-Shirt, Flash a Peace Sign, and Other Essential Skills for the Carefree Life, A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1), On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence, Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers, Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer's Craft, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path, Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream
The Doors of Perception is a philosophical essay, released as a book, by Aldous Huxley. First published in 1954, it details his experiences when taking mescaline. The book takes the form of Huxley's recollection of a mescaline trip that took place over the course of an afternoon in May 1953. The book...
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
| Author | Carlos Castaneda |
| ISBN | 0671227424 |
You may find this book has a lot of chaff on how they prepare peyote and other drugs, mundane descriptions in diary... yet when you less expect it, they hit you with a boulder of wisdom that leaves you freezed.
There is ONE core idea in the book that makes the price tag disappear. You cannot pay for...
The Hippie Handbook: How to Tie-Dye a T-Shirt, Flash a Peace Sign, and Other Essential Skills for the Carefree Life
| Author | Chelsea Cain |
| ISBN | 0811843203 |
Brothers and sisters! Here at last is a light-hearted, free-spirited, groovy guide to the timeless hippie skills and activities that make the world a better place, one macrame belt at a time. In illustrated, easy-to-follow instructions, author Chelsea Cain -- who grew up on an Iowa hippie commune...
A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
| Author | Ronald Holt |
| ISBN | 0582416396 |
“To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.”
So begins the very first story in the very first collection of stories about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective with a phenomenal brain, Sherlock Holmes. A Scandal in Bohemia...
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
| Author | William Zinsser |
| ISBN | 0060891548 |
On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write about people...
The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
| Author | Josh Waitzkin |
| ISBN | 0743277457 |
Josh Waitzkin knows what it means to be at the top of his game. A public figure since winning his first National Chess Championship at the age of nine, Waitzkin was catapulted into a media whirlwind as a teenager when his father's book "Searching for Bobby Fischer" was made into a major motion picture....
| Author | Carolyn See |
| ISBN | 0345440463 |
As Carolyn See says, writing guides are like preachers on Sunday?there may be a lot of them, but you can't have too many, and there's always an audience of the faithful. And while Making a Literary Life is ostensibly a book that teaches you how to write, it really teaches you how to make your interior life...
| Author | Natalie Goldberg |
| ISBN | 0553374966 |
In this long-awaited sequel to her bestselling books Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind, Natalie Goldberg, one of the most sought-after writing teachers of our time, takes us to the next step in the writing process.
You’ve filled your notebooks, done your writing practice, discovered...
| Author | Jack Kornfield |
| ISBN | 0553378295 |
“Enlightenment does exist,” internationally renowned author and meditation master Jack Kornfield assures us. “Unbounded freedom and joy, oneness with the divine ... these experiences are more common than you know, and not far away.”
But even after achieving such realization...
Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream
| Author | Jay Stevens |
| ISBN | 0802135870 |
Storming Heaven is a riveting history of LSD and its influence on American culture. Jay Stevens uses the "curious molecule" known as LSD as a kind of tracer bullet, illuminating one of postwar America's most improbable shadow-histories. His prodigiously researched narrative moves from Aldous Huxley's...
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0201489392 |
Escapist fantasies usually involve the open road, but Bernd Heinrich’s dream was to focus on the riches of one small place—a few green acres along Alder Brook just east of the Presidential Mountains. The year begins as he settles into a cabin with no running water and no electricity, built of hand-cut...
| Author | Benedict of Nursia |
| ISBN | 1530221056 |
The Rule of Benedict constitutes a basic guide for living the Christian life and continues to be followed by every Benedictine monastery and convent in the world today. Just the idea that a guide for living could not only last 1500 years but continue to be followed by thousands of people makes its study...
