Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality
7 best books like Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality (Gary Lachman): The Sorrow Of War: A Novel of North Vietnam, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue), The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, Be Here Now, Suttree, Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
| Author | Bảo Ninh |
| ISBN | 1573225436 |
The Future Lied To Us
A reminiscence, rather than a memoir, tumbling between the time before war, eleven years of brutal fighting, and then its aftermath. Shifting from first to third person, with the occasional second person letter, the story is as unstructured as the lives involved. And...
| Author | Riane Eisler |
| ISBN | 0062502891 |
Three stars because it was a pretty interesting read, and she covers, well, all of human history.
I read it because I know a number of people who claim this book fundamentally shaped their worldview (and a number of others who don't make that claim, but are certainly influenced by the popularity...
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
| Author | Alan W. Watts |
| ISBN | 0679723005 |
Alan Watts asks what is the cause of the illusion that the self is a separate ego, housed in a bag of skin, and which confronts a universe of physical objects that are alien to it. Rather a person's identity (their ego) binds them to the physical universe, creating a relationship with their environment...
Describes one man's transformation upon his acceptance of the principles of Yoga & gives a modern restatement of the importance of the spiritual side of human nature. Illustrated.
The book is divided into four sections:
Journey: The Transformation: Dr Richard Alpert, PhD into Baba...
| Author | Cormac McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0679736328 |
This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken. Rising above...
Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying
| Author | Ram Dass |
| ISBN | 1573228710 |
More than thirty years ago, an entire generation sought a new way of life, looking for fulfillment and meaning in a way no one had before. Leaving his teaching job at Harvard, Ram Dass embodied the role of spiritual seeker, showing others how to find peace within themselves in one of the greatest spiritual...
Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
| Author | Mo Gawdat |
| ISBN | 1501157558 |
Mo Gawdat is a remarkable thinker and the Chief Business Officer at Google’s [X], an elite team of engineers that comprise Google’s futuristic “dream factory.” Applying his superior skills of logic and problem solving to the issue of happiness, he proposes an algorithm based on an understanding...
