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Favorite Spiritual Books; What are your favorites?
Topic Started: Aug 16 2005, 10:04 PM (439 Views)
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This is my short list.

Past:

A PATH WITH HEART - Jack Kornfield
Any of the books at www.gangaji.org
Thomas Merton's books especially NEW SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION

Now:

A COURSE IN MIRACLES
- available in print and online
- This has become my primary spiritual book for some time. It takes years of study and I may not need another book. If I could have only one book this would be it.
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I almost exclusively study the bible and A Course in Miracles. In fact, in my signature, I have several times quoted from ACIM.
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I like the series of 'Left Behind' books,they also made a movie out of it,very good movie indeed :)
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Aug 17 2005, 11:30 AM
I like the series of 'Left Behind' books,they also made a movie out of it,very good movie indeed :)

Thanks Luthien. I rent movies through the mail so I put it to the top of my list and should see it by next week sometime. They also have a "Left Behind 2" which came out 2 years later in 2002. B}
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The Bible (incl. the Apocrypha) and the Upanishads. I also love Tertium Organum (by Ouspensky), although it isn't strictly about spirituality.
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Aug 17 2005, 11:30 AM
I like the series of 'Left Behind' books,they also made a movie out of it,very good movie indeed :)

I enjoyed the Left Behind movies but I heard that they are no where near as good as the books. One of these days I want to read that series.

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well the movies are good but they tend to get a bit boring near the end cuz nothing is happening anymore,my mom bought the double dvd box with I and II which is like the firts time ever that she bought a dvd :P
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Aug 17 2005, 02:23 PM
well the movies are good but they tend to get a bit boring near the end cuz nothing is happening anymore,my mom bought the double dvd box with I and II which is like the firts time ever that she bought a dvd :P

Wow. She must have really wanted to see those movies.
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Aug 17 2005, 12:49 PM
The Bible (incl. the Apocrypha) and the Upanishads. I also love Tertium Organum (by Ouspensky), although it isn't strictly about spirituality.

What is the Apocrypha? There are many, many other books I have read. I have seen many references and quotes to the Upanishads. What is their history again?
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Who,

Hi. The Apocrypha are the books of the Bible that Protestants don't consider canonical. The Roman Catholics have (from the Protestant perspective) certain 'extra' books (e.g., Susanna, Tobit, Judith, etc.) in their Bibles that Protestants don't consider to have the same authority as the 'standard' sixty-six books. The Eastern Orthodox Church has books in their Bibles that they consider canonical, but which the Roman Catholics and Protestants do not (Psalm 151, and [I think] 3 and 4 Maccabees, the additions to Esther, etc.). So these books would be 'apocryphal' to the Roman Catholic Church and to Protestants. I own one Bible that has all of the Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox books in it. This makes me one holy dude, worthy almost--but not quite--of being allowed to attend 38957's church. ;)

I don't know the history of the Upanishads, except to say that they are Hindu scriptures, and are held in high regard by Hindus (up there with the Rig Veda, the Vedanta, and the Bhagavad Gita (of the Mahabarata, I believe). The Gita were written originally in Sanskrit, but I don't know if this is true of the Upanishads. I would need to inquire of Vishnu to be certain. And my Sanskrit is a tad rusty. (BTW, that's a veiled reference to VOY for 38957 and T'Lac--one might say, an 'apocryphal' reference. :Fes:)

You might find some useful information here:

http://www.indiadivine.com/vedic-hindu-scriptures.htm
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Aside from the usual stuff like the Bible...

Lately I have read: "The Art of Happiness" by the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, MD (more or less conversations between Dr. Cutler and the Dalai Lama). "The Power of Intention" Dr. Wayne Dyer, many on reference to St Francis of Assisi and some to "A Course in Miracles."
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An excellent book is called "The Path of the Righteous" written in the 16th centurny it is a book which itself says that it is not telling you anything you dont already know a person is just prone to forgetting. It key to the book is to read it over and over so that the easy things about becoming righteous and close to g-d will be constantly set in the for front of our minds.
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Aug 18 2005, 12:21 AM
Aside from the usual stuff like the Bible...

Lately I have read: "The Art of Happiness" by the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, MD (more or less conversations between Dr. Cutler and the Dalai Lama). "The Power of Intention" Dr. Wayne Dyer, many on reference to St Francis of Assisi and some to "A Course in Miracles."

This sentence is unclear. Are you saying that Wayne Dyer's book references "A Course in Miracles?"
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psyfi
Aug 17 2005, 06:21 PM
~Luthien~
Aug 17 2005, 02:23 PM
well the movies are good but they tend to get a bit boring near the end cuz nothing is happening anymore,my mom bought the double dvd box with I and II which is like the firts time ever that she bought a dvd :P

Wow. She must have really wanted to see those movies.

Well theyre basically the only movies she approves off,and no not even Passion of the Christ she approves off so just imagine ;)
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Aug 18 2005, 09:32 AM
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Aug 17 2005, 06:21 PM
~Luthien~
Aug 17 2005, 02:23 PM
well the movies are good but they tend to get a bit boring near the end cuz nothing is happening anymore,my mom bought the double dvd box with I and II which is like the firts time ever that she bought a dvd :P

Wow. She must have really wanted to see those movies.

Well theyre basically the only movies she approves off,and no not even Passion of the Christ she approves off so just imagine ;)

Why doesn't she approve of The Passion of the Christ? Does she feel that it strays too far from the bible?
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