Who's your favorite? Why? Any book recommendations?

Shalom,
Vern

I have enjoyed many authors over the years. Some that stand out are Alan Watts who wrote several good books on Zen. I read much of what Joseph Campbell has written on mythology and I also have enjoyed Carl Jung.

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David Hume, Edward O. Wilson and Simon Blackburn. And with a puzzled look, I might also say Douglas Hafstadter.

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If I had to pick one, it would be Joel Goldsmith. I am most interested in inspiration/ Mysticism.

"The world is not in need of a new religion, nor is the world in need of a new philosophy: What the world needs is healing and regeneration. The world needs people who, through devotion to God, are so filled with the Spirit that they can be instruments through which healings take place, because healing is important to everybody." -- JOEL S. GOLDSMITH

Joel was a down to earth mystic with human tendencies, a spiritual healer and a spiritual teacher that believed: physical well-being results naturally from attaining a consciousness of oneness with God.

I recommend all his books such as Realization of Oneness, The Infinite Way and The Art of Spiritual Healing

More on Joel Goldsmith:
http://joelgoldsmith.wwwhubs.com/

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"Man and his Symbols" by C.G. Jung, "Physics of the Soul" & "The Self-Aware Universe" by Amit Goswami, and "The way of Wyrd" by Bryan Bates.

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"Secrets of the Ice Age" by Evan Hadingham & "The Lost Gods of England" by Brian Branston.


Peace, Love, & Light

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Mircea Eliade, hands down. "The Myth of the Eternal Return" blew my mind.

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Good book! I have it and refer to it from time to time.

A fun book is "The Choice "s Always Ours", edited by Dorothy Berkeley Phillips, Elizabeth Boyden Howes, and Lucille M. Nixon.

It's an anthology of the religious way. This is a good book for dowsing.

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Thanks for all your recommendations and I'm making a note of them. My favorite is Matthieu Ricard (Tibetan Buddhist monk who was a physicist in France before he decided to become a monk) and his books "The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life", which he co-wrote with his father Jean-Francois Revel, and "The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet", which he co-wrote with the physicist Trinh Xuan Thuan. I also got a great deal out of "The Essential Gandhi" by Louis Fisher.

BTW, Lighthouse, I'm currently reading Joseph Campbell's trilogy "The Masks of God" (I'm on the Oriental book now).

Shalom,
Vern

I guess I could say Jesus is my favorite for writing ACIM....

....as far as earthly authors, I like Joel Goldsmith and Joseph Campbell also. And I highly recommend Autobiography of a Yogi (Paramahansa Yogananda), which is a classic.

My favorites are Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankel and The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis.