Here's a list of books (ascending numerical, alphabetical order) that I would recommend or that have been recommended to me by others--Enjoy!
"Angels & Demons" by Dan Brown,
ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-2479-3
ISBN-10: 1-4165-2479-7
-- Thanks for a superb Christmas (2007) gift, B!
"Coyote Medicine",
"Don't Sweat the Small Stuff" by Richard Carlson, PH.D.
ISBN-13: 1-4013-0343-3
--November 29, 2008
--Thank you anonymous
"Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy," by Sarah Ban Breathnach
ISBN 0-446-51913-8
"The Jerome Biblical Commentary", Editors: Raymond E. Brown, S.S., Joseph A Fitzmyer, S.J., Roland E. Murphy, O.Carm.
ISBN: 0-13-509612-X
--Thanks for the recommendation and mentoring, Father Ouellette!
"The Jerusalem Bible", General Editor Alexander Jones I.S.S., S.T.I., I.C.B.
--Thank you Memere and Pepere B (both deceased since 1977, and 1979 respectively) pour mon mere-Ruth, your foresightedness, Monday's French tutoring, wonderful examples to live by, and your unconditional love!
"The Last Lecture", Randy Pausch
ISBN: 978-1-4013-2325-7
--Thanks for the book loan, John! I'm glad we were able to share company in the oncology ward, Bruddah!
"You Staying Young", Michael F. Roizen, M.D., Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-9256-6
ISBN-10: 0-7432-9256-1
--Thank you to my angelic wife-S, son-B, and daughter-S, for putting up with me, bringing so much joy and laughter to my life, helping me grow up, teaching me so many things about humor, and always making me proud beyond human capacity to express!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
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1. The Secret History of the World: As Laid Down by the Secret Societies, by Mark Booth.
ISBN-10: 1590200314
ISBN-13: 978-1590200315
From Publishers Weekly
Booth, a London publisher who has taught philosophy and theology at Oxford, is not shy about what he expects from readers—he asks that they enter into an imaginative exercise and embrace a world in which the basic facts of history can be interpreted in a way which is almost completely the opposite of the way we normally understand them. That radical re-interpretation is based on the tenets offered in the secret teachings of Rosicrucians, esoteric Freemasonry, Sufism and Kabbalism, among others, with additional references to Eastern religions and Greek and Roman mythology. According to Booth, these teachings inspire the cosmic mind that brought into being the material universe. Booth's history incorporates so many disparate philosophies, many of them far, far away from the mainstream, that it lacks all coherence. And his universe is full of bizarre theories, entertaining primarily for their weirdness. For example, he posits that the angels in the ancient Hebrew Book of Enoch who became sexually attracted to human women are none other than the Gods of Olympus.
2. The Prophet,
by Kahlil Gibran
ISBN-10: 000100039X
ISBN-13: 978-0001000391
Amazon.com Review
In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us, as well, for Gibran's prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world's great religions. On the most basic topics--marriage, children, friendship, work, pleasure--his words have a power and lucidity that in another era would surely have provoked the description "divinely inspired." Free of dogma, free of power structures and metaphysics, consider these poetic, moving aphorisms a 20th-century supplement to all sacred traditions--as millions of other readers already have.
3. You Are a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience (Paperback)
by Bob Frissell
ISBN-10: 1583940332
ISBN-13: 978-1583940334
"Frissell shows us how to move consciously through our fears and limitations to the realization that everything we need is within ourselves."
—Bodhi Tree Book Review
Product Description
Too many people allow themselves to be limited by their ideas about themselves and the world around them. Bob Frissell reminds readers that they create their own reality through their consciousness and that improving this reality and living a fuller life is simply a matter of broadening one's perspectives. In this book, he shows people how to reconnect with their multidimensional selves and remake their lives. -
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1. The Secret History of the World: As Laid Down by the Secret Societies, by Mark Booth.
ISBN-10: 1590200314
ISBN-13: 978-1590200315
From Publishers Weekly
Booth, a London publisher who has taught philosophy and theology at Oxford, is not shy about what he expects from readers—he asks that they enter into an imaginative exercise and embrace a world in which the basic facts of history can be interpreted in a way which is almost completely the opposite of the way we normally understand them. That radical re-interpretation is based on the tenets offered in the secret teachings of Rosicrucians, esoteric Freemasonry, Sufism and Kabbalism, among others, with additional references to Eastern religions and Greek and Roman mythology. According to Booth, these teachings inspire the cosmic mind that brought into being the material universe. Booth's history incorporates so many disparate philosophies, many of them far, far away from the mainstream, that it lacks all coherence. And his universe is full of bizarre theories, entertaining primarily for their weirdness. For example, he posits that the angels in the ancient Hebrew Book of Enoch who became sexually attracted to human women are none other than the Gods of Olympus.
2. The Prophet,
by Kahlil Gibran
ISBN-10: 000100039X
ISBN-13: 978-0001000391
Amazon.com Review
In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us, as well, for Gibran's prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world's great religions. On the most basic topics--marriage, children, friendship, work, pleasure--his words have a power and lucidity that in another era would surely have provoked the description "divinely inspired." Free of dogma, free of power structures and metaphysics, consider these poetic, moving aphorisms a 20th-century supplement to all sacred traditions--as millions of other readers already have.
3. You Are a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience (Paperback)
by Bob Frissell
ISBN-10: 1583940332
ISBN-13: 978-1583940334
"Frissell shows us how to move consciously through our fears and limitations to the realization that everything we need is within ourselves."
—Bodhi Tree Book Review
Product Description
Too many people allow themselves to be limited by their ideas about themselves and the world around them. Bob Frissell reminds readers that they create their own reality through their consciousness and that improving this reality and living a fuller life is simply a matter of broadening one's perspectives. In this book, he shows people how to reconnect with their multidimensional selves and remake their lives.