Mount Analogue6 reviews René Daumal, Carol Cosman Overlook TP, 2004 A terrific read and a literary classic + Beginning the ascent to transcendence + A symbollically non-Euclidian adventure in mountainclimbing. + A Mountaineering Must + One of the top three books that I have read.             Dreams6 reviews C. G. Jung Princeton University Press, 1974 Dreams not only as wish fulfilment + Scientific + If you ever wanted to take a view into dream Psychology this is your text. + Not only in dreams + some of Jung's dream stuff in one volume...             The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life71 reviews Armand M. Nicholi Jr. Free Press, 2003 no dry read here + Critical analysis + An interesting comparison a really interesting book - a lot of insight into why people have the beliefs that they have.             The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (Perennial Classics)60 reviews Aldous Huxley Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004 Politically Incorrect, Yet Spiritually Relevant + The light of Eternity + A Classic + Opening The Doors + It Inspired Jim Morrison Will it Inspire You???             Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience9 reviews Aldous Huxley Park Street Press, 1999 This book has truly opened up my mind + Good collection of Huxley's writings + A great visionary + Highly Educational + Drop Acid, Not Bombs             Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics)81 reviews Lewis Carroll Signet Classics, 2000 Excellent Book + It's Amazing + Great transaction + Two imaginative worlds             The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller; Revised and Updated ...98 reviews Sogyal Rinpoche, Patrick D. Gaffney, ... HarperOne, 1994 "In the ground of primordial perfection, attain nirvana" + Insightful, Inspiring, and Enlightening + Breaking down the barriers of mind + Fantastic + "must reading"             Spiritual Direction and Meditation4 reviews Thomas Merton Liturgical Press, 1986 Sound, sensible advice on the practice of prayer + Thomas Merton-Spiritual Direction & Meditation + No Noncense Gold + Powerful Reading             Sufism10 reviews William Chittick Oneworld Publications, 2000 A great introduction + Fighting over which mystic was greater is ridiculous. Move on to the main issue of understanding their teachings. + Inspiring To The Soul + The greatest Saint in Islam and Christ             God Is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism25 reviews David A. Cooper Riverhead Books, 1998 "The Skin Of The Serpent" ~ A Peek Behind This Earthly Illusion + Kabbalah is the best of the modern mystical philosophies + wonderfully written, insightful and inspirational + An Available God + Great Guidance, Well written!             Introduction to Metaphysics (Yale Nota Bene)7 reviews Martin Heidegger Yale University Press, 2000 A lucid discussion of 'being' + Invitation to Being + great translation + The Easiest to Read & Most Interesting Heidegger Book             Marihuana Reconsidered3 reviews Lester Grinspoon Quick American Archives, 1994 A thorough examination of the use of cannabinoids in medicin + But who is Mr. X? + A thorough and exhaustive evaluation of marijuana Dr Grinspoon is one of the World's leading authorities on medicinal uses of cannabis. He makes a good case for the re-introduction of cannabis to mitigate symptoms of many conditions. Unfortunately, drugs must be thoroughly tested, which costs millions. No pharmaceutical company will ...             Mystics and Zen Masters4 reviews Thomas Merton Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999 Valuable for students of Asian religion and mysticism + The Varieties of Contemplative Experience Although this book is a collection of essays over a range of subjects, and therefore not a continuous work, it is a very valuable work for understanding Chinese religion, Zen, and European mysticism (the main topics it addresses). The essays are classicaly Merton, although they are written in a ...             The Sufi Path of Knowledge7 reviews William C. Chittick State University of New York Press, 1989 The Best Work on Ibn Arabi's Non-Dualistic Cosmology to Date + Excellent exposition of leading Sufi Philosopher + textbook style guide with detail and clarity + An expository not a deconstructive work + A wonderful book to read             Civilization and Its Discontents33 reviews Sigmund Freud, Peter Gay W. W. Norton & Company, 1989 Valuable for General Reader + Freud's Politics + thx + "No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such."             Lives in Spirit: Precursors and Dilemmas of a Secular Western Mysticism (Suny Series in Transpersonal and ... Harry T. Hunt State University of New York Press, 2003 Explores the roots of modern transpersonal psychology and spirituallity through psychobiography.             A Night Of Serious Drinking6 reviews Rene Daumal Overlook TP, 2003 Astonishingly Timeless + "There are only three exits: death and madness" + A Night of Serious Thinking + falling off the wagon + Lending Literature Fraught With Peril!             Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (October Books)5 reviews Slavoj Zizek The MIT Press, 1992 This book is great; those below who don't like it are clowns + Lacanian heresy inside! Beware of being tainted! + Perfect - if that's what you want. + Titling awry             Ecrits: The First Complete Edition in English3 reviews Jacques Lacan W. W. Norton, 2005 Excellent translation + Oh the Wonders of Lacan This is a treat - the first complete English translation of Lacan's Ecrits with a wonderful translation by Bruce Fink. After reading a couple pieces, I compared with Sheridan's previous partial translation and found a number of differences. Overall, Fink tends to be more readable and, I suspect, ...             The Seven Storey Mountain: Fiftieth-Anniversary Edition97 reviews Thomas Merton Harcourt, 1998 After "The Confessions," maybe the best-ever 'autobiography of Faith' + Classic! + Storey Mountain + a treasure, and immortal + The Seven Storey Mountain