[EmpaccalGah]

"Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand

[bebeacc]

Personally I couldn't manage the Fountainhead. Then again I WAS in like sixth or seventh grade, but I could handle other higher level books, like The Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, and Frankenstein. Still the Fountainhead was just so damned boring.

[plalleste]

Still the Fountainhead was just so damned boring.

I read it in high school my senior year and was also studying to be an architect at the time LOL

[frkksptn]

I read it in high school my senior year and was also studying to be an architect at the time LOL

Cheater....

Now that I think about it, a book that majorly influenced me was the Lioness Quartet series by Tamora Pierce. It probably influenced my ideas of magic the most (along with Chrono Trigger).

[immelawealecy]

Is there one? Perhaps more than one?

[Bgfbukpf]

"Pulling Your Own Strings" ~ Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

[radicalvolume]

A Coming of Wizards by Michael Reynolds (the guy who wrote the Earthship books) At the time I was way into Quantum Physics and Mechanics. Read that book while applying basic ideas from the quantum world....

The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess by Starhawk

The Principia Discordia: or How I Met Goddess and What I Did To Her When I Found Her by Malcalypse the Younger and Omar Ravenhurst

[gtyruzzel]

Although I haven't read quite so many non-fiction as others... here are a few fictional books which have had underlying philosophies which spoke to me:

Illusions by Richard Bach
Dune - Frank Herbert
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
The Pendragon Cycle by Stephen Lawhead

and even the old Gor series by John Norman

[polleroy]

Who moved my cheese by Dr. Spencer Johnson

[anxpuna]

The Principia Discordia: or How I Met Goddess and What I Did To Her When I Found Her by Malcalypse the Younger and Omar Ravenhurst

Shhhh! I wasn't supposed to add that one. Now a secret agent from the Illuminati is searching for me .....I must hide before he comes.......:

AHHHHHHHH!!!!

[AndyColemants]

You can't hide, WE ARE EVERYWHERE!!!
Muwah hahaha!!!

[Intockatt]

The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield had an incredible impact. Dyer and Deepak Chopra also are among my shakers and movers. The first book that ever made me rethink my thinking I read many many years ago...

Thornton Burgess, Lightfoot the Deer. As a children's story it is great. As a piece of life philosophy it is phenomenal. I just bought a copy to replace the one lost many years ago and reread it. That one story when I read it at about 10 years of age made me immediately realize we are all one. I've never lost that and my professional life is stewardship of our resources. Now, rereading it at the age of 48, I realize again what a powerful story it is.

[Eromaveabeara]

Deepak Chopra was here last evening giving a lecture in Virginia Beach at the north end Ramada Inn! SOLD OUT, so couldn't get in...

[TheLucyLee]

I would have to start by saying the "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramahansa Yogananda. I read it for the first time in 1963.

Many years later my spiritual life would be influenced by a science fiction novel, "The Dispossessed " by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Hermano Luis

[LSg44PDu]

The Celestine Prophecy is an excellent book.

[reiseebup]

Obviously:


Principia Discordia
or
How I Found Goddess & What I Did To Her
When I found Her

being a Beginning Introduction to
The Erisian Mysterees

Which is Most Interesting

->

[MidwestMadman]

Oh sure!! Only an agent of the Illuminati has access to the whole title!!!!!!!!
YOU'VE BEEN DISCOVERED!

Damn Zenarchists always ruining everyones fun....

[Johnny]

I would have to start by saying the "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramahansa Yogananda. I read it for the first time in 1963.

Many years later my spiritual life would be influenced by a science fiction novel, "The Dispossessed " by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Hermano Luis

I should have also mentioned the Srimad Bhagavad Gita. The Book that has accompanied me everywhere in the last forty plus years.

Hermano Luis

[Immerymopay]

Archie comic books and Dr. Suess. I couldn't read until then...haven't really read since though.

I am better at reading people than books.

[aliceingoogs]

Now that really think about it..thier isnt one one book that really changed my life to become a minister..It was a dream I had..I acually was helping ppl in my dream and preaching in my own church...I remembering thinking it was a really stupid dream to have considering im in the army and a sniper at that so killing ppl was in my nature and blood cause the job came easy..but I had the SAME dream everynight and relized what I needed to do and hence I became a minister and left the active duty part of the army .does it sound wiered or what..