helpful intro books

[Mr Cheese]

am christmas shopping

for a young mind..who is feeling wanting

so my question is,

reccomendations for books and texts that would help one with understanding mysticism.

With the one provision, this kid is down on christianity....

a simple reccomendation/s and a quick why? please

I am thinking of the tao of physics initially, it helped me many moons ago
It is a flawed book, but it does help one to think differently

I'm also thinking maybe Gleik's chaos book, which isnt really mystic
and I havent read that in about 20 years...

so suggestions please

 

[Quagmire]

Anything by Carlos Castaneda. :yes:

 

[Master Vigil]

Walden by Thoreau

 

[Student of X]

Maybe it's too late to make a recommendation but just in case I would say The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

 

[Mr Cheese]

Maybe it's too late to make a recommendation but just in case I would say The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

joseph soup man....

anyway thanks guys....

already bought the books....

decided on more "history" rather than mystic...
we'll see how it goes....

got him a nice collection for xmas...
books
rune stones
rune books
a game based on viking pre-cursor to chess

etc....

he better like it...

lol