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What book(s) are you reading now?
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StevieHummingbird
Singing, Dancing, Living
I am reading Devil in Details by Jennifer Traig, pretty neat, I mean best book I have read in the last month.
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
I'm reading Dante's "Divine Comedy."
Great thing to read with some Jack by the fire before bed.
Great thing to read with some Jack by the fire before bed.
Mr Spinkles
Mr
angellous I want to hear more about the Divine Comedy, it looks very long. Funny? Inspiring? A must-read-someday or just a good-read?
I finished A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, outstanding! So eloquent! So powerful! Some very interesting passages on religion, as it happens.
I finished A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, outstanding! So eloquent! So powerful! Some very interesting passages on religion, as it happens.
dust1n
Zindīq
Haha, I want to start it so bad. It's just sitting on my book shelf being the only book as thick as Sartre's 'Being and Nothingness'.
I need some Jack and a fire.. that would put me into that kind of mood.
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
I'm also reading Moby Dick, Dracula, and the Bostonians.
dust1n
Zindīq
You lost me on Dick and Drac. :sleep:
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
Smoke
Done here.
I'm reading Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery, and find him much less inspirational than Douglass. Maybe it's not a fair comparison, though.
Baydwin
Well-Known Member
Cool, which section are you on? My avatar is a representation of Beatrice from "Paradise".
At the moment I'm just finishing off the Narnia series, haven't read them since I was a little kid. Next in line is "The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins.
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
I don't remember off hand
dust1n
Zindīq
Yeah, Booker was a little ***** in comparison to Douglass or W.E.B. Du Bois
dust1n
Zindīq
If I ever have 400 hours of reading-time to kill, I might pick up the Moby. =p
Herr Heinrich
Student of Mythology
I am currently reading Celtic Wisdom for Dummies and Chronicles of the Celts.
Demonic Kitten
Active Member
I am reading:
By Oak, Ash, and Thorn by D.J. Conway
and
Buddha, The Gospel by Paul Carus (found on sacred-text.com)
By Oak, Ash, and Thorn by D.J. Conway
and
Buddha, The Gospel by Paul Carus (found on sacred-text.com)
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
Diamond Girl
New Member
I read A Great Deception. This is how I feel about the book.
A Great Deception by Western Shugden Society is a challenging book. The contents will challenge your spiritual belief system. In this book, you will discover information which is well-written and presented in a credible manner with respective references. This further challenges you to ask if the authors could have taken the information out of context since they are mainly extracts from the original source.
This book gives you a very disturbingly different perspective of the Dalai Lamas and their conduct which totally betrays the teachings of Buddhism. Murders, political plots, dangerous liaisons, etc. One would imagine one is reading some thriller novel. There is chronology of events dating back to 1391 with the First Dalai Lama to the current times of H. H. 14th Dalai Lama.
The poison of mixing Dharma and Politics is explicitly defined. And the poisonous habituation started by the 5th Dalai Lama all the way to now, apparently. The consequences of this mix of dharma and politics are frightening to read.
The injustice of the 14th Dalai Lama is brought to a pinnacle with the ban on the Practice of Dorje Shugden. A whole chapter is dedicated to this topic. Beatings, stabbings and even killings are explained to uphold the ban. The 14th Dalai Lama does not represent a pretty, holy picture. Its hard not to believe what you read
This book should have a rating of Suitable for the Spiritually Strong at Heart or carry a disclaimer Read at Your Own Spiritual Risk.
A Great Deception by Western Shugden Society is a challenging book. The contents will challenge your spiritual belief system. In this book, you will discover information which is well-written and presented in a credible manner with respective references. This further challenges you to ask if the authors could have taken the information out of context since they are mainly extracts from the original source.
This book gives you a very disturbingly different perspective of the Dalai Lamas and their conduct which totally betrays the teachings of Buddhism. Murders, political plots, dangerous liaisons, etc. One would imagine one is reading some thriller novel. There is chronology of events dating back to 1391 with the First Dalai Lama to the current times of H. H. 14th Dalai Lama.
The poison of mixing Dharma and Politics is explicitly defined. And the poisonous habituation started by the 5th Dalai Lama all the way to now, apparently. The consequences of this mix of dharma and politics are frightening to read.
The injustice of the 14th Dalai Lama is brought to a pinnacle with the ban on the Practice of Dorje Shugden. A whole chapter is dedicated to this topic. Beatings, stabbings and even killings are explained to uphold the ban. The 14th Dalai Lama does not represent a pretty, holy picture. Its hard not to believe what you read
This book should have a rating of Suitable for the Spiritually Strong at Heart or carry a disclaimer Read at Your Own Spiritual Risk.
Herr Heinrich
Student of Mythology
Awesome! I was just reading Oak, Ash, and Thorn last week. I got about 3 quarters of the way through and thought it was pretty interesting.
I just abandoned it because D.J. Conway is on the Celtic Reconstructionist's website as a "stay away from" author. It one of those things where it just depends what you are looking for.
Demonic Kitten
Active Member
I would think about reading it all the way through. It is a very interesting book from front to back...of course I'm not a recon in any way, shape, or form so for me reading this book was for educational/spiritual purposes. (This is my second read though ^_^)
enchanted_one1975
Resident Lycanthrope
I am going to start Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt by Nicki Scully and Linda Star Wolf today.
