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Feet Of Clay by Anthony Storr
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Won't You Join the Dance? : Initiation Talks Between Master and Disciple by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Tantra ; The Supreme Understanding : Discourses on the Tantric Way of Tilopa's Song of Mahamudra by Osho
The Rajneesh Bible, Vol. 2 by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
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Favorite authorsG. I. Gurdjieff, James Herbert, Larry Niven, Osho, P.D. Ouspensky, Anne Rice, Stephen H. Wolinsky (Shared favorites)
About meI'm an enneagram enthusiast. Of my 45 enneagram books, I've cataloged 38 here, the other ones are in the Dutch language. If you want to take a look at the enneagram personality types group, it's here.
Among many other things, I love books, book stores (including used books) and libraries. My interest is in reading about psychology, human behaviour, characteristic individuals such as cult leaders, enlightened masters, notorious criminals, outsiders. To say it in other words, I'm interested in the 2 extreme ends of the mental health range, from mystics to serial killers.
Apart from the psychology of individuals, I'm interested in group processes (sociology; religious cults, and especially their leaders).
The fiction books I read are very diverse, but with a preference for science fiction.
About my libraryI have 400 books by Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh), of which many rare first editions. The Osho books I miss in my collection are a few very rare ones. The Osho books in this library here form only a small part of my collection and are not rated. And I have some 45 books about him, the english ones are cataloged here and rated.
Osho didn't write books but talked. His words were recorded, and from audiotape the discourses were published into hundreds of books. This requires very conscious, accurate speaking. Later, many discourses were videotaped also. Each book contains a series of discourses about 1 subject. Some books were published under different titles, up to 3 titles for the same book. And some books are compilations of discourses. In this way it's possible to create an endless number of books from a limited number of discourses, and publishers are doing that.
Osho talks about zen, meditation, tao, sufism, yoga, tantra, upanishads, Buddha, Jesus, Krishna, Kabir and many other western and eastern mystics. And he talks about a broad vision for the future, and responds to questions.
By the way, Osho was a book lover and collector himself. He read an enormous amount of books during his lifetime, and created the world's largest private library (see this study).
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I guess I didn't see an option to rate my books. Anyway, I suggest reading Re-Visioning Psychology by James Hillman. He's written a lot but some of his material can be recondite.
As to Manson, solitary confinement for his entire life seems fair to me since I don't believe in the death penalty. The reason I don't believe in it, is because there's no punishment--they are relieved of all responsibility for what they've done. How often do we hear about passed loved ones "they're in a better place now." Hope I've answered your questions adequately, if not, send me another email.
John
posted by Smethers at 4:17 pm (EST) on Mar 17, 2009
posted by ekirkham24 at 2:17 pm (EST) on Jan 26, 2009
posted by djryle at 11:08 am (EST) on Aug 31, 2008