Mystical Angels

Whats the most interesting mystical or religious book you have ever read?

Did it reveal anything magical or miraculous to you and change your life?

Public Comments

1. The New Testament bible. Yes, it helped to save my eternal soul. †
2. Piercing the Darkness and The Present Darkness. Ficticious books about spiritual warfare. It gets you thinking...
3. The Tao of Winnie the Pooh. Damn, that silly old bear knows his stuff!
4. The God Delusion
5. bagabadgatgitta
6. Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" It revealed to me that I needed to clean up my act because I could identify too strongly with the main character.
7. The one that changed my life was the Bible. The most interesting was the Tao Te Ching.
8. "The Catcher in the Rye"
9. Disappearance of the Universe. It revealed a new perspective that has and continues to change my life.
10. Is There Life After Death, by Anthony Peake Awsome and mind blowing. Based on scientific knowledge. Praciticing Shaman,... quantum physics rocks.
11. The Roman Catholic Catechism. It's passed off as truth when every rational-thinking person knows it's all lies. What is interesting is that over 1 billion emotionally immature Catholics consider it "gospel" truth, i.e., that the Catechism is directly derived from the gospels themselves. The serious degree of gullibility isn't just interesting, it's mind-boggling.
12. Japans Mythical 16th-Century Disease Critters very interesting.
13. the gospel of the flying spaghetti monster. the beer volcano made me weep.
14. The New Testament Code ......it helped me see that the letters of Paul and Acts are running arguments with certain Dead Sea Scrolls, which were written by the Ebionites, led by James, the brother of Jesus...and how the New Testament isn't a book of good news at all but a falsification project intended to abrogate the law of Moses and create a religion more palatable to the Romans...
15. Conversations with God It opened a whole new view of my faith. Most recentlly, Bible Coruption. It opened my eyes as to how Rome controlled everything about Christianity including editing the texts that now make up the New Testament.
16. The Cloud of Unknowing- it's a taoist work. No big changes in my life,but it made more sense than most.
17. This quote of lyrics from the Seals and Crofts song called "East of Ginger Trees”, along with the following books continues to have a profound effect on my worldview: "Be lions roaring in the forests of knowledge, whales swimming in the oceans of Life...." Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East (Vols 1 - 6) by Baird T. Spalding This set of books has changed my life and how I see EVERYTHING. I strongly believe they will have a similar effect on yours. (especially when you get to page 21 of Vol 1)! As author Baird Spalding says in the reference, "Becoming aware of yourself as a spiritual being, offspring of an infinite spiritual system and one with all the powers and capacities within that system, is the very essence of attainment. To grow from the present state of awareness of himself as a material being and into the consciousness that he is a spiritual being contains the full secret of man's attainment.' I like the part of Richard Bach's book "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" where Jonathan was explaining to one of his students who was learning how to fly at the speed of thought why it would not be the last time they would meet: "Overcome space and all you have left is here. Overcome time and all you have left is now. In the middle of here and now, don't you think we'll see each other once or twice?" Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda I remember reading about Paramhansa Yogananda's reunion with his resurrected guru, Sri Yukteswar, who had returned to Earth, for a brief interlude with his former disciple, from a higher vibratory sphere called Hiranyaloka. "O Master", Yogananda said, "I was grieving so deeply about your death!" "Ah, wherein did I die? Isn't there some contradiction?" said Sri Yukteswar, eyes twinkling with love and amusement. Sri Yukteswar goes on to say to his former disciple, "You were only dreaming on earth; on that earth you saw my dream-body. Later you buried that dream-image. Now my finer fleshly body--which you behold and are even now embracing rather closely!--is resurrected on another finer dream-planet of God. Someday that finer dream-body and finer dream-planet will pass away; they too are not forever. All dream-bubbles must eventually burst at a final wakeful touch. Differentiate, my son Yogananda, between dreams and Reality!" How evocative of Jesus' resurrection, life, and message. Can you not hear echoes of a similar conversation with His disciples upon reuniting with them following His ascension? How evocative of everything others have recorded of our higher-seeing Brothers and Sisters. This is what is so important to me about this wonderful forum of seekers who share our journeys together. That we are learning to differentiate between the dreams we call our mortal earthly lives and the eternal Reality we thought we'd left behind. To my fellow seekers of Truth: May we all meet in one accord on our respective, eternal journeys….once or twice. Orin
18. I have read only one, the bible. And that was enough for me. Mystical? I'll say it is. It is so full of mysteries, fairy tales, and contradicts itself again and again and again.