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2) “The Invisible Wold and Other Obvious Things”

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3) “TERRA: Return of the Divine Feminine”

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“This book gives you the tools, knowledge, and awareness to completely revamp your unconscious mind to create the life you really want.”-T. Harv Eker author of #1 NY Times best seller Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

“Sometimes in order to create what you want, you have to get rid of what you don’t want. I like this book because it addresses the difficulties that people can face in life. It doesn’t take the reader for granted.”-Dr. Joe Vitale author of #1 best seller The Attractor Factor

“Reality Creation 101 is a beautifully written book with a practical step-by-step process for a more fulfilling life. Regardless of where one may be on the spiritual path, new insights will certainly be found.”-John Randolph Price author of #1 best seller The Super Beings

“Christopher Pinckley uses an almost clairvoyant eye to get to the essence of what can stand in the way of making us more attractive to our own greater power and to the infinite possibilities that are in store for us in the world. For anyone who is stuck in a rut without knowing why, this book can educate, inspire and transform.”-Claudia Sheftel Luiz the 2008 Winner of the Writer’s Digest Best Writer’s Website Award

I would be honored to send your bookclub a review copy for your consideration.

Many blessings to you all!

Christopher A. Pinckley, cpt
http://www.holisticfitness4u.com

I don’t know if you are still moderating this book club, but you and they might consider my newly released book, The Essence of Reality.

In it, I illustrate the flow of life — how we recreate patterns in our lives that reflect our own inner nature, how our relationships, our health, our success or failure stems from inner elements. I discuss how to look within to change, rather than continue to try to manipulate the world out there, much as we learned to manipulate our mothers as we grew from infancy into childhood.

But I also look at common spiritual disciplines and religions, pointing out value where it exists and fallacy where it is presented as truth, traditional or esoteric.

There is a Oneness to the flow of life. Fully aware of that Oneness, having deleted the many fallacious notions of our western culture, I illustrate the flow in EoR with unique clarity.

Your book club would benefit from the read.

The Essence of Reality — check out the website at http://www.nehrer.net, or get the book.

All my best…

– Tom

This is a very radical concept to confront. For example the best book on Gurdjieff — “In Search of the Miraculous” is amazing, except when Ouspensky adds his own comments! Unfortunately people were quick to follow Ouspensky because he was Western and wasn’t the real teaching!

An amazing way to understand Gurdjieff is to read the book “Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality” trans. by Charles Luk. This is a very explicit and real training book but utilizes the exact same principles of Gurdjieff.

The problem is that all of science is based on symmetry (as per math professor Ian Stewart’s recent book “Why Beauty is Truth”).

Alchemy and shamanism rely on asymmetry whereby the resonance does not have a one-to-one correspondence with phonetic symbols. Very simply, yet radically, in Pythagorean harmonics 2:3 is yang and 3:4 is yin with 2:3 as the Perfect fifth which resonates infinitely. In Western science the Perfect Fifth is “compromised” into a logarithmic circle.

This connection between harmonics and math is not made clear but is detailed in my blogbook:

http://mothershiplanding.blogspot.com — read the “Secret of the Greek Miracle” chapter, although it’s all connected.

Another excellent writer is Buddhist Professor and Ch’an Master Nan, Huai-chin.

Haven’t heard of him? That’s right! Because he’s the real thing unlike the 99% of other metaphysical books.

Master Nan is a best-seller in China and he details how Buddhism got turned into just conceptual, psychological training without any real paranormal shamanic effects. Why? Because the body must be transformed along with the mind.

He has several books and I had to read each one three times just to get the jist of what he was saying. He’s truly amazing and a real yoga master.

Those are my favorite books. Of course a real teacher in the West is Master Chunyi Lin, author of “Born a Healer.” I took classes from him and his spring forest qigong system is amazingly accessible to all levels and yet truly powerful for healing. Master Chunyi Lin works with the Mayo Clinic and he sat in full-lotus in a cave in China without food, without water, without sleep — for at least 30 days.

He does long distance healing and does phone healing but you can order his book and self-educational course at http://springforestqigong.com.

“Quicksilver Heritage” – Paul Screeton

“Temple of the Phallic King: The mind of India: Yogis, Swamis, Sufis, and Avataras” – Pagal Baba

“Claiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona” – Adrian J. Ivakhiv

“Cymatics: A Study of Wave Phenomena & Vibration” – Hans Jenny

Brian, do you live on the Big Island? You can contact Kona Stories (link button on upper right) and they can put you on their email list for upcoming events like book clubs.

Again, many mahalos!!

Sounds like a great idea to advance some useful book reading. As for ‘metaphysical’ – as the name implies, isn’t it anything that goes ‘beyond’ the physical?

Some suggestions of books that have been useful to me:

– ‘The Global Brain Awakens: Our Next Evolutionary Leap’ – by Peter Russel

- ‘High Priests, Quantum Genes’ – by Michael Hayes

- ‘Science and the Reenchantment of the Cosmos: The Rise of the Integral Vision of Reality’ – by Ervin Laszlo

- ‘Among the Dervishes’ – by Omar Burke

- ‘The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge’ – by Jeremy Narby

- ‘The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution’ – by P.D. Ouspensky

- ‘The World to Come’ – by Ruth Montgomery

- ‘Starseed Transmissions’ – by Ken Carey

– ‘Hidden Truth, Forbidden Knowledge’ – by Steven Greer

My Bestest wishes!!

I was in a small informal (fiction) bookclub in graduate school, and the choices were basically made by decree of the small group of club ‘founders’. …or at least the people who had the best attendance. You might also create your own list of contenders (including some of Andy’s great suggestions), and vote. Or perhaps use an existing list like the one here

http://www.whatismetaphysics.com/metaphysicalbooks.html

I will have to attend your bookclub sometime, Angela–do you have an email list or newsletter? I have been meaning to read 2012 for quite a while now, anyway…