What books would you recommend dealing with the spiritual, philosophical, or scientific questions of life?
2007-02-08 11:20:43 · 15 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Conversations with God - Neale Donald Walsh
A Voice in the Wilderness - Silver Birch
A Oneness of the mind - Andy Thomas
2007-02-08 11:24:14 · answer #1 · answered by Peace 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Golly, this will be difficult. There are so many I would recommend.
Ah, well, I’ll limit myself.
* Sourcebook of the World’s Religions
* How to be a Perfect Stranger
(A guide to etiquette in other people’s religious ceremonies)
* Everything by Joeseph Campbell
* The Perfection of Wisdom (Buddhism)
* Every Eye Beholds You (A World Treasury of Prayer)
* God against the Gods
* The Battle for God
* The Book (On the Taboo against knowing who you really are)
* Anything by the Dalai Lama
* The Path of the Masters
* The Creators (the first couple of chapters)
* Alone of All Her Sex (Mary)
* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
* Everything I needed to know about life I learned in Kindergarten
* The Alphabet Versus the Goddess
* When God was a Woman
* The Chalice and the Blade
And, VERY GOOD books for kids of all ages: In God’s Name (Sandy Sasso) and God’s Paintbrush by the same author.
I'll probably think of other "must reads" later and want to smack my forehead.
2007-02-08 21:12:24 · answer #2 · answered by Praise Singer 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible
The Imitation of Christ
The Practice of the presence of God
The Sermon on the Mount by Norman Fox
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Way of a Pilgrim
Brothers Karamazov
The Power of Now
The Purpose Driven Life
Conversations with God
Walden
Emerson's Essays
2007-02-08 19:37:49 · answer #3 · answered by cap3382 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Anything by Joseph Campbell. (spirituality through mythology)
Anything by Nhat Hahn (Buddhism)
Anthing by John & Caitlin Matthews (shamanism)
A book called "Anam Cara" by John O'Donohue. The title means "soul friend" in Gaelic
Anything by Robert Thurman (scholar and Buddhist monk, also happens to be Uma Thurman's dad)
Also a fun read are the "Tao of Pooh" series-I liked Piglet best
A book called "Loving What Is" by Byron Katie-I've read way too many self help books and this is the only one that actually made a permanent difference in the way I approach life.
Hope this helped!
I forgot!!!! "The Alphabet Versus the Goddess" by Leonard Schlain-Really good book!
2007-02-08 19:32:23 · answer #4 · answered by dorkmobile 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Id recommend the Quran since it deal with science a bit. Id say some Hindu scripture would be good since it deals with philosophy. The Bible is FAR too long and doesnt deal with any of these that much. Its more about stories.
2007-02-08 19:39:44 · answer #5 · answered by YouCannotKnowUnlessUAsk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing by people like Joel Osteen or any of the TBN / 700 club crowd or any of those goofy feel good preachers. The Bible is great of course, "The Forbidden Book" by Dr. Craig Lampe. "Dantes Divine Comedy". "God against the Gods" by Jonathan Kirsch for the history of the Roman empire and polytheism vs. monotheism. Foxes book of Martyrs.
2007-02-08 19:43:40 · answer #6 · answered by pontiuspilatewsm 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right now it's all quantum mechanics, neuroscience, systems theory, and process philosophy.
"Mind, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics" by Henry Stapp
"The Emperor's New Mind" by Roger Penrose
"The Interconnected Universe" by Ervin Laszlo
"Reenchantment Without Supernaturalism" by David Ray Griffin
and a sh*tload more...
2007-02-08 19:25:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn
"Life of Pi" by Yann Martell
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell
Ah, that's enough for now. I'm sure you'll have quite a list by the end of the night.
2007-02-08 19:43:09 · answer #8 · answered by gimmenamenow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.answersingenesis.org
Great website - Creation from the 1st verse - great books
www.equip.org - Christian Research Journal - great research and resources. (Walter Martin's successor - Hank Hannegraff)
2007-02-08 19:29:44 · answer #9 · answered by Amy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bible, Josh McDowell books, "America Say Jesus" by David Albritton, etc
2007-02-08 19:23:08 · answer #10 · answered by Doug 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋