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I am That

October 9, 2015, 2:02 am
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All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well... Desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing - food, sex, power, fame - will make you happy is to deceive yourself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy.

I see what you too could see, here and now, but for the wrong focus of your attention you give no attention to Self. Your mind is busy with things, people and ideas, never with Self. Bring your Self into focus, become aware of your own existence.

I Am That - Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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RAW fans rejoice - re-issues coming soon

October 14, 2015, 9:52 am
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I have noticed that many of Robert Wilson's books are no longer available from New Falcon. Turns out, they are being re-issued by the Robert Wilson Trust. This is bad-ass.

http://www.hilaritaspress.com/

You can sign up to be notified when they go live. Worth checking out.
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DTFH Book Club; Sept 2015; A Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

August 26, 2015, 3:44 pm
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A Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

Here is the Audiobook on Youtube if you are interested. All others are there too


Utilize the Amazon portal if you buy from Amazon
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Wheel of time

October 15, 2015, 8:50 am
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Are audiobooks better than regular books?

October 23, 2015, 11:03 am
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I've been thinking this a lot recently. I kind of feel like there is a subtle snobbery toward audiobooks, although I may just be imagining this. But then the fact is, books are only around because of Gutenburg in about the 15th Century. Before that, basically all information was passed from person to person verbally. Been listening to David Sedaris' audiobooks recently, which he narrates himself, and I've never laughed so hard at a book in my life. His tone just adds an extra dimension to the whole experience. My first experience of an audiobook was Stephen Fry's narration of the Harry Potter books, which, even as an adult, I think are worth a listen! Is it just me that has this view of audiobooks? I get the sense that most of you definitely prefer reading and just wanted to get your views! Peace
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James Joyce

August 30, 2015, 5:51 pm
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Anybody else read him? If so what did you think? I recently bought Ulysses and Finnegans Wake after having read A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man, which is the best coming of age story I've ever come across.

Currently reading Ulysses which is great so far, and recently came across this Terrence Mckenna lecture with him talking about the craziness of Finnegans Wake.


It's gotten me excited about the book despite its reputation of being impenetrable.

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DTFH Book Club; Oct 2015; The Martian by Andy Weir

October 13, 2015, 3:49 pm
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Suggestions for Nov 2015 Book Club

October 13, 2015, 3:51 pm
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My suggestion is....Into Thin Air by Jack Krakauer
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Psychedelic Prayers by Timothy Leary

October 23, 2015, 1:35 pm
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http://duncantrussell.com/zach-leary-and-gay-dillingham/#/vanilla/discussion/embed/?vanilla_discussion_id=0

I want to post pictures of various acid trips in the form of words taken from the magycal text he wrote on lsd and hash, and dedicate it to his 95th birthday.

POEMS that is but I'm sure i can come up with some pictures. after all it was Tim that inspired @Duncan to take his first acid trip. but at any rate I do have Psychedelic Prayers in book form and wasn't together getting use from it and I hope any psychedelic explorers see this and are inspired to read them during trips and have fun!
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Good Fiction books

July 18, 2013, 2:08 pm
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Hi all,

I am going on vacation soon and want to read some good fiction books since it has been a while. I need a change from reading non-fiction or books on spirituality. Something that will help me relax and get in to a good story. I was thinking Watership Down since it is a book that was on the DTFH book club reading list.

Anyways, appreciate any input.

Peace,
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Stephen King's MK ULTRA CIA LSD Novel - Firestarter

October 23, 2015, 8:15 am
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Maybe you saw the movie a long time ago and thought, a young Drew Barrymore starts mind fires... yea, I get it..

Well let me suggest to you a re-visitation to this story via King's original novel in book or audiobook format.

The story concerns a couple who during college participated in a government agency run research project involving an experimental hallucinogenic drug which gave them wicked mind powers. Naturally they marry each other on the spot and produce a little cutie with the ability to brain blaze pretty much anything.

I'm currently listening to the audiobook and loving it. You can get the audiobook via audible, or audiobooks.com also offers a free trial and they actually give you an mp3 which you can transfer off and cancel the membership straight away (unlike audible's lame proprietary format). Or there is also a nice torrent pack of all King's audiobooks which you can find for your damn self.


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A few ideas for December 2015

November 18, 2015, 12:01 pm
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Please pardon me if I speak out of turn. Just want to get a few book club ideas out there for the coming month, since I prefer paper and would like to order ahead of time if I can

"The Filter Bubble" by Eli Pariser (looks at how internet searches, forums, etc tend to promote confirmation bias)
"Finding Ultra" by Rich Roll (self-optimization? I reckon so! Overweight, broke down middle-aged man turns vegan marathon runner)
"A Brief History of Everything" by Ken Wilber (don't know what it's about, just think that Ken Wilber seems to be an insightful fellow)
"Flow" by Csikszentmihhalyi (discussion of flows states ie being in the zone)
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Mater List of Book Club Books ~ Updated for Jan 2016

June 14, 2013, 5:01 pm
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I was wondering if there was a list of all the books read so far. I did not find one so I made one. This will also keep me busy trying to play catch up.

Book Club Books Read to date
Feb 2016 The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick.
Jan 2016 You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter by Dr. Joe Dispenza

Dec 2015 Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche
Nov 2015 Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Oct 2015 The Martian Andy Weir
Sept 2015 Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
Aug 2015 The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia by David Stuart MacLean

Aug 2014-July 2015 Hibernation
July 2014 The Bone People by Keri Hulme
June 2014 The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley
March-May On Hiatus
Feb 2014 The Watchmen, writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons
Jan 2014 The Island, Aldous Huxley

Dec 2013
Nov 2013
Oct 2013
Sept 2013 Emplant, Mallon Khan
Aug 2013 American Gods by Neil Gaiman
July 2013 Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
June 2013 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip Dick
May 2013 the Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
April 2013 Hallucinations, Oliver Sacks
Mar 2013 On The Warriors Path, by Daniele Bolelli
Feb 2013 Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
Jan 2013 The Illusion of the End by Jean Baudrillard

Dec 2012- Be Here Now - Ram Dass
Nov 2012 The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, Alan W. Watts
Oct 2012 Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
Sept 2012 Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins
Aug 2012 Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
July 2012 Dune by Frank Kerbert
June 2012 Fingerprints of the gods by Graham Hancock
May 2012 Bhagavad Gita
April 2012 Watership Down by Richard Adams
March 2012 Sex and Dawn by Christopher Ryan


Books that didn’t win
Eckhart Tolle~ The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
A Brief History of Time.
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The elegant universe
You Are the Placebo by Dr Joe Dispenza
Habibi by Craig Thompson
The Book by Alan Watts
Mission of Art by Alex Grey
The Function of the Orgasm"
The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
Celestial Being: How to Shift to Fifth Dimensional Living by Cindy Bently.
The Watchmen
Malazan series by Steven Erikson.
The Bagavagita
Ready Player One
"Finding Ultra" by Rich Roll The Circle by Dave Eggers.
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
All is Quiet on the Western Front
The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Jesus’ Son: Stories by Denis Johnson
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, Lawrence Wright
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Fringe-ology, Steve Volk
The Great God Pan, Arthur Machen
Food of the Gods - Terence McKenna
Barefoot in the Heart: Remembering Neem Karoli Baba, Keshav Das
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel), Douglas Adams
Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
The Gunslinger
Jesus' Son: Stories, Denis Johnson
Free WIll, Sam Harris
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Cosmic Connection by Carl Sagan
The Tao of Pooh
Dad is fat by Jim Gafigan
Ram Dass Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook
Cats cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
~Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
~Moonchild by Aleister Crowley
~Little Brother by Corey Doctorow
~Hyperion by Dan Simmonds
~Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
~One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
~cosmic trigger, robert anton wilson
~The Bone People, by Keri Hulme
~Carl Jung's autobiography, 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections'
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DMT Lovecraft

December 2, 2015, 5:12 pm
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I've become a huge Lovecraft fan within the past year or so. I recently came across "Dreams in the Witch House"

Wiki:
Shortly after moving into the attic, Gilman begins experiencing bizarre dreams, in which he seems to float without physical form through an otherworldly space of unearthly geometry, indescribable colors, and sounds. Amongst the elements both organic and inorganic, he perceives shapes that he innately recognizes as entities, which appear and disappear instantaneously, and at random. Several times, his dreaming-self encounters bizarre clusters of "iridescent, prolately spheroidal bubbles," as well as a rapidly changing polyhedral-figure, both of which appear sapient.



So he did DMT right?
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Daniele Bolelli's New Book! (Not Afraid)

December 7, 2015, 1:55 pm
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I was wondering if anyone else on the forum decided to pick it up. If you haven't I definitely recommend it! Of course there's the magical benefit of reading a book in Bolelli's voice and his humor really shows throughout the work. I don't know how many people on the forum listen to the drunken taoist, but if you like Bolelli from previous episodes of Duncan's podcast this book is definitely worth picking up. It also gets heavily into martial arts, if you're into that but it doesn't overpower the main focus of the book. It get's deep into his personal life and how he overcame the crazy fucking struggles around him, it's a page turner for sure. I only got it in the mail two days ago and I'm nearly finished with it.
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DTFH Book Club Nov 2015; Walden by Henry David Thoreau

October 27, 2015, 7:16 am
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(From Wiki) is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings.[2] The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance.[3] First published in 1854, it details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. The book compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development.

By immersing himself in nature, Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreau's other goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, a central theme of the American Romantic Period. As Thoreau made clear in his book, his cabin was not in wilderness but at the edge of town, about two miles (3 km) from his family home.
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Standard Loneliness Package, A Short Story by Charles Yu

December 13, 2015, 11:50 am
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http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/standard-loneliness-package/

I was wondering what other Forum members thought of this story. It hit a lot of emotions with me. It captures the feelings of hopelessness and loneliness one can feel while working a dead end job in a cubicle farm. I also thought the use of the Emotional Engineering technology is a great example of a good technology taken to a sinister end point.
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Introductions & Prefaces SKIP THEM?

December 22, 2015, 1:07 pm
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I have been in the habit of skipping introductions and prefaces and whatever else bullshit they stick onto the start of a book and getting into the meat of it.
The book itself, no prior warning, no eloquently written observations of the artists mindframe whence the book was written.
Skip the shit and start at page one.
Or am I missing out on something good?

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VOTE NOW ~ Jan 2016 Book Recs for our Book Club

December 17, 2015, 7:32 am
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Eckhart Tolle~ The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
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DTFH FAMILY BOOK EXCHANGE

October 24, 2015, 1:12 pm
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Sup err'body.

So after calling a few local used book stores for some info I came up with what I think is an even better idea. I would love to start a thread where people could list books that they own, and if anyone's interested, exchange books with someone via mail. Of course you're not gonna want to mail out anything super important to you in case you never get it back or the other participant never sends you their book, but I really think this idea could work, and it really wouldn't cost much.

You could write a short bio or notes or how the book impacted you, anything really.. Inside the cover, and then once that book is mailed it will officially be a part of the exchange. I don't really know how we'd keep accountability, but I feel like if everyone was participant enough they would feel the responsibility to continue forwarding any books the receive and read onto other forum users who request it. We could keep a catalog of available books in this thread, and people could work amongst themselves to get books floating around..

If this worked I would love to send out a book and get it back months later with all sorts of notes, highlighted passages, scribblings and musings etc.

Would anybody else be interested in this? Obviously mailing address postings would be done in private.

Ideas and improvements on this are greatly welcomed!
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