Thursday, July 1, 2010

KALI/SHIVA BAC BOOK CLUB

VOTE FOR WHAT YOU WANT TO READ

KALI/SHIVA BAC BOOK CLUB: 
LETS DESTROY / CREATE / CONSUME / MAKE LOVE WITH CULTURAL OBJECTS- Like the Book

FILTHY HOT SUMMER READS
Lets get Sand in our Spines! (of our books!)
Bounce some ideas off into that vast expansive space circulating between our skulls and ribcages- R hearts & minds 
Sharing words, symbols and concepts we can grow like sweet little seeds, understand our world and the multitude of experiences of it/with it, listen and learn from ourselves and each other.

Lets Vote on the book with the vibe you’d like most to set your month off on, 
We can get all these web cheep but lets pick soon so we can order them and start soaking them word rays up-
Here’s a list to make it easier! 

FICTION
Jitterbug Perfume – yay! Tom Robbins on about something other than bloomberg!

LOVING KINDNESS

Thich Nhat Hanh- No Death, No Fear.
His sweet little plum head has kept poppin up in my lyfe again recently, and its been a awhile- so for being free where you are…he’s got a simple message for mindfulness we can use everyday.

POETRY
Charles Baudelaire- Flowers of Evil
Loved tha herb!!

Antonin Artaud- Selected Writings
A little pricier (used @ $11) I feel a worthwhile read, introduced by the lovely Susan Sontag, Artauds a rimbaud reading, peyote eating, wildcracka.

CONCIOUSNESS 
Mircea Eliade- Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
One of the Godpapas of myth lit, the sacred and shamanism, and buddies with just about everyone in the day

Stanislav Grof- The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives
Some nice new age ideation from the noosphere. 

Andrew Weil- The Natural Mind: An Investigation of Drugs and the Higher Conciousness 
Mushroom man! An authority on ‘natural’ medicine and healing the body using ancient psychoactive substances. Has a Good head on his shoulders. 
(not to rule out any suggestions from interested book clubbers to read Mckenna- That’s Always an option…)

Douglas Hofstadter- I Am A Strange Loop 
Shouts to Innergaze! http://www.confusedhouse.org/innergaze.html-
We can learn some legit tech/universal philosophy together, I just got this on sale at the East/West closing…aww…(kinda)

CONSPIRACY

Immanuel Velikovsky – World in Collision 
Venutian pseudoscience! I have a nice companion text we can compliment this with, too.

Robert Anton Wilson- Sex, Drugs & Magick: A Journey Beyond Limits 
Fiction… but this man is a Maverick

VOTE FOR WHAT YOU WANT TO READ

1 comment:

beastkid said...

I am a strange looooop!

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