A book that made a turning Point in your Life
Riddley Walker, by Russel Hoban
the degraded, changed language in a de-volved post nuclear world has the human heart and mind and the English tongue circling back towards an almost middle English rediscovering the same myths, suspicions, desires, lusts, needs, as we do every day; it gets at the heart of human by cleaving the human world like the atom was cloven.
the degraded, changed language in a de-volved post nuclear world has the human heart and mind and the English tongue circling back towards an almost middle English rediscovering the same myths, suspicions, desires, lusts, needs, as we do every day; it gets at the heart of human by cleaving the human world like the atom was cloven.
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Rovering to Success by Robert Baden-Powell - helped me in early teens stay clear of drink and smoking (drugs was not the issue it is when published in 1920s) and alerted me to dangers of STD (then known as VD) before teachers did. My dad, an ex Scout leader, had this book from scouting days.
"like the singing coming off the drums" - Sonia Sanchez
My first poetry book, sent to me as a gift (when I began my studies of Eastern poetry), which consequently was a definite turning point in my life in every way possible.
My first poetry book, sent to me as a gift (when I began my studies of Eastern poetry), which consequently was a definite turning point in my life in every way possible.
I believe Taylor Caldwell's books opened up my mind. I 'discovered; her as a teenager. One of her books that 'turned me' was The Great Lion of God which was about Saint Paul. I read many of her books afterwards including 'The Search for a Soul: Taylor Caldwell's Psychic Lives.' This was written by Jess Stearn.
Definitely the Nag Hammadi Library, which is a large collected volume typically sold as a massive trade paperback and which contains the largest assortment of Gnostic spiritual teachings in existence. Reading that most certainly expanded the knowledge of Gnosticism I already held, and also helped me in my further studies of that particular blend of spirituality. The things I learned in those teachings helped a lot when I became a Gnostic High Priestess, and I find much of it invaluably useful when teaching Gnosticism to others. For the modern Gnostic, it really is required reading!
