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Here are some great books and DVDs that we have found interesting and useful and enlightening. Descriptions are taken from Amazon.com. If you would like to purchase any of these offerings, click on the title which is a link to open another window directed at Amazon.com.
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The Book of Secrets
by Osho
“These techniques will not mention any religious ritual. No temple is needed, you are quite enough of a temple yourself. You are the lab; the whole experiment is to go on within you. This is not religion, this is science. No belief is needed. Only a daringness to experiment is enough; courage to experiment is enough.
These 112 methods are for the whole of humanity-for all the ages that have passed, and for all the ages that have yet to come. I will go on describing each method from as many angles as possible. If you feel any affinity with it, play with it for three days. If you feel that it fits, that something clicks in you, continue it for three months.
Life is a miracle. If you have not known its mystery, that only shows that you do not know the technique for how to approach it.” –Osho
The Way Of The Superior Man
by David Deida
“Any woman who gives this book to the man in her life will soon thank herself for it.” — Yogi Times magazine, March 2006
An astonishingly practical guidebook to living a masculine life of integrity, authenticity, and freedom. — The Midwest Book Review – Reviewer’s Choice
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Yamamoto Tsunetomo (Author), William Scott Wilson (Translator)
“A Classic of Japanese thought….Poetic, robust…a feast of aphorisms and martial anecdotes.” — New York Review of Books
“A guidebook and inspiration for … anyone interested in achieving a courageous and transcendent understanding of life.” — East West Journal
“HAGAKURE became a kind of magical discovery for me, and ‘hidden under its leaves’ were some important gifts.” — Jim Jarmusch
Walden
By David Thoreau
‘[Walden] still seems to me the best youth’s companion yet written by an American, for it carries a solemn warning against the loss of one’s valuables, it advances a good argument for traveling light and trying new adventures, it rings with the power of powerful adoration, it contains religious feeling without religious images, and it steadfastly refuses to record bad news.’ –E. B. White
The Trick to Money Is Having Some
by Stuart Wilde
Stuart shows you that money is merely a form of energy – and that the difference between having it and not having it is merely a small but subtle shift in consciousness. . . . . . . .
by David Schwartz
Millions of people throughout the world have improved their lives using The Magic of Thinking Big. Dr. David J. Schwartz, long regarded as one of the foremost experts on motivation, will help you sell better, manage better, earn more money, and — most important of all — find greater happiness and peace of mind. . . . . . . .
The 4 Hour Body
by Tim Ferris
The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of jaw-dropping personal experimentation. From Olympic training centers to black-market laboratories, from Silicon Valley to South Africa, Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, fixated on one life-changing question:
For all things physical, what are the tiniest changes that produce the biggest results?
The Greatest Salemen In The World
by Og Mandino
Book Description: intrigued by the world of business. It is the two-thousand-year-old tale of Hafid, an impoverished camel boy who achieves a life of material abundance with the aid of 10 mystical scrolls. . . . . . . .
by Carlos Castaneda
The Teachings of Don Juan initiated a generation of seekers dissatisfied with the limitations of the Western worldview. Castaneda’s now classic book remains controversial for the alternative way of seeing that it presents and the revolution in cognition it demands.
by Adi Da Samraj
In the depth of every human being, there is a profound need for answers to the fundamental questions of existence. Is there a God? What is Truth? What is Reality? The Knee of Listening has transformed the lives of thousands of secular and religious seekers since it was first published in 1972, because it answers all of these questions.This autobiography shows, with incomparable wisdom and clarity, a life moved by the divine, and a being of such unheard-of greatness that many readers are left amazed and touched by this book.
Adi Da’s spiritual autobiography tells the miraculous story of his unique Incarnation and revelation in the West for the sake of liberating all beings. To read it is to find the very heart of reality–tangibly felt in your own heart as the deepest truth of existence. It is the great mystery that you are invited to discover.
An Uncommon Guide to the Art of
by Rolf Potts
Book Description:Vagabonding is about taking time off from your normal life—from six weeks to four months to two years—to discover and experience the world on your own terms. Veteran shoestring traveler Rolf Potts shows how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel.
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Apocalypse Now Redux (DVD)
Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall
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Digitally remastered with 49 minutes of previously unseen footage, Apocalypse Now Redux is the reference standard of Francis Coppola’s 1979 epic. A metaphorical hallucination of the Vietnam War, the film was reconstructed by Coppola and editor Walter Murch to enrich themes and clarify the ending. On that basis Redux is a qualified success, more coherent than the original while inviting the same accusations of directorial excess. The restored “French plantation” sequence adds ghostly resonance to the war’s absurdity, and Willard’s theft of Colonel Kurtz’s beloved surfboard adds welcomed humor to the film’s nightmarish upriver journey. An encounter with Playboy Playmates seems superfluous compared to the enhanced interplay between Willard and his ill-fated boat crew, but compensation arrives in the hellish Kurtz compound, where Willard’s mission–and the performances of Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando–reach even greater heights of insanity, thus validating Redux as the rightful heir to Coppola’s triumphantly rampant ambition. –Jeff Shannon
Ghost Dog – The Way of The Samurai
Forest Whitaker, Director Jim Jarmusch
Whitaker is Ghost Dog, a mysterious New York hit man who lives simply on a tenement rooftop and follows a code of behavior outlined in Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai (passages of this book are interspersed throughout the film).
Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne Director: Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski
A messiah of sorts, Morpheus presents Neo with the truth about his world by shedding light on the dark secrets that have troubled him for so long: “You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.” Ultimately, Morpheus illustrates to Neo what the Matrix is–a reality beyond reality that controls all of their lives, in a way that Neo can barely comprehend.
Jason Statham, Ray Liotta Director: Guy Ritchie
It’s a little bit more of a serious sort of psychological thriller… about being able to smash what controls you, but at the same time it’s all set within a world of ya know, violence, ya know that sexy shiny world that Guy Ritchie creates.
Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau Director: Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson directs and stars in this Academy Award-winning epic based on the life of legendary thirteenth century Scottish hero William Wallace. Returning to his homeland following the death of an heirless king Wallace (Mel Gibson) finds the political landscape precarious.
Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, David Fincher (Director)
Fight Club, directed by David Fincher (Seven), is not for the faint of heart; the violence is no holds barred. But the film is captivating and beautifully shot, with some thought-provoking ideas. Pitt and Norton are an unbeatable duo, and the film has some surprisingly humorous moments. The film leaves you with a sense of profound discomfort and a desire to see it again, if for no other reason than to just to take it all in. –Jenny Brown
Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Director Zack Snyder
The epic graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City) assaults the screen with the blood, thunder and awe of its ferocious visual style faithfully recreated in an intense blend of live-action and CGI animation. Retelling the ancient Battle of Thermopylae, it depicts the titanic clash in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and his massive Persian army. Experience history at swordpoint. And moviemaking with a cutting edge.
Rhonda Byrne, Paul Harrington, Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith, and Neale Donald Walsch
The Secret is more of a video seminar, a presentation featuring a series of authors, philosophers, doctors, quantum physicists, entrepreneurs, and spiritual practitioners expounding on the powers of The Secret. That principle can be summed up in three simple words: thoughts become things.”
