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Satan Speaks!
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Include books by the same authorThe Archaic Revival
Terence McKenna · 276 pages
In these essays, interviews, and narrative adventures, McKenna takes us on a mesmerizing journey deep into the Amazon as well as into the hidden recesses of the human psyche and the outer limits of our culture, giving us startling visions of the past and future.
For the Time Being
Annie Dillard · 205 pages
Following a novel, a memoir, and a book of poems, Annie Dillard returns to a form of nonfiction she has made her own--now, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.This personal narrative surveys the panorama of our world, past and present. Here is a natural history of sand, a catalogue of clouds, a batch of newborns on an obstetrical
Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown
Alan W. Watts · 185 pages
The Weight of Glory
C.S. Lewis · 66 pages
Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses offer guidance and inspiration in a time of great doubt.These are ardent and lucid sermons that provide a compassionate vision of Christianity. from Amazon.com
Zen and the Birds of Appetite
Thomas Merton · 142 pages
Collection of essays about complex Asian concepts with a Western directness. Merton believed that there must be a little of Zen in all authentic creative and spiritual experience and the Study of Zen, then, is not a study of doctrine, still less a polemic about ultimate religious principles, it is simply an attempt to reach the ground of pure, direct experience which underlies all creative thought
Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World
N.D. Wilson · 224 pages
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
Christopher Hitchens · 499 pages
Presents excerpts on the subject of religion from the writings of such notable non-believers as John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Richard Dawkins, and Salman Rushdie.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
C.G. Jung · 244 pages
Myths to Live By
Joseph Campbell · 276 pages
Includes material on "the buffalo-gods, Quetzalcoatls, Buddhas, fairy queens and other such figures."
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Bertrand Russell · 245 pages
Heaven and Hell
Aldous Huxley · 95 pages
Waiting for God
Simone Weil · 208 pages
"Emerging from the thought-provoking discussions and correspondence Simone Weil had with the Reverend Father Perrin, this classic collection of essays contains the renowned philosopher and social activist's most profound meditations on the relationship of human life to the realm of the transcendent. An enduring masterwork and "one of the most neglected resources of our century" (Adrienne Rich), Wa
The Givenness of Things: Essays
Marilynne Robinson · 305 pages
The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, and more interested in creating technologies for material well-being. But while cultural pessimism is always fashionable, there is still much to give us hope. In The Givenness of Things, Marilynne Robinson delivers an impassioned critique of our cont
Why I Am An Atheist
Bhagat Singh · 30 pages
The Happy Atheist
P.Z. Myers · 190 pages
A collection of absurd blog posts that is barely edited. Nothing more than Myers' ham-handed complaints about religion and the religious (though almost exclusively against Christianity and Christians). His blog fans ate it up, but the general public gave it a hard pass.
Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate
Terry Eagleton · 185 pages
An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World
Pankaj Mishra
Like the Flowing River
Paulo Coelho · 272 pages
Fear and Trembling/Repetition
Soren Kierkegaard · 464 pages
The two books comprised in this volume are in greater demand than any other works of Kierkegaard. This preference is a credit to the public taste, for Kierkegaard himself called them "the most perfect books I have written," though in this commendation he included The Concept of Dread, and later stretched it to include Training in Christianity.
God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
Penn Jillette · 231 pages
The outspoken half of magic duo Penn & Teller presents an atheist reinterpretation of the Ten Commandments, discussing why doubt, skepticism, and wonder should be celebrated and offering humorous stories from his own experiences.
A Devil's Chaplain
Richard Dawkins · 272 pages
'Moet u zich eens voorstellen wat voor boek een kapelaan van de duivel zou kunnen schrijven over de onhandige, verspillende, blunderende en gruwelijk gemene werken van de natuur.' Dit schreef Darwin in 1856 aan een vriend. Maar, hoe gruwelijk en onhandig ook, willekeurig zijn de evolutionaire processen allerminst, zo laat Richard Dawkins zien in zijn even nuchtere als helder onderbouwde werk. Ka
This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
Jay Allison, Dan Gediman · 291 pages
Presents essays expressing the core principles that guide the lives of 89 different people, some famous, some not, including politicians, nurses, artists, athletes, parents, students and more.
Commentaries on Living 1
Jiddu Krishnamurti · 254 pages
A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
Yoshida Kenko · 64 pages