Book List For 2012

These are the books I would like to read in 2012:

The Secret History of the World – Jonathon Black

Killing Hope – William Blum

The Alchemy of Happiness – Al Ghazali

Al-Ghazali on the Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife: Book XL of the Revival of the Religious Sciences

Al Ghazali’s Path to Sufism

Islam, religion of life – Abdul Hakim Murad

The Time of the Bedouin – Ian Dallas

Sea Without Shore A Manual of the Sufi Path – Nuh Ha Mim Keller

Coming Back: Science of Reincarnation - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Bhagavad Gita as It Is

1984 – George orwell

The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman – Malidoma Some

Prophet – Kahlil Gibran

The Awakening of Intelligence - J. Krishnamurti

The Great War for Civilisation – Robert Fisk (a quarter of the way through already)

The Brothers Karamazov -Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Shock Doctrine – Naomi Klein

The Essence of Buddhism: An introduction to its philosophy & practise – Traleg Kyabgon (a quarter of the way through already)

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The Life of Mahatma Gandhi by Louis Fischer-A Review

Louis Fischer, an American born Journalist, believed that Gandhi (1869-1948) was “the greatest individual of the twentieth century, if not the twenty centuries…” and even though this may have been the only statement of subjectivism he injected into his biography, it is enough to ascertain what he thought of the man. I approached this book in a somewhat skeptical manner, not knowing much about the life of Gandhi-apart from his belief in pacifism, and eager to discover why he is so highly regarded. I was in for an interesting read… Continue reading