![]() | The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $2.78 The world is your body . . .
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![]() | On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious by Douglas E. Harding
Buy used from: $16.55 . . . _and_ the world is your mind.
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![]() | The Ethics ; Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect ; Selected Letters by Benedictus de Spinoza
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.94 And -- holy Spinoza, Batman! Thought and extension are two of God's attributes! (Okay, it's not exactly a hippie classic. But it should be.)
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![]() | Your Brain Is God by Timothy Leary
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $7.21 You don't actually need entheogens to realize this stuff, but some have found them helpful.
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![]() | This Season's People: A Book of Spiritual Teachings by Stephen Gaskin
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $2.73 Including Stephen, who has also written a fine book on "Cannabis Spirituality." But this one is the Diamond Sutra of hippie spirituality.
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![]() | Das Energi by Paul Williams
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.15 And this one is the hippie Tao Te Ching.
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![]() | Tao Te Ching, 25th-Anniversary Edition (English and Mandarin Chinese Edition) by Lao Tsu
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $3.79 (This is the real Tao Te Ching, in perhaps its most influential edition. Every hippie who knows what Taoism is has seen, and probably owned, this one.)
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![]() | Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment by Thaddeus Golas
Buy used from: $9.15 This great little book by the late Thaddeus Golas is the hippie Dhammapada.
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![]() | Living on the Earth by Alicia Bay Laurel
Buy used from: $18.83 Another '60s/'70s classic. "Back to the land," but vegans beware; this one even has instructions for tanning your own leather.
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![]() | Remember, Be Here Now by Ram Dass
Buy new: $10.30 / Used from: $8.71 Richard Alpert's book has been on every hippie bookshelf in the world. Heavy on the Hinduism. (If "losing your ego" sounds threatening, see Golas for what it really means.)
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![]() | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $0.92 And Suzuki-Roshi's little classic introduced lots of kind folks to zazen. (The introduction was written by Richard Baker; if you know anything about the history involved, you'll appreciate the irony.)
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![]() | An Introduction to Zen Buddhism by D.T. Suzuki
Buy new: $9.23 / Used from: $2.75 The _other_ Suzuki made some waves with this one (and quite a few other fine books too).
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![]() | Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (Vol. 8) by C. G. Jung
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.85 A highly influential alternative account of causality, karma, and coincidence.
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![]() | How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty by Harry Browne
Buy used from: $38.95 The spirituality of "hippie libertarianism." At times perilously close to sheer libertinism, but still very helpful in avoiding moralistic "traps."
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![]() | Kabbalah: The Way of The Jewish Mystic (Shambhala Classics) by Perle Epstein
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $0.01 This one should be better known than it is as a Judeo-hippie classic.
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![]() | The River of Light: Jewish Mystical Awareness by Lawrence Kushner
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.40 So should this one. Kabbalah was very influential among Judeo-hippies who had initially been attracted to Eastern spirituality and hadn't realized there was a mystical tradition in Judaism too.
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![]() | The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: $1.94 This one's here because of its influence (there's even a famous band named after it), but as I mentioned above, entheogenic drugs aren't strictly necessary.
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![]() | Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals by Huston Smith
Buy used from: $1.25 Which doesn't mean there's nothing to be said for them.
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![]() | The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.21 Here's another extremely influential book, Carlos Castaneda's first one about the teachings of a Yaqui shaman.
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![]() | Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul by Jane Roberts
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $3.95 And here's another. Heck, I know people who have named their kids Seth because of this book.
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![]() | Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 To understand '60s/'70s countercultural spirituality, you need to grok this work of speculative fiction.
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![]() | Messenger from the Summer of Love by David Rey Echt
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $2.42 Is this what really happened when the Love Bomb went off? This somewhat fictionalized account contains sound spiritual advice.
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![]() | The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Library by Gilbert Shelton
Buy used from: $17.99 This one's here just for fun (which is spiritual, isn't it?). Hilarious, and better than Crumb (who, incidentally, hated hippies).
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![]() | American Beauty by Grateful Dead
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $0.84 Yes, this is a classic of hippie spirituality. So is the band itself.
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![]() | Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s by John Bassett McCleary
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $5.54 To follow up, start here. This isn't just a dictionary; it's an extended argument for keeping The Dream alive.
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