Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Category Archives: THE BIG BLEEP
64 BOOKS I HEARD LAST YEAR
Republished by Blog Post Promoter
I stopped watching television. I refuse to be “dumbed down” by the “vast wasteland” of insidious drivel produced by the “mind-control media”. I prefer to spend my time with great writers. Like most writers I read a lot of books. In recent years I have become a huge fan of audio books! I listen to at least one book each week on my iPhone.
Recorded books are read to you, sometimes by the authors themselves, such as Stephen King or Neil Gaiman, while you do the routine hands-free activities of daily living: driving, grocery shopping, riding a bicycle, jogging, walking, cooking, cleaning, washing dishes, eating and pooping.
There are thousands of recorded books available. You can start by downloading a FREE AUDIO BOOK from Audible.com.
This is a list of 64 Audio books I personally enjoyed hearing during the last year (many for the 2nd or 3rd time):
The Riverboat Series (5 books) by Philip Jose Farmer
Shantaram: A Novel by Gregory David Roberts
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Series of 6 books, including “And Another Thing”) by Douglas Adams
The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams
The Long Lost Tea Time of The Soul by Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
Ecco Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche
Heresy by S.J. Parris
Prophecy S.J. Parris
Sacrilege S.J. Parris
Touch by Clair North
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Clair North
Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla by Marc J. Seifer
My Inventions by Nikola Tesla
The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama
Our Occulted History by Jim Marrs
Ubik by Phillip K. Dick
The Hair Potter Series (7 books) by J.K. Rowling
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Domain Expeditionary Rescue Mission by Lawrence R. Spencer
Alien Interview by Matilda MacElroy
Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez
Daemon by Daniel Suarez
Influx by Daniel Suarez
Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan
Hollow World by Michael J. Sullivan
The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean
Pirates and the Man who brought them down by Colin Woodard
Far Journeys by Robert Monroe
Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell
Off to Be The Wizard by Scott Meyer
Spell and High Water by Scott Meyer
Seize The Night by Dean Koontz
Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz
Ashley Bell by Dean Koontz
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
The John Carter Trilogy by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Ocean at The End of The Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Boo, by Neil Gaiman
Good Omens by Terry Pratchet and Neil Gaiman
Dune (Series of 7 books) by Frank Herbert
BLEEP! BLEEP!
Republished by Blog Post Promoter
The Big Bleep is the story of hard-boiled, Harley riding detective Sam Shovel, digging up the truth on a comedic, existential journey of self-realization. It digs deep into the opinions of plants and trees to explore a universe where a fictional characters become self-aware — just like in real life! And, it’s the only book that tells the truth about what REALLY happened to the Earth dinosaurs, and where Superheros go when they retire.
JUST DO IT.
Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Self-destruction is the antithesis of the survival impulse. Individual life forms are driven by the impulse to survive. But, collectively, Humanity seems to be Hell-Bent on Self-Destruction. WTF?! Well, maybe it’s not all what it seems to be. Maybe there are a very small minority of beings who want to ensure that the rest of us don’t make it. Our assumption, as socially interdependent beings is that “everyone wants to survive”. Well, maybe Humanity has been infiltrated by PARASITES who secretly and quietly want to bleed us to death? Parasites in nature are abundantly present. Bacteria and viruses are some of the most abundant and ancient species of life on the planet. If you get cut on your leg while walking through the jungle, you will die of bacterial infection, if the wound is untreated. You want to survive, but so does the bacteria that invades your body and kills it. So what? Do you have more right to survive than bacteria?
But, if our natural impulse is to persist through time in our present form, why would we keep shooting ourselves in the foot?
MY PERSONAL READING LIST
Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Here is a list books I read (I usually listen to the audiobook version) during the last two years (in no particular order). There may have been others, but these are most worthy of mention. I have read many of these books more than once, as I consider them to be seminal works of English literature, or fundamental to an understanding of Life, Universes and Other Stuff.
I have discovered that not all “spiritual” books are necessarily spiritual. Likewise, I find that some books in the science fiction and history genre reveal a profound
understanding of the nature andbehavior of humans. For example, there is no doubt in my mind that foibles and follies described in The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon reveal in painfully absurd detail the reality that the humans who populate modern Western civilization of Europe and the United States are the very same beings who built and destroyed the civilizations of Rome and it’s immediate predecessor, Greece. And, we are the very same spiritual beings who build and destroy every civilization, life after life, again and again, in the Eternal Now.
The more things change, the more humans remain the same. If you have read the book Alien Interview, you will understand the cyclical nature of human insanity and the wicked wizards and witches
behind the “curtain of lies” that perpetuate our stupidity, brutal depravity and the inability to confront the evil beings who perpetuate our pain. Factually, the serpentine parasites who enslave the “untouchables of Earth” are terrified that innocent and honest inquiries of children and small dogs will expose and depose them from their brutal thrones of power, control and possession of the physical universe, without which they would perish in the frigid, eternal dark from which they were spawned! Likewise, The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine and the books of E.E. Doc Smith and Robert Heinlein reveal profound understandings of philosophy and spirituality that are forbidden, and unknown, in religious texts on Earth. Reading the autobiographies of Yogananda, and Gandhi, and Nikola Tesla and Mark Twain exposed me to “Spiritual Skyscrapers” who tower with magnificent wisdom and courage above the barren landscape of human inhumanity.
Such beings, who demonstrate the most powerful empathy for their fellow beings, are magnified in contrast to a race of spiritual monstrosities (the “Edorians” of The Lensman Series, for example) as elucidated with demonic eloquence by Hitler in Mein Kampf. Although the “bad guys” are just as powerful and “intelligent” as any “good guy” they are utterly and irreversibly antipathetic to every spiritual entity in every universe, including themselves! I suspect that the game of “good guys” versus “bad guys” is simply an eternal, intergalactic struggle for survival between two equally opposed races of spiritual beings who originated in different times and places, but who now coexist in the space / time continuum of the physical universe.
Personally, I have grown weary of mortal games. I write books that suggest alternatives to the physical universe logic of dichotomies: life /death, good /bad, black / white, life / death, up /down, in / out, etc.,. I prefer the “illogic” of immortal spirits, infinite possibilities and unlimited imagination! Life, and Universes, and Other
Stuff are created from and sustained by the “no-thing” of Eternal Spiritual Beings. However, I have read that the spiritually ignorant physicists of western universities are finally beginning to “grok” that Quantum Mechanics has been known and understood by the Vedic sages and gurus of India for more than 10,000 years. Light, energy, matter, forms and spaces are contrivances of our own imaginations.
In spite of all the books I’ve read, I have, as yet, not discovered the solution to escaping the “Wheel of Life”, or the Cycle of Birth and Death. I hope that the books I am planning to read during the next year will provide me with some real answers, as I’m not getting any younger. Religious lies and rhetoric notwithstanding, not a single author of a book I’ve read has died and returned to tell us how to “escape from Earth”. If you have read a book that verifiably solves this problem, please let me know. I will add it to my list of “must read” books.
— Lawrence R. Spencer. October, 2013.
___________________________________
The History of The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire (Unabridged), by Edward Gibbon
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
The Cat Who Walked Through Walls, by Robert Heinlein
Strangers in A Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures, by Virginia Morell
The Art of Happiness, by Howard C.Cutler, with the Dalai Lama
Mein Kampf, by Aldolph Hitler
Vermeer: Portraits of A Lifetime, by Lawrence R. Spencer
The Skylark of Space: Skylark Series #1, by E.E. Doc Smith
Skylark Two, by E.E. Doc Smith
Skylark of Valeron (#3), by E.E. Doc Smith
Skylark DuQuesne: Skylark Series #4, by E.E. Doc Smith
The Lensman Series, (6 books) by E.E. Doc Smith
Triplanetary
First Lensman
Galactic Patrol
Gray Lensman
Second Stage Lensman
Children of The Lens
The Spacehounds of IPC, by E.E. Doc Smith
The Oz Factors, by Lawrence R. Spencer
Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Valis, by Philip K. Dick
Alien Interview, Edited by Lawrence R. Spencer
The Dying Earth, by Jack Vance
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, by Mohandas (Mahatma) K. Gandhi
1,001 Things to Do While You’re Dead: A Dead Persons Guide to Living, by Lawrence R. Spencer
The Bhagavad Gita, by Phoenix Books , Barbara Stoler-Miller (translator)
The Big Bleep: Mystery of A Different Universe, by Lawrence R. Spencer
Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius, by Marc J. Seifer
Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda
Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens?, by Jim Marrs
My Inventions, by Nikola Tesla
Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott
Sherlock Holmes: My Life, by Lawrence R. Spencer
Ubik, by Phillip K. Dick
Vermeer: Portraits of A Lifetime, by Lawrence R. Spencer
The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break: A Novel, by Steven Sherrill
Winter of the World: The Century Trilogy, Book 2, by Ken Follett (partial)
Coming of Conan The Cimmerian, by Robert E. Howard
A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1, by George R. Martin
The Dispossessed: A Novel, by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: The millennium Trilogy, Book 1, by Steig Larsson
The Vortex Blaster, by E.E. “Doc” Smith
The Republic, by Plato
Fall of Giants: The Century Trilogy, Book 1, by Ken Follett
The Confession: A Novel, by John Grisham
Sherlock Holmes: My Life, by Lawrence R. Spencer
Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman
Enders Game, by Orson Scott Card
Autobiography of Mark Twin (Unabridged), by Mark Twain
American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
Tao Te Ching: A New English Version, by Loa Tzu, translated by Stephen Mitchell
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers, by Will Durant
You See But You Do Not Observe, by Robert J. Sawyer
The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine
The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1 and 2, by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fear, by Arthur Conan Doyle
His Last Bow, by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Under the Dome, by Stephen King
The Rape of The Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing, by Joost A. M. Meerloo, M.D.
The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, by Frances Stonor Saunders
The Magus of Strovolos: The Extraordinary World of a Spiritual Healer, by Kyriacos C. Markides,
1984, by George Orwell
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov
The Rise of The Fourth Reich, by Jim Marrs
The Face, by Dean Koontz (and, about a dozen of his other books in years past! )
Meditation on Living, Dying and Loss, by Graham Coleman with the Dalai Lama
Tick Tock, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Dracula, by Bram Stoker