Recommend anything interesting for a young hippie?

I'm very interested in the counterculture of the 60's and their ideals. Are there any books you would recommend that might assist me with my cosmic mind expansion? :2thumbsup:

Peace the fuck out

-Unsane

 

Yes.
Terence McKenna - Archaic Revival, Food of the Gods, The Trialogues
Probably the best anti-culture writer with an encyclopedic knowledge
Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media
It's a tough read but persevere and you will see the world in a new light.
Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution
His ideas on self-perception and life-as-change both influenced and preceded the beats.
Korzybski - Science and Sanity
Immense, groundbreaking book which attempts to correct the errors produced by our use of language.
Frederich Nietzsche - Daybreak
Helped me to dispel the myth of morality imposed on us by culture.

Also anything by or involving:
Einstein - Just find any book on general relativity, understanding it will help you understand the 20th century trend away from the absolute, the uniform, the objective and towards the relational perspective.
Foucault - The go to guy for understanding the role of power in our institutions and human relations


Fiction: Anything by WS Burroughs, Kerouac, Joyce, Kafka, Poe

 

kudos walsh, some good recommendations. let me fill some in that you missed:

Timothy Leary: Info-psychology, The Game of Life, Changing my Mind Among Others, Chaos and Cyberculture
Ram Dass: Remember Be Here Now, The Only Dance There Is, Grist for the Mill
John C. Lilly: Center of the Cyclone
Robert Anton Wilson: Cosmic Trigger I, Prometheus Rising, Quantum Psychology
Marshall Mcluhan: The Medium is the Massage, War and Peace in the Global Village

For History: "Acid Dreams" by Martin Lee and "Storming Heaven" by Jay Stevens

 

Cheers! Lots in there I haven't read.

 

Pretty obvious, but The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe would be a good place to start if you haven't read that already..

Books can only do so much.. The book of your own life will feed and expand your mind the most! Be free

 

Tom Wolfe - Electric Koolaid Acid Test

Hunter Thompson (I'd start out with "Hells Angels" and go on from there.) Ive enjoyed every one of his books

Hells Angels and Electric Kool Aid Acid Test overlap and talk about some of the same stuff, because Hunter Thompson brought the Hells Angels to Ken Keseys farm

 

Some Alan Watts wouldn't hurt

 

agreed, particularly the book "the book on the taboo against knowing who you really are"

 

Alan Watts - The Soul Searchers
Timothy Leary- Eight Circuits of Consciousness

 

Yup. I can vouch for Alan Watts. I've read several of his books about twenty-five years ago.

 

the books i mentioned are later iterations of leary's 8-circuit model. perhaps another author would be Antero Alli and his books called "Angel-Tech: A Modern Shaman's Guide to Reality-Selection" and "The Eight-Circuit Brain: Navigational Strategies for the Energetic Body"

 

I can't believe no one has mentioned any of the books by Hermann Hesse, almost all of his books deal with man's inner nature and inner development. From what I know books like "Steppenwolf"(yes this book title inspired a band's name) were very popular during the 60s.

 

I also found "Steal This Book" to be super influential when I was a "young" hippie in High School...

 

Dharma Bums, The Tao Te Ching, The Collected Poems of Allen Ginsberg, Anything by Sylvia Plath.

 

The Confessions Of Aleister Crowley.
The Satanic Bible.
Steppenwolf
Anything by Jack London

 

Wow what a great post loads of books I haven't read. I would recommend anything by the beat generation, and ken Kesey. His book changed my life forever

 

Yes!

iTunes has numerous free podcasts by Alan Watts that can be downloaded.

Enjoy!