The Celestine Prophecy

James Redfield classic.. can it be called a classic I dont know, but yes it is a masterpiece as far as handling the subject goes. A new style Anyone who has read any spiritual treatise would find those books boring drab and harping on the same point over and over again.

This book is refreshing it is an adventure story in the amazon rain forest a total adventure trail but introduces the teachings in form of nine insights.

What i liked about the book is its handling and creating a plot out of this simple teachings, there is nothing unbelievable in the theme or the teachings, a very light read.
I guess this is a good way to introduce youngsters into spiritual teachings.

The follow up book "The experiental guide" is more like a manual to achieve those insights.

The next book "The tenth Insight" is actually quite slow and boring compared to the original classic .

There is another book by teh same author "The secret of Shambala" supposedly talking about the eleventh insight . Interesting read , but very very unbelievable and teh writing style is exactly same as the celestine prophecy . So if you have heard about shangrila or shambala and want to know more then read thsi book else nothing much different from the celestine prophecy.
I primarily picked up the book because of the shangrila thing and the curiosity of what could be teh eleventh insight.
I was pretty unhappy with the tenth insight so was not hoping much from this book but it was better than the tenth insight , but yes it does not make the same impact as celestine prophecy does.

The Google Story

I had read this book quite a while back but never came around to blog about . Finally i decided to write a few lines.
While you would find extensive review about this book all over the web and most of them saying such an astonishing book this is.
Well it is a smooth read i wont say unputdownable but definitely not very dragging. But yes it is not for people who dont like technology or for people who dont understand teh very reason why people would give up everything to be an enterpreuner.
It does not have good amount of technical stuff or jargon but yes the book story etc revolves around search it helps if you know a little bit about search. I guess a non search person would really not appreciate the big deal about a page ranking algorithm.

This book is a must read by anyone who is starting something on his own, it has that motivational element , teh zeal to succeed against all odds.
I guess if these sililcon valley founders were MBAs they would probably have never made it so big, You try to build a company against all odds when all your financial projections, business models etc says better close shop there is this something within them that urges them to go on and it through this sheer persistence that stars are born

A search in secret India by Paul Brunton

I read this book pretty recently and was really impressed. Not by the depth of spirituality but by the honest description of the author and his open admission to ignorance and if course his curiosity.
Over time i have increasingly noticed that non indians write better about india probably because they are not clouted by their own baggage of what is right and wrong to be written about india.

The story is overtly simple about a guy in his search for truth , he wanders in india and meets many mystics and finally finds what he is looking for with Ramana Maharshi. The interesting part is teh simplicity of narration and the innocence of his description of what he saw.

The book is primarily written for the western audience who according to him has a more distorted view of india , but i think even indians have a pretty distorted view and for that matter they form an opinion of stuff based on the slice of life they are exposed to.
But definitely a good interesting read.