This is two lists of books and music which I feel formed a part of my self prior to the moment of bliss I experienced. Reading them may therefore help you on any road to bliss that may exist. I cannot guarantee they will as my experience may have been unique and indeed Tibetan Buddhism has a tradition that many paths to enlightenment exist. The list may help you, it may not and there again you may not be interested in traveling such a path so might like to avoid reading them. The list will extend as I recall them
BOOKS
The Sot Weed Factor by John Barth
The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
Demian by Herman Hesse
Island by Aldous Huxley
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
Tortilla Flats by John Steinbeck
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Keasey
Crime and Punishment or The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
An anthology of existential writing by various authors
Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
MUSIC
Joni Mitchell Blue
John Lennon Rock and Roll
John Lennon Imagine
The Grateful Dead Live/Dead (red sleeve)
Quicksilver Anthology
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
Bob Dylan Desire
David Bowie Aladdin Sane
David Bowie Ziggy Stardust
David Bowie Low
Colosseum Valentyne Suite
The Doors L.A. Woman
Caravan In the Land of Grey and Pink
Tangerine Dream Stratosfear
Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells
Jerry Garcia Reflections
Roxy Music For Your Pleasure
Jethro Tull Aqualung
Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
Crosby Stills, Nash & Young Double Live Album
Velvet Underground Banana Album
Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland
Iron Butterfly In A Gadda Da Vida
Bad Company Bad Company
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