How do you mean it's a gateway?As a muslim i'm going to stick with the Quran. Not purely because "i'm supposed to" but because I have read the bible, several timesover, i've read the Bhagvad Gita and tons of vedanta stuff..and of course the tao te ching and every time I went back to the Quran I found those philosophies were contained in the Quran and still find more and more.
People who take the Quran merely at face value, are missing out.
I don't look at the Quran as a closed book but as a gateway.
i mean it's a book that's open to areas of spirituality that fall outside the domain of mainstream islamHow do you mean it's a gateway?
Yes, I'd put Dune and the first two sequels right up there.My top three are all sci-fi. "Dune" (and most of it's sequels) by Frank Herbert; Asimov's opus "Foundation," and "Ringworld" by Larry Niven. What can I say, I like getting my mind blown. (In a good way....)
Just remember that fear is a mind-killer.@Sunshine and @Thunderian
I've heard good things about Dune. I'll have to check it out- see what the hype's about.
I hadn't read this since high school, but read it (and Animal Farm) aloud to my husband as we drove round the south island this year. (He didn't learn to read till he was 30, and missed a lot of literature, so we do a lot of this!) - it blew me away all over again, and the number of references to it in popular culture keeps astonishing me. Always relevant.1984.
@Sunshine and @Thunderian
I've heard good things about Dune. I'll have to check it out- see what the hype's about.
Yes, I'd put Dune and the first two sequels right up there.
I've read all the Dune books
The movie Dune, has quite a few interesting things in it too. Including things about prophecy and such. If interested, there is quite an interesting article about Dune at this link, which explains some things about what the movie actually shows about this world we are living in. All the way down to exposing exactly who it is that really runs the world (i.e. who The Guild is); and what the spice "Melange" means, and also who the Jeserit sisters really are, so if you happen to like Dune, it may be something to check out.It's also the little death that brings total obliteration.