best literature on ego loss

[yuval]

first post here, 'lo everyone!


i've read eckhart tolle's "The Power of Now" and was very impressed with the lucidity of the description of ego transcendence. However it centered around the author's theory of the NOW.


I am looking for more good descriptions. i feel firsthand desriptions ought to be better than theories about the nature of the mystical experience, because theories have a tendency to be complex and what i felt was very simple and harmonious, conceivably someone eloquent enough had described it very well already.


in a book on kundalini yoga i foundmy curiosity echoed nicely:


"i have often had the sense that everything i would ever need to know was contained in that hour, and needed only a certain amount of time to unfold its possibilities"


here's a short list of books that seem related that i saw in amazon.com. has anyone readany of them and can comment if it's good?



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<TD align=left colSpan=2>1. Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures</TD></TR></T></TABLE> (trip reports)



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<TD align=left colSpan=2>2. Storming Heaven: Lsd and the American Dream(recommended by erowid.org)</TD></TR></T></TABLE>


3. Be Here Now


4. The Book : On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are(supposed to be a classis book on the ego death)


5. Entheogens and the Future of Religion


has anyone got any other lit to recommend? or a good thread here discussing this? an faq on mystical experience on the net perhaps?


my own mystical experience was by far the most amazing thing i ever went through. i want to get to the bottom of this... or as far down as can be had with words )