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I have paused all reading since I want to get through my Tantra Illuminated courses on the Near Enemies of Truth. This is based on a book of the same name released last year by the guy behind Tantra Illuminated, Christopher Hareesh Wallis where he points out common mistakes many make on their spiritual journey. This book is also a supplementary text in the course. His other book many read and liked was titled Tantra Illuminated. My other course is the history of yoga which has Tantra Illuminated as supplementary reading.
Here are some I recommend
Ramayana but in a more litrary form as opposed to a poem form, Goldman is a very capable sanskrit scholar and Lord Rams story is one that defines the high civilization my place once was with Lord Ram being a physical embodiment of everything holy and Aryan. The story like any epic is simple, you learn about the mortal struggles of literally god where he is unaware of his own divine self and foregoes everything good in life to do whats right.
Classi graphic novel every hispter recommends for good reason. DC also released an animated movie on it besides a live action movie by zack snyder nearly 15 years ago, a very skeptical take on the age old superhero trope, it is a very highly rated work.
A very broad but light collection of essays from ancient to modern times on a variety of different topics. Very well Curated, my copy of it was "borrowed" by my cousin sister so I need to order it again to read all of the essays but the ones I did read were fantastic.
The good parts are really funny, insightful and personal. Owen Cook, a super smart philosophy student from canada was mysterys student who was short, ugly, ginger and balding, the book presents a collection of his classic internet posts detailing his journey from a guy who did not get laid in 2 years of tryng to a guy who then later lives up to his moniker of Tyler Durden inspired by fight club. Tyler was the most important PUA of all time where in he breaks down in fine detail what made cold approach tick and his own struggles around it. It is more about his journey and the world around him than pickup tactics, a raw unfiltered look at Owen Cook in his finest hour before RSD blew up.
The Tyler Digest is also why I detail out my life here. The book is simply a loose collection of various posts Owen made in chronological order compiled by another guy. He starts off as this spergy loser who by the en is a different man, calm, relaxed, competent yet still deeply aware of what plagues guys like me and him. I want something like this too so that by the end of 4-5 years, I can look back at what I was and how I saw life, things I did and the insights I earned from them. 4 years ago for instance, same date, I posted about my oneitis on one of these wellness wednesday threads and how over the moon I was because she threw me a bone vs now as someone who is somewhat ok at cold approaching girls and does not attach his self-worth to what some girl online thinks of himself. Funnily enough, I got introduced to all this on themotte so it all ties up in the end.
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