Paul here from This is a thread dedicated to literature that has influenced your political ideology. Feel free to post any books that you found enlightening, and if you like a reason as to why.
Pic related hasn't directly influeced my political schema but more my understanding of people and how they think and order knowledge. This is vital because interpersonal relations are the foundation of society and understanding how people think and collate information is crucial to being able to convince people one way or the other.
I don't find myself motivated to read political literature that often because there are better things to read; literature about philosophy and the human spirit. Here is another book that I think everyone can benefit from.
Evan Ramirez
sartor resartus - carlyle will to believe - william james thus spake tharathustra ulysses - james joyce i ching & tao te ching & bhagavad gita etc
Hunter King
I have Thus Spake Zarathustra open in front of me. I've been meaning to read Ulysses as well. I torrented it a while ago but never got around to reading it.
John Stewart
>based tao poster
When the Master governs, the people are hardly aware that he exists. Next best is a leader who is loved. Next, one who is feared. The worst is one who is despised.
If you don't trust the people, you make them untrustworthy.
The Master doesn't talk, he acts. When his work is done, the people say, "Amazing: we did it, all by ourselves!"
Carter Price
One of my favorite books. I've recommended it to many people.
Matthew Anderson
I've really started to analyze my dreams more closely. It's fascinating how the subconscious speaks to you indirectly.
Connor Martin
>bhagavad gita etc lol sounds like the name of a store in a Hindu mall
"Mahabharata Warehouse"
Christopher Ward
I've been watching the pbs special: Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth recently. Three episodes in.
Have either of you entertained Campbell and his take on archetypes?
Charles Long
A little bit, he is how I got into Jordan Peterson, but Campbell was awesome. I love how well he tells stories.
Isaiah Wright
Any videos you could point me in the right direction with?
If you're beginning dreamwork, the best advice I can give is to *not* "analyze" them.
Dreams are as alive as we are (our dreams actually dream us into being). Analyzing them crushes the life out of them.
Imagine having just had a child, or being visited by an emissary from a distant galaxy. Would it make any sense to "analyze" them to see what they "mean"? No. The proper relationship would be of opening, receiving, learning their language, patiently listening, partnering, being grateful.
There are dreams that communicate the entire arc of decades of our lives, if we can hear them.
And the big leap from there is to recognize *everything* is a dream. Looking at "the world" while we're "awake" is exactly the same...indistinguishable. So learning how to receive a dream, not just crush it flat into "meaning," is the ultimate awakening in how to see and be with the world.
My tips for success, anyway. Learning to see symbolically is the most transformative thing I've ever been blessed enough to do.
Christian Robinson
cucks read books. chads write them
Elijah Sanders
>2017 >reading the printed jew
Logan Ramirez
thanks mate!
Nathaniel Evans
Joseph was a good friend of my ex, and those interviews were done in the library where I used to have lunch, so...yes. ;)
James Gomez
Lol
Xavier Garcia
hey thanks for that, I never thought about it like that. any resources you would recommend?
Isaiah Flores
i write too.
Lucas Hernandez
recently audiobooked that after having read some of Jung before, can confirm it should be the first book one should read of his work. i agree with this, after starting to read about myth, philosophy and theology, things like political subjects and ideology seem below oneself and i have no will to read it anymore, as if you are polluting yourself instead of improving your understanding of things and beings.
Learn to meditate. Meditation is what stabilizes the ego so it isn't overwhelmed and destroyed by what it encounters in the dream.
This is a lesson Krishna teaches Arjuna in the Gita.
Meditation is an exercise of the energetic body, so it's very difficult to simply read about it and learn it (think of learning to speak a language, or to dance, just by reading words on a page). Take some classes, maybe go to a retreat, find a local temple or zendo that has regular meditation sessions and go.
Btw, everything is a meditation, since a meditation is just a set of actions to create and stabilize a state of consciousness. You're meditating right now, doing the "you" meditation. So you, and everyone, are already expert meditators. The shift is to learn to consciously choose the meditation one does.
Good luck and have fun, you'll love it.
Carson Cooper
>ching & tao te ching Can someone recommend a good translation
Isaac Collins
>cucks read books. >chads burn them ftfy
William Powell
i'm reading Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P Hall, you'll probably enjoy. Also there are plenty of lectures of his on youtube on a variety of subjects if you search his name. It surprised me that he says the exact same things as Jordan Peterson on some things, Peterson surely studied this man's work.
Gabriel Jackson
This has influenced my political/philosophical outlook greatly, almost too much, ever since I read it 3 months ago.
Samuel Clark
okay thanks I will look into him! if youre into the life stuff there was this book I found A Guide for the Perplexed by E. F. Schumacher
Eli Fisher
awesome I read the amazon description sounds deep thanks
Kevin Walker
There was a stretch a decade or so ago where Jim Carrey kept playing the same role, over and over: a person experiencing a transformational epiphany, awakening from one consciousness into a new one.
It was clear whether he knew it or not that was his life's way of helping him experience that for himself.
Brody Jenkins
Thats some fucking hippie-mumbo-jumbo who some fat fuck saw shekels in back in the 70's. Fuck me these people are self loving fucking retards, gas them all.
Nolan Clark
man you really don't fit in this thread
Jayden Jones
thanks, i'll read it
Angel Howard
damn I totally see that. i want to make films that delve into this philosophical stuff to help the viewer get a better understanding of life and decide to help themselves. psychological thrillers are good because when there is a twist ending it forces the viewer to reanalyze prior information. and if they do it once they can do it again and not be so dogmatic
Parker Baker
Like the alternate color spot in the largest part of the yin-yang halves.
Everything serves.
Cooper Moore
that's a really great way to look at all things that dont fit with how I want or expect them to be. it also tells me more about what it is I do want to see
Bentley Wilson
Must read
Adam Bell
I have to run in a fewguys, have my renaissance art analysis course in a couple of hours. thanks for all the recommendations and discussion so far
Isaac Lewis
Going through life with the fundamental belief "everything serves" and then rather than judging things and events asking "how does *this* serve?" is the life version of the shift in physics from linear space to relativity. (It's also the shift from ego perception to Self and wholeness.)
The connectedness of all things came first, of course, relativity is just a recent expression of it.
Your energy and enthusiam are very welcome and very refreshing.
John Cooper
thank you so much for offering these paradigms. you have given me a lot to think about but already the "everything serves" I can never unsee that schema.
Samuel Rodriguez
And I need to sleep, so I'll be leaving too.
Remember and nourish your dreams - the sleeping ones and the future ones. Follow them and help them become real.
Namaste, fellow traveler.
Henry Collins
i don't mean to pick at you for information or look for shortcuts when im just as capable of arriving at similar conclusions, but do you have any other mental frameworks you have discovered that really benefit you?
William Watson
thanks again friend
Julian Myers
> cant realize his dreams in reality > resorts to analyzing them
Elijah Garcia
Not so much politics (though i do align with him on that token) but the essay Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima was a turning point in my life that, after having read much of his literary work influenced me to hone the body as i had spent years my mind.
Highly recommend his entire bibliography, as well as attempting to kickstart an imperial junta to re-establish the power of your nations latent monarchs (where applicable).