/lit/ - Literature

>>14490201
Yes, but there is always the mystical side which requires experience to understand. And it is also true that some people have a greater aptitude for it. However first we must distinguish the esoteric and the mystical. They coincide but they do not depend on the other, one is a type of knowledge and the other(for this) a type of experience. For example when I was 15 I had what one would call a spiritual experience while attempting a Hindu mantra for the third time after a couple of weeks(and my entire life), yet knowing almost nothing about Hindu philosophy or esoterica. Let us say the philosophical is the grouping of knowledge which includes both the inner and outer and is not experience.

Because of this, you should amass as large a philosophical and esoteric knowledge you can of the West prior to Eastern philosophy and spiritual experiences.

Plato being the most important before all of this.

Surprised I haven't seen this one yet.