/lit/ - Literature

What are the books to enlighten and transcend your mind?

>>18532145
Vedic Aryanism > Nietzschean atheism > Catholicism > Theravada Buddhism > Sufi Islam > Gnosticism > Human feces > Protestantism > Dawkins atheism

>>16792886
>start reading the text out loud
>pretend I am the author or character

>>16492384
Plato. I'm currently working on an egregore that will go back in time and assassinate Aristotle and change the course of history for the better.

>>16351628
Enlightened post

>>16034224

Hermann Hesse's Govinda

You'll thank me later after it saves his life

>>15997881

I'm chilling and listening to the Crime and Punishment audiobook. Feels good bros.

>>15957432

The works of Swami Vivekananda had a tremendous impact on my life

Are there any techniques to enhance your visualization and imagination when reading? When you read fiction, how do you imagine things? Are they crystal clear and realistic? Or are they more artistic like a painting or a drawing?

>>15893200
Checked and based. I think you struck gold here.

>>15200408

Ubermensch - overcoming your base human nature and becoming the best version of yourself

Christianity - false

Some of you when you get the time should sit down and deeply analyze the Upanishads. You will save those of us who have thought critically and impartially on this matter, and have come to the same conclusion as Ludwig Feuerbach, that God is created in the image of man, rather than vice-versa,
the trouble of having to deal with our sides constantly launching into orbit whenever have to endure slogging through a pitiful excuse of an intellectual discussion with individuals who genuinely believe that an ancient book of Jewish fairy tales is the be all end all of human aspirations and our teleological destiny.

Let it be known that humanity will conquer the stars!

Looking for literature that emphasizes the primacy of experience over concepts and theory. I had my first psychedelic experience a couple of weeks ago and since then I've been completely disinterested in everything. I've come to realize that nothing truly insightful can be learned through language alone - especially not from other humans. Yes, I understand that it might be ironic to be asking for literature recommendations given the above assertions, but I acknowledge that language still has utility.

>>14555297
I would say the most useful catalyst is suffering , only when suffering is high enough to unbearable level of existence can one break out of mental illusion