/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19469104]

What are some interesting and weird nonfiction books? I just got this in the mail and am really enjoying the insane nature of the past life accounts. I'm aware that L. Ron was a con artist, but reading weird lies presented as truth is more interesting to me that reading fiction presented as fiction or truth presented as truth.

[Anonymous No.19469168]

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

[Anonymous No.19469201]

>>19469168
Oh yeah, I remember hearing about this a while back. It's one of those ideas about history like the the Phantom Time Hypothesis that seems cool but is obviously crazy when you actually think about it. I'll check it out!

[Anonymous No.19469342]

Some random suggestions that come to mind
Man Into Wolf - An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism, Masochism, and Lycanthropy

Dispelling wetiko (not lies but interesting)

[Anonymous No.19469411]

>>19469104

[Anonymous No.19469486]

>>19469104

[Anonymous No.19469628]

>>19469411
>The Beginning Was the End claimed that modern humans devolved from a species of brain-eating apes.[3] According to Maerth, this diet increased the apes' brain size, sex drive, and aggression, but suppressed their purported innate psychic ability, eventually causing insanity.[1] Maerth offered no evidence for his theories, basing them largely on his alleged meetings with cannibals in Java and New Guinea[4] and his experiences eating raw ape brains in a restaurant in Southeast Asia. He hints at having activated his latent psychic abilities through altering the shape of his skull in the manner of Incan tribes and/or trepanation
Wow, this seems truly insane, thanks! I'm gonna order a copy.

[Anonymous No.19469776]

>>19469104
That book is quite based indeed, once I had a pdf of it. A pity Scientology no longers prints it.

[Anonymous No.19469781]

>>19469776
The hardcover version I have looks like one of those bibles they leave in hotel drawers, it's a nice touch. I kinda wanted the original first edition with the creepy statue head but obviously that's hard to find.

[Anonymous No.19470173]

Post Books That Really Prove Reality Is Stranger Than Fiction

[Anonymous No.19470183]

>>19469776
>Scientology no longer prints it

Why not?

[Anonymous No.19470616]

>>19469104
"Pimp: The Story of My Life" by the infamous 1930s-1950s black Chicago pimp Iceberg Slim. Just listen to the first few minutes and you'll be hooked.

[Anonymous No.19470619]

https://youtu.be/RysEc8aUcdM

[Anonymous No.19470626]

>>19469104
Silence of the Body: Materials for the Study of Medicine by Guido Ceronetti

[Anonymous No.19470634]

>>19469486
>Drawing on cryptic intimations in the work of J. G. Ballard, Georges Bataille, William Burroughs, André Leroi-Gourhan, Elaine Morgan, and Friedrich Nietzsche, in the late twentieth century Daniel Barker formulated the axioms of spinal catastrophism: If human morphology, upright posture, and the possibility of language are the ramified accidents of natural history, then psychic ailments are ultimately afflictions of the spine, which itself is a scale model of biogenetic trauma, a portable map of the catastrophic events that shaped that atrocity exhibition of evolutionary traumata, the sick orthograde talking mammal.
What the fuck

[Anonymous No.19470639]

>>19470634
that guy is just a nick land ripoff. if you want to read the original, it's in fanged noumena

[Anonymous No.19470662]

>>19470634
>>19470639
Both of these guys are Zapffe rip offs who have added just schizo mumbo jumbo for pseuds. If you want to read the real deal then check out The Last Messiah. If you want to read something more radical then read Ulrich Horstmann.

>Horstmann puts forth the theory that mankind has been pre-programmed to eliminate itself in the course of history—and also all its memory of itself—through war (thermonuclear, genetic, biological), genocide, destruction of its sustaining environment, etc. “The final aim of history is a crumbling field of ruins. Its final meaning is the sand blown through the eye-holes of human skulls.” Ulrich Horstmann Through his analysis of history, he has concluded that our species is engaged in a constant process of armament, with the eventual end goal of wiping itself out through war. History, for him, is nothing more than a slaughterhouse . . . “the place of a skull and charnel house of a mad, incurably bloodthirsty slaughtering, flaying and whetting, of an irresistible urge to destroy to the last.” Although inspired by the already extreme philosophy of Philipp Mainländer, Horstmann ends up with an even more explicit solution regarding the problem of human existence. In his book The Beast he actually goes so far as to suggest the use of nuclear weapons in order to bring forth the extinction of the human race. For him only the annihilation of life would give rise to a universal redemption in which we would once again achieve the existential peace of inorganic matter. According to Horstmann’s apocalyptic vision: The true Garden of Eden is desolation

>Die Geschichte des Untiers ist erfüllt, und in Demut harrt es des doppelten Todes — der physischen Vernichtung und des Auslöschens der Erinnerung an sich selbst. The history of the Beast is fulfilled, and in humility it awaits a double death — the physical annihilation and the obliteration of the recollection to itself.

— Das Untier (The Beast)

[Anonymous No.19470667]

>>19469486
>I’d be remiss not to mention Moynihan’s book-spanning engagements with Kant. Like Land, Moynihan brings the Old Jacobin’s delightful intellectual schadenfreude to the surface. Reason is not a gentle arbiter of the conscience—it literally pulls the human body into upright poise, cursing us to skeletomuscular breakdown, aneurysms, heart palpitations, haemorrhoids, and many other maladies. In exchange, we puppets get to embody the dictates of eternal, crystalline rationality. It takes going beyond Kant, of course, to see that reason’s true categorical imperative is the destruction of the universe itself, total reality collapse, ontological extinction, so that nothing even resembling a nervous system can ever exist again.
Fucking knew pic related was on to something

[Anonymous No.19470676]

>>19470662
I've read Zapffe. He's definitely lucid and engaging but lacks the schizo appeal of tracing back the evils of reality to the spine.

[Anonymous No.19470789]

Why are tranny jannies deleting threads that are like this? I don't see where a rule was broken?
I've made 3 effort posts yesterday and all 3 threads were deleted a couple hours later
fuck jannies

[Anonymous No.19470800]

>>19470676
Hmm you like fun books
What do you think about Ulrich Horstmann and Philipp Mainländer?

[Anonymous No.19470865]

Alien Information Theory: Psychedelic Drug Technologies and the Cosmic Game

[Anonymous No.19470947]

>>19470662
Do we have a genocidal organ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhuBvdlxXIA

[Anonymous No.19471637]

>>19470183
because Scientology under Miscavige no longer wants to focus in this past life thing, they focus in self help and other surface beliefs.
To be honest the church is not exactly looking for new adepts, their revenue nowadays is based on tax evaded real state investments

[Anonymous No.19471689]

>>19470662
>>19470676
>>19470634
I'm surprised the chiropractors haven't seized on the opportunity to promote this theory. I guess they want to be taken more seriously..

[Anonymous No.19471782]

>>19470634
So if I study logic it'll fix my posture?

[Anonymous No.19471850]

>>19471782
You'll start walking like a gorilla. This is why patricians use their hands when running up the stairs.

[Anonymous No.19471997]

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[Anonymous No.19474401]

>>19469628
It also inspired devo the band, you know whip it.

[Anonymous No.19475610]

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[Anonymous No.19475956]

>>19471997
This reminds me of one of Varg's books, really more of a short pamplet, which fits this thread perfectly.
https://www.burzum.org/eng/library/irminsul.shtml
The tl;dr - the existence of Germanic Irminsul pillars is a coded reference to how the Aryan race was actually created by spacefaring robots, with our ultimate destiny being to take to the stars and, by manipulating the locations of white and black holes through advanced technology, forestall the inevitable collapse of the universe under its own mass, giving us more time to discover our ancestral memories from previous universes and deduce the true meaning of existence.

[Anonymous No.19476844]

>>19475956
He doesn't really explain it though, he says that the details are contained in his 3rd book, EihwaR. Do you know if it has been translated?