Name your top 5 books! Any genre or topic.😎🤙
Discussion
Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn’t - Irwin Schiff
Made to Stick - Chip Heath
Range (Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World) - David Epstein
The Sovereign Individual - James Dale Davidson
Whats’s Your Problem? - Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg
Couldn’t get it down to five 😅
The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya (isn't actually THE Yajnavalkya but will open your eyes)
The Book of Enoch (ancient pre-bible text)
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (omnibus edition trilogy in 5 parts) by Douglas Adams
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
Human Action by Ludwig von Mizes
😮cool choices, first 2 seem interesting to me.🤙
yeah, I can't recommend them enough to people. They lift the veil off the history that TPTB don't want you to know about. The Catholic Church tried to erase the second one when it was compiling the "bible". Didn't reappear in european culture until the 19th century.
I think I’ve heard a McKenna talk about the Book of Enoch before or maybe someone else done a talk on it, can you give me a rough explanation of what it goes into and its main conclusion/story?
Actually I believe he done a talk on a book called the Gospel of Thomas which also seems interesting and eye opening.
Yes, Thomas is an interesting one, one of the most famous Gnostic gospels.
I forgot to mention but that book, Hermetika, I forget the prefix, by Hermes Trimagestus, is basically a different version of Enoch, and Apocalypse asserts the hypothesis that Hermes (and Thoth) and Enoch are the same guy.
Oh yeah, another thing in Apocalypse to note. They mention DMT in it, and in The Spirit Molecule several of the study subjects related experiences where they appeared in some place and were unexpected visitors. Mckenna also talks about how DMT is a primitive but effective form of technology that allows nonlocal communication (and even trans temporal) and that the things on the other end are real as anything in this world, part of some kind of natural cyberspace our ancient atlantean ancestors tapped into.
It's got me wanting to explore this space again in the future, when I have the opportunity to procure the materials.
It goes into a lot of detail about the times between the garden of eden and Noah, and then specifically talks about one of Noah's offspring being white skinned and red haired and how this meant he was descended from "angels" and was the patriarch of what became Canaan, and later Phonecia, and there is a long parable that goes into detail about the history the Jews, moses obliquely gets a mention and in general the main topic is about how the fallen angels, of which the ringleaders are locked in a prison (under Tenerife, according to Apocalypse) and their legacy in the human population would build up to a crisis, and that the angels, of whom Jesus is alluded to in several places, would eventually come back, kick the now dominant armies led by the cults that follow and are directed by Satan and his little entourage, involving lots of mess (much the same as the Ragnarok, and yes Revelation also has a lot of common elements) and then a trial (judgement day), and the Elect (who refuse to bow to the cult of Satan/Saturn/Cronus) would be whisked away just in time for the earth to be burned to a crisp. I think it says that we return in about 1000 years after that.
There is a character in Enoch called the Head of Days, who I think is Jesus' father, who expresses regret about not vetting Noah's ark consist as that redhaired grandson or whatever he is was clearly from fallen angel stock, as the good angels did not know who his father was (i think it says father), because of the havoc that his family has been instrumental in bringing to the world in the time since the angels left behind their bases (all the pyramids are from them). and that this planned second round, which is because of the Taurid meteor cluster that hit the earth prior to the Younger Dryas, runs a ~12500 year orbit and is due to return very soon, the time cycle the Hindus call the "yuga".
Reading Apocalypse lets you pick up on a lot more of the references that might be lost on you otherwise when you read Enoch.