Found this list by accident: 21 books worth reading. I've read most of them, coincidentally. Still have to read Goethe and River of Doubt.
Discussion
Might as well add Emerson’s Compensation to accompany Self Reliance
21 is one of my favorites to read to my kids. Similar to Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance is that it’s an exploration of quality.
This seems like reading the same book over and over. 😄
“…Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.”
Ecclesiastes 12:12 ESV
I know a nice book!
in which language are you reading this?
you have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength — Marcus Aurelius
Focus on what you can control
„Er aber, sag’s ihm, er kann mich im Arsch lecken!“
There, you can cross off Goethe.
Thank you
The ethics of liberty by rothbard should be number 1
Before reading anything, armor yourself with robust discernment. Study logic, logical fallacies, argumentation, debate, etc. Government schools don't teach you the knowledge you need to escape their yoke so we shouldn't really expect many people have even heard of logical fallacies. Many people use logical fallacies every day and don't know. Others do it and know they're doing it just to win in an underhanded way. Awareness of such tactics is not just defense either. It puts your debate opposition on their heels once you gently show them how foolishly illogical their last attempt at scoring a debate point was.
Next, make sure that as you read everything, you constantly both steelman and gracefully criticize what you're reading while withholding judgement until thorough due diligence has been done. Keep those steel man points and criticism points in your mental folder for that author/work. Treat each folder in your mental archive as a lens through which you may view the world. The more lenses you have available to iterate through, the better you'll be able to see everything with less distortion.
1. The Law of One a.k.a. the Ra material by L/L Research
2. Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness by Itzhak Bentov
3. Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect by Dr. Ian Stevenson M.D.
4. Becoming Supernatural by Dr. Joe Dispenza M.D.
5. Five Lives Remembered by Dolores Cannon
6. Jesus and the Essenes by Dolores Cannon
7. They Walked with Jesus by Dolores Cannon
8. Conversations with Nostradamus by Dolores Cannon
9. The Adam and Eve Story: The History of Cataclysms Uncensored - Magnetic Pole Shift by Chan Thomas
10: World in Peril by Ken White
11. Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock
12. The Lost Continent of Mu: The Motherland of Men by James Churchward
13. 101 Miracles of Natural Healing by Luke Chan
14. Overview of Zhineng Qigong Science by Prof. Pang Ming
15. Superminds by John Taylor
16. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
17. Chuang Tzu
18. The Biological Basis of Religion and Genius by Gopi Krishna
19. Kabbalah Unveiled by Imre Vallyon
20. Reiki: The Healing Touch by William Lee Rand
21. Every religions' holy books, i.e. I-Ching, Upanishads, Vedas, Bhagavad Gita, Torah/Talmud, Bible, Quran, The Gateless Gate, The White Cliff Records, the 6th Patriarch's Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra, the Popol Vuh, the Book of the Hopi, Egyptian Book of the Dead, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Hermetic texts, etc. (all translations available).
Yeah...I know...I cheated at the end and crammed multiple books into a catch all. Deal with it. I already had to cut a bunch of books I didn't want to cut.
Estoicismo, privacidad y libertad.
Bravo Gigi. 🙌
There’s a few here I haven’t read yet, thanks for sharing!
River of Doubt is good. Another great one on that same vein is Endurance, the story of Shackleton’s expedition to the South Pole.
Biography of Ulysses S Grant and John Muir are worthy to pair with Franklin biography
Read most of these. Did very little to improve my life. Then I read the Bible. Life changing.
Yup Bible is very odd even just the New Testament every time you read a passage it’s like in some way you’ve never read it. I’ve no idea what most of it is about yet you feel different every time you walk away from it. Don’t read enough tbh. Read Siddhartha that definitely left an impression on me.
Danke for sharing...
Theory of Colours by Goethe is pretty based ngl
Number 20 is the most beautiful on that list🧡💜
I never understand why Siddartha always makes these lists
Because people love it :)
recommend Durant's History of Civilization. It is an investment but well worth your time.