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Self-Improvement Books

 
  

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solomon
22:14 / 25.02.05
The most usefull book on understanding and acomplishing self change, written to a T for barbelithers, is called
"Prometheus Rising" by Robert Anton Wilson Fnord. Yes, the old illuminati bastard actually explains, well...everything. Conciousness, Metapsychology of self re-programming, society, evolutionary biology. He takes Freud, Jung, Sagan, Fuller, Crowley, Leary, Burroughs, Maslov,James Joyce, Mc Clhuan, yoga, sufism, and quantum physics and integrates them into a coherent model that not only makes sense but actually makes the world, yourself, and other people make sense. Even politics makes sense. Furthermore, the book is written is a totally acessable style for anyone to understand. It's funny. It has great exercises to do yourself such as: "if you have never tried marijuana, smoke a joint. Go swimming at the YMCA." I persanally can't recomend it highly enough.
 
 
solomon
22:19 / 25.02.05
and hey, i got a kick out of matix warrior. I liked the carlos castenada ripped off and filtered through the matix paradigm. Jake Horsley's claim that the reason the matrix sequels sucked is because Joel Silver is an agent of the dream energy stealing Time/Warner AI comlex sure rings true to me. But "humatons" really makes me think that guy thinks he's better than everyone else.
 
 
Sina Other
13:48 / 02.03.05
'Concentration and meditation', by Christmas Humphreys.

Once you start really getting into meditation, you can really see what's stopping you from doing anything. Maybe I've got convert's zeal and it's nothing I couldn't have realized anyway? But for me meditation is the mother of self-help...
 
 
subcultureofone
16:56 / 03.03.05
recently, the book hardcore zen by brad warner was recommended by a couple of people. i haven't read it yet but it sounds interesting.
 
 
William Sack
12:50 / 23.11.05
Strange request, but can anyone recommend some thoroughly dreadful self-help books?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
14:08 / 23.11.05
Anything by the Barefoot Doctor.
 
 
William Sack
11:51 / 24.11.05
Ah yes, he is my father's (retired doctor, allopathic practitioner in the western tradition) favourite comedian.
 
 
Jack Vincennes
20:02 / 10.07.06
Has anyone here read The Rules Of Work? I am, I'm afraid, posting about a book I haven't read, preferring instead to look at a few pages in the bookshop and decide it seemed 'a bit fascistic'. Anyway, at least one person I know has bought it and claimed to get something out of it -so is it as bad as it appeared to me ("Spend a lot of money on clothes. Be aloof.") or is there something worth reading in there?
 
  

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