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Woolmer said:
I read about halfway through that book before realizing that as is with most "Western Philosophy", the bros Karamazov tries to answer redundant questions relating to made-up ideas instead of focusing on meta-physics.

The Grand Inquisitor chapter really fascinated me so I told one of my friends about it and they asked but why bother with bringing Christianity along in the thought. The line of thought makes a lot of sense to me about the conflicts of good and bad, right and wrong, freedom... But then it is so odd to go in a completely different direction and discuss its relation to Christianity. It seems more senseful to venture further towards the meta-physics and then expand on how to live your life.

I don't know if that makes sense, but those are my thoughts.
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts :)

I'm not a religious person myself, but I think the key to what you mentioned is understanding context. This was written in the 1800s, the church was a bigger institution and Dostoyevski himself was an orthodox Christian, so it's only natural that Christianity was a big part of the thought. This doesn't diminish the impact of the insights this book can bring imo, you can just "translate it" to your secular understanding of philosophy/spirituality.
 
endlessness said:
Currently reading Brothers Karamazov from Dostoyevski... What an emotional voyage... Would love to talk to someone who read it to discuss some parts, did anybody here ever read it?
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I just finished this one myself a couple months ago. Alyosha was my favorite brother, but to be honest I can prolly relate more to Dmitri. I enjoyed the part about Father Zossima abd his youth. And I related to Mitya being crazy for Grushenka even though she was super fucked up and running around on him etc... The trial was a good way to end the book.
 
I just read Bringing Home the Dharma by Jack Kornfield. This is an amazing book. When he discusses the extraordinary states of mind that deep meditation can open I realized this is the same headspace I have been to. There is one chapter about psychedelics and meditation practice. He tells how his own journey started with LSD, which led him to search more permanent ways of accessing the altered states.

 
Have read now 2/3ds of the Dune book. It gets very interesting at the point when Paul grows as a seer. The description of the experience feels so real that I believe Frank Herbert has been close to experiencing something like that himself. Or more properly, has been able to tap into a certain stream of consciousness which our imagination can connect to.
 
I started "the dawn of everything" today, written by David Graeber and David Wengrow. I really liked "debt" by Graeber, so I thought I will give it a try since it deals with a subject that is interesting: the old myth of the process of civilisation and our romantic, westernized interpretation of it.

For instance it is really worth the read! David Graeber died last year, only several weeks after finishing this book on which they worked for a decade. It fits really nicely in a lecture series of amarchist anthropology besides Pierre clastres, James Scott and others.

I recommend it, even if I only red the first 100 pages

 
I just finished "plant teachers" by Jeremy narby. Honestly, it is a short essay, quite
Interesting but you will go through it in an hour. It would have been interesting to develop more his discussion with the curandero which is quite short. But only for the quote in the beginning, it was worth the lecture, where the shaman said:

" “You know the
tobacco paste is strong when the anthropologist starts attacking the chicken." 😁
 
Ceres Colony cavalier - Tony Rodrigues.
Talks about the 20 year program, people conscience kidnapped during 20 years to serve on mars, moon, or asteroid belt colonies (were there are nazies who went to space...), and then return to your body.
This is not fiction, this is a narration from the author.
He remembered all this one doing an MRI on the head, the magnet destroyed the ehteric implants keeping this memories from him


Convoluted world series - Dolores cannon
Compilation of other dimention and incarnations from the famous hypnoterapist
 
Happy to add a few of my favorites to this already outstanding list of recommendations:


+ The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
+ Peace is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
+ Upanishads, Breath of the Eternal by Swami Prabhavananda (I love the Katha Upanishad)
+ Day by Day with Bhagavan by A. Devaraja Mudaliar
+ Raja Yoga (or any work) by Swami Vivekananda
+ Be Here Now by Ram Dass (excellent visual food for tryptamine adventures)
+ Cleansing the Doors of Perception by Houston Smith
+ The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
+ The Bhagavad Gita (I like Eknath Easwaran's translation)
+ LSD, My Problem Child by Albert Hofmann
+ The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

 
my alltime favorite, borges selected non-fictions. truly a masterpiece.

and the most recent ive finished reading; eternity road, a post-apocalyptic fiction. well written. plenty of laughs.
 

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