/lit/ - Literature

Joining a monastery sounds very appealing to me. I'm neither Catholic nor Orthodox but sometimes I'll look up one of their monasteries and look through the pictures or watch a video of the monks having early morning Mass/Liturgy, silently walking the halls, or praying quietly in their rooms in the gray morning and I'll fantasize about living that life myself. I love the idea of abandoning the trappings of modern life in order to take up a life of prayer, contemplation, simplicity, and silence.
Of course I realize that I'm romanticizing the idea of becoming a monk; it is likely more difficult than I imagine, and being a modern person used to conveniences, worldly things, and directing my own life, I doubt I would take to it well. That doesn't stop me from yearning for it from time to time.

Im not exactly sure how to phrase this, but i'm looking for a book about how breeding new instincts in dogs works. Like pointers or sheepherding dogs for example, are born with instincts that seem entirely secondary to, or built atop the grey wolf instinct which should make up their collective unconscious. I'm looking for something atleast similar to this, which I think could expose some aspects of human psychology. My personal theory on the formation of instinct is that it happens from generations of compounded memory which is embedded in dna, and the expression of fresh instincts in dogs, comes from the encoded memories of their ancestors being trained for certain tasks.

Repentance (1917) - Nicholas Roerich

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Prometheus Rising