/lit/ - Literature

Looking for very solid psychology book recommendations. When I look online, I am met with endless references to pop-psychology, self-help and zen books, or generic textbooks which are revised annually.

What are some based, insightful, reasonably comprehensive psychology texts which focus on case-studies and research, and provide a detailed primer of the field?

>Entering college
>No idea what to major in
>Just want to read Guenon and religious books all day

Think I might become a monk. Nothing worldly brings me any pleasure and at least I can be hermit without disappointing my parents. I'm a bit underwhelmed by monasteries in the west though so I'm probably gonna learn Russian and try and join somewhere in eastern Europe. If anyone knows any good ones in the west although then the Carthusians, let me know. I think the Carthusians are a bit too austere for my personality. I still want community.
If not, I'm going to try and become a park ranger or some other /out/ job where I can be alone most of the day. I think I am rather good at understanding religious topics but I don't think I'd like the academic side of it.

What are some books that feel that you're actually walking by the woods? I'm not talking about big descriptions about the place, but the protagonist feeling the nature.

>inb4 go for a walk
I can't, the life of a wagie.

>>11959369
Do you consider yourself christian?
If yes, exactly what kind of?

I'm 21 and my life is already over and I'm tired.
Only reason I tell myself why I won't kill myself is because stupid fucking christianity has polluted my mind with filth.

>>6999915
>Thanks for the video, really nice how he gave some suggestions at the end since thats kind of what im looking for

yep, Barron is straight shooter and usually comes up with coherent arguments.

He also tip toes carefully with Universal Reconciliation, which is nice

>>6707781
>Are there any particularly good philosophical defenses of theism?

Kierkegaard does a great job. He bypasses all the rational arguments very nicely and goes straight to the heart of the matter.

>>6700911
Done and done--though it would be nice to live a epicurean bro-ship tier monastic style of life.

>>6657494

"Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds him"

Hesychasm is a mystical tradition of prayer in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine Rite practised
Hesychastic practice involves acquiring an inner focus and blocking of the physical senses. In this, hesychasm shows its roots in Evagrius Ponticus and even in the Greek tradition of asceticism going back to Plato. The Hesychast interprets Christ's injunction in the Gospel of Matthew to "go into your closet to pray" to mean that one should ignore the senses and withdraw inward. Saint John of Sinai writes: "Hesychasm is the enclosing of the bodiless primary Cognitive faculty of the soul (Orthodoxy teaches of two cognitive faculties, the nous and logos) in the bodily house of the body." (Ladder, Step 27, 5, (Step 27, 6 in the Holy Transfiguration edition).)

In Step 27, 21 of the Ladder (Step 27, 22–3 of the Holy Transfiguration edition), St John of Sinai describes Hesychast practice as follows:

Take up your seat on a high place and watch, if only you know how, and then you will see in what manner, when, whence, how many and what kind of thieves come to enter and steal your clusters of grapes. When the watchman grows weary, he stands up and prays; and then he sits down again and courageously takes up his former task.

In this passage, St John of Sinai says that the primary task of the Hesychast is to engage in mental ascesis. This mental ascesis is the rejection of tempting thoughts (the "thieves") that come to the Hesychast as he watches in sober attention in his hermitage. Much of the literature of Hesychasm is occupied with the psychological analysis of such tempting thoughts (e.g. St Mark the Ascetic). This psychological analysis owes much to the ascetical works of Evagrius Pontikos, with its doctrine of the eight passions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesychasm

>>5335091
I suspect that you haven't gone through an existential crisis?. Personally when I was an atheist I read the ecclesiastes and In a month or so i felt the presence of god with me.
I assure you, god will help those who try.

>>5325589
Nobility goes beyond class--it is far too complex for a simple flatworm like yourself to understand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3_aM_s0R1U