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What books will help me figure out “how to succeed” and “how to live”

>>17665810
It ends when you know and starts with you not knowing. If knowledge is being, and you don't know, then you aren't. So once you start to be, then you'll know.
t. knower

>>16888039
embrace monkey, faggot ass white boy

>>16822489
we need tech to prevent extinctionary events

>>16646830
deep

>>16416499
Why should I tell you my pneumatic secrets?

>>16362344
Exactly, it deserves more mention beyond just being evil or barbaric though. From a Christian perspective, without getting into "muh devil" too much, early pagan practices had real effects and the people were conscious (although uneducated) about what they were doing. If you look at indigenous prehistory, most spiritualities revolve around the necromancy and the use of favors with "gods" to make things happen. This is where occultism, understanding spirituality in terms of manipulation and benefit, comes from. In reality what we see is that these people, through the use of blood sacrifices and psychedelia, are actually having the opposite affect done to them, they're manipulated by their "gods" because they cannot move beyond their worldly spirituality. If you watch contemporary shamans, and the effect ayahuasca has on their brains, they actively interact and are consumed by the presence of their deities. This is what demons do, they're parasitic, which is why one must always be careful when leaving their mind and soul open to tampering (mediation or foreign rituals). Paganism isn't evil solely because of its practices, but because it limits its scope to occultism and is condemned to forever live in and be of the world.

>>16160814
>I don't get it
Welcome to the beat generation, it's all shit.