/lit/ - Literature

>>12555986

The following list is a series of 10/10 gems from a variety of spiritual traditions pertaining to said category. If you come across words that you don't understand while reading them you can look them up online for clarification. If you still struggle to understand these texts even after doing that then you can look up what school of thought the text in question comes from, download for free on lib-gen secondary books about that school of thought written by academics/practitioners, read that secondary book, and then the text in question should make sense. This is a list of texts from half a dozen esoteric spiritual traditions, but if you study and reach a point where you can understand them well and utilize their teachings; then you will reach a state that makes LSD looks like childs play. I am completely serious. If you are fairly intelligent and well-read then you might not even need secondary books to understand these texts, but if you fit the aforementioned qualities it should only take you at a minimum 1 or so secondary books (if you even need them) to understand the texts, the time spent reading them is well worth the rewards one can reap from them.

https://realization.org/p/ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita.html
http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/egt/index.htm
https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Origin-of-Western-Mysticism.pdf
https://archive.org/details/onehundredpoemso00kabiuoft/page/n12
http://www.anandavala.info/miscl/Avadhut-Gita.pdf
http://taisa.si/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Tao-Te-Ching-by-Jonathan-Star.pdf
https://terebess.hu/english/chuangtzu.html
http://promienie.net/images/dharma/books/longchenpa_treasury-of-the-basic-space-of-phenomena.pdf
http://www.sufism.ir/books/download/english/molavi-en/masnavi-redhouse-en.pdf

>>12185219
>Is Iran the ideal Platonic State?
Not of all time, but certainly in the modern world. The best example of a platonic state would probably either be Ancient India (Megasthenes the Greek when visiting them wrote about how it was an example of philosophers guiding/ruling society). Out of all the modern countries in existence it's the closest to putting it in practice though, they essentially have a religious-based form of it which includes a partial compromise by allowing their populace to have limited input on electing officials.

>Is Iran all that /pol/ makes it out to be?
In some ways but /pol/ mostly likes Iran because of their feud with Israel and muh no Rothschilds-owned banks but not for any deeper reasons

>Is it the most philosophically literate and informed state in the modern world?
One of them for sure, not in terms of quantity of well-read people who study philosophy but qualitatively. Large portions of the west despite having the 'best' universities is in a total shitshow and identity crisis for all of its philosophy professors. Iranian universities and theological schools may not be studying Critical Theory and Heidegger but they are reading the Islamic equivalents of the mystical Platonic tradition like Suhrawardi and Mulla Sadra, many of the people involved in founding of the Islamic Republic had studied thinkers like those and they remain influential among Iranian intellectuals, since the 70's and 80's the Traditionalists like Guenon and Nasr have become semi-popular among the literati as well. ZOG-media likes to paint the Iranian government/clergy as a bunch of fundamentalist crazies like ISIS while in actuality there is something more mystical and intellectual going on, at least in certain corridors of Iranian power. They are very much aware of the idea of modernity as a metaphysical degeneration; if you switched around a few words, many press releases by the Iranian gov. or statements from one of their leaders would be indistinguishable from a passage from one of Evola's books.