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This is the best organized intro to cognitive science, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind I've seen. Don't pay $100+ for it, get a free Audible credit to listen to it.

You'll learn why the "hard question of conciousness" is so hard and why it may never be answered.

>>16622222
Truth is the highest thing we can attain too. Start with introductory philosophy or mind and neuroscience, then Plato, then process philosophy, and then check out the Gnostics.

>>16078795
Get this and the class Redefining Reality. ,$8 from Audible. Then read Timaeus and Man and his Symbols.

Now you have a base, go get the Gnostics Bible collection.

Pic related was a truly great lecture series with a good overview and synthesis of philosophy, neuroscience/psychology, and information science, and what it tells us about conciousness.

Just a credit on Audible. The Great Courses site is expensive. Quality class.

A easy place to start is The Great Courses' Mind Body Philosophy.

TGC varies wildly in quality, but this is a gem. A very lucid, if necessarily shallow into Western and Eastern philosophies of conciousness, and then recent revelations from neuroscience. There is stories about split brains, already made popular in A Scanner Darkly, and then the more interesting phenomena of the fact that conciousness decision making for movement actually is a quarter second behind the initiation of movement.

I feel like a big survey of what conciousness might be defined as is important before jumping into the occult.

But once you get that intro, Jung is great. I'd also recommend Crowley as well edited and more straight forward intro to the occult.