/lit/ - Literature

>>16831241
please define "slumber"

The Holy Bible, Authorized (King James) Version

>>16831256
if you haven't experienced it, I can't explain it to you

>>16831241
Fantômas

>>16831241
Mein Kampf

>>16831241
If you give it a shot it'll be exactly what you needed, I promise on my honour as a boy scout
>pic related

>>16831273
Fantomas-anon, do you have a shelf full of Fantomas?

>>16831271
well now I'm interested

>>16831241
"The Doctrine of Awakening" - Julius Evola. Alternatively, "Introduction to Magic" by the same author. That should do it, if what you mean by 'slumber' is what I think you mean.

>>16831281
hmmm read the synopsis. I'm guessing a kind of mix of occult chaos magic and pseudoscience? Am I right?

>>16831284
I'm still collecting what little is available in paper format to poor suckers shopping online, which is 9 books from original run and 5 from continuation. I've seen people have all 32 novels from the original run, but I'm afraid most of my collection will forever remain just as pdfs. Life is cruel.

>>16831327
ahhhh it's the lsd ram dass friend from the 60s

>>16831343
come in vacation in France, lot of used book stores, I'm sure you will find them relatively cheaply

>>16831327
I wouldn't call it occult or chaos magic but pseudo-science is probably a fair assessment. What it is is that it's a polemic on how the past and future of existence runs via a script which is encoded into all of life.

>>16831327
>>16831360
And more to the point. OP, you're never going to wake up if you discard esoteric works, no matter who wrote them

>>16831241
I quit porn and never looked back
this is the first step of waking up from the "slumber"

>>16831371
true, my problem is that I have looked into a decent amount of esoteric texts but I find that they are always seem to be watered down rebranded information often hidden deep inside a labyrinth of smoke and mirrors.

>>16831360
so it preaches Indeterminism correct?

>>16831397
Use primary sources. I can and will greatly recommend the hermetic texts to anyone wanting to get serious about that stuff.

The problem with a lot of esoteric texts is that often it takes a side and pushes an agenda, rather than only telling you how life is. But the good thing is you can reject their agenda and still recognize whatever is or isn't valuable in them. Another problem, specifically with modern esoterica, is that it's often written in a tone that seems designed to just flex on you, as if the purpose was to get you to buy more books and not actually contemplate what is written.

Get into meditation anon, it's the best tool you can acquire for any of this.

>>16831397
If you are looking into esoteric shit, keep in mind that reading and the collection of information won't do much on their own. Without ascesis or some other form of spiritual advancement, you're not going to benefit from any amount of reading. The challenge is in finding the correct instructions and information necessary to progress on your own without getting pulled into the "dark chaos magician" retard funnel.

>>16831405
No not really. It preaches the idea of a kind of intelligent design (to use the christian term). He draws comparisons between different symbolic systems and their progression, and the evolutionary course of life. Specifically he focuses on the major arcana tarot, but his syncretism is far reaching

>>16831241
Sartre's Nausea

>>16831358
Been to south of France many years ago, always wanted to see more of it and on less hectic schedule, alas I'm a loser with no friends to hold my hand while traveling abroad. Corona's messing with that now anyway.

The Magic Mountain
The Brothers Karamazov
The Woman in the Dunes
Roadside Picnic

>>16831468
Traveling alone is very much worth it! I'm sad that my dear Fantomas-anon don't have a lot of friends, you can count me as one :)

>>16831478
nice ones

>>16831241
For me it wasn't a single book but rather a view of the world that kept evolving as I learnt more about it.
Science and religions were my two main topics of study. These were the topics that I was drawn to the most. Life itself was my teacher.
I wouldn't exactly call my journey an awakening from sumber but rather a gradual descent into it. What once used to excite me now only leaves me with a sense of dread and a feeling of impending doom. I am petrified by the knowledge that life is meaningless and death is always one step behind me.

I know it's a boomer answer, but Letters from a Stoic. I had read Aristotle and Plato prior, but my love for philosophy as well as a sudden bout of self-reflection and personality shift was really spurred by that book.

It was Hume that awoke me from my dogma- sorry got myself confused with Kant again, happens all the time. In all seriousness: Moby Dick.

Critique of Pure Reason
The Old Testament

>>16831241
The Outsider by Colin Wilson

Ouspensky's In Search of the Miraculous. The numerology/astrology chapters make my eyes glaze over but the other chapters about self remembering etc. spoke to me

hume

zarathustra, fire in the belly, BAP book, sun and steel

>>16831241
Chaos - James Gleich
Paradise Lost - Milton

>>16831268
Who authorized it? God?

>>16831241
Just read Camus or hard critical philosophy, can't go wrong with Adorno or Deleuze.

Don quixote

Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals. I saw the world and myself in a whole new light

>>16834412
Camu? Gay