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books to develop my spirituality?

>> No.11399913

The Bible

>> No.11400438

up

>> No.11400445

START WITH THE GREEKS
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>> No.11400495

>>11399912
Any book that resonates with you. You can go into a library or a bookshop and try to get a feeling which books are appealing to you. I would not recommend history books. They are usually cold and materialistic. Anything that leaves the possibility of the existence of ghosts or fairies open is a good choice.

>> No.11400573

Mushrooms, LSD, etc, anything else is just paper

>> No.11400592

>>11399912
Read the Bible and find God. Then start with the Greeks and learn the intellectual history of Christianity.

>> No.11400639

I can only speak from experience, but I meditated a lot for a few weeks and then I knew about a few boards in 8ch and some threads on /x/ where they had a lot of books about spirituality.

They were mostly filled with things I didn't think were useful, but I think I got the general idea that you have to be grateful towards something (some books recommend having a small pray of thankfulness towards the sun in the morning, evening, noon and night for example) and try to feel connected to things when you meditate. I'm not that religious, but nowadays I pray before I sleep, maybe it isn't the judeochristian god, but whatever is willing to listen to me.

It's not so much as a book will make you spiritual, but it's mostly about having faith in some belief and following a routine that will create that link. At some point you will have a synchronicity experience you can't explain in the usual "random" way, and from there on it's up to you to decide. I've felt extreme hapiness from meditating, something I can't explain easily. I've also had a sort of out-of-body experience that made me rethink the way I interact with the world.

I would say the Bible should have some sort of knowledge about this, but I don't know what are the most introspective parts of it, and there is a huge part, mostly in the old testament, that's supposed to teach obedience and general moral lessons for dummies (which I suppose you don't need).

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>>11400639
What meditation?
Mindfullness?

>> No.11400797

>>11400698
well, I really don't know much about it and it's my belief that every person has a different method that works best for them

I simply have to lay down, everything must be dark and silent (I don't have issues with falling asleep as I meditate). Then I concentrate on thinking about the present or thinking about "nothing", a white board helps me the most.

>> No.11400843

>>11399912
all of them

>> No.11400861

>>11399912
....Jung?

>> No.11400892

>Im not religious but im spiritual

>> No.11400917

>>11400892
>Having to embrace dogma along with wanting to authentically know God

>> No.11400946

>>11400917
But spiritual people typically are atheist.

Spirituality is essentially self worship.

>> No.11400971

>>11400946
>Spirituality is essentially self worship.

Atman is Brahman.

Unless you mean crystal healing power people who are basically anti-spirit.

>> No.11400997

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd7OaX3w1go

This is a lecture i admire the most, OP.

>> No.11401010

Summa Theologica
Spinoza

>> No.11402389

pettit prince

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>>11399913
>>11400592
this
>>11400445
>>11400495
>>11400573
>>11400639
>>11400861
>>11401010
not this

>> No.11402411

nobody will post this because nobody here is smart but


michael topper

>> No.11402418

>>11400946
>But spiritual people typically are atheist.
stop posting

>> No.11402434

>>11399912
I Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj

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>>11402409
Christianity is atheism

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last but not least

>> No.11402645

>>11400946
>But spiritual people typically are atheist.
>Spirituality is essentially self worship.
spirituality as in humanity's millenia-long journey towards self-knowledge and enlightenment.
you're thinking of the new-age fad that involves crystals and auras and other dumb shit.

>> No.11402657

take a walk, the lord's creation is the only text you need

>> No.11402669

tao te ching
bhagavad gita
upanishads
dhammapada
theologia germanica
dark night of the soul
spinoza's ethics
meister eckhart's works
discourses of epictetus
fragments of heraclitus
meditations
some of huxley's work (doors of perception, perennial philosophy)
some of jung's work (modern man in search of a soul, undiscovered self, the red book?)

>> No.11402672

>>11402657
this but unchristianically

>> No.11403877

>>11399912
Kybalion

>> No.11403884

>>11400592
A reasonable anon

>> No.11403912

>>11400592
And then read the Kybalion

>> No.11403930

>>11399912
Striving ever more for perfection in any activity is what cultivates the spirit.

>> No.11404008

>>11402669
Good recs here, in that order too. Everyone should be require to read the Gita just before they're considered well-rounded intellectuals. Ignore any and everything related to hermeticism or rosicrucianism like >>11402548
that is the crystals-and-pyramids "spiritual" to avoid.

>> No.11404576

Evola

>> No.11404600

>>11399912
Fabia the Goddess.