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Has anyone read this book? Is it non-fiction? What are the odds he was just mentally ill or a LARPing fraud? Even if its just a work of fiction, it's still a good book IMO

>> No.12118274

>>12117852
One bump

>> No.12118872

You know, I've never understood many people's obsession with counter-cultural texts with kitschy covers about esoterism or the occult and so on.

There's an absolute fucking dearth of primary texts to read that lay out the spiritual quest in absolute terms and without a bunch of added nonsense. Why sit down and read "Diary of an Aging Hippie: How you too can avoid enlightenment by pretending dropping 20 tabs of acid is a sufficient replacement" when you can just read the fucking Bhagavad Gita?

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>>12118872
>read bhagavad gita
>become enlightened
>mfw read in 2nd grade

>> No.12118982

>>12118966
My point is that these New Agey books only offer secondary advice on receiving true gnosis at best, and are usually full of anti-capitalist political rambles or milquetoast utopian promises for the future and so on. Not that either of these things are bad per se, but they distract from the goal of subverting and finally destroying ego, and in fact can often reinforce it.

>> No.12119072

>>12118982
Well I liked the book when i thought it was a legit look into the world of a clairvoyant Tibetan lama. Then i did reasearch and turns out the author was fucking channeling aka LARPing.
>enlightenment comes from destroying ones ego
Have any examples of this? Watching the ego temporarily die can be liberating but is there anything more egotistical than saying 'I have no ego'

>> No.12119127

>>12119072
>more egotistical than saying 'I have no ego'
Not really, but that's why you never hear enlightened people say "I have no ego." And really, these are just language concepts onto an experience that by definition can't be put into words. The point I was trying to make is that New Agey stuff is often not actually interested in enlightenment, just "mystical powers" and so on that can come from refining the ego, but not moving beyond it.

>> No.12120637

>>12117852
I found this book in my grandfather's amazon catalog after he passed. Read it ironically because I thought it looked silly. Turned out to be a really great read, one of my favorites now, I have a lot of memories tied to this book. It's actually what got me initially interested in Buddhism and other eastern religions. The book itself and the author are full of shit but the story is really imaginative and unique.
Unironic 10/10, would recommend

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>>12117852
Did you see the thread on /x/ yesterday where we were literally just discussing this guy and I posted another edition of pic rel?