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20293331 No.20293331 [Reply] [Original]

What books made you feel like you were falling into a rabbit hole so deep that the knowledge you gained would be incomprehensible to anyone else? I want to journey into esoteric literature, and would like some recommendations. It can be about the occult, conspiracy theories, fringe philosophy, whatever.

>> No.20293360 [DELETED] 

Alice In Wonderland

>> No.20293362

>>20293331
The Golden Thread by Serrano

>> No.20293370

>>20293331
Aion by Carl Jung and his Red Book.

>> No.20293378

the holy bible

>> No.20293421

>>20293331
Lang Math

>> No.20293585

>>20293331
Decline of the West
Cultural History of the Modern Age

>> No.20293748

>>20293331
>>20293700

>> No.20293822

>>20293331
Unironically the Bible

>> No.20293973

>>20293822
This anon is not only speaking the truth but he is speaking the Truth!

>> No.20293979

Harry Potter

>> No.20293999

>>20293979
how the fuck r u posting from jail?

>> No.20294161

>>20293370
ive heard that about Aion, what does it get into?

>> No.20294258

>>20294161
Jung pretty much uses Jungian psychology to investigate the evolution of Christianity. It's largely focused on the collective unconscious and the archetype of the Self, which is the main archetype. He focuses on the early gnostic sects, all the way to the development of Alchemy, then speaks a bit on the coming of the anti-Christ.

>> No.20294305

>>20294258
very cool. any thoughts on it personally?

>> No.20294346

>>20293331
psychedelic drugs

>> No.20294641

>>20293331
I don't know about "incomprehensible to anyone else" but I've been reading a lot of books on exorcisms. I recommend starting with An Exorcist Tells His Story by Gabriele Amorth, one of the lead exorcists of the Vatican. He has 2 or 3 other books on the same topic too.

>> No.20294653

>>20293331
Honestly, the Corpus Hermeticum

>> No.20296070

>>20294305
I thought it was scary, interesting and mindblowing at the same time. Of of the main ideas of psychoanalysis is that if your psyche is one-sided then its 'opposite' will compensate and reveal itself through neuroses. This idea is something that Jung focuses on as well, and he uses this in Aion. One of the points he tries to make is that Jesus Christ is a one sided figure, and that Christianity is ultimately a one-sided religion in the psyche, which means that its opposite will have to compensate itself in the masses, hence, the coming of the anti-Christ. It blew my mind when Jung wrote that.

>> No.20296085

>>20294653
more like larpus hermeticum

>> No.20296099

>>20293999
Kek idk if she is but she should

>> No.20296114

A.K. Coomaraswamy's Time and Eternity.

>> No.20296135

>>20294305
There's plenty of fake rabbit holes out there. They were always a small sub-genre, but after the 1960s they became their own market. Diagnostic of these is usually antediluvianity, crystals, ayylmaos, and the word "quantum". Actual examples are few indeed but Jung certainly qualifies in that he may not have been scientific but he had a genius-level understanding of the subconscious workings of the human mind.

>> No.20296456

>>20296070
very interesting, i wonder if i can just pick it up and read it

>> No.20296512

>>20293331
Bayes Theorem and Nagarjuna
I am going to study Electrical Engineering now to sort out the nature of the convoluted and paradoxical primordial ineffable instinct.

>> No.20296809 [DELETED] 

>>20296135
My favorite thing about Jung is rolling my eyes at something that sounds arbitrary or stupid, then coming back to it five years later and going, "oooooh, now I get what he meant".