/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.5430219]

Hey /lit/, /mu/tant here. I barely ever come on this board so forgive me if I'm committing any sort of faux pas, but I'd like some advice.

Pic related is an album by Dan Barrett under the name Giles Corey called Deconstructionist. It's supposed to basically cause hallucinations and NOSCs (it actually works), but anyways the digital download comes with a ~50 page pdf that's basically an essay on the human mind. Even if you don't want to listen to the album, I highly suggest reading it, it's amazing

Anyways, I need recs for other books or documents that expand on what Dan talks about in the essay, or the books Dan could have been influenced by. Mainly the theory that what we perceive as our inner minds and our environments are basically unified, we only experience them separately. I'd also love some books on non-spiritual transcendence.

May be a long shot, but could anyone help me out? Thanks

[Anonymous No.5430224]

H P Lovecraft

[Anonymous No.5430242]

>>5430224
Not looking for fiction, looking for philosophy/psychology books.

[Anonymous No.5430243]

>>5430219
I'm gonna assume you already check wikipedia for direct influences that Dan Barret may have commented in interviews and such.

You might want to look into psychology, but not psychoanalisis a la Lacan but more on the terms of Jung. It's pretty fun to read Jung in my experience, even though it's not considered very much since he just wrote what he felt like not too scientifically.

[Anonymous No.5430250]

>>5430243
I've read a small amount of psychology, mainly Oliver Sacks, but I'll be sure to check out Jung. Thanks!

Still open to recs

[Anonymous No.5430264]

>>5430243
Also, where do you recommend I start with Jung? Considering my needs and relative inexperience

[Anonymous No.5430303]

>>5430264

>Mainly the theory that what we perceive as our inner minds and our environments are basically unified, we only experience them separately.

Not that anon but you should definitely try 'The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious' first. Probably closest to what you're after.

Jung is way up your alley if you're looking for lit like this.

[Anonymous No.5430350]

>>5430303
Ah, thanks! This is a big help.

Another /mu/tant recommended I read the Tibetan Books of Death, is that also a good read?

[Anonymous No.5430383]

>>5430303
Yeah, I was just thinking about that.

[Anonymous No.5430395]

>>5430350
It was a meme in the 90's in certain circles. It's okay, you check whatever you want and you'll find something, just like you might try reading some Derrida if you wanna check deconstruction.

[Anonymous No.5430406]

>>5430350

Well I haven't first hand experience with that particular work but Jung would be a good starting place overall because he was an incredibly erudite man who heavily studied and was able to aggregate all of these elusive schools of gnostic thought into unified theories.

If perception is your main interest here then Jung is a solid first option.

[Anonymous No.5430606]

>>5430395
>>5430406
Alright, sounds good. I'm off to a great start

Any other last suggestions?

[Anonymous No.5430632]

david lynch has an interview on transcendental meditation but maybe that's not what you are looking for

[Anonymous No.5430644]

>>5430632
No, it totally is! I love Lynch and I've been trying to get into meditation myself, do you have a link to a transcript?

[Anonymous No.5430832]

>>5430219
>In summary
>"What is the Deconstructionist of literature?"
YOU'LL FIT IN PERFECTLY, CHAMP!

[Anonymous No.5430870]

>>5430832

>shitting up a completely inoffensive thread with angst in full caps

PROTIP: You're the problem.

[Anonymous No.5430942]

Mesmer

[Anonymous No.5430946]

>>5430832
Did you even read what I wrote?

[Anonymous No.5430970]

Any book classic, actually. That would probably help you reconsider and make you grow out of Giles Corey edgy, overly lugubrious angst.

[Anonymous No.5431555]

>>5430970

[Anonymous No.5431561]

>>5430219
oh god giles corey sucks, and deconstructionist is the worst of his shit