Enlightening Books
Is it possible to build a complete view of the world from the information we've been given as school attendees? Is the message we've been given the truth, or will it have nationalist spin added to ensure we only think good of our nation, while others are seen in a less flattering light? Are there books which suggest a different, more wholesome way of 'a life', without the hunting of possessions and wealth as a means of self valuing and self-reference? I used to think a book was created to transfer information but I was wrong. If it is true knowledge, it transfers a state of being, not knowledge. A new perspective is reached by reading. The following books should leave you in that new perspective.
Conflict: A Life Nearly Wasted on Dualism
We become what we consume. You are what you eat. That is why Christ said "Eat of his flesh. Drink of his blood." I recently had the opportunity to really understand this after already having read or heard this at some point from the Bible.The significance of the title is attributed to the basis of human psychology or at least a mind divided against itself and all things. This also seems to hold true at multiple levels of the personality. The aim of the book is to leave you with an understanding as to why a virtuous life is not only recommended but essential especially in these trying times, paying closer attention to the mind since the financial crisis of 2008. Virtues lead to a mind not at war with itself, or its environment.
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The Black Science by Dr. Haha Lung and Chris Prowant
This book helped me to recognize there are only a certain number of set responses, reactions, and moods we can muster up because that is how we've been conditioned. Everything we do has been done before. Everything we know how to do, we know from someone else. This implies our behavior is just a program of set responses. As such, the ignorant are very easy to read. We as individuals and when in a group, are very easy to manipulate. "The Black Science" is the exploitation of all or any human weakness, human faculty, or associate/family member to gain an advantage over another.
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
Gustave Le Bon considered the group-human to be different enough to the individual human, to warrant a volume discussing how he or she is different. The crowd uses an unseen method of spreading sentiments called contagion. As the crowd is ruled by sentiments and emotional queues spread by contagion, it is more likely to lower its moral bar and accept extreme responses than would the individual be otherwise tempted to do. The anonymity lent by the crowd comes from the fact each individual can blame the other standing next to him or her for any wrongs.
War is a Racket by General Smedley D. Butler
You might find it odd that a retired general should pen a book, declaring the strife between countries as a racket. This American word describes a criminal gang, and the business they do. So a retired General from the U.S.A calls war a filthy business. As far as we were told, soldiers fight for our way of life, freedom and everything which makes us different to the opposition. The warmongers have taken over the asylum and this book tells you straight, the military industrial complex is rotten to the core.
The Crowd is Untruth by Soren Kierkegaard
Soren writes this from an individual's perspective. Clearly, his inclusion of how Jesus was treated is the main focus here. How the crowd treats the individual is THE most important factor in the survival of the human race today. Our education draws us towards the collective, in fact while we believe we are taking on information we are actually becoming crowd addicts and subservient to where the crowd goes and how it behaves. I went without people for a while and it made me feel very ill. That's not normal. If you want to dehumanize people, let them gather in large crowds.
Soren's main criticism of religion was that it drew people together and stopped them from evolving. It reduced them to a hive. A hoard.
The crowd is untruth! The driving cause far more sinister than you can imagine.
The Mandala of Being by Richard Moss, MD
This book helped me to think differently about time. I doubt the future and past were created to interfere with our present, but that is exactly what the problem is. Richard explains this in terms easy to understand, then gives you a method to retrain the mind to be at peace now. It is, after all, all we've got!
