1. Consider perspectives that are DRASTICALLY different, in roots, from what you were culturally-formed in.

You mentioned Alan Watts, please read this book, which he called his “I TOLD you so!” reference, written by a woman who was exploring the far-East back when women didn’t have legal-personhood…

tsemrinpoche.com/…/Alexandra David-Neel - The Sec…

There is a truth in that book, in one of the footnotes, which David-Neel gave only half of:

There are 2 kinds of people in the world:

• moderate-path realizers, &
• steep/savage-path realizers.

IF you are a moderate-path realizer, THEN do NOT take the savage-path-realizer’s “medicines”: they are deadly poison ( her term ) for you.

IF you are a savage/vertical-path realizer, THEN do NOT take the moderate-path-realizer’s “medicines”: they are deadly-poison for you.

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Cultures work differently, & the lives born-into different cultures get formed into those cultures, so that lives born into “macho” cultures cannot value female-validity as equally-valid, because the culture prohibits that…

( there is a 6-year-shorter male-lifespan in fragile-masculinity cultures, btw: it may make for some cultural “male-supremacy”, but it abuses women AND it kills men: a lose-lose condition )

I may have mentioned these to you, before, but again, they are SO fundamental, for understanding our world, that once you see the world through understanding’s eyes, you cannot go back to the “blind” condition you were living-in, before…

Lanier’s book “Foreign to Familiar” explains WHY president Carter spent literally-days talking family with the Arab Middle-East leaders he was meeting, before getting down to brass tacks…

Hofstede’s “Exploring Cultures” explains how all cultures fit-together through his cultural-dimensions theory…

& gives examples of the different-kinds-of-reactions that people formed in other cultures do,

and once one sees those examples, then one can better-understand other people, from other cultures, throughout the rest of our world.

( IOW, you’ll have significantly-less miscommunication with these 2 books IN you, than not.

You decide if altering your life that-way is worth something to you, & if it is, then invest, please. )

IF you’re from North America, THEN please read Paul Fussell’s book on the North American Class System, & see how the reactions/prejudices he identifies seep-through, & shape, EVERYthing in this continent…

& then also read Woodard’s “American Nations”, to understand-better what’s really going-on!!

The US has been highjacked by the confederates: what the corporates call a “reverse takeover”.

The clearer you underestand what’s going on, in the world, the more likely you are to survive it, right?

Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, is on the 2 thinking-systems in our brains ( see the book “Top Brain / Bottom Brain” for evidence that Kahneman & Tversky’s “System 1”, the imprint->reaction system, is actually lower-forebrain,

& their “System 2”, the considered-reasoning system, is actually upper-forebrain. The recent discovery that programming is upper-forebrain, instead of Broca’s & Wernicke’s areas, the language centers, doubly-backs this )

& when you understand Kahneman’s book THEN you will understand that the imprint-reaction-system, which is what all ideologies/prejudices/assumption-river-“religions”, etc, ARE, is highjacking the world, throwing-from-the-world both objectivity & correct-reasoning, THEN you will see that it doesn’t matter which ideology wins:

IF ideological-REACTING wins, THEN … the world’s lost.

Objectivity & correct-reasoning MUST win, or humankind’s incapable of surviving ClimatePunctuation, this century.

Finish waking up, iow!!

“The Elements of Journalism” is an important book, for understanding the process of your doing journalism, of your making-peace with the different balances between quick-understanding vs rigorously-correct-understanding…

& why for-profit journalism isn’t trustworthy, because it’s propaganda, not journalism: it’s gaslighting, fundamentally…

The book “Corps Business: the 30 MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES of the US Marines” is sooo good a parenting book, that a hippie-woman & mother whom I loaned my copy to, years ago, told me she “wished I’d read that years ago”.

Read it & do your life a favor!

Henry Cloud’s book “9 Things You Simply Must Do” is important, too.

GET THE CORE UNDERSTANDINGS INTO YOU, & then YOU own your life more, understand?

The more-competent your core-understandings are, in more dimensions, the greater your life’s freedom, in choosing its/your own path.

The whole “education” ( with the falsifying-quotes ) in the West is actually patterned on the lower caste Hindu “education”, engineered to prevent autonomous-capability…

John Taylor Gatto, who destroyed his teaching-career in his acceptance-speech for the New York State Teacher-of-the-Year Award, discovered this, in his later research…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto#Main_thes…

IF children in school KNOW they’re loved, KNOW they’re valid, KNOW they’ve rights, … THEN how could the institution possibly manipulate them, to make the institution look good??

However, WHEN the institution has broken validity, self-certainty, etc, from the children in its power, THEN it can use PROVISIONALLY-bestowed ‘validity’ to make the children into the puppets it needs … ( I’m only being slightly more bitter-in-phrasing than Gatto himself was, btw, … this concept HE caused me to be understanding… )

US education was engineered to PREVENT any more Lincolns or Franklins, to make the population into the corporate-acceptable “consumable human-resources” that such operations wanted…

It was the coal industry who paid-for the establishment of education, in the US, according to Gatto.

That only makes-sense when you understand that it didn’t want any more interference/disruption, it wanted workers who obeyed, & “education” taught obeying…

( I’m self-educated: don’t even have North American grade-11, which is equivalent to European grade-10. Decades of force-mitigating literal-brain-decimation, 7+ years of homelessness, etc, didn’t stop me: understanding-stuff’s MY addiction.

Wisdom can be an addiction. Self-evolution can be an addiction. Addiction’s just a technology: it’s neutral, itself.

What it is that one happens to be addicted-to, that makes it either bad or good. : )

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Anyways, I think it was your previous post that I replied-to, before…

If so, then I’m now adding this:

I’m not going to be giving you such recommendations if I see a 3rd post of yours: either you invest in learning, undoing the encultured-blindnesses, XOR you’re on your own, now.

Mollycoddling disempowers lives.

If you want to be given everything, instead of earning it, then I ought fuck-off, outright.

If you want to know what to dig into, the others in these posts are identifying stuff, & so am I.

Pick something & DO it, honestly…

Elephants dissipate, when one is living honestly enough, from one’s room, right?

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen,

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