What clicked and made you have a different mindset? How long did it take to start changing and how long was the transformation? Did it last or is it an ongoing back and forth between your old self? I want to know your transformation and success.
Any kind of change, big or small. Anything from weight loss, world view, personality shift, major life change, single change like stopped smoking or drinking soda to starting exercising or going back to school. I want to hear how people’s life were a bit or a lot better through reading and your progress.
TIA 🙏
I love the magicians nephew. Favorite book in the series. Do you mind me asking how it changed your life?
The yoga of patanjali, is that an advaita text? I’ve been trying to find my fellow non dualists on lemmy, and haven’t had much luck.
The Magician’s nephew was probably my first taste of the multiple-worlds idea. It was mind-expanding. A big step towards the larger reality that I enjoy today, if only in theory.
Here’s the edition of Patanjali that I like :
Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali: Containing His Yoga Aphorisms with Vyasa’s Commentary in Sanskrit and a Translation with Annotations Including Many Suggestions for the Practice of Yoga https://a.co/d/fEBSAbA
As you can see, it’s a nice fat yellow book.
Also, Permutation City (by Greg Egan) is nothing to shake a stick at. (Well it does stretch a bit in the second half, but still). The central concepts. Dust theory. Dreams in dreams. It’s heavy.