What are some good esoteric books?
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What are some good esoteric books?
Here's a really obscure collection of essays on the similarities between Rangaku based and nativist thought.
>>8061465
i don't read moon and the pic is just advertisement for the thread
The titles roughly translates toEverybody Poops.
John Cowper Powys
The Red Book
and pretty much anything else by Jüng
>>8061446
Tibetan Book of The Dead. So underground the manuscripts were literally buried there and around mountains in the 8th Century as predicted by it's "psychic" writer, only to be rediscovered after Buddhism had been accepted again by Tibetan monks who claimed they could commune with ghosts and their past lives to find them in the alcoves, rivers, tombs and caves of the Himalayas.
Uma Thurman's dad writes a good introduction to it, but it's effectively a series of prayers and description for the long process of the "between", the many day state between life and death whereby individuals are said to be able to dramatically alter their cycle of rebirth. It's quite terrifying.
Are you asking for the most unknown pieces of text with any literary worth? Because any of the thousands of poems published in poetry journals every year that no one but their editor reads more than once.
Are you asking about the tradition of esotericism? Because there's a few charts for that somewhere.
>>8061543
You seen Enter the Void by Gaspar Noe? Its based on that book, you might dig it
>>8061543
>>8061563
undergrads pls go
>>8061446
>>8061446
moragavine
>>8061574
Are all 45 of the illustrations of that same caliber?
>>8061446
You made me do everything reasonable and more to find a full definition image of the full version of this art piece. Even searching the original japanese title on yahoo.jp images does nothing. I'm honestly considering emailing the artist.
It's Takato Yamamoto's Amakusa Shiro at the Shimabara Rebellion, but it's cut off to the right (where the spine is in the limited print book). There are similarly defined versions of the image to the right, and low-definitely versions of the whole thing, but God damn I just want to see the piece in full.
Anyone help me out?
>>8061698
Very much so.
>>8061861
Bump for interest.
>>8061541
is the portable jung a good place to start with him or is man and his symbols better?
>>8061549
give us the good shit and post charts
>>8061861
go for it email him and tell him you want to steal his artwork
Got you.
>>8061563
That was one of the worst films I've ever seen
>>8061874
Post more.
>>8062620
is reading this stuff actually worth it?
>>8061446
post those femboys by this artist
>>8062740
What do you expect to get out of it?
>>8062839
infinity
>>8061861
Found two scans but not of the middle. It turns out to get the middle, you have to unbind the book or something like that.
http://fugu-suicide.tumblr.com/post/11439423501/takato-yamamoto-pt1half-segment-i-can-get
http://fugu-suicide.tumblr.com/post/11439759738/takato-yamamoto-pt2other-side-i-wish-i-could
Read Leo Strauss. Then read Plato.
>>8064248
shouldn't it be the other way around?
>>8061446
Is that Amakusa Shiro?
Fucking beautiful painting
>>8064372
do you have the whole thing?
>>8064375
No sorry, I don't.
I just recognise the man in the painting as a figure from Japanese history, from his appearance and the references to Christianity.
>>8064386
are you sure that's not a woman?
>>8063118
yes, you will achieve the infinite but only if you put in the work
>>8064248
Rosen is good too.
Jung
Particularly:
Memories, dreams and reflections
Man and his Symbols
Also someone post more takato yamamoto
>>8064461
is the portable jung better than man and his symbols as an introduction?
>>8064466
I guess so
Youd have a more balanced understanding of his psychology after reading the portable Jung which would be useful if you wanted to read further
I started with Man and his Symbols and although it was extremely interesting, I felt Id gone too far in one direction of his psychology without understanding his main ideas
>>8062490
Bump.
>>8064351
So I see you've never read strauss
>>8064547
i've never read any philo, i just see the greek meme spouted around
Weird Twitter and its visual similar, Weird YouTube.
>>8064488
would portable neetcheese do the same?
>>8062620
Joseph Campbell? Really? He's on my list, so I don't know, but wasn't expecting to see him there.
>>8064582
i havent read much of him so i wouldnt know desu
why are we mocked
