The Minds I Associate With
On this page, I reveal those minds that I have been associating, starting from 2019, thence to the Works of life-changing character, and hopefully continuing in the year 2020, and beyond.
Do you know any?Over the past year, 2019, as far as I kept records with the inconsistency of a writer, and not of a consultant, I have consumed with relish – well, and sneered, cackled, and spat, sometimes at somethings in some works – the Works of amazing minds stated below.
Confucius the Chinese Classics Vol 1 the Life and Teachings of Confucius
Mencius the Chinese Classics Vol 2 the Life and Teachings of Mencius, Mencius
Tzu the Texts of Taoism part 1
Zoroaster the Teachings of Zoroaster and the Philosophy of the Parsi Religion
The Ramayana and the Mahabharata, an Indian Epic Poem
The Advancement of Learning, Francis Bacon
Candide, Volume 1, de Voltaire
Elements of Criticism Vol 1, Henry Home, Lord Kames
Capital and Interest a Critical History of Economic Theory, Eugene von Bohm Bawerk
The Twenty-fifth Anthology Edition of the L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest, consisting of sixteen diverse stories, insightful essays and guides for new and old writers.
My Life-Changing Library
While growing up, I found the world about me so bizarre I could not fathom why people, particularly 'older' people, acted and said those things they expressed. I had two visions and viewpoints of the world around me. I tried to become accustomed to the vision and viewpoint of my new environment as these were the dictates of parents and others, to not much success. I was much more overwhelmed by my 'interior' world, of unusual, distant, but vastly impressionable experiences.
For sure, I was getting into more trouble than the average toddler, preteen, and teens. As would anyone wrapped in such mantle of confusion, I started to inquire within myself as to the ‘cause’ of my predicament. I dare not ask any ‘adult’, knowing their viewpoints and pretentious histrionic. Later, as I became more aware and able, I started to read; books. And, I read all manners of books; from the insane, the forbidden, the odd, to the exhilarating; of religious, philosophical, scientific, literary, engineering, finance, and name it; all to no avail in understanding the underlying reasons as to why I was ‘different’ from others. Well, I believe when one steps on the road to reading, study, or truth – so far as it was self-motivated – one dares not step back or aside. So, I trudge on. And then, I found the first of the books listed below. And, everything changed. With huge relief I found out that I was not different. I was just more sensitive that those around me. I was twenty, and since then, life became a ’thing’ of understanding.
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science
Dianetics: The Original Thesis
Introduction to Scientology Ethics
Scientology 0-8 - The Book of Basics
L. Ron Hubbard - The Philosopher - the Rediscovery of the Human Soul