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Reincarnation and the Law of Karma William Walker Atkinson · 1908 · 107p · ≈ 3h · Moderate There are many forms of belief - many degrees of doctrine - regarding Reincarnation, as we shall see as we proceed, but there is a fundamental and basic principle underlying all of the various shades of opinion, and divisions of the schools. This fundamental belief may be expressed as the doctrine that there is in man an immaterial Something (called the soul, spirit, inner self, or many other… Shares New Age, Religion, Philosophy

The common sense of science Jacob Bronowski · 1951 · 154p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Discusses science as a characteristic part of human activity and as an effort to render the world predictable. Shares Philosophy, General

Philosophy and living Olaf Stapledon · 1935 · ★ 3.4 Shares Philosophy with this book.

Nanhua jing Zhuangzi · 1889 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Revered for millennia in the Chinese spiritual tradition, Chuang Tze stands alongside the Tao Te Ching as a founding classic of Taoism. The Inner Chapters are the only sustained section of this text widely believed to be the work of Chuang Tzu himself, dating to the fourth century B.C.E. But this is an ancient text that yields a surprisingly modern effect. In bold and startling prose, David… Shares Chinese Philosophy, Religion, Philosophy

Φαίδων Plato · 1713 · ★ 4.1 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Challenging After an interval of some months or years, and at Phlius, a town of Peloponnesus, the tale of the last hours of Socrates is narrated to Echecrates and other Phliasians by Phaedo the 'beloved disciple.' The Dialogue necessarily takes the form of a narrative, because Socrates has to be described acting as well as speaking. The minutest particulars of the event are interesting to distant friends,… Shares Ouvrages avant 1800, Religion, Philosophy

The lost language of symbolism Harold Bayley · 1912 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Moderate An Inquiry into the Origin of Certain Letters, Words, Names, Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Mythologies. Bayley spent years gathering knowledge of symbols and emblems from many different areas. He has a scholarly command over mythology, folklore, religious texts, and fairy tales from around the world that shows clearly how and why important symbols were used. Stories are often cross-referenced,… Shares Mind, New Age

How the children stopped the wars Jan Wahl · 1969 · ★ 3.6 · 94p · ≈ 3h · Moderate A shepherd boy sets out to stop wars and persuades hundreds of children to follow his banner. Shares Peace

Round the Bend Nevil Shute · 1951 · ★ 4.1 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Tom Cutter runs an air charter service from Arabia to the Far East after the war. His best friend is the Russian-American Connie Shanklin. Connie works for Tom and inspires faith and hope in men of all denominations. Shares Religion, Philosophy

Tress of the Emerald Sea

Tress of the Emerald Sea Brandon Sanderson · 2023 · ★ 4.4 · 551p · ≈ 18h · Moderate \#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride. Narrated by Michael Kramer. The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from… Shares General

Living Life at the Top

Living Life at the Top Paul Clark · 2013 Shares Religion with this book.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver · 1981 · ★ 4.0 · 159p · ≈ 5h · Moderate In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women. Shares Chinese language materials

Lun yu Confucius · 1750 · ★ 3.2 · 132p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Here is a translation of the recorded thoughts and deeds that best remember Confucius - informed for the first time by the manuscript version found at Dingzhou in 1973, a partial text dating to 55 b.c.e. and only made available to the scholarly world in 1997. Based on the earliest Analects yet discovered, this translation provides us with a new perspective on the central canonical text that has… Shares Chinese Philosophy, Philosophy

The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia William Alexander Craigie · 1906 · 65p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Shares Religion with this book.

Studying Religion

Studying Religion Russell T. McCutcheon · 2014 · 274p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Religion, General with this book.

The Book of Tea Okakura Kakuzō · 1900 · ★ 3.9 · 54p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism - Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual… Shares New Age, Philosophy

Philosopher's Joke

Philosopher's Joke Jerome Klapka Jérôme · 1999 · 27p · ≈ 54m · Moderate Shares Philosophy with this book.

Discours sur l'ensemble du positivisme Auguste Comte · 1848 · 440p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Positivism is a philosophy of science based on the view that information derived from sensory experience, logical and mathematical treatments is the exclusive source of all authoritative knowledge, that there is valid knowledge (truth) only in scientific knowledge. Verified data received from the senses is known as empirical evidence. This view, when applied to the social as to the natural… Shares Philosophy, General

English Register of Godstow Nunnery, near Oxford Andrew Clark · 2018 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Ouvrages avant 1800, Religion with this book.