Musings of a Timid observer

' When a Being beyond Time and Space touches you, you also become beyond Time and Space-the privilege of knowing "The Only Solution Is Dissolution".' These are the words of Sadhguru, a living yogi who tells us about the very first yogi-Shiva as the tale is woven about how we must essentially embrace nothingness to become who we really are. source: https://www.newvision.co.ug/news/1427264/sadhguru-school-africa-uganda/ Tradition and beyond Shiva is old Hindu lore and in this work, it appears that Sadhguru goes beyond the enigmatic, mystical(though that remains in it), to present a figure that can also be intellectually and almost scientifically engaged with. To be fair I haven't read a lot of the Shaivite literature and remain less than a novice so this take is rooted mostly in the bare minimum of my familiarity with the subject. One of the stories of Shiva goes like “Shiva once returned from a long absence. He came to Parvati’s cottage and found the d...

This is by no means an exhaustive list. It doesn't have nearly enough of all the world has had to offer and still offers. The works are mostly older and from the Western canon which was my own starting point with philosophical tradition. It also eschews the more dense, expansive difficult works of great minds such as Immanuel Kant , Hegel, Quine, Derrida etc. These are simply works one could pick up without much familiarity with philosophical inquiry and begin their journey with dealing with the thoughts that shaped the world we live in now. Some works are sociological , others political and economic but selected for throwing back to their roots; the roots in fact of the love of knowledge. Many of these works are wrong headed, will certainly trigger and shake sensibilities,  but that is what free-thought does; Challenge our ideas of what we ought and ought not to speak of. Enjoy 1. Mating in captivity - Esther Perel Perel is a therapist but really a relationship anthropologist. S...