The Bible is the best Babble ever produced. A common atheist refrain is that the Bible is so self-contradictory, so ambiguous, so open to interpretation as to be intrinsically meaningless. Any meaning you might extract from the Bible is just a reflection of your own beliefs.
This is what I like the Daodejing for. I have a little app on my phone that reguarly pops up a notification with a random section of it. For me it’s a fantastic balance between words that mean something and words that can mean whatever you want them to mean such that reading them sometimes helps me think about things in ways that I might have otherwise not noticed.
I think divination methods like Yijing and tarrot and even horroscopes offer a similar service, and of course psychoactive drugs can also do this. LSD seems especially good at serving this kind of purpose, and seems to possibly have permenant benefits in this direction. I get a lot too out of my narcolepsy by being able to very easily slip into a REM-like state while awake, but this is more a special case that’s probably not available to everyone.
This is what I like the Daodejing for. I have a little app on my phone that reguarly pops up a notification with a random section of it. For me it’s a fantastic balance between words that mean something and words that can mean whatever you want them to mean such that reading them sometimes helps me think about things in ways that I might have otherwise not noticed.
I think divination methods like Yijing and tarrot and even horroscopes offer a similar service, and of course psychoactive drugs can also do this. LSD seems especially good at serving this kind of purpose, and seems to possibly have permenant benefits in this direction. I get a lot too out of my narcolepsy by being able to very easily slip into a REM-like state while awake, but this is more a special case that’s probably not available to everyone.