Written for lovers of literature interested in self-actualization, Literature: How to Read and Understand the World teaches readers how to derive principles of wisdom from literature and apply them to their lives. The book achieves this through a series of five essential steps, including identifying with literary characters, aggregating principles of wisdom from their experience,… Continue reading Executive summary, part I (L:HtR/UtW)
Case studies
We are Being Meditated
Apocalypse
Every moment Is an apocalypse of the self, A turning of our hopes and dreams to sand. What we had built: nothing. What we had longed for: a puff of smoke. In this way, Even our lives as a whole can be viewed As nothing more than a planting of seeds, A fertilization of earth… Continue reading Apocalypse
The five languages of wisdom (L:HtR/UtW)
Written for lovers of literature interested in self-actualization, Literature: How to Read and Understand the World teaches readers how to derive principles of wisdom from literature and apply them to their lives. The book achieves this through a series of five essential steps, including identifying with literary characters, aggregating principles of wisdom from their experience,… Continue reading The five languages of wisdom (L:HtR/UtW)
The natural order
If there was ever a natural order, It is the part of you that knows To press a wound to stanch the blood, That knows to place cool cloth on the forehead Of the incapacitated, That knows. Women have always been The knowers of this knowledge, Sacred protectors and keepers Of their children. Show me… Continue reading The natural order
Jackson Holzberg Buckley 