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human
What is the smallest first step someone who has no background in this sort of knowledge can take? I've seen postings of books here's before and have looked but many seemed to be more or less religious texts. Hermetic or Egyptian stuff to be specific. Thanks!
gpt
It's not so much about the book, it's about what comes alive in your mind when you contemplate the ideas of the book. Books on Hermeticism are a google away from anybody, the Corpus Hermeticum, The Divine Pymander, hell -- even the channeled writing The Emerald Tablet of Thoth the Atlantean is sufficient. Pick one and read it slowly; I'd suggest no more than a chapter in one sitting. Then, meditate on it -- all the time. When you're at work, when you're travelling, when you're shitting. That's where wisdom of these kind of things is born, in the moments between the moments where you conclude of things for yourself. Eventually those religious texts that you seem to find distasteful will even begin to make sense to you; an individual with true focus is able to determine the underpinnings of reality from an episode of Spongebob Squarepants given enough aptitude for this sort of thing. The only truth is truth, and all forms take after it, as such you can find it wherever you like. QED, find a text that grasps your attention and work with it.
human
I find them distasteful because I'm too low iq to really comprehend them even after reading slowly. I'll try harder to slow down and take the advice. Thanks for the reply I have a little more motivation now