Alchemy of Self | 1' - 10' Deep Dives

CLA - EPR, LAG, Cash Flow and The Happiness Business

05 Sep 2025

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Sharing a recent call where we talked in depth about a CLA concept that applies to every client interaction.

6' - Spiritual Wealth: Living a Mindful Life

31 Mar 2025

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Beyond Wealth, an anthology of essays, explores the meaning of a rich life beyond material wealth. The book integrates wisdom from various sources, i...

2' - A History of American Debt

28 Mar 2025

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"Borrow" is a historical analysis of American debt, exploring its evolution from a stigmatized practice to a ubiquitous aspect of daily lif...

2' - Happy Money: The Five Principles of Spending Smart

27 Mar 2025

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"Happy Money" explores how people can spend money to maximize happiness. The authors, Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton, present five princ...

4' - Hoodwinked: An Economic Hit Man Takes on the Global Financial Crisis

26 Mar 2025

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John Perkins's Hoodwinked examines the 2008 global financial crisis, arguing that it stemmed from a predatory form of capitalism promoted by fig...

2' - The Rise and Fall of Empires: A Global Economic and Political History

25 Mar 2025

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This excerpt from "The Changing World Order" presents a model for understanding the rise and fall of empires, focusing on cyclical patterns ...

6' - The Price of Time: Interest, Money, and the Modern World

24 Mar 2025

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Edward Chancellor's The Price of Time explores the history of interest rates, arguing that artificially low rates, a recurring theme throughout ...

2' - The Man Who Quit Money

21 Mar 2025

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The provided text is an excerpt from a book about Daniel Suelo, a man who abandoned the use of money in the early 2000s. The book explores Suelo'...

3' - Unleashing the Ideavirus

20 Mar 2025

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"Unleashing the Ideavirus" is a marketing manifesto advocating for ideavirus marketing, a strategy that focuses on creating "big ideas" that sprea...

4' - Illusions - Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

20 Mar 2025

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Richard Bach's Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah is a fictional narrative presented through excerpts from a book. The text introduc...

8' - Principles of Economics

20 Mar 2025

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This collection of text from Principles of Economics by Saifedean Ammous appears grounded in the Austrian school of economics. The author intends to p...

4' - A New Earth: Urgency of Transformation

19 Mar 2025

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A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle argues that the key to personal happiness and a better world lies in transcending the ego, which is our self-centered id...

9' - On Tyranny - Lessons From the 20th Century

18 Mar 2025

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This excerpt from Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny offers twenty concise lessons drawn from twentieth-century history intended to help readers recogni...

3' - The Education of a Value Investor

18 Mar 2025

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This excerpt from Guy Spier's The Education of a Value Investor recounts his professional journey, beginning with an early, misguided foray into inv...

5' - Stillness Speaks

17 Mar 2025

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Eckhart Tolle's Stillness Speaks is a book of aphorisms and short reflections presented in a style reminiscent of ancient sutras. The text empha...

6' - Buddhist Psychology of Awakening

14 Mar 2025

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This document compiles excerpts from a book exploring the intersection of Buddhist psychology and Western psychotherapy. Several authors discuss int...

3' - One Up on Wall Street

13 Mar 2025

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Peter Lynch's One Up on Wall Street provides a guide to successful stock investing for the average person. Lynch, a former star fund manager, e...

7' - Tantric Transformation: Osho on Love, Freedom, and Meditation

12 Mar 2025

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This text comprises a collection of transcribed talks by Osho on Tantra. Osho explores the nature of Tantra, emphasizing its focus on individual reb...

5' - Trend Following: Secrets from Top Traders

11 Mar 2025

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This book excerpt details successful trend-following trading strategies, emphasizing risk management and disciplined adherence to pre-established rule...

6' - Mastering the Market Cycle

10 Mar 2025

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Howard Marks's Mastering the Market Cycle explores cyclical patterns in investing, emphasizing the importance of understanding market psychology...

3' - Happy Money: The Japanese Art of Living and Giving

07 Mar 2025

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This excerpt from Ken Honda's Making Peace with Money explores the multifaceted relationship between individuals and their finances. Honda argue...

9' - Choose Yourself: A Guide to Wealth

06 Mar 2025

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Excerpts from James Altucher's "Choose Yourself Guide to Wealth" offer advice on achieving financial success and personal fulfillment b...

7' - Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

05 Mar 2025

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This excerpt from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind details how one's subconscious "financial blueprint," shaped by childhood experience...

9' - The Thin Green Line: The Wealthy vs the Rich

04 Mar 2025

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This book explores the difference between being merely "rich" and truly "wealthy," examining the financial habits and mindsets of...

3' - The One-Page Financial Plan

03 Mar 2025

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This excerpt from Carl Richards's The One-Page Financial Plan guides readers in creating a personalized financial strategy. It emphasizes identi...

4' - Nomad Capitalist: Go Where You're Treated Best

28 Feb 2025

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"Nomad Capitalist" advocates for a lifestyle of global mobility and financial optimization. The author recounts his journey from a conventi...

8' - I Can Make You Rich: Reprogram Your Mind for Financial Abundance

27 Feb 2025

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"I Can Make You Rich.pdf" is a self-help book by Paul McKenna that presents a system for achieving wealth and happiness. The book emphasize...

7' - The Secret Science of Numerology

26 Feb 2025

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This book excerpt from "The Secret Science of Numerology" explores the author's research into numerology, connecting numbers and letters...

5' - The Complete TurtleTrader

25 Feb 2025

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This book details the "Turtle Trader" experiment, where Richard Dennis and William Eckhardt trained novice traders using a systematic approa...

9' - The Quantum Doctor: A New Paradigm of Healing

24 Feb 2025

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This excerpt from "The Quantum Doctor" argues that consciousness is fundamental to reality, impacting health and healing. The author integrates quant...

8' - The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

21 Feb 2025

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This text is a commentary on Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, offering explanations and interpretations of the original Sanskrit text. The author details Pata...

8' - Altering the Mind: The Science of Meditation

20 Feb 2025

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"The Science of Meditation" explores the neurological effects of meditation, contrasting "deep" practices rooted in ancient tradi...

8' - The Biology of Transcendence

19 Feb 2025

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Joseph Chilton Pearce's The Biology of Transcendence explores the interplay of biology, culture, and spirituality in shaping human experience. T...

7' - Quantum Success: The Power of Consciousness

18 Feb 2025

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Quantum Success - The Power of Consciousness is a self-help book applying principles of quantum physics to achieving personal success. The author arg...

8' - Bhaja Govindam: Śaṅkara's Song of Self-Realization

17 Feb 2025

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Bhaja Govindam, a 31-verse poem by Adi Shankara, is a call to spiritual awakening. The text, explained through commentary and introduction, critiques...

7' - The Joyful Path of Diligence

14 Feb 2025

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This book, "The Joyful Endeavor of the Buddhist Path," explains Shantideva's "Diligence Chapter" from The Way of the Bodhisa...

5' - The Soul of Money

13 Feb 2025

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Lynne Twist's The Soul of Money explores the transformative power of shifting one's relationship with money from a place of scarcity to one of suffi...

8' - Human Design: The Definitive Guide

12 Feb 2025

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This excerpt from Lynda Bunnell's The Definitive Book of Human Design introduces the Human Design System, a self-knowledge system based on astrologi...

8' - Mindfulness and Meditation: OSHO's Teachings

11 Feb 2025

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Osho, a spiritual leader, offers insights into meditation in this collection of excerpts. He contrasts meditation, a natural state of being, with co...

8' - The Core of Krishnamurti's Teaching

10 Feb 2025

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Jiddu Krishnamurti's writings and talks, excerpted here, center on the theme of self-discovery and freedom. He argues against organized religion...

5' - One Minute Wisdom

07 Feb 2025

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"One Minute Wisdom" is a collection of short, paradoxical anecdotes attributed to a mystical Master, drawing from various spiritual traditi...

5' - The Compound Effect

06 Feb 2025

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"The Compound Effect" is a self-help book advocating for achieving massive success through small, consistent actions over time. The author...

9' - Initiation into Hermetics

06 Feb 2025

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Franz Bardon's Initiation Into Hermetics details a system of magical training. The book's theoretical section explains Hermetic principles...

6' - Turning Confusion into Clarity

05 Feb 2025

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Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche's "Turning Confusion into Clarity" offers a guide to Tibetan Buddhist foundational practices, particularly the ...

9' - Vibrational Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide

04 Feb 2025

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This text is an excerpt from a book exploring vibrational medicine, an approach that integrates ancient healing practices with modern physics. It ex...

6' - Wabi Sabi: Wisdom of Imperfection

03 Feb 2025

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This excerpt from Nobuo Suzuki's Wabi Sabi: The Wisdom of Imperfection explores the Japanese aesthetic philosophy of wabi sabi, emphasizing its...

8' - Die With Zero: Spending and Saving for Maximum Fulfillment

31 Jan 2025

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Bill Perkins's Die With Zero advocates for maximizing life experiences by strategically managing finances. The book argues against excessive saving,...

7' - Options as a Strategic Investment

30 Jan 2025

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The provided text is a table of contents and excerpts from a book titled Options as a Strategic Investment. The book comprehensively explores various...

5' - The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

29 Jan 2025

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This text is an almanac compiling the writings and speeches of Naval Ravikant, a successful entrepreneur and investor. The book focuses on Ravikant&#...

4' - How to Think About Money

28 Jan 2025

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Jonathan Clements's How to Think About Money offers a practical, common-sense approach to personal finance, challenging conventional wisdom and emph...

7' - 48 Laws of Power: Strategy and Manipulation

27 Jan 2025

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The provided text excerpts from 48 Laws of Power and other sources detail Machiavellian strategies for acquiring and maintaining power. These tacti...

7' - Dhammapada

25 Jan 2025

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The provided text is primarily comprised of excerpts from The Dhammapada, an ancient Theravada Buddhist scripture containing verses attributed to the...

8' - Seth Speaks - Dreams Evolution and Value Fulfillment

24 Jan 2025

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This text from Jane Roberts's essays for her book Dreams, "Evolution," and Value Fulfillment". Butts's essays detail Roberts's 1982 hospitalization, ...

9' - Seth Speaks - The Eternal Validity of the Soul

23 Jan 2025

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Jane Roberts's Seth Material  and the Eternal Validity of the Soul comprises thousands of pages of channeled writings attributed to the entity Seth,...

9' - Seth Speaks - The Nature of Personal Reality

22 Jan 2025

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This text is from a book titled "The Nature of Personal Reality," a transcript of channeled communications from a non-physical entity named Seth. The...

8' - Seth Speaks - Transcripts Book 1 and Book 2

21 Jan 2025

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Seth, an entity communicating through Jane Roberts, discusses the nature of reality in these transcribed sessions over several years. He posits a mul...

8' - Seth Speaks - The Earliest Sessions

20 Jan 2025

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Jane Roberts's Seth Material comprises thousands of pages of channeled text from the entity Seth, exploring metaphysics, consciousness, reality, and...

9' - Hakuin on Kensho - Four Ways of Knowing

19 Jan 2025

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This text is an excerpt from Albert Low's commentary on Zen Master Hakuin's "Four Ways of Knowing of an Awakened Person," exploring the concept of ke...

7' - Character-Building Thought Power

18 Jan 2025

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Ralph Waldo Trine's book, Character-Building Thought Power, argues that our thoughts are the foundation of our character and destiny. He emphasizes ...

6' - Catching The Big FIsh

17 Jan 2025

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This excerpt is from David Lynch's book, Catching the Big Fish, which explores his creative process and how Transcendental Meditation (TM) has pr...

4' - Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

17 Jan 2025

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These sources explore historical instances of mass delusion and hysteria - the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay, focusing on events such as the Mi...

6' - The Interpretation of Dreams 

16 Jan 2025

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Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams explores the psychological meaning of dreams. Freud argues that dreams are not meaningless but rather...

8' - Crack in the Cosmic Egg

15 Jan 2025

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Joseph Chilton Pearce's The Crack in the Cosmic Egg explores the interplay between mind and reality, arguing that our perception of reality is shape...

10' - The Keys of Enoch

14 Jan 2025

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The Keys of Enoch is a series of books that explore the spiritual and scientific truths of the universe. The texts discuss a range of topics includin...

8' - A Treatise of Human Nature

13 Jan 2025

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The source text is an excerpt from David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, a foundational work in philosophical empiricism. Hume argues that all hum...

9' - Lucretius - The Nature of Things

12 Jan 2025

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This text offers excerpts from a 1496 edition of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura, exploring his Epicurean philosophy. Lucretius refutes religious belief...

8' - Keys to Personal Freedom

11 Jan 2025

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Lester Levenson's teachings, presented in "Keys to Personal Freedom," focus on achieving self-realization through a process called the "Release Techni...

6' - Thus Spake Zarathustra

10 Jan 2025

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The provided text offers excerpts from Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, detailing its composition process and exploring its core philoso...

5' - Being Right or Making Money

09 Jan 2025

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Ned Davis's Being Right or Making Money emphasizes a disciplined, data-driven approach to investing, prioritizing process over prediction. The book...

9' - The Truth Is

08 Jan 2025

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"The Truth Is" is a collection of spontaneous talks by Sri H.W.L. Poonja, compiled and edited by Prashant I de Jager. The book explores Poonja's spiri...

4' - The Confidence Map, From Crisis to Confidence

08 Jan 2025

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Peter Atwater's "The Confidence Map" offers a framework for understanding how feelings of certainty and control influence decision-making. The book ...

8' - Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson

07 Jan 2025

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These excerpts from notes on Gurdjieff's Beelzebub's Tales detail discussions within Gurdjieff's Institute in the 1920s. The central theme is the d...

6' - The Psychology of Money

06 Jan 2025

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The text excerpts from The Psychology of Money explore the unpredictable nature of wealth accumulation, highlighting how individual experiences, bia...

9' - My Big TOE

05 Jan 2025

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Tom Campbell's My Big TOE trilogy presents a new scientific model of reality, arguing that consciousness is fundamental and that our physical uni...

3' - Ikigai - The Japanese Art of Happiness

03 Jan 2025

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This text explores Ikigai, a Japanese concept signifying a reason for being, linking it to longevity and happiness. The text examines Ikigai's four co...

5' - The Intelligent Investor

02 Jan 2025

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This text comprises excerpts from Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor, supplemented by Jason Zweig's commentary. Zweig highlights Graham's end...

3' - Conversations With God - Book I-III

01 Jan 2025

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Neale Donald Walsch's Conversations With God is a series of books detailing a series of dialogues between the author and God. The book's contents ...

1' - The Simple Path to Wealth

31 Dec 2024

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.L. Collins's The Simple Path to Wealth is a guide to personal finance and investing, emphasizing simplicity and long-term strategies. The book advo...

8' - The Holographic Universe

29 Dec 2024

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The provided text indicates the source of an excerpt from a document titled "The Holographic Universe". This suggests that the document explores the c...

6' - The Four Pillars of Investing

28 Dec 2024

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This text is an excerpt from a book on investing, The Four Pillars of Investing, by William J. Bernstein explores the crucial elements for successful...

5' - How To Make Money in Stocks

27 Dec 2024

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This text is from a book How To Make Money in Stocks by William O'Neil. The author presents the CAN SLIM investing system, emphasizing the importance...

4' - You Can Heal Your Life

26 Dec 2024

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Louise L. Hay's You Can Heal Your Life is a self-help book promoting the idea that negative thoughts create illness and unhappiness. The book offer...

3' - The Holy Man

25 Dec 2024

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This podcast is based on Susan Trott's novel, The Holy Man. The story centers on a holy man who lives in a remote hermitage and receives a constant s...

9' - Being and Nothingness

24 Dec 2024

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This text is a collection of excerpts from the introduction and foreword to a new English translation of Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. Th...

2' - The Millionaire Next Door

23 Dec 2024

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"The Millionaire Next Door" by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko examines the lifestyles and financial habits of wealthy Americans. The book ch...

9' - I Ching

23 Dec 2024

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This text is an introduction and excerpts from a translation of the I Ching, or Book of Changes, an ancient Chinese divination text. The excerpt expl...

5' - The Vortex

21 Dec 2024

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"The Vortex" is a user manual accompanying based on the teachings of Abraham, channeled through Esther and Jerry Hicks. The guide instructs users on ...

8' - Mind is Your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget

20 Dec 2024

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This text is a selection of excerpts from the book "Mind is Your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget" by Sadhguru, a spiritual leader. This book exp...

3' - Strength to Strength - Fulfillment in the Second Half of Life

19 Dec 2024

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Arthur C. Brooks's From Strength to Strength explores the challenges and opportunities of the second half of life, arguing that professional success...

3' - Money, and the Law of Attraction

18 Dec 2024

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Esther and Jerry Hicks's Money, and the Law of Attraction is a self-help book published by Hay House, Inc. It explores the principles of the Law of...

5' - You The Healer - Silva Method

17 Dec 2024

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The text is an excerpt from a book promoting the Silva Method, a mind-control technique. It details the method's purported applications in improving ...

5' - Cosmos

16 Dec 2024

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Carl Sagan's Cosmos is a sweeping exploration of the universe, from its origins in the Big Bang to the possibility of extraterrestrial life. The boo...

7' - Republic

15 Dec 2024

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This text is an excerpt from Plato's Republic, exploring the nature of justice. Socrates, through dialogues with various interlocutors, investigates...

6' - Tao Te Ching

14 Dec 2024

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This document presents Stephen Mitchell's translation of the Tao Te Ching, an ancient Chinese text attributed to Lao-tzu. The book offers a philosophi...

10' - Dzogchen and Mahamudra Meditation

14 Dec 2024

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The texts provide an overview of the Dzogchen and Mahamudra contemplative traditions within Tibetan Buddhism. Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, emphasiz...

5' - Humanoid Robots: The 2040 Metatrend Report

13 Dec 2024

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A future profoundly impacted by converging technological advancements.  The first details the rapid growth of the humanoid robotics industry, predic...

8' - Relativity: The Special and General Theory

13 Dec 2024

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Albert Einstein's 1916 book, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, explains his theories of relativity to a non-specialist audience. The book ...

10' - Being and Time

11 Dec 2024

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This text comprises excerpts from a translated edition of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time. The excerpts showcase Heidegger's philosophical project,...

5' - Money: Master the Game

11 Dec 2024

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This text is an excerpt from Tony Robbins' book, "Money: Master the Game," The Holy Grail of Investing which explores alternative investment strategi...

7' - A Man For All Markets

11 Dec 2024

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Ed Thorp's autobiography recounts his life, focusing on his use of mathematics and computer science to gain an edge in gambling and investing. Thorp...