Historical Self Help Books

January 25, 2023
The books below in PDF format have been read by millions of people.  One of the more widely read books is the Laws to Success, more popularly known in its condensed form as Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.  Although there is controversy over whether or not the author Napoleon Hill actually interviewed the people he claimed he spoke to for the book, the principles espoused therein are sound.  Thinking for yourself and believing in your ability to accomplish things is legitimate no matter who says itI was behaviorally driven to look for a savior when I was young as a result of an abusive upbringing, and believe the mistrust and irreverence that stems from living with brutality and having to fight or flee, forces you to trust little and question a lot. To my way of thinking learning to think for and trust in yourself is critical, and the books attached offer some ideas to get you going in that direction.

It is not included, and I would not advocate suffocating in the blind faith obedience of corporate religion, Christianity Inc. Yet from what I can see the teachings of a stunningly aware Jesus in the new testament (read Cosmic Consciousness by Bucke attached below) are far different than what is sold by religions, which demand blind faith and obedience to their view of things. Kind of like the Covid Mafia or the outright criminals in the intelligence community and military industrial complex. 

I read the bible multiple times in the hope of learning the call signs, like the Batman signal, to bring SuperGod down to smite my enemies, but I could not figure out the call sign so SuperGod never arrived. In searching for answers I did gain a broader understanding of how things work after reading more than 800 books and spending a lengthy stint in an Ashram in Colorado studying with Mahatmas.  The Mahatmas bludgeoned open my mind in the kindest and most polite way possible, stating that what I thought I knew prevented me from learning anything at all.

I had spent years learning goal setting and it was a complete brain freeze to shockingly realize goals and beliefs make you and break you. In fact goal setting may be the most destructive form of mind shaping you can do if you actually want to learn anything, which I will explain.  The other problem we fail to grasp is how environmental boxes such as family, school, education, getting a job and constantly being told what to do and how to behave actually ruin freedom and thinking. Skinner Boxes in velvet gloves.  "Oh I love my children! We love you too Mommy!) The beginning of the end.

Children For A Very Short Time Are God

Little children become what they think they are at the moment they imagine and act it out.  There is no doubt, fear, or guilt.  From our adult perspective it may appear they are not the perfect spaceman or glamor model at the moment they assume the persona, but they actually are what they think they are at that moment and it simply is a matter of needing more practice. Professional athletes use such visualization in sports.   The bible puts it this way


Mark 11:22-24 NIV “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."  ie Think from a position, not to it, or act as if.

Goals actually establish a minus quantity, like looking at mountains far away.  That places time, distance, and missing quantities in front of you and delays progress immensely.  Acting as if, or being there now reverses the process. The worst thing is that you are in the workshop moving ahead and some tools are missing.  Can you imagine a ski jumper at the top of one of those Olympic runs, thinking before they take off "One day in the future I will learn how to go down this ramp and land without killing myself?

Yet in all of this we must forge ahead with a completely open mind, allowing for change and the possibility that the direction we are going in will likely change completely. Ralph Waldo Emerson put it this way: 


"A Foolish Consistency Is The Hobgoblin Of Little Minds"

One of the most clear minded thinkers I have studied, the Nobel Prize winning genius physicist named Richard Feynman, explains it this way:


“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.”

“Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.”


A parable about blind faith in an all powerful god taking care of things makes it pretty clear. "A preacher passed a beautiful farm one day and stopped to congratulate the farmer on how blessed he was in receiving such a beautiful farm from God.  The farmer though it about it for a minute and said "Yes preacher, but you should have seen the place when God had it all to himself."  Simply put, the only god that touched the farm wore coveralls, had mud on his boots, and worked the land.  So it is with all of us.

We are also told that human beings were born into a heavenly place on earth, the Garden of Eden, and we screwed it all up when we were encouraged by a snake to eat an apple from the tree of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, to become like the gods. From everything I have read and studied, and from limited but practical scientific understanding, the world and everything in it started from an infinite and small source and expanded (the Big Bang Theory), and continues to expand to ever greater forms today.  Religions' view of the process sums it up this way ("In the beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and the word was god, and was not anything made that was not of god.") A tiny spark on the face of the deep.


We are lead to believe only god knows the difference between good and evil, notwithstanding the fact that in religious lore he created the whole place and everything in it, including the devil.  When I asked the Mahatmas who created the devil they asked "Don't you read your bible?  God did."  As a creator myself, my spouse and I have children, it seems kind of counterproductive to create a world that could kill your offspring unless you half hate the little bastards in the first place.

The Garden of Eden allegory implies the created universe, no matter who or what is responsible for it, can be evaluated in terms of good and evil if you have god's knowledge. No matter what formation methodology you believe in, you being able to pass judgment on the Big Bang or the word of god so that you can be Godlike and decide the goodness or badness of the process of creation, is frankly delusional and self defeating.  It implies their is some kind of right way to do things. We may categorize events in terms of good or evil because we don't like them, but that may be our perspective alone, and
perspectives change.

The parable of eating the fruit - or simply "the product of" or "the result of" trying to make decisions about what is good or evil in order to judge things like a God, is what kills us, nothing else.  Go tell the Big Bang it screwed up and you would like to become the judge of the process so you could label the entire and continuing explosion of the universe in clear and concise terms of good and evil and make some changes.  Having no knowledge at all and yet believing in your own omnipotence to direct the world and the resulting disaster it creates can easily be seen in the operation of a Joe Biden or Justin Trudeau, a couple of delusional nut jobs.  What you can do however, is understand the flow of events and try to work with them.

Another example of the fall of man which is simpler than listening to a snake and believing our own BS can be seen in thinking we have infinite power to control everything and that events as they unfold can be ignored or judged on our terms. Here is an example.

Human beings are capable of amazing things, but there are ways of trying to do things that have to be learned with an open mind.  In the main site to this link I explain how we learn to act long before we learn to think, which become habits we later try to justify even though we had little to do creating them from a young age. Kind of like a person going down a water slide thinking they are actually steering their own way down.  We must learn to think before we act or jump to conclusions, which is not something we are trained to do.  Our previously ingrained pattern of beliefs and the habits we develop as a result, are the real enemies of our existence.  Next is getting rid of the clowns trying to control things, or the "Absolute masters, Despots, and Tyrants" as Samuel Adams describes them.

You could easily be mislead into believing following orders from parents, teachers, politicians, doctors, police the military or anyone in authority or else holding the purse, or both, is the way we are supposed to live and behave. If you are foolish enough to believe that at least you can understand how the world got to where it is.

For those of you with little children, you already understand the process and the futility of trying to guide babies and very young children with logic. They learn not to wet their pants or poop in them by disliking the physical discomfort of having wet messy pants, not because you inspired them with great theories about urine and feces on their skin. They learn walking and crawling to get somewhere or to get something they want. They also learn to behave in many of the ways they do because you enforced it. For a short while you are their God, and you dictate their habitual behavior by force, confinement, physical control, and/or using a carrot or a stick approach, as well as by feeding them and manipulating them with hugs and kisses. 

This behavior control process creates the habits of action that eventually develop a rudimentary form of obedient thought in children and young adults because of the way they are forced to act by necessity or demand.  Boot camp for babies, but Mommy loves me, maybe?  For their entire life someone puts children and young adults into behavior defining and controlling boxes which eventually dictate the justification process we call thinking. If you doubt that try telling the schools they go to what you would like them to be taught. The reality is by looking around you, you may realize one of the more critical skills we need to learn ourselves and teach our children is to forget everything we think we know and rethink independently about everything.

We Think Because of the Way We Act.  

The idea that we made all of the decisions all the way along is a fiction we fool ourselves with.  Did you create your own education, job, upbringing, choose were you were brought up? Nope. Look at what the governments of the world are doing to your country, your life and the world.  You are a child in an abusive relationship managed by a band of corrupt, lying manipulative functionaries (or simply the elected or appointed representatives in government as the colonists called them, that are supposed to but rarely do look after citizens' interests).  And they are doing everything in their power to make sure you stay subservient.  Don't talk back.  The books below give you some ideas on how to break with the boot camp existence you live in. There is absolutely no point following this and the main site if you are not willing to pay the price to take control of your own life, and kick over the ties that bind you to the broken behavior control program we call society.


Laws to Success
Power of Positive ThinkingThinking Fast, and SlowPsycho CyberneticsCosmic ConsciounessCapital PikettySuveilance CapitalismAs A Man Thinketh1984