September 20, 2020

Magic and Mystery in Tibet - by: Alexandra David-Neel (1932, 2014)


This is one of those rare books that exposes another culture in a way that really opens it up an lets the reader glimpse for themselves what is there, instead of telling you. I was especially interested in the phenomena of "tulpas", which are like ghosts that our mind creates, consciously or unconsciously, and then they take on a life with consciousness of their own. I wonder if these "tulpas" are far more common than we think. Maybe, in a strange sense, we are all tulpas living in our own minds! (I am referring to the idea that maybe our egos are just an illusion that our minds create in order to rationalize what we experience.) Very interesting and "enlightening" stuff! 😀 

Magic and Mystery in Tibet - by: Alexandra David-Neel (1932, 2014)

This is one of those rare books that exposes another culture in a way that really opens it up an lets the reader glimpse for themselves what...