Novels in Novels.
Tip-top selections from everything I’ve ever read in Readings.
Guide to my essays below.
Autobiographical writings below that.
Substantive topics
An HONEST Guide out of Depression – 3000 words
On Human Interaction – 3000 words
A Conversation with my Inner Child – 1000 words
How I Plan to Run my School — 2700 words
A brief explanation of God – 2000 words
Spinoza is one of my tip-top favourite people ever.
His greatest work is called the Ethics.
I’ve tried to sum it up.
- Introduction – 2000 words
- Part I: Of God – 8000 words
- Part II: Of the Mind – 9000 words
- Part III: Of the Affects – 12,000 words
- Part IV: Of Human Bondage – 13,000 words
- Part V: Of Human Freedom – 10,000 words
On the Self – 15000 words
Bit big, but fairly enlightening.
On Self-Centeredness – 200 words
On Love – (forthcoming)
On Death – (forthcoming)
Buddhism made EXTREMELY simple – 500 words
Why It’s OK to exist in a time of mass extinction – 300 words
The Problem of Suffering – 2500 words
Do you suffer? Now you won’t be confused about it.
The Problem of Time – 1200 words
How Alternative Medicine works – 400 words
How to talk to Racists, Sexists, and Little Libtard Snowflakes – 150 words
A VERY quick note on racism – 600 words
Why the Simulation Argument is so silly – 300 words
(More on this at some point.)
(I think I’m gonna write a book summing up Indian philosophy using the metaphor of the world as a computer simulation / video game.)
On the pre-eminence of Mysticism – 300 words
What do I want? – 1000 words
What do I want? v2 – 500 words
Vipassana
3-part series on meditation, cultiness, and reconciling oneself to culty things.
On LSD – 300 words
Why Twitch Plays Pokémon is the Best Thing Ever – 9600 words
An old classic.
Your Name, Love, and the Answers to Everything – 14000 words
At some point, I’ll circle back to the beginning of this blog and start writing about anime again…
The Darkest Thought… and the Light Beyond it – 1200 words
Autobiographical Sequence
I wrote these partly to leave miniscule traces of the fact that I existed, but mostly as a series of examples to elucidate the nature of the mind and share life lessons.
Earliest Memories – Introduction to a method of introspection – 2500 words
0 – 4
The Birth of Venus – A Life in Romance (forthcoming)
4 – 10 (…and then 10 – 31)
Assorted minor childhood traumas and their unknotting (forthcoming)
A Hedgehog’s Guide to Depression
25-27
The Psychedelic Ship sets sail (forthcoming)
28
The Hedonistic Interlude (forthcoming)
28
The Crux (forthcoming)
28
The Enlightenment Experience
28
The Loneliness Experience (forthcoming)
28
The Mystical Experience (forthcoming)
28
Prayer (forthcoming)
28
Breaking Through
28-29
Depression again
30
My First Meditation Retreat
30
A weird, revealing lockdown dream
31
The day I almost killed myself (forthcoming)
31
etc.
David Leon 