Food For Thought

Our bodies require good nutrition to stay healthy and strong. If we feed it garbage, we get weak and sick. In much the same way, our minds require healthy inputs. The purpose of this thread is for people to share books, movies, or other media that they have found to be uplifting.

I’ll start with a few suggestions. On tv I like sports, news, nature shows, and the history channel. For an uplifting spiritual read, I like the Bhagavad Gita.

I’d really appreciate it if people could name some contemporary books and movies or other media that they like.

You are what you eat!
hence the alchemists incombustible substance homogenous with the body.

The Alchemist by paulo coelho
Great Book.

Food For Thought:
The thc
and try to hear the sound one hand clapping (weekly once)
:wink:

Actually I’m looking for the kinds of things that would be beneficial to someone with a troubled mind. Things like thc and alchemy weren’t what I had in mind. Is there anything left in this culture that can lift the spirit, like great music, art and literature has always done?

Thanks for launching the post Asuri. I your last post points us back to the spirituality debate, in a sense. Just as authentic physicality requires good nutrition for a healthy body, authentic spirituality involves an emotional response, which can include feelings of significance, unity, awe, joy, acceptance, and consolation. Almost all of us have the biological capacity to feel spiritually transported, but the cognitive context of those moments and the techniques to induce them are a matter of our culture.

The answer to your question then, is ‘yes’. But, this is an individual experience that can be share with a group of like culture. For me, listening to Oasis at times brings me immense uplifting joy. Their music, which at first blush may appear negative, is positive in the extreme with a message that says 'I can be me, and fuck you if you don’t like it".

Even nihilists revel in the joy of their feedback, and is quite fashionable right now. But, is spite of this, I still find deep sources of inspiration from my kids, my work, honest discussion with trusted friends, the intellectual presentation of some modern art (love the work of Micah Lexier, who just shows us who we are).

Lots out there :slight_smile:

~Yogash chitta vritti nirodhah.
Tada drashtuh svarupe avasthanam.

~Yoga is the mastery of the activities of the mind-field.
Then the seer rests in its true nature.

Actually I think I owe Avatar186 an apology. I responded based on some preconceived notions of what alchemy means. In fact The Alchemist is an international best seller, it has been translated into 71 languages and sold more that 20 million copies. Thank you for the contribution. I’ll have to read it.