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How good is the book "The psychology of man's possible evolution"?

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I'm probably gonna read this book since Leo mentioned it in his awareness video but I just want to hear from anyone who's read it how they found it. 

I tried pirating it but the file on my kindle is in an annoying format. I'm probably gonna buy it. 

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Hark ye yet again — the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough.

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Never have read a better book that is just 100 pages. It's very very worth reading. 

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It's really good.  It's like Buddhism explained through a contemporary Western mind.  One of the best things I read so far.  Some of it gets a little wacky, but the good bits are really good.  It's like any book, there are high-points and low-points.  You gotta be a good cherry-picker.  Some sections of the book are spot-on though.  

You guys and gals can read it for free!  See link below.  Skim the sh*t out of it!  Invest 2 hours in skimming it.  Note the juicy passages.  This will teach you how to read critically.  You gotta become kind of a hunter when you read books.  You're not sitting there reading a novel.  You're looking for strategies, explanations, theories, tools, stuff to put to put to use.  Learn how to skim and to skip the BS that plagues all books.  You're hunting for the gold-nuggets out of everything you read.  

http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0Gurdjieff/Psychology_Mans_Possiblle_Evolution.pdf

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33 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

It's like any book, there are high-points and low-points.

Maybe the low points just seem low because the high points are so high?

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