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Hi Jared,
My best wishes for your journey. One possible way can be sacred texts or scriptures. It can be daunting to understand which classificiation of books to start with but you can choose among the following three categories depending upon your personality alignment.
The Vedas are direct truths that only the most evovled consiousness can understand. The Vedas are the ancient truths of life revealed by the creator/supreme consiousness to the sages/rishis to pass one from yuga to another to preserve the knowlegdge from generation to generation.
For a new explorer it is best to start by studying the Upanishads and Puranas. If you cannot relate to these two literatures Vedas are difficult to comprehend.
Now before choosing where to start: Upanishads or Puranas, you have to decide whether you relate to the knowledge from the perspective of Philosophy (Upanishads) or from Bhakti (Puranas).
The Upanishads explain the truth about consiousness, life, creation by delving into philosophy and mental speculation using dialgoues, debates, anecdotes, etc.
The Puranas explain the truth by relating stories about Gods, their dialogues and anecdotes.
The intent of both these literatures is the same but the wise sages in their wisdom have left two different commentaries to appease both the categories of people. Depending on your preference for philosophy/Bhakti you can start with Upanishad/Purana respectively.
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