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Originally Posted by OPVerma
Diamonds ? Gold? Not at all. It contains only the following four books comprising his Personal Handbook containing, 'All the knowledge in the Universe' ISBN 9788190950299.
1. The Real History of the Ancient World'
2. The Universe
3. Nature's Bio-laws of Action
4. 21st Century Bhagavad-Gita
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Well evidently god has a pretty poor publicist considering that amazon has the book listed as:
Out of Print--Limited Availability.
So until god can work-out the kinks with (her/his) "it's" publisher I've found some other books that will suffice until then. (and lets face it, most of these "god" books are usually an extrapolated version of what science currently knows. Ya ain't gonna see a god book insisting that the earth is currently flat!)
A good place to start on what's known so far about our origins as a species are these two exceptional reads:
The Last Ape Standing by Chip Walter
A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari
Follow those with this genius exploratory read on how we humans may well have evolved in relation to our mating habits.
Sex at Dawn by Christoper Ryan
We have consistently been told that we're a Monogamist species but this general view of such is quiet recent. It doesn't appear at all that we evolved with this in mind. Nor was it Polygamist. Our minds and bodies appear to have evolved around a Polyamory model (in which participants have multiple romantic partners). This is likely why it's so difficult for many to keep their attentions and affections focused strictly on the farm. :)
Then, this book is exceptionally cool:
Not So Different; finding Human Nature in Animals by Nathan H. Lents
We keep thinking we're different, and above all that's around us, when really the only difference is that we humans tend to burn-off tons of calories on repetitive 'thinking'. The rest of us is completely animal to it's core, both in function and maintenance.
Now follow that read with this,
The Story of the Human Body, by Daniel Lieberman for more details as to how our animal bodies adapted to nature as it has.
And then:
Meet Your Happy Chemicals: Dopamine, Endorphin , Oxytocin, Serotonin by Loretta Graziano, it's a good book to read as to how our bodies chemicals are at play in relation to our emotional makeup.
Now going a little deeper into the naturally processing engine, that is our body, I would recommend,
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life, by Ed Yong
This book nicely reflects the emerging science from the study called the Human MicroBiome Project, which is exploring the necessity of being aware-of and incorporating the microbial diversity that helps run our bodily organism.
If you want to know what's going on in the soil along these lines read:
Teaming with Microbes, the Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web, by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis
When it gets down to "thinking and 'practical' enlightenment" you can read the first couple of chapters of
Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg by Joseph Chilton Pearce. Pearce does a nice job of demonstrating how we've split ourselves from nature and have created and live within a semantic version of reality. A semantic version is purely thought driven, with the "experience" of nature itself appearing outside and distant.
And then read
What's Wrong with Mindfulness (and What Isn't) by Bary Magid. This is a collection of essays by Buddhists practitioners who are detailing the cumbersome issues that accompany the attempt to take a Buddhist practice and then trying to retrofit it to a western-cultural-mindset.
Now, these aren't high-end spiritual books that where channeled down by god knows who. (actually if you want to read some good books from that angle anything by Frank DeMarco is golden!) These are basic books (of which there are many, many more) that help detail our deep involvement as
physical beings on a physical planet. This is the part that's so often overlooked by "spiritual" people on a "spiritual" quest. Without knowing this stuff you won't be able to differentiate between the "natural" experience, (which we're embedded in daily) and the contrast to what's outside of this perceptual framework.