C.S. Lewis on the Reading of Old Books
This was life-changing for me. I wanted to learn about spirituality through a different lens than the Catholic upbringing that constrained my mind and the rampant &quot;spirituality is synonymous with Christianity&quot; that I find in the U.S. I went out and read a handful of ancient religious texts from all of the world. This led me to see that throughout the course of human history, tribes from all over the world have espoused the same truths about the nature of reality (non-duality). I don&#x27;t believe I could have reached this knowledge by reading derivative works alone.