More Ralston: The Principles of Effortless Power-- as I understand it, clearing out illusions and increasing one's understanding so that one's actions become extremely efficient-- it seemed like getting movement to the same level that savants have with computation. Zen Body-Being: Ralston's wife convinces him to write a relatively accessible version of the former book.
I find it perennially amusing that Ralston, who'd put huge amounts of work into getting into the truth of experience, still needed to be pushed to getting past "I did all this work on my own. At least you have a book. And now you want a book that's easier to understand?".
Also, if you haven't read it already Norman Spinrad's Iron Dream, as an imagined alternative past in which Hitler becomes a pulp author in the US and fantasises about, rather than attempts to realise, his 1000 year reich.
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Swastika Night sounds fascinating too. I'm boggled that I hadn't heard of it before, as it definitely sounds like an antecedent to 1984.
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I find it perennially amusing that Ralston, who'd put huge amounts of work into getting into the truth of experience, still needed to be pushed to getting past "I did all this work on my own. At least you have a book. And now you want a book that's easier to understand?".
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