Read This Book on a Silent Hill: Meditations, that they won't tell you

Book excerpt: Read This Book on a Silent Hill – aims to be a spiritual and intellectual journey through many fields. With shamans, psychonauts, hackers and non-believers, through the imperfect records of history, to the uncertainty of future, it deals with the most interesting and important topics. Life’s contradictory nature is examined through short, but dense chapters, that aim to bring the reader into the present moment. To provide a compass, it draws from a wide range of topics. On its pages, you will find about witch trials, psychedelics and their surrounding taboos, secret government programmes like the MKUltra, meditative techniques and reality perceptions, as well as an examination of our current state of being. What the monetary system and work culture of today holds for the human soul, how we got to this point and what cryptography and the power of free thinking can do for us. What the Matrix and french philosophy have in common. Whether things are getting better, or worse and what we can learn from tales of long dead grapevines, snails, fields of poppies and living bread. Ultimately, we will look at concepts such as time and marvel at the beuty of reality with all its separate, yet connected features and stare into the swriling fractal just a bit too long.