Writing School

Authors as pointers to other authors.

Five strands. Tibetan, about 230 titles across four traditions, each ordered by readiness rather than by fame. Psychology and identity, about 120. NLP, trance and hypnosis, about 60. Body, medicine and energy, about 55. Western mysticism and psychedelic, about 70.

The method, in the source's own words: you navigate towards the centre through reading great authors, who reference other great authors, doing much of the finding and discrimination for us. Authors are pointers. The skill being trained is discrimination, not accumulation, which is why a list of 1,017 is a syllabus rather than a deliverable.

Three gates, quoted rather than paraphrased. No solid materialist; open to spiritual ideas without being fanatical. Anarchist, not authoritarian. Pro-science.

Two of the three are not currently met here, and that is recorded rather than worked around. A system that is verifiable but non-experiential passes the third and fails the first. That gap is the reason the school exists.

Proficiency is the unit, not knowledge. One becomes proficient only in that which one has studied. A text that produces only a summary has not been used, whatever the file size.

Corpus status. corpus extracted. The curated reading list — 1,017 entries, read in full, August 2026 extraction.