Perhaps you might be interested in the works of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff. When I encountered his ideas, I was impressed by his psychological insights. I had n

Perhaps you might be interested in the works of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff. When I encountered his ideas, I was impressed by his psychological insights. I had never encountered same level of insight before. It really resonated with me. His approach is not religious in the usual sense -- there is no need to believe anything or pray to some entities. It is not in conflict with religions either. Gurdjieff is presenting the psychological and spiritual ideas that are behind many mystical traditions of religions in a way that is more digestible by the modern man, and possible to apply in modern life. His own books are probably too dense to start from. A good starting point for me was the book series Psychological commentaries by Nicoll. Another popular one is In the search of the Miraculous by Ouspensky. You can only get the Commentaries as used, and they are really expensive, but you only need one of them to start with and PDF versions can be found online. One one book of the series will do, as they all are all composed of one pagers on recurring topics. Drop me a note if you are interested.