A Family Tree of Self-Culture: Six Generations of an Idea

A family-tree history of self-culture, from ancient Greece, China, and India to nineteenth-century America, as background for a related book. Some ideas feel brand new because the label is new. "Self-culture" sounds like a phrase from a modern planner, yet the notion underneath it has a long ancestry. This article draws that ancestry as a family tree, moving from the oldest relatives down to the contemporary descendants. It is background reading and not a summary of any book. The title that prompted it is The Billionaire Self-Culture (https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=8bntEQAAQBAJ) by Dr. Ajarn Robert Shumake (Ajarn Shaman Shu). Whatever that book contains, it belongs to a family, and families are easier to understand once you have met the elders. The oldest ancestor: tending a garden Related book: The Billionaire Self-Culture by Dr. Ajarn Robert Shumake. More titles: Amazon author store.