My most conservative of four brothers gave me all three Atlas Shrugged DVDs as as many Christmases came along.
Before that me old dino had never heard of Ayn Rand or objectivism, a word my spell checker still red lines.
Before I saw all three DVDs I became interested enough in Ayn Rand's philosophy that I stumbled into The Gulch for looking around on the internet.
I've been learning a lot here. I'm still a dictionary definition ooga-booga mystic, though. That's not going away.

A friend and co-worker that I respected suggested that I read Atlas Shrugged in about 1978. We had had many discussions about politics and integrity, so his suggestion was based on an understanding of my beliefs at the time. I had a VHS copy of the movie The Fountainhead that I shared with him. Being a work-a-holic at the time and being absorbed by the interesting work I was engaged in, I didn't read AS until about 1982. My uncle loaned me a paperback copy that I read on airline flights over the course of a few weeks- the only time I could set aside for such a pleasure. I started my business shortly thereafter and had zero free time for years, but the seeds had been planted. I heard about Objectivism a decade later when my disgust with government had substantially increased.

Neothink...it's not something one can get in the open Market.

It was Marks work on what he calls Neothink and its application, which actually resembles a higher level of awareness, consciousness and world views. We see that in Spiral Dynamics where about .1% of the population has achieved new levels of integration's beyond the formalized memes of awareness.

Neothink embraces Objectivity as Rand presents it and goes beyond that.
It was really eye opening stuff. I was also introduced to Julian Jaynes: The breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. (read Brain). The work of Jaynes forms the basis of my work in: The Fight for Conscious Human Life© found at most book downloading sites.

What was this manuscript called?

I am still reading Atlas Shrugged, but it is really resonating with the way I think. Never thought that there was a book that could make me interested in any philosophy

I kept hearing how bad it was. I finally asked someone which book was a good exemplar. I said I'd check it out from the library just so I could see how bad it is. It turned out he had never read any of the books and knew little about them.

I grabbed the first one I found at the library, Fountainhead. I was sure I would hate it. It turned out I loved it. It made me rethink some political behavior I have seen in my life.

I was first introduced to Rand and Objectivism while studying a 3000 page manuscript written by Neo Think author Mark Hamilton. I read Atlas Shrugged after that and was hooked.