Which texts should I read to bring about a sense of urgency in pursuing self-realisation

All is said really. I find contemplating the rareness of human birth and the great opportunity it provides for enlightenment and freedom from Samsara effective, but while reading on the same topics, I encounter the idea that the earth is flat, surrounded by mountains, four continents so far in between each other they are inaccessible, human beings were luminescent and could move through the air... and so on... resulting in this urgency being replaced by extreme doubt :(

So, to add to the first question, how do you personally deal with the incompatibilities of science and some aspects of Buddhism, including the aforementioned ones.

Thanks :)

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