BOOKS READ IN 2021

1 The Book by Alan Watts 👍🏼👍🏼

2 Seven Quartets of Becoming by Debashish Banerji 👍🏼

3 The Immortality Key by Brian Muraresku 👍🏼👍🏼

4 The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagel 👍🏼👍🏼

5 The Secret of the Ages by Robert Collier 👎🏼

6 Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki 👍🏼👍🏼

7 The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes 👍🏼

8 As A Man Thinketh by James Allen 👎🏼

9 An Introduction to Zen Buddhism by DT Suzuki 👍🏼 〰️

10 The Tao of Politics 👍🏼

11 A Chosen Faith by John Buehrens & Forrest Church 👍🏼 〰️

12 The Heart of Emerson’s Journals 👍🏼 〰️

13 Inner Christianity by Richard Smoley 👍🏼👍🏼

14 Spiritual Politics by McLaughlin & Davidson 〰️

15 Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Dogen 👍🏼

16 Meeting of the Two Seas by Saeed A Malik 〰️

17 The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy 👍🏼

18 The Tantraloka 👍🏼👍🏼

19 The Light Beyond by Raymond Moody 👍🏼

20 The Heart of Recognition by Swami Khecaranatha 👍🏼

21 The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot 👍🏼 👍🏼

22 Heaven is All Goodbyes by Tongo Eisen-Martin 〰️👍🏼

23 Everything Is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism by Jay Michaelson 👍🏼

24 Science and Spiritual Practices by Rupert Sheldrake 👍🏼

25 Awakening Shakti by Sally Kempton 👍🏼

26 The Reflexive Universe by Arthur M Young 👍🏼

27 True Hallucinations by Terence Mckenna 👍🏼 👍🏼

28 Leave Society by Tao Lin 👍🏼

29 I Celebrate Myself: Biography of Allen Ginsberg by Billy Morgan 👍🏼

30 Communion by Whitley Strieber 〰️

31 A Politics of Love by Marianne Williamson 〰️👍🏼

32 Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harare 👍🏼 👍🏼

33 Hilma Af Klint: Paintings for the Future 👍🏼

34 The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac 👍🏼

35 The Essential Plotinus 👍🏼 👍🏼

36 Wisdom Jesus by Cynthia Bourgeault 👍🏼 👍🏼

37 Be Here Now by Ram Dass 👍🏼

38 Spinoza’s Ethics 👍🏼

BOOKS READ IN 2020

1 Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician by Alfred Jarry

2 The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda

3 Thou Art That by Joseph Campbell

4 The Way of Zen by Alan Watts

5 Orders of Universal Reformation by Manly P Hall

6 On Imagination by Mary Ruefle

7 Writing as a Path to Awakening by Albert Flynn DeSilver

8 Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder

9 The Secret of Success by William Walker Atkinson

10 An Abridgment of the Secret Doctrine by HP Blavatsky

11 Eastern Body, Western Mind by Anodea Judith

12 A Way of Being by Carl Rogers

13 Healing with Form, Energy, and Light by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

14 On the Road by Jack Kerouac

15 Map of the Soul: Persona by Murray Stein

16 Challenge of the Heart edited by John Welwood

17 The Red Book by Carl Jung

18 Toward a Psychology of Awakening by John Welwood

19 On God by Krishnamurti

20 The Secret of the Golden Flower

21 Dzogchen by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu

22 Mount Analogue by Rene Daumal

24 On Becoming an Alchemist by MacCoun

25 The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade

26 Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda

27 Kybalion by the Three Initiates

28 Zen Without Zen Masters by Camden Benares

29 In Search of the Miraculous by PD Ouspensky

30 A Fire in the Mind: Biography of Joseph Campbell by Stephen Larsen

31 Nature by RW Emerson

32 Cloud-hidden by Alan Watts

33 Earth Power by Scott Cunningham

34 The Transformation of Nature in Art by Ananda Coomaraswami

35 The Philosopher’s Stone by Colin Wilson

36 The Emerald Tablet of Hermes

37 The Miracle Club by Mitch Horowitz

38 Robert Creeley: Selected Poems

39 A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

40 Across that Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America by John Lewis

41 Spiritual Democracy by Steven Herrman

42 Leaves of Grass by Walter Whitman

43 Race Matters by Cornel West

44 The World Doesn’t End by Charles

45 The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

46 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

47 No One Can Do Anything Worse to You Than You Can by Sam Pibn

48 Person by Sam Pink

49 Father’s Day by Matthew Zapruder

50 One Simple Idea by Mitch Horowitz

51 The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles

52 this very moment by James Ishmael Ford

53 Awakened Imagination by Neville

54 Nag Hammadi Library

55 New Testament of The Bible

56 The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power by Vernon Howard

57 The Corpus Hermeticum by Hermès Trismegisgus

58 Secret Destiny of America by Manly P Hall

59 Creative Mythology by Joseph Campbell

BOOKS READ IN 2019

1 Wabi-Sabi Further Thoughts by Leonard Koren

2 Cloud-hidden by Alan Watts

3 Frank Loyd Wright: His Life and His Architecture by Robert C Twombly

4 Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies by Reyner Banham

5 On the Sublime by Cassius Longinus

6 Verses from the Center: A Buddhist Vision of the Sublime by Stephen Batchelor

7 The Daemon Knows by Harold Bloom

8 The Unitarian Universalist Pocket Guide

9 Love & Death by Forrest Church

10 Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson

11 Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom Part 1 by Rachel Pollack

12 Introduction to Tantra by Lana Yeshe

13 The Chuang Tzu

14 One Taste by Ken Wilber

15 Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom Part 2 by Rachel Pollack

16 Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine

17 Urban Tantra by Barbara Carrellas

18 Kabbalistic Tarot by Dovid Krafchow

19 The Inner Reaches of Outer Space by Joseph Campbell

20 Introduction to Gnosis by Samael Aun Weor

21 Synchronicity by Carl Jung

22 Tantra: The Path of Ecstasy by Georg Feuerstein

23 Loving Ganesa by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

24 Dreaming Yourself Awake: Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation by B Alan Wallace

25 Global Brain by Howard Bloom

26 early fifties, early sixties allen ginsberg journals

27 Cosmic Trigger Vol II by Robert Anton Wilson

28 The Miracle Club by Mitch Horowitz

29 High Weirdness by Erik Davis

30 Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism by John Powers

31 I Am Going to Clone Myself Then Kill the Clone and Eat It by Sam Pink

32 Founding Fathers, Secret Sociegies by Robert Hieronimus

33 Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder

34 Hello by Crispin Best

35 The Way of Tarot by Andrei Jorodowski

36 The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P Hall

37 The Tarot by Paul Foster Case

38 Psychogeography by Merlin Coverley

39 The Day We Lost Pet by Chuck Young

40 How to Know Higher Worlds by Rudolf Steiner

41 The Zen of the Bright Virtue by Manly P Hall

42 Occult America by Mitch Horowitz

43 The Kybalion by the Three Initiates

44 The Cosmic Consciousness of Walt Whitman by Richard Maurice Bucke

BOOKS READ IN 2018

1 Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa 

2 It Came from Beyond Zen by Brad Warner

3 Waking Up by Sam Harris

4 So Recently Rent a World: New & Selected Poems by Andrei Codrescu 

5 Drown by Junot Diaz 

6 Middle Passage by Charles Johnson 

7 Trip by Tao Lin 

8 Untethered Soul by Michael Singer

9 Selected Poems by James Tate 

10 Return to the City of White Donkeys by James Tate 

11 Worshipful Company of Fletchers by James Tate 

12 The Garbage Times/White Ibis by Sam Pink 

13 Dhammapada

14 Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin 

15 How We Light by Nick Sturm 

16 The Ending of Time by Krishnamurti & David Bohm

17 Empire of Signs by Ronald Barthes

18 “Nature” by Emerson

19 Liveblog by Megan Boyle

20 Spezzatura by Mike Young

21 Selected Poems by Octavio Paz

22 Writing Poetry by Greg Fraser and Chad Davidson

23 Wabi-Sabi by Leonard Koren

24 Surrealist Manifesto I by Andre Breton

25 Triggering Town by Richard Hugo

26 In My Own Way by Alan Watts

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