WHAT IโVE READ IN 2025
1 Simone Weil: An Anthology ๐๐๐โค๏ธโ๐ฅ
2 In Praise of Shadows by Junโichiro Tanizaki ๐๐.5
3 Dogenโs Shobogenzo Book 1 ๐๐๐โธ๏ธ
4 Eternal History by Madame X ๐๐
5 Gurdjieff: Making a New World ๐๐๐โฎ๏ธ
6 โThe Pataphysics of Ghostsโ by Rene Daumal ๐๐๐
WHAT IโVE WATCHED IN 2025
1 Bohemian Rhapsody ๐๐.5
2 Anora ๐๐.5
3 Flow (2024) ๐๐๐
4 The Little Prince (1974) ๐๐.5
5 Blue Velvet ๐๐๐๐คฏ
6 Grey Gardens ๐๐๐ ๐ฑ
7 Eyes Wide Shut ๐๐๐
8 David Lynch: The Art Life ๐๐๐ ๐ฌ
9 Eraserhead ๐๐.5
10 Tokyo-Ga ๐๐.75
11 Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch ๐๐๐
12 Lost Highway ๐๐๐
13 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ๐๐.75
14 Mystery Train ๐๐.5
15 American Manhunt: OJ Simpson ๐๐๐
16 Chaos: The Manson Murders ๐๐๐
17 Century of the Self ๐๐๐ ๐ณ
18 Social Dilemma ๐๐๐๐ณ
19 Truman Show ๐๐๐ ๐คฏ
20 Queer Eye ๐๐๐ ๐
WHAT I WATCHED IN 2024
1 Blackberry ๐๐๐
2 Boy and the Heron ๐๐
3 Spirited Away ๐๐๐๐
4 Man on Fire ๐๐
5 Grizzly Man ๐๐๐
6 Birdman ๐๐
7 Whiplash ๐๐๐
8 Mushishi ๐๐๐
9 Free Solo ๐๐.5
10 Princess Mononoke ๐๐๐
11 Big Fish ๐๐๐
12 Anastasia ๐๐
13 Jane Eyre (2011) ๐๐.5
14 The Cell ๐๐
15 Kill Your Darlings ๐๐
16 Everything Everywhere All At Once ๐๐๐
17 Society of the Snow ๐๐๐
18 In the Mood for Love ๐๐.5
19 The Fountain ๐๐๐
20 Roadrunner ๐๐๐๐
21 Apocalypse Now ๐๐๐๐
22 Hearts of Darkness ๐๐๐
23 Demonslayer ๐๐๐
24 Godfather ๐๐.5
25 Parasite ๐๐๐๐
26 Rosemaryโs Baby ๐๐.5
27 Salinger ๐๐๐
28 JD Salinger Doesnโt Want to Talk ๐๐๐
29 Alex OโConnor videos ๐๐
30 Theory of Everything Videos ๐๐
31 John Vervaeke ๐๐๐
32 Bernardo Kastrup videos ๐๐๐
33 Very Ape videos ๐๐.5
34 Destiny videos ๐๐.5
35 Coleman Hughes videos ๐๐
36 Francis Lucille ๐๐๐
37 The Secrets of Carlos Castaneda ๐๐
38 The Astrology Podcast ๐๐๐
39 Arthur Young videos ๐๐๐
40 Third Eye Drops ๐๐.5
41 Creeley ๐๐
42 It Wasnโt a Dream: It Was a Flood ๐๐
43 Chefโs Table ๐๐๐๐
44 Jack Kerouac ๐๐.5.
45 Who Owns Jack Kerouac ๐๐
46 Perfect Days ๐๐๐๐
47 A Sign from God ๐.5
48 Show about the Show ๐๐๐
49 I Donโt Hate Las Vegas Anymore ๐๐
50 Bladerunner ๐๐
51 Caveh interviews ๐๐๐
52 Before Sunrise ๐๐.5.
53 Boyhood ๐๐๐
54 Better Call Saul ๐๐๐๐
55 Black Mirror ๐๐.5
56 The Ultimatum ๐๐
57 Duncan Trussel Family Hour ๐๐๐
58 Interstellar ๐๐.5
59 Mad Max: Fury Road ๐๐.5
60 NeverEnding Story ๐๐๐
61 Mighty Ducks ๐๐
62 Six Feet Under ๐๐๐๐
63 Married at First Sight ๐๐.5
64 Past Lives ๐๐.5.
65 Zone of Interest ๐๐๐
66 Escaping Twin Flames ๐๐๐
67 Old Joy ๐๐๐๐ป
68 Badlands ๐๐๐๐
69 One Cut, One Life ๐๐๐๐ป
70 The Worst Person in the World ๐๐๐
71 Before Sunset ๐๐๐
72 Before Midnight ๐๐๐๐
73 Daliland ๐๐.5
74 Crazy Wisdom ๐๐๐
75 A Woman Under the Influence ๐๐๐๐
76 The Celebration ๐๐๐๐
77 Breaking the Waves ๐๐๐๐ข
78 Unsung Hero ๐๐.5
79 Anamolisa ๐๐๐ ๐
80 The Program (James Fox) ๐๐๐๐ธ
81 A Complete Unknown ๐๐๐ ๐ถ
WHAT I READ IN 2024
1) Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin ๐๐.5
2) The Prelude by William Wordsworth (1805 Edition) ๐๐.5
3) Time and Free Will by Henri Bergson ๐๐๐
4) This Time by Gerald Stern ๐๐.5
5) A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa, edited and translated by Richard Zenith ๐๐.5 (tho the Alberto Caeiro poems are ๐๐๐๐)
6) Modern Occultism by Mitch Horowitz ๐๐.5 (fascinating info but full of typos & generally a little all-over-the-place)
7) Views from the Real World: Early Talks from G.I. Gurdjieff ๐๐๐
8) Gurdjieff: His Life and Ideas by John Shirley ๐๐๐๐
9) In Search of the Miraculous by Ouspensky ๐๐๐
10) Mount Analogue by Rene Daumal ๐๐๐
11) The Golden Thread by Joscelyn Godwin ๐๐๐
12) Pluralistic Universe by William James ๐๐๐๐
13) Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Yates ๐๐.5
14) Walking to Marthaโs Vineyard by Franz Wright ๐๐๐
15) What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver ๐๐.5
16) Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake ๐๐.5
17) Politics and the Occult by Gary Lachman ๐๐๐
18) The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch ๐๐๐
19) Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung ๐๐๐๐
20) The Art of Memory by Frances Yates ๐๐.5.
21) The Theosophical Enlightenment by Joscelyn Godwin ๐๐
22) The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda ๐๐๐
23) Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction ๐ by JD Salinger ๐๐๐
24) Franny and Zooey ๐ by Salinger ๐๐๐
25) Big Sur by Jack Kerouac ๐๐.5
26) The Dharma Bums by Kerouac ๐๐๐
27) Valis by Philip K Dick ๐๐๐
28) Catcher in the Rye ๐๐
29) Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald ๐๐๐
30) Rule of the Bone ๐๐๐๐
31) The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K Dick ๐๐๐๐
32) Ubik by PKD ๐๐.5.
33) Return to the City of White Donkeys by James Tate ๐๐.5
34) The Trail by Kafka ๐๐๐๐
35) Introduction to Tantra by Lama Yeshe ๐๐.75
36) Tantra: The Path of Ecstasy by Georg Feuerstein ๐๐.75
37) Infinite Potential by Neville Goddard ๐๐๐
38) Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse ๐๐.5
39) The Myth of Freedom by Trungpa ๐๐๐๐
40) Selections from In the Dust of This World by Eugene Thacker ๐๐๐
41) โThe Willowsโ by Algernon Blackwood ๐๐๐๐
42) Steppenwolf by Hesse ๐๐๐
43) True Hallucinations by Terence McKenna ๐๐๐
44) Will Oldham on Bonnie Prince Billy ๐๐๐ ๐ป
45) Braided Creek: Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison ๐๐.5
46) Portable Emerson ๐๐๐๐ป
47) William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism ๐๐๐๐
48) Simone Weil Anthology ๐๐๐ ๐
TEXTS READ IN 2023
*1) La Gravedad y Otras Sustancias by Daniel Lievano ๐ ๐๐
2) Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence by Stefano Mancuso and Alessandra Viola ๐๐๐
3) Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson๐๐๐
*4) The Essential William James ๐๐๐
5) A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics by Donald Richie ๐ ๐๐
6) Pedro Pรกramo by Juan Rulfo ๐๐๐
7) Creativity and Taoism by Chung-yuan Chang ๐ ๐
*8) Understanding Me by Marshall McLuhan ๐๐๐
9) Necessary Angel by Wallace Stevens ๐๐
*10) The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm ๐๐๐
11) El Aboroto de los Parajos by John Ashbery ๐๐
12) The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ๐๐๐
*13) The Creative Mind by Henri Bergson ๐๐๐
14) The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard ๐ ๐
*15) Soul Story by Tim Freke ๐๐๐
16) โIn Defense of Poetryโ by Percy Shelley ๐๐๐
17) โWhat is Enlightenment?โ by Immanuel Kant ๐๐๐
18) โPraise to Difficultyโ by Estanislao Zuleta ๐๐๐
*19) Pragmatism Lectures by William James ๐๐๐
*20) Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas ๐๐๐
21) Manโs Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl ๐๐๐
22) Jung the Mystic by Gary Lachman ๐๐๐
23) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn ๐๐๐
*24) Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (trans. by Robert Bly) ๐๐๐
25) I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by Rene Girard๐๐๐
26) Notes on the Death of Culture by Mario Vargas Llosa ๐๐๐