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WHAT Iโ€™VE READ IN 2025

1 Simone Weil: An Anthology ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ”ฅ

2 In Praise of Shadows by Junโ€™ichiro Tanizaki ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

3 Dogenโ€™s Shobogenzo Book 1 ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘โ˜ธ๏ธ

4 Eternal History by Madame X ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

5 Gurdjieff: Making a New World ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘โ˜ฎ๏ธ

6 โ€œThe Pataphysics of Ghostsโ€ by Rene Daumal ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

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WHAT Iโ€™VE WATCHED IN 2025

1 Bohemian Rhapsody ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

2 Anora ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

3 Flow (2024) ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

4 The Little Prince (1974) ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

5 Blue Velvet ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿคฏ

6 Grey Gardens ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ ๐ŸŒฑ

7 Eyes Wide Shut ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

8 David Lynch: The Art Life ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿšฌ

9 Eraserhead ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

10 Tokyo-Ga ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.75

11 Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

12 Lost Highway ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

13 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.75

14 Mystery Train ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

15 American Manhunt: OJ Simpson ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

16 Chaos: The Manson Murders ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

17 Century of the Self ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ˜ณ

18 Social Dilemma ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜ณ

19 Truman Show ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿคฏ

20 Queer Eye ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ™

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WHAT I WATCHED IN 2024

1 Blackberry ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

2 Boy and the Heron ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

3 Spirited Away ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

4 Man on Fire ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

5 Grizzly Man ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

6 Birdman ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

7 Whiplash ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

8 Mushishi ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

9 Free Solo ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

10 Princess Mononoke ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

11 Big Fish ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

12 Anastasia ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

13 Jane Eyre (2011) ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

14 The Cell ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

15 Kill Your Darlings ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

16 Everything Everywhere All At Once ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

17 Society of the Snow ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

18 In the Mood for Love ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

19 The Fountain ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

20 Roadrunner ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

21 Apocalypse Now ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

22 Hearts of Darkness ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

23 Demonslayer ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

24 Godfather ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

25 Parasite ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

26 Rosemaryโ€™s Baby ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

27 Salinger ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

28 JD Salinger Doesnโ€™t Want to Talk ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

29 Alex Oโ€™Connor videos ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

30 Theory of Everything Videos ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

31 John Vervaeke ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

32 Bernardo Kastrup videos ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

33 Very Ape videos ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

34 Destiny videos ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

35 Coleman Hughes videos ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

36 Francis Lucille ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

37 The Secrets of Carlos Castaneda ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

38 The Astrology Podcast ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

39 Arthur Young videos ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

40 Third Eye Drops ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

41 Creeley ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

42 It Wasnโ€™t a Dream: It Was a Flood ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

43 Chefโ€™s Table ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

44 Jack Kerouac ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5.

45 Who Owns Jack Kerouac ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

46 Perfect Days ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

47 A Sign from God ๐Ÿ‘.5

48 Show about the Show ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

49 I Donโ€™t Hate Las Vegas Anymore ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

50 Bladerunner ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

51 Caveh interviews ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

52 Before Sunrise ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5.

53 Boyhood ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

54 Better Call Saul ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

55 Black Mirror ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

56 The Ultimatum ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

57 Duncan Trussel Family Hour ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

58 Interstellar ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

59 Mad Max: Fury Road ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

60 NeverEnding Story ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

61 Mighty Ducks ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

62 Six Feet Under ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

63 Married at First Sight ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

64 Past Lives ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5.

65 Zone of Interest ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

66 Escaping Twin Flames ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

67 Old Joy ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŒป

68 Badlands ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

69 One Cut, One Life ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŒป

70 The Worst Person in the World ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

71 Before Sunset ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

72 Before Midnight ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

73 Daliland ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

74 Crazy Wisdom ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

75 A Woman Under the Influence ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

76 The Celebration ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

77 Breaking the Waves ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜ข

78 Unsung Hero ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

79 Anamolisa ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ˜”

80 The Program (James Fox) ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ›ธ

81 A Complete Unknown ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ ๐ŸŽถ

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WHAT I READ IN 2024

1) Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

2) The Prelude by William Wordsworth (1805 Edition) ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

3) Time and Free Will by Henri Bergson ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

4) This Time by Gerald Stern ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

5) A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa, edited and translated by Richard Zenith ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5 (tho the Alberto Caeiro poems are ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€)

6) Modern Occultism by Mitch Horowitz ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.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 ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

8) Gurdjieff: His Life and Ideas by John Shirley ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

9) In Search of the Miraculous by Ouspensky ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

10) Mount Analogue by Rene Daumal ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

11) The Golden Thread by Joscelyn Godwin ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

12) Pluralistic Universe by William James ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

13) Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Yates ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

14) Walking to Marthaโ€™s Vineyard by Franz Wright ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

15) What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

16) Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

17) Politics and the Occult by Gary Lachman ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

18) The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

19) Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

20) The Art of Memory by Frances Yates ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5.

21) The Theosophical Enlightenment by Joscelyn Godwin ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

22) The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

23) Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction ๐Ÿš€ by JD Salinger ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

24) Franny and Zooey ๐Ÿš€ by Salinger ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

25) Big Sur by Jack Kerouac ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

26) The Dharma Bums by Kerouac ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

27) Valis by Philip K Dick ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

28) Catcher in the Rye ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

29) Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

30) Rule of the Bone ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

31) The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K Dick ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

32) Ubik by PKD ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5.

33) Return to the City of White Donkeys by James Tate ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

34) The Trail by Kafka ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

35) Introduction to Tantra by Lama Yeshe ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.75

36) Tantra: The Path of Ecstasy by Georg Feuerstein ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.75

37) Infinite Potential by Neville Goddard ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

38) Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

39) The Myth of Freedom by Trungpa ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

40) Selections from In the Dust of This World by Eugene Thacker ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

41) โ€œThe Willowsโ€ by Algernon Blackwood ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

42) Steppenwolf by Hesse ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

43) True Hallucinations by Terence McKenna ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

44) Will Oldham on Bonnie Prince Billy ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ ๐ŸŒป

45) Braided Creek: Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

46) Portable Emerson ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŒป

47) William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

48) Simone Weil Anthology ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ™

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TEXTS READ IN 2023

*1) La Gravedad y Otras Sustancias by Daniel Lievano ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

2) Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence by Stefano Mancuso and Alessandra Viola ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

3) Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

*4) The Essential William James ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

5) A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics by Donald Richie ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

6) Pedro Pรกramo by Juan Rulfo ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

7) Creativity and Taoism by Chung-yuan Chang ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘

*8) Understanding Me by Marshall McLuhan ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

9) Necessary Angel by Wallace Stevens ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

*10) The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

11) El Aboroto de los Parajos by John Ashbery ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

12) The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

*13) The Creative Mind by Henri Bergson ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

14) The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘

*15) Soul Story by Tim Freke ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

16) โ€œIn Defense of Poetryโ€ by Percy Shelley ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

17) โ€œWhat is Enlightenment?โ€ by Immanuel Kant ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

18) โ€œPraise to Difficultyโ€ by Estanislao Zuleta ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

*19) Pragmatism Lectures by William James ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

*20) Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

21) Manโ€™s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

22) Jung the Mystic by Gary Lachman ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

23) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

*24) Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (trans. by Robert Bly) ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

25) I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by Rene Girard๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

26) Notes on the Death of Culture by Mario Vargas Llosa ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

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