1 In Praise of Shadows by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki 👍👍.5
WHAT I’VE WATCHED IN 2025
1 Bohemian Rhapsody 👍👍.5
2 Anora 👍👍.5
3 Flow (2024) 👍👍👍
4 The Little Prince (1974) 👍👍.5
5 Blue Velvet 👍👍👍🤯
6 Grey Gardens 👍👍👍 🌱
7 Eyes Wide Shut 👍👍👍
8 David Lynch: The Art Life 👍👍👍 🚬
WHAT I WATCHED IN 2024
1 Blackberry 👍👍👍
2 Boy and the Heron 👍👍
3 Spirited Away 👍👍👍🚀
4 Man on Fire 👍👍
5 Grizzly Man 👍👍👍
6 Birdman 👍👍
7 Whiplash 👍👍👍
8 Mushishi 👍👍👍
9 Free Solo 👍👍.5
10 Princess Mononoke 👍👍👍
11 Big Fish 👍👍👍
12 Anastasia 👍👍
13 Jane Eyre (2011) 👍👍.5
14 The Cell 👍👍
15 Kill Your Darlings 👍👍
16 Everything Everywhere All At Once 👍👍👍
17 Society of the Snow 👍👍👍
18 In the Mood for Love 👍👍.5
19 The Fountain 👍👍👍
20 Roadrunner 👍👍👍🚀
21 Apocalypse Now 👍👍👍🚀
22 Hearts of Darkness 👍👍👍
23 Demonslayer 👍👍👍
24 Godfather 👍👍.5
25 Parasite 👍👍👍🚀
26 Rosemary’s Baby 👍👍.5
27 Salinger 👍👍👍
28 JD Salinger Doesn’t Want to Talk 👍👍👍
29 Alex O’Connor videos 👍👍
30 Theory of Everything Videos 👍👍
31 John Vervaeke 👍👍👍
32 Bernardo Kastrup videos 👍👍👍
33 Very Ape videos 👍👍.5
34 Destiny videos 👍👍.5
35 Coleman Hughes videos 👍👍
36 Francis Lucille 👍👍👍
37 The Secrets of Carlos Castaneda 👍👍
38 The Astrology Podcast 👍👍👍
39 Arthur Young videos 👍👍👍
40 Third Eye Drops 👍👍.5
41 Creeley 👍👍
42 It Wasn’t a Dream: It Was a Flood 👍👍
43 Chef’s Table 👍👍👍🚀
44 Jack Kerouac 👍👍.5.
45 Who Owns Jack Kerouac 👍👍
46 Perfect Days 👍👍👍🚀
47 A Sign from God 👍.5
48 Show about the Show 👍👍👍
49 I Don’t Hate Las Vegas Anymore 👍👍
50 Bladerunner 👍👍
51 Caveh interviews 👍👍👍
52 Before Sunrise 👍👍.5.
53 Boyhood 👍👍👍
54 Better Call Saul 👍👍👍🚀
55 Black Mirror 👍👍.5
56 The Ultimatum 👍👍
57 Duncan Trussel Family Hour 👍👍👍
58 Interstellar 👍👍.5
59 Mad Max: Fury Road 👍👍.5
60 NeverEnding Story 👍👍👍
61 Mighty Ducks 👍👍
62 Six Feet Under 👍👍👍🚀
63 Married at First Sight 👍👍.5
64 Past Lives 👍👍.5.
65 Zone of Interest 👍👍👍
66 Escaping Twin Flames 👍👍👍
67 Old Joy 👍👍👍🌻
68 Badlands 👍👍👍🚀
69 One Cut, One Life 👍👍👍🌻
70 The Worst Person in the World 👍👍👍
71 Before Sunset 👍👍👍
72 Before Midnight 👍👍👍🚀
73 Daliland 👍👍.5
74 Crazy Wisdom 👍👍👍
75 A Woman Under the Influence 👍👍👍🚀
76 The Celebration 👍👍👍🚀
77 Breaking the Waves 👍👍👍😢
78 Unsung Hero 👍👍.5
79 Anamolisa 👍👍👍 😔
80 The Program (James Fox) 👍👍👍🛸
81 A Complete Unknown 👍👍👍 🎶
WHAT I READ IN 2024
1) Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin 👍👍.5
2) The Prelude by William Wordsworth (1805 Edition) 👍👍.5
3) Time and Free Will by Henri Bergson 👍👍👍
4) This Time by Gerald Stern 👍👍.5
5) A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa, edited and translated by Richard Zenith 👍👍.5 (tho the Alberto Caeiro poems are 👍👍👍🚀)
6) Modern Occultism by Mitch Horowitz 👍👍.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 👍👍👍
8) Gurdjieff: His Life and Ideas by John Shirley 👍👍👍🚀
9) In Search of the Miraculous by Ouspensky 👍👍👍
10) Mount Analogue by Rene Daumal 👍👍👍
11) The Golden Thread by Joscelyn Godwin 👍👍👍
12) Pluralistic Universe by William James 👍👍👍🚀
13) Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Yates 👍👍.5
14) Walking to Martha’s Vineyard by Franz Wright 👍👍👍
15) What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver 👍👍.5
16) Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake 👍👍.5
17) Politics and the Occult by Gary Lachman 👍👍👍
18) The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch 👍👍👍
19) Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung 👍👍👍🚀
20) The Art of Memory by Frances Yates 👍👍.5.
21) The Theosophical Enlightenment by Joscelyn Godwin 👍👍
22) The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda 👍👍👍
23) Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction 🚀 by JD Salinger 👍👍👍
24) Franny and Zooey 🚀 by Salinger 👍👍👍
25) Big Sur by Jack Kerouac 👍👍.5
26) The Dharma Bums by Kerouac 👍👍👍
27) Valis by Philip K Dick 👍👍👍
28) Catcher in the Rye 👍👍
29) Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald 👍👍👍
30) Rule of the Bone 👍👍👍🚀
31) The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K Dick 👍👍👍🚀
32) Ubik by PKD 👍👍.5.
33) Return to the City of White Donkeys by James Tate 👍👍.5
34) The Trail by Kafka 👍👍👍🚀
35) Introduction to Tantra by Lama Yeshe 👍👍.75
36) Tantra: The Path of Ecstasy by Georg Feuerstein 👍👍.75
37) Infinite Potential by Neville Goddard 👍👍👍
38) Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse 👍👍.5
39) The Myth of Freedom by Trungpa 👍👍👍🚀
40) Selections from In the Dust of This World by Eugene Thacker 👍👍👍
41) “The Willows” by Algernon Blackwood 👍👍👍🚀
42) Steppenwolf by Hesse 👍👍👍
43) True Hallucinations by Terence McKenna 👍👍👍
44) Will Oldham on Bonnie Prince Billy 👍👍👍 🌻
45) Braided Creek: Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison 👍👍.5
46) Portable Emerson 👍👍👍🌻
47) William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism 👍👍👍🚀
48) Simone Weil Anthology 👍👍👍 🙏
TEXTS READ IN 2023
*1) La Gravedad y Otras Sustancias by Daniel Lievano 👍 👍👍
2) Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence by Stefano Mancuso and Alessandra Viola 👍👍👍
3) Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson👍👍👍
*4) The Essential William James 👍👍👍
5) A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics by Donald Richie 👍 👍👍
6) Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo 👍👍👍
7) Creativity and Taoism by Chung-yuan Chang 👍 👍
*8) Understanding Me by Marshall McLuhan 👍👍👍
9) Necessary Angel by Wallace Stevens 👍👍
*10) The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm 👍👍👍
11) El Aboroto de los Parajos by John Ashbery 👍👍
12) The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 👍👍👍
*13) The Creative Mind by Henri Bergson 👍👍👍
14) The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard 👍 👍
*15) Soul Story by Tim Freke 👍👍👍
16) “In Defense of Poetry” by Percy Shelley 👍👍👍
17) “What is Enlightenment?” by Immanuel Kant 👍👍👍
18) “Praise to Difficulty” by Estanislao Zuleta 👍👍👍
*19) Pragmatism Lectures by William James 👍👍👍
*20) Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas 👍👍👍
21) Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl 👍👍👍
22) Jung the Mystic by Gary Lachman 👍👍👍
23) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn 👍👍👍
*24) Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (trans. by Robert Bly) 👍👍👍
25) I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by Rene Girard👍👍👍
26) Notes on the Death of Culture by Mario Vargas Llosa 👍👍👍