WHAT I’VE READ IN 2025
1 Simone Weil: An Anthology 👍👍👍❤️🔥
2 In Praise of Shadows by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki 👍👍.5
3 Dogen’s Shobogenzo Book 1 👍👍👍☸️
4 Eternal History by Madame X 👍👍
5 Gurdjieff: Making a New World 👍👍👍☮️
6 “The Pataphysics of Ghosts” by Rene Daumal 👍👍👍
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 👍👍👍 🙏
Books Read in 2017
Artemis in Echo Park by Elois Klein Healy
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Techgnosis by Erik Davis
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
Master Dogen's Shinji Shobogenzo by Gudo Wafu Nishijima
Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara: A Practioner's Guide by Ben Connelly
Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird
The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan
The Young and the Digital by S Craig Watkins
Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
OK by Kool AD
Zealot by Reza Aslan
My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
Windows/Walls/Yard/Ways by Larry Eigner
The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurtzweil
What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones compiled by Paul Reps & Nyogen Senzaki
McLuhan Hot & Cold
Conversations with Pinter by Mel Gussow
From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe
John Muir: Apostle of Nature by Thurman Wilkins
Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard by Ron Padgett
Don't Be a Jerk by Brad Warner
Awake in this Life by Michael Mcalister
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
True Notebooks by Mark Salzman
There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce by Morgan Parker
City Poet: Life & Times of Frank O'Hara by Brad Gooch
The Myth of Freedom by Chogyam Trungpa