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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 by JG Bennett ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘โ˜ฎ๏ธ

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

7 Practical Magick by Mitch Horowitz ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

8 In Search of PD Ouspensky by Gary Lachman ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŒŸ

9 Gurdjieff Reconsidered by Roger Lipsey ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

10 The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems of James Tate ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

11 I Do Everything Iโ€™m Told: poems by Megan Fernandes ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.75

12 Our Life with Mr. Gurdjieff by the de Hartmanns ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿคฏ

13 The Science of Being Great by Wallace Wattles ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

14 Boyhood with Gurdjieff by Fritz Peters ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŒพ

15 Happy Warriors by Mitch Horowitz ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.75

16 In Tune with the Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŒ€

17 Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas by John Shirley ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŒ€๐ŸŒŸ

18 Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal by CS Nott ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

19 Magician of the Beautiful by Mitch Horowitz ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

20 Feeling is the Secret by Neville ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

21 In Search of the Miraculous by Ouspensky ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ™

22 The Power of Unlimited Imagination: A Collection of Neville ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

23 Life is Real Only Then, When โ€˜I Amโ€™ by Gurdjieff ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

24 The Psychology of Manโ€™s Possible Evolution by Ouspensky ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿš€

25 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

26 Maurice Nicoll: A Portrait by Beryl Pogson ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ™

27 Venture with Ideas: Meetings with Gurdjieff and Ouspensky by Kenneth Walker ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ™

28 Living Time by Maurice Nicoll ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŒ€

29 Taipei by Tao Lin ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.5

30 Views from the Real World: Early Talks of Gurdjieff ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ™

31 Eating the โ€œIโ€ by William Patrick Patterson ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘.75

32 Gurdjieff Group Work with Wilhem Nyland ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

33 Whiskey for the Holy Ghost ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

34 Further Teachings of Gurdjieff by CS Nott ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

35 Idiots in Paris: Diaries of JG Bennett and Elizabeth Bennett, 1949 ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฅฒ

36 All Fours by Miranda July๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

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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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Books Read in 2017

  1. Artemis in Echo Park by Elois Klein Healy

  2. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

  3. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie

  4. Techgnosis by Erik Davis

  5. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

  6. Master Dogen's Shinji Shobogenzo by Gudo Wafu Nishijima

  7. Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara: A Practioner's Guide by Ben Connelly

  8. Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird

  9. The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan

  10. The Young and the Digital by S Craig Watkins

  11. Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles

  12. OK by Kool AD

  13. Zealot by Reza Aslan

  14. My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer

  15. Windows/Walls/Yard/Ways by Larry Eigner

  16. The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurtzweil

  17. What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly

  18. A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber

  19. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones compiled by Paul Reps & Nyogen Senzaki

  20. McLuhan Hot & Cold

  21. Conversations with Pinter by Mel Gussow

  22. From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe

  23. John Muir: Apostle of Nature by Thurman Wilkins

  24. Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard by Ron Padgett

  25. Don't Be a Jerk by Brad Warner

  26. Awake in this Life by Michael Mcalister

  27. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

  28. True Notebooks by Mark Salzman

  29. There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce by Morgan Parker

  30. City Poet: Life & Times of Frank O'Hara by Brad Gooch

  31. The Myth of Freedom by Chogyam Trungpa

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