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 👍👍👍 🙏