The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari has elements of strength and hope.
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Thank you, I’ll have a look at it x)
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Subtle Energy: A Handbook of Psychic Energy Manipulation by Keith Miller
Apocalyptatomanomicon by ION X
Mind magick series book by Merlin Starlight (It’s a 3 book series)
Initiation into hermetics by Franz Bardon
And read all the articles on Enlightened States site.
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This is a neat one:
I don’t like his use of the term “multiverse”, but his concept of it is more acceptable to me (different scales of reality-- atomic, human-scale, etc.-- are treated like their own “universes”). I also don’t really agree with his view of humanity or it’s purpose in reality.
However, if anyone has read Sheldrake and wanted to connect the Morphogenetic fields to more conventional and established areas of science/physics, then this is probably the best source you could find.
Unlike most spacetime theories (which build on mathematical field theory ideas), this spacetime concept uses the helix and torus (Helyx and Toryx) as fundamental units, which can morph topologically into different levels of form and complexity.
It is, for me, a unifying idea for the range of things in mainstream physics as well as alternate ideas from Sheldrake, McKenna, and Alfred Whitehead. The sorts of ideas that are explored give a nuts and bolts, under-the-hood view of physical factors that can lead to Whitehead’s ideas about concrescence, Sheldrakes’s ideas about morphic resonance and morphogenetic fields, and some of McKenna’s ideas about the convervation of Novelty.
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Better than I originally thought. Old-ish is gold. Lots of details, somewhat reminiscent of Dale Power’s articles. But lots more diverse topics discussed. And it seems to be a book that transmits a sort of living lineage as well.
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Wow what’s that?
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Sirius is a publisher that does specialty occult books in limited batches. They have some expensive editions, and some less expensive ones. This is a less expensive one I picked up from a person who was re-selling it.
It’s a neat book. It picks up and extends some of the things that Franz Bardon was teaching. But it seems to have a stronger transmission capability. It has a dynamic energy quality that helps you to link mentally/psychically to the things they’re talking about. It’s a neat accelerant since I was thinking that I would have saved time if I had looked into Bardon sooner.
Most of the stuff at Sirius tends towards the left hand path and transgressive things, but this stuck out to me since the Great Treatise on Reintegration was something by the same author. (That’s a bit of a calling card for me since it’s related to a Martinist work). It has vibe that I can work with more easily than the other stuff at Sirius lol.
Concept-wise, it reminded me a bit of some people/projects here.
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Would love to see what your book shelf looks like
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I’ve got too many— I’m swearing off book buying lol
But I feel like I can now connect all the stray threads I’ve been researching over the years. It’s peace of mind for me, since I’ve been watching different resources and people disappear over the years.
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Oh. For example?
Or this better be kept quiet?
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Not necessarily…
It seems to be somewhat of a generational thing. There are plenty of good things that are still showing up and getting released.
But it seems like a there was an explosion of high quality things from the 80’s through 2010. In the 80’s and 90’s, there was a lot more open-ness to occult and new age things and it was mainstreamed beyond the pioneering groups in the 60’s and 70’s. (That’s from before my time, but I get a vicarious sense of it through the writings and video media).
This seemed to cause an expansion of really good book series.
There are quite a few solid books from Lewellyn that were published in the past and have become harder to get.
-Attainment through magic (By William Gray, of the Sangreal Sodality)
-The Schueler’s Enochian work (they’re a bit mixed, but the energy behind it is undeniable)
-Some of the more specialized golden dawn things
-The Tower of Alchemy
-Charles Cosimano’s books
I think they’re all out of print. Sometimes you can find them at a good price, sometimes not.
A number of internet groups had started and stopped over the years. Some still exist as websites, but the dynamism has diminished a bit (similar to here). It seems like there was an explosion during the early 2000’s and then trends changed and link rot set in. It seems like the outreach efforts of a lot of groups have been dialed back; like they found a niche in the established social media paradigm and keep things local to that.
Quite a few people I knew at the start of my journey have transitioned away from seeking and into family life. It’s good for them, but they’re busy with that. Others have been pulled into different forms social activism at the expense of a distinct spiritual regimen—that can be a spiritual thing in it’s own right, but it seems to have sidelined their meditation and consciousness development (The main one I was thinking about was an environmentalist who’s been on a 10+ year plateau, for those who were wondering).
Some other people I used to know are now dead— I suspect from using incorrect training principles. We’ve had disagreements, but it was at least nice to know that other people were training actively.
Some qigong groups started out with a stronger focus on strict training, but have turned more into social clubs with charity events. It’s not bad, but the whole activity seems to have abandoned the high aspects of spirituality in favor of things that people can easily tuck into the margins of their days.
So—with that—a lot of the books I keep are because it’s like having friends who are keeping the torch lit for the different phases of my spiritual journey. Different phases with Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson, more mainstream New Age people, and Gurukuls that have now fallen apart from various scandals lol.
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That’s lovely
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