04-08-2025, 10:11 AM
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Hi all!
I thought it would be fun and educational to share which books we are currently reading, have recently finished, and maybe a sentence or two synopsis, and what we thought of them. Then we can learn what we are all into, and get some recommendations.
I will start :)
Current:
The Fourth Mind by Whitley Strieber - UFO/metaphyics- First half deals with the biology and genetics of the 'grey (aliens)' using his personal experience and also the reddit document we are familiar with from the exobiologist. Second half shows how these paranormal and super normal abilities like telepathy and levitation that the greys show is actually something humankind used to have innately which was lost. I think it's a really fascinating read and a lot of what he says ties in with my own brief encounter. Highly recommended especially for the metaphysical and societal implications.
The Best of Weird Tales 1920's - fiction - my friend runs Centipede Press, who put together an extremely impressive hardcover book in slipcase of all the best stories picked by an accomplished editor, of the stories which appeared in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in the decade of the 1920's. Very entertaining and also a blast from the past, you feel like you are back in the era, reading these as a contemporary. Spooky and well done for the most part.
To Rouse Leviathan by Matt Cardin - fiction - This is religious existential cosmic horror in the vein of Thomas Ligotti and HP Lovecraft but with a more ecclesiastical bent. I have just begun it but it promises to teach me some things about how nasty the YHWH character can be and how true horror might be in trying to keep 'God' out rather than let Him in.
Recently Finished:
The City and It's Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami. Fiction - this book deals with many common Murakami themes, such as loneliness, relationships, books and libraries, the subconscious, and existentialism. The main foundation is based on a story that appeared in Hardboiled Wonderland, about shadows and losing them, in a city that only certain people can go to, once they 'lose their shadows' A very touching book and was very hard to put down. He takes the initial idea from the 1980s that he wanted to flesh out, and it makes it into a completely new and better whole.
Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on the Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley eidted by K. Grant and J. Symonds - occult/metaphyiscs - like the title says, a verse by verse interpretation on the received text of Liber AL vel Legis. Ties in to the channeled verses, what AC thought the gods were telling him, in spheres of sociology, politics, physics, mathematics and more. really dense and full of food for thought on cosmology and the universe we live in.
The Dark Lord by Peter Levenda - occult/ metaphysics - This one is really unique as it is a large essay making the case that HP Lovecraft, Aleister Crowley, and Kenneth Grant were all drawing on the same 'quantum field' of consciousness, the same 'magical current' and that Lovecraft was not writing fiction but channeling entities. It shows how Thelema owes a lot to the Sumerian and older religions, the Typhonian current, and is a 'recension' of an ancient primal human spirituality.
I thought it would be fun and educational to share which books we are currently reading, have recently finished, and maybe a sentence or two synopsis, and what we thought of them. Then we can learn what we are all into, and get some recommendations.
I will start :)
Current:
The Fourth Mind by Whitley Strieber - UFO/metaphyics- First half deals with the biology and genetics of the 'grey (aliens)' using his personal experience and also the reddit document we are familiar with from the exobiologist. Second half shows how these paranormal and super normal abilities like telepathy and levitation that the greys show is actually something humankind used to have innately which was lost. I think it's a really fascinating read and a lot of what he says ties in with my own brief encounter. Highly recommended especially for the metaphysical and societal implications.
The Best of Weird Tales 1920's - fiction - my friend runs Centipede Press, who put together an extremely impressive hardcover book in slipcase of all the best stories picked by an accomplished editor, of the stories which appeared in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in the decade of the 1920's. Very entertaining and also a blast from the past, you feel like you are back in the era, reading these as a contemporary. Spooky and well done for the most part.
To Rouse Leviathan by Matt Cardin - fiction - This is religious existential cosmic horror in the vein of Thomas Ligotti and HP Lovecraft but with a more ecclesiastical bent. I have just begun it but it promises to teach me some things about how nasty the YHWH character can be and how true horror might be in trying to keep 'God' out rather than let Him in.
Recently Finished:
The City and It's Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami. Fiction - this book deals with many common Murakami themes, such as loneliness, relationships, books and libraries, the subconscious, and existentialism. The main foundation is based on a story that appeared in Hardboiled Wonderland, about shadows and losing them, in a city that only certain people can go to, once they 'lose their shadows' A very touching book and was very hard to put down. He takes the initial idea from the 1980s that he wanted to flesh out, and it makes it into a completely new and better whole.
Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on the Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley eidted by K. Grant and J. Symonds - occult/metaphyiscs - like the title says, a verse by verse interpretation on the received text of Liber AL vel Legis. Ties in to the channeled verses, what AC thought the gods were telling him, in spheres of sociology, politics, physics, mathematics and more. really dense and full of food for thought on cosmology and the universe we live in.
The Dark Lord by Peter Levenda - occult/ metaphysics - This one is really unique as it is a large essay making the case that HP Lovecraft, Aleister Crowley, and Kenneth Grant were all drawing on the same 'quantum field' of consciousness, the same 'magical current' and that Lovecraft was not writing fiction but channeling entities. It shows how Thelema owes a lot to the Sumerian and older religions, the Typhonian current, and is a 'recension' of an ancient primal human spirituality.
