Current / Recent Books

[Waterglass]

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.

Some here on earth IMO still have those abilities but they are rough and misunderstood and not deeple developed. Possibly Edgar Cayce was somewhat along with Nostradamus and many others.

[Maxmars]

Some here on earth IMO still have those abilities but they are rough and misunderstood and not deeple developed. Possibly Edgar Cayce was somewhat along with Nostradamus and many others.

Now THAT'S a thread topic....

((Sorry... just throwing it out there!   ))

[sahgwa]

I have never been able to curb my affliction for books. I have owned tens of thousands.  Mostly culled from some refuse destiny.
(... It's better than drinking  )

At times, I've read 10 - 15 at a time.
But that is not as time consuming as it might seem...
when I read books like that they are usually 'skimmers.' 
Lot's of 'formulaic' fiction, pre-screenplay stuff.

I don't really collect those books though... I'm mostly interested in unpopular non-fiction.

Lot's of OLDER non-fiction.
(It fascinated me to consciously register from "where" our blossoming knowledge grows, and how long we remain static...    )

"Recently" usually involves pouring over old things, that I suspect few would be interested in:
For example... right now, leaning next to my screen...

"Lockhart's Ancient Spanish Ballads" - "Historical and Romantic" Translated with notes by J.G. Lockhart" (1890)

So... I doubt anyone will want to chase that down.

It's all cool though - Reading is fundamental - some concentrate on the "fun," some on the "mental." 

I too have a bibliographic addiction. 
I go to the library sometimes but I prefer to purchase if it's something I know I will read more than once.

I have had to make a rule so that I can focus and not start too many books at once.
In general I allow myself to read at once time, one fiction, one nonfiction, and one periodical.
That usually translates like, one horror novel, one occult or metaphysical or science book, and one comic.

Then there are the books that are too large and or too pricey to read in the tub so they only get read in bed. so sometimes i have to break the rule slightly. . . 

[UltraBudgie]

"Lockhart's Ancient Spanish Ballads" - "Historical and Romantic" Translated with notes by J.G. Lockhart" (1890)

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[Sirius]

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 have been bumping into this allot, probably need to do a Sumerian journey, some of it looks pretty wild though.

Currently reading "A Psychic's Handbook: Methods and Advice for Communicating with Spirits" by Michelle Welch

I'm a pink diamond!

Not sure it's going to plan

[sahgwa]

I have been bumping into this allot, probably need to do a Sumerian journey, some of it looks pretty wild though.

Currently reading "A Psychic's Handbook: Methods and Advice for Communicating with Spirits" by Michelle Welch

I'm a pink diamond!

Not sure it's going to plan

Shine on you crazy diamond. 
Thank you for sharing with the class.

I bought the Enuma Elish but I haven't' read it yet.
I also have Gilgamesh in a Penguin edition that is waiting.

[Sirius]

Shine on you crazy diamond. 
Thank you for sharing with the class.

I bought the Enuma Elish but I haven't' read it yet.
I also have Gilgamesh in a Penguin edition that is waiting.

Just bought Peter Levenda's book, had too, synchronicity.

[sahgwa]

Just bought Peter Levenda's book, had too, synchronicity.

Dude it's so good.
I didn't buy it when it came out cuz in 2013 I thought I knew better but now I know I know nothing. 
I look forward to your thoughts. 
It's a lot like what Donald Tyson I think tried to do with his book on Lovecrafts Dreams , but I think better.

[Maxmars]

I too have a bibliographic addiction. 
I go to the library sometimes but I prefer to purchase if it's something I know I will read more than once.

I have had to make a rule so that I can focus and not start too many books at once.
In general I allow myself to read at once time, one fiction, one nonfiction, and one periodical.
That usually translates like, one horror novel, one occult or metaphysical or science book, and one comic.

Then there are the books that are too large and or too pricey to read in the tub so they only get read in bed. so sometimes i have to break the rule slightly. . . 

Please allow me to amend...

I' not now that voracious anymore (decrepitude intrudes.)

My relatively tiny collection is now only a barely two thousand

(mostly what others would consider unmarketable garbage,
like some old texts purchased "pre-disposal" from universities.)

My fiction days are far receding... lately...

My late wife was the fiction aficionado...
she was a thrilling contrast to experience...
(Shit!... I miss her.)

Our mutual "book first" loves... Frank Herbert's Dune. Tolkien's universe...
and others... but I must desist these memories...

[sahgwa]

Speaking of Sci Fi

A recent Sci Fi Book i read was 'Best of Philip K Dick' which collects his best short stories from the magazines in the 40s and 50s before he started writing novels and they are extremely prescient and work no matter what era they are read in.

A boy wants a bombshelter and the mom wants to keep up with the Joneses while the father struggles to hang on to his personal integrity.

A dad is replaced by an alien life form that is horrific and the son discovers the whole of humanity is being replaced.

What is at the head of the evil government?  Is it it God itself and God is evil? 
https://www.biblio.com/details.php?dcx=1...aid=aa&t=1