Eckhart is one of the greatest spiritual masters I have read in my life. I read his sermons out loud to…

Each of these is so widly different. I’m in the third volume at present and it is my least favorite thus far. I am totally floored with Proust’s brilliance…

I’ll be reading Proust a long, long time now. In Search of Lost Time (of which this is the first volume) has seven volumes, all of which are long and every sentence (almost) complex. No one writes, has ever written like this imo…

Me! Outlive my other/old self anyway. This book is full of wisdom and motiviation for living healthier lives. I continue to share it with others…

We are here because of fungi and could not live without it and still know so very little.

There’s nothing else to say for me. If this is what you’re looking for, why not!? The dirty jobs guy will take you through his own experiences as well as stories he’s heard from others and that are well documented. You often don’t know who or where or even when is the subject of each story until the very end. That part is also fun. You’re thinking, Germany, and you come to find out that it was really Korea. Or Marilyn Monroe, and you were right! That kind of thing.

John Wineland is one of the greatest teachers of my life on taoist energy principles in the context of intimacy and romantic relationship between the masculine and feminine. He doesn’t know it because I’ve just subscribed to his material and followed over time but I’ve used it and it’s been fantastic. Actually I’m certain it is this work which brought my current partner and her beautiful now 11 year old daughter to me (3.5 years together now). My partner purchased this for me…

What a straightforward (as it gets) ancient text on Chinese philosophy and appreciated commentary by Jung comparing the East to the West with guidance of how to approach the East as a Westerner and explanation for what exactly is the Golden Flower, the Christ, the image of psyche as singularity. The breadth of life within the microcosmic orbit (although not called as such here) from Mantak Chia does, I think, originate here (though…

I don’t usually like Kevin Hart’s material. It’s always funny until it’s not. Growing up with him, I remember all of the early work he talks about in the book that didn’t quite “make it” big. Like Paper Soldiers. Like The Big House. I don’t think I ever liked his comedy either. In some later things, like Jumanji. But this book (narrated by Kevin Hart) is not only hilarious but very…

Two great icons speaking together about their own inner landscapes and orientations of the heart through difficult times. I’ll not say much here except that I’m happy to add this one to my “read” audio library.

This would have been much better to go through in print, holding it in my hands. I find I cannot listen to many good books. Then I do not get a chance to really be with them. Wendell explores richly how our present thought and forgetfullness about our past has come to be. He helped me take a good look through two different conversatons/realtionships in time at our racism, shared sufferings, and incredibly complex present day efforts with both successes and failures at meeting our own ideal of culture, equality, freedom, and self-respect.

Tantra is usually associated with sex or sexual positions or some kind of cult sex ritual. But that is not even close. The principles of Tantra are taught in various other times though history and in places which had little to no contact with each other: that I am the whole and not just a part thereof. The wave on the ocean goes back to the ocean and yet what could the ocean be without the wave? They’re inseperable. In that spirit, I am the wave and I am the ocean…

Highly recommend this one for anyone with a fundamentally religious background or near cultural/family influence. It does such a good job of showing the history of the eucharist as it was before the catholic church for many thousands of years. History did not begin 10,000 years ago around the time homosapiens began writing things down and staying in one place and farming. We have been here…

This guy. Sadhguru was likely my first foray into mindfulness, yoga, and tantra. He’s a brilliant man and excellent teacher. I found this very well done and likely worth a relisten. Practical wisdom. Principles of philosophy explained perfectly clear. He can get a little blingy for me but then I remember, I’d probably be a whole lot more blingy than that. Highly recommend. If there is just one book, this is a solid pick.

My neice died some time ago. And my partner and I experienced the loss of a womb child, a great possibility, an incredible committment which called forth something beatufiul of the Father in me. My partner and I read this together. But it was my neice’s death that this book helped me with. Because there is a kind of unwell which is possible in greif which may not be without a great and unexpected loss…

After a couple hundred pages, I just wanted to let myself enjoy it for fun. But it was too much of the same thing repeatedly. That said, the reason I ordered and gave it the best I had available is because it was referenced in another reading I appreciated as being the greatest literary example of the power (and hilarity) of personal story and perspective. That said…

I feel there was in my childhood a kind of shadow cast on E.A.P. containing horror and death and stories of curdlywordly spiders. As if that were reason not to investigate, not to seek and find. And so, of course, I did not. For there was a great stretch and I am not too unaware of the tendency to relapse when I would avoid whatever was given a warning…

My thoughts/feels while reading were apparent but only clear in retrospect. As if, I wasn’t sure if I was getting it. I have to say I was tempted to put this one down from the first 20-30 pages given how bounced around I felt. I’m glad I didn’t…

My first of VA Woolf. The most important thing for me here is that to create, to write or whatever, one needs a great deal of time to one’s self. And to have time, one needs money (or to be supported). Virginia was the heir to a perpetuity…

It follows well on the last post to read one published some decades later touching on the same. The Title, “Sennex & Puer”, my first of James Hillman’s. This is another Jungian analyst but here I think is a new paradigm…