Last Book That You Read- Non- Fiction

HIDDEN HISTORY by Jim Willis.
Willis is a theologian who explores various origin theories and ancient myths.

THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.

I have read it before. I find it inspirational.

Are you a theosophist?

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Are you a theosophist?

I do not adhere to any one teaching of any kind. I like to explore. It is good to get some different perspectives on life.

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Are you a theosophist?

I do not adhere to any one teaching of any kind. I like to explore. It is good to get some different perspectives on life.

MORPHIC RESONANCE-THE NATURE OF FORMATIVE CAUSATION by Rupert Sheldrake

A 2009 update on his 1981 book A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance.

THE SEVEN LIVES OF ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY¨

Very interesting dive into the life and very varied career of one of the most original thinkers and multi-artists in the world.

ASSAULT ON THE LIBERTY by James Ennes.

I've read this pretty frequently since first checking it out when the bookstore I worked at got a single copy back in 79 ... I spent several years trying to find a copy to own but it wasn't till around 86 or 87 that whatever the gov't had cooked up with book publishers to suppress finally lifted and I was able to get an updated paperback edition.

Regardless of where you stand on the politics of the matter (Israel attacking US spy ship in int'l waters with jets, gunboats, napalm), it is still a terrific sea story, and one I wish could be adapted to film, but again, politics would keep that from ever happening.

I used the chain of screwups on the US end of things -- messages rerouted to wrong continents, then messages addressed to the ship ordering it moved out of harm's way using a system the ship wasn't subscribed to -- as the basis for a STAR TREK script i wrote that actually got me in to pitch there back in 1990, so it wasn't all for naught. It's funny, it was the darkest of three scripts I sent the, and I thought they'd never go for it on that basis, since TNG was the 'everybody's evolved & perfect' trek. They turn down a hard SF story with a conscious black hole, but almost bit on a political paranoia story. Weird.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INDEX REPORT 2023 published by Stanford University.
Lots and lots of interesting statistics and development trends here.

I AM A STRANGE LOOP by Douglas Hofstadter

Deals with conciousness and the sense of self. Some interesting thoughts, and easily read.

MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE by Aleister Crowley
Surprisingly well written and perceptive.

ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY by Carl Gustav Jung.

Some interesting thoughts and perspectives.

You should try reading Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis. It's a real page-turner.

Perilagu Khan wrote:

You should try reading Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis. It's a real page-turner.

Is it now? Thanks for the tip, man. I will try to remember, although I have a bunch of books on my to read list already.

BATTLEFIELD AMERICA-THE WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE by John W. Whitehead.

Phantom Commander wrote:

BATTLEFIELD AMERICA-THE WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE by John W. Whitehead.

That sounds like a very interesting book.

Fascism is spreading everywhere.

Phantom Commander wrote:

BATTLEFIELD AMERICA-THE WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE by John W. Whitehead.

But the fascism lies less in increasing authoritarianism, militarization, and surveillance than in the melding of federal government, corporations, academia, media and the entertainment industry. All of those entities are now ideologically aligned--pluralism no longer exists--and they work in concert to such an extent that they function as a whole. THAT is, to a significant degree, the essence of fascism. What Whitehead discusses are simply the tools the fascist Power Structure uses to impose its ideology upon its subjects.

I'm approaching the end of Sam Neill's autobio, Did I Ever Tell You This? Tremendously entertaining read.

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Phantom Commander wrote:

BATTLEFIELD AMERICA-THE WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE by John W. Whitehead.

But the fascism lies less in increasing authoritarianism, militarization, and surveillance than in the melding of federal government, corporations, academia, media and the entertainment industry. All of those entities are now ideologically aligned--pluralism no longer exists--and they work in concert to such an extent that they function as a whole. THAT is, to a significant degree, the essence of fascism. What Whitehead discusses are simply the tools the fascist Power Structure uses to impose its ideology upon its subjects.

You are right. Most seem to be ok with the fascists getting more and more tools.

EXO-PSYCHOLOGY ( A manual on the use of the human nervous system according to the instructions of the manufacturers) by Timothy Leary.
Contains some very interesting thoughts.

Phantom Commander wrote:

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Phantom Commander wrote:

BATTLEFIELD AMERICA-THE WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE by John W. Whitehead.

But the fascism lies less in increasing authoritarianism, militarization, and surveillance than in the melding of federal government, corporations, academia, media and the entertainment industry. All of those entities are now ideologically aligned--pluralism no longer exists--and they work in concert to such an extent that they function as a whole. THAT is, to a significant degree, the essence of fascism. What Whitehead discusses are simply the tools the fascist Power Structure uses to impose its ideology upon its subjects.

You are right. Most seem to be ok with the fascists getting more and more tools.

The Bond film SP is actually relevant in that regard.

EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS by Charles MacKay

A deep dive into some historical what-it-says. Lots and lots could be added in our days.

Phantom Commander wrote:

EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS by Charles MacKay

A deep dive into some historical what-it-says. Lots and lots could be added in our days.

Indeed. The Western world seems to live in a complex mass delusion generated by its elites.

GEGENWART UND ZUKUNFT by Carl Jung.

An abridged version, I suspect.