Share what you read

@ Dekete moi sont: it is off topic, and thank you for considering creating an off topic section. I just thought that sometimes when people studying the same subject share what they currently read, it could, in some strange ways, lead to unexpected but fruitful directions. I’d never expect to find myself here just by reading ERE forum, but here I am   

I never intended this thread to be any sort of discussion though, just a reference list with short blurbs for anyone who’d be interested. 

But I completely understand if you decide it is too off topic and detracts from the main theme and delete it.  I should have asked first.
Sorry about that. 

P.S. Just occurred to me that I should have posted it my *personal* space in Introduction. How can I move it there without messing up the board?

Huh, the same friend who turned me on to JMG has also strongly recommended Blindsight, and it's been sitting on my electronic bookshelf for years now, so maybe I ought to get to it soon!

Let's see, non-fiction-wise, I just finished The Well and the Tree by Paul Bauschatz, which I wrote up in some detail here. Before that, I read Idhun in Myth and Poetry by Maria Kvilhaug, which was fascinating and full of good insights, but also clearly just the transcription of some Youtube videos lacking much editing/re-organization, which was frustrating. I'm about to start The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James, which was already high up on my "to get to" list, but now is also a requirement for the Universal Gnostic Church minor orders, which I'm working on as part of the Modern Order of Essenes. 

For fiction, I just read the latest books in Marshall Ryan Maresca's Maradaine series. It's a big, sprawling fantasy series that isn't overly marred by its implicit religion of progress assumptions transposed into a fantasy world. I've also been reading some comics - a few one-offs in the Hellboy universe (Bones of Giants, Sword of Hyperborea) and now a graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Snow, Glass, Apples, which is an variation of Snow White.

But what I've really been reading the last week with most of my spare time has been two blogs: Postcards from Barsoom and The Last Psychiatrist. The former was linked to by someone on the latest Ecosophia open post, and the latter I had bumped into a few times, but @dekete moi sont recently drew my attention back to it. "John Carter" of postcards maybe veers further into the (insert adjective)-right and conspiracy culture than I would, but is an entertaining writer. The Last Psychiatrist is also humorous, but has brought about some uncomfortable reflection that seems to complement my spiritual work nicely.

Thanks for starting this thread!
Jeff