IndieAgora

Hi. If this thread could be kept relatively strict with posts containing a listing of all that you have read, are in the process of reading, and wish to read, and can be used as a kind of check list with brief and precise commentary allowed after each text mentioned but extensie discussion can be saved for another thread and people commenting on whay other people have read can also be our in the other "What are you reading?" thread. I don't want this one to get too bogged down but want to let people know what I am reading. Multiple posts can be made or edited to add more. I may not mention all the books I have already read but may mention some I recently completed reading. Also one needn't limit mentions to books only but I would like to know what academic papers are being read and it interest as well as articles like those in journals, magazines, or newspapers or online. Links can also be provided if convenient.

I have a number of books next to me on my bed, near my bed, on the side bar, outside of my bedroom, and numerous on my currently inaccesdible computers and external hard drive and also on my phone which I have been currently using.

I would like the exact titles of all the things you are reading, have read, or wish to read and expect to read and some information on what your experience was with those, what led you to them, what you liked or disliked or learned, or why you are interested and what aspects appeal to you.

You can also include mention of search terms used to find these documents online, since sometimes I search out pdf files by typing in something and then pdf or academic pdf after it.

I may find it difficult to contribute to this thread just yet from my phone but hope to contribute lists as well like what is currently in the process of being read by me on my bed and next to it at least since I don't have to switch around from the browser I am typing this with or memorize the titles and authors.

Those books are as follows:

I can also provide mention of some documents I am reading from my phone but the full titles or authors name may not be easily accessible or easy for me to write here but by typing pdf afterwards in a search engine you may find these documents. I am also reading and have partially read and am in the process of reading more than those texts mentioned.

Daevas in Zoroastrianism pdf
The Satanic Phenomenon pdf
Sinister Yogis pdf
Cultures of Death and Dying in Medieval Early pdf
Dying to become Un-dead pdf
Werewolf Bedburg pdf
Slavic Vampire pdf
Slavic Pagan World pdf
Veles Wikipedia Article
Slavic Mythological Creatures Wiki page
Heretic Vampire Russian pdf
Zoroastrian Theology pdf
Zoroaster Theory of Elements pdf
The Satanic Witch pdf
Werewolf Witch Warlock Aspects of Gender pdf
Milky Way as path to the otherworld pdf
A reader in comparitive indo european religion pdf
Proto indo european divinities pdf
Light is Life Dark Death indo greek metaphor pdf
Medieval Christian View of Islam Dante pdf
Monstrous Muslims pdf (completed)
Witches Whores Sorcerers Zoroastrian Evil pdf
Practice Perception Black Magic Hittites pdf
Spirits seeking bodies medieval pdf
Theresa Bane Encyclopedia Vampire pdf
Bob Curran Encyclopedia Undead pdf
Early Modern Supernatural pdf

Those are just what are opened on my phone currently but I have my whole browser full as well including Alice Mouton's article on Hittite Witchcraft. When it comes to Veles I am most interested in the dry moist dichotomy in indo european thinking and its development and the ideas associated with furriness and wooliness and the underworld as wet mossy and moist.

So I have numerous pages and articles related to that opened in the browser.

Next to me on my bed are:

He That Cometh: The Messiah Concept in the Old Testament & Later Judaism by Sigmund Mowinckel

The Birth of Purgatory by Jacques Le Goff

New Age Encyclopedia by Belinda Whitworth

Beyond Death's Door by Maurice Rawlings M.D.

Then on the ledge nearest me:

Reading Augustine by Jason Byassee

Mystical Lenormand by Regula Elizabeth Fiechter

A Dictionary of Philosophy by Pan Reference

Then a number of books on the window ledge and further down the side bar numbering 33 or so.

The ones I am currently or most frequently accessing out of those are:

Cultivating Compassion with Guan Yin Bodhisattva by Miao Lien

Wise Choices - Immigration in Buddhism by Miao Lien

What Would Buddha Do? by Franz Metcalf

The Dark Man: The shadow that follows us all by Deborah Wells

Mesopotamia: The Mighty Kings

Heavy Music Artwork

J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World Movie Magic Volume 1

as well as the less frequently accessed:

The Official Handbook of The Marvel Universe Molecule Man to Owl

Gurps Marvel pdf

Gurps Undead pdf

A History of Witchcraft by Dr. Susan Greenwood

Weyer Daemonology pdf

Discovery of Witches pdf

Malleus Maleficarum pdf

Ghost Sightings by Brian Innes

Larousse Encyclopedia of Ancient & Medieval History

Schneewind Cambridge Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant

The Seventeenth Century Background by Willey

The Story of Chinese Philosophy by Ch'u Chai

Myth Maker: J.R.R. Tolkien by Neimark

The Life of Mary As Seen By The Mystics compiled by Raphael Brown

Oxford Readings in Philosophy: Free Will edited by Gary Watson

The Elizabethan World Picture by E.M.W. Tillyard

Cambridge Greek Religion & Society by Easterling & Muir

Deviance & Social Control by Linda B. Deutschmann

Theories of Deviance by Traub & Little

Complete Works of Plato

Lost Scriptures by Ehrman

Toward a Recognition of Androgyny by Heilbrun

Edgar Cayce on ESP by Doris Agee

The Edgar CayceReader by Hugh Lynn Cayce

A Brief History of Cults by Peter Hanning

The Unknown Darkness by Gregg O. McCrary

Popular Arthurian Traditions by Slocum

Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban is also here but I have read it before but access it for some particular ideas.

Now I will step outside of my room to mention some more books I am currently reading but are kept outside:

Sam Shepard by Don Shewey

Bulfinch's Mythology: A modern abridgement by Edmund Fuller

Indians & Other Americans by Fey & McNickel

Indians of the Plains by Robert H. Lowie

Allah by Volf

Perspectives by John Spencer

The Religions of Man by Huston Smith

The Arabs by Anthony Nutting

Thou Art That by Joseph Campbell

Dreamwork by Strephon Kaplan-Williams

Stories of Ghosts by Russell Punter

A Brief History of The Samurai

Piercing The Darkness: Undercover with Vampires in America Today by Katherine Ramsland

The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos by Swimme

The Paranormal by John Spencer

The Dream Encyclopedia by Lewis

10,000 Dreams Interpreted by Pamela Ball


The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail

The Action Bible

The Vampire Book by DK

God's Promises & Answers

Irish Proverbs by Williams

Kim by Kipling

Fashion Makers Fashion Shapers by Anne-Celine & Jaeger

The Most Evil Men and Women in History by Miranda Twiss

Classical Mythology by Morford & Lenardon

Auras by Smith

Greek Art by Walter-Herwig Schuchhardt

How to Speak Pirate by Telfer

Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe by Alexander Grab

Making Short Films by Max & Clifford Thurlow

Pirates by Caroll & Graf

China: Empire and Civilization by Shaughnessy

some books are hidden or inaccessible at this time like one about Jesuit spiritual practices and beliefs and an Encyclopedia on Ancient Egypt and another on Celtic Mythology and others on Folklore and one about Modern Witchcraft by Moura

Then there are also those difficult to access because of how they are piled like:

A Brief History of The Vikings by Johnathan Clements

Celts by Martin J. Dougherty

King Arthur by Martin J. Dougherty

Various Diablo III art books

Exploring Art by Lazzari & Schlesier

The Music of Man by Menuthin & Davis

and this doesn't account for anything close to the majority of books on these shelves or in these carrying cases, most of which are hiddrn from sight right now and I only mentioned some of those I am in the process of reading.

Somewhere is also a book on Enlightened Nationalism.

The Dictionary of First Names is also interesting.

Technology & Empire by Grant

Oh here is one I was looking for to add to my Birth of Purgatory book, called Purgatory.

Oh here are The Complete Poems of Sappho with commentary by Barnstone and Yoder's The Christian Witness to the State and Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and Our Own Master Race by Angus McLaren about Eugenics in Canada as well as The Golden Ass by Apuleius who was a Neoplatonist I think though these I might not access any time soon until I have completed some of the others which are progressing well.

I never skim and whether I am reading or watching something I do so carefully. Speaking of which I will be watching movies made on Youtube of the Witcher series of games as well as the movie Warlock 2 after seeing Warlock 1 and The Order: 1886 full gameplay movie.

I can make a separate thread asking what one is currently watching.
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Oh fantastic I found in the process of trying to access the Purgatory book, the Book of Myths by Amy Cruse, Crime and Its Victims by Van Ness to go with the Deviance section in my room, origins of Modern Witchcraft by Moura, sex in History by Reay & Tannahill, and Tolkien: A Look Behind "The Lord of The Rings" by Lin Carter, and Beyond Fate by Margaret Visser to add to the Oxford Free Will book. Oh nice there is Language Proof & Logic by Barwise & Etchemendy, The Movie Business by Bluem & Squire. The Essence of Rumi by John Baldock, The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon which is a novel set around ancient Macedonia,my Name is Rexby Orhan Pamur which is about Medieval Turkish stuff, The Year 1000 by Lacey & Danziger to go with those History texts mentioned earlier.

Thanks for sharing all of those, I will defiitely check those out in due time. Here is a thread with some books I have recently purchased too.

https://ontic-philosophy.com/Thread-What-book-s-are-you-currently-reading

Listing it all out like that I realized I read an enormous amount of stuff at around the same time period. I didn't count all that listed above but it looks like a ton. I would say most of the focus goes into whatever is in the closest proximity, so the stuff on my phone including articles and papers opened in the browser and those books physically nearest to my head on the bed and pretty much in the order I wrote it all out, roughly. I read about 20 to 40 pages then might move to another and that is how I systematically go through so much. I can become sleepy reading 20 to 40 pages of material on the same subject just due to eye strain maybe or laying on the bed and reading. Switching subjects can help though I have at times read 80 pages and more depending on the material but it is important to me to really understand everything and not rush through or skim. I would love to read hundreds or thousands of pages of complex or sophisticated material at a great speed to get through all this stuff but I read these things at about a minute or two per page since I am reading carefully and may even go back and re-read occassionally ti make sure I have got it. In total though since I switch between books I read hundreds of pages a day sometimes probably but broken over a number of different texts.

I read about 20 to 40 pages then might move to another and that is how I systematically go through so much.

I have to say, that's how I usually read books too. This may or may not be a good idea, but I find that the books I read are interdisciplinary anyway - each writer is influenced and comments on the other writer I am reading, so this is probably productive in that way.

It's not like reading Plato for example, where everything you need to understand is sort of 'there' in the text, although this is in dispute with writers like Derrida. But for the basics, Plato can be understood by simply knowing the divided line and recollection.

It looks like I type a great deal too and with only my thumb while holding the phone in one hand. I wrote this all out to kind of give an idea about my reading habits and the sort of stuff I read and I guess also how much I read overall.
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Yeah I think it is a method that develops naturally and it can be nice to have all of it jumbled like one big book or a larger overall theme. I could just read one at a time but I almost like how my mixing ingredients seems to inspire and add interesting facets to each.

It looks like I type a great deal too and with only my thumb while holding the phone in one hand. I wrote this all out to kind of give an idea about my reading habits and the sort of stuff I read and I guess also how much I read overall.

I'm sure it will be of use as a reference for yourself and for others here.

If you could maybe focus on particular ideas, one at a time for beginners to digest that would be great too. I think an occult section discussion on what magick is for example, would be a good idea.

Haha it typoed and made it my name is Rexby rather than My Name is Red.

I counted around 125 texts or so written above. Out of those I focus in chunks of activity on about 5 or 10 pdf files, 50 articles or websites, 5 or 10 books near me and then have them in groups like that but may go to other groups or chunks frequently on a day or mix and match among the groups of books which might be about 20 to 50 more frequently accessed than others.
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Well my main area of interest and study is the history and development and influence of ideas and notions and mentalities with a heavy or particular focus on ideas of the supernatural and religious and psycho-social constructs end their design and development such ass magic and magical thinking. That is what guides all the reading and what I am looking at or extracting from it all or anything, even if it seems political or poetic or fictional I am always looking for the ideas and where they came from and how they are influencing the writing and may influence the reader or are otherwise implied in the writing. I was searching that out in any forum I've visited as well or interaction with people. It seems like a pretty broad topic but it reveals lots about every detail of the way people think and interact with each other and how they interpret things aa well as how they might have been or could be motivated or manipulated.