I did not have to remember these things, they have remembered themselves all these years. -Black Elk
I had a short shopping list, really.... But bookstores. *$&%^# bookstores. The Telegraph Avenue institution Moe's Books gave me two more than I had on my "official" list while, a bit further south on Telegraph, Sunrise Bookshop (fabulous East Bay source for metaphysics and religion) also gifted me two more than intended.
Definite summer reading:
Moby Dick by Herman Melville - Perhaps you've heard of this book?
Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda - In honor of the leader of my last vision quest.
The rest will be consumed as time permits or other demands require:
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth And the Birth of a Global Renaissance by Matthew Fox. Not what you might imagine. Fox was censured by the present-day Pope (whom I prefer to call Ratzinger, anyway) for his denial of original sin, views on sexuality and for "getting too close to indigenous people." Now what that is supposed to mean...hhmmmm.... Considering Ratzinger's statement against the evil idolatry in the film Avatar (Mother Earth shall not supplant Mother Church), I'm sure he burns copies of this book just for fun. Synopsis: "How the environmental crisis awakens us to a substantive and non-sentimental Christology-how the Cosmic Christ is the image of God in all being and how killing forests and other creatures is crucifying the Christ all over again." A fellow student in my grad program (Integral Ecology) recommended it to me.
Exploring Jupiter by Stephen Arroyo - I figure I should balance my heavy interest in Saturn of late, especially given the old adage that what you take an interest in will begin to take an interest in you.
Saturn in Transit by Erin Sullivan - ok ok ! It was used, good price, decent condition....that's how they always get me!
Woman and Nature by Susan Griffin
The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts
"This is why modern civilization is in almost every respect a vicious circle. It is insatiably hungry because its way of life condemns it to perpetual frustration. As we have seen, the root of this frustration is that we live for the future, and the future is an abstraction, a rational inference from experience, which exists only for the brain." --Alan Watts, pg. 60
Definite summer reading:
Moby Dick by Herman Melville - Perhaps you've heard of this book?
Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda - In honor of the leader of my last vision quest.
The rest will be consumed as time permits or other demands require:
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth And the Birth of a Global Renaissance by Matthew Fox. Not what you might imagine. Fox was censured by the present-day Pope (whom I prefer to call Ratzinger, anyway) for his denial of original sin, views on sexuality and for "getting too close to indigenous people." Now what that is supposed to mean...hhmmmm.... Considering Ratzinger's statement against the evil idolatry in the film Avatar (Mother Earth shall not supplant Mother Church), I'm sure he burns copies of this book just for fun. Synopsis: "How the environmental crisis awakens us to a substantive and non-sentimental Christology-how the Cosmic Christ is the image of God in all being and how killing forests and other creatures is crucifying the Christ all over again." A fellow student in my grad program (Integral Ecology) recommended it to me.
Exploring Jupiter by Stephen Arroyo - I figure I should balance my heavy interest in Saturn of late, especially given the old adage that what you take an interest in will begin to take an interest in you.
Saturn in Transit by Erin Sullivan - ok ok ! It was used, good price, decent condition....that's how they always get me!
Woman and Nature by Susan Griffin
The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts
"This is why modern civilization is in almost every respect a vicious circle. It is insatiably hungry because its way of life condemns it to perpetual frustration. As we have seen, the root of this frustration is that we live for the future, and the future is an abstraction, a rational inference from experience, which exists only for the brain." --Alan Watts, pg. 60