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Sep. 23rd, 2003 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheLast year around this time, I was reading:
The Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa (which was fantastic; I wasn't able to finish it, but I do hope to check it out again);
The Undiscovered Self, by C.G. Jung (not his best work, but a quick read with some small interesting parts near the end);
Religion in the Making, by Alfred North Whitehead (dry reading for some, but I found it fascinating and quite illuminating about the inner mechanics of religion);
Infinity and the Mind, by Rudy Rucker (a mathematically inclined book, but very enlightening, even for this verbally inclined person);
Psychology and Religion, by C.G. Jung (I read this before reading the abovementioned Jung, and I was blown away by this first foray into Jungian thought);
Myth and Ritual in Christianity, by Alan Watts (my GOD what a great book--totally worth the read, from beginning to end);
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent, by Elaine Pagels (Pagels is a very cogent, lucid writer; she unpacks mythology very persuasively);
and Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, by an author whose name I did not record and cannot remember off the top of my head. This was a very fun math book, one that got me to actually imagine what imaginary numbers might be like. :)
I also started The Origin of Satan by Pagels, but I never got around to it and returned it to the library largely unread.
It's amazing how being employed bites into your reading time.
The Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa (which was fantastic; I wasn't able to finish it, but I do hope to check it out again);
The Undiscovered Self, by C.G. Jung (not his best work, but a quick read with some small interesting parts near the end);
Religion in the Making, by Alfred North Whitehead (dry reading for some, but I found it fascinating and quite illuminating about the inner mechanics of religion);
Infinity and the Mind, by Rudy Rucker (a mathematically inclined book, but very enlightening, even for this verbally inclined person);
Psychology and Religion, by C.G. Jung (I read this before reading the abovementioned Jung, and I was blown away by this first foray into Jungian thought);
Myth and Ritual in Christianity, by Alan Watts (my GOD what a great book--totally worth the read, from beginning to end);
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent, by Elaine Pagels (Pagels is a very cogent, lucid writer; she unpacks mythology very persuasively);
and Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, by an author whose name I did not record and cannot remember off the top of my head. This was a very fun math book, one that got me to actually imagine what imaginary numbers might be like. :)
I also started The Origin of Satan by Pagels, but I never got around to it and returned it to the library largely unread.
It's amazing how being employed bites into your reading time.