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[novapsyche]

Last 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.

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[bloodlikerain.livejournal.com]

*blink* i've picked up everysingle one of those books to try to read them, but i can't finish books anymore, i always get distracted by soemthing else.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

I've been an avid reader most of my life. College reading slowed me down, and for a few years I didn't really read for pleasure. But for the last two years or so I've started picking up books again. Last year I had oodles of time on my hands (being unemployed will do that), so I filled my days with reading. I was also at a point in my spiritual walk that I needed to absorb as much as I could at the time.