Preparation for
Dave Monroe
against.the.dave at gmail.com
Mon Nov 10 14:49:00 CST 2008
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> Alchemy allsorts, if you want to get right down to it. The whole
> opening of the east as a source of spiritual nourishment in the
> west has a huge role in AtD. There's also theosophy and its offspring,
> the "Golden Dawn" & the Crowlian version of the OTO. "Enlightenment,"
> both most literal and metaphysical is [IMHO] the central leitmotif of AtD.
> I dipped into books on those subjects while luxuriating in minimal
> employment as I played in the group read of Against the Day.
> I think you will find research into the roots of Buddhism the most fruitful.
> A-a-a-and philately, believe it or not. They co-join in Tuva.
>
> On Nov 10, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Ian Livingston wrote:
>
> Jungian alchemy is everywhere in AtD. You might at least get some kind
>
> of overview somewhere online.
The Alchemy Website
http://levity.com/alchemy/
http://www.alchemywebsite.com/
Internet Sacred Text Archive
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/index.htm
These have served me well over the years here ...
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