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I used to have more of an interest in hearing about spiritual and religious journeys than I do now. Maybe it‘s got something to do with the United States becoming a theocracy…
This memoir has a little humor. The author has a moment when he thinks about death, and is inappropriately asked about his spiritual state; he then goes in search of something but not knowing what, and meets many interesting people on different paths along the way. ⬇️

I‘m slowly coming out of “new parent hibernation”. We took a family trip to the bookstore, and this was my pick.

This book was a phenomenal look at the Jewish Women of the ages and brings so much thought and grace to reclaiming Jewish Women's Wisdom.

#PoetryMatters Day 30: #Sterile

#Movie2BookRecs @Klou
Prompt: The Ring

#PoetryMatters Day 10: #Cauldron

I bought this in 2013 in an occult science phase, started it in Dec. and finished last night. Pages of Hermetic magic, Latin untranslated, and the odd life of G Bruno and his spiritual infinite universe and mind, with memory, containing all things. He was burned in Rome in 1600.

The link between the drives of the metaphysical perspectives of religion, magic, and science may be a kind of enlightenment moment. Bruno might make a nice center point.

Writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, which were considered ancient Wisdom. (The writings are a little younger than most New Testament writing, but no one knew that in the 1400‘s.) Ficino translated this for the Medici‘s and came up with a Hermetic magic. Pico della Mirandola merged it into Jewish Cabalism, creating a mystic religious magic, and a pope blessed it (!) before Pico died (age 31) - our antiquarian occult foundations.