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Book Club

Rubin, Rick. The Creative Act: A Way of Being. Penguin Press, 2023.

The Hermetica:

  • Clement Salaman et al., “Way of Hermes” (contains the Corpus Hermeticum and the Definitions)
  • Clement Salaman, “Asclepius” (contains the Asclepius)
  • Brian Copenhaver, “Hermetica” (Corpus Hermeticum and Asclepius)
  • M. David Litwa, “Hermetica II” (Stobaean Fragments and many other smaller texts)
  • A translation of the Nag Hammadi Codices, either the one edited by Meyer or by Robinson
  • Hans D. Betz, “The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation”
  • Marvin Meyer, “Ancient Christian Magic”
  • Garth Fowden, “The Egyptian Hermes”
  • Christian Bull, “The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus”
  • Kevin van Bladel, “The Arabic Hermes”
  • Anything by Wouter J. Hanegraaff, but especially “Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination”

Three Initiates. The Kybalion: A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece. Yogi Publication Society, 1908.

Haanel, Charles F. The Master Key System. SoHo Books, 2008.

Hawkins, David R. Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential. Hay House, 2020.

Bush, Ryan A. Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture. Designing the Mind LLC, 2021.

Popovic, Srdja. Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World. Random House, 2015.

McKenna, Terence K. Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge : A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution. New York, Bantam Books, 1992.

Grant, Adam. Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World. Penguin Books, 2016.

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. Translated by Gregory Hays, Modern Library, 2002.

Orwell, George.1984. Signet Classics, 1950. (Original work published in 1949.)
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. Signet Classics, 1996. (Original work published in 1945.)

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