Have a suggestion for the Reading Room Material?

Hi All,

If you have a suggestion for the reading room please place your comments in this thread. Please place the name of the title, a category and a link to where the material is located. Currently I am utilizing a third-party account we have to make the viewing of materials open to all and easy to read. Please do not attach any materials to this thread or they will be deleted; as these file types are very heavy and as I said, we are utilizing a third-party host for the reader.

I look forward to your suggestions for additions, and hopefully before long we'll have a diverse and large library of texts for all to enjoy!

Much Love & Big Hugs,
Starrfire

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Permalink Reply by Starrfire Price on September 10, 2008 at 7:38pm: The Eddas - etc. Good Choice!! I will go locate them :-) Many thanks for your input and great ideas!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dravan Luhawk on September 19, 2008 at 3:42am: The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown. This one even had some catholic friends of mine seriously pondering the aspect of "The Divine Feminine".; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sage of the Dragon on September 19, 2008 at 4:39pm: We are only humans after all on this small piece of dirt spinning in the universe, over which we have no control what so ever! Why does it suprise you that we would try to control every other aspect of life around us?
Since power is the upmost control that is what we strive for. If you have the most power you have the upmost control. AND if you have the most power...AND no one knows about that power...THEN that is even better! The broader the control ...in the smaller amount of hands...well that is what they have wanted for centuries. Are they close to achieving that? Was Jesus part of that? Is his line still on earth? Are there really only seven families ruling the planet? I don't know the answers , I don't know if anyone does, but the cover-up idea is always there. It will be interesting to see what reading material is offered up. I think we are programed some where deep inside our brains to think we are not the end all so there has to be something "bigger, stronger, brighter, more power-full" than we are. The "God Gene"?
Tena...aka...Sage of the Dragon..still pondering the wonders of it all; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Wolf Maiden on September 20, 2008 at 12:22pm: I would love to have folks read my debut fantasy novel, The Stone of the Tenth Realm,by Eva Gordon. It has received 5 star reviews on amazon and I would love a book club discussion about it. Check out my website http://ravenauthor.com
It's available on amazon and barnes; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Halfmoonarmy on October 2, 2008 at 4:03am: Incarnation of Immortality series by Piers Anthony. It's listed as fantasy, but for Pagans, it's probably a little closer to reality.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by silvermoonfairy on October 7, 2008 at 5:44pm: The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Cuehlo. I would classify it as spiritual fiction. It is a beautiful story written by an absolutely amazing writer.

Description from Publisher's Weekly:

"An uncanny fusion of philosophy, religious miracle and moral parable. The Portobello of the title is London's Portobello Road, where Sherine Khalil, aka Athena, finds the worship meeting she's leading—where she becomes an omniscient goddess named Hagia Sophia—disrupted by a Protestant protest. Framed as a set of interviews conducted with those who knew Athena, who is dead as the book opens, the story recounts her birth in Transylvania to a Gypsy mother, her adoption by wealthy Lebanese Christians; her short, early marriage to a man she meets at a London college (one of the interviewees); her son Viorel's birth; and her stint selling real estate in Dubai. Back in London in the book's second half, Athena learns to harness the powers that have been present but inchoate within her, and the story picks up as she acquires a "teacher" (Deidre O'Neill, aka Edda, another interviewee), then disciples (also interviewed), and speeds toward a spectacular end."

You can browse or read the entire book online at HarperCollins.com
http://browseinside.harpercollins.com/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061338816

You can find it on Amazon.com here -
http://www.amazon.com/Witch-Portobello-Novel-P-S/dp/0061338818/ref=...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Killian on October 11, 2008 at 12:38am: I think everyone should take the time to read Deep and Simple by Bo Lozoff...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jamie Patrick on October 21, 2008 at 2:14am: Anything by Robert Anton Wilson.

In particular Prometheus Rising and Quantum Psychology.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sara on October 29, 2008 at 4:06pm: Yah, I've always digged books by Charles De Lint, I'm surprised that more heathens don't discuss his fiction.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lykathea, Queen of Squirrels on November 12, 2008 at 1:54am: These sites are chock full of goodies:

http://rahoorkhuit.net
http://luckymojo.com
http://deoxy.org
http://sacred-texts.org
http://northvegr.org
http://www.hermetics.org/ebooks.html

Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston (Southern folk magic)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Grand-Jean/Hurston/Chapters/index....

Occult Ebook Library contains plenty of ceremonial magic books:
http://occultebooks.blogspot.com/

Key64 is currently down, but when it's up it's a good blog about eclectic stuff.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lykathea, Queen of Squirrels on November 12, 2008 at 2:13am: Pagan related:

Amber - Roger Zelazny (SF based on Indian mythology)
American Gods / Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
Brown Girl in the Ring - Nalo Hopkinson (a modern tale featuring Jamaican mythology)
The Odin Brotherhood - Mark L. Mirabello (I think it's totally fiction, but good nonetheless.)
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco (just a great book, and it pokes fun at ceremonial magicians!)
Way of the Heathen - Garman Lord (or any other writings by him)
Volsunga Saga (of course you must read it)
Popol Vuh (Mayan codex)
The Zohar (main book of today's Kabbalah)
Book 4 - Aleister Crowley (of course)
Liber Null - Peter Carroll

Non-pagan stuff:
Helliconia trilogy - Brian Aldiss
Camp Concentration - Tom Disch
Homeland and Other Stories - Barbara Kingsolver
The Sex Chronicles - Zane (lol this stuff is excellent)
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
The Coldest Winter Ever - Sister Souljah
Anti-Oedipus - Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (a landmark of modern philosophy!)
This Is Not A Pipe - Michel Foucault
The Glass Hammer - K. W. Jeter
Dune - Frank Herbert
A la recherche du temps perdu - Marcel Proust
Foundation Trilogy - Asimov; ▶ Reply to This