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[bluegreen17]

from a comment i left in response to this post from solarfields:

i've been reading osho lately,and and he says we should call rivers 'riverings' and trees 'treeings',because things are always changing. i wonder what we'd call what we do? the earth is peopling,{according to alan watts]i guess we are too...well,the metaphors are getting thrown into a stew here. maybe we're humaning? ha! bucky fuller said 'i seem to be a verb'. there's a kabbalah book by a rabbi called 'god is a verb'.

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[finnagain.livejournal.com]

simply as a side note, "god is a verb" is an absolutely horrible Kaballah text.

[bluegreen17]

well,that's disappointing. would you recommend some good ones to me?

[finnagain.livejournal.com]

~contemplates~

most of the texts I'd use and have used are by Aleister Crowley...

777 is a good one
as is the Book of Thoth
and the Treasurehouse of Images (the pathworking of Aleister crowley)

In short I'd recomend a branch of western Illuminism which has specialized in scientific shamanism and not any of those peace-and-light lunatics.

[iswari.livejournal.com]

I actually really loved that book...although it's definitely more about Jewish spirituality/mysticism than about Crowley-esque Qabbalah. I've also had the opportunity to meet David Cooper (we were on a retreat together)...and he gave me some really wise and unexpected guidance.

[finnagain.livejournal.com]

Having grown up Jewish and studied the Zohar I really can't endorse Cooper as being the standard bearer of modern jewish mysticism.

[iswari.livejournal.com]

I didn't endorse him as the "standard bearer of modern Jewish mysticism." But I do maintain that he has more in common with at least some movements of Jewish spirituality than with Crowley's lineage.