Discuss /x/-related books ITT. The weirder and more out there, and factual, the better.
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>>25615260stay on your containment board
>>25615260There is more civil /x/ talks on /x/ than here. /lit/ is a shithole for book discussion.
>>25615260Thought the spoiler image was panties for a second. Anyway idk, some shit by Ragnar Benson? Kind of antiquated now, though. I know a bunch on body and energywork.
>>25615858/x/ threads on /lit/ are genuinely better than any thread on /x/.
>>25616111made by someone on the third tier
>>25616111>no sepher yetzirah >no zohar>no nachtseite naturphilosophen fake & gay
>>25616653that's because /x/ is quite literally retarded
/x/ isn't about facts, it's about making retards feel like they're geniuses that have some kind of secret knowledge that normie NPCs will never get.
Reading this right now. It's got about all the basics of magick & the esoteric/occult that you could want, and more.
>>25616695is this like dangerous secret occult knowledge for dummies
>>25616695A magic primer as a children's book is a perfect comment on the state of magic today.
Sinister ForcesProgrammed to KillAmerican Cosmic
>>25615260This needs to come back in print
>>25616700Kind of yeah. >>25616703Once you open the book you'll realize it's not for children at all LOL. Lots of boobs and cocks and gore and such.
>>25616703I've realized everyone wants to into into magic only does so because they're stupid normie retards who don't know magic is quite literally applied science
>>25616741retarded adults then. I was being generous.
Baphomet: The Temple Mystery UnveiledThis was one of the last books Tracy Twyman wrote before she died under mysterious circumstances. There's a Higher Sides Chats episode about her. https://hollowataraxia.substack.com/p/the-strange-death-of-tracy-twyman
>>25616754EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE BOOKS CLAIMS TO REVEAL THE MYSTERY. ANDTHEYNEVERREVEALTHEMYSTERYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
>>25616653>/x/ bad because I say soExactly. OP should go to /x/ where his questions will be taken seriously.
>>25616815Suck a fucking cock redditoid
>>25616744yeah, it peaked in the Renaissance
>>25616827>newfag vitriolExactly. OP will have a better time going to /x/ and receiving genuine answers instead of some psychotic faggot spam from a typical newfag bitch on the internet.
>>25616880>le newfag!Jesus Christ redditoid. At least fucking act like you fit in. Elephant dick licking faggot
>>25616720Programmed to Kill, & CHAOS (by Tom O'Neill) should be taught in schools.
>>25616900>disrupts all conversation>obsessed with redditYep, a typical newfag reading off the same script :\
>>25616662what would be your tier list
>>25615260Not lit, but MouthyBuddhas Pedogate documentary series is a must watch. Maybe "The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska" comes close.
>>25615260Just started pic related.
>>25617011>MouthyBuddhas Pedogate documentaryWatching this now. Wow. This is real investigative journalism.
>>25615645>90% of the board are threads that should be on /pol/>singling out this thread to bitch about>>25615858/x/ is just christcucks and cum cultists now, there's nothing worthwhile there.
>>25617330>cum cultists???
I keep meaning to get this book, supposedly it's very comprehensive.
>>25617350qtd?
This is a really neat collection. It's about as scholarly as the subject gets.
>>25617344"Semen retention", basically a bunch of weirdos think if they don't have sex or jack off they'll get superpowers.
>>25617357It's about sea monsters. Weird shit in the oceans.
>>25615260I put together what I characterize as my more "serious" /x/ shelf. Two of the books are due to my being Catholic so I will note them as such.The first two, Kooks and Strange Creations, are by a folklorist, Donna Kossy, and cover a range of subjects, mostly strange religions, and do so with relative charity outside of those subjects relating to white supremacists. Monsters of the Sea by Richard Ellis is a very well-researched and balanced account of sea monsters. He is a skeptic but readily admits when skepticism seems the less likely case.Passport to Magonia, and by extension much of the work of Jacques Vallée, is extremely well-researched and probably the best writing on the topic of UFOs. Vallée is not some idiot who pretends to be a scientist; he is a professional astronomer, computer scientist(worked on ARPANET), and has a list of accomplishments too long to list here. This is to say that he takes his reputation seriously and his books are serious.Shane Leslie's Ghost Book is a series of accounts of ghost stories that have the additional scrutiny of having to be in line with Catholic Theology.The Complete Books of Charles Fort is an omnibus of Charles Fort's books on "Forteana". I have personally gone out of my way to verify many of the accounts recorded in his books, including contacting universities across the US and UK to make sure that the accounts he cites are actually in the books and journals he claims. Fort's most important aspect is his philosophy rather than his use in cataloging /x/ events.The Ancient Mysteries Reader, and by extension many of the anthologies edited by Peter Haining, tend to feature weird fiction with connections to real-life occultists or general eccentric beliefs.Onza! is just a very well-put-together cryptozoology book, probably the best besides Monsters of the Sea.Handbook of Unusual Phenomena, and anything by William R. Corliss, is gold, but his works are far different than the other books on the list. He tends to present things in a very detached fashion, and he is fairly selective in what he decides to present to the reader. I would love to have a full set of his Sourcebook Project, but it is thousands of dollars. He is, like Vallée, a serious scientist whose reputation actually means something, and his books reflect that.Occult Phenomena in the Light of Theology is a work that explores /x/-related topics from the perspective of Catholic theology, and attempts to make them compatible. It is a fairly serious work of theology, and I think it would be interesting for non-Catholics.Brad Steiger's Project Bluebook is sort of an anomaly. I would not recommend anything else by Brad Steiger; the guy is a kook. How he deals with Project Bluebook is where the book is worth reading, in that you get this double perspective of a guy who will ALWAYS argue that everything is real, walking you through accounts that someone else collected, in which they will ALWAYS argue everything is fake.
Reading this Pizzagate book after watching that documentary anon shared up above^^^.Shit's crazy.
>>25617330/x/ does suffer from a lot of christfaggotry but its shitposting is no different than any board where the newfag rabble launch into intricate psychotic death fantasies any time they're disagreed with.
what is the most /x/ religion? catholicism?
>>25617751Yes, but also the point is repeatedly pounded into your head in such circles that none of that stuff matters in relation to salvation and also most of the clergy feels that a focus on that sort of stuff is harmful to the church's image and so avoids it. One of my personal heroes, Charles Coloumbe, gave a great lecture on the topic.https://youtu.be/eUY3eoVmRvI
>>25617797is there any religion that instead of avoiding it, actively seeks it out and develops it? hindu tantra maybe? tibetan bon?
>>25617462Bro wtf. There's a shitton of darkness in the world. Maybe that's why Bourdain killed himself?
>>25615260>subject: /x/>content: /pol/Huh?
>>25617804Well that's the thing, the only religion to really attempt to systematize these things is Catholicism, Catholic theology is the origin of the terms "supernatural" and "preternatural". Other religions will lean into it, or try to catalog, for example the Puritans were very fascinated by the preternatural and Puritan writers would address it like cataloging, or the Shinto have strange phenomena as very central to their beliefs, but like less formal folk beliefs it is all taken without much of an attempt to understand mechanisms, it just is how it is. Occult Phenomena In Light of Theology was posted earlier in the thread and is a good example of something pretty uniquely Catholic, a serious and systematic theological examination of the preternatural.
Recommendations for /x/-style fiction? Besides Antimemetics Division.
>>25618905The Coming Race The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of NantucketShe Who Must Be ObeyedThe Moon PoolLovecraft's Dream Cycle
>>25618923Anything written in the last fifty years?
>>25617797>and also most of the clergy feels that a focus on that sort of stuff is harmful to the church's image and so avoids it.I fucking hate Vatican 2, piece of shit council.
>>25618905>>25618923>>25618967I haven't read it myself but Libra is mentioned a ton in Aberration in the Heartland of the Real.
>>25615260My Big ToeStalking the Wild Pendulum Journeys Out of the Body TrilogyEnjoy a thorough mind blowing right there
>>25615260Aliens By Abraham Lincoln
>>25615623Speaking of which has anyone read this?
>>25617418This dude did such a great analysis for /x/ books. I am really looking forward to read at least some of them
>>25617830I saw a pic of him posing with a piece of meat made to look like his dick and was immediately put off by it. He seems more like an insider than a victim. Epstein tier "art", the kind that Rush Limbaugh called the "arts and croissants crowd"
>>25617462What's the conclusion on Pizzagate? are there videos of their rituals?
>>25617727I just don't understand why on earth what kind of sick joy you get out of defaming legit believers. Father belt you on the ass too many times? Its like playing atheist/Agnostic whack a mole with you types.
>>25617365I always thought that shit was pseudoscience. I went three straight consecutive years without jerking it and felt zero changes. I didn't automatically start attracting girls out of nowhere. Like nothing happened. Literally. It was a giant nothingburger.
>>25619712Not ejaculating does increase testosterone marginally; that's about it.
>>25619711>sick joyIf an omnipotent loving God blah blah blah existed, my father would have been much different. Religious baby-sacrificing Molochian zealots like you receive some form of sick joy seeing other people suffer and live in misery.
Sad that these threads never get on topic discussion
>>25621530Barely anything does here anymore and this is what Rapeape wants.
>>25619711>I believe a bunch of deranged bullshit and demand everyone else comply with it, why doesn't everyone like meee
>>25621549I have plenty of irl friends and a family I get along with, I don't know what you're talking about. certainly I don't care to impress a bunch of basement dwelling retards on here.
>>25621649owned those fucking basement dwelling 4chan retards xD
>>25616754Rest in space>>25616759They killed her for revealing what she did. Read between the lines
>>25623868Why is her eyes black?
>>25623875Eye shadow + downcast eyes
>>25622561Its funny how vocal atheists are online but how rare they appear irl.
>>25623889We're not hunting for debates like tradcaths online are.Internet people just want to debate all the time. Out IRL we all just want to get along.
>>25616111Where's Behead All Satans?
>>25624121I don't think it actually exists?
>>25624125>>25624121Time travelers took the only copies. It told too much.
Picrel any good?
>>25624131It is probably the single best UFO book ever written.
>>25617375Hahaha, there's nothing weird in there people live in the ocean the same they live anywhere else don't be prejudiced bro
