A Few Details
You want to know a little more about me? Ok, I’ll throw you a bone.
Politics: Socially liberal, economically ambivalent.
Religion: I am a Hermetic through and through. Even my Wicca is Hermetic.
Philosophy: I am a Hermetic through and through, etc.
Favorite TV Shows: Democracy Now! (“The Exception to the Rulers”), Northern Exposure and Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (“[I]t’s worth keeping in mind which side of the glass I’m on.”), Mythbusters, Good Eats, Dirty Jobs.
Favorite Movies: Ghostbusters, The Princess Bride, What the Bleep?!… Lord, what else? I know there are others.
Favorite Books (Fiction): City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer, Dealing With Dragons (and the rest of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles) by Patricia C. Wrede, Perdido Street Station by China Mieville, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Illusions by Richard Bach, The Alchemist by Paulo Cuelho, Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake.
Favorite Books (Non-Fiction): Initiation Into Hermetics, Practice of Magical Evocation & Key to the True Quabbalah by Franz Bardon, A Bardon Companion by Rawn Clark, The Isaiah Effect by Gregg Braden, Tao Te Ching by Lao-tze (I prefer the John Bright-Fey translation), The Path of Alchemy by Mark Stavish, Encyclopedia of Natural Magic by John Michael Greer.
Favorite Authors: Franz Bardon, John Michael Greer, Mark Stavish, Gregg Braden, Jeff VanderMeer, Thich Naht Hanh.
Favorite Poets: Rumi, William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lao-tze.
Favorite Music: Emperor, Switchblade Symphony, Anael, Izrael Kamakawiwo’ole, Ra, Masquerade, Goth Box (a diverse goth compilation), Mythos, October Project… This especially shifts with my mood.
Spiritual Ancestors: Franz Bardon, Jesus Christ, Guatama the Buddha, Lao-tze, Rumi, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Thomas Merton.