re: #31 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yunno, even as a teenager, I had a similar approach to esotericism: I was terribly interested in stuff like The Golden Bough, From Ritual to Romance and Ouspensky, but only as a source of imagery and creative inspiration, certainly not as a philosophy or a way of life.

I wound up parting company with a few people who started taking it all way too seriously for my taste.

Every decade seems to have a work of literature that inspires people to say and do stupid shit. The Secret was one. A Course in Miracles. Any of Deepak Chapra’s tomes. The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho. Atlas Shrugged. The list goes on.