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Spirit Marriage
Rogan: Okay, so, I finished Megan Rose's Spirit Marriage.
It took me weeks, not because it was bad, but because I kept having to put it down and think and feel about it every few pages. It gave me so much food for thought, and simultaneously gave me clarity not just on my own marriage, but also what I've been flaccidly calling my "unwanted religious experience," which dragged me pretty hard for a year and a half or so, and which I found extremely difficult to understand or talk about. Thanks to this book, I feel like I'm finally getting words for it. (It also helps that while I knew there were other people who experienced this, Spirit Marriage was the first time I could find people TALKING about it. And there are sources that I can comb through to learn more!)
I highly recommend it for any plural with in-system relationships, inner mythos, or religion, ESPECIALLY if you think it DOESN'T apply to you.
Mori: now I'm digging through the citations. Other things on the reading list:
It took me weeks, not because it was bad, but because I kept having to put it down and think and feel about it every few pages. It gave me so much food for thought, and simultaneously gave me clarity not just on my own marriage, but also what I've been flaccidly calling my "unwanted religious experience," which dragged me pretty hard for a year and a half or so, and which I found extremely difficult to understand or talk about. Thanks to this book, I feel like I'm finally getting words for it. (It also helps that while I knew there were other people who experienced this, Spirit Marriage was the first time I could find people TALKING about it. And there are sources that I can comb through to learn more!)
I highly recommend it for any plural with in-system relationships, inner mythos, or religion, ESPECIALLY if you think it DOESN'T apply to you.
Mori: now I'm digging through the citations. Other things on the reading list:
- Carl Jung's Red Book. (The oversized folio version, thank you very much.)
- Deren's Divine Horsemen: Living Gods of Haiti.
- Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou. (This one is a BEAR, one of those never-digitized, limited-print run 500 page monsters that are at least $40 for a used paperback on Amazon, but the library has it in closed-stacks, in-library use only, and everyone says it's amazing, so TIME FOR A LIBRARY ADVENTURE.)
- Craig Chalquist's Storied Lives: Discovering and Deepening Your Personal Myth. (This one seems to be unavailable anywhere unless I buy it, so I might just have to suck it up and hope Chalquist... y'know, doesn't suck as a writer.)
- Popul Vuh.
- Davidsen's "The Religious Affordance of Fiction." (And the other installments in the fiction-based religion issue of Religion.)
- Tyson's Sexual Alchemy. (Not sure it'll do anything for us, but whatever, it's about boning spirits, seems like it could be relevant.)
- Carroll's Liber Kaos, Liber Null, and Psychonaut
- Ida Craddock's "Heavenly Bridgerooms"
- Jason Miller's Consorting with Spirits
- Hine's Condensed Chaos
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