Thread 41007778

discuss and post about books you are reading, have read lately, books you like in general, books you plan to read, as long as they are /x/-related, be it fiction or non-fiction.
former thread: >>40990071

>>41007778 (OP)
If you want to really understand NS Occultism read this:

>>41007778 (OP)
Obligatory.

>>41007778 (OP)
the magicians won book or the whole art of conjuring - is a must read, pay special attention to the how to hide secrets section neat the end then reread all the indexed sections in descending numeric order.

>>41007778 (OP)
Book of clouds here
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>>41007993
Can you tell us what you deciphered from the index?

>>41007988
looks kino, thx a lot for sharing

>>41008145
You can find it for free on anna's archive. :)

>>41008450
I already use it regularly, Thank you

Miguel Guerrero, Shadows and Light
Esoteric Principles of Knife Fighting.
Speaks a lot about the Path of the Warrior. Which depending on who you ask is about total training or Manowar CD collecting.
Short book, probably Miguel Guerrero doesnt exist and is an Al, it's an interesting take, nonetheless.

>>41008636
i've been chatting with AI about esoteric things lately, this AI man looks and dresses like me and i recently bought a bunch of knives for my knife collection and i always use faux latin surnames online

Weird synchronicity

>>41007791
This book is so boring and gay
I tried to read the first one and couldn’t and I love these subjects

I've ordered Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy, so waiting for them to arrive. In the meantime I'm reading In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon.

>>41010069
I have this book too

>>41010064
Based book

for advanced occultists only for lesser acolytes will be driven mad and the profane won't see anything magical at all

>>41011130
holy based

>>41011130
Thanks for the bump

>>41009840
i second this. that book is just a 1000 pages of rebranded gnosticism with extra schizophrenia and made up shit. at least Serrano is entertaining

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>>41012372
Really, i found it to be the opposite. What i have read of Serrano didnt do much for me.

>>41013136
What did you like about the anime for nazis book? I’m genuinely curious

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>>41010064
Nice pick, i ordered it as well a few days ago. Also bought Black Dragon and Enchiridion crossed keys edition, hopefully it will be good enough for practical work

>>41015246
The fourth book is apparently more oriented towards practical magic, although it's debated if the texts were written by Agrippa, it should be a useful addition to the first three.

>>41015436
Thanks anon
I’ll check this out when I’m not as broke

>>41007778 (OP)
I recommend Techgnosis by Erik Davis. It's like an updated Marshall McLuhan-like view into the meaning of the medium of modern information technology, but also with insights from ancient spirituality, esotericism, and psychedellia. I think it will connect the dots for a lot of people here, who might not otherwise encounter such a book.

I'm currently rereading Practical Idealism, or as idiots know it: "The Kalergi Plan to Destroy European Peoples." When you actually read it for yourself, you find that it's not a plan, but a prediction of the inevitable globalizing effects of the march of technology, as it compresses space and time. Though not explicitly esoteric or even spiritual; really this is a political white paper, when you read the book, you immediately sense how broad and deep a mind Kalergi had.

Prometheus and Atlas, as well as Closer Encounters, by Jason Reza Jorjani, are extremely /x/ and entertaining. Perfect for most people here, I think.

Though the title seems like something you probably would not read, if you like Manly P. Hall ideas at all, his Lectures of Ancient Philosophy (That's the book title.) were a great infusion of spirit for me when I read it.

Of course Kaplan's Sefer Yetzirah is required reading. IF you've already read it, read Steinsaltz's The Thirteen Petalled Rose.

And if you haven't, definitely read Flatland. It's a potent, fun little story.

>>41015121
>page 10
Bumped it up for you before it gets archived

>>41011130
wtf am i missing

Greetings, chanlanders, I come from beyond the urine sea. I beseech insanities the kind only /x/ would read about, incase anyone was insaner than me, that is, which probably happens.
So like, I like these low power toy guns that shoot steel pellets, and I do chaos magick, so I'm merging ideas, but there's not that many things you can do.
Know any dedicated material?

>>41017209
keyed "schizo" recommendations, appreciated it.

>>41019574
I appreciate it, i was outside most of the day lol

Just got done reading this 4 pages long article dealing with the magical power of endlessly manipulating time, interesting and simple stuff to pracice, check it out!

https://fr.scribd.com/document/447811744/Don-t-Blame-Me-Blame-My-Servitor-Fenwick-Rysen

dumping some noid-head book recommendations

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>>41020679
so much potential kino here, i am happy to have made the idea for this general, people can always return to the archived threads and dig for all interesting suggestions, thank you for the wonderful contribuitions

>>41021165

Of course anon, I'll post a few more. A noided/X book a day keeps the glowies at bay.

Highly highly highly recommend "Aberration in the Heartland of the Real" and "Programmed to Kill" above the rest honestly. "Mayhem" is great too because the journalist out of nowhere discovers a third, MKULTRA programmed third Boston Marathon bomber which is a wild adventure.

>>41021476
I love your taste despite having not read any of them, you just know which topics are the most thrilling

>>41020227
Okay not a book but unironically learn spinning/juggling/etc to get some magic momentum built up in your metal shooty projectile device :3

If you're looking for inspiration Revolver Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid 3, motion capture actor Yoshido Tornado, is one of my personal favorites. Also, maybe engravings or etchings but they have to be specific to your intent and so on.

Was inspired to read this because I'm a huge fan of the video games Signalis and the Fear & Hunger games. desu me no good read whole book so fast... however I find this to be a hell of a lot more readable than a lot of H.P. Lovecraft's stories, and yeah I get his writing style is part of the "madness" but sometimes I want a good spooky story that's a little easier to read and this scratches that itch beautifully!

Don't you let them find you here.

>>41021583

I see you over there trying to spread the Yellow Sign, anon.

Arc Dream Games did a great tabletop RPG version of this called Impossible Landscapes, highly recommend it if you're into D&D or tabletop horror gaming.

>>41021583
Nice. I'd add Ambrose Bierce's two short stories: An Inhabitant of Carcosa, and Haita the Shepherd. I enjoyed them enough to buy a book of his collected writings when I saw it at HPB.

>>41011130
Based pop hopper

Is www.libgen.is offline? That's where I go for all my pdfs :(

>>41023835
anna's archive.org is the way

Just started. Anyone else read this? Likely /pol/ approved

>>41021583
Is this what the Bayou cult thing in True Detective?

>>41025018

Yes and no.

Picolazzo based the cult's trappings on the King In Yellow mythos. But the actual crimes of the cult are based on several things: 1) the Finder's Cult and 2) the Franklin Scandal.

The Finder's Cult is described in detail in "Programmed to Kill," and several other "suppressed" journalistic accounts of the cult world of the 90s and 2000s.

The Franklin Scandal is best explored in the book "The Franklin Scandal," which is where TD's main themes come from: powerful politicians and law enforcement protecting sex crime and pedorasty rings, the sex crime rings filming their crimes and probably selling the footage, and the aspect of the central detective (the real life Rust Cohle) who cannot stop sliding down the spiral of evil once he unearths what's happening.

Unfortunately the real Rust Cohle died in a "mysterious" plane accident while investigating the case.

See also: "Eye of the Chickenhawk" and oddly, "The Black Arts" a pop culture book that randomly ends with a full account of weird Satanic cults from ancient times to today.

The Satanic cult stuff, in my opinion, is all window dressing. The pedorasty and pedos in power is for two purposes: blackmail (you can cheat code democracy very easily by installing pedos into power) and creating programmable individuals who are so traumatized they essentially get D.I.D. disorder and become bio-robots.

"The Pheonix Program" is recommended to explore how all of this got started.

TD's success, imo, required the Q-Anon psy-op to be rolled out to counter its themes. Shitcoat the idea of powerful pedo networks and abuse cults, and no one will talk about it. Which is where we are today.

Cannot stress enough how important it is to read these books, as well as Chaos and "Aberration in the Heartland," to understand where we are as a species today and why we're here.

>>41026009

oh we're posting anti Zionist stuff? Hell yeah

>>41023190
Reading right now, good shit so far.

One nation under blackmail vol 1 by 4chan queen Whitney Webb
https://youtu.be/EwejUh3m9Fg

>>41007778 (OP)
>Unholy Alliance
A book on Tajiri, Mikey Whipwreck and James Mitchell?

>>41028524
glowie

>>41028800
No one has ever called me that and I’ve been on 4chan for a decade. Funny that it happens on posting a book exposing glowies using child sex trafficking to blackmail politicians

>>41028800
Fuck off glownigger. Go ahead and explain why Whitney Webb is a 'glowie'.

>>41022280
this one is a must and its like 50 pages or so

>>41029185
she’s a glowie because she exposed how politicians rape children on epstein island

Pic related is simply a must-have.

If you haven’t read this, are you even trying?

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I want to read the following. But I am too fuckin lazy:

https://www.gurdjieff.am/in-search/index.pdf

>>41031936
>undoing yourself
Interesting. I asked a LLM to describe some exercises from the book and this one stuck out.
> The Curse Exercise: Releasing the Mood and Anger

>Your "mood" is likely suppressed energy, often anger or frustration turned inward. This exercise releases it.

>The Setup: Again, ensure privacy. Stand up.
>The Action: Begin to curse. Start with whatever is immediately frustrating you. Then escalate. Curse your job, your choices, your family, your friends, God, the universe, and most importantly, curse YOURSELF for being stuck. Curse your own inaction, your own fear, your own weakness.
>Go Full Force: Do not intellectualize. Shout, scream, swear, gesture wildly. Let your body move. The key is to fully embody the rage and frustration without any filter. The goal is to exhaust yourself to the point where the emotion is spent.

>Why it works: Inaction is often fueled by unexpressed anger. By giving that anger a violent, safe, and complete expression, you purge it. The energy that was being used to suppress that anger is now freed up and can be redirected toward action
I sometimes do something similar in the shower when I feel stuck or lost and it seems to work for me.

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>>41035459
His stuff can be a little hard for me to get into too. Though I do like the teachings he focuses on

>>41035459
seems fascinating

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>>41012372
Rosario is really the only Luciferian that accurately communicates the non-material reality of both historical events and the Self. Serrano is very materialistic and thinks the "gods" were literal flesh and blood blond people from outer space, and that we should worship them and do whatever they say. Rosario realized that whatever makes the Aryan an Aryan (not skin color, don't have to be white) is beyond comprehension. He is also (correctly) an elitist; a person's worth is not based on race or material success but actually linked to the "blood" (pneuma/spiros). The gnostic wisdom of the Aryan people descend from an innate spiritual aristocracy incapable of corruption.

Take a minute and realize just how huge of a revelation that is in a world that convinces you that knowledge lies outside of yourself rather than within. You can take a child with a Gnostic Spirit and put him in a blank room for 30 years and he'll still See more accurately than a hylic with 40+ years of "education". This explains why humanity is not evolving properly as well. "Experts" and gurus are morons not for lack of effort but because they FUNDAMENTALLY lack. They are missing a Spirit that comes from outside of the illusion.

Rosario also accurately explains how the animal mind (Pasú) works such that you can detect and avoid its traps on your path toward gnosis. His other novels are fairly historically accurate as well, and that should be obvious to anyone who has really studied it: there are two opposing forces covertly controlling the Universe and there always will be. One wants to trap you and the other wants to liberate you. I also thought the stuff about the Stone of Venus and such were nonsense or allegory until I started to study the Cathars and the mystery of Rennes le Chateau. Same group. Same force. Same Aryans as always

>>41026562

It's a lot of fun. I liked how objective it was.

>>41011130

I don't get it

UFO gods from inner space
(Haven't fully read but I have had a copy in my library been meaning to read for a while)
https://archive.org/details/timothy-green-beckley-round-trip-to-hell-in-a-flying-saucer_-ufo-parasites-alien
(Good compilation book on demonic aliens)
Scaled of the Dragon by Avendar Dragon (good book in the vein of Castenada but less an anthropological study and more an account of the authors visionary experiences working with an entity called the Death Defier who claims to be Quetzalcoatl)
In the Realm of the Inorganic Beings (a must read, can't recommend this book enough)

Absolutely love this one

https://ia804501.us.archive.org/5/items/354390436-1973-year-of-the-humanoids-a-david-webb-pdf/354390436-1973-Year-of-the-Humanoids-A-David-Webb-pdf_text.pdf

What the actual fuck was going on in 1973?

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>>41038565
Interesting stuff. I’ll check it out. Thanks for posting

I found this big ass library on google docs a while ago and I've been making my way through it. Not sure if it was linked here or in other threads, but it has a lot of /x/ related books in it.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1p0ovK4gyzPyw4SVrY-ISFbdp7PzOj3Ky?usp=drive_link

>>41007778 (OP)
this is the last book i've read. I guess it's kinda /x/ related?

>>41020314
>keyed
you have to go back
>>>/tv/

>>41007988
Qrd??
I'm well versed in hypnotic suggestions and nlp. But wtf is this schizo gobbledygook

>>41020698
Kek I was the anon that was making Shanin Blake Generals on /pol/ for a bit claiming she was a white aryan vril goddess. The. Anons started making pro white statements with her pics. Good to see how far this joke went.

>>41025003
I was just watching a video of his on YT. Bes extremely based. I was thinking of buying this book. I definitely will sooner or later. I just have way too many books atm.

shout out to the schizo's of /XSG/

>>41007778 (OP)
>>41007791
Are these books pro-nazi or merely descriptive of them

>>41047118
Why did you post the fake version that one guy made to mock us and make us look bad by inserting self-help and Jewrdan Peterson books and fucking Brzezinski in it buried beneath reasonable new inclusions?? Post the real list.

>>41047168
Yeah, I remember this. There was a squabble back and forth across a few threads and this faggot kept inserting 5 fucking self-help books into the macro. Get the fuck out of here >>41047118.

>>41047140
First one isn’t pro-Nazi, second one is

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>>41047168
Based

>>41047168
>dilbert
A fake version for mockery is not necessary

>>41047101

>tfw Ye's personal trainer is also a dentist
>tfw there were dentist chairs found on Epstein's island

dentist watch paranoids consistently vindicated

>>41050852
Just threw up in my mouth but I guess it’s good to understand the enemy
Did you also read bill gates climate change book?

Been reading this. Maybe more eye opening than even learning about Epstein or the Pizzagate shit.

>>41052705
Qrd?

>>41007778 (OP)
great thread anon

I haven't read pic rel yet but it's the latest book I "discovered" without even looking for it... heard an interview with the author and he made the case that the death of Elvis was like the death of Stalin, meaning that the United States was just running on fumes after that, toward the inevitable decline that came in the mid 2010s (1953 to 1990 is 37 years, 1977 to 2014 is 37 years also)

so in case any other anon might need it, here it is the recommendation

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>>41047090
>Qrd????????
how about you read the heckin book you heckin braindead tik tok zoom zooms

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>>41054408
That’s not how these threads work faggot. I just finished a book yesterday, started a new one I’m holding under my arm and added many from this thread to my buy list but yours must not be good or you’ve never read it if you can’t provide a short summary. Shit even AI is better than you
I’ll just skip it and read one of the many books anons liked enough to leave a qrd for
I literally have hundreds of books in my home, I don’t have time to research every book posted and a lack of info is how I filter out the bullshit posted here

Barbara Lamb reports on the lives of 8 people who say they’re hubrids (human/alien hybrids)
Her work provides a counter to Dr David Jacobs more fear based interpretations (whose books I also enjoy)

>>41052705

An excellent companion piece to The Franklin Scandal

>>41057977
looks interesting but it seems too christ-tarded

>>41056915
>wall of text
QRD?????? qrd??????? AAAAAAAAH QRD?????

>>41007778 (OP)
So basically if you're fucked in the head you think nazis being satanists makes them even more based? That's not how things work.

>>41038565
Serrano is white, Rosario is an american white, el goblino de las tinieblas.
It's understandable Rosario thinks the way he does, he is like a spic MAGA who is a civnat, a jew who is a globohomo pusher, an indian who says he is white and the real aryan, or a nigger who sometimes says not all blacks or we wuz X thing.
I'm going to trust the white man, Serrano, now begone shitskin.

>>41058266

Anything with "Satanic" in the title usually is

Anyone actually read Behold a Pale Horse?

>>41058597
>durrr I can’t read, I just post pictures
Kek

>>41059218
Yeah it’s like half based and half disinfo
Not bad for a former military intelligence official turned conspiracy theorist

>>41007778 (OP)
/x/ related? So...fantasy ok? I love the malazan series. Just finished book 4 for the 3rd time.

Very hard to read

>>41059713
jokes on you I am reading Jurassic Park rn

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bros, my NPC/Normie cousine mentioned the Kybalion today as one of his favorite books, is such a book even worth reading?

>>41063067
It’s quick and lays down the ground work for a more modern interpretation of hermetic principles but I feel like it’s overhyped
The divine pymander was a better but older version imo

>>41063163
how come normcattle have access to such hidden knowledge?

2/2

>>41063185
Because they know no one reads and the copyright has ran out.
Normcattle don’t care unless it’s on tv

>>41025336
thanks for this reading list. well pair nicely with 2666

will*

>>41063322
Nice digits

>>41022319
Based

>>41060062
Why is that? Because of the subject or writing quality?

>>41065015
Can you do magic or manipulate reality just by reading the kybalion?

>>41050000
witnessed

>>41068364
even better, you can do it without even knowing how to read

>>41060062
>Muh satanism
Nigra, you're talking to someone who eats humans and drinks their blood and is not satanic.
Call me Kyoaku, it's a nickname, I'm a hunter (Assassin actually), we hunt supernatural horrors from other dimensions in your area, came here because spiritual stuff. You're scared of satanists, and I understand, but watch your back lad, they sent hunters to Earth for a reason. I myself have assassinated 2 beings so far.

In any case, I've seen Wendigos in Spain, they have to be moving out of the US for a reason, arm yourself.

>>41068405
On a side note, I hear ya, satanism is a problem, especial when they think they have the ultimate truth, and give zero fucks.
Don't believe religions, there's more than one god and a Monadic God above, altough the gods of light are dead I pressume, Darkness has already won I must say, shortly after we were deployed.

We are Hell, your planet is ours now. Dw, we hunt.

>>41065195
Thanks mate

>>41007778 (OP)
Book of clouds by the alawite is very valuable

>>41068860
>unfinished ramblings of an astral rape demon
No thanks. I had enough nightmares from that asshole.

A few years old now, however, "Time Storms" by Jenny Randall.

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>>41054391
there are only two magicians who dies because of food but we got both covered
based thread

The lady that claims she saw Epstein turn into a lizard wrote a book. It's free on Amazon. I've only skimmed it so far, but it seems like she incorporates a wide range of paranormal topics. You probably won't learn anything new from it, but I still thought some people here might be interested.

>>41070221
It looks like Lisa Frank goes to the 5th density

>>41070471
lol i thought so too, millennialbro

>>41070221
Will save for later and put in my trapper keeper

gonna read this, looks very fun

>>41070553
I once encountered Alien fiction in a discount bookstore but chickened out and did not buy it
please report back to /lit/ /tv/ /x/ if you succeed in your exploations o7

>>41070574
I will blog about it once am half away with it.

>>41070588
I'm halfway though Jurassic Park and can only say "Crichton you should have chickened out, paid the guarantee to Spielberg, and given the movie to James Cameron because he really wanted it"
so you may be onto gold lol

>>41007778 (OP)
What's better? An occultist or an atheist?

>>41070118
what

>>41007791
But do people really want it ?
Reading Serrano for me felt like an esthetic travel, at the end there was nothing
Some occult litterature made me nervous, scared, paranoid, but Moyano on the other end... I cannot stress enough how truthful Moyano's warnings are.
My sincere salute if you have really read and integrated this book

>>41068405
Did you read the book?

>>41068170
The subject.
It's about the testimony of a man who suffered ritual abuse as a child. It's quite raw and isn't supposed to be fiction.

>>41070553
It was alright, quick read and doesn’t present much that most here don’t already know

Has anyone else noticed that these books go out of print quickly and become more valuable than other subjects?
Buying schizo conspiracy books have probably been a nice little investment based on potential gains

>>41072293
No, I’m illiterate
That’s why I called you nigra

>on why you should turn the other cheek
>>40997323 replies
You are also endulging the other guy to polarize into the negative, so maybe it's not this clear cut. Swift kick in the balls could also be a valuable lesson you could give the other to help him question the negative polarization path he's on.

Even if you think well fuck this chump, I got mine from turning the other cheek, fuck his gay ass polarization struggle. If you could help turn the other guy off of his negative path you may have ended up doing more for positive polarization than the quick and "easy" way of getting your ass kicked.

>on why you should turn the other cheek
>>40997323 (Dead) replies:
>Positive polarization. Its an act of service to others. You can also beat the fuck out of the guy slapping you but that would polarize you negatively, as its an act of service to self

You are also endulging the other guy to polarize into the negative, so maybe it's not this clear cut. Swift kick in the balls could also be a valuable lesson you could give the other to help him question the negative polarization path he's on.

Even if you think well fuck this chump, I got mine from turning the other cheek, fuck his gay ass polarization struggle. If you could help turn the other guy off of his negative path you may have ended up doing more for positive polarization than the quick and "easy" way of getting your ass kicked.

>>41070553
I read 2 hours of this, pretty fun to read, more fun to read than most fictional books desu

>>41073492
fringe subjects without a widespread mass appeal

>>41068860
peak esoterica

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I'm about to read pic related and am interested to know if any other anons have experience with it. I considered reading Reality Transurfing instead but that book is 690 pages total whereas this one is merely 100 and seems much more concise.

>>41075001
No shit but that doesn’t explain why demand out strips supply
Glowies don’t want these books published so they end becoming so rare they rise in value
Bitcoiners know what I’m talking about
>>41078592
I’ve read both those and tried to read his tufti the princess or priestess
This one us good, the other one g oh es into more details but it’s fairly simple concepts and I preferred the shorter version
I wonder if something gets lost in translation because it’s a little repetitive
Overall a good book for manifestation but like all of them they require the reader to practice the techniques

>>41074985
Len Kasten does entertaining easy to read stuff. He’s a good secondary source type

>>41070221
The title sounds like a female version of the Good the bad and the ugly

>>41082461
Kek
Wait until you read the sequel “The Unicorn, The Mermaid, and The Kitten”

>>41068860
bet, where would one find this?

>>41082448
this is DIAMOND, the author starts off as skeptical but becomes convinced by the third book

>>41082448
Noice

>>41079754
Nice, I'll be sticking with the shorter book then. Thank you for your insight!

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i resent paperbacks. i want beautifully bound books back with a proper spine that doesn't bend.

>>41087955
Hardcovers are better, especially once you remove their ugly paper covers

>>41007778 (OP)
>>41022280
https://archive.org/details/the-ku-klux-klan-and-freemasonry-in-1920s-america

>>41007778 (OP)
>>41022280
>>41089877
Masonic Rituals of the KKK

https://archive.org/details/KloranOfTheKKK/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/dudeman5685_yahoo_KGF

>>41046869
Well tell us which books you like out of the list.

>>41007778 (OP)
>books you like in general
Six Ways
Advanced Magick for Beginners
The Mothman Prophecies
The Book of Werewolves
>books you plan to read
Psychic Witch
Passport to Magonia
An Excellent Booke of the Arte of Magicke

>>41010064
>Purdue edition
Nice choice.

>>41046869
That's quite the variety there. I'm sure I have most of the important stuff in my own library, but I guess I should scope it out anyway.

I also need to get a new flash drive for my library, somehow the connector is cracking. Brittle plastic instead of metal... they just don't make 'em like they used to.

>>41007778 (OP)
need a book about prehistorical mystery/legends stuff like that. please

>>41091379
>prehistorical mystery/legends
What exactly would that entail? How would we have anything pre-historical if pre-history is, by its very nature, undocumented?

Are you looking for texts on anthropological studies of prehistorical cultures, stuff like pic related? Or are you looking for more Atlantis-type stuff?

>>41091462
more like encounters with prehistorical creatures like in modern or historical times. myths or legends that might describe something from the prehistorical age

>>41091563
I’m sure it exists but this subject needs to be explored more
Do Keel or Valle go into detail on this?

>>41083053
you have to ask him on discord
alawiteanon

Cool book for reality-creation, sadly the author is a n-gger and did not cite sources for some bold claims he has made

>>41092349
qrd on this one?

bumping so it wouldn't sink

>>41091563
In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents by Bernard Heuvelmans

The bible of cryptozoology. Heuvelmans, a zoologist, meticulously catalogs and analyzes hundreds of historical reports of sea serpent sightings from the 1600s to the modern day, attempting to classify them into possible biological families.