people ask me for reading recommendations for learning occulty shit and i always give them fantasy and science fiction novels tbh i trust induction from fiction for this way better than straight explication, the fictional metaphor has to at least work inside some world model
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and figuring it out is inherently a heavy lift induction task, straight explication tends rather strongly to conceal that and make people think they can just, like, internalize the words using the meanings they're used to assigning to them
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anyway, read Walter Jon Williams's ARISTOI and Roger Zelazny's LORD OF LIGHT and Greg Bear's BLOOD MUSIC and Neal Stephenson's SNOW CRASH and sure what the fuck the Illuminatus! trilogy
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Sometimes living in the future is pretty cool.pic.twitter.com/iPwzWzZPl3
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I'm kind of between books that really grab me. This seems promiding.
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cool! i'd love to know what you think of it
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