100k Esoterica Shelf Tour - What Books do I have in my Library? From Occultism to D&D to Rare Books!
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- Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2021
- A bit of a break from usual content - this week is a shelf tour of my books. Though, I actually forgot a whole set of shelves for all my science books, oh well! Shelf tour starts after a little introduction at 07:42
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I have commented before that every time you post a video my collection gets bigger. Whoa... slow down. Ok, fine. I guess I can watch this repeatedly, pausing in different places along the way, using full screen to catch titles and publishers. I have been collecting and studying for thirty years on my own. You make me feel like a total noob. Thank You!!
Monthly Patron is nearly an anagram of Monty Python. Coincidence? I don't think so.
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Crusher is a six point star for the son of a cloud
But Dr. Sledge, everyone knows you're supposed to store your dice, especially the d20, with the highest number up so that over time, the atoms settle to the bottom making it roll higher more consistently.
Very interesting 🤔
LMAO
Eeehh, I've got a long way to go :D
Beautiful collection, sir! Thank you for sharing!
And congratulations on 100k! Very well deserved, and many more!
I always had a feeling you also washed his videos lol
Thanks, friend - you'll be there soon! And thanks for the content you produce as well. It's wonderful to be in the company of such fine folks.
I rather enjoy your channel good Sir!
@@TheEsotericaChannel Almost there!!!🥳
as a booklover, book hoarder and bookbinder, this is simply mouthwatering
Wish you were closer I need a copy of sefer raziel rebound !
This dude a genuine wizard, splitting wood with a single gesture, conjuring fire with nothing but women's hair. This man has dark powers that are rarely seen on video.
The opening got me thinking. We're going to need a crossover with you and Dr. Jackson Crawford helping out at the Townsend's homestead.
"On this episode of 18th century cooking, we'll be reproducing an flying ointment from Giambattista della Porta's Magia Naturalis!"
yes please!
Brilliant idea
I triple checked I clicked the right thumbnail..
Your ritual for manifesting a hot cup'o coffee is very impressive!
I only just started watching your channel and admittedly binging a lot of the content. This is giving me a great connection to the spiritual curiosity I’ve had for the last few years now. Even if I never end up practicing things talked about here I have really been enjoying learning about the practices of different people and ancient cultures! Congrats on 100K Dr. Sledge!
Enochian Magic seems to be the sort where, if it works, you'll wish it hadn't.
I thought that was the moral of Dee's dealings with Kelley and the angels.
Wolves in the throne room… wasn’t expecting that. Saw them live a couple of years ago. Amazing band! Great channel man!!
I'm actually a Christian but enjoy the videos very much. Your library is better than mine. All I have apart from the Christian books are the Midrash Rabbah, Artscroll Siddur, and English translation of the Shulchan Aruch and a swathe of academic books on the intertestamental period and Jewish and Roman backgrounds to the New Testament. My favourite books are on the Pharisees by Neusner and also by Saldarini.
I hope anyone, from any background, can benefit from the content I make here. I work hard to present the material as un-biased as I can.
@@TheEsotericaChannel I think you do a truly fantastic job
@@TheEsotericaChannel From what I can tell you present your content very even-handedly(where applicable), a skill I assume serves you well in your academic pursuits. Would also like to add (since world views of viewers was already brought up) that as a secular humanist I also watch and enjoy the content, especially fascinated by the content on magical beliefs.
Absolutely insane collection! Hope I can grasp even a fragment of the knowledge you possess one day.
Congratulations on 100k!!! And I am *beyond* jealous of your book collection! I'm working on a modest library myself, maybe one day mine will be as awesome!
Also, no great library is complete without some death metal patches, just saying. All these budding scholars better take note!
Wow!!! There is several lifetimes worth of study in your library Dr Sledge I Love this channel Shalom
Wonderful stuff Justin, what a collection. You are a researcher through and through. Your community really appreciates your devotion :) Love spending time on your channel when I can. All the best.
Amazing video. Wow. Congrats on 100k you far deserve it.
I saw a couple Aaron Leitch books there too :) I’m reading Volume 1 of The Angelical Language to TRY and get my foot in the door at Dee’s house.
Thank you for the tour.. I love seeing bookshelves and I love the channel. Congratulations on 109k
He's a great guy and his books are fantastic resources.
I thought RUclips was glitching out at first with that introduction because I also watch bushcraft and homestead videos. This reminds me of my bookshelf, with drink ware and knives, but your saké cups beats what I have and half of my shuriken are rusting in the woods somewhere. I'm surprised you have no books by R. I. Page, Don Roley, and Masaaki Hatsumi, but I'm glad to see you read Joseph Gies and Francis Gies, great books. What your library is missing are architecture books. Buildings Across Time by Fazio, Moffett, and Wodehouse can be found under $10 but Tuttle Publishing's collection of books are great.
Congrats on 100K! Really enjoyed your tour.
The first few minutes I was wondering what alchemy process I was watching. Great episode. What a wonderful literary collection. And I liked the man cave.
Menorahsaurus. HAHA.
thank you for taking the time to show us your library...who else would have some many dr.dee books & black metal patches ? ( as i do myself ) its also great to see so many 2nd hand copies of books, worn and loved, keep up your great work
This video is a peace of art! Amazing bookshelf.
I've been binging your content while painting miniatures, and its awesome how much we have in common. Everything from D&D to Ligotti. Just replace "black metal" with "thrash/prog metal" and replace the alcohol with coffee!
Mind blown! I read a lot, but you amaze me! I am just blown away by the breadth and depth of your library.
I read primary texts in Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism, technology, communications, occult, and miscellaneous. Yet, I am humbled.
Thanks for the tour.
Humble brag?
@@garrofwar148 brag, no. I read different content. Reading came harder for me, due to dyslexia. I read a lot, but not as much as I used to. I burnt out. I'm planning to get back into it when I can.
It's just another journey.
Need to get me some Lubavitcher "Black Lotus" Rebbe playing cards. Or better yet, a Rambam NFT...
"rebbe's: the gathering"
I have the writings of saint Paul , Thomas Aquinus , I use to have the marque de sade
So that's what we both have , right next the my occult books.
It was good to see that absenithe is still around.
I watched you open it. And I must say , it was done with the utmost style and respect for the lore. You had all the vintage equipment for the procedure.
Thx for this one , good to see the shelves. Wish I could see Angela's shelves.
Congrats on the 100k! As for why bookshelf tours are popular, I think it's very interesting to see what kind of intellectual "food" people have fed their brains with.
Absolutely. Sometimes people are looking for ideas for things to add to their collections. Something they might enjoy reading.
I am very appreciative of you and your channel and how you have inspired me to continue to learn. I am always glad to find a comrade who is interested in MANY of the same things. BTW sick Wolves in the Throne Room shirt. Workers of the World, unite!
A rollercoaster of a shelf tour, from start to finish.
I hope to be half as learned as you are. Thank you so much for all you do.
great collection of books thank you for showing them
I love a good book shelf tour! Nice collection. Very cool!
Thank you for sharing your extensive library. I feel like I just took a minor course in philosophy and magic!
Anyone who knows and loves Spinoza, is my kind of guy!!! Thank you for the tour.
אני צופה בתוכן שלך כבר זמן מה, ורק רציתי להודות לך שאתה מפיץ תוכן איזוטרי לקהל הרחב.
מזל טוב על 100 אלף עוקבים, המשך בעבודת הקודש שלך :)
I've been meaning to get my hands on some necropants, thanks for the reminder! Oh, and I absolutely have to note how great it is to see some Debord & Situationist stuff, miss those party guys🥳
It's neat how many books we have in common, including ones i didn't get from your direct influence
Oh my goodness, I'm trying to bootstrap my way through studying esotericism at the PhD level in an institution with no knowledge on the topic (long story, lol). This video is a TOTAL lifesaver! Thank you!!!!!
Incredible! Given that you live a very full life with your family, friends, hobbies, and job as a professor, how do you find time to read that monumental amount of books? Are you a speed reader with a preternatural ability to absorb and process information? I checked at Amazon and can't find any books authored by you. Do you plan to write books in the near future, and if so, what subjects will you write on?
Nice shelf tour and behind the scenes, good to see where the magick happens..
I would be very impressed if you have read all those books..
We now all know while you have the amulet to protect against Fire..
most impressive sir, i think i could spend the rest of my days in your library
Great video!! I have some of the same esoteric/occult books you have. I truly enjoyed this.
You always kind of reminded me of 60 Minutes/Andy Rooney when I would watch you. Anyhow, bravo and opah!
Great collection. Which ones are essential for serious Kabbalah student with almost no Hebrew knowledge?
Tishby's 3 Volume Wisdom of the Zohar is a great place to start.
@@TheEsotericaChannel Thank you.
Will have to check out your channel as to whether you've covered the Zohar. Great upload. Really appreciated the coverage of your Jewish texts! Toda 🙏
It's a working library. I always like seeing other people's books, and of course the little random things with the books like a family photo. That is a nice touch. Also the cups and the dice and the horns. I remember reading some of those theorists like Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, and a lot others in graduate school when I had to take critical theory (as part of my English major). Not always pleasant, but I had to stock up that toolbox. For me, interesting to see I've read some of those works in philosophy and theory (seems so long ago now). As you said, that is a lot of philosophy (but I understand it is a lot of your life and work, cool).
I smiled when I saw the pins and buttons as I collect some of those as well. I have a lot of them on my work backpack.
Great to see. Thanks for sharing.
YES! I was waiting for this video :)))
Nice skills with the flint, steel, and charcloth. I have some of the same WW2 sake cups too.
I've heard that Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
Sorry, I couldn't resist. It's a very lowly pun, but those are what make me laugh.
“Why they’re popular is a little beyond me”
As a purveyor of information, it shouldn’t be hard for you to figure out… people want to know what you’re reading!
Cheers!
There is something absolutely magnificent about how blase gold text is for the cover of books in our modern age. I would love to see an ancient scholar reaction to just this collection of books. In my mind I think they would fixate on how thin our paper is. And I've done a little bit of searching and now I really want to know what is the comparable information density of scrolls/tablets versus modern books.
I'm so excited!!!!!
I'm sorry I missed this when it originally played, but I'm glad to see it now!
I think the only category of books that I truly surpass your collection in is RPG books--my D&D collection is immense, as is my Palladium stuff!
I also have more of my own subject-specific things, not surprisingly (e.g. medieval Irish, Celtic Studies, gender and sexuality, etc.), and some of my classical Greek and Roman history, texts, and studies, perhaps, but all of your esoteric things far outstrip mine. It's truly impressive and enviable!
If you'd ever like to do a discussion of Irish medieval texts with someone, I'd love to do that--that's my Ph.D., essentially, and if you'd like a PDF of the book based on my dissertation (Werewolves, Magical Hounds, and Dog-Headed Men in Celtic Literature), let me know, I can make that happen rather than you spending hundreds of dollars on it! ;)
Best shelf tour ever!!!
Seeing that Crowley book made me feel good. He might have been off in left field but dude was a genius and I love your copy of the Golden Dawn,mines paperback.
93, brother.
Great video! I have a scarificator on one of my shelves, too :)
Dr Sledge, I used to live in the Metro area and I was curious if you'd ever met Robert Thibodeau, or have visited the Mayflower Esoteric Bookshop in Berkley MI?
Kathleen Raine's 2 vol Blake and Tradition is a wonderful set if you ever come across one. I also collected as they came out, and have loved reading over the years, the 6 vol Princeton *_Illuminated Books,_* which are as wonderful as you would expect, though Raine holds a special place in my heart. I also learned a lot from Damon, Eerdman, Essick, -- Also really enjoyed the biographies by Bentley and the one by Peter Ackroyd. Blake is one of those authors that really require a lot of dedication and literary criticism to better grasp, and even with all of that, many time he is a bit of an enigma. I just try not to overthink it and look at the basic symbolism in the images and words.
Great video! What is the name of the book @17:13? Is there an English equivalent of the more complex Qabalah?
“Mandy Moore is one of the ancient ones” lol 😂
IA! IA! MANDY FHTAGN!
I feel very happy for you, you have quite the treasure in book form! Congrats for the 100k mark. By the way, have you considered making a video on the Psalms, their origin and magickal use?
It's an interesting topic! Maybe one day!
In the process of reading all of that and probably more since I also like Sci Fi, Poetry, Chinese Medicine, Heirloom Sewing, Bodybuilding and French / English Reformation History: I have found that when discussion EXORCISM in particular, arises: there are 2 books I quote again and again (other than the Bible of course)~ these are the works of the Friar Sinistrari who was an italian speaking monk that participated in the Inquisition. And, the various and sundry German (Reformation) Infernal Dictionaries. Those are both really amazing resources, for actively discussing who demons are, and what can be done about them (if anything).
It would be an immense pleasure to you hear your lectures on those subjects; either seperately or together. The Inquisition, itself, is quite a gordian knot. Sinistrari's books are hard to come by and collectable (other than the one that is often free online in PDF, Demonalitry) ~ Generally, I would characterise both sources as written by Exorcists, but they each have their own respective approach. There is also a book called The Grimoire of Pope Honorius III (do you have that? Its not hard to come by) which is a bit of a cross between the 2, its a German Reformation Exorcism Manual, but it also has hints of the philosophies of Sinistrari. He essentially believed that demons were licentious elementals.
That's a nice cup of coffee, black and hot! 🙏😎
and Turkish!
Thanks for allowing us the virtual tour, Dr. Sledge - an amazing and wonderful collection. You helped me generate a whole list of books to get. But do you really not have any Dante in your Medieval section? Or did I just miss it?
Nah I have several volumes
Structural Marxist, John Dee Expert, Black Metal Dude, Psychedelics Advocate and now dat artistic and mysterious sequence at the beginning, are you real? Tell us from what dimension do you come! >=(
(Can't find the words to thank you for all this content, it's a dream come true)
I come from a dimension called "used to have too much damn time on his hands."
Seconded
@@davidhays2846 mosin nagant - for when Nazis hide behind things
@@TheEsotericaChannel Guys "ordering 5 beers" will have surely a tough day.
Love the channel. I really enjoy the videos on the topics of Hermeticism, the Grimoires, and I think it was a PGM video that first made me a fan of your channel. Your humor is a nice touch as well.
Just curious, how do you pull off implementing a marxist/communist economic system without authoritarianism and violence? How do you get the people to just give up their individual sovereignty and private property? Other than a slow indoctrination of a peoples children against their will and to muster the patience to wait a couple generations while trying to preserve their parents ignorance to prevent violent resistance ? Honest question. I respect your opinion. I'm just lost on how Marxism has become such a widespread ideology in America and what becomes of a conservative capitalist who desires to conserve the progressive achievements of the past rather than the perpetual dissection and purification of classical liberal values such as equal opportunity in favor of authoritarian "equity"?
Being a Hermetist influenced by Neo-Platonism I'm familiar with the dialectic but do not agree with it's application within our culture and society as a whole. It just seems to me like a violation of the individual. I feel the application of the dialectic to be more appropriate when used to recognize the flaws in your own personal beliefs and life experiences. If you destroy everything that isn't perfect in the pursuit of perfection than you do not end up with perfection, you end up with nothing. That sounds like the apocalypse to me. Have you considered these possibilities in your adoption of Marxist ideology?
PS . I'm not a fan of techno fascist corporatism either.
Ooooh! Dr. Sledge in a lumber jacket! /swoon/
I've always wondered what the little face on your watchfob was / is.
I've been waiting for this moment...I'm always trying to see what the titles are over your shoulder.
I see you've been watching townsends lately too! lol awesome intro!
Just got around to watching your shelf tour. Very interesting. Kind of surprised not to see Teilhard de Chardin in your rather overwhelming philosophy section. Maybe you just didn't call him out. For a child of the sixties like me he was de rigueur. When it comes to non-western philosophy, I suggest a look at Sufi mysticism. "Quest for Red Sulpher" is interesting. It's the life of Ibn Arabi. And there's an entire series by Hazrat Inayat Khan. But my choice is Idries Shah's teaching stories; "The Exploits of
the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin." A kind of Sufi Aesop. Enjoy, and keep developing your excellent series.
Love the collection (books and other). I too have a Mosin Nagant rifle and bayonet.
I sold my Mosin and bought an ak
@@sdivine13 Each to their own. Both are NICE!
I looooove the Silmarillion!
what'd you think of house of leaves?
I was thinking for next time if you could make a video showing how you go about beard maintenance.
Nice WITTR patch! I never took you for a black metal fan.
Playing WITTR now \m/
I mean I heard you mentioned you were from Michigan so I should have figured but like there's a whole nother level of respect when you made a birds nest.
Hey, Justin,
If you had to recommend five “introductory” works of Kabbalistic thought, what would they be?
Love the menorahsaurus
So, what did you think about Hideous Gnosis?
As a bibliomaniacal connoisseur I am envious of your stunning collection. No Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, Derrida, Levinas?
Nope all of the above
I was hoping to see you with the legendary Sledgehammer of your forefathers.
I'm jealous. Forgive me.
You should consider doing a short vid on the Simonomicon. I agree that it's a silly mess of crap but it would be fun to hear your scholarly take on it.
maybe I dozed off and missed the Jung shelf? ;-) I noticed you have Weingreen's Hebrew Grammar, which I like a lot, so I was happy to see it on your shelf as an endorsement of sorts.
Just after the Freud I was totally expecting Jung. Edit: Found Jung in the Alchemy section :)
Minorshsaurus… how can you not be a fan after that
Just found your channel, thanks so much for all the weird shit I didn't know. I would love to hear if you have thoughts on Agamben's the fire and the tale
Absolute mad respect for the Weakling patch.
I just feel like if this guy started a book club, I would go. It can be difficult to know where to start and it would be nice to have a community.
'We also have Hegel here, in the original German of course, much easier too understand.'
'Ah, my hand-crafted D&D drinking horny, very trusty'.
Holy shit this guy is talented.
I’m sure you have it somewhere online but wondering if you have more reading recommendation list curated?
No, not really. Just the readings at the end of the videos.
Do you plan to do a video on the scary Georges Bataille someday? It would be amazing.
I do!
very interested in cathars!
Good video for insurance purposes. If you could rescue just one book from a fire which would it be?
16th century copy of malleus maleficarum
Alright! Didn't expect to see bushcraft skills...
Justin knows Wolves in the Throne Room 😮
Weird books you say? That's why we're here!
Great library Justin . Just what I expected from an academic like yourself. A scholar of the highest order . I expected nothing less. 👍⭐
Blimey, I haven't seen anyone using tow for tinder in many a long year.
Jute cord is wonderful for making a bird's nest, imho
23:43 that plant has seen better days, lolol
Going right to left on the shelves for the Hebrew stuff, but then switches to left to right for the Western Lit. :D
That's how books in Hebrew are shelved;)
You're living my dream, sir. If you read this, may i ask; Were you able to attend a particular school for your field or did you have to self specialize afterward?
I think there is a school called " Hogwarts " in the United Kingdom that deals with this material.
I was surprised that you didn't have the 1,174 page (no pics) "Dictionary of Symbols" by Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant.