A reading list
Nonreading curriculum
Nonreading is a 3-three-year program divided into several modules. The first module consists of 33 lessons and culminates with a graduating project. Following the project there are modules dedicated to training the technical, cultural, and discussant aspects of divination.
Here below are the titles of the first 33 lessons, each based on one-on-one interaction between the student and the teacher in the form of written response to the lessons and feedback.
32 Lessons
PURPOSE AND CONTENTMENT
A BALANCING ACT
RHYTHM
DISTANCE AND THE CLAY BODY
GIVING AND RECEIVING
THINK THE UNTHINKABLE
HIGHER GROUND
BEYOND COMPARISON
THE 4 MIRRORS
THE GIFT OF CHANCE
MOTIVATION
WHAT WE KNOW
FOUR TRANSMISSIONS | ONE: THE SOFT FACE
FOUR TRANSMISSIONS | TWO: THE MAGIC MANTRA
FOUR TRANSMISSIONS | THREE: THE ANCESTOR
FOUR TRANSMISSIONS | FOUR: THE ONE
SOVEREIGNTY
THE OPENING OF THE HEART CYCLE | ONE: THE HEART MIRROR
THE OPENING OF THE HEART CYCLE | TWO: THE FAIRY TALE
THE OPENING OF THE HEART CYCLE | THREE: MORE HEART, LESS STORY
THE CLANDESTINE SPIRIT
THREE TYPES OF GRIMOIR MAGIC | ONE: THE MAGIC CIRCLE
3 TYPES OF GRIMOIR MAGIC | TWO: THE MAGIC TOKEN
3 TYPES OF GRIMOIR MAGIC | THREE: CORD MAGIC
TANTRIC SELF-ENCHANTMENT | ONE: BREATH
TANTRIC SELF-ENCHANTMENT | TWO: SOUND
TANTRIC SELF-ENCHANTMENT | THREE: MOVEMENT
TANTRIC SELF-ENCHANTMENT | FOUR: PRESENCE
TANTRIC SELF-ENCHANTMENT | FIVE: ENERGY
URGENT AND SIGNIFICANT ACCORDING TO THE 22 MAJOR ARCANA OF THE TAROT
CONNECTION, CONNECTION ACCORDING TO THE 4 SUITS OF A PACK OF CARDS
ABUNDANT GRACE
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A few important books
Zen
The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma (trans. Red Pine)
The Heart Attack Sutra by Karl Brunnholzl
The Platform Sutra: The Teaching of Hui-Neng (trans. Red Pine)
The Zen Teaching of Huang Po (trans. John Blofeld)
Instant Zen: Waking up in the Present by Foyan completes the classics.
The Inexhaustible Lamp by Torei Enji
Unsui by Eshin Nishimura (on Zen training)
Dropping Ashes on the Buddha by Seung Sahn
Zen and Japanese Culture by Daisetz Suzuki
Tibetan tradition
What Makes You Not a Buddhist by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
Cutting through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (and all the others he wrote)
The Crystal and the Way of Light: Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
The Karmapa’s Middle Way by Wangchuk Dorje (trans. Tyler Dewar)
Tantra in Tibet: The Great Exposition of the Secret Mantra by Tsongkapa
Nonduality
The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way by Nangarjuna
I am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj (and everything else he wrote, especially the ‘prior to consciousness’ books)
Ten Thousand Things by Robert Saltzman
Cartomancy
A Manual of Occult Cartomancy and Divination by Arthur Edward Waite
Fortune-telling by Cards by P.R.S. Foli
Explaining the Tarot: Two Italian Renaissance Essays by R.S. Caldwell, T. Depaulis, and M. Ponzi
Marseille Tarot: Towards the Art of Reading by Camelia Elias
What is Not: Marseille Tarot à la Carte by Camelia Elias
The Power of the Trumps and Pips by Camelia Elias
The Read Like the Devil trilogy of books dedicated to the Marseille tarot, playing cards and the Lenormand oracle
Threads: Read Like the Devil Obsessions by Camelia Elias