(The community is made: https://dryreading.dreamwidth.org/ .)

(The idea was by Jen Richardson ( https://jenrichardson.dreamwidth.org/2638.html ), who's been happily busy ( https://jenrichardson.dreamwidth.org/4393.html ) - I do recommend everything else on her blog! All errors and awful puns my fault only.)

I'm trying to take Jen's idea and run with it, making a Dreamwidth community for us to talk about the books in https://thearchdruidreport-archive.200605.xyz/2009/02/deindustrial-reading-list.html (hence "Deindustrial Reading Ynitiative", that and bad taste on my part), which resemble Jen's list, but are already planned and ordered. We'd go through this DRY reading 1 chapter/month, with a post for each on the community - though, since I don't expect to deal with anywhere as many comments as JMG does in total, the discussions of each chapter on each post needn't end with each month (if there's that much interest!). Assuming interest, I intend to make the first post on April 1st.

SInce the 2nd and 3rd books are fixed, we only need for now to fix the 1st. I intend to arbitrarily pick Eugene P. Odum's Fundamentals of Ecology because I like the author's other books better than Brewer's, which might suggest higher quality of the textbook in question. I do notice that JMG did *not* say we needed to pick 1 of those 2, and I tried to pick an ecology textbook with a digital version available (unlike either of those) - but it appears the good stuff lacks that, so I'm thinking about just going with Odum. Regarding items 7 and 10 on the list, I think the right thing to do would be for each member to pick one such book and review it, but we'll have *plenty* of time to consider that until we get there. (Meaning I think we should converge regarding item 4, but can leave that for even a lot later.)

Interest signals, suggestions, and possibly other stuff welcome in the comments.

I arguably shouldn't have favorite occultists (being unqualified to judge occultism in itself), but I do, given that I began reading occultism through an author I started reading for *entirely* other reasons; so, for each, I'll say whatever they wrote about that wasn't occultism that I considered myself qualified to have an (in this case positive) opinion about. (I should note that for most of them I read their blogs, not books; the only ones by whom I read multiple books each are John Michael Greer, Jason Miller, Don Webb, and Emil Stejnar.)

Despite my utter lack of obviously-metaphysical results thus far, I'll claim the first group actually permanently changed how I think, which I'll present by decreasing importance: (I credit the dude at the list's top with "merely" "I take anything about occultism at all seriously (i.e. I read everyone else in this list because of him)" and "I no longer believe in indefinitely-extended Progress".)

John Michael Greer (authorized copy of previous blog) (Golden Dawn and Mesodruidry; peak oil, ecology, economics, cultural history);
Jason Miller (previous blog) (highly ecletic "sorcery" (meaning aiming both at worldly results and self-refinement); given seriousness about the preceding, his lifestyle advice's pretty consistently good, and his Financial Sorcery got praise from a non-occult personal finance blog);
John R. King IV (Solomonic (yes, evoking demons to *restrain* their influence) magic; consider https://imperialarts.livejournal.com/18341.html );
Don Webb (Setianism, Gurdjieff/Uspensky teachings; his lifestyle advice kinda single-handedly proves the Western "Left-Hand Path" needn't be stupid (however often it is));
Stephen "Edred Thorsson" Flowers (runic magic mostly, some of anything Indo-European non-Christian, some implicit Setianism; Indo-European linguistics, history, and culture);
Michael Kelly (Setianism, runic/Ogham magic; great lifestyle advice and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGwINjA894 );
Ceisiwr Serith (if one can enter an occultist list with only prayer (yes, including intercessionary); Indo-European cultures and religions);
Emil Stejnar (seems to be the most important living Bardonian mage; since his The Four Elements and Astrology already have a psychological bent IMO, I could get good stuff just out of considering them in that way).

Regarding those next, I'll claim to have gotten information quite worth my time from them, but not having being changed by them in a greater sense. In alphabetical order:

Benebell Wen (tarot, Daoist and Mahayana esotericism; introductions to lots of cultures, art history, occult entrepreneurship);
Christopher Wallis (Shaivite Tantra (only meditation AFAIK); *actual* Indian religious/occult history);
Gordon White (chaos magic, animism; definitely understands propaganda (his profession), I like *some* of his geopolitical commentary);
Ian Corrigan (Neodruidry with Ars Goetia and Afro-American religion influences; non-Christian Indo-European religions);
Ivy Bromius (uses astrology and the Greek Magical Papyri; blogs mostly about how Planning Is Magic, so to say);
Kenaz Filan (lots of Vodou and some runic magic; the most practical/pragmatic religious behavior around, and yes, wholly authentic to its religion);
Patrick Dunn (ancient Greek theurgy, Lenormand divination, "post-modern" magic; post-modernism in a sense that isn't stupid);
Sam Block (Hermeticism, geomancy; cultural/religious/occult history);
"Yogic Engineering" (most ambitious native-Anglophone Bardonian mage around (IMO, the others currently active tend to a lot of moralizing and not much about power, which was clearly something Bardon's work was about); consider https://yogicengineering.com/2015/07/20/a-reading-list-about-reality/ );
"Zev ben Avram" (the book sample and interview should make clear (assuming one's inclined similarly-enough to me, at least) both what his magic is and why he might be worth listening to on other matters; unfortunately there's only the one limited-edition, sold-out book*).

*: if you have any contact with any other part at all of that site, I guarantee you'll become much dumber, don't blame me if you do - Zev himself claims he doesn't agree with most "Left-Hand Path" people, which obviously means the exact astounding idiocy on, e.g. the rest of that site, because IMO his perspective actually has much in common with Setianism, the main non-dumb form of Western LHP (also, the publisher/interviewer making a really stupid question isn't exactly glossed over).

I had a bunch of reading lists lying around.

https://thearchdruidreport-archive.200605.xyz/2009/02/deindustrial-reading-list.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20050317195512fw_/http://home.earthlink.net/~stormwatchproject/library.html

https://davidnowakowski.net/platonism-recommended-readings/
https://davidnowakowski.net/stoicism-recommended-readings-and-audio/
https://davidnowakowski.net/indian-philosophy/
https://jessegalef.com/2013/03/18/what-would-a-rational-gryffindor-read/

https://vajrin.wordpress.com/2015/04/25/an-essential-reading-list-for-hindus/

http://strategicsorcery.blogspot.com/2010/06/explanation-of-five-books.html
http://strategicsorcery.blogspot.com/2010/06/book-game.html
http://strategicsorcery.blogspot.com/2010/06/more-book-lists.html
https://yogicengineering.com/2015/07/20/a-reading-list-about-reality/
https://axeandplough.com/books-links-and-resources/

https://scholars-stage.org/macro-history-a-few-more-books/
https://scholars-stage.org/pining-for-democracy-a-few-readings/
https://scholars-stage.org/making-sense-of-chinese-history-a-reading-list/
https://scholars-stage.org/a-study-guide-for-human-society-part-i/
https://scholars-stage.org/a-non-western-canon-what-would-a-list-of-humanitys-100-greatest-writers-look-like/
https://scholars-stage.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-civilizations-a-reader-course/
https://scholars-stage.org/a-guide-map-for-reading-the-east-asian-canon/