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!!
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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!
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)
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.
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!
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
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?
“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!
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
I thought RU-vid 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.
'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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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!
@@TheEsotericaChannel Lol! Last time I moved, my books alone cost about $9,000.00 to move. And that was for a ~150 mile move in the Midwest about 20 years ago. I have many more books now. My oldest is from 1574: an edition of the works of Josephus. I enjoyed your video enormously, we have a handful of books in common. I write this from my study, praying that I am not here if an earthquake should occur. I could be crushed by books, brained by a meteorite, or smacked by a cuneiform tablet! Congrats on your 100k! I enjoy your channel very much because even though I am also into the "esoteric", I study the extreme opposite end of the spectrum of what constitutes "esoteric". So I know almost nothing about the things you talk about on your channel and that makes it interesting to watch, for an occasional change of pace. It's amazing that there is a scholarly field devoted to your subject. BTW, I put quotes on the word "esoteric" above because I was using it in the common meaning, not in the sense of esoteric studies as an academic discipline. At some point I want to watch one of your videos on the kabbalah, but I know next to nothing about it and I'm not sure which video to start with; there is your introductory series, but then you have earlier videos. Not sure where to start. Do you plan to do any videos on Iamblichus or Porphyry?
Befor enlightenment,chop wood and carry water . After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water :) Is that cannabis string? Mao / Trotzki :)) Loved it ! 💕
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.
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.
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.
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.
As a messianic I just subscribe to your channel because I been getting into the Kabbalah and druid wisdom and Wicca and the occult because of lost books im reading from and I have to say the library u have anyone who says have truth it seem like these camps Christian chruchs are in the conspiracy of not allowing people to read all these records shalom yah be with you
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.
Dear professor, I've always wonder what your rabbi's position was on your studies of these topics. Now that I read about rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, it all makes sense.
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?
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?
Deleuze Guatari,Foucault, Bataille, Debord,Adorno, Robert Anton Wilson,Camus,Spinoza,Lovecraft,Agamben nice :) cant remember if i saw any Walter Benjamin. May i suggest David Graebber, Cornelius Castoriadis,Jean Baudrillard and Mark Fischer? :)
@@TheEsotericaChannel Interesting that you would chose to slide past the only big western modern thinker that tries to reunite philosophy, religion and psychology (and alchemy!). Maybe you could put up with Nietzche or Sartre because they precisely didn't get to arrive to the full point, the deep substructure of western intellectual and mystical tradition, and so are in a certain way kinda harmless... But Jung did, in a way that was sufficiently concrete but different from your own line thinking that you ended up eschewing him? Not that Lacan isn't interesting, his Imaginary Symbolic Real trinity is now pretty firmly lodged in my mind's back end.
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.
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.
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! ;)
More than 1 and a half hour of video (amazing btw!) and this is all I can think: ¡I a! ¡I a! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nfah Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
So jealous, I'm getting more things digitally now due to living most of my life in apartments, I'd love to have a collection like this. Your leftist section is enviable but you could use more Eastern philosophy 😉. Maybe some more Tang/Song dynasty zen writings, or some Yogacara.
I don't know if you have it on your shelf but my cousin got the first edition d&d hardcover that is Dad used back when as a Christmas gift a few years ago. Neither of us really play but we have a mutual fascination with games of all types. Will never play Monopoly again that's a rule it's like a Butterfinger you think oh yeah I enjoyed that until you realize no no when it got wrong you won't recover.
