Writing Prompt 3rd June 24 (Three Influential Books)

3rd Jun 2024

Writing Prompt 3rd June 24 (Three Influential Books)

Daily writing prompt

List three books that have had an impact on you. Why?

The first would be Psychic Self Defence by Dion fortune. Now , in hindsight perhaps not the classic by todays standard for those who foray into the world of the occult and esoteric, it was however my first, real, book on such matters. It was my sisters book, I stole it. There are many things that annoyed me. Dion Fortune littered her books with sentences that declared she could not dwell into this area within these pages, or kept us guessing, each blind and tempt encouraged the reader , well me, not only to research more deeply but to dabble in things hitherto warned not to. I bought all the books from her afterwards I could get, hoping somewhere, she would release the kraken and show us the knowledge of those ancient secrets from Atlantean masters and Inner Circle secret orders… she never did, but she did let on that someone else did…..

Yes, Aleister Crowley. That obnoxious foul arrogant pig of a man whose books released the Dutch boys finger from the dyke, and it was 777, a book of correspondences from the symbolism of every Occult and esoteric dabbling, wandering and mischief the crafting cunning would desire. I studied it hard, and all his books, many of which took ages from a paper round to afford. Why hadn’t Dion Fortune passed on this knowledge? what is this knowledge for the ‘select few’. It became my life as many coincidences and thoughts previous had led me absolutely to this path of self-gnosis.

But life, yes, would be drudgery to embark on reading only to research and to study, we need escapism, and from a young age I delved into gothic masterpieces, first from underground comics and then Edgar Allen Poe, his Complete Stories. His writing consumed me, he would describe a simple thought over pages, deeper and deeper, everyday happenings were fraught with anxiety and danger. I would read them at night before bed and slip into nightmares and lucid dreams. It was more than writing and words, stories and recollections, it was unravelling the shadow self, the inner quest to understand existentialism, the beauty of the night.

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The Random musings of a nobody. “Dagenham Dave”, is slang for someone one stop short of Barking (mad), though more contemporarily refers to any wayfaring and carefree person. Dagenham is a town to the eastern side of London (Luds Dominium) that was first recorded in a Barking charter in 666a.d. as the town of Daeccanham. Daecca is an ancient man’s name meaning ‘bright’ or ‘famous’ . Ham is short for Hamlet.
Dave is short for David, Hebrew for ‘Beloved’, My Surname ‘Wenborn’ derives from old English meaning of the Winding Stream.

Contents:-
1/ Book Reviews.
They’re not reviews as such- to recommend or asway, I neither seek to promote nor condemn, more my personal reflections on the books I read. In that respect it’s a subjective thing.
2/ Short Stories and Tales
Short stories borne from imagination, dreams, thoughts and wanderings. Too large to be written in my journal of shadows.
3/ Full Books
Books that were once published elsewhere, I have full copyright on these, and of course given here freely.
4/ Magazines and Articles
Small snippets and articles that may or may not have appeared elsewhere, and information not included in Journal of shadows.
5/ Poetry
A small selection of poetry. Like song, I create as a means to an artistic diary.
6/ WordPress Challenges
Wordpress (where this website is hosted) offer up a daily prompt for people to answer, sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t.

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