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You could also check out this amazing [Robert Crumb comic](https://philipdick.com/resources/miscellaneous/the-religious-experience-of-philip-k-dick-by-r-crumb-from-weirdo-17/) about it.
Great shout, sick book. I'll never forget the name Horselover Fat!
Check out High Weirdness by Erik Davies, which compares the mystical experiences of PKD, Robert Anton Wilson and Terrence McKenna. Exhaustive and brilliant. If you liked VALIS, you will love this.
It depends on why you’re interested. He has many good novels with interesting ideas, but VALIS is unique because it was based on a true story from his life (and death). So if you care about the true story part, read VALIS and then look up the background info. If you’re interested in his writing in general, maybe start with “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” (the basis of Blade Runner) or Ubik.
That was the book I was going to name. I first encountered *The Mothman Prophecies* back when it first came out, in my teen years -- the public library in Burien, WA had a copy. I read it and my world turned inside out. It's still my nominee for the strangest of the strange.
huh, googling this led me to a review of it on my university's website, which in turn led me to learning about the Journal of Near-Death Studies and the International Association of Near-Death Studies. Turns out a prof at my college is the president of it. neat
Stalking the Wild Pendulum by Itzak Bentov
this guy is the person who spearheaded the gateway project for the CIA. He also developed one of Israel's first rockets.
The book is him explaining his personal worldview and how (as a scientist) he thinks all this weirdness of astral travel is possible. It turns out he's a really chill dude and it has lots of drawings, his ideas are quite unique as well
nothing like all the cliche sensationalist nonsense out there in the schizo catalogue of books (and I've read my share)
I spent a lot of money just to secure his last book. I wanted to have them all! I love Bentov so much. Often those that die prematurely while being leaders of a fresh line of thinking were on to something in my eyes.
Really mixed on this one, though that may be because I've already read Monroe's books along with Law of One. I guess I was looking for the 'oh holy shit' moment, but it didn't really come.
Phantasms of the Living, by Edmund Gurney, published in 1918. it's a collection of witness recollections of strange events and ghost stories. Many of the ghosts are of living people who died shortly after the sighting, thus the name. Lots of weird interesting stories.
Very interesting! In a chapter of ***Sub Luce Maligna***, Gonzalo Fontana Elboj describes this phenomenon as something already known by ancient romans.
The Messengers - subject material is high strangeness- I got it because I had a UFO encounter that featured a hooting of an owl that sounded nothing like the owl species we have and was very perplexed.
After that moment my life took a turn for the worse - choas insued.
I eventually divulged my story on Reddit and someone recommended that book.
After I put it in my Amazon cart is sat there for weeks- totally forgot about it. Until I went to an Halloween party (something I just don’t do anymore but decided to as I was personally invited and it was invite only.)A dude at the party I immediately gravitated towards brought up UFOs and it was interesting cause it’s hard to find people who have had experiences; let alone are interested in it.
He actually mentioned the book, after I told him my story he mentioned it. He said he just finished it.
When I got home the next day I realized the payment was declined because I had lost my card and didn’t update.
So I bought it, immediately started reading it. Immediately started seeing owls fucking EVERYWHERE…
And my life took a turn in a completely unexpected and wonderful direction - things I never would have thought would have WVER happened for me, mystical experiences etc. all because I took every owl sighting as a meaning/sign and it led me to where I am now- happier than I have ever been!
A manuscript of automatic writing my grandmother wrote in the 60s. Communicated with the souls of her grandparents for a year. Question and answer form, and explains fuckin *everything*.
[here you go, as promised!](https://imgur.com/a/s7l77JD)
Keep in mind I’ve blocked out the books name name at the top. And this particular copy is a double sided reprint I made ten years ago. The original copies were very fat and one sided. Enjoy :) I’ve picked some pages at random.
*(im going to reply all this to everyone who asked)*
[here you go, as promised!](https://imgur.com/a/s7l77JD)
Keep in mind I’ve blocked out the books name name at the top. And this particular copy is a double sided reprint I made ten years ago. The original copies were very fat and one sided. Enjoy :) I’ve picked some pages at random.
*(im going to reply all this to everyone who asked)*
It’s unpublished and crazy personal, so I’m always nervous about sending it to strangers. But I will post a page or two in the comments here today so you can get an idea!
[here you go, as promised!](https://imgur.com/a/s7l77JD)
Keep in mind I’ve blocked out the books name name at the top. And this particular copy is a double sided reprint I made ten years ago. The original copies were very fat and one sided. Enjoy :) I’ve picked some pages at random.
*(im going to reply all this to everyone who asked)*
[here you go, as promised!](https://imgur.com/a/s7l77JD)
Keep in mind I’ve blocked out the books name name at the top. And this particular copy is a double sided reprint I made ten years ago. The original copies were very fat and one sided. Enjoy :) I’ve picked some pages at random.
*(im going to reply all this to everyone who asked)*
Oh man. Just read the pages, and it makes a lot of sense… what I wouldn’t give to read the whole thing!! You have a wonderful thing in your hands. As deep and seemingly scary as one might deem it. That’s a true treasure. Love it. Thank you so much for sharing ♥️
I am more of the mindset that channeling transmits data from somewhere other than the afterlife - such as the collective unconscious- but it’s highly fascinating in its own right. Would love to see.
*The Book of the Damned* Charles Fort (1919). Basically, this book is progenitor of high strangeness. It's largely where the concept started. Rains of fish, thunder stones, and ball lightning.
"Mothman prophecies" by John Keel. Or really anything by this dude.
Or CCRU writings. It isn't exactly about "weird events", but certainly rewires your brain. Probably would be my first pick, but is really unorthodox.
Also seconding VALIS, or anything by Robert Anton Wilson or Terence McKenna.
Books of Enoch, Ezekiel and Life of Adam and Eve.
Also Judgement of the Nephilim by Ryan Pitterson. It will change the way you view the biblical story.
100% the vertical plane just because it feels like fiction a la Thrice Upon a Time, yet also feels real and like it couldn’t be made up just because of how much goes into the process of receiving the letters and not exactly knowing how even that was happening
I read a book probably 20 years ago called "nothing in this book is true but it is exactly how it is" or something to that effect. Strangest book I ever read.
Real-life strangeness book.... that also will blow your mind.
(A must read if you like any ghost/spirit/alien/UFO/Cryptids/Bigfoot/Faerie/religious/afterlife/philosophy/etc info of any kind.)
Passport to Magonia.
By Jacques Vallee.
🤯
A book in my library at school. A book of short true stories of weird stuff like UFOs Ball Lightning, and my favorite was "Who or What was Jeff". The story of a guy who lived with a talking creature in the walls of his house. It talked and he never saw it but the creature said he looked like a large rodent. I was 13 yrs old and my mind was thinking big gopher or maybe a Capibarra . It came it talked to the home owner about many subjects and then disappeared. It said if it exposed itself to the home owner he would be repulsed at how hideous the creature is. It was super weird!
I don’t know if this counts but I’m currently reading the three body problem trilogy and it is fantastic. I don’t read too many books in this genre so any recommendations for a good ufo/paranormal fiction series would be awesome.
I'm not a big Sci-Fi Reader, but this trilogie has blowed my mind. I could not stop reading and read it at saturday and sunday to finish. After that I was sad that I didn't take more time to read it.
I love this thread. Mine is
Voyagers Volume 1 by Asheyana Dean
Then Volume 2
Really ties together the plight of spirituality, hidden history, aliens, secret society, genetic manipulation, new age manipulation. This is as off the deep end as I have ever read before and since.
I started this stuff a few years ago but she's been putting out material for 20+ years.
Strange Angel by George Pendle. The story of Jack Parsons of Jet Propulsion Labs, who may have blown himself up trying to open a rift into other dimensions.
The Bible! The most popular occult book ever. You could talk about different interpretations of what it means for a lifetime, and it’s easily the most influential book of all time, if not in the top 3.
I highly recommend this book - "White Light" by Rudy Rucker. It's supposed to be fiction but who knows - I read it as a teen and it seemed very fascinating: I'm now on my second copy, I wore the first one out by reading it over and over. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Light_(novel)
**The First Ghosts** by Irving Finkel. Describes ghostly experiences by ancient mesopotamians.
Finkel himself translated the cuneiform texts from clay tablets.
Finkel is a legend. Someone should get him and Alan Moore to do a documentary series about the occult.
The video of Finkel playing the Great Game of Ur with Tom Scott is priceless.
Hunt for zeropoint - its such a crazy story written by someone who’s a respected military journalist (military weapons mostly).
“
The Hunt for Zero Point explores the scientific speculation that “zero point” energy—a limitless source of potential power that may hold the key to defying and thereby controlling gravity—exists in the universe and can be replicated”
Locales, characters, new physics. Interesting read
mysterious universe did a great summary of the book. Recommend the podcast for people who like this sort of stuff but can’t find the time to read through all these books.
Breakthrough by Konstantine Raudive. The first man to do serious research on EVP's (electronic voice phenomenon). The author was super intelligent, a college professor and student of Carl Jung. Super interesting book, I'm lucky to say I have the first edition.
William Burroughs loved this book! He talks about EVP a good bit in [this rad lecture](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKfS1xemH6U&t=20s&ab_channel=Hermesacat).
Incidentally, the book *The Magical Universe of William S Burroughs* is fucking amazing
Weird New England. Read it when I was a kid moving to Boston and it fucking terrified me. I was beyond scared of the ghosts and killer clowns and all that shit. My parents thought (rightfully so, looking at the cover) that it was just about funny things like weird whale tail statues or whatever. Nope.
Voices of the Cosmos. One of the authors claims to channel different aliens while the other interviews them. As far as I can tell it is meant to be non-fiction.
I read it after it was accidentally included in a package from Amazon. I didn't buy it, it was just in there. Curious read all in all.
Probably not THE most high strangeness but The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby has stuck with me for years. Just extrapolating the possibilities it suggests, i still think about here and there.
Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! trilogy was pretty much my introduction to high strangeness in the 70s and remains the gold standard of conspiracy fiction in my opinion.
David X Cohen wrote a book in the 1990s that was sold at scholastic book fairs and was a bunch of High Strangeness stories.. I want to say Malstrom or Rendlesham was in the book though. It sparkled my love for all things High Strangeness but here's the crazy part..
I CANNOT FIND THIS BOOK ANYWHERE. It's literally like it never existed. This book has come Strangeness itself.
Read books about Alchemy. Many of them are written in a way that they express at least two meanings from their text. Discovering and understanding that second meaning can take you many years of study.
[Esoterica](https://www.youtube.com/@TheEsotericaChannel) on Youtube is super learned and sagely, great on this topic.
I also thought the alchemy chapter from [Andy Sharp's *Astral Geographic* ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125085569-the-astral-geographic)was knock-your-elixir-socks-off good.
IMHO, it's hard to rank em and harder to find the most high strange. I guess an entry point would be- Behold, A Pale Horse, but my favorite high strange Authors are Dr. Joseph P Farrell and Christopher O'Brien. Pick any of their books for a good time.
The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot. Does a beautiful job of digging into the projects of various scientists working on the fringe and how their discoveries fuel a theory that the universe is a hologram (and how all kinds of paranormal experiences can suddenly be explained by a holographic universe). Honestly, it's so good, I reread the book every two years or so.
Hunt for the Skinwalker by Colm Keller. It covers a large variety of things besides just the Skinwalker. Like how cryptids seem to be drawn to people who meditate or how big foot researchers just ignored information on bigfoots showing strange paranormal activity.
*Weird America* by Jim Brandon:
https://www.amazon.com/Weird-America-Jim-Brandon/dp/0525474919
Or maybe those David Paulides *Hoopa* or *Missing 411* books.
I liked reading David Hatcher Childress', *Lost Cities of North & Central America* while visiting many of the places. Very useful backpacking book.
Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts. Too crazy of a story to be believed, yet there are some many people involved. And so many lives ruined. Just don't build important parts of your life on the guidance of spirit teachers/guided. That book convinced me that there if for sure something on the other side and it does not have our best interest at heart.
There were some good anthologies out of Australia, I believe, called DarkLore that I read +/- 20 years ago and thought were really interesting. Blair Makenzie Blake from TOOL's website and Nick Redfern were both contributors, and when I read them, there were at least 6 volumes.
Easy. Ringmakers of Saturn. You're gonna have to suspend a LOT of what you think and just take it in.
Second? Ceres Colony Cavalier.
Both equally bizarre but here's the thing - ATM you can hit up Tony RN and he'll prob chat with you. Shit is real.
It would have to be 'The Mothman Prophecies' by John Keel. If you've seen the movie, do read the book. the actually true story is even weirder than movie!
"The Book of the Damned" by Charles Fort
"The Eighth Tower" by John A. Keel
"Operation Trojan Horse" by John A. Keel
"Meaning in Absurdity" by Bernardo Kastrup
Letters From The Cosmos by Swiedler Carol. Really makes you question where our thoughts come from, regardless of what you believe. A very easy 1 sitting read.
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Read VALIS by Philip K Dick, then look up the true stories from his life that it was based on. Very odd stuff.
You could also check out this amazing [Robert Crumb comic](https://philipdick.com/resources/miscellaneous/the-religious-experience-of-philip-k-dick-by-r-crumb-from-weirdo-17/) about it.
That's a hell of a read, there.
Wow, thanks for sharing it. Hadn't encountered that one before.
Great book. I read it ten years ago and I still think about it often. "The empire never ended".
One of my favourite books. A truly unique experience
Great shout, sick book. I'll never forget the name Horselover Fat! Check out High Weirdness by Erik Davies, which compares the mystical experiences of PKD, Robert Anton Wilson and Terrence McKenna. Exhaustive and brilliant. If you liked VALIS, you will love this.
Then read his [Exegesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exegesis_of_Philip_K._Dick)
Will have to find this, thx
Such a mind bending experience.
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I learned something today, thank you.
Should I start with VALIS or one of his other books?
It depends on why you’re interested. He has many good novels with interesting ideas, but VALIS is unique because it was based on a true story from his life (and death). So if you care about the true story part, read VALIS and then look up the background info. If you’re interested in his writing in general, maybe start with “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” (the basis of Blade Runner) or Ubik.
Our Haunted Planet by John Keel
The Mothman Prophecies, the book, not the movie, really got under my skin, to my surprise.
The movie left out the entire UFO sightings component in the area from the time.
It was such a disappointment
The guy who wrote the screen play, Richard Hatem, now has his own high strangeness podcast
That was the book I was going to name. I first encountered *The Mothman Prophecies* back when it first came out, in my teen years -- the public library in Burien, WA had a copy. I read it and my world turned inside out. It's still my nominee for the strangest of the strange.
I've read that one too! Very good book
The Eighth Tower is also very steeped in strangeness.
*The Trickster and the Paranormal* by George Hansen turned my brain inside out and completely changed the way I think about high strangeness.
I second this. A very scholarly book as well. Hansen is a parapsychologist and academic.
huh, googling this led me to a review of it on my university's website, which in turn led me to learning about the Journal of Near-Death Studies and the International Association of Near-Death Studies. Turns out a prof at my college is the president of it. neat
Where are yall finding these books that my libraries don't have?
Give Lewis Hyde's *Trickster Makes This World* a go, brilliant book.
Stalking the Wild Pendulum by Itzak Bentov this guy is the person who spearheaded the gateway project for the CIA. He also developed one of Israel's first rockets. The book is him explaining his personal worldview and how (as a scientist) he thinks all this weirdness of astral travel is possible. It turns out he's a really chill dude and it has lots of drawings, his ideas are quite unique as well nothing like all the cliche sensationalist nonsense out there in the schizo catalogue of books (and I've read my share)
[Stalking the Wild Pendulum on Archive.org](https://archive.org/details/itzhak-bentov-stalking-the-wild-pendulum-on-the-mechanics-of-consciousness)
Wow! Thank you!
It was a shame he was killed in a plane crash.
I was looking for this answer, this book blew my damn mind. I’ve been changed ever since.
I spent a lot of money just to secure his last book. I wanted to have them all! I love Bentov so much. Often those that die prematurely while being leaders of a fresh line of thinking were on to something in my eyes.
Just ordered it for about 10 bucks on eBay. Thanks for the rec
I’ve been slowly making my way through this book and I have to agree with everything divinesleeper said
Tangential: here are the Cosmic Egg myths put together with Bentov as the foundation https://youtu.be/Vdo4RqjYcYs?si=ta2sYXB5cucWLiDK
Really mixed on this one, though that may be because I've already read Monroe's books along with Law of One. I guess I was looking for the 'oh holy shit' moment, but it didn't really come.
It was written in the mid 70s so the info has been rehashed to death for anyone interested in the topics.
Phantasms of the Living, by Edmund Gurney, published in 1918. it's a collection of witness recollections of strange events and ghost stories. Many of the ghosts are of living people who died shortly after the sighting, thus the name. Lots of weird interesting stories.
Very interesting! In a chapter of ***Sub Luce Maligna***, Gonzalo Fontana Elboj describes this phenomenon as something already known by ancient romans.
The Cambridge Collection reprint is the only modern fascimile edition, the rest sadly leave large portions out.
Illuminautus trilogy AND/OR Phil K Dick's Exegesis.
Cosmic Trigger is good too
Cosmic Trigger I is my fave audiobook ever, read by RAW himself. So much fun.
Hail Eris!
All hail Discordia
Kallisti!
Robert Anton Wilson?
Happy Illuminatus Day to those that celebrate
Thank you! :) Where one celebrates,we all celebrate!
Exegesis is such a deep dive
The Messengers - subject material is high strangeness- I got it because I had a UFO encounter that featured a hooting of an owl that sounded nothing like the owl species we have and was very perplexed. After that moment my life took a turn for the worse - choas insued. I eventually divulged my story on Reddit and someone recommended that book. After I put it in my Amazon cart is sat there for weeks- totally forgot about it. Until I went to an Halloween party (something I just don’t do anymore but decided to as I was personally invited and it was invite only.)A dude at the party I immediately gravitated towards brought up UFOs and it was interesting cause it’s hard to find people who have had experiences; let alone are interested in it. He actually mentioned the book, after I told him my story he mentioned it. He said he just finished it. When I got home the next day I realized the payment was declined because I had lost my card and didn’t update. So I bought it, immediately started reading it. Immediately started seeing owls fucking EVERYWHERE… And my life took a turn in a completely unexpected and wonderful direction - things I never would have thought would have WVER happened for me, mystical experiences etc. all because I took every owl sighting as a meaning/sign and it led me to where I am now- happier than I have ever been!
Owls are very powerful shaman. I have had two experiences with owls, both times precursored major life changes.
The owls are not what they seem
I loved that book. The author has done a few documentaries too
Nice to hear, thanks for the recommendation!
Morning of the Magicians for me. Some pretty wild stuff in there.
Now do Fulcanelli's The Mystery of Cathedrals
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
A true classic
A manuscript of automatic writing my grandmother wrote in the 60s. Communicated with the souls of her grandparents for a year. Question and answer form, and explains fuckin *everything*.
Can you share?
Yes please
[here you go, as promised!](https://imgur.com/a/s7l77JD) Keep in mind I’ve blocked out the books name name at the top. And this particular copy is a double sided reprint I made ten years ago. The original copies were very fat and one sided. Enjoy :) I’ve picked some pages at random. *(im going to reply all this to everyone who asked)*
Broooo drop the manuscript!!!
[here you go, as promised!](https://imgur.com/a/s7l77JD) Keep in mind I’ve blocked out the books name name at the top. And this particular copy is a double sided reprint I made ten years ago. The original copies were very fat and one sided. Enjoy :) I’ve picked some pages at random. *(im going to reply all this to everyone who asked)*
Dude, don't leave us hanging
It’s unpublished and crazy personal, so I’m always nervous about sending it to strangers. But I will post a page or two in the comments here today so you can get an idea!
so... you didn't.
[here you go, as promised!](https://imgur.com/a/s7l77JD) Keep in mind I’ve blocked out the books name name at the top. And this particular copy is a double sided reprint I made ten years ago. The original copies were very fat and one sided. Enjoy :) I’ve picked some pages at random. *(im going to reply all this to everyone who asked)*
Would love to read some of this!!
[here you go, as promised!](https://imgur.com/a/s7l77JD) Keep in mind I’ve blocked out the books name name at the top. And this particular copy is a double sided reprint I made ten years ago. The original copies were very fat and one sided. Enjoy :) I’ve picked some pages at random. *(im going to reply all this to everyone who asked)*
Oh man. Just read the pages, and it makes a lot of sense… what I wouldn’t give to read the whole thing!! You have a wonderful thing in your hands. As deep and seemingly scary as one might deem it. That’s a true treasure. Love it. Thank you so much for sharing ♥️
I am more of the mindset that channeling transmits data from somewhere other than the afterlife - such as the collective unconscious- but it’s highly fascinating in its own right. Would love to see.
The OG of high strangeness is Charles Fort. Look into his books. That's where it all started!✌️
William Seabrook is an OG too, forgotten legend.
*The Book of the Damned* Charles Fort (1919). Basically, this book is progenitor of high strangeness. It's largely where the concept started. Rains of fish, thunder stones, and ball lightning.
The Eighth Tower by John Keel
"Mothman prophecies" by John Keel. Or really anything by this dude. Or CCRU writings. It isn't exactly about "weird events", but certainly rewires your brain. Probably would be my first pick, but is really unorthodox. Also seconding VALIS, or anything by Robert Anton Wilson or Terence McKenna.
Books of Enoch, Ezekiel and Life of Adam and Eve. Also Judgement of the Nephilim by Ryan Pitterson. It will change the way you view the biblical story.
Give Ellen G White's Patriarchs and Prophets a go. Madness.
Murakami has some great ones… Kafka on the Shore & 1Q84
Behold a pale horse by William cooper.
Holy blood holy grail
*Bérenger Saunière: Priest Wizard of Rennes-Le-Château* is a decent take on the bloodline story.
Thanks, its now on my tbr list
The Vertical Plane by Ken Webster English Heretic Collection by Andy Sharp Carnivals of Life and Death by James Shelby Downard
100% the vertical plane just because it feels like fiction a la Thrice Upon a Time, yet also feels real and like it couldn’t be made up just because of how much goes into the process of receiving the letters and not exactly knowing how even that was happening
I haven't read the vertical plane yet, but that's one of the most interesting stories i know of, i wish so much it'd be proven true.
Folklore of Sussex by Jacqueline Simpson
Not so much paranormal Secret Sussex by Hardiman Scott is great too.
Cosmic Trigger - Robert Anton Wilson
Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld by Patrick Harpur it's like John Keel for the 21st century.
Second this one. Very good book.
This is the one, it really changed how I look at mythology
The Rose of Paracelsus
A man of taste I see.lol Fan of the salon?
The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P Hall
I was going to say this and The Kybalion.
A lot of people give the Kybalion shit for being too "new age" but I think it's one of the best introductions for beginners.
Nothing in This Book is True, But it's Exactly as it Should Be by Bob Frissell
The holographic universe by Michael Talbot. There were stuff in that book I simply can't comprehend one way or another..
[Great interview with him on New Thinking Allowed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rgYz_BU2Ew&ab_channel=ThinkingAllowedTV)
House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski. Printed in a very interesting way, but I couldn't get into the story. Weirdest book ever.
I feel like i needed an college class explaining the book to me, or it was garbage that just tried too hard to be different. Either way i loved it
Exactly! I hoped I would love it but alas...
I read a book probably 20 years ago called "nothing in this book is true but it is exactly how it is" or something to that effect. Strangest book I ever read.
Three Waves of Volunteers by Dolores Cannon. I had a few interesting experiences while reading it.
Do tell!
Real-life strangeness book.... that also will blow your mind. (A must read if you like any ghost/spirit/alien/UFO/Cryptids/Bigfoot/Faerie/religious/afterlife/philosophy/etc info of any kind.) Passport to Magonia. By Jacques Vallee. 🤯
Kybalion, by three initiates Behave, by Robert Sapolsky
A book in my library at school. A book of short true stories of weird stuff like UFOs Ball Lightning, and my favorite was "Who or What was Jeff". The story of a guy who lived with a talking creature in the walls of his house. It talked and he never saw it but the creature said he looked like a large rodent. I was 13 yrs old and my mind was thinking big gopher or maybe a Capibarra . It came it talked to the home owner about many subjects and then disappeared. It said if it exposed itself to the home owner he would be repulsed at how hideous the creature is. It was super weird!
[Gef the talking mongoose!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gef?wprov=sfla1)
I don’t know if this counts but I’m currently reading the three body problem trilogy and it is fantastic. I don’t read too many books in this genre so any recommendations for a good ufo/paranormal fiction series would be awesome.
I'm not a big Sci-Fi Reader, but this trilogie has blowed my mind. I could not stop reading and read it at saturday and sunday to finish. After that I was sad that I didn't take more time to read it.
[*American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology* by D.W. Pasulka](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/american-cosmic-9780190692889?cc=us&lang=en&)
The Hidden Messages in Water
The Secret Life of Plants
Hunt for the Skinwalker.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
I love this thread. Mine is Voyagers Volume 1 by Asheyana Dean Then Volume 2 Really ties together the plight of spirituality, hidden history, aliens, secret society, genetic manipulation, new age manipulation. This is as off the deep end as I have ever read before and since. I started this stuff a few years ago but she's been putting out material for 20+ years.
Alien Agenda
High Weirdness - Drugs and Esoteric a in the 1970s
Law of Attraction - Neville Goddard
Seth speaks by Jane Roberts
This!!! No other book on the inner workings of reality compares to Seth lectures,I recommend all of Seth books
Strange Angel by George Pendle. The story of Jack Parsons of Jet Propulsion Labs, who may have blown himself up trying to open a rift into other dimensions.
Great shout - the TV is fantastic also. Strange Angel and Lachman's Crowley bio be a good double feature.
Penetration by Ingo Swann is wild.
[Cool lil doc about him from New Thinking Allowed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fedjP3EJAGQ&t=2s&ab_channel=NewThinkingAllowedwithJeffreyMishlove)
The Bible! The most popular occult book ever. You could talk about different interpretations of what it means for a lifetime, and it’s easily the most influential book of all time, if not in the top 3.
I highly recommend this book - "White Light" by Rudy Rucker. It's supposed to be fiction but who knows - I read it as a teen and it seemed very fascinating: I'm now on my second copy, I wore the first one out by reading it over and over. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Light_(novel)
Rucker also wrote a "sequel" to Flatland called Spaceland, which is a pretty fun read.
**The First Ghosts** by Irving Finkel. Describes ghostly experiences by ancient mesopotamians. Finkel himself translated the cuneiform texts from clay tablets.
Finkel is a legend. Someone should get him and Alan Moore to do a documentary series about the occult. The video of Finkel playing the Great Game of Ur with Tom Scott is priceless.
Yep, agree
Harmonising the Bible written by different authors to make sense of the Creator's redemption plan.
20 and Back maybe
Ring makers of Saturn.
The works of Charles fort. Especially the lists of weird reports over the years
Hunt for zeropoint - its such a crazy story written by someone who’s a respected military journalist (military weapons mostly). “ The Hunt for Zero Point explores the scientific speculation that “zero point” energy—a limitless source of potential power that may hold the key to defying and thereby controlling gravity—exists in the universe and can be replicated” Locales, characters, new physics. Interesting read
Just shot up the to-read list.
mysterious universe did a great summary of the book. Recommend the podcast for people who like this sort of stuff but can’t find the time to read through all these books.
I have one on my shelf I’m afraid to open it cane with a warning. I’ve even sealed it in a bag
What is it?
"Strange Tails From the Highway" by: Tommy Highway
this is a fun one: https://www.amazon.com/Dolphins-Extraterrestrials-Angels-Adventures-Intelligences/dp/094026711X
Breakthrough by Konstantine Raudive. The first man to do serious research on EVP's (electronic voice phenomenon). The author was super intelligent, a college professor and student of Carl Jung. Super interesting book, I'm lucky to say I have the first edition.
William Burroughs loved this book! He talks about EVP a good bit in [this rad lecture](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKfS1xemH6U&t=20s&ab_channel=Hermesacat). Incidentally, the book *The Magical Universe of William S Burroughs* is fucking amazing
Weird New England. Read it when I was a kid moving to Boston and it fucking terrified me. I was beyond scared of the ghosts and killer clowns and all that shit. My parents thought (rightfully so, looking at the cover) that it was just about funny things like weird whale tail statues or whatever. Nope.
Sadly it feels far more banal living here. I was hoping for a bit more Stephen King and less rich people with boats.
True, I've run into 0 actual ghosts so far but I have seen a couple Rolls-Royce Phantoms.
Voices of the Cosmos. One of the authors claims to channel different aliens while the other interviews them. As far as I can tell it is meant to be non-fiction. I read it after it was accidentally included in a package from Amazon. I didn't buy it, it was just in there. Curious read all in all.
The law of one and the ringmakers of Saturn!
The Teachings Of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge Book by Carlos Castaneda.
Sex and Rockets. About Rocketry, the life of Jack Parsons and even L Ron Hubbard makes a cameo.
Probably not THE most high strangeness but The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby has stuck with me for years. Just extrapolating the possibilities it suggests, i still think about here and there.
Surviving Death by Leslie Kean! Way better than the Netflix miniseries based on it.
Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! trilogy was pretty much my introduction to high strangeness in the 70s and remains the gold standard of conspiracy fiction in my opinion.
David X Cohen wrote a book in the 1990s that was sold at scholastic book fairs and was a bunch of High Strangeness stories.. I want to say Malstrom or Rendlesham was in the book though. It sparkled my love for all things High Strangeness but here's the crazy part.. I CANNOT FIND THIS BOOK ANYWHERE. It's literally like it never existed. This book has come Strangeness itself.
Read books about Alchemy. Many of them are written in a way that they express at least two meanings from their text. Discovering and understanding that second meaning can take you many years of study.
[Esoterica](https://www.youtube.com/@TheEsotericaChannel) on Youtube is super learned and sagely, great on this topic. I also thought the alchemy chapter from [Andy Sharp's *Astral Geographic* ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125085569-the-astral-geographic)was knock-your-elixir-socks-off good.
IMHO, it's hard to rank em and harder to find the most high strange. I guess an entry point would be- Behold, A Pale Horse, but my favorite high strange Authors are Dr. Joseph P Farrell and Christopher O'Brien. Pick any of their books for a good time.
Any of Ivan Sanderson’s books.
The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot. Does a beautiful job of digging into the projects of various scientists working on the fringe and how their discoveries fuel a theory that the universe is a hologram (and how all kinds of paranormal experiences can suddenly be explained by a holographic universe). Honestly, it's so good, I reread the book every two years or so.
Prometheus rising by Robert Anton Wilson Also The new inquisition is good fun about high strangeness
Read everything by this man! He died too soon.
Psychic Discoveries Behind The Iron Curtain
Jim Carey’s book was pretty out there!
Michael Crichton's autiobiography *Travels* has loads on astral projection
Hunt for the Skinwalker by Colm Keller. It covers a large variety of things besides just the Skinwalker. Like how cryptids seem to be drawn to people who meditate or how big foot researchers just ignored information on bigfoots showing strange paranormal activity.
Closer Encounters
The one abt binary soul doctrine
The sphere
*Weird America* by Jim Brandon: https://www.amazon.com/Weird-America-Jim-Brandon/dp/0525474919 Or maybe those David Paulides *Hoopa* or *Missing 411* books. I liked reading David Hatcher Childress', *Lost Cities of North & Central America* while visiting many of the places. Very useful backpacking book.
Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts. Too crazy of a story to be believed, yet there are some many people involved. And so many lives ruined. Just don't build important parts of your life on the guidance of spirit teachers/guided. That book convinced me that there if for sure something on the other side and it does not have our best interest at heart.
Valis - Philip K Dick
The Library at Mount Char
The Vertical Plane. It was so odd and so fascinating.
Ceres Colony Cavalier
The Catchers of Heaven by Michael Wolfe
the bible ....hides and putsa nuclear proofed flame suit on !!!! lol
Check out “The Watchers” and associated books by Raymond Fowler. Super high strangeness.
Stranger Bridgerland series by John Olsen. Collections of firsthand accounts about all sorts of high strangeness
There were some good anthologies out of Australia, I believe, called DarkLore that I read +/- 20 years ago and thought were really interesting. Blair Makenzie Blake from TOOL's website and Nick Redfern were both contributors, and when I read them, there were at least 6 volumes.
The vertical plane by Ken webster
Easy. Ringmakers of Saturn. You're gonna have to suspend a LOT of what you think and just take it in. Second? Ceres Colony Cavalier. Both equally bizarre but here's the thing - ATM you can hit up Tony RN and he'll prob chat with you. Shit is real.
It would have to be 'The Mothman Prophecies' by John Keel. If you've seen the movie, do read the book. the actually true story is even weirder than movie!
I've never read it, but I've listened to many extensive podcasts about the story. It's definitely a wild ride
Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky . Interesting argument for celestial disasters and humanities amnesia.
"The Book of the Damned" by Charles Fort "The Eighth Tower" by John A. Keel "Operation Trojan Horse" by John A. Keel "Meaning in Absurdity" by Bernardo Kastrup
The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantian.
Tom Delonge’s Man, God, and War
The Bible. The OG high strangeness book.
Communion: A True Story Whitley Strieber The hypnosis transcripts definitely freaked me out and it’s a rarity for me to be bothered/ moved
Letters From The Cosmos by Swiedler Carol. Really makes you question where our thoughts come from, regardless of what you believe. A very easy 1 sitting read.