CURRENT MOON lunar phases My people, music: listening-comprehension-practice-composition, chemistry, medical science, math, languages, symbols, Tantra, serpents (particularly boids), chess, magick, gnosis, martial arts, kundalini and hatha yoga, tea, serenity, swords, firearms, logic, remembrance, Truth, finding the way, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Right Action, mindfulness, cat spirits, Japanese motorcycles, star gazing, navigation, Dreaming, Stalking, qigong, moving meditations, silence, Seeing...
Intellectually and spiritually advanced sentients. People that I remember when first we meet. People who know the Way of Kindness, and who want to teach it to me.
This would be a ridiculously large list. All that advances the sphere of knowledge, promotes human excellence and moves the soul.
Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars episodes IV-VI, Pi, Powder, Full Metal Jacket, The Last Samurai, Alien and Aliens, The Secret of Nimh, The Dark Crystal (in Spanish), Fantasia, Watership Down, The Matrix, Enter the Dragon, The World According to John Coltrane, The Princess Bride,Second Hand Lions,Saving Private Ryan, The Pianist, The Red Violin, Scarface, Carlito's Way, Goodfellas, High Plains Drifter, The Magnificent Seven, Lone Wolf and Cub, Brazil, The Life Aquatic, V for Vendetta, The Wedding Crashers, The Fountain, El Laberinto Del Fauno...
Educational, particularly: zoology, history, medical science, that sort of thing. Football!
Carlos Casteneda's works, Moby Dick, Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming's works, The Art of War, The Dao Te Jing, The Baghavad Gita, Isreal Regardie's Works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, the Dune books, Stranger in a Strange Land, Guyton's Medical Physiology, H.P Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs' works, Khalil Gibran, Sillman's chess books, The Kundalini Workbook by Swami Anandakipali, Larry Niven's Ringworld books and The Integral Trees, The Dark Tower books, Harry Potter, Robert E, Howard's works, John Coltrane's biographies, Slonimski's Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns, Knud Jeppson's Couterpoint: The Polyphonic Style of the Sixteenth Century, The Chronicles of Narnia, the Kama Sutra, The Book of Five Rings, The Gospel of Saint Thomas, A Wrinkle in Time and A Swiftly Tilting Planet...
Carlo Fortner, my Dad: A.J. Fortner, Master Rogert Paige, Shi Tzu Chee Kim Thong, Bruce Lee, Aristotle, Bobby Fischer, John Coltrane, J.S. Bach, the men at Normandy on D-day, Don Juan Matus, Yoda, Batman, Pythagoras, Albert Einstein, Carlos Hathcock, Roland of Gilead, Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming, Albus Dumbledore (Order of Merlin, first class) Nicolai Tesla...