Every day for one week, post the cover of a book you love and tag someone else to do the same.
Day #7 - Das Energi by Paul Williams
For those who don't know, I am also @dasenergi. I'm known as Das Energi everywhere: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. I am a queer Los Angeles based Performance Artist known as "Das Energi." I even own dasenergi.com
That is how important this book is to me. Reading it was eye-opening and life changing to my impressionable 21 year old mind. And this picture is of my 31 year old first copy of the book, held together with a rubberband.
Inside is the inscription from the person who gave it to me. It was a gift for my 21st birthday.
I have written about Christine before. She was my "Frau Eva" when I talked about Demian by Hermann Hesse. I was turning 21 and she was 30, married, and we were in the middle of a non-sexual love affair.
I could write a book about her and that time in our lives.
In the past several years, the idea of "Twin Flames" has become popular. We had an intense and deep spiritual and sexual connection that went beyond a conventional romantic relationship. (Remember, this was a non-sexual relationship, but also intensely sexual at the same time.)
She was married but she never cheated on her (abusive) husband with me. But I was there to support her leaving her abusive husband (taking her young daughter with her) and starting a new life.
And I felt the pain as she started sleeping with a variety of other men -- but not with me. We knew sex would ruin our relationship.
Anyhow... this book was a gift from her. And it changed my perspective of everything.
I have used this book as an oracle. Think of a question, then open the book to a random page, and there you will find your answer.
In my 20s it became something like a party game for me -- because people were so impressed by how it really did seem to answer their questions.
But the book is more than that. Much like "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah," it changed they way I thought. It changed the way I viewed the world. It reaffirmed my belief in magic.
I have always been surprised that more people don't know about the book. It's always been one of those underground books that people give as gifts to others. Maybe it's too "out-there" for most people. Maybe it's only meant for the weird ones. Those of us who live outside of the societal norm.
Anyhow...
I am tagging: Anyone else who would like to play, "Every day for one week, post the cover of a book you love and tag someone else to do the same."
