Metaphysical Book Club
Help! I’m reaching out to my blog community because I don’t know where else to turn – and I trust you all for your excellent research and thoughtfulness, so I figured, why not ask.
I’ve been asked to moderate a metaphysical book club at our local bookstore, and while I truly enjoy reading anything in this genre, not everyone agrees with my choices. It’s funny; our regular book club seems happy enough to give new titles a shot – I mean, isn’t that the point of a book club? To read things you might not have read otherwise? We’ve had some rousing discussions about some incredible books, always enjoyable as a result of the wine in which we indulge! But for this genre, for some reason, people are VERY opinionated. Plus there’s the issue of, what IS a “metaphysical” book – is it just “new age” or quantum spirituality, or does it include things like religion, witchcraft, the occult, UFOs and alternative history and conspiracy?
Really I don’t know anymore; our first meeting last month was a great success, as we were honored to have Hank Wesselman himself, along with his beautiful wife, attend our discussion of his book Spiritwalker. For those of you who don’t know, he had an incredible out-of-body time travel experience which shattered his peaceful, scholarly outlook on life – and it happened here on the Big Island. He admitted quite readily he believes we are in for a global catastrophe when the gigantic ice sheet covering Antarctica slides off into the ocean creating a tsunami the likes of which we cannot even imagine. Next month we’re reading Kahuna Healing by Serge Kahili King, as a follow-up to Dr. Wesselman’s book – I’m half way through and already very impressed with the wealth of information there about Hawaiian Huna. Another title we’re sure about is Daniel Pinchbeck’s 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. But afterwards we tried to decide on upcoming titles and I got quite a few ruffled feathers, a few ‘I read that already and it sucks’, or ‘that’s not metaphysical’, and even ‘that’s too long and difficult.’
So – any suggestions? Anyone?









