6/11/25 When I finish a book I'm focusing for a book club, I fall back onto my pile. Today it was Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism: According to the Esoteric Teachings of the Great Mantra, Oṁ Mani Padme Hūm by Anagarika Govinda, and I've been reading this book for years, but I really liked chapter 9. He brings in Rilke. I was reading This Is What It Sounds Like by Susan Rogers, and Ogi Ogas. And I learned about Shaggs , outsider music. A father made 3 daughters practice music all day, and never gave them a lesson, and then recorded an album in 1969, which is the weirdest thing in the world. The engineers would ask why they stopped, and it was because they made a mistake. The engineers thought it was all a mistake. But it was rediscovered in 1980, reprinted, and went through several reprintings. It's really bad, but authentic. Lots of famous musicians liked it. I read some more of Rumi's Masnavi book 1, and he's telling a story about clergy who teach the wrong th...