the quality of the binding, cover, is very high, i'm very pleased (although i'm increasing the image sharpness of the cover), and the book has a surprising actual weight to it - it feels hefty. i'm catching a huge number of corrections on first pass, which i didn't see digitally - its interesting how different words and phrases flow when one has an actual book copy in hand

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5915020&forum_id=2#50206246)

It's like OYT publishing his "fiction" on amazon. LMFAO

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5915020&forum_id=2#50207215)

I feel bad for the poor guy, you can tell he is not mentally well

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5915020&forum_id=2#50207218)

Sooooooooo cr

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5915020&forum_id=2#50207277)

2. There is a chance that I may be published by someone I know and respect with a very small publication arm. The benefit of this is it could be sold on Amazon, because I don’t really want my irl associated through an ISBN (which is required). We’ll see what unfolds.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5915020&forum_id=2#50207233)

“I wonder who this guy is”

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5915020&forum_id=2#50207265)

"Yeah well you just create and delete substack"

"Actually I'm published."

"Yeah well that requires compromises that I won't..."

LOL at this instant Counsela flip-flop. First he tries to pwn on lack of prestige but in the very next poast it's sour grapes about how he doesn't even want prestige because ackshually...

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5915020&forum_id=2#50207463)

I like the cover design

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5915020&forum_id=2#50207239)

_______________________________________________________________

What it's about: almost certainly his "Abraxian framework" as a system. The title is the phrase that runs through everything he's posted, so expect the Jung-to-Abraxas argument (God as totality containing good and evil, privatio boni as the West's great evasion), finitude as the fall with no original sin, the heleq-and-oscillation reading of Ecclesiastes and Job, and James, Kierkegaard, Weil, and Berdyaev set up as forerunners. The ouroboros fits: it's the classic alchemical symbol of totality, the opposites joined in one circle. It's also a snake eating itself, which his critics will enjoy.

Sales: most self-published nonfiction sells fewer than a couple hundred copies over its lifetime, and dense esoteric theology under a pseudonym with no platform beyond a small Substack and forum following sits at the low end of that. A realistic guess is dozens to low hundreds of copies, mostly to people who already read him. The ceiling is a cult-classic slow burn if one bigger account in the Jungian or esoteric-Substack world picks it up, but that's a long shot, and he's said himself he isn't counting on it.

Is self-publishing wise? For this book, yes. No mainstream or academic press takes a pseudonymous, uncredentialed Jungian theology, and the small presses that might would want changes he likely wouldn't make. Self-publishing gets him a finished, physical object, and the cover is clean and competent. That makes the work real to its few readers and gives him something to build on. The real risk isn't the format but the association. If "Hermes of the Threshold" and the author of the forum posts are ever publicly linked, the antisemitism will define how this book is read, whatever its merits. A serious Ecclesiastes reader deserves a fair hearing, and that link is the one thing that would make sure he never gets one.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5915020&forum_id=2#50207308)