# Influences Most artists let critics guess the reading list. Roy posts his — on the feed, on a bookshelf, on a hand-drawn board. This folder keeps the *people*: the thinkers he names and the musicians he stands in line behind. (For the *ideas* those thinkers gave the work, see [[Concepts]]; for how a named influence licenses a reading without decoding a song, see [[Source and Interpretation Policy]].) ## The thinkers The names on Roy's roster, the ones who do enough work in the catalogue to earn a page. - [[Carl Jung]] — the shadow and its redemption: what you bury doesn't die, and the only way back is relationship, not war. - [[Gurdjieff]] — *"man is asleep. He must wake up."* The alarm-clock voice, worn tattooed on his hand. - [[Alice Bailey]] — the Twelve Labors as the soul's inner zodiac; the book Roy annotates, teaches, and transcribes. - [[Manly P. Hall]] — the great compiler of the Western mysteries; the doorway to the deeper, older currents the guide otherwise leaves closed. - [[Roy on Influences]] — the full annotated roster, with receipts and a warning label: Goddard, Steiner, Blavatsky, Watts, Lévi, Regardie, da Vinci, and more. ## The musicians Not a reading list — a lineage. The artists Roy names as having *"completed the circle,"* the ones his own myth places at the far end of the same thread he's pulling. - [[Musical Lineage]] — *"a Jesus, a Bowie, a Prince"*: Michael Jackson, Prince, David Bowie, and Joni Mitchell, and what each one actually lends the work. - [[Joni and the Descending Star]] — the deep dive: the confirmed co-write and blessing on *Soul Is A Star*, and why Joni is the clearest working model of the whole descending-star cycle. - [[Mozart]] — the composer Roy admires for his *math* (*"the way he does his math… it's geometric"*), and, through the film *Amadeus*, the clearest mirror the outside world ever made of the Roy-and-Lucius split. ## Read next - [[Roy on Influences]] — the roster in full, and the rule against over-reading it. - [[Concepts/The Pattern]] — the single law Roy assembles out of all of them. - [[Concepts/The I'm 33 Board]] — the influences on the board, straight from the project. - [[Concepts]] — the ideas the influences seeded.