Our Practice
Asking the Alethiometer is the practice we use each episode to derive deeper meaning from the text. We modeled Asking the Alethiometer after several famous sacred practices, while making it unique to Philip Pullman’s world by leveraging the iconography and associated meanings from the alethiometer to guide our conversations. We’ve developed a handy PDF guide in case you’d like to follow along during each episode or leverage it in your own reading practice.
Reading Order
We’re reading the six main novels in order that the events take place in the world chronologically. While this may contradict the traditional reading order (as they were published), we’re on a mission to see what can be uncovered through this slight rearrangement of the texts. Below is a list of the texts we will read and in order.
Book 1 - La Belle Sauvage
Book 2 - The Northern Lights
(or The Golden Compass)
