The Deconstructingyourself.com podcast recently posted an interview with occult author Erik Davis discussing Robert Anton Wilson, anarchism in the 1970s, Terrence McKenna, P.K. Dick, psychedelics, cultures of awakening now and then, Zen practice, and more. The podcast’s site says: “Erik Davis is… Continue Reading
Three Hands Press, the publishing arm of the Cultus Sabatai have just sent out an update on their publishing plans for 2019: “Benjamin A. Vierlin’s book, Green Mysteries, is still at least three weeks away from completion, placing the book… Continue Reading
Here’s a New York Times review of a TV series, A Discovery of Witches, produced in the United Kingdom depicting a world clandestinely inhabited by vampires, witches and demons. These three populations have been observing a centuries long pact of… Continue Reading
Augusten Burroughs is already the bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Lust & Wonder, but now he’s tackling his memoir, and he says he’s a witch: For as long as Augusten Burroughs could remember, he knew things he shouldn’t have known. He manifested things… Continue Reading
Eleusyve Productions, who since 2001 have celebrated all seven Rites of Eleusis — Jupiter, Luna, Mercury, Venus, Sol, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn! — recently provided a “guest blog post” written by Aleister Crowley. Crowley discusses the rites: Their Origin and… Continue Reading
In Liber DCCXI, verse IV, the Prophet of the Lovely Star wrote: “The Greeks say that there are three methods of discharging the Lyden Jar of Genius. These three methods they assign to three Gods. “These three Gods are Dionysus,… Continue Reading
WOWZERS – this is probably old news to you hepsters out there but I just stumbled across this audio archive of lectures and readings recorded at the Naropa University at Boulder Colorado featuring the likes of unrecognized Gnostic Saint and… Continue Reading
Wednesday 13 February is the Feast of Saint Richard Wagner, a German musician and composer chiefly known for his operas. Thelemites may know, as noted in the Invisible Basilica of Sabazius, that “Crowley based his play ‘Tannhäuser’ on the libretto… Continue Reading
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography, by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. (Princeton Lives of Great American Books Series). Review by Frater Kikhos ba-Midhbar, posted here with his permission. Strangely, this is an antagonistic biography. Lopez only agreed to write… Continue Reading
“There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times.” –AL II:36 Tomorrow, February 1, is Imbolc/Imbolg, a Gaelic festival that is also sometimes called Saint Brigid’s Day, celebrating the midway point between the Winter Solstice and the Spring… Continue Reading