While as sex magicians, we know there are plenty of good reasons to enjoy the pleasures of the flesh, it’s nice to have it confirmed that it’s also good for our health. That’s right, you can contribute to a healthy… Continue Reading
Sex plays a central role in reproduction, and it can be pleasurable, but new findings suggest that it may serve an additional purpose: bonding partners together. A study of newlywed couples, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association… Continue Reading
One of the terms that Aleister Crowley coined to describe his system of attainment was “Scientific Illuminism” and one of his slogans regarding its practice was “The method of science; the aim of religion.” So one expects that most that… Continue Reading
The BBC recently ran a news story on Vasalgel, the first new strategy in male contraception to surface in decades. The article explains: “Vasalgel acts as a physical barrier once injected into the tubes [vas deferens] that sperm would swim… Continue Reading
The BBC posted a thought provoking look at what differentiates living and non-living presences. Their propositions might surprise you. Then again if you engage in the Buddhist mediations where you try and experience being an intelligence housed in rock, or… Continue Reading
Astrobiology.com says recent findings show that life may have arisen on this planet on two separate occasions. A recently posted news story says: “Conditions suitable to support complex life may have developed in Earth’s oceans — and then faded —… Continue Reading
71 years ago today, having completed a series of rituals he referred to as the “Babalon Working” to summon an Elemental to be his magical partner, rocket scientist and Thelemite Jack Parsons came home to find Marjorie Cameron waiting for him… Continue Reading
The International Business Times reports on recent breakthroughs in achieving quantum teleportation. Pertinent to our, ahem, interests is the scientific basis for this: “…quantum teleportation relies on ‘entanglement’ — a weird and counter-intuitive phenomenon once famously derided as ‘spooky action… Continue Reading
On this day in 1671, Isaac Newton was elected a member of England’s Royal Society, of which he became president some 32 years later. While he’s come to be considered one of the fathers or at least popularizers of a… Continue Reading
One of the more famed attractions of Philadlephia, PA – among those of a, ahem, “certain disposition” is the Mutter Museum. This was established as a medical research facilty WAY back in the day and thus if filled with skulls… Continue Reading