As anyone who’s read a decent amount of Aleister Crowley’s work knows, he was no stranger to drug use – for serious medicinal purposes, recreation and spiritual research, with ether being a favored aid in the lattermost. There are a… Continue Reading
On Friday February 15, 2019 Krewe What Thou Wilt, a project of Alombrados Oasis, rolled for its fifth Mardi Gras season, the theme being “Sex And Rockets,” a reference to renowned rocket scientist and Thelemite Marvel “Jack” Parsons. This year… 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
Per her bio: Jaclyn Friedman is a writer, educator and activist, and creator of three books Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape (one of Publishers’ Weekly’s Top 100 Books of 2009), What You Really Really Want:… Continue Reading
BELARION: A SPACE OPERA, an immersive opera inspired by the science and magical practices of Jack Parsons is being staged in Parsons hometown of Pasadena, CA February 16 at 8 PM – February 17 at 11 PM at the Pasadena American Legion… Continue Reading
We’re getting a Super Blood Wolf Moon on Sunday in the US, and there’s a lot of hype around it. What does that mean, you ask? During January, the Full Moon is named for howling wolves. The Moon will turn… Continue Reading
According to On This Day, the British Museum opened to visitors today in 1759: “But not just any visitors. Fearing damage to the collections by unruly hordes, the trustees decided that nobody would be admitted without a ticket. The problem… Continue Reading
The Earth is closest to the Sun, or at the perihelion, about 2 weeks after the December Solstice, when it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere. The perihilion this year will be January 3, 2019 at 5:19am Universal Standard Time;… Continue Reading
“Science keeps showing us that sex also doesn’t fit in a binary, whether it be determined by genitals, chromosomes, hormones, or bones (which are the subject of my research),” says Alexandra Kralick for Pacific Standard. “Skeletal studies, the field that… Continue Reading
“Every man and every woman is a star.” –AL I:3 Yesterday, December 25, was the 2nd anniversary of astronomer Vera Cooper Rubin’s death in Princeton, New Jersey (coincidentally, yesterday was also Isaac Newton’s birthday on the Julian calendar). While Rubin… Continue Reading