The annual ConVocation will be held in Detroit, MI February 18th – 21st, 2016 and will feature, among many other distinguished speakers, our own Dr. Richard Kaczynski. Their site explains: “ConVocation is a convention of the many mystical spiritual paths… Continue Reading
It’s like a meme come true: When urban legends mysteriously start to become real, a gawky junior professor and a goth who shouldn’t exist race desperately through pop culture landmarks and defend themselves against fabled assassins in order to stop… Continue Reading
Richard Kaczynski celebrates the release of his hilarious urban fantasy The Billionth Monkey by making a free mini-comic, Hamlet Special Edition, available on the web. This comic celebrates a sub-plot in The Billionth Monkey about a newly-discovered revision of Hamlet… Continue Reading
Aleister Crowley biographer and expert Richard Kaczynski ventures into Fortean fiction with his humorous new urban fantasy, The Billionth Monkey. Readers of the Fortean Times will encounter familiar topics including: Apocalyptic beliefs, cryptids, egregores, The Exorcist, Gustave Flaubert, ghosts, Goetia,… Continue Reading
Alien landscapes. Magic swords. Floating robots. Strange creatures: Not what you’d expect to find in Hamlet? Then you haven’t seen Hamlet Special Edition. Richard Kaczynski celebrates the release of his hilarious urban fantasy The Billionth Monkey by making a free… Continue Reading
Richard Kaczynski is known for his scholarship in Western esotericism, particularly in his books Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley (2010), Forgotten Templars: The Untold Origins of Ordo Templi Orientis (2012), and The Weiser Concise Guide to Aleister Crowley (2009).… Continue Reading
Late last Summer, Dr. Richard Kaczynski had the challenge and pleasure of warming up the audience of the Esoteric Book Conference [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Seattle-Esoteric-Book-Conference/162881827065969 ] for a performance of Aleister Crowley’s “The Rite of Mars” interpreted as a rock opera by Eleusyve… Continue Reading
This montage kicked off Richard Kaczynski’s opening remarks at the eighth biennial National Ordo Templi Orientis Conference (NOTOCON), which took place in Detroit. It recounts the rather silly panic in Detroit that followed Aleister Crowley’s brief visit to the Motor… Continue Reading
Richard Kaczynski, Ph.D., author of “The Forgotten Templars: The Untold Origins of Ordo Templi Orientis,” “Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley,” “The Weiser Concise Guide to Aleister Crowley,” “Perdurabo Outtakes,” and “Panic in Detroit: The Magician and the Motor City,”… Continue Reading