Last month, the New Yorker ran an article on the “self-care” regimes of veteran rapper Common: meditation, visualization, what appears to be astral projection, chakra work. Hmmm. Do a few of these activities sound familiar to you? So, yeah, of… Continue Reading
GEEZ I’m behind on my reading! Here’s a book review in the New York Times Book Review from LAST Summer that just turned up in my reading stack. As ye should know, Aleister Crowley considered himself a staunch Buddhist for… Continue Reading
Laurie Anderson’s record label has posted a track “Listen Without Distraction” from her upcoming album release Songs From The Bardo on Smithsonian Folkways done in collaboration with Tenzin Choegyal and Jesse Paris Smith. The first track is a series of… Continue Reading
Pot.TV recently posted a video interview with Richard Kaczynski discussing the role of drugs in Aleister Crowley’s work. “Host Chris Bennett talks to Dr. Richard Kaczynski, author of Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley; Panic in Detroit: The Magician and the… Continue Reading
Here’s a tidbit from Jason Miller’s Magick Monday newsletter: “The psychological Model of Magic held sway for a LONG time. Anything that was not visible and or verifiable by physical experiment belonged to the mind, and so, people thought did… Continue Reading
The BBC recently posted a capsule overview of the actual history of the Illuminati… an organization that Ordo Templi Orientis is not the visible organ of. https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p07q0jd2/what-is-the-fascination-with-the-illuminati-conspiracy.
The Grandmaster Sabazius posted: “Crowleymas greetings! While it is not an official holiday on the Thelemic Calendar, today marks the 144th anniversary of the birth of Aleister Crowley, often referred to as “Crowleymas.” Edward Alexander Crowley was born on this… Continue Reading
New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently hosting “Another World Lies Beyond: Chinese Art and the Divine,” an exhibition of artworks that document China’s various views of the religious and supernatural spanning centuries. The exhibition runs through January… Continue Reading
Here’s an update from Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s current medical condition, from her FB feed: We have been meaning to update everyone on my illness. In April we had exploratory surgery. They cut a 6 inch incision between my ribs on… Continue Reading
Thelema, NOW! host Harper Feist talks to Jon Povey & Marco Conti, the minds behind the album Sympathy For The Beast: Songs From the Poems of Aleister Crowley. This album is from Twink & the Technicolour Dream, being released by the… Continue Reading