Scarey movies, gore, Viking’s inflicting inhuman torture on captives… just the stuff the occult community laps up as greedily shown by the enthusiasm shown for the Swedish horror film Midsommar (if yr FB posts are to be believed) which depicted… Continue Reading
The Routledge, Taylor & Francis group have announced the 2022 publications of The Routledge Companion to Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient World, edited by Diana Stein, Sarah Kielt Costello, Karen Polinger Foster. The publisher’s posted descriptions says: “For millennia, people… Continue Reading
So what rings youse guys’ bells? Classic Goth and Neo Goth music, horror movies, sci-fi, stories about the persecution of Witches… so, here’s a New York Times review of The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming, exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum.… Continue Reading
The Education Committe of U.S. Grand Lodge of Ordo Templi Orientis is hosting an online lecture by Fr. Tlacatecólotl’s on the magick of corn in Mesoamerican t raditions December 16 at 8PM EST, 7PM CST, 6PM MST, 5PM PST. Click to… Continue Reading
With his Plymouth Brethren upbringing, the Prophet of the Lovely Star was, in his own words, “deprived of all English literature but the Bible during the whole of his youth.” Crowley later bragged that even as a child he had… Continue Reading
The New York Times recently ran a review of the second book by archaeologist Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Kindred. The book collects and analyzes 170 years’ worth of research and speculation devoted to the hominid species Neanderthals and presents readers a… Continue Reading
The British Library has an unrivalled collection of Zoroastrian manuscripts and therefore welcomed the opportunity to display three of its Zoroastrian treasures in the current exhibition “Epic Iran” organised by the V&A with the Iran Heritage Foundation in association with… Continue Reading
Sarai: Is She the Goddess of Ancient Israel? by Dvora Lederman-Daniely was published earlier this Summer. The publisher’s description says: “Who was the mother goddess of the ancient religion of Israel, the spouse of the god Yahweh? Archaeological and literary-biblical… Continue Reading
The academic journal PLOS recently published a study that suggests that the extinction of human species commonly known as Neanderthals may have been hastened by a blood disorder in children conceived via Neanderthal/Homo Sapiens interbreeding. The abstract reads: Blood group… Continue Reading
In 2019 Federation University supported the Australia Magic Research Project, funded by the University of Hertfordshire and the Society for Vernacular Architecture. The project conducted a survey on the remains of folk magic practices in colonial Australia and was a… Continue Reading