Some years ago openculture.com posted a full lecture and & reading list from our hero Sun Ra’s 1971 UC Berkeley Course, “The Black Man in the Cosmos.” If you don’t understand why this is pertinent – well, I could teach… Continue Reading
Last Summer, The University of Chicago Press published Thomas Shippey’s Laughing Shall I Die, a look at the “Jomsvikings,” a group better known in this country by their un-prefixed appellation. Basing his research on contemporary literature by Scandanavians as well… Continue Reading
Released in September of last year, Congo Tales is a collection of photographs depicting the stories and legends of the Mbomo people. While the images are recorded by outsiders, the stories themselves are reenacted by local volunteers. It provides an… Continue Reading
The most recently issue of The European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism’s newsletter is out and available for free download! Here’s a few introductory comments from Editor Chris Giudice: Dear members of ESSWE, welcome to the Winter 2018… Continue Reading
The New York Times recently ran an Op Ed column suggesting that the United States is moving further and further towards a mass religious stance that believes behind the Christian scriptural narratives. An excerpt reads: “But the secularization narrative is… Continue Reading
Both theoreticians and practitioners of the the theurgy referred to as “Energized Enthusiasm” might find it worthwhile to spend some time at the Yale University Art Gallery’s “Sights And Sounds of Ancient Ritual” exhibit.In Liber DCCXI Energized Enthusiasm A Note… Continue Reading
This is cool! An article in the Atlantic about the growth of African Americans embracing African religions and “cunning.” An excerpt states: “Over the past decade, white Millennials have embraced witchcraft in droves. Now a parallel phenomenon is emerging among black Millennials. While their… Continue Reading
According to The Liturgical Calendar for Thelemic Gnosticism by Tau Polyphilus, November 13 — tomorrow — is the Feast of Osiris. In The Invisible Basilica of Sabazius, we learn: Osiris is depicted as a human male with green skin, wearing… Continue Reading
Saturday, October 20, was the Feast of Saint Sir Richard Francis Burton. Born March 18, 1821, Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS was a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat. He died in… Continue Reading
The Washington Post recently ran a feature looking at the deep roots of sexism wherein one might note the degree to which academics’ accounts of stages of development of human civilization, especially as regarding gender roles, follows the Aeonic Theory… Continue Reading