I believe that most occultists that have done any study of the 60’s socio-cultural revolution in Western countries would agree that Aleister Crowley’s writings and vision had a noticeable impact on same. You don’t believe me – buttonhole Lon Milo… Continue Reading
Mehenet, the New Orleans-based black metal project whose members are OTO initiates,would like to officially announce that our debut album, Dii Inferi, will be released on Pale Horse Records this Fall. The line-up is: Algol on vocals, Nehushtan on Guitar,… Continue Reading
Today is the anniversary of Willie Mae Thornton’s death in 1984. Better known as Big Mama Thornton, she was a powerful blues singer whose songs helped lead to the development of rock & roll. She was the original singer of… Continue Reading
Here’s yet another video filmed at last year’s Trans State Conference. This one’s of Jasmine Shadrack & Charmaine Sonnex’s presentation – “Ritual Occultation and the Space between Worlds: exploring the application of the “flow” state in Pagan and Black Metal performance… Continue Reading
Altered States: Sex, Drugs, and Transcendence in the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library is a new exhibition at Harvard’s Houghton Library that investigates human kind’s search for transcendence via religion, the occult, philosophy, music, endorphins, sex, ecstasy i.e. most of the elements of theurgic… Continue Reading
Here’s recently posted live performance footage of Ordo Templi Orientis Cabinet member David Tibet and Youth’s (formerly of Killing Joke) band, HYPNOPAZŪZU at The RoadBurn Festival in Tilburg, The NetherLands, on April 23, 2017. The video was Dreamt, Conceived, and… Continue Reading
Graham John Clifton Bond was an English musician and occultist. He was a major player in the early rhythm and blues explosion of Britain in the 1960s. He first began gigging in 1960 and gained some attention performing alto saxophone… Continue Reading
On Monday, September 18–Tuesday, September 19, Saturday, September 23–Monday, September 25 The Barnes Foundation will host the world premier of “The Wake World.” This production is being directed by R.B. Schlather; music and libretto is by David Hertzberg, based on… Continue Reading
HEY – it’s the IVth! We should be totally bunking off but Soror Amy was tickled by this Dangerous Minds article about long ago shennanigans put on by the great African band leader, musical innovator Fela Kuti. At one point… Continue Reading
On the latest episode of Thelema, NOW! Frater Puck and Carl Abrahamsson GET LOUD, talking in-person at a lively coffee shop in NYC about newest issue of Abrahamsson’s journal Fenris Wolf. You can check out Carl’s works at: carlabrahamsson.com and trapart.net. Order Fenris Wolf at… Continue Reading