Trickster: the Many Lives of Carlos Castaneda is a five chapter documentary podcast on the author of the immensely popular series of mystically themed fictional works describing his training as a shaman in aMeso American lineage. a recent podcast doc,… Continue Reading
Dr. Emily Selove, Senior Lecturer of Medieval Arabic Language and Literature, at the University of Exeter, discusses her Leverhulme-funded research project, “A Sorcerer’s Handbook,” which will create an edition, translation, and literary study of Siraj al-Din al-Sakkaki’s (d. 1229) Arabic… Continue Reading
The European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism has released it’s latest newsletter and you can DL a free copy here: https://www.esswe.org/News/10227653. The new issue is helmed by new editor Chloe Sugden, a PhD candidate at the ETH in… Continue Reading
Israeli daily newspaper Ha’Aretz reports that Israeli scientists have produced a murine homunculus (if you’ll allow the usage; this means viable mouse embryo). Their story begins: “In Jacob Hanna’s lab at the Weizmann Institute, for the first time in the… Continue Reading
Here’s a link to a 2017 documentary on occultism including interviews with Dr. Richard Kaczynski and the now deceased James Wasserman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR1a2rq2E56U_weD_Qi2A3b1BjVXaAMUWbYeFGPJAneztqgvZRz-EkyHfwA&v=_gnID7ciR5s&feature=youtu.be. The occult (from the Latin word occultus “clandestine, hidden, secret”) is “knowledge of the hidden”.[1] In common English… Continue Reading
Episode 7 of Sharron Kraus’ Preternatural Investigations podcast is called “How Weird Is Folk.” The posted description says: In which a contrast between the way folk music is seen in England and the US leads to speculation about the role… Continue Reading
This passed Fall, The New York Times Book Review published a review by composer John Adams of a new book on Gnostic Saint Richard Wagner Wagnerism by Alex Ross. There’s a lot of things people have said about Wagner that… Continue Reading
I haven’t vetted the film Solve et Coagula so can’t speak for or against it. But from the posted description it seems like a game enough attempt to trace the myth of the Knights Templar’s oracular head back to that… Continue Reading
Palgrave Macmillan has announced the upcoming publication of a new title in its Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities series. This will be Innovation in Esotericism from the Renaissance to the Present, edited by Georgina D. Hedesan and Tim Rudbøg.… Continue Reading
It may shock many Thelemites that The Prophet of the Lovely Star called himself “The truest of all Christians,” and in fact laced his writings on magick and religion with references to both the Tanakh and New Testament. So perhaps… Continue Reading