The Sunday NY Times recently published an article by Ben Ratliff about the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts acquiring the physical archives of the late singer/songwriter/cellist/composer Arthur Russell. Ratliff lays out his wildly divergent range of activities… Continue Reading
Sister Ania, National Treasurer, Ordo Templi Orientis Poland, recently distributed a circular for several wonderful items O.T.O. is offering for sale: “I am writing to you to inform you about a few items we have recently produced, including a beautiful… Continue Reading
How do you digitize music dating from before musical notation? Becky Ferreira reports in Vice that the Optical Neume Recognition Project seeks to build a search engine for sifting through the millions of written “neumes,” which were primitive riffs on notation common in prayer… Continue Reading
The New York Times Book Review recently published a review on The Bad Ass Librarians of Tibuktu, a book documenting the courageous work being done in sub-Saharan Africa to protect a mind-blowingly rich literary legacy not to mention one of… Continue Reading
The documentary film, Bight of the Twin, will have its world premiere at Rubin Museum of Art in NYC on July 15th, 2016 at 7 pm! The premiere is in conjunction with Genesis P-Orridge‘s ongoing exhibition at the Rubin Museum,Try to Altar… Continue Reading
The name Timothy Leary is likely familiar to most modern day spiritual seekers. His Wikipedia pages states, in part:? “Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration… Continue Reading
Yesterday, O=II announced the first performance of the Gnostic Mass in Japan. We have since got notification from the FSR of Japan that they’re FB posting was in error. The Mass will be in June, not July. Also, we were… Continue Reading
There’s a handy compilation of surviving movie scenes in which Jane Wolfe (Soror Estai) appears posted on Youtube. Although she acted in over 100 films, most of these do not survive. Wikipedia states: “Jane Wolfe (March 21, 1875 – March… Continue Reading
Yesterday, May 17 marked the 60th anniversary of the passing of artist and magician Austin Osman Spare. The Wikipedia article on him begins: “Austin Osman Spare (30 December 1886 – 15 May 1956) was an English artist and occultist who worked… Continue Reading
The Spiritual Alchemy podcsat recently featured an interview with Mani C. Price by Astrid Haszprunarova talking about the experience of being female in the male dominated world of occult study and practice Find out more about Mani: http://www.manitheuncanny.com/ Listen to the podcast