ABC’s New Orleans affiliate WGNO recently interviewed Vodou practitioner, author and artist Sallie Ann Glassman about her friendship with comedian Joan Rivers. This interview formed the basis of a three-minute news segment, but the interview is also viewable in three… Continue Reading
CLAVIS 3: Cipher and Stone Seattle scholar and CLAVIS contributor Andrew Larson will give a talk ‘Oneiric Potency in the Greek Magical Papyri’. In addition to fresh copies of CLAVIS 3 there will be select titles available from Ouroboros Press,… Continue Reading
Continuing with reports from the American Academy of Religion. This morning, I was able to make it to the first Western Esotericism section. There was a section on “Western Esotericism in the African-American Religious Experience” yesterday that I would have… Continue Reading
An interesting article on the myth and Thracian culture. http://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/enigma-thracians-and-orpheus-myth-001743
The Atlantic Monthly has an interesting article on Karen King’s research on the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife,” which was widely reported in the media as substantiating a claim that Mary Magdalene was in fact Jesus’s wife. As the article explores,… Continue Reading
Continuing with my reports on the research being presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. One note to Zero Equals Two readers: The Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion gathers more then 9000 scholars… Continue Reading
Continuing reports from the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. The afternoon opened with a panel on the New Animism hosted between the Pagan Studies and the Ritual Studies research groups. Briefly (and somewhat simply) the “new Animism”… Continue Reading
As I mentioned before, I will be blogging from the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. While I am aiming to report specifically on the Esoteric Studies group while here, I’ll be updating Zero Equals Two readers with reports… Continue Reading
One of Thelema Now’s favorite authors returns! The always entertaining Tobias Churton discuss is new book about Uncle Al, focusing on his time in Berlin while Hitler was coming to power. Check it out! Direct Download http://traffic.libsyn.com/wuelf2000/Thelema_Now_Tobias_Churton_Beast_in_Berlin.mp3
Edmund B. Lingan’s The Theatre of the Occult Revival: Alternative Spiritual performance from 1875 to the Present was just released by Palgrave Macmillan (on November 19, says Amazon). According to the publisher’s website: Based on field research and archival study,… Continue Reading