GEEZ I’m behind on my reading! Here’s a book review in the New York Times Book Review from LAST Summer that just turned up in my reading stack. As ye should know, Aleister Crowley considered himself a staunch Buddhist for… Continue Reading
Laurie Anderson’s record label has posted a track “Listen Without Distraction” from her upcoming album release Songs From The Bardo on Smithsonian Folkways done in collaboration with Tenzin Choegyal and Jesse Paris Smith. The first track is a series of… Continue Reading
Tomorrow, October 16, is the feast of Dame Ida Craddock. Born in Philadelphia on August 1, 1857, she was inducted into the Order of the Eagle by O.T.O. USA in April 1999 EV. Ida Craddock wrote about sex and sexuality in a… Continue Reading
New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently hosting “Another World Lies Beyond: Chinese Art and the Divine,” an exhibition of artworks that document China’s various views of the religious and supernatural spanning centuries. The exhibition runs through January… Continue Reading
Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 3:30 PM – 5 PM, Star Sapphire Lodge – OTO will be hosting “The Magical Legacy of Phyllis Seckler,” a lecture by Sister Catherine Berry on Phyllis Seckler. It’ll take place at 3212 Honolulu Ave, La Crescenta-Montrose… Continue Reading
Next month sees the publication in paperback of Michael Crowley’s Secret Drugs of Buddhism. Amazon’s description of this book states: Secret Drugs of Buddhism is the first book to explore the historical evidence for the use of entheogenic plants within… Continue Reading
Richard Kaczynski made this announcement on FB: Kamuret Press will be releasing an extensively annotated edition of Aleister Crowley’s first talismanic book, his remarkable “The Sword of Song,” edited and introduced by yours truly. This collection of poetry, essays, satire,… Continue Reading
ThelemaCon is a Symposium on Thelemic Magick and Mysticism being held October 11-13 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Registration, hotel information, and more details may be found on the event’s website: http://thelemacon.org. The event’s FB page says: “ThelemaCon is a privately organized event,… Continue Reading
This past weekend, members of Golden Thread Camp, O.T.O. hosted a Ritual Retreat Weekend in Windber, PA, birthplace of seminal Rock ‘N’ Roll DJ Alan Freed. Participants stayed at the Grand Midway Hotel, a former brothel turned hotel and presentations… Continue Reading
UK publishing house Fulgur has announced its publication of Black Mirror 2 – elsewhere, the third in a series that examines the influence of the occult upon art practice, past and present. It was edited by Judith Noble, Jesse Bransford, Dominic Shepherd… Continue Reading