Vanity Fair just ran a feature on Netflix’s occult-themed series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ production designer Lisa Soper who is, in fact, a practicing Pagan. The article starts: “Like Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka), the protagonist of Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, production… Continue Reading
AL Monitor (gotta love that name!) recently ran a story on a Jerusalem-based artist, Eitam Tubul who has been creating and posting amulets for protection for common modern day problems. I do love the way one is able to activate… Continue Reading
Princeton professor Elaine Pagels, best known for her surprisingly popular works on Gnosticism such as 1979’s The Gnostic Gospels, has a new book coming out Why Religion? Publisher’s Weekly posts this description: “In this beautiful memoir, Pagels (The Gnostic Gospels),… Continue Reading
Tomorrow (October 31) is the Feast of the Dragon, which can be celebrated with a ritual including three officers: the Magister Templi, the Virgin, and the Bull. Of course it’s also Halloween, a holiday traditionally celebrated with treats. For these… Continue Reading
In honor of All Hallows Evening, Samhain or whatever celebration of the this time you prefer I’m passing along a ritual sent out by veteran sorcerer Jason Miller. “Attached you will find the Hekate Global Rite. We as a community do… Continue Reading
Brother Dionysisus Rogers has just published a new book: Mysteries of the Great Beast Aleister Crowley: A Liturgical Cycle for Thelemites. The Amazon description states: “These Mysteries are a set of congregational rituals commemorating the attainments of Aleister Crowley, the… Continue Reading
Just released last week by Amazon Prime Video: “Jack Parsons: The Devil and the Divine,” episode 6 in the “Lore” docudrama series. Imdb says: “In 1922 only one person, Jack Parsons, believed that we could send a rocket into space… Continue Reading
Today, October 25, is the Feast of Doctor Gérard Encausse, and of Sir Karl Johannes Germer, both Gnostic Saints. According to the Invisible Basilica website, “Gérard Encausse, usually known by his pseudonym ‘Papus,’ was a Spanish-born French physician, hypnotist, and popularizer of… Continue Reading
This Summer, the New Yorker ran an article about the neuroscience of pain, detailing the experience, mechanics, methods of relief and so on associated with pain. An unsual sidelight was examining the fact that religious people can have a different… Continue Reading
Noted Occult author Erik Davis interviewed noted occult author Richrad Kaczynski for the former’s Expanding Mind podcast. Davis states: “Occultist and Aleister Crowley biographer Richard Kaczynski talks about Jack Parsons, the ‘method of science,’ the Agape Lodge, the women of Thelema, and… Continue Reading