The BBC posted a thought provoking look at what differentiates living and non-living presences. Their propositions might surprise you. Then again if you engage in the Buddhist mediations where you try and experience being an intelligence housed in rock, or… Continue Reading
Astrobiology.com says recent findings show that life may have arisen on this planet on two separate occasions. A recently posted news story says: “Conditions suitable to support complex life may have developed in Earth’s oceans — and then faded —… Continue Reading
71 years ago today, having completed a series of rituals he referred to as the “Babalon Working” to summon an Elemental to be his magical partner, rocket scientist and Thelemite Jack Parsons came home to find Marjorie Cameron waiting for him… Continue Reading
The International Business Times reports on recent breakthroughs in achieving quantum teleportation. Pertinent to our, ahem, interests is the scientific basis for this: “…quantum teleportation relies on ‘entanglement’ — a weird and counter-intuitive phenomenon once famously derided as ‘spooky action… Continue Reading
On this day in 1671, Isaac Newton was elected a member of England’s Royal Society, of which he became president some 32 years later. While he’s come to be considered one of the fathers or at least popularizers of a… Continue Reading
One of the more famed attractions of Philadlephia, PA – among those of a, ahem, “certain disposition” is the Mutter Museum. This was established as a medical research facilty WAY back in the day and thus if filled with skulls… Continue Reading
We’ve been posting academic papers about BDSM generating altered states of consciousness – creating and properly using such conscious being an invaluable tool for ceremonial magicians. The decisively populist publication the Daily Mail has run a piece on the subject… Continue Reading
The BBC recently posted a story questioning the supposed differences between the mental abilities of homo sapiens and other members of the animal kingdom including emotions like empathy and suggesting that the hard and fast line Western society has embraced… Continue Reading
Atlas Obscura posted a thought-provoking piece on the Catholic Church’s use of scientic to observe and understand the cosmos as part of peity – for 6 centuries before its condemnation of Galileo. In fact some churches were designed as solar… Continue Reading
NOTOCON XI, the 11th Biennial National O.T.O. Conference will be held August 11-13, 2017 in Orlando, Florida, hosted by Hidden Spring Oasis, Swirling Star Lodge, and Serpent & Lion Camp. The list of presentations is now available: 11 KEYS TO… Continue Reading