Frater Hieros Phoenix, FSR Japan. reports: Instituta Mysterii, the Second Western Mystery Symposium will be held in November 19 at Tokyo Metropolitan. Five lecturers are practitioners of Magick & Western Mystery in Japan who’ve been studying them for over 20… Continue Reading
The New Yorker published a lengthy piece and thoughtful piece by Ariel Levy regarding the hallucenogenic brew ayahuasca. The article delves into the history and neurochemistry of this mixture of chacruna leaves (containing the psychedelics) and banisteriopsis caapi vine (which… Continue Reading
The BBC reports that exposing men to bright light can improve their sexual satisfaction – with the Sun being the most powerful source of natural light at our disposal this is an intriguing linking of the literal solar to the… Continue Reading
A new estimate of the global population of snow leopards—a rare big cat thought to prowl about 1.2 million square miles of remote, rugged mountain terrain across 12 Central Asian nations—would appear to be an uncommon bit of good news… Continue Reading
Earlier this Summer the New York Times Book Review ran a review of Sean Carroll’s The Big Picture that started by addressing a critique of the popular view of “reality” being those things we believe can can plainly see, hear,… Continue Reading
Saturn’s frozen moon Enceladus is a tantalizing world—many scientists are increasingly convinced it may be the best place in our solar system to search for life. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, currently orbiting Saturn, has made intriguing observations of icy jets spewing… Continue Reading
Our knowledge of Cretaceous plumage is limited by the fossil record itself: compression fossils surrounding skeletons lack the finest morphological details and seldom preserve visible traces of colour, while discoveries in amber have been disassociated from their source animals. Here… Continue Reading
Ceremonial magicians like reading about quantum mechanics, yes? Seems to map well on our own reality-grid, or at least well enough to seem to offer some scientific validation for some of our theories and practices. So here’s a new bit… Continue Reading
Trapart film is announcing the August 22 release of Change Itself – An Art Apart: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge by Carl Abrahamsson. Their site states: “A new film in the An Art Apart series has been finished: Change Itself – An Art Apart:… Continue Reading
The Speech in the Silence podcast has just posted a new episode, to wit: “This previously unreleased material features Lon DuQuette reciting his material from his NOTOCON X lecture entitled ’40 Years in the O.T.O.: Observations and commentaries on the… Continue Reading