With Deborah Castellano releasing her new book, Glamour Magick, I thought it would be a good time to post a conversation she and I had a while back. It was supposed to be an interview, but she’s so charming, it… Continue Reading
The Love Witch is a new independent film coming to your local art house cinema this month. The film’s website gives this synopsis: “Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic… Continue Reading
As we close in on Samhain, the BBC ran a curious report on testing undertaken in the 1960’s by parapsychologist AD Cornell, he termed “Experimental Apparitions.” Essentially, he tried to contrive the appearance of spirit hauntings in order to observe… Continue Reading
Yes, this day in history was a BAD one for Gnostic Saints! Karl Germer died of prostate cancer this day in 1962 in Westpoint, CA at age 77. He had been an avid student of The Master Therion who was arrested… Continue Reading
The New Republic reports that Jack Chick, publisher of the infamous Literalist Christian propaganda booklets aka tracts has passed to his everlasting reward. I don’t think there’s an occultist or free thinker in America that didn’t get a chuckle from… Continue Reading
Registration is open for NOTOCON XI in Orlando which will be held in the Valley of Orlando, Florida, on the weekend of August 11, 12 and 13, 2017e.v.! Please visit the website at http://xi.notocon.org/ to find out about the conference, to register, and… Continue Reading
Three Hands Press has announced the upcoming publication of The Green Mysteries A R C A N A V I R I D I A An Occult Herbarium, or ‘Granary of the Fauns’ by Daniel A. Schulke with ILLUSTRATIONS BY… Continue Reading
The BBC recently posted a story about a recent study analyzing statistics about life expectancy that indicates that the upper limit of the human life span might be around 115 even given ongoing improvements in health care, etc. In part… Continue Reading
In centuries past, the functions of physician, botanist, chemist and spiritual advisor were often carried out the same person in any given locale. While this fell out of fashion during the Renaissance the New York Times Magazine ran an article… Continue Reading
90 years ago, escapist artist/illusionist extraordinaire appeared before Congress promoting a bill that would make fortune telling illegal in D.C. , in keeping with his fervent dismissal of superstition. As noted in a previous post about an unfinished collaboration with… Continue Reading