Today is the birthday of the Prophet of the Lovely Star, Aleister Crowley. He was born in 1875, also the date of the inauguration of the Theosophical Society, which he viewed as a portentous coincidence. On the U.S. Grand Lodge… Continue Reading
Friday and Saturday (10.21/10.22) at the @whitneymuseum, acclaimed musician/composer John Zorn and his ensemble will be scoring a selection of Gnostic Saint Harry Everett Smith’s experimental animated works. “Both Zorn and Smith are polymathic artists who have made an indelible… Continue Reading
October 26, Brill Publishing releases Enchanted Pedagogies: Archetypes, Magic and Knowledge, edited by Kari Adelaide Razdow. Contributors include Alessandro Keegan, Pam Grosman, Kay Turner, Janaka Stucky, Ruth Lingford among others. The posted descriptions says: “Pedagogies of magic have their own… Continue Reading
DistortedSound.com just ran a review of the latest from Aiwass, an occult-oriented act helmed by Blke Carrera. The review sez: Hailing from the eccentric and diverse city of Austin, Texas, and created by multi-instrumentalist Blake Carrera, AIWASS is a one man, occult-inspired psychedelic… Continue Reading
Yesterday, the second largest Hindu temple in the world opened in Robbinsville, NJ, near Trenton. The official press release says: On October 8, 2023, the BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham in Robbinsville, New Jersey, was inaugurated by His Holiness Mahant Swami Maharaj,… Continue Reading
Symposium Khthonia will be held November 10-12 this year at The Crooked Path, 2020 West Magnolia Boulevard, Burbank, CA 91506. The posted description says: Our annual Symposium has moved to Los Angeles and has also moved to November. We’ll be… Continue Reading
The Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology reports that the Israeli Antiquities Authority has excavated the tomb of a young woman, who they speculate was an elite courtesan or “hetairai.” Some excerpts read: “Excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority near… Continue Reading
Here’s a tasty morsel from Alejandro Jodorowsky, describing encounters with the great author, Surrealist artist and mage Leonora Carrington, excerpted from The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky ‘If the outside of the house was like a prison, the inside was… Continue Reading
David Hertzberg’s opera based on The Prophet of the Lovely Star’s poem, “The Wake World” is now available for streaming. “The Wake World is a hallucinatory choral fantasy by Los Angeles-based composer David Hertzberg. Scored for five instruments and nine… Continue Reading
The fifth Occult Humanities Conference is a weekend conference to be held at 34 Stuyvesant St. New York, NY on October 13-15, 2023. The conference will present a wide array of voices active in the cultural landscape who are specifically… Continue Reading