The New York Times Book review ran a review on Susan Wels’ An Assassin in Utopia , an examination of the background of Charles Guiteau, who’d go on to assassinate President James Garfield. Guiteau’s backstory includes significant involvement in the… Continue Reading
Smithsonian Magazine ran an article about the “The Gods Return” exhibit, running till July 25 and then again from September 2 to October 29 at the Quirinal Palace in Rome. The exhibit features statures found buried in the mud at… Continue Reading
Making the Ordinary Extraordinary My Seven Years in Occult Los Angeles with Manly Palmer Hall by Tamra Lucid was published two years ago, but this is the first I’m hearing of it and it seemed like it’s pique the interest… Continue Reading
Graham Bond was a seminal British Jazz/Rock band leader who’s ensembles included the likes of John McLaughlin, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Dick Heckstall-Smith and others who’d go on to be important names in the the 60’s Rock Scene. He was… Continue Reading
The Geiger Museum opened in 1998 in the medieval Château Saint-Germain in the 400-year-old walled city of Gruyere; As permanent home to many of the major works of Hans Ruedi Giger, the museum houses the largest and most impressive collection… Continue Reading
The Art: A Grimoire of Traditional Witchcraft is a recently published book by Kerry Wisner. The posted description says: Witchcraft and magic have been with humanity from our beginning. Beyond all that we as a species are, these have remained… Continue Reading
In memory of Phyllis Evelina Seckler, also known as Soror Meral. Born on this date in 1917, in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Soror Meral took her Minerval initiation into the O.T.O. on the 26th… Continue Reading
Here’s an interesting article that is CHOCK FULL OF links to articles, books and podcasts addressing the question: “Have you said to someone that the Guru / Disciple relationship is an asymmetrical power relationship, like those in BDSM?” https://www.tantricsorcery.com/post/kinky-buddhism
Miskatonic Books announced yesterday that lead book guru Larry Roberts and partner-in-crime Jack Grayle, of Hekataeon fame, will be starting a new publishing company called Araxes Press and their first publication is already at the printers. They have started with an… Continue Reading
Y’all might note that we are devoted antiquarians, so yr probably not surprised that we got unduly excited about the news that the remains of the quasi-mythical Viking settlement Jomburg may have been discovered in Poland. One account begins: “Start… Continue Reading