GEEZ I’m behind on my reading! Here’s a book review in the New York Times Book Review from LAST Summer that just turned up in my reading stack. As ye should know, Aleister Crowley considered himself a staunch Buddhist for… Continue Reading
Laurie Anderson’s record label has posted a track “Listen Without Distraction” from her upcoming album release Songs From The Bardo on Smithsonian Folkways done in collaboration with Tenzin Choegyal and Jesse Paris Smith. The first track is a series of… Continue Reading
Tomorrow, October 16, is the feast of Dame Ida Craddock. Born in Philadelphia on August 1, 1857, she was inducted into the Order of the Eagle by O.T.O. USA in April 1999 EV. Ida Craddock wrote about sex and sexuality in a… Continue Reading
Pot.TV recently posted a video interview with Richard Kaczynski discussing the role of drugs in Aleister Crowley’s work. “Host Chris Bennett talks to Dr. Richard Kaczynski, author of Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley; Panic in Detroit: The Magician and the… Continue Reading
Here’s a tidbit from Jason Miller’s Magick Monday newsletter: “The psychological Model of Magic held sway for a LONG time. Anything that was not visible and or verifiable by physical experiment belonged to the mind, and so, people thought did… Continue Reading
The world’s largest Ouija board, weighing 4.5 tons and measuring 15.5 feet in length, debuted Friday, October 11, 2019 in Salem, Massachusetts, home of Knights Templar Oasis, O.T.O. According to The Boston Globe, “…the fully-functional board was created by New… Continue Reading
The BBC recently posted a capsule overview of the actual history of the Illuminati… an organization that Ordo Templi Orientis is not the visible organ of. https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p07q0jd2/what-is-the-fascination-with-the-illuminati-conspiracy.
The Grandmaster Sabazius posted: “Crowleymas greetings! While it is not an official holiday on the Thelemic Calendar, today marks the 144th anniversary of the birth of Aleister Crowley, often referred to as “Crowleymas.” Edward Alexander Crowley was born on this… Continue Reading
New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently hosting “Another World Lies Beyond: Chinese Art and the Divine,” an exhibition of artworks that document China’s various views of the religious and supernatural spanning centuries. The exhibition runs through January… Continue Reading
Tomorrow is Crowleymas, the official unofficial celebration of Aleister Crowley’s birthday. Born 144 years ago today to a wealthy Plymouth Brethren family in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, Edward Alexander Crowley is known to some as the “wickedest man in the… Continue Reading