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Thelema Coast to Coast has just released its final podcast

Monday, December 31st, 2007

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!John Crow, host of the popular occult podcast Thelema Coast to Coast, chose the last day of 2007 to release its forty-fourth and final episode. New podcasts have been released sporadically in the past year, and with Crow’s move [...]

News: Catholic Pope orders bishops to set up “exorcism squads”

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

“Too many bishops are not taking this seriously and are not delegating their priests in the fight against the Devil. You have to hunt high and low for a properly trained exorcist.”
The Daily Mail, “Pope’s exorcist squads will wage war on Satan“
Concerned with a “rise of Satanism” and “an increased interest in the occult”, the [...]

News: Dead guy sends Christmas cards from heaven

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Chet Fitch died in October at the age of eighty-eight and yet thirty-four cards arrived for his friends and family written in his hand, with the return address as “Heaven”.
The greeting read:
I asked Big Guy if I could sneak back and send some cards. At first he said no; but at my insistence he finally [...]

The Tarot Connection podcast to be archived in January

Friday, December 28th, 2007

In the introduction to episode 66, Tarot Journaling with Amy Lamash, Tarot Connection’s host Leisa ReFalo announced that the archives of earlier podcasts will be taken down from the website in January due to bandwidth issues; a six month rolling archive will be maintained.
The Tarot Connection released its first episode in July 2006 and quickly [...]

News: Thieves steal holy man’s leg

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Police in southern India are hunting for two men who attacked a Hindu holy man, cut off his right leg and then made off with it.
BBC, “Thieves cut off man’s ‘holy leg’“

Earlier this month, eighty year-old Yanadi Kondaiah was lured to a deserted spot by two men with the promise of alcohol, for which he [...]

Agnostica Gift Giveaway

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Agnostica occurs on December 14th, though the “true celebration” happens on the Solstice, and in honour of this I’m doing a Agnostica Shrodinger’s Box gift giveaway.
For the uninitiated, Shrodinger’s Boxes are wrapped boxes of unknown contents which are never opened in honour of Schrodinger’s infamous thought experiment, initially conceived to point out the absurd strangeness [...]

Happy Solstice!

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Celebrate the Winter Solstice in Toronto!
The 19th annual Kensington Festival of Lights takes place today at 6 pm sharp at the corners of Augustus and Oxford in Kensington Market.  There will be puppeteers, fire-breathers, stilt-walkers, and a crazy parade of costumed characters marching through the narrow streets of the Kensington neighbourhood, their lit lanterns held [...]

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