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« Previous EntriesNews: Meditation affects the brain
Monday, March 31st, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Meditation can mean a variety of things, from Buddhist meditation to contemplation to ambiguous “deep thought”, and scientists are taking another look at what’s involved from a physical and psychological perspective.
Dr Richard Davidson in Madison, Wisconsin has been carrying out [...]
Steampunk, Datamancer.net and Enochian keyboards
Sunday, March 30th, 2008I have a confession to make: I have a huge crush on the whole steampunk subculture.
The aesthetic of steampunk harkens back to an era where steam power was still widely used, and often adopts a pseudo-Victorian look. Inspiration is taken from H.G. Wells, Jules Verne and fantastical technological inventions, sometimes set in an alternate-history.
I [...]
Plutonica.net upgrades and updates
Saturday, March 29th, 2008Over the past two days I’ve been making changes to Plutonica.net.
I’ve updated Plutonica.net’s look and feel a bit, with a new background, a less dense header image, and fixed the page and entry formatting problems some IE users were experiencing. (If anyone’s still experiencing problems, please let me know.)
To combat spam and linkbaiting I’ve changed [...]
Enchanted by Baudelaire, and the Gamemaster
Thursday, March 27th, 2008I’ve only recently started reading Baudelaire; I finished Twenty Prose Poems yesterday. Despite taking French from kindergarten through to OAC, it’s hardly surprising that the few trips I’ve taken to Quebec to exercise the tongue have not been sufficient to maintain bilingualism: I found the French quite challenging.
It’s strange, after so many years absent from [...]
Review: Aleister Crowley and the 20th Century Synthesis of Magick, by Dave Evans
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Aleister Crowley and the 20th Century Synthesis of Magick: Strange distant gods that are not dead today, by Dave Evans
Hidden Publishing, 9780955523724, 108 pp., incl. appendices
Aleister Crowley and the 20th Century Synthesis of Magick is based on Evans’ master’s thesis from Exeter University and represents the second, revised edition (the first being an e-book published [...]
Top 5 Foundational Books on Tarot
Monday, March 24th, 2008There are some books that are required reading for the serious student, and this list represents my top five foundational books on tarot - books that will provide a solid historical, symbolic and esoteric foundation for any student.
1. Dogme et rituel de la haute magie (available in English as Transcendental Magic), by Éliphas Lévi (Alphonse-Louis [...]
Original sketches by Austin Osman Spare for sale by Fulgur
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008In December I posted about the Austin Osman Spare artwork sold by Fulgur Limited. New sketches have been released from the collection of Ernest Chapman, collector and friend of Spare.
The sketches date from between 1953-1955, and include “a series of pencil drawings in the sabbatic theme that include images of metamorphosis and pan-sexual tension now [...]