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« Previous EntriesPlutonica.net’s half-birthday
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Plutonica.net was started six months ago on October 31st, 2007, the first post being “Introduction, Then: Genes, Memes and Why Contraception is Natural“, followed by “More on Doing It Naturally” and “Humans Are Natural Creatures“. I’d like to take [...]
News: 17th century withcraft ritual remains uncovered
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Archaeologists have recently uncovered evidence of 17th century rituals involving swans and other birds in the Cornish valley near Truro. Thirty-five pits have been excavated since 2003, containing swan pelts, dead magpies, unhatched eggs, quartz pebbles, human hair and part of an iron cauldron.
The finds have been dated to the 1640s, a period [...]
Perdurabo film
Monday, April 28th, 2008While we’re on the subject of films featuring Aleister Crowley, ((See “New movie about Aleister Crowley opens May 2008” and “Chemical Wedding book to coincide with film“.) I thought I’d mention a trailer I recently stumbled across for Perdurabo, a short 40 minute film which will form the first part of a feature-length movie.
The film [...]
Magick, myth and change
Saturday, April 26th, 2008Continuing on from yesterday’s post, Deo challenges the models of magick, and the very value of magick itself:
[...] I believe there is a single kind of argument that can target all of the models. It works like this (and this is basically just a more careful exegesis of the thought process underlying my sloppy essay, [...]
Magick and meaning
Friday, April 25th, 2008In reply to What do we mean by “magick”?, Deo asks a number of important questions:
I’m interested in the question: Is there such a thing (ontologically/metaphysically) as magic? The magical models perspective allows us to assume that there is, and it then outlines ways to conceptualize the methods and effects of various systems/ritual styles. With [...]
Feedback on definitions of magick and what we mean
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Last week we looked at definitions of magick and saw that most of them fail to pin down what’s meant.
There was a lot of great feedback in the comments section. Some of them are too detailed to post, but I’d like to highlight a few responses, and do encourage you to check out the rest.
Nysidra [...]
Chemical Wedding book to coincide with film
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Last week I posted about the release of Chemical Wedding, a new movie about Aleister Crowley that will hit theatres May 23rd, following the May 4th premiere at Sci-Fi London (tickets are available at Apollo Cinemas).
Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden front man and writer for the film, and director Julian Doyle will be self-publishing a tie-in [...]