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Review: John Dee’s Occultism, by Gyorgy E. Szonyi

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!John Dee’s Occultism: Magical Exaltation Through Powerful Signs, by Gyorgy Szonyi
State University of New York Press (SUNY), 0791462234, 362 pp. (incl. notes, bibliographies and index), 2004
In John Dee’s Occultism Szyoni argues that, contrary to popular sentiment, Dee’s interest in occultism [...]

Update: 2008 Sexiest Occultist Alive winner is dead

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

On Wednesday Plutonic.net nominated occulture’s darling Kara Rae Garland for the The Galloway Chronicles‘ 2008 Sexiest Occultist Alive competition.
Late yesterday, following several embarassing scandals amongst their top judges, the winners were announced. Not Kara.  (She’s fine.)

News: Harry Price Library of Magical Literature may be sold

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Based at the University of London, The Harry Price Library of Magical Literature is under threat due to budget cuts to the university’s grant for its specialist library.
John Fielden, who heads Chems, the consultancy carrying out the review, admits that selling off collections including Price’s is under consideration. Other options include splitting up the [...]

Review: A Science for the Soul, by Corinna Treitel

Friday, July 25th, 2008

A Science for the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of the German Modern, by Corinna Treitel
John Hopkins University Press, 0801878128, 366 pp. (incl. appendices, notes, bibliography and index), 2004
A Science for the Soul explores German occultism between the 1870s and 1940s, largely focusing on parapsychology, séances, mediumism, Theosophy and the spiritualist movement, their popularization, and [...]

Nomination for the 2008 Sexiest Occultist Alive (or dead)

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

The Galloway Chronicles, an occult blog which tags itself as an “occult resource of extremely limited appeal”, is running a (fairly informal, from what I can see) contest for the 2008 Sexiest Occultist Alive (or dead).
The contest, billed as “the most important beauty contest since the judgement of Paris”, is described as follows:
This annual contest, [...]

Thanks, and new plutoid

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Thanks again to those of you who responded to Friday’s post about Plutonica.net’s Amazon.com affiliation, your feedback and support is appreciated.
Readers, you may recall June’s announcement that Pluto had been reclassified from a “dwarf-planet” to a…”plutoid”, a status it shares with Eris, which gave rise to all this confusion in the first place.  (Really.)
A third…non-planet [...]

Plutonica.net’s Amazon.com affiliation

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Regular readers may have noticed that I have recently (in the past month or so) introduced Amazon.com affiliate links embedded in the site where specific books are referenced.
What’s up with that?
I’ve added the affiliate links because I feel they offer value to the site for several reasons.
To begin, the Internet is a largely visual [...]

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