Twilight, OTO, Thelema, Pagan historian, Pagan fool and real realities

Saturday Signal: sifting the signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony.

Wishing all of you a very merry long weekend! ¹

I’ve already gone sailing.

• Michelle Belanger launched a new website in August called the Twilight Path, named after her upcoming book Walking the Twilight Path: A Gothic Book of the Dead (Llewellyn, October 2008).  The co-host of the popular Shadowdance Podcast introduces a new podcast: Twilight Path Studies with Jackie Williams.  The first six podcasts have already been released.

• Plutonica.net posted² Mogg Morgan’s take on the British OTO trademark case in July.³ Read more in the post titled “OTO Matters” which reprints the original with more detail and follow up his blog Mandrake.

• John Crow writes about what being a Thelemite means to him in “The Sacred and the Profane” published in his blog Treasure House of Pearls.

• The British historian and author of The Triumph of the Moon Ronald Hutton was interviewed by Gary Lachman for the Independant.co.uk.  In “Ronald Hutton – Wicca and other invented traditions“, Hutton talks about his latest book, The Druids, released earlier this year in May.  Had I known it would have been on my reading list earlier.

• Jason Pitzl-Waters writes about “High Priest of British White Witches” Kevin Carlyon. In “Living God in a Red Bathrobe” posted on The Wild Hunt, Pitzl-Waters give a comic account of Carlyon’s spectacular antics, such as “exorcising” the spirit of Aleister Crowley.  Really.

• In “Is That a Real Reality, or Did You Make It Up Yourself?” published in Reality Sandwich, Steven Taylor explores themes such as “Is art merely illustrative of cultural conditions, or does it play a role in motivating cultural shift? ” through music and language.

Reality Sandwich is a great webzine which attracts and publishes many talented writers on a variety of alternative subjects.  Five weeks running they’ve been included in Saturday Signal – I highly encourage you to subscribe to their RSS feed if you haven’t yet.  (While you’re at it, subscribe to ours!) ⁴

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Footnotes:

1. Unless you don’t have one this weekend in your country.  In which case I wish you a spectacular weekend to make up for it not being as long. [back]
2. With permission. [back]
3. See “News: One take on the OTO UK trademark case“. [back]
4. See “What is RSS?” if that’s your question. [back]

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