Djinn, Crowley books, calendars and sex with ghosts
By Psyche | January 30, 2010
Saturday Signal: Signal: sifting the signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony.
Our Esoteric Book Club officially starts on Monday, but the conversation’s already started, and people have to begun introduce themselves, come join us!
If you missed our earlier announcement, the first pick is Quantum Psychology, by Robert Anton Wilson.
Great stuff.
Now, on with our usual linkage:
- The wonderful blog Gyllene Gryningen has a great post titled “Genie or Genius?” which delves into the history and mythology of the djinn, also discussing possible elemental correspondences. Very nifty.
- Someone’s started a fan page on Facebook for people interested in Buying Crowley Books. They’ve even got a Twitter account (@crowleybooks) now. Via these methods they share info about good places to buy Crowley’s works as so much of it has gone out of print. As of this writing the Facebook page has nearly 700 fans.
- John Griogair Bell points out deficiencies in the Thelemic calendar and recommends some improvements in “Heliocentricity“.
Noise?
- In Letters from Hardscrabble Creek, Chas Clifton1 wrote a bit about a website he came across which focused on “Having Sex With Ghosts“. Gina “Gnothz” Lanier (what’s a “gnothz”?) is a self-described paranormal investigator who wants to hear about your intimidate relations with the dead. They’re not even funny. One woman complains about obscene phone calls from the dead. It’s just sad. For the voyeuristic with no sense of web design, here’s Real Sex with Ghosts. Oh dear.
Got a cool link? Please share it in the comments, or if you use delicious, tag it “plutonica” and we’ll take a look. Thanks!
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Footnotes:
- Though I must disagree, most of the people who’ve approached me with this “problem” have been men. Ok. The only two people who’ve contacted/spoken with me about it have been men. [back]
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Hello Psyche,
I have to speak up and say that “sex with ghosts” (or rather, with spirits) is far more common than you might think. I haven’t checked out the main site yet, but the crazy people element is actually the more vocal minority. In my practiced and studied opinion, that is. You might be interested in my blog here.
Nice to see you. I’ve added this site to my feed reader. Take care.
- Sheta
While I realize that there are cases where this doesn’t seem creepy and disturbed, Gina “Gnothz” Lanier’s site is not among them.
I have had people (two, actually) contact me privately with what to do about this sort of situation. As the advances were unwelcome I offered what suggestions I could, but Lanthier seems to enjoy sensationalizing what is already rather sensational, and inviting people to write to her with their problems so she can further her tacky website is really not helpful to anyone involved.
Yeah, taking a look at it, it’s your average, poorly done, blinding bold text website. Ick.
And if English is her native language, I’d be surprised.
Did you know the sidebar cuts off the comment box and makes it impossible to see the right side? Maybe you should adjust the size of the text box. :)
Thanks, I think I’ve fixed the comment box size issue now!