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Monday, July 14th, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Plutonica.net guest blogger Brendan Cathbad Myers, author of six books to date, has a new book coming out July 25th, 2008 from O-Books. Its full title is: The Other Side of Virtue: Where Our Virtues Come From, What They [...]
Anarchy and information
Friday, July 4th, 2008I first came across Siva Vaidhyanathan’s excellent and wonderfully lucid book, The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System, via Wes Unruh’s recommendation on Alterati.com.
It looks at the way we interact with information with a focus on ownership and distribution, arguing that [...]
Two new books from Teitan Press by Jack Parsons and Frederick Hockley
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008While John Whiteside Parsons is best remembered by mainstream science as the inventor of the solid fuel that helped make space travel possible, occultists know Jack Parsons as a devoted Thelemite, chosen by Aleister Crowley in the early forties to lead Agape Lodge, an Ordo Templi Orientis lodge in California.
Parsons’ Freedom Is a Two Edged [...]
Magical correspondences and social values
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Dr Brendan Cathbad Myers is the author of several books on radical Paganism and Druidry, his latest, The Other Side of Virtue: Where Our Virtues Come From, What They Really Mean, and Where They Might Be Taking Us, will be published by O Books in July 2008.
A spiritual path is, among other things, a way [...]
Q&A: Books of correspondence recommendations
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008This question came to me yesterday from Richard Phantastica of Phantastica Bricolage:
I was wondering about a general magical ref text… specific emphasis on symbolism (alchemical, hermetic, qabbalistic etc etc)
Any recommendations?
I was looking at The Complete Magician’s Tables by Stephen Skinner… & The Magician’s Companion: A Practical and Encyclopedic Guide to Magical and Religious Symbolism by [...]
News: Transcendental meditation for school kids
Saturday, June 7th, 2008“Now when people mess with me I don’t hit them,” explains Talford. “I sit down and try to meditate.”
- Newsweek.com, “Can meditation help at-risk kids?“
Devout Baptist George Rutherford spent 20 years as principal of one of the toughest middle schools in Washington, D.C. stumbled onto transcendental meditation.
Film review: Chemical Wedding (contains spoilers)
Saturday, May 31st, 2008Dave, a British academic and magician, is the co-founding editor of JSM - The Journal for the Academic Study of Magic and is author of The History of British Magic After Crowley (Hidden Publishing, 2007) and several other books.
I’m just back from the late-night regional premiere of the new Crowley-based film, Chemical Wedding, here in [...]
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