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I did it

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

You’ve probably already subscribed to our RSS feed, followed us on Twitter, and joined our Facebook page. (You’re so Web 2.0!) But have you checked out our new Esoteric Book Club? First pick is Robert Anton Wilson’s Quantum Psychology. Participate here!Bought Crowley books that is.
An order came in today bearing a few of the books [...]

Chaotes then and now

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

It should hardly seem surprising that something called “chaos magick” is constantly in flux, both in terms of what gets classed as chaos magick, and in who it attracts.
I was first introduced to the subject by some English bloke on IRC in a random Wicca chatroom who later, through a series of unlikely circumstances, became [...]

Too busy for ghosts

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Hallowe’en’s but a few short weeks away, and it’s supposed to be the time of the dead, when “the veils are thinnest ‘tween worlds”. Yet, outside obvious fiction, when was the last time you heard of a young ghost?
Recently I reviewed Claude Lecouteux’s The Return of the Dead for SpiralNature.com. In it, the author  delves [...]

Words of the Magi

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Last week, Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford of The Baptist’s Head and Open Enlightenment were kind enough to answer several questions I put to them.  I have edited the questions for the sake of brevity and to make myself look less a twit.  Initially only Duncan was had agreed to participate in the interview, leading [...]

Meet the Baptists

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Following the crisis, I had to rein in the slack other parts of my life had taken.  I stepped away from the occult bookshelf and focused on integrating what I could back into a life I wanted to live.  At some point I found a website called The Baptist’s Head.
Two chaos magicians from Great Britain [...]

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