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Occult ‘zines as cultural artifacts

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In Treasure House of Pearls John Crow recently posted about the Theosophical journals he’s been going through in his research on Alan Bennett (interesting stuff, you should check it out). He commented on the “institutional memory” these journals leave [...]

British Secret Service and the occult

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Mike Howard of the Pagan magazine The Cauldron recently wrote an article for New Dawn on the British Secret Service and their employment of occult investigators titled “The British Occult Secret Service: The Untold Story“, available online.
In March I posted about the release of documents that MI5 used astrologers to cast horoscopes to predict Hitler’s [...]

I did not drink green beer last night

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

I’m Canadian, not Irish, but I did visit the pub last night with a group of friends, and while dying beer green seems absurd, I did drink (more than?) my fair share of Tanqueray, which comes in a green bottle. For those who keep score of this sort of thing, it probably counts for something.
I [...]

The premiere issue of Tarot World Magazine is out

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Upon discovering that there were no active print magazines dedicated to tarot Heidi Snelgrove decided to remedy the situation, and thus Tarot World Magazine was born. Volume I, Issue I was scheduled for release in January 2008, though I received my copy on Friday.
There are a number of regular columns such as the Business of [...]

Part III: Talking Time, An interview with Fenwick Kaidevis Rysen on the rise of Fotamecus

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Fenwick Kaidevis Rysen is a chaos magickian best known for his encyclopedic website Chaos Matrix and the creation Fotamecus, a sigil which evolved into a godform which manipulates the experience of time.
This interview was conducted on August 16th, 2006 for issue 4 of RazorSmile, a print-based chaos magick magazine. This is the third and [...]

Part II: Talking Time, An interview with Fenwick Kaidevis Rysen on the rise of Fotamecus

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Fenwick Kaidevis Rysen is a chaos magickian best known for his encyclopedic website Chaos Matrix and the creation Fotamecus, a sigil which evolved into a godform which manipulates the experience of time.
This interview was conducted on August 16th, 2006 for issue 4 of RazorSmile, a print-based chaos magick magazine. This is the second of a [...]

Part I: Talking Time, An interview with Fenwick Kaidevis Rysen on the rise of Fotamecus

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Fenwick Kaidevis Rysen is a chaos magickian best known for his encyclopedic website Chaos Matrix and the creation Fotamecus, a sigil which evolved into a godform which manipulates the experience of time.
This interview was conducted on August 16th, 2006 for issue 4 of RazorSmile, a print-based chaos magick magazine. This is the first of [...]