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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Women of Power: The Woman As Magus, by Jaq D. Hawkins
CapallBann Publishing, 186163241X, (153 pp. including appendices, bibliography and index), 2006
“…most of the books on ceremonial magic continue to be written by men, despite significant numbers of female members existing [...]
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 [...]
Plutonica.net press and feedback
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Earlier today Michael Szul posted a review of Plutonica.net on his blog Key64.net. He had some really positive things to say; you can read the review here (and check out the rest of the site while you’re there).
A few months ago John Crow commented on Plutonica.net in his “Interesting Blogs Meme” on his blog [...]
Review: Practicing Conscious Living and Dying, by Annamaria Hemingway
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008Practicing Conscious Living and Dying: Stories of the Eternal Continuum of Consciousness, by Annamaria Hemingway
O Books, 9781846940774, 218 pp. (incl. bibliography and works cited), 2008
The book opens with an introduction to near death experiences, or NDEs, offering an overview of what happens, then follows with several stories recounted by individuals who’ve died and “come back”, [...]
Review: Tarot for the New Aeon, by P.C. Tarantino
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Tarot For The New Aeon: A Practical Guide to the Power and Wisdom of the Thoth Tarot, by P.C. Tarantino
Alternative Insights Publishing, 9780976618409, 402 pp. (incl. endnotes, appendices, and bibliography), 2007
In the introduction Tarantino describes the aim of the present book, noting that “While this book respects the original spirit of Crowley’s work, it has [...]
Review: Fallen Nation, by James Curcio
Saturday, April 5th, 2008Fallen Nation: Babylon Burning, by James Curcio
Mythos Media, 9781419672651, 271 pp., 2007
Fallen Nation, James Curcio’s second book, takes up where Join My Cult! left off. Agent 139 and Jesus are in a maximum security mental institution held as suspected terrorists after a restaurant was blown up in the previous novel. Agent 139 wryly comments:
“Bottom [...]
Review: Aleister Crowley and the 20th Century Synthesis of Magick, by Dave Evans
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Aleister Crowley and the 20th Century Synthesis of Magick: Strange distant gods that are not dead today, by Dave Evans
Hidden Publishing, 9780955523724, 108 pp., incl. appendices
Aleister Crowley and the 20th Century Synthesis of Magick is based on Evans’ master’s thesis from Exeter University and represents the second, revised edition (the first being an e-book published [...]