Want a child-friendly way to introduce your little one to the traditions of the Old Cult? Meet little Cthulhu, who lives in the magic city of R’lyeh with all his friends, as you and your child embark on a fun and educational journey through the world of the Great Old Ones, meeting all kinds of new buddies from the Necronomicon along the way, from Azathoth to Yog-Sothoth! This series has won multiple awards and has been enthusiastically approved by the department of child-developmental psychology at Miskatonic University.
Choice quote:
Lil Cthulu goes to Egypt to see Lil Nyarlathop. He’s called the Crawling Chaos ’cause he can’t walk yet.
Saturday Signal: sifting the signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony.
With all the news I post about space, how ’bout our home planet? No, not Pluto this time: Earth. Apparently it’s missing two billion years. Kind of. Well, we are anyway, in that we have no idea what happened for that span of time. Theories abound.
In her blog Know Thyself, T. Thorn Coyle reminds us that commitment and consistency are important in any practice, whether mundane or spiritual, in “Let’s Get Engaged“. You really do earn points just for showing up.
Charlie Jane Anders asks, “Could self-aware cities be the first forms of artificial intelligence?” on io9. To which we respond, “the first” might be a stretch (servitors, anyone? or egregores, gods, etc?), but that cities can and do become sentient certainly seems reasonable. Let’s just keep an eye out for Skynet, ok?
Sannion (H. Jeremiah Lewis) writes in The House of Vines, “Speaking about the unspeakable“, that the old mysteries are dead, and that’s ok. We can’t reconstruct the past as it was, and that’s fine. Learning what was is great, but it’s not where we are now. Live life. Great stuff.
I had tons more links to share, but time intervened, so next week’s Signal will likely be double-sized. You’re welcome.
As always, if you come across anything nifty, please share it in the comments, or if you use delicious tag it “plutonica” and we’ll take a look. Thanks!
Of course, you must have something to drink it in, and for that purpose Leavitt and Kraft have crafted the Aleister Crowley Toby Mug. Inscribed with “93″ on the handle, it will only set you back 700$US.
The perfect set for the wickedest tea in the world. (Crumpets sold separately.)
The book will contain an introduction by Robert Ansell, a cartographic study by Gavin Semple, a biographical essay by Geraldine Beskin, essays by curators Christopher Jordan and Stephen Pochin, and detailed commentaries on the works in the collection by Dr William Wallace.
Sales of this publication will help to fund the exhibition. The deluxe edition will feature a Patron list. A list of those who purchased this volume and who therefore have directly supported the exhibition. Of course, if you so wish, you can purchase the deluxe without appearing on the Patron List.
There is an extra benefit attached to the purchase of this edition. You will be eligible to attend a special patrons-only private view of the exhibition. The date of this exclusive event will be disclosed to purchasers once orders have been processed.
However copies are not cheap. The deluxe edition is limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the authors can be purchased at £160. The standard edition is limited to 900 numbered copies and goes for £60 – or £74 including shipping to Canada. (Yikes!) Both copies will contain the DVD documentary The Bones Go Last.
Saturday Signal: sifting the signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony.
i09 is a fun blog – their tagline is “We come from the future”, which seems to mean they’ll cover anything science, sci-fi, and other geek stuff of that ilk.
With that, here’s your occultural linkage for this week.
Jack Faust has a new blog, still called Dionysian Atavism but now located on its own shiny domain at eldritchinfluence.net. He writes well and with a depth and breadth that’s unusual in occultural blogging. See “The Tradition of Secrecy” for a recent gem.
Christina‘s piece on Enfolding.org titled “Letter to a Young Gay Man on Celebrating Beltane” is excellent. She writes, “Maybe you, like me, have no call to create an internal heterosexual nuclear family with wedding bells, bride and groom” and then sets the record straight: “Beltane is and was the joy of desire of the body fulfilled in sex.” Hear, hear.
Ryan Hurd writes about “Lucid Dreaming as Shamanic Consciousness” for Reality Sandwich. Using films such as Avatar and Inception as a launching point, he discusses our desire to become “Conquistadors of Consciousness”, and what that looks like in different cultures, on drugs, and what it all means.
Johnny Rapture suggests a re-purposing of public space in “Public Statues, Pagan Shrines“, on his blog The Great Tininess offering specific suggestions with some great pictures. Sounds like an excellent idea.
Mark Vernon, on the Guardian.co.uk, discusses the new etchings on display at Tate Britain in “William Blake’s picture of God“. A fascinating portrait of Blake’s thoughts on gods and religion.
As always, if you come across anything nifty, please share it in the comments, or if you use delicious tag it “plutonica” and we’ll take a look. Thanks!
(amongst others), now blogs! 
