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Friday, July 4th, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I 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 [...]
News: One take on the OTO UK trademark case
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Mogg Morgan, of the occult publishing house Mandrake of Oxford, has generously allowed me to reprint his take on this case which originally appeared in issue no. 214 of the publisher’s online newsletter, Mandrake Speaks.
It’s not fair!
Friday, June 27th, 2008The Globe and Mail recently ran an article in their Life section titled “How to set an unfair rule (yes, it’s acceptable)” about perceived double standards, a sentiment I encounter quite a bit among friends, co-workers and human beings in general.
The article, written by clinical psychologist Anthony Wolf, looks at the rules set for
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.