The Lore and Lure of Aleister Crowley: A Dialog

Nearly six decades since his passing, the famed occultist Aleister Crowley continues to fascinate. Reality Sandwich invited Gary Lachman and Tobias Churton, whose respective Crowley biographies were released this year, to discuss Crowley’s relevance today.

Led Zeppelin’s Dance with the Occult

Led Zeppelin perfectly encapsulates the power of the occult imagination, how it continues to see expression, and how it was able to completely propel rock and roll into electrifying new directions.

The Beat Godfather, The Great Beast, & the Necronomicon

Ever since his youth William Burroughs had been intrigued by magic and the occult, reading the Egyptian and Tibetan Books of the Dead and Eliphas Levi’s History of Magic while he was at Harvard. Evidently, with his return from the Old World to the New, he had not left such interests behind.

Aleister Crowley and esoteric art open window to the sacred

“Art and Design Influenced by symbolism and expressionism: Aleister Crowley. Artists are renowned for leading debauched lives but few were as outrageous as the English occultist Aleister Crowley, described by one Sunday newspaper as “the wickedest man in the world.”