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.
Gary Lachman Explains the Western Occult Tradition
Join us November 17th at 8 PM EST on Reality Sandwich for a LIVE talk on the Contemporary Occult with Gary Lachman, Pam Grossman, Mitch Horowitz and our very own David Metcalfe!
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.
Halloween as Liminal Window Zone
The essential idea of Halloween is that it is liminal (between and betwixt), an opening between the world of the living and the world of the dead. It can also be a temporary autonomous zone where the imaginal prevails.
Musica Speculativa – Occult Roots in Sound and Vision (Part 1)
It is from the secret pages of the ‘Book of Nature’ that the original meaning of the ‘occult’ was first drawn. As lovely as one finds the careful curve of a daimonic sigil, the cunning craft of a cautiously cut wand, or the potent poesis evoked by a proper turn of mantric phrase, these are but aesthetic adornments lavished on deeper essential elements. Music remains one of the most powerful ways to return our attention to the secret root at the heart of occultism.
Magick Class with Jason Louv [The Duncan Trussell Family Hour]
Duncan Trussell sits down with Jason Louv, author of “Generation Hex” and creator of UltraCulture magazine. Together they talk about ecstatic peaks and terrifying troughs of the magickal paths.
Rewilding Witchcraft
Peter Grey, author of Apocalyptic Witchcraft, has made an impassioned plea in our age of ecological devastation to return to witchcraft’s wild roots.
Crowley on the Bowery
The following is excerpted from Aleister Crowley: Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World, published by Tarcher/Penguin. I first came across the name Aleister Crowley, the twentieth century’s most infamous magician and self-styled “Great Beast 666,” in 1975, when I was nineteen and playing in a rock and roll band in […]
Cinematic Time – Christ and Cthulhu [Expanding Mind]
Gnosticism, H.P. Lovecraft, and the labyrinth of Biblical interpretation: theologian and Lovecraft expert Robert M. Price discusses his new book Preaching Deconstruction.
The Georgia Guidestones Expedition – Exploring America’s Nuclear Dreamspace
Here in rural north Georgia these stones stand to recognize that nature will have its way – returning again to equilibrium when the dust settles on the memory of the global Cold War and the persistent threat of nuclear annihiliation.
