Many people would agree that they have had a spiritual experience at least once in their lifetime while listening to music. For most of us we will listen to our favorite songs…
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“Pick up your cot and walk”—Christianity is basically magic. The gospel of Mark, widely regarded as the earliest of the gospels, records this remarkable account of a miraculous healing: And when…
“Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished.
In 2014, we marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. To those who were born later, it is hard to convey how earth-shattering this was. The fall of “the Wall” was one of those events that profoundly changed my conception of the world.
It is impossible to discuss what is happening in our society without discussing technology. Technology is something that most people use, but don’t really know anything about.
when it comes to people stealing ideas, there is a strange ambiguity regarding how much an artist can take from another artist before it constitutes plagiarism.
After careful consideration I have come to the thoughtful conclusion that I am this century’s Hiram Bingham, in that I have discovered something that was never lost. Like Hiram’s trip to Machu…
Via Gods & Radicals: This essay by Jonathan Woolley is among the great works published in A Beautiful Resistance—Everything We Already Are, available in print or digital. Roy Cohn: What’s it like? After? Belize:…
Way back in the day, when I was in a touring rock band, we often dreamed of being picked up by a major label, having our financial woes taken care of and…
A great find by the Public Domain Review. (Honestly, everything they post is pretty much awesome.) via PDR: The Claris Inferni (“The Key of Hell”) by Cyprianus, is a late-18th-century book on…
From the website, So Bad So Good, and the book Magic: 1400s-1950s comes these awesome posters promoting magicians of the past. Harry Kellar, a predecessor of of Harry Houdini and a successor of Robert Heller, worked…
Disinfonauts! I’m proud to say the wait is over for The Hermit. Check out the short promo compiled from footage on the road here:
When journalist David Sheff began tenaciously pursuing all possible channels to reach out to John and Yoko in hopes that they would sit for a Playboy interview in 1980, he never would have imagined…
Via Midwest Real On his popular show, The Higherside Chats, Greg Carlwood has sat down for podcasts with dozens of researchers, authors, and experts on a whole host of conspiracy, paranormal, and fringe-soaked topics….
VODOUN, VODOU, CONJURE: THE ANIMISTIC ARTS OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA The Cavin-Morris Gallery in New York presents an exhibition of magic and spirit expressed in intense and powerful works of art from Africa, Haiti, Jamaica…
Bethany Lindsay at the Vancouver Sun: Can questions about something as fundamental as the existence of free will be answered with a simple magic trick? It may sound strange, but a new…
Let’s face it, there is a lot of bad music available these days. So it is very refreshing when you find a band that not only lays itself there but does so…
Disinfonauts! Have you ever gotten frustrated trying to explain a really big and important idea like gnosis? Well have no fear, because I’ve put this handy little two minute crash course out…
The Nature Spirits told me to share this with you. Notions of gods arise in all human societies, from all powerful and all-knowing deities to simple forest spirits. A recent method of…
The following is from the new book, THE QUEST FOR GNOSIS, available now. Some people come into your life who simply exude something so kind and generous, a glow of goodness, Maja…
The following is from the new book, THE QUEST FOR GNOSIS, available now. Peter J. Carroll is known as one of the founders of Chaos Magic, a modern interpretation of what magick…
The more I’ve rocketed my personal microverse to the outer fringes with various Occult exploration techniques, the more I’ve come to the conclusion that we’re spiritually retarded as a species. And let…
Let me just begin by stating that I was once one to subscribe to just about any belief system which claimed to have an esoteric model that could coincide with contemporary physical…
I explain not just what gnosis is, but also why it is an important bridge between every single human. It’s a term that can appropriate and blend concepts from virtually any wisdom…
In an attempt to not sound absolutely crazy to anyone who might see me mention magick, I’d like to bring some illumination of what magick is. This may prove to be a…