(Originally posted at Gods & Radicals) PEOPLE THE WORLD over are trying to make sense of our time on Earth. The most knowledgeable among them seek to solve the mystery of time itself….
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I am beyond humbled and truly honored to host the legendary Jake Stratton-Kent! Author, advanced goetic magician and spirit conjuring badass, Jake is one of the world’s true thought leaders when it…
Above art by Rusty001 So you want to be a magician, eh? And you have stumbled onto the occult blogosphere hoping to find a simple explanation on how to do so only…
Originally posted on October 14, 2016 here. About a week ago, I had a dream that I was asked by a goddess who presented herself to me as a curvy, heavy set…
Originally posted on August 9, 2016 here. Jason Miller is a man who likely needs no introduction. Not only is he one of the more well known magicians today, he is one of…
Originally posted on August 8, 2016 here. For those of you who are not already familiar with Cat and his work, he is an established magician, author and noted Fortean journalist…
WHAT IF I TOLD YOU there was a wizard determining the foreign policy of a nation of 143 million people?
ONCE UPON A TIME, I wrote more fiction than anything else. Film noir and surreal horror combined in a genre I thought of as “gothic noir” although publishers describe it as urban fantasy.
Perhaps the fates had finally turned against humanity. What other explanation existed for a mercury retrograde coming right after the most batshit election the American people had ever suffered?
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…
“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…