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The Orgasmic Mind: The Neurological Roots of Sexual Pleasure
Fascinating article in Scientific American:
Achieving orgasm, brain imaging studies show, involves more than heightened arousal. It requires a release of inhibitions engineered by shutdown of the brain’s center of vigilance in both sexes and a widespread neural power failure in females.
Inside the Church of Satan
Joshua P. Warren’s documentary about the Church of Satan is now online. Promising “more than 2 hours of exclusive, footage, taking you through secret chambers, deep within the world of Satanism.”, it costs $7.95 to view.
Inside the Church of Satan trailer
Occult Secret Service
New Dawn magazine has an excellent overview of occult links to the British Secret Service, including snippets about Dr. Dee, Sir Francis Dashwood (pictured right), and the Rudolph Hess plot. Fascinating reading for anyone interested in occult history.
Run Your Own Cult with Rev. Ivan Stang
High Epopt of Slack and Most Holy Emissary of “Bob” on Earth, the Rev. Ivan Stang of The Church of the SubGenius, is holding an online course on “Running Your Own Cult” courtesy of the lovely people at the Maybe Logic Academy.
Florida Substitute Teacher Fired For Wizardry
A teacher at Rushe Middle School in Land ‘O Lakes, Florida, has been fired after doing a conjuring trick where he made a toothpick disappear and reappear in front of students. He said he later got a call from the supervisor of teachers, saying he had been accused of wizardry.Jim Piculas stated:
“I get a call [...]
CESNUR conference proceedings online
The proceedings of the latest Center for Studies on New Religions conference, Twenty Years and More: Research into Minority Religions, New Religious Movements and ‘the New Spirituality, are now available online. Unfortunately the rather clumsily named “cyberproceedings” have been posted in a weird mish-mash of formats (including some in the nasty Microsoft .doc format instead [...]
Two women report ghost has been having sex with them
The following is a sample from the Federal Way police public information log:
At 4:02 p.m. April 10, two women went into the Federal Way police station claiming that over the past two years, a paranormal person has been placing sensors on their bodies and visiting them in their house at 28600 block of 25th Place [...]
Internet Dream Machine
Many years ago I built one of Brion Gysin’s dream machines using some card and an old record player. It worked extremely well. Since then I’ve been waiting for someone to build a computerised version, and it’s finally here on the Internet.
I encourage readers to try it out and report their experiences here.
An Old Master
Thelema Media have just made available once more the official catalogue for the largest exhibition of Aleister Crowley’s art to date, held in London in 1998 e.v.
A4 size, 32 pages, featuring 47 color illustrations of paintings and drawings by Aleister Crowley, with essays by Martin P. Starr and Karl Nierendorf.
Also now available the excellent facsimile [...]
Lon DuQuette European Tour 08
Noted occult author and raconteur, Lon Milo DuQuette will do a series of public workshops across Europe over the next weeks. The dates are:
May 03: Amsterdam
May 04: Hamburg
May 14: Copenhagen
May 16: London
May 17: London
Lon’s wit and erudition are unsurpassed and we highly recommend that you catch at least one of his shows if you can.
