Publications

Problems at Falcon Press?

Since the recent death of Dr. Chris Hyatt there appears to be some confusion going on over his legacy. Now the Original Falcon Press has been set up by Nick Tharcher & Linda Miller.

Linda and Nick are well-qualified to do so. They participated and assisted in the creation of “Falcon Press” with Alan and a [...]

New books from Teitan Press

Teitan Press, publishers of high quality rare occult works, announce two interesting new books: Three Essays on Freedom by Jack Parsons (edited by Hymenaeus Beta), and Fredrick Hockley’s A Complete Book of Magic Science Containing the method of constraining and exorcising spirits to appearance, the consecration of Magic Circles, and The Form of a Bond [...]

Manly P. Hall events in LA today & Tuesday!

Readers in Los Angeles are in for a rare treat over the next few days. Process Media publisher Jodi Wille writes:

If you’re in Los Angeles this coming weekend or next week, we have two very special happenings to celebrate Los Angeles’ occult heritage and our upcoming new Process release, Master of the Mysteries: The Life [...]

The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic

The Forbidden Planet blog has an interview of Alan Moore by Pádraig Ó Méalóid. In the interview, Alan says a few words about an upcoming book of his, the Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic, which we at abrahadabra.net are really looking forward to:
AM: I think it’s fairly rational, and it’s going to be [...]

Austin Spare art for sale

Fulgar of London have a few interesting pictures available from infamous (and highly over-rated in our opinion) occult artist Austin Osman Spare. If you’ve got a couple of grand to spare (spot the pun), have a look…
Unfortunately Fulgar in their wisdom have decided to “copy protect” the pictures, so no illustration is forthcoming to this [...]

Interview with Lon Milo DuQuette

There’s an excellent interview with the always entertaining and enlightening Lon Milo DuQuette at Ghost Village. Lon talks about his new book Enochian Vision Magick, which we here at abrahadabra.net highly recommend. Lon is the finest magical author alive today, as well as being Deputy Grand Master of Ordo Templi Orientis in the USA.

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.

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.

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 [...]