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Publications
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 [...]
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 [...]
Modern Witch magazine launches
Modern Witch is a quarterly magazine for the Wiccan, Witch and Pagan. Expect topics on green technologies, mind-body-spirit, life and family, great crafts, poems, music, and stories.
Special features include interviews from one Wiccan, Witch or Pagan merchant or published writer or artist and short science fiction or fantasy stories.
The Ogdoadic Journal of the Western Mysteries
Vol 1, Number 2 of this interesting new journal from the Ordo Astrum Sophia is now available for download. Entitled Symbolism of the Ogdoadic Tradition, it features several articles from authors working the Aurum Solis magical system.
Go with your gut
According to a team led by Professor Gerard Hodgkinson of the Centre for Organisational Strategy, Learning and Change at Leeds University Business School, intuition is the result of the way our brains store, process and [...]
Parapsychology publications online
Fans of wacky 70s parapsychology will love the scans of Zetetic Scholar and Archaeus now available as PDF. I’m not sure about the legality of these being available, so get them while they’re hot…
