Short and sinister like one of Edward Gorey’s abecedariums, infamous freethinker and Islamic Scholar Peter Lamborn Wilson presents in Abecedarium a poetic, anarchic, and occult meditation on the original Egyptian-Semitic meanings and magics behind each of the symbols that eventually became the English alphabet. Deeply researched but thankfully void of any academic skulduggery, Wilson’s Abecedarium [...]
In the 1940s, when Alejandro Carpentier developed his concept of Marvelous Realism, it was in response to the European Surrealists, who he saw as trying to hold onto an Old World magic that was rapidly vanishing into the logic of modernity. The New World, however, Carpentier felt, was still a fertlie ground for the exploration [...]
“What was unreal is real, what was real is unreal.” -Jung, from the Red Book Prior to the fantastic experiences he would later illuminate as the Red Book, Carl Jung considered himself a wholly rational man, a trained scientist and critic of Christianity and other forms of religiosity. Yet through his visionary adventures he was [...]
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Since the other week when I wrote that essay on doppelgängers and the doubles of ourselves created by our self-representations it seems that issue has been finding greater traction on the Internet. As Klint Finley from Technoccult points out, there has apparently been much heated discussion on various occult forums about what constitutes a “hypersigil.” [...]
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
APA Philosophy Referee Hand Sginals (above)Rumors that first Dark Matter Particle has been discoveredUS finally to settle Native American Trust LawsuitWhat Philosophers BelieveHow the iPhone could Reboot Education (which I’ve already seen with my own eyes at Pitt)Tom Waits may be up for a role in the HobbitDavid Bowie and the OccultThe Fortsas BibliohoaxThe Milky [...]
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Monday, November 30, 2009
Monday, listening to M.Pyres, dancing up and down over my copy of Jung’s “Red Book” [on his theories of interpretation] finally arriving, though won’t have time to dive into it for a couple weeks due to the increasing school work load. But soon. For the time being here’s some links that have been building up [...]
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
From biochemist Rupert Sheldrake’s response to the skeptical critics, of his book, A New Science of Life [via Daily Grail]: “Magic is an attempt to control and forecast natural events. Sir James Frazer distinguished two categories. First, sympathetic magic by similarity: like produces like. For example, manipulating a model of something is believed to give [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a number of links to interesting articles that have caught my eye in my daily journeys through the internets. I often just don’t have the time to say something insightful about everything that catches my eye, so the world will just have to speak for itself. Muthos:-Interactive Fiction [...]
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Over the past year I have been going through an extreme crisis of faith. Due to a number of physical, emotional, and psychic challenges I found myself last winter in a state of disillusionment, that everything I had previously held to be good, desirable, possible, and expected in the world may not have been the [...]
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Monday, September 14, 2009
For my class on Narrative and Technology I was asked to create what’s called a literacy narrative, the story of my development as as “content producer/consumer” (to use the parlance of the age, focusing also on how our experiences with media have helped us develop standards of quality. The results were interesting and integrating, somewhat [...]
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