Aleister Crowley defines magick as “the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.” This statement provides the magickal formula in a very simple yet powerful way.

Union of Opposites is a public ritual performance that explores how the principals of magick operate in the astral and physical worlds. It is a live experiment with the participation of an audience. I have designed this working to activate the chakras in a specific order that is very unconventional. Given the advancements in science and technology since Crowley’s lifetime the rituals must be constantly revised in order to still be effective. The energy currents working in the world today are much quicker and powerful than just a few years ago. I have altered or even reversed many aspects of traditional ritual to conduct these forces.

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In the latest episode of The Infinite and the Beyond, we look into the history of The Kybalion with author Philip Deslippe, who wrote the extensive introduction for the newly released book The Kybalion, The Definitive Edition. Seemingly shrouded in mystery, The Kybalion has been a popular text for the last one hundred years that and has been a big influence in many people’s lives. In the early episodes of this podcast we went through The Kybalion and the seven hermetic laws that it discusses. In our conversation with Philip Deslippe we learn about some of his recent findings in regards to the text and its author William Walker Atkinson and we wrap up our discussion with Atkinson’s lost book The Seven Cosmic Laws just now appearing in print.

In “A Corner in the Occult” we look into famous American occultist, Tarot expert, and author Paul Foster Case. Not only was Case an initiate of the famous Alpha et Omega and even a Freemason, but he was also the founder of the Builders of the Adytum an Order following in the tradition of the Western Esoteric Tradition which still exists to this day. Later in the show we discuss the magickal altar in The Essence of Magick, read some listener email and embrace some wonderful music by featured artist Jasmine Commerce. All this and more in this great informative episode!

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In the latest episode of The Infinite and the Beyond, we talk about late Llewellyn author Scott Cunningham in A Corner in the Occult. Many Pagans and or Wiccans often find Scott’s books on their journey as Pagans. Many find his books on magick and religion uplifting and at times pertinent to their growing views on life and existence.

We also look into the idea of human flourishing and happiness and how to create it in one’s life. Are you happy? Are you flourishing? How would you define and list your values and virtues? Would you say that they are serving you and your life beneficially? Learn about virtue and Eudaimonia and how your life lives up to the teachings of Aristotle and other philosophers. See how some of the new virtue systems found in modern Paganism stand in comparison to a tried and true system which comes from Plato as we find an elementary way to update it for modern use.

Later in the show, I read listener email and we look at the history of the five elements in The Essence of Magick. Find out where the five elements of western occultism come from and how they came to be used in ritual magick. And to close we discuss suicide, assisted suicide and how they exist in relation to Paganism. Have you ever had someone in your life kill themselves? Have you ever known someone who died of a terminal, debilitating, and/or painful illness? How do the issues associated with suicide and assisted suicide relate to Paganism?

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Just what the headline says, people. Grant Morrison performed this song during a recent event at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles, thanks to the urging of My Chemical Romance frontman (and Umbrella Academy writer) Gerard Way. As Way explained, Morrison was given this song by the spirit of John Lennon, which Morrison communed with in a magic ritual while writing The Invisibles…

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In the latest episode of The Infinite and the Beyond, we look into the popular issues with conspiracy theories and uncover the truth behind what they are. Is the government really spying us? Do conspiracy theories actually reveal anything significant or is there something deeper and more personal behind their existence in the world?

In “A Corner in the Occult” we visit early 20th century Germany and discuss the Nazis and the issues pertaining to their possible involvement with occultism. Many people like to attribute their rise to power and the events pertaining to the Second World War to their involvement in the occult arts and even demonic influence.

We also read some listener email and in “The Essence of Magick” series we talk about visualization and astral projection. Learn why visualization is so important to the magickal arts and learn how to astral project in this episode’s installment of this great and informative series!

And to close, we finish the episode with a look into the ever present concern and pursuit for world peace. Take a new perspective on the issues surrounding world peace and why it may not be the easiest thing to accomplish after all despite what some people say about it.

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Next up we have Erin Shaw talking with Naada Guerra. Naada holds workshops on the power of language and how to change our realities by changing the way we use it. In this interview Erin and Naada get into some of the ways we can move towards Empowering Language and more towards the next evolutionary shift.

If you would like to hear more from Jeremy Narby, you can check out his book The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge. If you would like to gain more knowledge from Kat Harrison you can look into taking one of her classes at the California School of Herbal Studies.

You can get a lot deeper with empowered languaging by checking out Naada Guerra’s website bodyintention.com and her partner’s website wordsrmatter.blogspot.com.

Thanks for listening, until next time its our world to change.

— Chris

Doug Rushkoff. Photo by Paul May (CC)

An interview with Douglas Rushkoff via Technoccult:

“When Video Toaster for the Amiga came out everyone was really excited,” he Rushkoff said. “We believed that we could use it to create deeply alternative states of consciousness using lights and colors and things.”

“Today, those technologies are used by companies like Fox News to make you pay attention to what they want you to pay attention to, or to make your eye fall on a particular ad. Stuff like that.”

But he says if you know how the program works, you’re less likely to be hypnotized by it. “There’s two ways to experience magic,” he says. “And I don’t mean stage magic.” You can either experience it as a spectator, watching a priest or guru. Or you can participate. “Having a guru will only take you so far,” he said. “You have to become the guru.”

But it’s not easy. Rushkoff admits he’s been having trouble participating in magic these days. “My sense is that the suppositional conditioning that I’ve undergone – making a living, raising a kid, keeping a house in working order, paying a mortgage – I’ve expended a lot of energy in less efficient ways,” he said. “I’ve become less trusting of the more subtle ways of influencing the world around me.”

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Close allies of Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have been accused of using supernatural powers to further his policies amid an increasingly bitter power struggle between him and the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Several people said to be close to the president and his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, have been arrested in recent days and charged with being “magicians” and invoking djinns (spirits).

Ayandeh, an Iranian news website, described one of the arrested men, Abbas Ghaffari, as “a man with special skills in metaphysics and connections with the unknown worlds”.

The arrests come amid a growing rift between Ahmadinejad and Khamenei which has prompted several MPs to call for the president to be impeached.

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In this episode we go on location to talk about Reiki and Yoga with Janet Watkins from Live in Joy Yoga and Wellness in Audubon, NJ. Janet shares with us some of her experiences and insights as a registered Yoga instructor and Reiki Master.

We learn about Russian healer, prophet, and monk Grigori Rasputin in A Corner in the Occult. Rasputin was the adviser to the Russian royal family during the turn of the 20th century which was an unusual position of power for someone who wasn’t born of Russian Nobility and it would be this position that would eventually lead to his elaborate and trial some death in 1916. He is often argued by some to have contributed greatly to the fall of the Romanov Dynasty in 1917, which was the last dynasty to rule over Russian.

We speak with local musician Robin Renee who describes herself as being a Mantra-Pop recording artist, a wayward poet, an obsessive fangirl, and writes from the intersection of music, eros, and the Divine. We also feature several of Robin’s songs during the show, discuss the ideas surrounding energy in The Essence of Magick, read some email, listen to some great music, and have a joyful and insightful time doing it.

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#1 “If you cannot respect the rights of others than you yourself shall be denied your rights.”

#2 “Shun all forms of social status and classes, these are mere illusions that attempt to justify ignoring the needs of society.”

#3 “If you make children, you are responsible for their health, education and happiness. If you take a person into your household or join a person in their household that has children of their own you are to accept full responsibility of their care as if they were your own.”

#4 “When you view someone as a burden to society, know this line of thinking is a much worse burden and more detrimental to society than poverty.”

#5 “When your religion, belief, ideology or personal opinion justifies violating the rights of others, know you are an enemy to the cooperative.”

#6 “Live a full and happy life, shun rewards and promises of heaven. Be sincere in you words, deeds and love. Make every day of your life the paradise you seek”.

‎#7 “Do not lose your individuality to fads and peer pressure. Your uniqueness is your contribution to society.”

#8 “Defend yourselves and your domains, but leave justice and punishment to the cooperative for none of us alone are God but all of us together are.”

#9 ” If you cannot gaze upon the masses with civility then lower your gaze.”

#10 “Abide by these ten commandments and in so doing. Do what thou will shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law, love under will.”

If you’re already confused, this book isn’t for you. This is not a biography of John Dee or an in-depth examination of the events that found the 16th-century mathematician, scientist, occultist, and the astrologer of Queen Elizabeth I seemingly contacting angels and receiving what may be the most important divinely-channeled communication of all time.  If you are interested in finding out more about Enochian Magic, start with Benjamin Woolley’s excellent tome The Queen’s Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Adviser to Queen Elizabeth I. This new volume is no place for newbies.

On the other hand, if you’ve found yourself intrigued with Dee’s accomplishments, there is much to explore here. And if you’re fluent in the Enochian tongue, this volume promises to put a private collection of Dee’s writings in your conjuring little hands.

The book’s strength lies in DeSalvo’s contextualizing of the magical writings that Dee’s efforts with assistant Edward Kelley produced. DeSalvo’s short, sharp chapters at the beginning of the book pull Dee and Kelley’s pursuits out of a vacuum and place them in a Biblical/historical framework that reads like a mystery novel.

DeSalvo goes into detail about the apocryphal Book of Enoch and the titular Biblical character the book is attributed to. While many attracted to DeSalvo’s book are undoubtedly familiar with these controversial Old Testament writings, DeSalvo’s parsing of the book, its author, its legend and lore are a welcome surprise and the fascinating parallels he draws between the Book of Enoch and the transmissions that Dee and Kelley received are the highlight of the volume.

Along the way, DeSalvo also reveals what he claims to be the missing 49th Table of Enoch, and his step-by-step reconstruction of the rows and columns of various tables almost remind us of an episode of C.S.I. However, despite the forensic intrigue of the first half of the book, the centerpiece is something of a disappointment.

While one’s own set of Dee’s complete tables and writings would be a great addition to any occultist’s library, the offerings here come up short. The last section of the book offers digital reproductions of the actual leaves that Dee and Kelley transcribed from the angels. The problem is that they are so small and lacking in sharpness that it’s difficult to know what to do with them. One can’t really appreciate their details and idiosyncrasies as one might with a work of art. The downright hard to read reproductions will also be of little use to the mage who might have hoped to solve the mysteries of the tables on  his/her own.  We would’ve loved to have seen this released in a coffee table edition that would’ve given readers the real sensation of flipping through Dee’s scrawlings and slipping into one of magic’s greatest mysteries.

While the book’s central offering is a letdown, DeSalvo’s commentary and criticism is enjoying near-universal praise andDecoding the Enochian Secrets is an important book for anyone serious about the study of Dee, his angels, and their magic.

Visit Joe Nolan’s Insomnia to see Terence McKenna play John Dee in the one hour documentary The Alchemical Dream: Rebirth of the Great Work.

Kenneth Grant by Austin Spare (c. 1951).

Finally unpacking the books bequeathed to me by my late ex-Freemason father-in-law’s estate has put me in a wistful mood. I just keep being reminded of how many 20th century disinformationists we’ve recently lost: John Keel, John Mitchell, Zecharia Sitchin — and a loss equivalent to the space filled by their contributions to occulture.

Stacking my now prized Golden Dawn collection turned my thoughts to Israel Regardie and so Crowley — and to his other spiritual son and former secretary, Kenneth Grant.

Both did a great deal to popularise modern post-Thelemic magic. I’ve got some fond ’80s teenage memories of coming across them all in the Psychology section (?) of my local library and reading furtively with one eye over my shoulder. It was the start of an endless study of esotericism.

So I was not surprised when I read that Kenneth Grant had passed away in a friend’s Facebook status. He deserves a Disinfo memorial and I couldn’t do better than this obit by John Coulthart on his blog { feuilleton }, so thankfully I have his blessing to quote his post at length:

Kenneth Grant, writer and occultist, died last month but the event was only announced this week. He’ll be remembered for the nine fascinating occult treatises he wrote from 1972 to 2002, and for continuing the work of Aleister Crowley as head of the Ordo Templi Orientis, a position which became fraught in later years as various occult factions disputed his authority. Having collected occult books for much of the 1980s I find his name calls out from the shelves more than many other writers; as well as authoring his own works he edited all the major Crowley texts with Crowley’s executor John Symonds, presenting them in authoritative editions for a new readership.

Grant proved a very loyal champion of people he admired, significantly so in the case of Austin Osman Spare whose work he collected, exhibited and republished from the 1950s on. It was Grant’s position as one of the many advisors for Man, Myth & Magic in 1970 which resulted in the part-work encyclopedia using one of Spare’s stunning drawings as the cover picture for its first issue. That effort alone gave Spare an audience far beyond anything he received during his lifetime, and Grant ensured the magazine featured Spare’s work in subsequent issues. Grant’s occult works made liberal use of unique illustrations by his wife, Steffi Grant, Austin Spare and others. The books were singular enough even without their pages of curious artwork, a beguiling and sometimes incoherent blend of western occult tradition, tantric sex magick and hints of cosmic horror which were nevertheless always well-written, annotated and crammed with technical detail. Alan Moore in 2002 examined the experience of an immersion in Grant’s mythos with a wonderful review he called “Beyond our Ken“. He notes there the influence of HP Lovecraft, another of the visionary figures who Grant championed throughout his life.

I know I’m not the only one influenced by Man, Myth & Magic – look familiar?

I recommend heading over to { feuilleton } and reading John’s obituary in its entirety when you’re done here; its generating a bit of Thelemic controversy in the comments …

There are only two points I’d add to John’s post, what I consider to be the innovations Grant brought to occulture. First, there’s the debt owed to him by all Chaos magicians. No less a magus than Alan Moore writes in the aforementioned ‘Beyond Our Ken’ that:

Without Grant’s insistence that the works of H P Lovecraft represented valid channels of magical information, much of the furniture and landscape of our modern magic systems, Chaos magic for example, would be utterly unrecognisable.

Second, Grant was the source for an increasingly important meme in contemporary ufological lore, ET = LAM.

In 1973’s Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God Grant wrote that:

Crowley was aware of the possibility of opening the spatial gateways and of admitting an extraterrestrial current in the human life-wave… It is an occult tradition — and Lovecraft gave it persistent utterance in his writings — that some transfinite and superhuman power is marshaling its forces with intent to invade and take possession of this planet… This is reminiscent of Charles Fort’s dark hints about a secret society on earth already in contact with cosmic beings and, perhaps, preparing the way for their advent. Crowley dispels the aura of evil with which these authors (Lovecraft and Fort) invest the fact; he prefers to interpret it thelemically, not as an attack upon human consciousness from within, to embrace other stars and to absorb their energies into a system that is thereby enriched and rendered truly cosmic by the process…

For Grant this was all tied back to the famous Amalantrah Working, which consisted of a series of visions Crowley received from January through March of 1918 via his then “Scarlet Women,” Roddie Minor. It was through this ritual procedure that Crowley came into contact with an interdimensional entity named Lam. By all accounts, Crowley’s portrait of Lam (pictured next to the now notorious front-piece of Streiber’s Communion) passed into the hands of Grant circa 1945 following an astral working in which he and Crowley were jointly involved, helping to give him an initiatic edge over his rivals in the OTO.

In 1980 Outside the Circles of Time, Grant gets even more explicit about his ufological musings:

Some believe that the UFO phenomena are part of the “miracle”, and a mounting mass of evidence seems to suggest that mysterious entities have been located within the earth’s ambience for countless centuries and that more and more people are being born with innate ability to see, or in some way sense their presence…

In the late 1980s, Grant issued The LAM Statement to his Order, where he described the ritual use of the picture in order to establish contact with those entities. From here it escaped into the public domain and the rest is history: the inference that The Great Beast intentionally opened a portal through the practice of ritual magick, which allowed the “alien greys” a passageway onto our Earthly plane. Without Grant and the internecine struggles over the succession for the leadership of the OTO, The Collins Elite would be just another bunch of Christian fundamentalists in the American intelligence community and Nick Redfern would never have written the breakthrough Final Events.

As the classic nuts’n'bolts ETH becomes increasingly untenable, I suspect that this will be Grant’s lasting legacy to occulture.

FURTHER READING

Ian Blake ‘Aleister Crowley and the Lam Statement‘ The Excluded Middle (1996)

Henrik Bogdan ‘Kenneth Grant: A Bibliography‘, Fulgur (2003)

The Emperor ‘Flying Saucerers. Re-examining the dawn of the modern era of UFOs [pdf]‘ Darklore Vol 4 (2009)

Adam Gorightly ‘Ritual Magic, Mind Control & the UFO Phenomenon (Part 1)‘ (undated)

— ‘Were the UFO Contactees Ritual Magicians?’ Darklore Vol 1 (2007)

Kenneth Grant ‘A Statement of the Typhonian O.T.O. Concerning the Cult of Lam. The Dikpala of the Way of Silence [The Lam Statement]‘ Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis (1987)

Russian author Gennady Belimov published an article in which he described experiments led by Vadim Chernobrov, the inventor of a time machine in 1987. Chernobrov claims his machine can slow or speed up the course of time by tinkering with the Earth’s magnetic field. His biggest success was the slowing of time for 1.5 seconds. One of the problems remote viewers have is acquiring time lines for future or past events that they examine. For example, a viewer might foresee a major catastrophe like a volcanic eruption, airplane crash or hurricane, but pinning down an exact moment when it will occur is extremely difficult. To deal with this problem, Aaron C. Donahue spent years developing an advanced form of viewing, which he calls the acquisition and practical application of non-historical data.

Source: http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/your-details/10506-vadim-chernobrov

December, 2007. The distant Alps are covered in snow. Small flakes swirl in the wind, dancing around red clay statues of muscular giants and voluptuous goddesses, reminiscent of Egypt. Most prominent is the falcon-headed god, Horus, facing the Fire Altar where the looming statues converge.

I start to walk into the grove of the Earth Altar, but my guide Shama tells me I should go no further.

“It is dangerous for anyone who is not spiritually prepared,” she warns me. “Very dangerous.”

I would be willing to chance it, but I suppose rules are rules.

In the distance is Monti Pelati, the sacred mountain of the Damanhurians. It is said that more Synchronic Lines converge there than any place in the world. These lines are like the Earth’s magnetic field — only magic. They were discovered psychically by the founder and leader of the Damanhurians, Falco.

This is a place of power. A place of mystery. The perfect place for a secret Temple. A nice spot to start a cult.

So what am I doing here?

I have a sweet tooth for communal cults. Cult is just short for culture, right? A brief visit to a welcoming sect is like Disneyland and a voodoo possession wrapped into the same vacation package. It’s invigorating, it’s mind-warping, and at times, absolutely terrifying.

The Damanhurian Federation

Damanhur is home to The Temples of Humankind, a massive work-in-progress overseen by the Italian visionary, Oberto Airaudi (aka. Falco). Started in 1978, the Temples were constructed within man-made caves beneath Monti Pelati. The work went on in secret for thirteen years — until the Italian authorities were alerted in 1991. This subterranean masterpiece is a startling testament to the possibilities of communal art, to the evolution of occultism in the modern age, and to the bizarre beliefs that isolated communities generally cling to.

Located in the Alpine foothills, about 30 mi. north of Turin, Italy, this spiritual commune is dubbed “The Largest Intentional Eco-Community in the World”, a vast complex of homes, shops, art studios, small manufacturing centers, and farms in the Valchiusella Valley.

Damanhur grew out of the occult fervor that swept through Turin and its surrounding rural areas during the 1960s and 70s. This period is comparable to the volatile atmosphere of New York’s Burned Over District in the 1800s, which spawned the Mormons, the Shakers, the Oneidas, and the Fox Sister séances.

After thirty years, Damanhur is a relatively successful attempt at communal self-sufficiency. The community sustains its own marketplace, the Crea. It has its own fire and police departments, schools, medical facilities, construction, insurance, and real estate companies, private banking system, and its own currency: the Damanhurian Credito (with a constant exchange rate equal to one Euro).

Although contracts with non-Damanhurians are negotiated in common currency, all wages within the community are paid in Creditos. All products sold at the Crea or services provided by Damanhurian companies are purchased with Creditos. And of course, all Damanhurians are expected to donate a sizeable portion of their Creditos for the good of the commune.

This sprawling network, covering nearly 500 acres, is home to over four hundred Damanhurians, from children to old-timers. Hundreds of other people in the area are affiliated with the group, and hundreds more participate in the many Damanhurian satellite centers around the world.

At the time of my visit, the Damanhurians were making serious moves. New centers were springing up in Italy, Austria, Germany, Croatia, Japan, and Miami, Fl., where one could be healed, have cosmic visions, or hear the songs of houseplants through bio-machines. Sounds like Paradise, right?

A Day in the Life

I take the train from Naples to Turin — train #1666. I interpret this as an important omen. From there I get another train to Ivrea, where I catch the bus to Damanhur.

I check my Italian phrasebook and stammer, “Scusi, c’è un autobus per Damanhur?”

“Si.”

“Grazie.”

This seems to be a common question for the driver. He points to a scruffy guy with a ponytail sitting in back and tells me to get off with him.

Patrick is a doe-eyed Austrian in his thirties. He is a world traveler, a patron of various spiritual centers, and an aspiring artist. When he learns that I’m an American, he expresses disdain. He says he has a girlfriend in the US, but will never go back.

“America is too much military for me. If I go there, I end up fingerprinting and retina-scanning. I get interrogations and strip searches.”

“What about your girl?”

“She is having too many mans, anyway.”

Patrick is visiting Damanhur to receive “Selfic” energy treatments to repair his soul, which is accomplished by laying under a spiraling coil of copper wire known as a “Self.”

The first Selfs were designed and developed by Falco, and are said to be animated by conscious entities. These devices harness the energy of the Synchronic Lines to harmonize personality, balance sensitivity, and clear negativity. Anyone can receive these services for a modest fee.

Patrick tells me he would never live at Damanhur because there is no privacy. The activities of citizens are constantly monitored by the others.

“People talk in small towns,” I remark.

“It is like intentional communities that I stay in Hawaii. There are too many eyes,” he says ominously. “Too many eyes.” He looks around as if they might be peering over the next seat.

We get off the bus into the snow flurry and I prepare my approach. I don’t want to come off like a tourist, a smug skeptic, or a nosy journalist. Cults don’t like that shifty business. So I try to play the curious truth-seeker. The American mendicant.

I am greeted by Gazza Solidago (Italian for Magpie Goldenrod) at the Welcome Center. Gazza is one of the public faces of Damanhur, very pretty, with curly dark hair. She expresses sympathy for my travel fatigue and sets up my visit with gracious hospitality.

I pay for a bed in their hostel (€20/night, for four nights) and arrange for tomorrow’s tour of Damanhur and the Temples of Humankind (for €55). They hand me a release form that waives Damanhur’s responsibility if their underground Temple happens to collapse on my head.

Gazza informs me of the “Contact with the Cosmos” workshop (€160) and the option of a 3-day or a 7-day visit (€350 and €650, respectively).

“Perhaps another time,” I say.

Gazza gives me a warm hug, hands me some introductory literature, and then I’m turned over to Shama Viola (as in the Hawaiian White-Rumped Shama and a Violet flower), who takes me on an informal walk around the grounds.

Shama is a longtime Damanhurian resident, about sixty or so, with silver-gray hair and a youthful face. She came here decades ago, after spending the Psychedelic Sixties in San Francisco and Hawaii.

She guides me through the Altars of the Elements, past a concrete Stonehenge that would fit well in a putt putt course, finally arriving at a wide field covered in painted stones which “follow the Earth’s energy fields.”

Shama indicates a special spiral path and encourages me to walk it. One wanders these complex mazes to harness cosmic energies and focus the will. Kind of like hopscotch — only magic.

“But you must wear this.” She takes a crude amulet off of a wooden post at the entrance and hands it to me. “To protect you from the powerful energies.”

I hold my poker face and politely decline.

Back at the hostel—probably the cleanest in all of Europe — I search my room thoroughly for spy cameras before going to bed. From bathroom to bedroom, I feel their eyes on me.

The next morning I meet Shama and a Dutch woman named Zoe for the big tour. Zoe is a first time Temple visitor, but quick to show her hard-earned New Age credentials. She just arrived from Hawaii, where she was communicating with dolphins.

“All the dolphins here speak Italian,” I tell her.

Like most enthusiastic newcomers to a cult, Zoe is reasonably intelligent and very competitive. This is passive-aggressive in nature. She never comes out and says, “I’m more enlightened than this guy. Pick me, pick me!” But she’s quick to talk up her psychic abilities, extensive ritual experience, and acute sensitivity to subtle energies. I’ve seen it a hundred times. With every highfalutin comment, she’s gunning for acceptance and a top spot in the hierarchy, reeking of an unconditional positivity that only profoundly disturbed individuals can maintain.

This makes Zoe more fun than a cup of Kool-Aid in Jonestown. I get out my cynic stick to poke at her for the rest of the day.

Shama has bad news for us. The “Reawakening the Senses” workshop has been cancelled due to a lack of participants. Zoe is devastated. She asks:

“Will I still be able to do ‘Contact with the Cosmos’ if I don’t do ‘Reawakening the Senses?’”

Zoe speaks of these psychic tutorials like they are baking classes. Why do New Agers always talk about meeting strangers or eating food with the solemn reverence of divine revelation, but then discuss sacred visions and magical powers as if they were as commonplace as a fart?

Shama assures Zoe that “Contact with the Cosmos” is still on, and I ask how much she will save.

“€200″

Our first stop is the Crea, a large, pink building situated on the slope of the valley. It houses the Damanhurian construction and real estate offices, an organic food market and cafeteria, art studios, a day care center, and the medical facilities. Imagine a health food store reincarnated as a shopping mall.

One of the shops specializes in Selfic technology. They have portable Selfs for sale, which resemble the copper wire jewelry peddled by hippies at music festivals and Rainbow Gatherings, except these little guys have souls and can heal anything from moodiness to colon cancer. You can get an Insomnia Self for €35, a cell-regenerating Beauty Disc for €145, or a Multi-Functional Self for €60.

They also offer Falco’s Selfic paintings. These feature crude, child-like patterns infused with animate spirits (like amateur abstracts—only magic), which go for €1,600 or so.

Walking by the medical facility, I notice a sickly old Damanhurian in the waiting room with a portable Self clasped in his hands. Perhaps it’s a Terminal Self. He rubs it anxiously, desperately, hopefully, and for a moment this absurd display isn’t so funny.

As we wait outside for our ride to the Temples, I ask Shama what’s up with their names.

“Damanhurians are given an animal name first,” she explains, “and then a plant name, as they are gradually initiated into the mysteries.”

That’s how you end up with names like Furetto Oliva, Iguana Magrovia, and one that translates as Shrimp Wild Fennel.

“I’ll bet all the badass names like Jaguar Thornbush and Viper Petunia got snatched up pretty quick, huh?” I ask.

“Yes, yes,” Shama says, “the big cats are all taken.”

I say, “If I were a Damanhurian, I’d be Paramecium Chloroplast. You know, to show my spiritual humility.”

Shama laughs at this, but Zoe scowls in disapproval. I would dub her Weasel Chili Pepper.

Our van arrives, and we head up the mountain on a slushy one-lane road. George Michael’s I Want Your Sex plays on the tapedeck and our fur-clad driver honks her horn around every tight corner to alert oncoming drivers. I hope that the little Self coiled on the dashboard is to ward off head-on collisions.

The Eighth Wonder is Underground

 There are detailed photos of the Temples available on the Internet or in their official book, Damanhur: The Temples of Humankind, published by Alex Grey’s CoSM Press.  But I refused to look at them before my visit. There is nothing worse than seeing some lame picture in a hiking guide before reaching a mountain’s summit, or reading a detailed review before watching a movie. It ruins the element of surprise, and I like to go in cold.

I imagine how mysterious the Temples must have been before the Italian police raided the compound in 1991 and 1992 on allegations of tax evasion, weapons hording, and satanic child abuse. Before their subsequent acquittal made the press. Before ads hit the papers and the tickets went on sale. Before any schmuck with €55 could take the carnival ride under the mountain.

I imagine Damanhur at the height of its secrecy, as if I were some wandering mendicant following the winds, suddenly blown into the arms of these charming Italians.

I would be shown warmth and hospitality. I would be hypnotized in moonlight rituals, by harmonic chants echoing through the forest and beautiful women in flowing robes. I would be baffled by strange coincidences and Falco’s lofty talk of a new consciousness. I would envy the knowing smiles between these eccentric initiates.

Two fellow Americans, Mark and Lisa, come out from their morning Temple visit. It’s just another stop on their New Age world tour.  They’ve done the Israeli kibbutzim and the Indian ashrams, Gypsy Tarot readings and Peruvian shamanism. Like tourists—only magic.

Mark’s business card identifies him as: Massage Therapist – Intuitive Counselor – Spiritual Healer – Venture Capitalist. Lisa is an “etheric surgeon,” with an HTML website, a podcast, and a PayPal account. She identifies spiritual ailments in her clients through mystical visions provided by extraterrestrials. Then she heals them by waving her hands around to provide 12th dimensional shields. She explains this with a straight face.

These guys know the game. How else could they afford such exotic jaunts?

Not me.

I imagine the clandestine Damanhur of old. I enter the Temples before Damanhur had PayPal, when spiritual ideas traded at bargain prices in the back alleys of Turin. When Aleister Crowley and Madam Blavatsky were underground sex symbols. When hippies flocked to the hills to do magic and find God. When the ubiquitous Machine of the modern world could still be escaped—and perhaps defeated. When the End was still nigh.

We would share meals at blessed tables and make love in communal beds, consume quantities of wine and strange drugs, dance with the gods and become gods ourselves—our own Will be done—and follow the falcon-god Horus into the dawning Age of the Child.

We would call each other Platypus and Ostrich. We would hug trees until they spoke to us. We would take our fill of love.

Then one night they would take me into the Temple and tell me the Secret. And it would change my life forever.

I ignore the rumbling dehumidifiers and the awkward elevator ride. I look at my shoes as we go down. Somebody smells. Is it me? Nah, I think it’s Zoe.

Imagine, you have been taken deep into the cold belly of the Earth. They take off your blindfold and you are led through winding corridors by pale lantern light. You are about to take the journey of a thousand lifetimes.

You pass murals of cells forming into fish, into lush vegetation, into great dinosaurs and flying lizards, as you enter a vast circular chamber. The verdant jungles of Eden are painted in exquisite detail across the walls.

This is the Hall of Earth.

Zoe wouldn’t be standing next to you, clasping her hands to her chest as she gasps:

“Wow… There is such a profound energy here…” She closes her eyes. “Yessss. I can feel it vibrating all around me…” She opens her eyes and asks me, “Can you feel the energy here?”

I roll my eyes, trying to ignore her. There is a man painting a child onto the mural from a photograph.

Every piece of the Temple tells a story. Every face is a Damanhurian. They frolick through this tropical garden with all of the endangered species of the world. In the center of the dim chamber is a single pillar carved with a man and woman, twisting around each other, reaching up to the twinkling LED stars dotting the ceiling.

On the floor are detailed mosaics of boys playing with blocks, a young woman traveling in a spaceship with a cellphone to her ear, two middle-aged men jamming out on drums and a saxophone, and an old woman playing chess against a younger version of herself.

“She masters herself over time,” our guide Platypus explains, “and it is through playing that we connect with others.”

You see your life reflected in these images.

There are stairs leading up to a wide portal. You pass through. You walk slowly toward the golden Androgyne who towers on the far wall. An ephemeral gray Demiurge separates from this hairless Godhead and blows out the spiraling galaxies of our Universe from a pile of dust in his hand. This Universe evolves into the Earth, into prehistoric humans, into the Golden Age of Atlantis with their laser guns and wizardry, devolving into the great antediluvian religions: the Egyptian god-kings, the Semitic law-givers, and the Asian mystics.

You follow these traditions up to the crucial development in modern history: the Damanhurians, who are gathered together and led by Falco into a great battle with oncoming hordes of faceless grey automatons. As these soulless monsters approach the battlelines, they are given faces—reflections of the Damanhurians that fight them.

You want to be a part of this battle. There are still some faces yet to be painted, and you want to get your picture on the wall.

The stained-glass on the ceiling is a kaleidoscopic dome that fills your field of vision. The geometry is impeccable, creating dazzling illusions as your eyes pass across it. But even more striking are the two backlit stained-glass panes fitted into niches on opposite sides of this room.

You see a face of solar fire with a drooping phallus for a nose. Across from him is an aqua-hued female with a gaping vagina between her eyes. You feel the overt symbolism between your legs.

“Okay, okay,” Platypus snaps, “Let’s move it along.”

Our next stop is the Labyrinth. We wander through a series of interconnected halls with arched ceilings. On the walls are evolving murals depicting humanity’s progress from caves to cathedrals to chaos. We breeze past World Wars, industrial pollution, and vat-grown GMO babies, all the way to rocketships headed for the stars.

Along the halls are a series of sixteen stained-glass panels that depict dieties from each world religion. There is the Semitic Jehovah, the Indian Brahma, the Celtic Brigit, the African Sky Father, and so on.

In this subterranean pantheon, you are initiated into a new teaching: the rites of the Triad.

The Triad brought harmony to the “divine ecosystem.” Powerful Damanhurian sorcerers gathered the Divinities of the world together, asking for their cooperation in the salvation of humankind. This forged a “theurgic magical alliance.” Though a few belligerent gods declined, most accepted the invitation. These Triad rituals were performed around the clock, until every god was purified of negative aspects and fused into a divine conglomerate.

All of this is revealed to you with a straight face. You are now ready to move on to the Hall of Metals.

First, you follow the stained-glass progression from childhood to adolescence to adulthood to old age. Then you contemplate the cartoons of vices personified on the floor: Pride, Egotism, Pessimism, Falsity, Lack of Awareness, and Self-Destruction. Above are the warriors who will conquer them, armed with books, battle-axes, bows and arrows.

You are taken to an antechamber with more portraits and stained-glass. You are told that there is a secret passage. You are given a riddle.

“We are of the Way of Action…”

I nearly destroy one of the stained-glass panels in my search for this damn secret passage. Platypus runs across the room to stop me. In my defense, Zoe can’t find it either. Platypus taps his foot impatiently, playing “warmer/colder” for ten minutes until he finally gives up and pushes on the painted face of a little girl to reveal…

The Hall of Spheres. The gateway to deeper mysteries. There are a dozen plastic globes full of food coloring along the hall stretching before you, glowing by unseen bulbs. You see all sorts of magic stuff in them before being whisked away to the Selfic treatment laboratory.

The lab writhes in a schizophrenic frenzy of copper wires. Perplexing gadgets clutter the room. A gigantic, coiled super-Self is suspended from the ceiling, tapering to a point aimed at an examination table. It looks like a homemade linear accelerator, ready to harness the Synchronic energies and zap the living shit out of you.

You lay down on the table, and God only knows what happens when they fire this thing up.

In time, the Damanhurians invite you to live with them. Their esoteric doctrines are gradually revealed to you. Your personality is harmonized, your sensitivity is balanced, your negativity is cleared. You farm the valley and help build the eco-friendly house you now share with your brothers and sisters. You struggle daily through the enigmas of the Temples. Eventually, the cosmos is illuminated before you.

It is time to enter the Hall of Water. The walls are covered with the lunatic patterns of Falco’s brainstorms. You are told that these diagrams are a mystical language. Circles, spirals, triangles, polygons, and random lines are interwoven in gold paint, like you are standing inside a massive circuit board.

Long glass tubes of glowing, bubbling fluid hang down to the floor in the center of the dim blue room, like a circle of fluorescent bulbs—only magic. You are still naked from your session with the super-Self. You are purified and primed for the cause. Perhaps you are on psychedelic drugs.

You step inside the circle of bulbs. There is a sense of apprehension, because this apparatus isn’t just some nightmare of New Age interior design—

I stare into Platypus’ eyes. He doesn’t budge. I say:

“It’s a what?”

“It’s a time machine.”

“A time machine,” I repeat flatly.

“Yes. A time machine.”

“As in, you step in and get beamed back to the dinosaurs, time machine?”

“Yes. This has already happened!” His eyes get wide and his hands go Italian. “The Synchronic Lines converge here.” He points into the circle. “Here! Falco harnessed this energy to travel back to Atlantis. For three days he was initiated into the Ancient Mysteries which have been lost for millennia.”

Zoe says, “Of course, of course. These mysteries could not have been revealed in 3rd dimensional reality. This is the work of ancient masters…”

She starts to walk toward the circle, hesitates at the edge, then steps back cautiously to admire the spiraling designs and bubbling tubes from a safe distance.

I look from her to Platypus. That’s when the floodgates finally break, and I laugh until tears stream down my cheeks.

Life on the Outside

I spend the next few days nosing around the compound, asking a lot of questions, getting the story straight. Zoe is ready to move in here. Mark is ready to invest. I chat with people at the café, and glean information from live-in laborers hanging out in the common room. These people are so kind, so happy, I am baffled that such a thriving community would be built upon utter nonsense.

Damanhurians speak of Falco with a hushed reverence. They claim that his work will change the world, sometimes with a tear in their eye.

When Falco’s public Q&A day finally comes, seekers from all over the land crowd into the Crea’s auditorium, paying €10 a head to ask their question, but I opt out. Zoe can’t understand it.

“But you have so many questions!” she implores me.

I only have one question to ask Falco at this point, and I already know what his answer would be. Of course, I would have liked to see the look on Zoe’s face as I stood in the auditorium with the little microphone in my hand, everyone holding their breath as I ask:

“Are you fucking serious, dude?”

But these folks have been too hospitable for a stab like that.

Time machines, theurgic alliances, magic Selfs, eye of newt and wing of bat. Whatever. If millions of people believe that chanting the Vedas makes the sun rise, or that Jesus is coming to put the world to rights, or that life evolved from protein boiling on lava, then a few hundred people buying into Falco’s pitch should not surprise me.

With all these wolves on the fringe, every lamb needs a good shepherd.

Imagine for a moment that you bought the whole bit, and were convinced that all of history culminates in this budding New Age utopia. You decide to stay forever.

The decades pass and you end up worn out like all the droopy-eyed Damanhurians that I see everywhere. You bust your hump to keep this thing moving, to save the world from ignorance and suffering. You gain experience points and advance in levels to become a wizard supreme. You pass from spouse to spouse, according to their custom of annual marriage. You watch your children grow up in a magic fairyland, and wonder if they will be fulfilled here, or if they could even adapt to the outside world. You hope the best for them, and you live your life the best you can.

Then you die. You are buried peacefully in the Valchiusella Valley, and a painting of your face smiles forever in the Hall of Earth. People even pay to come look at it.

Folks who would call this crazy, they work 9 to 5 jobs and go home to TV sets. When I visit alternative communities, I am reminded that society at large can be just as fake and shabby. Food and drink, family and friends, shelter and security, allies and lies. Culture-makers wrap it all up in pretty pictures, sell you on salvation, and pump you for all that you’re worth.

You laugh and you cry. You eat, shit, and die.

Cult is just short for culture.

So I hitchhike out with a smile on my face. Luckily, a young Italian woman named Taraka picks me up. But she’s not going directly to Ivrea.

“You can come up the mountain with me if you like. To meet my friend. Then we take you to the train station. Yes?”

“Sure. I’m just happy to be out of that loony bin.”

“Damanhur has a dark reputation in this Valley.”

“Oh yeah?”

She nods and fumbles for a new cd as we swerve all over the tight mountain road.

“They are believing in crazy things and controlling too much,” she says.

“Well, it sure is nice to be with a ‘normal’ person for a change. All that mumbo jumbo was beginning to wear on my nerves. Here, let me get that cd for you.”

That’s when I notice the beaded feathers hanging from her rearview mirror, the amulet wrapped around her wrist, the books emblazoned with arcane symbols in the floorboard.

“So where are you going, anyway?” I ask nervously.

“I am going to a Lakota Sweat Lodge in the Alps. We do chants and call to the Grandfather spirits of the American tribes. You can come, if you like. Only €200. You have heard of this?”

I nod my head wearily, and say, “Of course. It’s like a sauna — only magic.”

© 2010 Joseph Allen

The KKTB started life as three separate books. (In the order they were produced: The K.oM. BOOK1 (55 pages), The K.oM. BOOK0 (20 pages) & Introducing Metabolic Chambers (46 pages).

“KE$HA KULT” began exactly how I describe it in the book; I was a fan of KE$HA’s music, started noticing how our artistic vibes ‘meshed,’ read an article where she said ‘pop stars are like cult leaders,’ freaked out, created KE$HA KULT. KE$HA KULT then started assimilating all my previous works. And it was good. A KE$HA KULT BOOK (25 pages) was produced … and nothing happened … until Black Friday, 2010 when the Disinformation Company finally released ‘Introducing Metabolic Chambers’ on their website. I meant for it to be released on Halloween (culmination of the 7 Sisters), but what/ev, it worked out because one of the comments on the book was a link to another website which made this cryptic remark

“It seems some folks at Disinfo are engaging the Game.

I was intrigued that others were creating ontological campaigns based on ‘a game.’ So I quickly compiled all The GAME references from my works into a single document, called it THE GAME BOOK (26 pages). It was good, but something was missing — so I compiled a companion  piece ‘the game book out-takes’ (26 pages) it was better. And as I was contemplating the inevitable future to when these books would be published I knew I would be consulted on which order the books should be placed in — and so I thought about it — and wrote PAGE 78. I then took my own advice and put all 78 pages into a single folder. Then … THEN! Something in the back of my head reminded me the Tarot deck has 78 cards … so … I blew the dust off my “THE TAROT OF OZ” set and went to work. I started with the Minor Arcana – I read the description of a card and matched it up to the ‘feel’ of a page. You might even say I was playing a game. I really don’t know much about Tarot, the Tarot of Oz is the only thing I used as a reference. However, after the fact, when all the pages were labeled, I did cross reference with Manly P. Hall’s The Secret Teachings of All Ages and was impressed with the similarity some of the pages illustrations had with their ‘traditional’ counterparts. For example, THE WHEEL & THE TOWER both share common themes with the official version — an eight spoked wheel — lighting bolt … IT’S ALL A COINCIDENCE!! Conceptual coincidences occur in THE HANGED MAN in that we are given a formula whereby “spiritualization of the lower nature” can occur.

So anyhoo … that’s the story of the KE$HA KULT TAROT BOOK.

Here’s a short KE$HA playlist for your future listening pleasure.

— BLOW

— We R who we R

— Take it off

— Cannibal

— Crazy Beautiful Life

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Does anyone know of a publishing company that would be interested in printing and selling this seminal work of art? What/ev. In the meantime, take these and spam them somewhere boring like 4CHAN… let me know if something interesting develops.

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In the latest episode of The Infinite and the Beyond, we speak to Parapsychologist Loyd Auerbach about his experiences as a paranormal investigator. Loyd runs the Office of Paranormal Investigations out in California and has been consulted and featured on many shows dealing with hauntings and the paranormal. Loyd talks to us about being a parapsychologist and ghosts, educational opportunities, investigating, and we even discuss some of the current television shows that depict paranormal investigation.

I share some of my own personal ghost stories, one of which occurred when I was very young and the other when I was much older. My interest in the paranormal started from this very early experience as a child; while the other experience taught me that you never know when you’re being watched and by whom.

We learn about famous escape artist and medium debunker Harry Houdini in A Corner in the Occult. Can you untie knots with your toes? Houdini could! Learn about this famous magician, his battle with the spiritualist movement during the early 20th century and why he is spotlighted in this episode’s edition of A Corner in the Occult.

Also in the episode, I read listener email. We see which listener won a copy of Jeva Singh-Anand’s book Bed Time Stories for the Faint of Heart. And in The Essence of Magick Series we discuss the ideas behind magickal intent and learn about what makes it up and how it applies to greater scope of one’s existence and not exclusively to the practice of magick. This is a real fun episode. I hope enjoy it!

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This episode features an interview with Tim Wallace-Murphy, author of Hidden Wisdom: Secrets of the Western Esoteric Tradition. Tim talks about the history of the occult, the historical need for secrecy in this tradition, and what it has left us in modern times.

After the interview, Raymond and Joe celebrate their 5th anniversary as co-hosts by taking up their old mantle of armchair film critics.  Stay tuned for their scathing review of What in the World are they Spraying, a new documentary about the “chemtrail conspiracy.”

The rescue of the 33 unfortunate Chilean miners has definitely turned into an international media event. All aspects of the rescue have been carefully staged  to make the entire thing a spectacular show inspiring emotions, admiration and national pride. For those knowledgeable of Masonic and occult symbolism, it is hard not to ponder on the numerological and symbolic facts of the event.

To the initiated, the deep significance of 33 miners being rescued in 33 days could not be more obvious. Can you guess how many characters were used in the first note sent by the miners?

Vigilant Citizen has also published dangerous exposés of the Illuminati infiltration of K-Pop, the occult symbolism of Kanye West’s Power, and an esoteric interpretation of Pinocchio.

[Full article at Vigilant Citizen]

Panopticon — Podcast Episode 13 — The Manson Family Mythos with Adam Gorightly

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On this episode, we speak with author, podcaster, and musician Adam Gorightly about his book The Shadow Over Santa Susana: Black Magic, Mind Control, and the Manson Family Mythos, one of my favorites. We talk about many different facets of that fascinating American cultural phenomenon, the Manson Family, and its possible connection to intelligence agencies, various other cults, and American culture at large. It was a ton of fun to speak with Adam, and we really thank him for taking the time to come on the show with us. Enjoy!

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In the latest episode of The Infinite and the Beyond, we talk with fellow podcaster and author Jeva Singh-Anand about his new book Bedtime Stories for the Faint of Heart. Jeva is the host of the Lance and Graal podcast and Professor Zarnoff’s Channel on YouTube. We also discuss his background as a former Christian Fundamentalist and what happened to cause him to move away from his life as a fundamentalist.

I go back to Lodge after a year of staying away from it and I share my experiences with that return. We learn about 16th century heresy in this episode’s edition of A Corner in the Occult as we learn about Father Giordano Bruno. I read a single listener message to a nostalgic pagan podcaster music track. I also announce a contest for this episode.

We start The Essence of Magick Series by looking into “Belief and Magick.” How much does belief really play into the practice and effect of magick and how does one apply the will to their magick and how do such acts differ from mundane acts which may be of a similar content and nature.

We hear a great music track from Tenpenny Joke an Alternative Australian band who may not be a pagan band, but who absolutely rocks none-the-less and we are glad to have them in this episode! And to close we look into crises of faith, what they are, and why they’re actually beneficial for one’s spiritual growth and a positive sign of one’s dedication to their path.

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In the latest episode we discuss the Ego, ergo the name of this episode, and we explore some of the issues surrounding it with prominent occult author and musician Lon Milo DuQuette as well as talk about his new book titled Low Magick: It’s All In Your Head … You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is.

Not only is Lon Milo DuQuette the author of over a dozen books on western esotericisim, but he is also the United States Deputy Grand Master of the O:.T:.O:., an expert on the life of and work of Aleister Crowley, and a Brother Freemason as well. In my interview with Lon he shares some his personal insights and tales in regards to the ego and we even address the role that the ego plays in groups and fraternal organizations such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and even in Freemasonry.

Also in the show, we go on location in eastern Pennsylvania to get in touch with nature and paganism by studying some of the indigenous wildlife. We finally wrap up our journey through the Kybalion as we revisit what we’ve learned with a new perspective on life as we reflect upon the idea of the self. I announce a new show segment series for the podast. I read some of the listener email that has come to show since Episode 14 and our talk with Dr. Dean Radin. In A Corner in the Occult we learn about Doctor and Lawyer, Henri Cornelius Agrippa the famous German Renaissance author of the Three Books of Occult Philosophy. And we find out which lucky listener won a copy of Dr. Dean Radin’s book Entangled Minds. All this and more in this latest installment of The Infinite and the Beyond!

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This episode features an interview with playwright John Burns.  John’s latest work, Aleister Crowley: A Passion for Evil, is being performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer.

We discuss little known aspects of Crowley’s life, including his childhood and his experiences as a mountaineer.  We also discuss the recent Disinformation documentary Aleister Crowley: In Search of the Great Beast 666, which attempts to dramatize Crowley’s history through filmmaking.

“All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. We are all one Consciousness experiencing itself. Life is but a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.”

If we accept this as reality, then magic is not only possible, but inevitable.

Now the goal of sex magic revisited is not mere wish-fullfillment. No. The goal of this technique brings us back to the reason magic allegedly works in the first place, that is; to close the illusionary gap of separation between all forms of Consciousness a.k.a. The Singularity.

To practice any magic we must utilize an interface system with this “All-Conscious,” and through the power of language we have such an interface system; the analogy. The functionality of any magical system is not dependent on the particular analogy used, but rather, the power we give the analogy with our beliefs and emotional energy. Our belief in a particular analogy can be strengthened if it is given to us by “authorities” who we trust. Time can also act as an authority – by virtue of a memes long history it may appear to be more authentic, thus our belief in it is strengthened.

“But as chaos magicians remind us, magic may be nothing more

than groundless subjectivity interacting with an internally

consistent matrix of signs and effects. In the absence of

Orthodoxy… the Great Work may be nothing more or less

than another ‘ingenious game.’” -Erik Davis

Exactly! The game of you. Now, do not try to solve the riddle. That’s impossible. Instead… only try to realize the truth. There is no riddle. Then you’ll see, that it is not the riddle that you solved, it is only yourself. The truth shall make you flee.

To these ends we set our sights on the unconscious mind. The issue here is nomenclature.

Just like the conscious mind has many personalities, so to does the unconscious mind. There’s a personality which attends to your bodily functions like breathing and heart rate. It also oversees the release of chemicals into the body, like DMT; one of the most powerful hallucinogens in existence. Then there’s the unconscious mind you read about in self-help books; your guardian angel or creative mind as it were. There’s also a purely speculative  unconscious personality we believe to be a non-local, multi-dimensional energy. We assume this non-local personality exists because MAGIC WORKS. “Something” must account for the synchronicities that occur as a result of a successful magical act. THE THEORY is this unconscious personality, charged with our emotional energy and desires, communicates with other people by virtue of its non-locality. By acting in tandem the personality then manipulates people’s behavior into the necessary patterns needed to “complete the circuit” or whatever. We are, of course, unaware of the subtle machinations going on behind the curtain because… it’s unconscious.

With sex magic revisited, it is our intention to shift our awareness into the non-local, multi-dimensional perspective.

END GAME

“There was an experiment carried out by Dr. Karen Olness at

Rainbow Babies’ and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland involving a

group of children being shown a video featuring puppets. One

puppet represented a virus; another, which looked like a

policeman, represented the immune system. The video was a

simplified illustration of the body that the children could easily

understand.

When the video was over, the children were told to close their

eyes, relax, and imagine lots of policemen puppets running

around their bodies. Saliva samples were then taken from each

child, and the results showed that their immunoglobulin levels

had substantially increased – that is, their immune systems had

begun working as though they were fighting off real infections.”

- Paul McKenna. (How to change your life in 7 days)

This simple experiment shows us the unconscious mind not only knows what we know, but it responds to our analogies as reality, in other words; it responds to our associations as reality. The unconscious mind is not logical or rational, it merely takes what it observes and makes it so. And so it is. The unconscious non-local personality with the power to communicate with every other person in existence is now, through the power of language, associated with our Third Eye. Believe it! The Third Eye has always been associated with our pineal gland, and it has been suggested the pineal gland produces DMT (one of the most powerful hallucinogens in existence.) The hallucinations being a necessary synthesizer for the processing of information that cannot be understood by rational, linear thinking.

SO! By associating the act of “having sex in the name of ‘the Third eye’” with the intention of entering a collective-hyper-lucid-dreamworld; it is our contention yes we can willfully break down the wall of ordinary consciousness and shift our awareness into the non-local, multidimensional perspective. Why would we want to do this? For shits and giggles of course! However, prudence demands I do not tell you my personal name for the “third eye” lest you think I’m trying to start a cult *yuk*yuk*yuk* No. The arduous task of fashioning a personal analogy for the Third eye is yours and yours alone.

Happy gaming! And enjoy the show! …you ungrateful sons of bitches.

The Infinite and the Beyond — Podcast: Episode #014 — Magick with Dr. Dean Radin

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In the latest episode of The Infinite and the Beyond, we learn about the legendary 14th century French alchemist Nicolas Flamel in “A Corner in the Occult.”

Rumors say that Nicholas and his wife were able to turn mercury into gold and as a result of their experiments possibly even created the mystical Elixir of Life providing them both with immortality.

We talk with author and parapsychologist Dr. Dean Radin, senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and author of Entangled Minds, Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality.

During the course of the interview we talk about the Global Consciousness Project and touch upon what this could mean for the world. We also discuss his experiences as a research scientist and finally how his findings and current understandings relate to the art and practice of magick.

I also read some of the listener messages that I received since the last episode via the show website, podcast alley, and the show network. I even announced a new show contest where one lucky listener will win a copy of Dr. Radin’s most recent book Entangled Minds.

The drawing for this contest will occur in the next episode and if you are interested in participating be sure to enter by going here. All this and more in this great episode, blessed be and 93! Check the show notes for all links mentioned.

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From Egyptian mythology to Jewish mysticism, Rome and Greece to the Druids and the Gnostics, Tim Wallace-Murphy exposes a fascinating lineage of hidden mysteries and secret societies, continuing through the Templars, Rosicrucians and Freemasons to our modern visionaries. This hidden stream of spirituality and that of sacred knowledge are inseparably entwined to form the single most important continuous strand in the entire Western esoteric tradition.

This tradition exerted a seminal influence on the thinking of the builders of the great cathedrals, leading teachers in ecclesiastical schools, on philosophers, playwrights and poets such as Shakespeare, Goethe, Blake and W. B. Yeats, on artists and renaissance giants such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. It is also the root from which sprang alchemy and modern science.

Now, as more people than ever are looking to find alternatives to the dominant religions and dogmas that have told us what to think and how to behave, as faith has been questioned by religious scandals, economic meltdowns and environmental catastrophes, Wallace-Murphy reveals the secrets of the masters, including invaluable spiritual insights to everyday life that have been hidden throughout the ages. He shows us who kept this spiritual tradition alive despite appalling persecution, so that we in the 21st century might benefit from its accumulated fruits and ennoble our lives by emulating their example.

More info at www.hidden-wisdom.com.

A computerized selloff possibly caused by a simple typographical error triggered one of the most turbulent days in Wall Street history Thursday and sent the Dow Jones industrials to a loss of almost 1,000 points, nearly a tenth of their value, in less than half an hour. It was the biggest drop ever during a trading day.

No one was sure what happened, other than automated orders were activated by erroneous trades. One possibilility being investigated was that a trader accidentally placed an order to sell $16 billion, instead of $16 million, worth of futures, and that was enough to trigger sell orders across the market.

The Dow recovered two-thirds of the loss before the closing bell, but that was still the biggest point loss since February of last year. The lightning-fast plummet temporarily knocked normally stable stocks such as Procter & Gamble to a tiny fraction of their former value and sent chills down investors’ spines.

“Today … caused me to fall out of my chair at one point. It felt like we lost control,” said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank in Chicago.

Read More: AP via HuffPo

Thursday, May 6, 2010: East West Living Bookstore and Cafe

Saturday, May 8, 2010: New York Theosophical Society

Monday, May 10, 2010: Livingston Masonic Library

Whether you can make it or not, here’s the first five chapters of Hidden Wisdom available on Scribd:

From Egyptian mythology to Jewish mysticism, Rome and Greece to the Druids and the Gnostics, Tim Wallace-Murphy exposes in Hidden Wisdom a fascinating lineage of hidden mysteries and secret societies, continuing through the Templars, Rosicrucians, and Freemasons to our modern visionaries. This hidden stream of spirituality and that of sacred knowledge are inseparably entwined to form the single most important continuous strand in the entire Western esoteric tradition.

More info at www.hidden-wisdom.com.