Strange Attractor On Air: Sensible Sorcery
Sunday 31 October, 7pm UT on Resonance 104.4 FM
Mark Pilkington talks to Lionel Snell, one of the most influential and controversial figures to emerge from the occult revival of the 1970s and 1980s.
Under the pseudonym Ramsey Dukes – adopted partly because of his day job teaching at a prominent public school – Snell became a key writer, thinker and activist in the magical movement that dismantled the creaky, though elegantly attired, 19th century apparatus of hierarchical ceremonial magic and introduced contemporary ideas from psychology, philosophy and pop culture.
Snell is the author of several books including Sex Secrets of the Black Magicians Expose (1974), What I Did in My Holidays: Essays on Black Magic, Satanism, Devil Worship and Other Niceties (1999) and Uncle Ramsey’s Little Book of Demons (2005).
Lionel and Mark discuss sorcery, animism and what it means to be a magician in the 21st century. The discussion is illustrated with classic occult tunes from the likes of Graham Bond, Black Widow and er, Tom Tom Club.
Strange Attractor On Air: Sensible Sorcery
Sunday 31 October, 7pm UT on Resonance 104.4 FM
Mark Pilkington talks to Lionel Snell, one of the most influential and controversial figures to emerge from the occult revival of the 1970s and 1980s.
Under the pseudonym Ramsey Dukes – adopted partly because of his day job teaching at a prominent public school – Snell became a key writer, thinker and activist in the magical movement that dismantled the creaky, though elegantly attired, 19th century apparatus of hierarchical ceremonial magic and introduced contemporary ideas from psychology, philosophy and pop culture.
Snell is the author of several books including Sex Secrets of the Black Magicians Expose (1974), What I Did in My Holidays: Essays on Black Magic, Satanism, Devil Worship and Other Niceties (1999) and Uncle Ramsey’s Little Book of Demons (2005).
Lionel and Mark discuss sorcery, animism and what it means to be a magician in the 21st century. The discussion is illustrated with classic occult tunes from the likes of Graham Bond, Black Widow and er, Tom Tom Club.