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He's not the messiah…
“It is absurd to be put in this position, when I’m just some bloke,” Mr. Patel said. A native of London now living on Potrero Hill in San Francisco, Mr. Patel suddenly finds himself an unlikely object of worship, proclaimed …
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Expanded Minds: Andy Sharp & Erik Davis
Andy Sharp, aka the English Heretic talks magick and neuroscience with Erik Davis on his excellent Expanding Mind radio show.
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American Henge
[photo by Sir Mildred Pierce] A nice transatlantic response to the Avebury film: The Georgia Guidestones [are] a mystery—nobody knows exactly who commissioned it or why. The only clues to its origin are on a nearby plaque on the ground—which …
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The Comic Book of Thoth
Since its appearance, the so-called Rider-Waite deck has sold gazillions of copies, inspiring brooding hermeticists and teenage Goths alike, and stamping its enigmatic images onto such key 20th century artifacts as T. S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland,” the classic noir Nightmare Alley, …
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Art, Mind and Magic @ SA Salon
[Deja Vu by Joel Biroco, on display at the Salon] The first Strange Attractor Salon event takes place this Thursday, 14 January at Viktor Wynd Fine Art, 11 Mare St, London E8 4RP. Doors open at 6pm and admission is …
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'Turn off You Mind' rides again!
A revised and expanded edition of SA contributor Gary Lachman’s excellent history of the rise of the occult counterculture in the 1960s, Turn Off Your Mind, is now available as The Dedalus Book of the 1960s. Gary will be discussing …
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Not an authority on anything
This year saw the passing of the iconic fortean writer and adventurer John Keel. As a tribute to his friend, Doug Skinner, writer, musician, SAJ contributor and all-round renaissance man has set up a web site to gather up the …
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Visions of the Al Azif
Sunday 1 November at The Foundry, 86 Great Eastern Street London EC2A 3JL. From 7pm. Entry free. Join us this Day of the Dead for an evening of cinematic ritual performance.’Visions of the Al Azif‘ is a cinematic meditation of the …
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Waking up in 2013
A thoughtful piece from SA contributor Gary Lachman on harmonic convergences, millennarian expectations, and what happens when the world doesn’t end… What troubled me… is what I call the “apocalyptic gesture,” … the desire for some once-and-for-all break with the …
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First Earth Battalion T Shirts!
‘If you want to be a member, you already are’ Lt. Col. Jim Channon SA co-founder John Lundberg has printed up a fresh batch of his fantastic First Earth Battalion T-Shirts, inspired by the legendary US Army unit featured in …
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Socorro UFO: Another one bites the dust?
Was one of the most celebrated UFO incidents of the 1960s a college prank on a policeman who hounded students from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology? The answer is a conclusive maybe… The April 1964 Socorro New …
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Gnosis Now! with Erik Davis
Via Techgnosis.com This is the first of eight lectures recorded last spring for a Maybe Logic Academy course called Gnosis Now! I will post one a week for the next eight weeks, along with the readings for the week. On October …
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