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Netherwood memories
[Photo by Tony of Kill Your Pet Puppy on a visit to the deathplace of master magus Aleister Crowley, or what’s left of it.] A memoir by Rodney Davis, THE LAST DAYS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY, THE GREAT BEAST, AT HASTINGS, in …
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Museum of British Folklore
The Museum of British Folklore is an ambitious new travelling folklore collection and display from Simon Costin, who also happens to be a theatre set designer. The museum is housed in a beautifully painted caravan and is slowly winding its …
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John Keel RIP
Legendary fortean author John Keel died in New York City last Friday, 3 July, aged 79. As a journalist Keel wrote on a wide range of subjects, but he will be best remembered for his non-fiction travel memoirs, Jadoo 1957, …
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Occulture 2009
SA pal and contributor Gary Lachman hosts Occulture 2009, a one day festival of occult talks, films and performance. Also on the bill are Iain Sinclair, Stephen Skinner, Ralph Harvey and Orryelle Defenestrate, along with films, stalls and more. Saturday …
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John Michell RIP
John Michell, the visionary author of The View Over Atlantis, The Flying Saucer Vision, City of Revelation and many more died early this morning, 24 April 2009, aged 76. John was central in introducing ancient notions of the sacred into …
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Oneironauticum at Reality Sandwich
SA pal Jennifer Dumpert’s Oneironauticum dreamscape project is featured over at Reality Sandwich: On the last Saturday of every month, Oneironauticum participants worldwide enter dream space together. We do this by sharing an oneirogen. Derived from the Greek oneiro, or dream, and gen, to …
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Top Ten Grimoires
Historian of witchcraft Owen Davies, author of an excellent new history of Grimoires, has provided his top ten magical books to the Guardian. Davies’ own magic tome, which covers Akashic Library records from the Clavicule of Solomon to the Necronomicon, will …
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Austin Spare absinthe
Enterprising absinthiste Oliver Matter has concocted a special brew dedicated to the English artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare. ‘The first batch was distilled on Spare’s birthday, 30 December. The formula is taken from J. De Brevans 1897 manual La fabrication des liqueurs, with …
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Equinox Festival: London, June 09
Strange Attractor is excited to be involved with the first Equinox Festival, to be held in London’s Conway Hall (site of our own Megalithomania event in 2002) on June 12-14 2009. Equinox is currently hosting 13 bands, 12 speakers and 10 films, …
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Howard Menger's Final Journey
Howard Menger, one of the most charming and colourful of the golden era UFO contactees, died on 25 February at his Florida home. He was 87. Reports Greg Bishop: …in 1956, [Menger] appeared on the Long John Nebel radio show, …
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Savage Pencil: Gold Sabbat
Illustrator and artist Savage Pencil has a stunning exhibition of new work on display in the basement of the Atlantis Bookshop. Gold Sabbat features new automatic works on paper depicting dreams inspired by the Hexen ceremony and Montague Summers, amongst …
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Gary Lachman on Jung the fascist
What comes across in accounts of Jung’s involvement with the Nazis is that, like anyone else, the great man was capable of damaging mistakes and misjudgments, a charge made against Jung by one of his closest collaborators, the Jewish psychoanalyst …
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