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The Holographic Universe v2
Those of us who have thrilled to Michael Talbot’s classic of meta-fortean speculation, The Holographic Universe or the denser work of David Bohm will be happy to hear that the idea is rippling its way back into focus. This from New …
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Vril power at the BBC!
SAJ contributors Mike Jay and Gary Lachman are amongst the disembodied voices discussing the joys of Edward Bulwer Lytton’s Vril in this recent BBC Radio 3 documentary presented by Matthew Sweet. Matthew Sweet finds out about Vril, the infinitely powerful …
Tagged bulwer lytton, Curiosities, Esoterica, mysticism, Science, victoriana, vril
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Dale Pendell dot com
Gyrus has just launched a new web site for the visionary ethnobotanist and poet Dale Pendell. Here’s an interview Gyrus conducted with Dale at this year’s World Psychedelic Forum, complete with a terribly out of focus photograph by yours truly. Must …
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Crowleyana unveiled
Julian Doyle, director of the recent Aleister Crowley flick Chemical Wedding, talks to the family of AC’s friend and some time acolyte Gerald Yorke about their collection of Crowleyana. Fascinating, drool-inducing stuff over at youtube. Via Dailygrail & Boing Boing
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Sarah Palin, Christians and witches
‘The real shape-shifting force we need to be talking about in this tale is not witchcraft and Satan, but Christianity… Once, a rational Europe believed that Christianity could be assimilated to modern knowledge and a modern worldview. This has not …
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These incidents are all too come from a god
SA pal Greg Bishop has been playing with a cutup generator over at his excellent blog UFOmystic. This piece of text I think is particularly telling: The phenomenon appears to have perfectly human. In fact, I thought a copy of …
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An American Fascism
SAJ pal and contributor Gary Lachman has posted an article over at Reality Sandwich as a prelude to his forthcoming book Politics and the Occult: The Left, the Right, and the Radically Unseen. Writes Gary: “contrary to popular belief, occult politics …
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Messengers of Deception
Exciting news from Greg Taylor of The Daily Grail – a new edition of Jacques Vallee’s 1979 classic of paranoid ufology, Messengers of Deception. This re-issue has been lightly revised by the good Dr Vallee and is part of a …
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Beware the hypigcken
No, we’re not sure what this is about either, though Dr David Luke who passed it to us, summed it up quite nicely: ‘pro-black fascist esoteric shananigans and perverse use of the pineal gland… is someone yanking my chain?’ Take …
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Hauntology now
Monday 12th May 12:00 – 18:00 – SYMPOSIUM Hauntology Now At the Museum of Garden History, Lambeth, London SE1 7LB £8 [For an introduction to musical hauntology, see The Electric Seance by John Coulthart] In the past two years, the …
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The Universe as colossal brain
Left: Neurons in a (mouse) brain. Right: The universe with illuminated galaxies, simulated by a team of astrophysicists. From Clifford Pickover’s Reality Carnival The universe is a mouse?
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Libraries and the occult
Now here’s a researcher after our own heart: Cecile Dubois has made her 2004 MA dissertation Libraries & the Occult available for download: The occult seems to be one of the least considered subjects when it comes to classification. This …
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