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The Evocation of Mary Ann Cotton
by Wes Unruh on 2008-06-24 14:17:00
tags: attrition, dark ambient, mary ann cotton, music

Attrition's 2008 album, All mine enemys whispers (The Story of Mary Ann Cotton) available via Projekt.com and Attrition.Co.Uk

There are tones and ranges of sound that can channel emotional response directly into one's consciousness... Rhythmic entrainment and psychoacoustics are capable of eliciting specific emotional responses ...

Lives of Ilya Released
by Michael Szul on 2008-06-19 13:03:37
tags: daniele serra, lives of ilya, mythos media, tara vanflower

A special edition of Tara Vanflower's Lives of Ilya has been released by Mythos Media. Illustrated by Daniele Serra, Lives of Ilya is a poetic vampire tale in words and pictures.

For most, "immortal" is just a word, a description of a concept that defies all rational explanation. Born ...

Black Light Burns: Cruel Melody Review
by Michael Szul on 2008-06-11 12:11:54
tags: black light burns, cruel melody, the damning well, underworld, wes borland

I guess this would be part 2 of the Underworld supergroup reviews (part 1 being the review of Puscifer). Black Light Burns stems from the form supergroup known as The Damning Well, which consisted of Wes Borland (Limp Bizkit), Danny Lohner (Nine Inch Nails), Richard Patrick (Filter), and Josh Freese ...

Are Witches "Pagan?"
by Michael Szul on 2008-06-03 09:00:44
tags: gnosticism, jordan stratford, pagan, paganism, witchcraft

Some readers of Key 64 might already be aware of the works of Father Jordan Stratford. For those of you who aren't, Stratford is a very pragmatic religious writer and Gnostic Catholic priest, who has gained quite an amount of notoriety in the Gnostic and occult circles online. His ...

Jose Arguelles' Dreamspell Revisited
by Michael Szul on 2008-05-23 08:08:00
tags: 2012, daniel pinchbeck, dreamspell, jose arguelles, mayan calendar

The Galactic Research Institute's Rinri Project has released the Rinri Project Newsletter III: Volume 4, Number 3.

Jose Arguelles is the founder of Planet Art Network and the Foundation for the Law of Time, of which the Galactic Research Institute is a division. Arguelles gained much notoriety for his ...

Know Thyself
by Anton Channing on 2008-05-13 22:08:32
tags: alan watts, apollo, comfort, dance, delphi, journey, know, knowledge, music, oracle, self

gnothi seauton

So read the inscription in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, according to the travelogue writer Pausanias.  But what did it mean? The Temple of Delphi was of course built at the location of the famous Delphic Oracle.  So it could be an instruction of ...

The Economics of Green
by Michael Szul on 2008-04-23 10:31:15
tags: earth day, ecology

Since yesterday was Earth Day, I wanted to bring up a few points about ecology and the "green" movement for people to ponder.

First, as I pointed out in a previous article on the Morality of Ecology, Aldo Leopold stated in his essay entitled "Round River":

As for diversity, what ...

2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl
by Michael Szul on 2008-04-22 09:36:59
tags: 2012, daniel pinchbeck, maya, quetzalcoatl

I was phenomenally impressed with Daniel Pinchbeck's Breaking Open the Head, so when 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl was published, I jumped on purchasing it as soon as I could.

It has taken me a while to complete the task of finishing up this book. I had started it ...

The Infinite Game
by Michael Szul on 2008-02-21 14:43:24
tags: david hume, grant morrison, immanuel kant, james carse, soren kierkegaard, the infinite game, the invisibles

An ouroboros is an ancient Egyptian symbol depicting a snake eating its own tale. It can signify many things in both the ancient and the modern world. One of the significant things that it symbolizes is the circular revolution of life, such as birth and renewal. The ouroboros, much like ...

Datamancer
by Anonymous on 2007-06-05 08:41:54
tags: datamancer

[Publisher’s Note: The interviewee has asked that the interviewer be credited anonymously.]

You’ve turned out some amazing work on the spur of the moment in like, one night. Yet, I remember when we were working on “Programming From the Ground Up”, something simple and bland like a cover ...

Sizing Up Your Magical Practice
by Mordant Carnival on 2007-06-04 11:10:59
tags: magic, mordant carnival

(Or, how not to end up in a tinfoil hat.)

It’s the aim of this article to look at ways of appraising your magical practice, offering a few approaches and techniques to make sure things are on track as far as effectiveness goes and also to avoid some of ...

Foucault's Pendulum - Too Obscure To Piss Off The Pope.
by James Curcio on 2006-06-28 16:23:27
tags: da vinci code, foucaults pendulum

Despite the glut of ridiculous controversy surrounding the rather mediocre Da Vinci Code -- which to date includes the outrage of an 'Albino rights' group and the ruffled feathers of the 'mythical' Opus Dei - a great deal of the information at the heart of the story is based on fact. Given ...

Breaking Open the Head
by Michael Szul on 2006-06-23 15:32:58
tags: daniel pinchbeck, psychedelics

Reading Daniel Pinchbeck's psychedelic biography is like traveling down the same path with him. You're taken down a mystical pathway of initiation and retribution detailed in such a way as to spur your own rite of passage.

When we first meet Pinchbeck in Breaking Open the Head, he ...

The Book of Lies
by Michael Szul on 2006-06-23 15:11:29
tags: daniel pinchbeck, disinformation, grant morrison, mark pesce, paul laffoley, phil hine, richard metzger, terrence mckenna

Every once in a while, an occult book comes along that refuses to conform to the status quo of the era that it loudly takes birth in. It it often the case, that books such as these are the books that become the classic occult literature of future generations. Disinformation ...