When I was habitually off my face on cannabis and LSD as a youngster, I found my magical centre of gravity in the postmodern corpus of the professionally challenged publishing houses New Falcon Publications and Samuel Weiser, more specifically the works of Robert Anton Wilson and Peter Carroll. The postmodern ...

First, let me applaud Taylor Ellwood for his attempt at breaking through the "poor pagan" stereotype. I've always been rather curious about the perceived correlation between the occult and being poor.

It's true that most pagan systems come from the lowlands, and most of these belief systems termed ...

When asked about the LucSoc (Luciferian Society),  people seem to find it odd that not only are we not disciples of the work of Michael Ford, we are not Satanists by any traditional guideline.  We are not a spiritual group, although we reserve the right to perform masses.  We are ...

Yesterday we informed you of David Whitt and John Perlich's call for chapters for their new book There and Back Again: Mythology and the New Millennium. Today, we have a request from a good friend of Key 64 that many of you know well.

Taylor Ellwood, the mastermind behind ...

Two of my main interests in life are graffiti, and the practice of ceremonial magic. It wasn’t long after I started stumbling my way into magic that I started to notice similarities, and parallels between the acts of carrying out ceremonial magic, and going out and doing graffiti.

Both ...

I woke up tired and groggy, slamming the snooze button and knocking my alarm clock off the coffee table. I came home the night before (or rather late the same morning), having had a rough, but enjoyable night at a fetish club I often frequent in Tokyo. I felt a ...

In an era of chaos magick, and more focus on individual attainment, it would initially seem like a book on maintaining occult groups would be obsolete. In most cases, this would be true; but Nick Farrell's light-hearted approach to occult groups is a highly recommended, refreshing look at group ...

Taylor Ellwood'sPop Culture Magick can best be seen as a transitional book taking one from the world of fantasy to the real magick that exists behind every doorway and in every shadow of our world. Popular culture may not be popular among many of today's occultists (with ...