Magick

What he did offer was a very RAW examination of some fundamental Crowley concepts. The assigned texts for the course were Crowley’s Book of Lies and also Book of Thoth. Wilson also had recommended texts like The Widow’s Son and various articles, etc.

You also have many projects that have nothing to do with computer science, such as your musical composition, Fantasia Apocalyptica. You even built your house around a two-story pipe organ. Is this variety also part what makes you happy? I wrote a couple of books, including Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About, that are about theology — things you can’t prove — rather than mathematics or computer science. My life would not be complete if it was all about cut and dried things. The mystical things I don’t understand give me humility. There are things beyond my understanding.

In mathematics, I know when a theorem is correct. I like that. But I wouldn’t have much of a life if everything were doable. This knowledge doesn’t tear me apart. Rather, it ensures I don’t get stuck in a rut.

Robert Anton Wilson writes a letter

Rockets and Magick - how do they relate?

Very nice podcast

Book lists are like gems.

Paul Brunton is the pen name of Raphael Hurst (21 October 1898 – 27 July 1981), a British author of spiritual books. He is best known as one of the early popularizers of Neo-Hindu spiritualism in western esotericism, notably via his bestselling A Search in Secret India (1934) which has been translated into over 20 languages.

Somebody put AI to work and cleanup/enhance this audio :) please

Found via boingboing for the summary as well.

Those there parties back then!

My knowledge of magick is superficial at best, so I would like to hear what more competent people say.

The general question is how (if) magical tools can be practically used to further the cause of anarchist (without adjectives) revolution.

The more specific question is, for starters:

Does it make sense to view money as a sigil for geas of obedience? And if it does, can we imagine the way to break this bond? Strip money of the power aspect and reduce it to purely technical role of an exchange token?

cross-posted from: https://group.lt/post/16326

mosprobably by RAW

About the modern Ouja board users

Mostly the usual suspects: John C. Lilly, Robert Anton Wilson, Grant Morrison and others

Works about Culianu A biography and an analysis of his death was published by Ted Anton under the title Eros, Magic, and the Death of Professor Culianu (alluding to Culianu's most influential work, Eros and Magic in the Renaissance). Elemire Zolla, Ioan Petru Culianu, Alberto Tallone Editore, 1994. Umberto Eco, Murder in Chicago, in The New York Review of Books, April 10, 1997 Sorin Antohi (ed.), Religion, Fiction, and History. Essays in Memory of Ioan Petru Culianu, Volumes I-II, Bucharest, Nemira, 2001. Sorin Antohi (coordinator), Ioan Petru Culianu. Omul și opera, Iași, Polirom, 2003 Matei Călinescu, Despre Ioan Petru Culianu și Mircea Eliade. Amintiri, lecturi, reflecții, Iași, Polirom, 2002, 2005(2). Andrei Oișteanu, Religie, politică şi mit. Texte despre Mircea Eliade și Ioan Petru Culianu, Polirom, Iași, 2007 (ediția a doua, revăzuta, adăugita și ilustrată, Polirom, Iași, 2014) Marcello De Martino, Mircea Eliade esoterico. Ioan Petru Culianu e i "non detti", Roma, Settimo Sigillo, 2008. Olga Gorshunova, Terra Incognita of Ioan Culianu, in Etnograficheskoe Obozrenie, 2008 № 6:94-110. ISSN 0869-5415

A rare audio recording of Gerald Suster's lecture on Aleister Crowley - recorded in West Hollywood, California on September 1st, 1989.