And Odin opened his book of knowledge and I was launched into the vastness of the cosmos. I saw the vast stretches of the infinite universe woven with fibers of cosmic intelligence, each star a point of a fire in a vast network of the cosmic mind. And then like…

“A shaman is someone who has been to the end, it’s someone who knows how the world really works, and knowing how the world really works means to have risen outside, above, beyond the dimensions of ordinary space, time, and casuistry, and actually seen the wiring under the board, stepped…

Ontological Earthquakes shake the world order We masked ourselves behind masks that hid our masks Rumbling wars shake the shaky foundations The world disordered order never held a center Its shakiness is now propped up by a million lies and justifications New woke digital churches of the righteous reactively form …

The Great Work is the uniting of opposites. It may mean the uniting of the soul with God, of the microcosm with the macrocosm, of the female with the male, of the ego with the non-ego — or what not.” ― Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears Gnostic Androgyny is a…

Life is a process of circumambulation with oneself via recursion. If we are paying attention, then each time we “go back to go forward” things level up in an ascending spiral. We also can go round and round in circles if we aren’t paying attention, or even further head into…

Countercultures have always been based on transgression vis a vis the values and institutions of the dominant culture. Which begs the question what happens when the dominant culture metabolizes the ideals and practices of the counterculture? What’s the meaning of Transgression when “Transgression” is the new normal? When the Corporate…

Freebooters, Wyrdos, True Anarchs, and Third Wayers are hard to come by in a world run by market segmentation algorithms that bifurcate our reading and quoting circles into polarized echo chambers. This is why in a world where most interaction is just a cacophony of noise and apology for various…

In his book Apocalyptic Witchcraft, as well as his shorter essay Rewilding Witchcraft, one of Peter Grey’s central arguments is that contemporary paganism has been tamed by the standards of urbane bourgeois consumer society and the capitalist system that underlies it. …

During the cold war, they talked about the Communist Eastern bloc countries (Russia/China) and their respective satellites vis a vis the “Free World” and its respective satellites. In 1991 Bush following Reagan/Thatcher’s Cold War against Russia’s “Evil Empire” launched Gulf War 1 and tried to define a “New World Order”…