the founder of the San Franciso Church of Satan, was a consummate showman who used vaudeville tactics and canny branding – as well as naked young women – to propel his movement into the limelight. In many ways, he was more of an occult influencer...
I have come to regret the name of the site as it seems to generate anxiety in some people. The name was chosen nearly twenty years ago. If I could do it all over again, I would probably choose another name, maybeTranscendTheLight.com. But I do think it is important to investigate to...
One reason is that the game still suffers from the hangover of its initial reputation. Released in 1974, there was something of a "Satanic panic" around the game, which was seen by some as acradle of Satanic occultism. The game's aesthetic, including a 20-sided dice which looks like a...
Some of these lawyers point out that this situation carries the signs of occultism – the symbol is a mask, the ritual is a requirement to wear a mask and wash the hands, there are also penalties for disobedient and protesting people – the virus pandemic as a new form of religion ...
One central argument isthat the opposition between“Hindu spirituality”and“Western materialism,”and the knowledge of Sanskrit as a tool for accessing the occult knowledge in theIndian scriptures was key to that shift. Harlass further shows that the evolution-ary argumentation about the adepts was...
Public schools are also promoting occultism. There is a reading series called “Impressions” that is used in the second and third grades of some public schools. It teaches the students how to cast spells. One of the exercises is to pretend that some children have had a magician cast a sp...
(Morrison’s term) from the absent presence of American Africanism. The neces-sary caveat, then, is to tread carefully around what Doris Sommers calls “theravages of facile intimacies” that white folk bring to “minority writing.” Themisguided tendency here is to substitute “self-...
Indeed, Altglas (2014) argued that Westerners are drawn to contemporary Hindū traditions not only out of exoticism, but because they see in them functional answers to the imperatives of being positive, of managing stress and anxiety, and of striving for sensations of self-realization. Palmer ...
Download Article 1 Prepare a sacred circle. Draw a circle using chalk or a stick, then draw a pentagram inside it. Alternately, you may draw a sacred circle on a piece of paper large enough to stand on. Light candles around the circle before you step inside. Candle magic is thought ...
“As Above, So Below” Definition | Usage | Origins | Ties to the Occult You’ve probably heard the phrase, “As above, so below,” but what exactly does it mean? Ancient in origin, the expression has come to mean a number of different things over the years, but it generally means...