Imaginary friends, sacred sex, Fallen Nation, Cthulhu crochet, and another round up
By Psyche | August 23, 2008 | Print This Post | E-mail This Post | 5 Comments
Saturday Signal: attempting to sift signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony.
This has been a crazy week: camping on the weekend, end of another fiscal quarter at work entailing many late nights at the office, treated with a delightful time at Cirque du Soleil‘s Saltimbanco yesterday,1 and I now find myself playing Internet catch-up this weekend in preperation for another busy weekend come Labour Day.
- Meta-Magick author Philip H. Farber asks “What makes the character of Ganesh recognizable to worshipers2 as a god…?” in “Gods, Demons and Imaginary Friends“, published on Reality Sandwich yesterday. Farber looks at the way we understand disincarnate entities in relation to the self, and creating them. With exercises!
- William Dalrymple, writing for The New Yorker, highlights the distressing nature of modern worship of Yellamma in India, contrasting medieval devadasis with their modern counterparts in a piece titled “Serving the Goddess“. Via Technoccult.
- In a brief post on Key 64 yesterday, author James Curcio announced that his second novel Fallen Nation (reviewed on ahrfoundation.org here)3 was optioned by Invictus Films and SB Productions. Invictus Films is run by president and creative director Alexander Emmert. According to the Invictus Films website “there are rumors that Emmert hopes to shoot the film in South Africa in early 2009.” Best of luck to James on this project.
- Cthulhu Crochet and Cousins is an endearingly nerdy blog begun late January of this year. It showcases odd crochet projects from fandom (Dr. Horrible, anyone?), and offers crochet patterns for Cthulhu figures (Cthulhu and Tiny Cthulhu) and monsters (Bartlby, the Baby Rat Creature and Bunnicula). Horrifyingly cute.
- Finally, over at Mishkan ha-Echad, Dean Wilson, inspired by ahrfoundation.org’s Saturday Signal, has created his own weekly round-up, the first of which was posted today. For those of you who just can’t get enough, check it out here: “Weekly Roundup: Dangers, Sex, & Rock N’ Roll“. (PS: I’m not a guy.)
With this hectic week drawing to a close ahrfoundation.org will resume its regular schedule on Monday.
Footnotes:
- Great fun. If you get the chance to see Cirque du Soleil perform live: take it. [back]
- Sic. [back]
- See “Review: Fallen Nation, by James Curcio“. [back]
Psyche is the editor of ahrfoundation.org and the curator for the occult resource SpiralNature.com, Psyche also operates a tarot consultation business, Psyche Tarot. She has been published in The Cauldron, Konton, Tarot World Magazine, among other magazines, and her essay “Strategic Magick” appeared in Manifesting Prosperity (Megalithica, 2008).
Psyche's website is http://www.ahrfoundation.org.
Since it hasn’t been said (by me), I really appreciate these weekly round-up posts. Digimob’s new forum community has recently launched, and an unfortunate amount of my time is spent hunting around the Internet for occult-related content. Your weekly posts assist in that process.
Namaste.
Thanks! Glad to be of service!
If you discover anything nifty in your travels I’d love to cross-pollinate. (You know, occulturally.)
Ave Psyche,
I just KNEW as I wrote my post that I was making a mistake, but due to uncertainty I thought a man would be more offended if I called him a woman than a woman if I called her a man. Regardless, I corrected the error in my post, and please accept my sincerest apologies for the mistake.
LVX,
Dean.
There are at least three odd assumptions at work here:
Differences between Irish and Canadian culture, personal experience, or the (apparently) widespread belief that all (vocal) occultists are men (with the exception of a few dead women, and fewer still among the living)?
I take no offence, you’re hardly the first! Despite my (clearly) feminine handle, over the past twelve years, online most occultnik men automatically make the same assumption you did. I don’t really get it, but there it is anyway.
Ave Psyche,
Believe me, I’ve made the mistake before, with assuming a man is a women or a women is a man. Experience has taught me that men are more offended at being called women (I base my experience primarily on Irish culture). I thought your handle of “Psyche” was feminine, but I knew a few people, at various times, who use the name or a variation, and they were male.
The internet needs little gender tags like those on public toilets ;)
Apologies again for the mistake, Sister :)
LVX,
Dean.