Twilight, OTO, Thelema, Pagan historian, Pagan fool and real realities

Saturday Signal: sifting the signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony.

Wishing all of you a very merry long weekend! ¹

I’ve already gone sailing.

• Michelle Belanger launched a new website in August called the Twilight Path, named after her upcoming book Walking the Twilight Path: A Gothic Book of the Dead (Llewellyn, October 2008).  The co-host of the popular Shadowdance Podcast introduces a new podcast: Twilight Path Studies with Jackie Williams.  The first six podcasts have already been released.

• ahrfoundation.org posted² Mogg Morgan’s take on the British OTO trademark case in July.³ Read more in the post titled “OTO Matters” which reprints the original with more detail and follow up his blog Mandrake.

• John Crow writes about what being a Thelemite means to him in “The Sacred and the Profane” published in his blog Treasure House of Pearls.

• The British historian and author of The Triumph of the Moon Ronald Hutton was interviewed by Gary Lachman for the Independant.co.uk.  In “Ronald Hutton – Wicca and other invented traditions“, Hutton talks about his latest book, The Druids, released earlier this year in May.  Had I known it would have been on my reading list earlier.

• Jason Pitzl-Waters writes about “High Priest of British White Witches” Kevin Carlyon. In “Living God in a Red Bathrobe” posted on The Wild Hunt, Pitzl-Waters give a comic account of Carlyon’s spectacular antics, such as “exorcising” the spirit of Aleister Crowley.  Really.

• In “Is That a Real Reality, or Did You Make It Up Yourself?” published in Reality Sandwich, Steven Taylor explores themes such as “Is art merely illustrative of cultural conditions, or does it play a role in motivating cultural shift? ” through music and language.

Reality Sandwich is a great webzine which attracts and publishes many talented writers on a variety of alternative subjects.  Five weeks running they’ve been included in Saturday Signal – I highly encourage you to subscribe to their RSS feed if you haven’t yet.  (While you’re at it, subscribe to ours!) ⁴

Footnotes:

1. Unless you don’t have one this weekend in your country.  In which case I wish you a spectacular weekend to make up for it not being as long. [back]
2. With permission. [back]
3. See “News: One take on the OTO UK trademark case“. [back]
4. See “What is RSS?” if that’s your question. [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.