Kenneth Grant, free eggs, experience, tarot and mounting deities
Posted By Psyche On Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 8:53 am In Occulture,Saturday Signal | Comments Disabled
[1]Saturday Signal: sifting the signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony.
I feel like I need some sort of intro here. Last week I said science was cool [2], and that’s still true, but sometimes science has the mind of a child. A dirty-minded child. This is one of those times. But you gotta know what’s up there, right? Right.
So, um, it turns out there’s weird water lurking inside Uranus [3]. (And Neptune.) If that’s not enough, there’s a giant ash hole on the Moon [4]. I don’t make this stuff up, kids.
Back on Earth baby mi-go have been spotted off the coast of Japan [5]. I’m not sure if I should be horrified or melt at how cute they look…No, I’m definitely horrified.
First, your occultural signal:
- A fascinating essay by Henrik Bogdan on Fulgur.co.uk [6] about Kenneth Grant, Tantra and sex magick, his expulsion from the OTO and his splintered Typhonian OTO group, over at “Kenneth Grant: Marriage between the West and the East [7]“. David Curwen also comes up, and his correspondence with Aleister Crowley is the subject of a new book [8] published by Teitan Press [9].
- The Green Egg [10] arose out of the Church of All Worlds [11] in 1968, evolving from a one page ditto sheet to the print journal many remember and love. It closed in 2001 only to arise later as an online-only ‘zine. As of August 23rd, it’s no longer subscriber-only, the journal and back issues dating back to 1994 [12] are available online, free of charge.
- On Enfolding.org [13] Phil Hine has written a great series of articles on experience, beginning with “Experience I [14]“, which looks at some of the problems surrounding UPG (Unverified Personal Gnosis) and authenticity. “Experience II: when worldviews collide [15]” discusses The Social Construction of Reality [16]
, by Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, further expanding my reading list. “Experience III: Some conundrums [17]” tackles what it is we mean when we say “experience”, and is the longest and best yet in this series. Check ‘em out.
- Fool Stop Tarot Blog [18] has dug up an interview between Stephen Winick and Stuart Kaplan [15] from 2008. It reads more as a biography or history of the U.S. Games, Kaplan’s company, but it offers a look into the man who has had the greatest impact on tarot of any non-card reader.
- Mark Morford writes for SFGate [19] about “How to properly mount your deity [20]“. It seems Morford has acquired a three foot statue of Nataraj and he is in the process of discovering what that means.
Noise? It’s not all bad. See “An idle brain may be the self’s workshop [21]” for more.
- Apparently Christians aren’t listening to enough heavy metal, at least according to one Anglican priest. Martin Beckford reports on Telegraph.co.uk [22] in “Christians could learn a lot about life from heavy metal, says cleric [23]“. Who knew?
- Writing for Mind Hacks [24], Vaughn Bell comments on what some of us have suspected for some time, namely that “Solitude conjures imaginary companions [25]“. It seems “loneliness, or even a brief reminder of it, leads us to see human-like qualities in objects around us, believe more strongly in the reality of God and supernatural beings”. Makes sense.
- Carl Sagan’s Dance Party [26] confirms once and for all that “Wiccans aren’t evil! [27]“…in the worst possible way. Satire FTW.
As always, if you come across anything nifty, please share it in the comments, or if you use delicious [28] tag it “ahrfoundation [29]” and we’ll take a look. Thanks!
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[1] Image: http://ahrfoundation.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/saturday-signal-ahrfoundation.png
[2] Last week I said science was cool: http://ahrfoundation.org/2010/08/28/commitment-skynet-tarot-and-old-mysteries/
[3] weird water lurking inside Uranus: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727764.500-weird-water-lurking-inside-giant-planets.html
[4] giant ash hole on the Moon: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/08/13/ash-hole-on-the-moon/
[5] baby mi-go have been spotted off the coast of Japan: http://io9.com/5629024/look-+-its-a-baby-mi+go-caught-by-divers-off-the-coast-of-japan
[6] Fulgur.co.uk: http://fulgur.co.uk
[7] Kenneth Grant: Marriage between the West and the East: http://www.fulgur.co.uk/authors/grant/articles/kenneth-grant-marriage-between-the-west-and-the-east/
[8] correspondence with Aleister Crowley is the subject of a new book: http://ahrfoundation.org/2010/08/19/new-book-of-crowley-correspondence-from-teitan-press/
[9] Teitan Press: http://www.teitanpress.com/
[10] The Green Egg: http://www.greeneggzine.com/
[11] Church of All Worlds: http://www.caw.org/
[12] back issues dating back to 1994: http://www.greeneggzine.com/issues.html
[13] Enfolding.org: http://enfolding.org/
[14] Experience I: http://enfolding.org/experience-i/
[15] Experience II: when worldviews collide: http://
[16] The Social Construction of Reality: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385058985?ie=UTF8&tag=ahrfoundationnet-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385058985
[17] Experience III: Some conundrums: http://enfolding.org/experience-iii-some-conundrums/
[18] Fool Stop Tarot Blog: http://usgs.typepad.com/blog
[19] SFGate: http://www.sfgate.com
[20] How to properly mount your deity: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fg%2Fa%2F2010%2F07%2F23%2Fnotes072310.DTL
[21] An idle brain may be the self’s workshop: http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-brain-20100830,0,2743109,full.story
[22] Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk
[23] Christians could learn a lot about life from heavy metal, says cleric: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7971749/Christians-could-learn-a-lot-about-life-from-heavy-metal-says-cleric.html
[24] Mind Hacks: http://mindhacks.com
[25] Solitude conjures imaginary companions: http://mindhacks.com/2010/08/26/solitud-conjures-imaginary-companions/
[26] Carl Sagan’s Dance Party: http://carlsagansdanceparty.wordpress.com/
[27] Wiccans aren’t evil!: http://carlsagansdanceparty.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/evil_wiccans/
[28] delicious: http://delicious.com/
[29] ahrfoundation: http://delicious.com/tag/ahrfoundation
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