Magickal battles, singing bowls, AC, anthropocentrism, Regardie’s Golden Dawn and Mathers’ silver locks

Another Saturday, another Signal.

Before we get started, I just wanted to highlight that the first “Interludes” issue of Trigger93 is now available for download, free of charge.

You may recall I reviewed the first issue of the new occult journal in January, and if that’s anything to go by, it should be a good read.

While we’re at it, I have a new review in the latest issue of Witches & Pagans as well, issue #23. The theme for this issue is “Law & Chaos”, and it has a great interview with Peter Carroll, Jaq D Hawkins and Andrieh Vitimus about chaos magick, what it means to them and where they think magick is heading in the future. You should check it out.

Now, on with your delicious linkage:

• magickal battle of Britain for Fortean Times.
• Tibetan singing bowls have given up their chaotic secrets, as Jason Palmer reports for the BBC. Science is cool. (Spotted via Technoccult.)
• Sarah Veale gives five reasons Aleister Crowley’s still relevant on Invocatio.
• Over on Therioshamanism, Lupa has a thought-provoking post about anthropocentrism and what it means in (neo-)Pagan spirituality.
• On Nick Farrell’s blog, Nick shares what Regardie didn’t know about the Golden Dawn, the post title a cute play on Regard’s classic, What You Should Know About the Golden Dawn (my 2006 review here).
• More fun from Nick Farrell, “Mathers’ secret hair colour revealed“. Deliberate deception, or an old magickian’s vanity?

New reviews on our sister site, Spiral Nature:

• Planetary Spells & Rituals, reviewed by Gesigewigu’s
• Confessions of a Black Magician, reviewed by me
• Dancing with Spirits, reviewed by Mike Gleason
• The Light of Sex, reviewed by me
• Zen: Simply Sitting, reviewed by me
• Bridging the Gap, reviewed by Mike Gleason

Thanks it for this week, kids.

Footnotes:

1. Hey Dave, how come you always seem to write with other people name Dave or David? Where do you find them all? [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.