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Liber Astarte vel Berylli sub figura CLXXV recently cataloged at Goodreads

Monday, May 7, 2012

Liber Astarte vel Berylli sub figura CLXXV as it appears in Equinox Vol I No vii has recently been added to the catalog at Goodreads, a “site for readers and book recommendations”. (ASTARTE vel Liber BERYLLI sub figurâ CLXXV is also available separately from the Equinox with the other Technical Libri along with so many [...]

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The Hermetic Library Tumblr gets a gander by a library science student as part of their final project

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

The Hermetic Library Tumblr gets a gander by Frank the Sheep (any relation to Frank the Goat?), a library science student, as part of their final project over at “The Hermetic Library“. The final project, apparently for LIBR 500: Foundations of Information Technology coursework, specifically looks at library engagements in social networks, but focused specifically [...]

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Havel’s ‘Respect for Mystery’ versus the Techno-Gnostics

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

“Havel’s ‘Respect for Mystery’ versus the Techno-Gnostics” by Joseph P. Duggan is a recent post over at The American Spectator which discusses a modern ‘techno-gnosticism’ while imagining a scene at the pearly gates made possible by the recent synchronous deaths of Václav Havel, Christopher Hitchens and Kim Jong-Il. This article is ostensibly about one of [...]

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An Open Letter to the Occupy Movement from the Alliance of Community Trainers

Monday, November 14, 2011

You may be interested in this open letter to the Occupy Movement from the Alliance of Community Trainers, which includes Starhawk. I think everyone is getting in on the action by trying to tell the Occupy Movement what it should or shouldn’t do, which I think when done well is part of the overall culture [...]

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Scarlet Imprint goes digital

Friday, November 11, 2011

Just got word via the Scarlet Imprint Newsletter that they’re now going to be offering digital editions of their books. They’ve redesigned the Scarlet Imprint website to be cleaner and clearer and have started to add a few titles in digital format. So, check out the digital edition of Datura, a collection of occult and [...]

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Condolences and solidarity on the passing of Michael Hart

Monday, September 12, 2011

I wanted to take a moment to express my personal condolences to the friends, family and loved ones of Michael Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg. Additionally, I wanted to express continued solidarity with the vision and mission of Project Gutenberg to increase literacy, preserve works, and support the expansion of the rights and resources [...]

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Zombie philosophers gang war!

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Last night, I think I got served. Here’s an exchange between Jeffrey S. Kupperman (publisher of The Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition) and I about starting rival motorcycle gangs: @Demon_Writer: I’d start a Platonic motorcycle club/gang called the Logoi, except for the not having a motorcycle thing. Or a gang. @jgbell: Stupid rules always [...]

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Anthropocene

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

The Economist [also] online has recently added a couple articles from their recent issue about the impact of humans on the planet, and the suggestion that we might be moving into an Anthropocene Age, an age of man. “Rather than placing us still in the Holocene, a peculiarly stable era that began only around 10,000 [...]

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You wouldn’t hit a guy in a fluffy bunny costume would you?

Thursday, May 19, 2011

It seems to me that the wider Pagan and Occult community has been using Wiccans as human shields. Nowadays it’s not “you wouldn’t hit a guy with glasses, would you?” it’s “you wouldn’t hit a guy in a fluffy bunny costume, would you?” Somewhere mainstream culture has internalized the message that Paganism is equivalent to [...]

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