An irregular hodgepodge of links beyond the library curated together from @OmniumGatherum at Hrmtc I∴O∴ and more … Omnium Gatherum for June 15, 2022.

Here’s a selection of notable things I’ve recently found that you may also be interested in checking out:

• Today! “Witchcraft, Wunderkammer and Weirdness!: Steve Patterson’s Cornish Cabinet of Magic and Folklore. In this talk we will be going on a walking tour of the “Gwithti a Pystri” via a short film produced by Gemma Gary and Jane Cox of Troy Books. Digital Events – Zoom Lecture, Jun 15th 2022 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm, £5 – £10 & By Donation.”
• “Tarot for Dreamers & Visionaries: A Dialogue of Self and Soul, Friday 18th November – Sunday 20th November 2022, 9:15 am – 5:15 pm (UK Time)”—”Three days. Nine speakers. A myriad of enlightening perspectives. Welcome to The College of Psychic Studies’ inaugural Tarot Symposium.”
• Events in June at Treadwell’s, including: Women in the Occult, Thu, 16 Jun 7pm UK time, Manon Hedenborg White & Julian Vayne; The Mass of Baphomet, Workshop IN PERSON, Sat, 19 Jun – Julian Vayne; Theatre, Performance, Magic. Tue, 21 Jun – 7pm UK time; The Erotic & Angelic Body, Workshop with Gabriela Herstik, Sun, 26 Jun – 7pm UK time; The Welsh Folk Witch,Thu, 23 Jun, with Welsh folk witch Mhara Starling.
• “Summer solstice 2022: When the longest day of the year falls and midsummer traditions to celebrate. The event marks the longest day of the year and the beginning of the astronomical summer.”—”This year it falls on Tuesday, June 21 – when the UK will enjoy 16 hours and 43 minutes of daylight. The sun will rise at 4.43am and set at 9.22pm.”
• The Australian Wiccan Conference—”The 2022 Australian Wiccan Conference will take place from the 16th-18th of September.”
• “Sølve releases second album ‘Earth Inferno’. Out now is the second album for the solo-project Sølve. Out now via the Re:Mission…”—”Taking its name from the infamous work by Austin Osman Spare, ‘Earth Inferno’ offers a more raw, direct, and personal approach from Sølve in his follow up to 2016’s ‘The Negative'” About EARTH INFERNO by SØLVE.
• “Is AI Sentient? Kierkegaard and Heidegger vs. Anselm on Method.”
• “Crop Circles Were Made by Supernatural Forces. Named Doug and Dave. Intricate patterns carved in fields across England in the 1980s were a viral phenomenon long before the internet fed us such prankster curiosities daily.”
• “Comic Book Preview – Bill & Ted Roll the Dice #1“—”The time-traveling duo are back … Old friend Joan of Arc, Aleister Crowley … the party taking on the Game Master… Satan, himself! Plus, the ‘Secret Origin of Chuck De Nomolos’!” About Bill & Ted Roll the Dice #1.
• “Malakai Black Was Better In WWE NXT Than AEW. Aleister Black was the best version of Tommy End.”—”During the heyday of WWE NXT, there was another in Aleister Black, an occult type figure who drew from the name of occultist and magician, Aleister Crowley.”
• “The most famous English private schools“—”Tonbridge School is located in Kent founded in 1553 and has had as students Frederick Forsyth, EM Forster, Vikram Seth, Aleister Crowley and a flood of professional cricket players.”
• “Hi-Fear (2022) Review“—”Hi-Fear’s first story “Losing It At The Devil’s Whorehouse” … with a staff that includes Aleister Crowley … and Jezabel … they’re going to be losing more than just their virginity.” Due later this year, apparently.
• “How A ‘Stranger Things’ Character Is Inspired By The Real-Life Story Of Damien Echols, From The West Memphis 3“—”Eddie Munson, played by Joseph Quinn, is based upon Damien Echols, who was one of three metalheads blamed for the murders of three 8-year-old boys in Arkansas in 1993.”
• “How Yoga Carries Its Own Legacies of Violence. Fariha Róisín on Understanding Caste Supremacy and Teaching Yoga in the West.” Excerpt from Who is Wellness For? by Fariha Róisín
• Rock ‘N’ Roll Witch: A Memoir of Sex Magick, Drugs, & Rock ‘N’ Roll by Pleasant Gehman, introduction by Pamela Des Barres, foreword by Theresa Kereakes.
• Codex Nordica (Swedish Edition) by Carl Abrahamsson. See also. “I spillrorna efter långvariga krig och katastrofer … Är det överhuvudtaget möjligt att återgå till ett civiliserat liv efter en så lång tid av kaos?” [In the rubble after long wars and disasters … Is it at all possible to return to a civilized life after such a long time of chaos?]
• “A 1955 book on right-wing extremists predicted the Jan. 6 attack“—”The authors wrote that far-right activists who wrapped themselves in the American flag actually posed a grave threat to the country’s core principles. In the name of protecting U.S. democracy, they warned, the radical right would employ the language and methods of authoritarianism.” About The Radical Right ed Daniel Bell.
• “‘In the Shadow of the Gods’ Review: Ruling Earthly Realms“—”Imperial authority always was symbolic as well as actual. From his invention, the emperor was, if not divine, then the next best thing.” About In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History by Dominic Lieven.
• “The Fantasy of Bringing the Whole System Down. ‘The Visitors,’ a novel by Jessi Jezewska Stevens, reimagines the protest movements after the 2008 financial crisis.” About The Visitors by Jessi Jezewska Stevens.
• “Werner Herzog’s Fever Dreams. The filmmaker behind “Grizzly Man” and “Fitzcarraldo” makes a late-career foray into fiction with his new book, “The Twilight World.” He feels he has finally found his medium.” About The Twilight World by Werner Herzog.
• “Unseen works by ‘queen of gothic fiction’ Shirley Jackson published. Two previously unseen short stories by Jackson, rated by Stephen King as one of the great horror fiction writers, are to appear in US magazine the Strand.”—”Charlie Roberts and Only Stand and Wait were both published on 9 June in Strand magazine, a US-based print magazine that publishes short fiction and interviews.” See.
• “Is your mind just a parasite on your physical body? What if intelligence can thrive without consciousness?” About Blindsight by Peter Watts. Mind Parasites FTW!
• “Hubble Determines Mass of Isolated Black Hole Roaming Our Milky Way“—”Astronomers estimate that 100 million black holes roam among the stars in our Milky Way galaxy, but they have never conclusively identified an isolated black hole. Following six years of meticulous observations, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has, for the first time ever, provided direct evidence for a lone black hole drifting through interstellar space”
• “Cloned Crayfish Accidentally Created in an Aquarium Are Conquering the World. It sounds like something out of a movie, but it’s really happening.” Ugh, not now new cloned crayfish overlords!
• “First gas turbine powered by pure hydrogen. Researchers at the University of Stavanger (UiS) have managed to run a gas turbine on 100 percent hydrogen.”
• “Superworms capable of munching through plastic waste“—”We found the superworms fed a diet of just polystyrene not only survived, but even had marginal weight gains …This suggests the worms can derive energy from the polystyrene, most likely with the help of their gut microbes.”
• “Astronomers may have detected a ‘dark’ free-floating black hole.”
• “Drumming for 90 minutes a week ‘improves quality of life’ for autistic people. A new study at the University of Chichester has found drumming improves behaviour and brain function in autistic adolescents.”
• “Physicists discover never-before seen particle sitting on a tabletop. This newly-discovered particle could account for dark matter.”—”It’s not every day you find a new particle sitting on your tabletop.”
• “Amazon calls cops, fires workers in attempts to stop unionization nationwide. As Amazon prepares to argue that the union victory in Staten Island should be overturned, employees around the country are accusing the company of using illegal anti-union tactics.”
• “Activision Blizzard changes course, will recognize and negotiate with Raven QA union. After months of resistance, CEO Bobby Kotick says the company is ready to enter ‘good faith negotiations’ for a collective bargaining agreement.”
• “Bitcoin drops 17%, falling below $23,000 as $200 billion wiped off crypto market over the weekend.” Tulip craze gotta tulip craze ??
• “Donald Trump, American Monster“—”As Bennie Thompson, the chair of the committee, noted, when the Capitol was attacked in 1814, it was by the British. This time, it was by an enemy within, egged on by the man at the heart of the democracy he swore to protect.”
• Tweet—”Portland, Los Angeles, Berkeley, New York City, Schaumberg, Phoenix, Salem : the same exact Proud Boys who stormed the Capitol had been attacking people in the streets for YEARS, captured on countless videos, with the blessing and active support from local law enforcement.”

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