Philosopher Anna Greenspan’s PhD dissertation, Capitalism’s Transcendental Time Machine (2000), like the early work of her associate Nick Land, has recently experienced a significant revival of attention. Concerns about the direction that our world is taking have beset a new generation of thinkers, both in the philosophical mainstream and the alternative realm. As a result, certain strange […]
Accessing Full Body Consciousness The Headless Ritual is a 15-minute long visual formulation that you perform in your mind and that I have just written a short book about. It’s derived from the Greek Magical Papyri, written around 2,000 years ago, and is known in that language as Akephalos Daimon (lit – headless spirit). The Hermetic Order
Help me, o warrior lord of Thebes, in my unveiling before the Children of men – Liber AL vel Legis I:5 This line, from early in Chapter 1 of Liber AL, has fascinated me for a while now. It intrigues me. It seems to challenge me to understand it. It tells me it has something
The Liber AL vel Legis – a well-known mystical text – was channelled by Aleister Crowley in Cairo in 1904. Crowley himself published numerous commentaries on the work, in his endeavours to understand and share just what he’d received. One central theme of Crowley’s writing on the Liber AL was the idea that it predicted
In these days where information can freely flow from one mind to another, unhindered by concerns for how true or otherwise it might be, there can be few people who have not heard the word, Illuminati – supposed beings with superhuman powers, invariably with malign intent for humanity. We’ve heard about the so-called Bavarian Illuminati.
On Sundays, when I’m in Istanbul, where I’m mostly living these days, I read Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials (2008). I do this because of one of those bizarre synchroncities, Ah-hah moments, that very occasionally come into my life. Sometime in early 2024, I was sitting on a bench in a park adjacent
Liber AL Rejects Meditation Aleister Crowley’s channelled work from 1904, Liber AL vel Legis, or Book of the Law, is famous for being riddled with, well, riddles, most of which he himself openly admitted he couldn’t unravel. Earlier on, I’ve had a crack at a few of the better known ones. This one is a
Opening the Body with the Cube of Space My much-awaited new book, the first to weave together these fields, is now available on Amazon and elsewhere. Opening the Body with the Cube of Space explains the real nitty-gritty of the Alchemical process of self-illumination and how you can utilise Reichian and Bioenergetic techniques to speed it
Aleister Crowley’s channelled work, Liber AL vel Legis, or Book of the Law (1904), is riddled, literally, with number and word puzzles that challenge the reader to comprehend. I had a crack at one of the two most famous ones a few months back. That was from Chapter III. This time I’m having a go
Can human spirituality rewire itself, such that it can hold our future generations firm? Or will we be driven hither and thither in blind obedience to market algorithms and screen addiction? Is there a Techno-Christos, Techno-Logos being carried slowly up the hill to Golgotha? Such thoughts assailed me this morning as I walked up to