The noise and bustle generated by the ongoing three-ring circus of US politics in the era of Trump can make it hard sometimes to notice that performances just as colorful, and sometimes as absurd, are under way in other countries as well. One example that’s been on my mind of late is Brexit: the impending…
Month: August 2018
August 2018 Open Post
It’s been a couple of months now since the last open post — the Kek Wars sequence pushed that aside in July — but here we are again, at the usual fourth Wednesday, and it’s time to host an open space to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply —…
The Cosmic Doctrine: The Twelve Rays and the Seven Cosmic Planes
This week we continue a monthly discussion of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, which I consider the most important work of 20th century occult philosophy. Climb in and fasten your belts; it’s turning out to be as wild a ride as I expected. As noted in earlier posts here, there are two widely available…
The Kek Wars, Part Four: What Moves In The Darkness
In last week’s thrilling episode of The Kek Wars, we saw how a band of outsiders linked by the network of online forums loosely called “the chans,” and armed with the tools of chaos magic, found themselves in the midst of a cascade of meaningful coincidences and strange happenings, more or less clustered around Pepe…
The Kek Wars, Part Three: Triumph of the Frog God
In last week’s thrilling episode of The Kek Wars, we saw how thousands of disaffected young people who’d been shut out of our society’s circles of privilege and denied the ordinary routes to adult independence turned to magic, for the same reasons that their equivalents have always turned to magic. As we discussed in the…