Tag: divination

Situationism: The Art of the Dérive

John Michael Greer230 Comments

Our explorations of Situationism, that eccentric twentieth-century offspring of a drunken amour between avant-garde European art and radical post-Marxist politics, have already led in strange directions. The ground we’ve covered so far extends from postwar Paris to Lower Slobbovia and from Marxist dialectical materialism to the occult perspectives that most Marxists despise utterly. Nonetheless the…

The Ritual of High Magic: Chapter 21

John Michael Greer55 Comments

With this post we continue a monthly chapter-by-chapter discussion of The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Lévi, the book that launched the modern magical revival.  Here, as we have over the four years now past, we’re plunging into the white-hot fires of creation where modern magic was born. If you’re just joining…

A Gathering of Long Lost Friends

John Michael Greer163 Comments

Regular readers will be aware that many of last year’s posts on this blog were devoted to what we might call the history of American magic, or perhaps the magical history of America—the part of the history of the United States that deals with the rise, flourishing, and (most recently) neglect and collective erasure of…