Biography
2024
Nicholas K. Mohlmann
Abstract: Drawing on recent scholarship on metabiography, the article examines how cryptozoologist Jonathan Downes draws on subcultural ideological values to develop strategies to stabilize or destabilize the proper name in biographical discourse. Ultimately, the article argues that through paranormal concepts, Downes enacts a theory of the biographical signature that foregrounds the uncanny...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 23, 2023
Leonardo C. Olyachim
In this paper the author proposes an algebraic framework when working with the equations of CMT. An operator of magick intent is introduced with an additional treatment of multiple operators acting on the same state/event.
Occult World
2014
In 1969 German artist Sigmar Polke (1941-2010) created a large canvas with one black corner and a typed message reading ‘Höhere Wesen befahlen: rechte obere Ecke schwarz malen!' (‘Higher beings command: paint the upper right corner black!').
Technoetic Arts
December 1, 2013
Pam Payne
Abstract Many areas of contemporary art and culture in the United States and Europe can be shown to have a direct lineage to the rich history of the Western Mystery Traditions, rooted in ancient esoteric and magical philosophies of Greece and Egypt. Video mash-ups and audio sampling have inherited the cut-up methods of Beat poets and artists, who in turn were influenced by the Surrealists and...
Goldsmiths
2003
Justin Woodman
3 citations
The thesis is based upon fieldwork conducted in London (between 1997 - 2001) amongst the practitioners of "Chaos magick" -a form of magical practice which appeared in United Kingdom during the late 1970's as part of the wider neo-pagan and magical subculture. Chaos magicians utilise trance states as means of attaining an unmediated experience of the inchoate and indeterministic ground of being...
Bodhi International Journal of Research in Humanities Arts and Science
June 3, 2026
K.T. Mahaswetha, Dr. T. Ganga Parameswari
The Pentamerone (1634–1636) by Giambattista Basile is one of the first, and most important literary collection in the European fairy-tale tradition. Basile’s work is considered a precursor to later fairy-tale writers like Charles Perrault and the Grimm Brothers. His stories also preserve a much older mythic traditions shaped by ritual transformation, sacred kingship, and cosmic justice. This...
Journal of Young Researcher
2026
Asmar Shakir Aliyeva
The article examines the vestiges of ancient shamanic worldviews within the structural and semantic framework of Azerbaijani magic tales, focusing specifically on the archetype of transformation and shape-shifting.The shaman and the dervish figure in magic tales are genealogically and functionally sacred mediators originating from the same mythic root, representing two distinct historical...
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
December 1, 2025
Cusack M. Carole
Abstract: Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY) was established by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950-2020) in 1981, after the demise of Throbbing Gristle and COUM Transmissions (the industrial band and performance art collective led by P-Orridge). Similarly, TOPY partnered with P-Orridge's next band, Psychic TV, and for ten years the two engaged with chaos magick, made art, crafted esoteric...
Open Journal of Stigmatized Knowledge & Suppressed Discourses
October 10, 2025
Dr. Sixbert Sangwa
Background: Twentieth-century occult manuals outlined repeatable techniques—from telepathic “impressions” to full-moon invocations—that have quietly migrated into wellness culture, algorithm-driven social media, and certain prophetic movements. Yet their historical trajectory and doctrinal implications remain under-studied. Purpose: This article traces the diffusion of those spirit-contact...
April 22, 2025
Aaron Michael Ullrey
Constructive imagination is a pedagogical method where students, in a structured manner, generate mental experiences by imagining course contents—magic rituals in the course I describe here—and these mental experiences are then used in creative non-fiction writing. Treated in this chapter are two writing prompts accompanied by summaries of and quotes from student writing and feedback: “Write a...