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...
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...
Magical practices have undergone significant changes in the past decades, shifting towards accessibility and individuality. With the rise in popularity of individual, custom-designed magical rituals, popular culture has proven to be one of the important aspects associated with the new practice. Influential, reaching a wide audience, with a strong focus on immersive visual aspects, it is of no...
Occult topics, often connected with paranormal and supernatural phenomena, have been resonating through pop-cultural visual depictions for some time. A noteworthy feature is the imagination of the spaces in which occult activities are conducted or play a significant role within the story - this ranges from dark basements, forests, and cemeteries to hospitals and schools. While often varying in...
The following paper focuses on the role and function of symbols in magical practice. The first part explains the symbol as a semiotic term with all its fundamental features, including the necessary function and condition of ordinary communication. The next section deals with symbols that fulfill the essential role of transforming reality within the framework of magical practice. Examples of...
Abstract This paper presents an analysis of the first two editions of Peter Carroll’s Liber Null (1978, 1981). Along with Ray Sherwin’s The Book of Results (1979, 1980, 1981), they shape the earliest corpus of chaos magic literature. Often overlooked due to their rarity and the availability of the mainstream 1987 edition of Liber Null, these two, the so-called white and red editions, offer a...
En este trabajo se presenta un edicto promulgado por los inquisidores de Palermo en 1622 e incluido en la impresión panormitana de 1628 del índice de Sandoval y Rojas. Se trata de un documento en italiano, en el que se prohibían medallas, láminas e imágenes supersticiosas, agrupadas bajo el nombre de sigilos. El uso de los sigilos o sellos se remonta a una larga tradición en la que se mezclan...
Reviewed by: The Magic of Rogues: Necromancers in Early Tudor England by Frank Klaassen and Sharon Hubbs Wright Carole M. Cusack frank klaassen AND sharon hubbs wright. The Magic of Rogues: Necromancers in Early Tudor England. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021. Pp. ix + 161. This fascinating study situates primary sources for magic in sixteenthcentury England in...
ABSTRACT From 1981 to 1991, the band Psychic TV served as the audio-visual propaganda unit of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY), an international network of occultists designed by Genesis P-Orridge to resemble a subversive, militant youth movement. This essay investigates how P-Orridge, Psychic TV, and TOPY embarked on a calculated campaign of “occult research” to test whether chaos magick...
Writing in The Psychick Bible (2006) Genesis P-Orridge notes how ‘Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth has been convened in order to act as a catalyst and focus for the Individual (sic) development of all those who wish to reach inwards and strike out. ‘Maybe you are one of these,’ he continues, ‘already feeling different, dissatisfied, separate from the mass around you, instinctive and alert? You are...