Reading for 10/1

Late posts every week these days — curse us! The section from this book The Morning of the Magicians that we talked about reading (on Arthur Machen and the Golden Dawn) was missing from the only pdf I could find, along with about 1/3 of the book. So instead here’s a short reading on Charles Fort.

Begins on p.140 under “THE VANISHED CIVILIZATIONS”, let’s just go to the end of that first section. Enjoy and see you soon…

Reading for 9/24

Experiment/potlatch week! Alongside an item of food or drink, bring a piece of writing or art you’re working on, or a question/idea that you’d like to discuss with everyone, and we’ll imbibe while conversing. This open-ended approach to content is just for this week, next time we’ll return to a specific reading, likely continuing our occult/esoteric theme as per request. See you soon!

Reading for 9/17

I am the shameful late weekend poster, here with Tuesday’s reading: English wizard/draughtsman Austin Osman Spare’s unforgettable treatise on sorcery and Dionysian ecstasy The Book of Pleasure. It’s around 30 pgs without the images; hopefully that won’t be too much, as this piece (and all Spare’s writing) is brilliant beyond words. As always, just read what you can.

Reading for 9/10

Next week we’re doing the first of a few upcoming readings on the occult, anti-realism, and methods for injecting doses of chaos into consciousness. We’ll start with the classic Principia Discordia, which can be read in full on THIS WEBSITE. It’s about 75 pages, but they’re filled with illustrations and it’s generally very easy to read in one session. In the Erisian spirit, you might choose to only read certain sections which catch your eye, work backwards, disregard certain parts entirely, or otherwise subvert the linear inertia of verso —> recto; and thereby open onto a different perspective on the text. Wikipedia might be worth a visit if you’re unfamiliar with Discordianism or want to know more. In two weeks we may follow up on this by looking at some chaos magick texts and perhaps even practicing some rituals in the group, but as with all our lives, that’s contingent. Fnord!