The avatar? I never really noticed it - so much for intuition, eh. Maybe it's because I signed in via WordPress or something. I'm not new here, I just...
Yes, Beyond the Mauve Zone, first Starfire ed, 1999. "We have therefore to cultivate not a new power but a faculty that has remained dormant in the ma...
I too enjoyed his book on Gurdjieff. I'm not sure why it's not too well regarded, only that I was told that by several people involved in 'the work'. ...
Wilson is not likely to be forgotten very soon - in fact a renaissance is just beginning. A British university has recently acquired his huge archive,...
The Medusa's Head - absolutely. His Prophecy and the Parasites, The Child and The Shaven Head are worth reading too. Re Bogus, I would like to give it...
Can I just add - as author of the appallingly named article above - that re my comment about John Symonds being undervalued, that anyone with an inter...
Thanks for pointing this connection out and reminding me how extraordinary Bickford's work is. His animations for Zappa's Conceptual Continuity projec...
I forgot about those titles as well. I've written "in perpetration" rather than "in preparation" twice which must be a conspiratorial Freudian slip! I...
Hang on - "in press" according to The Drug, not "in print". Later corrected to "in perpetration" in the Simon Iff collection. If it was in print and n...
2029?! Oh no! That sort of date is suitable for sci-fi, not for something that's described as "in print" and "in perpetration" in those two Wordsworth...
Page 113 of the Symonds/Grant 'Hag - end of chapter 12. No sign of the unexpurgated version yet...
As "Faculty X" is shorthand for the less than snappy 'phenomenological faculty' it cannot be compared to methods of trance - Husserl specifically stat...
PS Peter Blake painted the same subject (a tattooed woman) a few decades later. He's the guy who designed the cover for Sgt Pep...well you all know.
Royal academy it ain't (thankfully?) but those tattoos - if indeed they are tattoos - are better drawn than some actual tattoos you see these days! I ...
19, 1989. Fond memories! Borrowed a friend's copy of Magick (RKP, the only AC book he had) before getting my own, then the big green Arkana Hag which ...
Proof that size isn't everything! Brilliant tribute to CW's own brand of existential occultism. Whenever I read "Every intentional act is a Magical ac...
Most of the obits save the one at The Independent above had the similar dismissive tone. The Guardian one was written by a bloke who died three years ...
He often said that it was his fiction and some of his philosophical ideas that he wanted to be remembered for. On a Thelemic side note, the rather sna...
"A new faculty of consciousness...those 'other' times, those 'other' spaces...negative thoughts should be aborted, they are vampires feeding on mind s...
First the Carfax Monographs in Magical Mystery Tour, now Aiwaz!
It's certainly a mystery! The images appear again later in the same 'laboratory' scene. The Monographs are, from top to bottom, VII: Hidden Lore; II: ...
I'm hoping that this won't be more grist to the mill (ha!) for the 'Macca-is-dead-and-also-Satantist-Crowley's-son' nutters on the web, 'cos the truth...
Obscure film references? Unless I hallucinated it years ago, Crowley's face appears in Stephen Frears' Gumshoe (1971) with Albert Finney, and again in...
"All the characters in this book exist solely in the imagination of the reader". I second that as being a truly inspired statement! (see p. 232 of OtC...
There goes my vow to not buy yet another Beastly biography (until the unexpurgated Hag arrives) and try to read about, I dunno, Napoleon or whoever. T...
Very sad news needed. He was a Genius and an extremely kind and generous man. I corresponded with him fairly recently, sending him a letter of respect...
"gurugeorge" wrote: I just hope that what comes out of this is excellent editions of Crowley works, properly annotated (by people with acad...
"MichaelStaley" wrote: I agree with Poelzig about the dearth of creative writers in our field. However, I think that in the years to come, ...
Genesis P-Orridge. Especially Throbbing Gristle, one of the best Conceptual Art statements/acts of Magick of the last 50 years. Their work has many co...
Sometimes all this feels like Microsoft and Apple: their respective fans tend to give up all common sense.Sure - the two Bills have a lot in common......
"Spurious"?! No amount of heavy handed Rumpole can obscure where the real creative Current is coming from in this argument. Picking on nerds with spec...
"Was trawling the newsgroups for new tunes (as you do) and searched for Crowley, Anger, Grant, etc and found a track with a direct reference to AC.The...
Nietszche was a 'Thelemite' before Crowley was even born. He was also an absolute master of the succinct quotation:"Will a self and thou shalt become ...
Wilson is open about not liking Crowley's character - he told me as much recently - although he agrees with his philosophy: read the final sentence of...
"lashtal" wrote: "dougbrown93" wrote: I would much have preferred his input than Mr Colin Wilson! Now, that's something on ...
With regards to The Fall's Book of Lies track, here's Mark E. Smith interviewed in 2004;Q: I wondered if the song Book of Lies was a reference to Crow...
What a fab list of lit! Tons of my heroes: HPL/PKD/RAW/Heinlein/Burroughs/Borges/Blake/Powys/'Maldoror'/Lawrence etc etc... I couldn't read either Da...
Hhhmmm.. the boy Mozzer? What about his Manchester nemesis Mark E. Smith? Here's a bit of an interview:TC: I wondered if the song Book of Lies was a r...
Do I get a medal? I read somewhere that Ken is now directing movies from his shed with locals as extras (or something similar?) We should start pester...
"lashtal" wrote: "joe93" wrote: Thanks to Lashtal.com for letting me get all this off my chest! Not at all... It's us that ...
"nuhad418" wrote: 93 all,I’ve been reading Outer Gateways where Grant discusses (as he does in several of his books) the vibrational effect...
Nice to see my local paper indulging in a bit of Perdurabo mischief 😛
Didn't Kenneth Grant say (in Hidden God, I think) that one could be a fully functioning Thelemite without even having heard of Crowley? Thelema is abo...
Actually, maybe My Way IS the ultimate Thelemic lyric - but only if it's Sid's version. The one with the line "I killed a cat". Sid was probably exper...
True - I do agree that Wilson's biog has a few howlers in it, although I doubt if it'll ever get revised (shame). The philosophical connections he mak...
I think we're all stretching the rules of that pre-postmodernist piece of Genius (Crowley's An Interlude from Book Four) a bit far here chaps! Everybo...
Can't agree that Colin Wilson's biog is the worst - he at least attempts to place A.C.'s theories in some kind of philosophical tradition (phenomenolo...
Although he's not regarded very highly on here, I'm pretty sure it was Colin Wilson who first made the connection between Crowley and Husserl (in THE ...