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It hit me recently how most magic folks don't do High Strangeness quite like the Paranormal folks, who lend a delicious air of conspiracy and wide-eyed WTF to the mix.
Chaos magician Gordon White at Rune Soup has long had an interest in the Paranormal, which he brings to his work. Here's a couple of his more famous articles on the weirder aspects of 20th Century magic and occultism.
Below, Peter Grey gives us a glimpse at parts of the usually unexamined mid 20th century magical revival.
Rune Soup:
Very Bad Company – Occultism And Power (2013)
Rune Soup:
The Séance That Changed America (2012)
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Peter Grey , author of Lucifer: Princeps and Praxis writing on his Substack about the very California 1960's reformulation of the American OTO. Sadly, this is a cautionary tale, but one worth reading and learning from.
Taking the Abyss trip
Grady McMurtry’s Caliphornia dreaming
Grady McMurtry. So tragic.
Here's Terrence McKenna, commenting on Huxley and the effect of CIA-asset Tim Leary dropping LSD on a bunch of 18 year old Boomers as a large-scale experiment:
" I am not alone in advocating a revisioning of psychedelics, but my colleagues and I certainly represent a highly suspect and not entirely integrated faction of the human potential movement. In a way, you see, we are still reacting to what happened in the 1960s.
One can say many things about one’s personal psychedelic experiences -and they are always very personal- but if you try to look at ten thousand psychedelic experiences the generalized conclusion you reach about what these things do is: Number one, they dissolve boundaries whatever the boundaries are. And as a consequence they dissolve cultural programming.
So Marxist, shaman, fundamentalist Christian, and nuclear physicist will all find themselves deeply questioning their own beliefs, postpsychedelics.
The thing about LSD that did mark it as different from all the other psychedelics was that a reasonably competent chemist could produce five million doses in a single day! Well, that was unique in human history. When you go to the Amazon or when you take peyote with the Huichol it is quite a chore to get sufficient material for twenty people. So the release of so much LSD into modern society caused the powers that be to assume that the whole social machine was being dissolved in acid – literally, before their very eyes. I think that this was a mistake, to go at it like this. There were many voices at that time, with many theories of how it should be handled. If Aldous Huxley had lived another ten years, it would have been very different. His idea was to get the psychedelic experience to artists, philosophers, city planners, architects… not every eighteen year old on earth."
Chaos magician Gordon White at Rune Soup has long had an interest in the Paranormal, which he brings to his work. Here's a couple of his more famous articles on the weirder aspects of 20th Century magic and occultism.
Below, Peter Grey gives us a glimpse at parts of the usually unexamined mid 20th century magical revival.
Rune Soup:
Very Bad Company – Occultism And Power (2013)
Rune Soup:
The Séance That Changed America (2012)
-----------------------------
Peter Grey , author of Lucifer: Princeps and Praxis writing on his Substack about the very California 1960's reformulation of the American OTO. Sadly, this is a cautionary tale, but one worth reading and learning from.
Taking the Abyss trip
Grady McMurtry’s Caliphornia dreaming
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Grady McMurtry. So tragic.
Here's Terrence McKenna, commenting on Huxley and the effect of CIA-asset Tim Leary dropping LSD on a bunch of 18 year old Boomers as a large-scale experiment:
" I am not alone in advocating a revisioning of psychedelics, but my colleagues and I certainly represent a highly suspect and not entirely integrated faction of the human potential movement. In a way, you see, we are still reacting to what happened in the 1960s.
One can say many things about one’s personal psychedelic experiences -and they are always very personal- but if you try to look at ten thousand psychedelic experiences the generalized conclusion you reach about what these things do is: Number one, they dissolve boundaries whatever the boundaries are. And as a consequence they dissolve cultural programming.
So Marxist, shaman, fundamentalist Christian, and nuclear physicist will all find themselves deeply questioning their own beliefs, postpsychedelics.
The thing about LSD that did mark it as different from all the other psychedelics was that a reasonably competent chemist could produce five million doses in a single day! Well, that was unique in human history. When you go to the Amazon or when you take peyote with the Huichol it is quite a chore to get sufficient material for twenty people. So the release of so much LSD into modern society caused the powers that be to assume that the whole social machine was being dissolved in acid – literally, before their very eyes. I think that this was a mistake, to go at it like this. There were many voices at that time, with many theories of how it should be handled. If Aldous Huxley had lived another ten years, it would have been very different. His idea was to get the psychedelic experience to artists, philosophers, city planners, architects… not every eighteen year old on earth."
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