[Opinion] Obscure, interesting esoteric websites

[StoatCatcher]

Which small esoteric websites do you enjoy?

My pick is Russel Cottrell's personal website:

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. The I Ching section has a big list of interesting translations, alternative techniques for getting extra hexagrams, different methods for generating primary hexagrams and a digital tool to compare different translations of a reading with all the extra methods included. Theres also a tarot section on the website, a few math and fractal-related experiments and a page for lunisolar calendars.

 

[Eliberto1]

For those interested in esoteric teachings of buddhism and hinduism, a very good website is wisdomlib.org, with translations of many texts.

 

[MorganBlack]

David Chapman's is pretty darn cool. He's the former AI researcher and philosopher focusing on Meta-Rationality and Vajrayana Buddhism, with a background in the Aro gTer lineage, a school within the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.

FYI. He is not Alan Chapman of Chaos Magic fame, but Meta-rationality is very Chaos-magic-flavored, and is about knowing which tool to use, when to put them away, and how to bridge the gap between a rigid formula and a complex reality.

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[StoatCatcher]

David Chapman's is pretty darn cool. He's the former AI researcher and philosopher focusing on Meta-Rationality and Vajrayana Buddhism, with a background in the Aro gTer lineage, a school within the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.

FYI. He is not Alan Chapman of Chaos Magic fame, but Meta-rationality is very Chaos-magic-flavored, and is about knowing which tool to use, when to put them away, and how to bridge the gap between a rigid formula and a complex reality.

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This guy's stuff is really interesting. I'll have to give it a read.

For those interested in esoteric teachings of buddhism and hinduism, a very good website is wisdomlib.org, with translations of many texts.

Keeping this in my bookmarks from now on.

 

[AntoniusBlock]

I suppose it depends on what you'd count, but languageisavirus.com is a very handy set of tools for writers in addition to being a lot of fun and seems like a useful esoteric resource. Arguably, you could use some of the tools for divination, there's a cut-up tool, and it is inspired by William S. Burroughs.

chaostarot.com/app has some handy tools for sigilcraft and other Chaos magick purposes.

Lastly, it's not anything specific, but naturally it's always handy find a favorite website for divination/astrology/etc. as it might be easier at times to just whip out your phone and answer a question there rather than busting out a tarot deck, rune set, or physical version of the I Ching.

 

[StoatCatcher]

haostarot.com/app has some handy tools for sigilcraft and other Chaos magick purposes.

Thanks for reminding me of this.

 

[crooktooth]

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Really weird esoteric writings, most read like the scribblings of a mad man, but it's pretty interesting and has that peak interactive 90s interface. Lots of weird secrets, the subject matter in some cases is questionable at best so use caution. There's probably several trigger warnings needed.

chaosmatrix.org

This is a great resource of essays, rites, ritual instructions, and just general information on chaos magic.

Not exactly a website but if you can find it The Corpus Fecundi of the AutonomatriX is a huge resource, you effectively download a full website index and it works in your browser as if it were a live site. Tons of ritual instructions and essays, there is a bunch of cross over with Chaosmatrix. There is some additional stuff in the Corpus Fecundi. If you can find it I highly recommend it!

 

[StoatCatcher]

The Corpus Fecundi of the AutonomatriX

I had to use the internet archive but I did find this again.

The version you are talking about is the 2004 version of the Corpus that the maintainers zipped themselves. They seem to have stopped doing that for later editions. The latest complete version of the Corpus that I could find is from June 2009 according to it's own timestamp, with the site remaining online until 2011. There is a later version of the Corpus with potentially a few more articles that was on autonomatrix.org/cms/ but the wayback machine's version only seems to have captured the indexes and very few of the articles.

The 2004 zip version on the wayback machine (it'll prompt you for a download):

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The 2009 web version on the wayback machine (latest full snapshot I could find):

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I downloaded the 2009 version using Httrack and I will probably post it on the book share section later.

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