So at vast expense we now have a rather higher resolution map of the CMBR, the cosmic microwave background radiation, than that already provided by the COBE

The theory and practice of magic seems to have undergone two major periods of revolution and revival in the last couple of centuries, the first

A Fistful of Wands.

To celebrate the completion of the Esotericon text I took the three wands used in the creation of the Elemental, Planetary

St George’s Day again and hardly anyone notices, we gave the world Newton, Darwin, and Democracy, plus nearly all of its games and sports, but

Civil Marriage

I don’t think the government has thought far enough outside the box on the issue of marriage.

We need to take the sex

Back to school and college for many of us now that we get to the end of the holiday season, you can almost feel the

With reference to the previous post about the Higgs, my thanks for all the supportive emails from fellow skeptics. The Hyperbole in the upmaket press

Plenty of good cheer this week, married off my eldest daughter to a fine scotsman, dog bit my sporran mistaking it for a badger, it

What I did on my holiday.

Belize, maybe you never heard of it, it’s a place the size of Wales tucked in under the Yucatan

With our 6th year now well under way, I'll post advance notice here of next Semester's courses at Arcanorium College, www.arcanoriumcollege.com In addition to all

Smokin

Having campaigned so ferociously for punitive taxation on tobacco, anti-smoking propaganda, and legal bans on its public use, the British Medical Association should express

The British riots have come and gone for the moment, and at last the politicians and the media have tired of punditry and explanationism and

Liber Pactionis, my original founding document of the Pact lies in the public domain as does its sucessor document 'The Book'. Thus I place this document in

Screw the EU

UKIP have made a good showing at the local council elections in the UK. Nobody really wants UKIP local councillors as such;

Went to a community meeting this evening, largely to oppose the off-license sale of alcohol to the local teenage yobbery till 11pm. The local yobbery has a

The Greek government's threat to offer its people a referendum on the euro-bailout package before the finalisation of that package may yet lead to another

Reviews by Shade Oroboros

The Apophenion: A Chaos Magic Paradigm by Peter J. Carroll,
Mandrake 2008, 160 pages, illustrated,
footnoted and indexed.

 In the wide

I note with satisfaction that the UK courts have just ruled that the Diocese of Plymouth cannot claim that its priests acted as self-employed consultants and

A few oddments.

Obama Wins, Apocalypse probably Averted. Let us celebrate the triumph of the lesser of two evils, barking mad religious nut case backed by financial- military-industrial

For some years I served as Treasurer to the Bristol Branch of UKIP, my first ever membership of a political party. I joined for several

Following some email exchanges I present some further thoughts on the Hyperspin Eight Dimensional hypothesis of fundamental particles. Fundamental particle physics strikes me as important

The two courses of Semester 6 start on  http://www.arcanoriumcollege.com/ very soon, members can commence participation anytime during the first weeks.

Semester 6, Jun 6th -Jul 16th

Sorror

Jose Manuel Barroso, head of some apparently important part of the hydra like EU Totalitarian Synarchy has just said that 'Britain will reduce(?) itself to the

Firstly a number of interesting items from some of my friends and colleagues: -

Dave Lee’s new novel, The Road to Thule. A rollicking tale of

I note with great joy the enormously deserved death of the News of the World 'newspaper'.

Gerald Suster (he was a friend and colleague)

So Peter Higgs (along with Belgian Francois Englert) gets a Nobel Prize for predicting the Higgs Boson. At least dear old Peter Higgs will probably

Having recieved initiation into the most august of western esotericism's linneages on my birthday at full moon in the year of my second saturn return,

The EU Synarchy, conceived with malignant intent and in economic ignorance, by elements of the european political class, now looks headed for precisely the disaster that

I've been asked for a few more words about the Apophenia course just beginning on www.arcanoriumcollege.com which you can join anytime this week, so here

Heisenberg, Bell, Pusey & Co.

Purveyors of Quality Paradigms to the Discerning Magi.

Thought experiment.

1) Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Relationships show, and experiment confirms, that the

Review. Imaginal Reality, Voidcraft, volumes 1 and 2. Aaron B. Daniels. Aeon Books.

Over 400 pages of tight print, plus illustrations by Laura M. Daniels.

When this

Habemus Papem , We have another Pope, Francis the 1 ^st . We send our not entirely cordial greetings from Our Pestilence, Pete the 1 ^st , Pontiff

Herewith the Necronomicom Wand and Pentachoron instruments used to earth the forthcoming Chaos Necronomicon section of EPOCH, the Esotericon and Portals of Chaos.

The Wand

Review, and some thoughts for an experiment.

The Science Delusion by Rupert Sheldrake.

I found this book rather disappointing, it seems to contain little that