Recent Writings

Wilson developed a wayward if deeply self-reflexive theory and dialectical method of visionary practice, one that, amidst the paranoia, presented its own deconstructive and libertarian vision of gnosis.

Consciousness Culture from a California perspective, plus news, notes, and reviews.

"Gnostic spirituality, we might say, is gnosis against the grain. Its antinomian illuminations and agonistic hermeneutics are directly posed against those concentrations of power that wield control over cosmic, worldly, and psychological existence."

Turk presents the viewer with mandalas, strange creatures, and biological cosmograms that depict mutant metamorphoses of animal, human, plant, and god.

"The garden of forking paths is really a one-way labyrinth, a plunge into a single conundrum that is swallowing us up."

With “Dopesmoker,” Sleep sealed the tomb of an entire genre.

A look at the controversy over for-profit psychedelic pharmaceutical companies, and how the outlaw values of the underground may show a way out.

A scholarly essay on the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons.

Babalon is a polyvalent archetype within Thelema, at once symbolizing the Earth Mother, the supernal initiatrix beyond the Abyss, and a practical current of sexual mysticism embodied in the office known as the Scarlet Woman.

The protocols of the Experiment grew in the matrix of Jungian alchemy, Marshall McLuhan, and science fiction. This allowed Terence and Dennis McKenna to “esotericize” media theory into an occult apparatus of resonance, sympathy, and apocalyptic ontology.

Less eye candy than mind map, ‘Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia’ manages to radically reframe a period of creative ferment that remains weakly understood and remembered within the histories of art and design.

Probably the first heathen listeners to cotton on to Jesus music were the psych collectors, who recognized that some Jesus music was not only heavily distorted but kicked much lysergic ass.

This is a holy music made with a mad hippie love infused with the same DIY impatience that secretly links the beats and the freaks and the punks.