Thee Psychick Bible
Just ordered this gorgeous looking thing.
Not sure what I am more excited about, the new content in the book or the included DVD. Can not wait for this to arrive. When I had interviewed GP-O for soundsect s/he had mentioned this would be coming soon. Had to wait longer than I expected, but it looks like it was well worth the wait.
Thee infamous PSYCHIC BIBLE from Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth receives an updated, expanded, corrected edition,complete with dozens of new visuals and essays. The Feral House edition is handsomely presented in smyth-sewn hardcover with a red ribbon. Thee 544 pages within are printed in two colors on high-quality 60-pound stock on acid-free 100% recycled paper stock.
This signed, numbered limited edition (999 copies only) is also presented with a remarkable DVD of impossible-to-find videos from P-Orridge archives of early Psychic TV and TOPY creations which includes the work of Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson and Derek Jarman. Several of the videos included were seized by Scotland Yard in 1991, and as a result the DVD is provided here are second-generation and are reproduced in this CD for their historical value.
Head over to Feral House to check it out. They also have a fantastic looking book out now on The Process Church (which Gen also mentioned in the soundsect interview).
I was at Barnes & Nobles the other day and came across a book that I had no idea what it was… but I wanted it. It had Kate Moss walking down a flight of stairs looking ridiculously good. I opened the book and it had some great photographs in it and also came with a DVD. So I decided to pick it up. Ended up being $40, which isn’t really a bad price for a photography book. After I came home I happened to check Amazon and it was only $26 and change. So I returned the book to B&N immediately the next day. Thankfully I hadn’t taken it out of the plastic. I also found out that it was basically a book that is used as an advertisement for Agent Provocateur, a lingerie company. All marketing schemes should look this good.
I decided to place my order on Amazon for it tonight and also browsed around looking at some of the other photographers I like. I came across a ton of books that I didn’t even know about that came out. There were like two Richard Kern books that I missed, so I had to order one of them. Also a new Jan Saudek book was released so that’s a definite purchase. There are some Roy Stuart books coming out that I will have to keep my eye on too. As well as two new Joel-Peter Witkin books put out by Phaidon that I want, so I ordered one of them. I also wanted to get the new Silent Films book that was released recently so that got thrown into the cart. AK wanted a Carole Lombard DVD set that was dirt cheap so that sneaked it’s way into the shopping cart.
What was supposed to be saving me $14 basically ended up costing me an extra $100. But I didn’t want to miss out on these books. Over the years I have skipped on purchasing some of these art books and then next thing you know they are out of print. So I went a little crazy, but maybe these things will give me some of the inspiration I mentioned looking for in my last post.
I’ve been reading the book Generation Hex the last few days and it has got me thinking and reminiscing. The book is full of essays from various magicians and occultists talking about how and why they got into the practice and study of magick and where it has led them (up until this point). Also where they think it is going. It is a pretty interesting read, even if the essays are kind of hit or miss.
The last five years or so have been up and down for me as far as my active interest in the occult and more importantly conscious magickal practice. I have never stopped being interested in it, or reflecting on it in my daily life and as a whole, but I have not taken any active steps to do anything. I have strayed away from most discussions on it as well. I am not sure why exactly, but I have. In the last couple of months though there has been something growing in me, my pineal gland has been twitching. I have started hunting down some books that I never got around to purchasing in the last 15+ years, of course a bunch of them are OOP now. I’ve also just had this overwhelming sense of something on the periphery just beyond sight. Certain events and chance meetings have made me reevaluate some of the sites I have run (chaostatic.com) and was in the process of building (Principia-Esoterica.com). Who knows where those two sites will be going.
I have decided to start this series of posts that allow me to trace my steps (as best as I can) to where I am at now. While I hope to make it an interesting read, this is more for me. I have never sat down and truly mapped out this aspect of me.
The Beginnings
I wish I could remember what got me into the occult in the first place. I really can’t remember. It’s always been something that has interested me. I remember really you being into ghost stories and the paranormal. I remember going to little dive theatres in NYC with my father to see stage magician acts. I think all these experiences and interests started me on the path. A lot of my entertainment also pointed me in that direction. All the heavy metal music with their mentions of Crowley, Lovecraftian elements, etc. Films like The Gate and countless other horror films. The idea of being able to bend and shape reality to your wants and desires is not only a wonderful thing to a 10 year old child, but it is also not too far out of the realm of possibilities to someone that age. We are all probably at our most imaginative and purely creative as a child. As we grow older our art and creativity come more from a reflection on our experiences and as answers the world around us, they don’t seem to come from as much an untouched place in our minds that unjaded youth provides.
Growing up in a non-practicing Christian home the obvious place to start looking is towards the perceived opposite: Satanism. Of course the “satanic panic” of the 80′s helped point me in that direction as well. Being only 11 or so, the majority of my time was spent listening to Death Metal, reading books (LaVey, Necronomicon, etc), traipsing around a cemetery at night, and doing some “rituals”. While I remember having fantastic results with some of the evocations, etc that my friends and I were messing around with it really was all fairly half-hearted. I knew what I was doing was working, I saw the results, but I didn’t care about the overall system.
I knew I needed to start shopping around.
To be continued…
I just learned a little while ago that one of the biggest influences in my life died.
Robert Anton Wilson you will be missed.
I would write more but I am just really bummed about this.
Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!
Looks like there will be a return by Joss Whedon to the Buffyverse, and it is looking good:
“So what’s going on in the extended Buffyverse? Well, you may recall the show ended with the creation of an army of Slayers. Now they’re organized, and the tide has turned in favor of the good guys. Ah, but you know how much Whedon hates winners: Soon an ‘old enemy’ surfaces (Dark Horse is cagey on Big Bad’s identity), and Dawn starts ‘experiencing serious growing pains.’”
Source: http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2006/07/the_new_buffy_c.html
I am definitely interested. I have missed the Buffyverse. Sorry AK. I know this must pain you to read. 
Looking at the Dark Horse site I see that this comic, Rex Mundi, looks pretty damn good too. Shit, am I going to have to get back into comics now? :\
