The Hellier Team does it again. — The Unbinding is the new full-length documentary by the Planet Weird crew that brought us the magick of Hellier — and after having watched it last night, I can safely say “they did it again”. Greg and Dana Newkirk, alongside Tyler Strand and Jason Gowin, take us through a journey…

A Thelemite’s perspective, 3 years — and counting — later. — I originally wrote this piece on the Hellier subreddit right after binging both seasons in the early months of 2020. Remember those Before Times? It seems centuries ago, not a mere 3 years. With the release of The Unbinding, Greg and Dana Newkirk’s first full-length documentary, hitting the streaming services…

“I want real magick, not this boring shit!” says the internet. — One often repeated trope in occult social media discourse is that no one needs more people teaching the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram. Yet, I always wondered how many of these same people have any actual success with these rituals. Crowley famously states in Liber Aleph to “Neglect not the…

For those who actually care about these things. — Now that everyone has said their piece, including deranged nonsense from the very same guy who has been pushing conspiracy theories and dangerous anti-scientific ideas for the past few years, I am going to wrap this up for good in a concise way. I genuinely trusted what she told me…

The bitter fruits of the Wasteland — UPDATE: a bullet-point list of truths and falsehoods. For those who want the tl:dr Five years ago, I documented my harrowing experiences inside Ordo Templi Orientis. …

The simplest and yet the most misunderstood of Crowley’s Libri — Liber Oz is often discussed, largely out of context, online. I touched on this tendency to make of it whatever one wants in my book, but this morning I mused on it a little more. Crowley wrote the piece in order to convey as simply as possible the “O.T.O. plan…

A crazy idea or something rather obvious? — Today, while browsing on one of the few Facebook Groups dedicated to esotericism I am still a member of (I know, I am a glutton for punishment, after all), a question that captured my interest popped up. …

Maybe, maybe not: the jury is still out on this one. — I have been closely following the work of Sam Robinson and his Pansophers.com group since I became aware of it five or six years ago. Over the years, I’ve been constantly impressed by the quality of the scholarship that they’ve put in to try and restore a true Pansophic Rosicrucian…

Why is it so difficult to decide one way or another? Do what thou will shall the be the whole of the Law. One of the ever-present questions in the discourse about Thelema is whether or not it is a religion. This has been discussed again and again, and in…