The Unseen Forces That Drive Culture Forward
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Köp båda 2 för 492 krOcculture is one of todays most learned, unexpected, and illuminating tours through occult cultural influences. Carl Abrahamsson will expand your doors of perception of what the counterculture really is. His chapter on Anton LaVey came to me as a revelation. I am filled with hope that a book like this can be published at a time like ours. * Mitch Horowitz, PEN Awardwinning author of Occult America and One Simple Idea * Occulture is a word that was inevitable. During the hyperactive phase of Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth in the 1980s we were casting around for an all-embracing term to describe an approach to combining a unique, demystified, spiritual philosophy with a fervent insistence that all life and art are indivisible. At any given moment our sensory environment is whispering to us, telling us hidden stories, revealing subliminal connections. This concealed dialogue between every level of popular cultural forms and magical conclusions is what we named occulture. Carl Abrahamsson takes this rendering of an innate cultural dynamic and exposes a multitude of parallel creative Universes that do that thing. So easy to perceive with hindsight but so invisible to the closed mind, he changes our means of perception--turning a straight line into an intricate spiders web of possibilities and impossibilities combined. He performs magick; he concretizes meaning and brings forth revelation into his carefully focused vision. * Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, English singer-songwriter, musician, and poet * These days, too much occult discourse comes off as grandiose, needlessly arcane, or desperately darker-than-thou. But decades of participant observation on the art-magic-transgression beat have given Carl Abrahamsson a more down-to-earth approach. Streamlining Crowley, LaVey, and postpunk chaos magic, these talks and essays offer up accessible, pragmatic, and psychologically savvy takes on the intuitive potentials of creative individuation. This is not another system but sparkplugs engineered for your own magical engine. * Erik Davis, author of Nomad Codes and host of Expanding Mind podcast * A sharp, frank, and level-headed exploration of some of the most important figures and movements on the current edges of occultism. Highly recommended. * Richard Smoley, author of Forbidden Faith: The Secret History of Gnosticism * Carl Abrahamsons Occulture is itself a beautiful example of the phenomena it discusses. Erudite and a pleasure to read, the collected essays have the potential to nudge consciousness beyond the ordinary perspective of culture and history. A necessary read for students of culture or magick. * Philip H. Farber, author of Brain Magick, Meta-Magick, and FutureRitual * Carl Abrahamsson--that curator and champion of everything in occulture that is cool, edgy, trendy, and artsy--inspires us with this mind-expanding collection of essays: meditations on art, magick, sex, psyche, and society that collectively trace the supernaturals proclivity to cross over from counterculture to mainstream, casting light on how we see and understand our world. Not to be missed! * Richard Kaczynski, author of Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley * Through this collection of articles, essays, talks, and miscellanea, Carl Abrahamsson emerges as a dedicated communicator who shares concepts, histories, and ideas with insight and imagination. Whether exploring the culture of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth or the philosophies of Crowley, Steiner, Jung, and Paul Bowles, Abrahamssons work is never less than engaging. * Jack Sargeant, author of Flesh and Excess, Naked Lens, and Against Control * A welcome collection of insightful essays on the acculturation of society from the veteran chronicler of countercultures. * Hymenaeus Beta, Frater Superior of O.T.O., musician, and occultist * "Although dealing with some deep matters - occultism, art, philosophy - that are often the ob
Carl Abrahamsson is a writer, publisher, magico-anthropologist, filmmaker, and photographer. Since the mid-1980s he has been active in the magical community, integrating occulture as a way of life and lecturing about his findings and speculations. The editor and publisher of the annual anthology of occulture, The Fenris Wolf, and the author of Reasonances, he divides his time between Stockholm, Sweden, and New York City.
Foreword by Gary Lachman 1 Contra Contra Means Pro 2 Splendor Solis Lebensreform and Sexual Vitalism in Germany 3 Abstraction Made Concrete The Occultural Methods and Mutations of Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth 4 Over the Moon and Back Again 5 Pokmon Go Away 6 What Remains for the Future? An Initial Attempt at a Comparison between Aleister Crowley and Rudolf Steiner 7 Paul Bowles Expat Magic 8 Tangible Evanescence 9 Anton LaVey, Magical Innovator 10 Carl Jung, Mythmaker 11 The Imaginative Libido 12 Formulating the Desired Some Similarities between Ritual Magic and the Psychoanalytic Process 13 Zine und Zeit 14 The Mega Golem Is Alive and Well 15 Sexual-Dynamic Polarity as a Magical Formula Aleister Crowleys Views on Gender and Transcendence 16 The Economy of Magic Theres No Free Lunch or Free Magical Success 17 The Magic of Dreams Made Real 18 Collective Mysticism Its Probably a Myth 19 Challenging Inertia and Entropy 20 Memes or Schemes 21 Intuition as a State of Grace Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index