(Travis) Scottish Rites, or The Aeons of Astroworld

It goes without saying that trampling incidents are not uncommon at concerts, festivals or any other large gathering of people. 

Memeday Monday: Can't Trust that Day

If only, Homer. If only.

ApocaLARPse 20/20: Studies in Scarlet

2017: "I am the craziest, most unhinged year ever.  Nothing will ever top me when it comes to sheer, balls-out semiotic insanity."

2020: "Hold my adrenochrome..."

A Taste of Your Own Medicine

Our man Boosephus pointed me in the direction of the new JLo video, "Medicine." I strongly suspect he did so because he's a sadist.

Entrainment Tonight: Blood on the Moon

Sunday brings us the Super Bloody Castle Wolfenstein Moon (or whatever), so as you would expect lots of different folks are getting ready to ride those moon-waves.

Sabrina Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls

Do you come here OFTEN?

I don't exactly understand the mechanics of spellcraft and I'm not sure anyone else does either. Is it simply the power of suggestion? Is it a kind of mind control? Is it somehow based in non-supernatural but super-normal psychic powers?

I don't know and to be honest, I don't much care. I don't really worry too much the exact science of microprocessors when I use the Internet. I'm just interested in the results.

Kind of the same when it comes to demons. Is it all just a mass delusion? Is it purely a psychic phenomenon? Is it some kind of mind control as well? I don't know that either but I do know that when you dump enough evil on a populace it tends to have an effect, whether it's evil actions, evil symbols or evil narratives.

A lot of folks have been asking me about this new Sabrina series and to be honest I've been avoiding it. I'm very much familiar with the comic series it's based on and a post on it has been sitting in the queue for months now. 

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All I can say for now is that it's very much a sign of the times; a cute and harmless cartoon (and later TV series) retooled with the blackest of black magic, blood magic, human sacrifice and all the rest of it.
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I'm just going to go on the record and predict it's probably not going to have a salutary effect on the collective consciousness, given how much evil and mental illness is bubbling beneath the surface already.
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I spent a lot of time talking about these types of things on the Occulture podcast. Now that my brain is nearly totally free from a ten-year bit in a pharmaceutical prison cell I'm happy to say that I've finally begun to get my interviewee mojo back and am able to once again approach these things with a relatively clear mind and a minimum of brain fog and annoying verbal tics. 

Do check out more Occulturey goodness here and think about dropping a few ducats in the Occulture Patreon.

UPDATE: Predictably, the ever-straining agenda breaks from its leash. Story here.

BREAKING: 13 killed, including deputy and gunman, in shooting at Borderline Bar shooting in Thousand Oaks https://t.co/MOJPrljPMp pic.twitter.com/qV8ELdUX0c

— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) November 8, 2018

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The Never-Ending Ritual: "Adorned with Garlands"

As per usual there's more to cover than there's time to cover it, so forgive me if I just drop some rapid-fire syncs and factoids on you and open up the floor.

60 Seconds of Sync (Give or Take): Fall Like Lightning

Oh, that doesn't seem even vaguely apocalyptic to me. Why do you ask?

Met Gala 2018: Wonder with Great Admiration!

OK, so Riri "wins" the Super Bowl of Fashion with her pearl-encrusted Anti-Pope LARP? OK, it's... I mean...

Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell

I never got Johnny Depp. 

I mean I get it; he was girl-pretty and he's quirky and artsy-fartsy and kind of rock 'n' roll. 

Secret Report: Secret Use of Secret Subliminal Symbols (1966)

To whom it may concern...

Vegas Rising, or Babylon on the Colorado

Wow, the hits just keep on coming. For reasons I'm not entirely comfortable acknowledging, we're seeing more and more focus placed on Sin City these days. We're going to be seeing a lot more besides, so gird your loins.

The Vegans Have Landed

Well, there's some loaded language for you. 

The New Normal is here. What does that mean? It means constant chaos and disruption as far as the eye can see. 

Snapshots from the Apocalypse: Transgenics are Go!

There are a number of emerging themes and a new palette of symbols coming out of the Great Unveiling, which is now well underway. Chief among them are transgenics, smart cities and the Automation Apocalypse. We're getting hammered with these themes in the news lately, all part of a conditioning program in its late stages.

Expanding Your Vision

I was driving around with my daughter the other day and listening to the top 40 radio station with her. And each and every song I heard was like a flashback, usually to the late 80s or early 90s. 

Witchcraft Revives, Again

You live long enough and you see the same patterns emerge, over and over again. A generation comes of age, falls under the spell of Rationalism but then leaves school and gravitates towards thought contagions that horrify the professors and teachers they once tried so hard to emulate.

Materialism and the Human Habitrail

Some of you may be familiar with John Michael Greer's Archdruid Report.  I believe there's some crossover in readership though his audience is considerably larger than mine. 

Greer writes mainly about environmental issues and peak oil and for the past few years has become a bit of a Cassandra, predicting the collapse of modern civilization.

Don't Write the Church Off Quite Yet...

This was a grim week here at Secret Sun Central- a friend of my sons died in an accident and we attended his wake Thursday and my sons attended his funeral yesterday. He was one of the first friends my younger son made in this neighborhood. 

Cults of One

In his latest post, Gordon quotes George Hansen and the relationship between the Paranormal and Religion. Let me just say that I read Hansen's book and enjoyed it but the whole "Trickster" thing gives me a headache, since it all too easily becomes a RAW-type way to say nothing and sound like you're saying something unbearably profound. 

Propaganda in the Classical Sense

Throughout history, cults of all sizes and shapes have created exciting dramas to spread their doctrines to the uninitiated. Many of the same elements we see in comic books, paperback SF and fantasy novels and Hollywood movies were first introduced in these stories, not as entertainment per se, but as literal propaganda, meaning as messages designed to 'propagate the faith'.