(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. 

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.

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.

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

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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...

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

To whom it may concern...

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. 

Sucking in the Seventies

Longtime TV fixture Gary Collins pierced the veil and left this mortal coil at the age of 74. 

Everything In Its Right Place

I'm of the opinion that genuine weirdness is usually an intimate affair. And as much as the capital 'S' Skeptics-- many of whom are in fact neurologically wired with various perceptive challenges-- yell and scream and rend their clothing,

Ray Bradbury: Fare Thee Well, Rocket Man

I read a lot of sci-fi in my younger years, but mostly short stories. To me the short story was sci-fi's native form-- present an idea, initiate a conflict, resolve the conflict and see where the idea stands when the dust all settles.

The Secret Sun 2010 in Review Extravaganza

Yeah, yeah, yeah- we've seen it all before...

Well, my 2010 kind of sucked. How about yours? 

Fringe: Never Surrender

Fringe wrapped up its alt.universe mytharc this past Thursday with an absolute stormer of a conclusion. Cyberspace was glowing with recaps and round tables and hardcore Fringers were left gasping. 

TVOD: The Event

A lot of people have asked if I watched this, and I finally did. My opinions are a bit mixed

Fringe and the SciFi Singularity

 

I'm not exactly sure why, but my passion for and preoccupation with sci-fi has become practically religious over the past few months. 

Gods and Geeks in the Endless American Twilight

The interfaith website Patheos asked me to write a piece about the new gods of pop culture. I discuss the various memes relating to superheroes, Avatar, Twilight, Dragon*Con and much, much more. 

What the Heaven Happened?

Once upon a time some of the greatest secular music artists came out of the Church, and many of them never left.