Woozy chromaticism, electronica goofs, shaggy-dog ragas.

Rick Griffin, Superstar — Part Two

Rick Griffin, Superstar — Part One

We’ve lost our humanity, but at least sometimes we realize it.

Nog, by Rudy Wurlitzer

Liking It, As Is: Shakespeare on the Cusp

The Hashish Eater

Chasing the Tengu

Ligeti’s Requiem Mass: Cosmic choral chaos

On Hating the GRE

Modernism and Magic

The Psychedelic Reader: A New Introduction

What does the cosmos sound like?

Catherine Yrowonde’s Lucky Mojo cornucopia.

Erik Davis visits the Temples of Damanhur.

In his sunken city, the dead cutie-pie lies dreaming.

He wrote tart manifestos of absurdist negation.

Erik Davis comes to Joanna Newsom’s music as acolyte & arbiter.

The RWS Tarot is more like 1900s comic strips than Middle Age esoterica.

Of all the hilo heroes of American music, only FRANK ZAPPA (1940-93)…

Long before they became whiners — carping about Napster and exploring their…

ALEISTER CROWLEY (1875–1947) Mountaineer, fiendish hedonist, and magus incandescent, ALEISTER CROWLEY (1875–1947)…

Within the western current of occult mysticism, A. E. WAITE (1857–1942) stands…

Now that the radical punch of punk seems no more potent than…