Category: wyrd mythology
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Abraham LinkedIn
In Terje J Simonsen’s A Short History of Nearly Everything Paranormal, the author describes two fortean occurrences preceding Lincoln’s assassination. The pharmakos President experienced a strange, retroactively-prophetic dream in which he traversed the White House’s deserted corridors until he came upon a light-drenched parlor, wherein a grief-hushed crowd waked a corpse. He entered, drew close to…
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(f)Uncanny
Listened to BBC Uncanny 3 part Summer special today, sublime. Goosebumps guaranteed once per episode. Recommend enjoying with curtains drawn and a single candle burning. You’ll find podcasts with deeper dives, better production values, more banter etc but for sheer narrative force, Uncanny tops the pile. Plus, refreshing British matter-of-factness lends credence to more absurd…
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The Spagyrical Revival
Ken Grant, Crowley et al, while tapped into a so-called magickal stellar current conducted rituals whose operations effectively laid down red carpets, ports of earth entry for misshapen forms from beyond the course of the zodiac. In the wake of OTO and affiliate lodge workings, an already porous reality was left riddled with entity-sized holes.…
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The Maid and the Menace
Would recommend anyone read J.K. Huysmans book La Bas, a slab of French decadence with prose purpler than a Roman Emperor’s cloak sporting a black eye, drinking Ribena. Book concerns one man’s attempt to construct a biography of holy heretic and reputed serial child murderer Gilles De Rais, Joan of Arc’s closest general and friend…
Alchemisland 