My Week in the Occult – Week 20: 2016

In a blend of old and new, from the Occult, Paranormal, Esoteric, Spiritual, Supernatural, Weird Science and High Strangeness realms, this week I have been mostly watching, reading, writing and listening to…

WEIRD AND INTERESTING BLOG POSTS:

– Are you getting a Return on your Magick Investments? 
– What Secrets Dwell Within the Book Known as “THE KEY OF HELL?”
– Five Incredible Texts of Spells, Curses, and Incantations
– Our Stories That Make Sense of Our World
– Neuroscientist Shows What Fasting Does To Your Brain
– The Future of Money Magic
– The feast of Julian of Norwich
– OUR GODS ARE NOT VENDING MACHINES
– On the ‘Unreliability’ of UFO Eyewitnesses
– Archaeologists unearth ancient butchering site
– Mystery civilisation of ‘sea people’
– Full-Blown Satanist Running for Office
– FIVE VISUALIZATIONS FOR CULTIVATING THE INNER WARRIOR
– Science and Buddhism Agree
– Sigils, servitors and godforms
– The Spirits of Green Mountain
– The Mystery of the GIANT Swastika near Roswell
– Alien Planet Passes in Front of Our Sun
– Comic version of the Headless/Bornless Ritual
– Rosæ Crucis Facility in Quakertown, PA
– Woman Beaten to Death After Being Accused of Witchcraft on Facebook
– Psychic Astronaut Who Got Sued By NASA
– Learn to Die!, by Alejandro Jodorowsky
– TANTRIC SEX PARTNERS, ACTUAL AND ‘IMAGINED’
– The Difference Between the Church of the SubGenius and Discordianism
– Enlightenment is Progress, not Perfection.
– New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function
– This woman is the only person left born in the 1800
– ‘No doubt’ Iceland’s elves exist
– The Neural Basis of Seeing God?
– Update From the Astronomers Who Proposed the Alien Megastructures
– Five facts about THE WITCH’s real-life Black Phillip
– Binding/Pushing Away Negative People
– A science journalist takes a skeptical look at capital-S Skepticism 
– – And the follow up
– Problem With Grimoire Purists and Strict Traditionalists
– The Socialist Roots of Occultism
– Why We Keep Dreaming of Little Green Men
– Consciousness Isn’t a Mystery. It’s Matter.
– LSD-Like Drugs Are Out of the Haze and Back in the Labs
– How Magic Helps Me Live With Pain And Trauma
– Lilith: Ancient Demon, Dark Deity or Sex Goddess?
– Psilocybin for Treatment-Resistant Depression
– Does ESP Reveal the Nonphysical?
– Susan Blackmore changes her mind
– The neurosurgeon who will carry out first human head transplant
– Physicists discover a new form of light
– 3 WAYS TO CARE FOR YOUR MENTAL HYGIENE
– 5 HAUNTED PLACES IN EGYPT
– Unknowability
– The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit
– On the Origins of ‘Magick’
– Orthopedic Surgeon Is Prescribing Meditation Over Medication
– Bodies Of Strange Creatures Were Found In The Basement 
– Trees seen resting branches while ‘asleep’ for the first time
– Going Left Of Center
– Your brain is not a computer
– Stop thinking, start exercising
– Science finally proves meridians exist
– Those Blasted Grimoire Mages!
– DEVELOPING SPIRITUAL RELATIONSHIPS
– Practical Magic for Time Crunched Magicians
– How Modern Women Are Reclaiming the Occult
– Scientists Create Embryos That Are Both Animal And Human
– The Poverty of Scientism
– Christianity And The Revision Of Occult History
– Five hundred years of Satanic art
– Psychic Plagues and Witch-Doctors
– Piango Piango: First Steps in Palo Mayombe
– Nearly 100 schoolchildren ‘possessed by the devil’
– Preserving Ireland’s Ancient, Mysterious Tree-Based Alphabet
– Sleep Paralysis: A brief history of fear, treatment and artistic creativity
– Archaeology of the Undead

OCCULT PODCASTS:

– Why are so many movies going Gnostic?
– The Spooktator Episode 11
– Mormonism & Gnosticism
– Books, Sex and Mysticism

MAGICK VIDEOS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drGJtd1a4S8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR2j44Yml7M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McycN3Woep8

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