Fortune Teller Scams(?) / Earns(?) $200K Off Patron
What’s strange about this story is how much it resembles a previous story I wrote about three years back…. Today’s story as Gothamist tells it: “A 22-year-old Hell’s Kitchen resident […]
Goat Head Found In Brooklyn Park /// OG Mysticism Alive and Well?
Way back in 2004 a black metal band known as Gorgoroth played a show in Krakow, Poland. As Wikipedia tells it: “[T]he band displayed sheep heads on stakes, a bloodbath […]
Teen Vogue Gives BK’s Witch-Positive Moon Church a Shout Out /// Homeless Mystics Still Get Avoided on Trains
Unlike the rest of you creepy pervs, I read Teen Vogue for the articles. Which is how I caught this posi-review of the burgeoning pagan/witch/occult/shamanic/anarchistic/dada-esque meta-movement happening in Brooklyn these […]
Mysterious (Though Probs Shouldn’t Have Been Touched) “Thing” Found in Old Trinity Cemetery
Scouting NY is a fantastic site that we should all be thankful for, as it covers hidden and not-so-hidden locations in and around the NYC area. And recently, Sir Scout […]
Check this out: Macabre & Mysticism show!
I’m starting to find it possible to post stuff again. That’s fantastic, right? Some of the posts might be a bit bare bones to start, but let’s just do this! Here’s an art opening that’s got all the makings of dark mystical greatness. The lovely Phantasmaphile linked it: http://www.phantasmaphile.com/2011/10/macabre-mysticism-show.html
Modern Day Mummifiation |:| First Midnight Archive Video Up
Well, it actually happened, and right on schedule too! The first installment of destined-to-be-cult-classic web series, The Midnight Archive, is up for your viewing pleasure. The creation of Ronni Thomas, […]
Honoring The Earth Element |:| “May the Gnomes be Pleased”
____________________ Vanishing Art, Earth Element, The Abode of The Message, Orchard of the Prophets, August 26, 2011
Sufis Love Eating |:| Exorcism? |:| [Vanishing Art Report]
For as many years as I’ve been coming up to The Abode of the Message (say, about six), there has always been bread, butter, and jelly left out on the table in the eating hall. At any hour of the night I have felt safe knowing that if I had […]
Reporting From the Vanishing Art Festival |:| Experimental Occult Sufi Practices Abound!
Over the next few days I will be reporting from here… The Abode of the Message, covering this week’s Vanishing Art Festival featuring Peter Lamborn Wilson… Carolee Schneemann… and many more…. What the hell is Vanishing Art, you ask? Check out this communique from Wilson on the first Vanishing Art […]
My Santisima Trinidad |:| In Love and Curiosity
Lately, whenever I sit in front of my altar in The Place of Peace, I find myself irresistibly drawn to contemplating a small corroding image I picked up a while […]
NYC “Fortune Tellers” Charged With Fraud |:| $40 Million Amassed Over 20 Years
These sort of charges always make me feel uneasy.While this case seems pretty straight forward—at least in the instances where valuables were never returned to the customers—I can’t help but feel that fine line between working with a willing participant on matters “unseen” and taking an uninformed and coerced patron […]
New Occult Esoteric Fantastic Web Show
Remember television? That was awesome. Television was that thing that even when it was lame (commercials) it had the potential for being insane (Zoobilee Zoo). Well, television is over. But this new thing called the intranet is going to take off like undies at a poly-friendly post-gender anarchist adult play […]
Jehovah’s Witnesses Concerned About the Atheist “Crusade”
I would say nine times out of ten I take religious propaganda with a grain of salt. This is not to say I don’t absolutely love it, collect it, and […]
Atheists Are Getting Headaches, Depression, and Anxiety from the Cross |:| Want to be Included Too
I suppose on some level I try not to take sides on this blog. Where that “some level” actually resides, however, is very much open to debate. But in this case, the case of American Atheists wanting “equal representation” in the soon-to-be National September 11 Memorial and Museum, I am […]
NYC Atheists Hate Heaven |:| Heaven Likes the First Amendment
NYC Atheists are challenging a new sign that went up in Red Hook, Brooklyn commemorating the death of seven first responder fireman who died on 911. This is the story in a nutshell: [Ken Bronstein of NYC Atheists] calls the sign a violation of the separation of church and state, […]
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