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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ethiopian Magic Scrolls |:| You Know You Love Talismans
Am I sounding like a broken record yet? Once again Phantasmaphile has hipped me to a happening we should all be clamoring to attend. Elizabeth Street Fine Arts’ (209 Elizabeth St.) latest exhibit “Ethiopian Magic Scrolls: Talismanic Art of Ethiopia” (ending June 30th) is where you wanna be to get […]
Boulder, Christ-Love, and Channeled Texts
Today is my second-to-last full day in Boulder, CO, and the Niwot curse is beginning to wear off. I’ve pretty much done all the stuff I wanted to, today sealing my trip with a jaunt up to arguably my favorite place on earth, the small town of Nederland, home of […]
Wanna Ouija on TV? |:| NYC Area Casting Call
This call for participants was posted over at the very lovely Phantasmaphile who received it in an email and thought it interesting enough to put up. Obviously, this fits right in with my little humble blog: SUBJECT: TV company looking for participants interested in a doing a Ouija-board session: Have […]
Manhattanhenge Will Occur Today
Get ready, because today is the first of this year’s dual Manhattanhenge occurrences. Of course, this would be insanely awesome if I could actually get my head around what Manhattanhenge is. From Gothamist: The visually stunning event occurs twice a year, when the sun sets in perfect alignment with Manhattan’s […]
Mummification in Brooklyn |:| ‘Nuff Said
Some days you wake up without a piece in the hopper, and the past week’s been kinda slim pickin’s as far as mystic Manhattan goes, and so you open up […]
TONIGHT: All About Mesmerism |:| Gowanus Gets Weird in a Good Way
This is just a quick note to alert all y’all about a talk tonight on mesmerism at the Observatory Room located at Proteus Gowanus in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn. This event begins at 8pm and will cost you a total of $9.00. It is being put on by the […]
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