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 […]
Gender Theorist, Judith Butler, Dissed By NYC Jews for Dissing Israel /// A Jewish-American Gal’s Perspective on What’s Happening
By The Nice Jewish Girl A Jewish-American peace activist once told me that her experience coming out as a Lesbian was far easier than coming out as a supporter of […]
The Sound of Om is Really Just Ambient Office Noise, Right? /// NYC Architecture as OM’ing Soundscape
Ahh…the present moment….. In the NYC this non-state manifests as an unconditional timelessness filled with screaming babies, garbled subway announcements, the ramblings of crazy people with their shoes off, and […]
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 […]
Brooklyn Halloween Homes ¦¦ Check Out New York Shitty’s Halloween Watch Images
New York Shitty takes a crap ton of photos (pun honestly not intended, so I gots to leave it in) of street art, random visual non-sequiturs, and found objects throughout […]
Manhattan Storage Makes Humorous Religio-Political (new term?) Commentary
Riding home from a three-hour lecture on Taoist alchemy and “sexology,” I found myself uncontrollably staring at the above Manhattan Storage ad (those forever kinda sorta very clever ones) thinking […]
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, […]
Union Square “Sit On My Face” Guy (Now) “Smell Yr Farts” Guy Has a Vid About Him
Many times when I have told people that I write about spirituality in New York City these very kind and thoughtful listeners get excited to put me in touch with […]
911 “Cross” Still in Ye Olde Hot Seat |:| Will It End Up In Hot Seat Memorial?
Taking that symbol of cathartic hope and making it a symbol of the event itself has got a new cheerleader this week: Rep. Michael Grimm (R-SI) said he’s pushing for […]
Aghoris Like Skulls |:| Broome Street Temple Celebrates Ten Years of Yogic Splendor |:| Svoboda Speaks Tonight!
About ten years ago I was living in Boulder, CO and reading a lot of spiritual books. Now, it’d be great if I could say spiritual “texts,” but really we […]
This Thursday: 19th Century Bohemian Occult Subcultures in Britain |:| Golden Dawn, Polyamory, Mysticism
Phantasmaphile is putting together this: Bohemian Occult Subculture in Britain’s 1890s: How Artists, Actors, and Writers Made the Golden Dawn* An illustrated presentation by Dr. Christina Oakley Harrington of Treadwell’s, London’s legendary occult bookshop Date: Thursday, August 25th Time: 8pm Location: Observatory, Brooklyn Admission: $8 The Order of the Golden […]
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 […]
Russian Space Church in Queens
Scouting New York has got some really nice photos of the St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Whitestone, Queens, NY, otherwise known as “Space Church 2099, M’F’in Biotch!” I haven’t yet […]
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 […]
Bhagavan Das Splattering NYC With Ma Shakti
Everyone’s favorite stateside sadhu, Bhagavan Das, is making his way to David and Sharon‘s Jivamukti Yoga this Saturday, July 30th to drown all those in kirtan attendance in slightly Left […]
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