I've read all but a couple of Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files novels, and watched the DVD containing the one and only season of the weekly television series of the same name. I'm seriously impressed. Great writing, great stories, Butcher's work can be read as science fiction rather than fantasy, because it takes place within a consistent ( Read more... )

If anyone out there has information on resources that can help me research some odd aspects of the period 1930-1960 in Southern California, I would really appreciate it if you would leave that information in comments to this post. The information I'm looking for concerns a subculture of mostly upper-middle-class and some upper-class individuals ( Read more... )

1) Visualizing an n-dimensional Tree of Life, where n is greater than 3:

I developed an n-dimensional version of the Tree of Life, where n is indefinitely great, which, however, retains at its heart the original, traditional, 2-dimensional, 10-Sephiroth Tree of Life in completely undistorted, undamaged form, so that the rest of the expanded Tree ( Read more... )

In an earlier post I was asked "Why do you focus so much energy on these tools?" My reply, given in a comment to that query, should make it clear. But if further elucidation is needed, just ask Anonymous why they protest. I think, between Anonymous and myself, that ought to cover it nicely. Beating a dead horse is a time-honored exercise in ( Read more... )

I just discovered the following review on one of the sites I visit regularly (I added the amazon.com URL to it, though). This sort of scotches the idea held by so many historians that Hitler and his cronies weren't occultists and weren't interested in the occult:

Hitler's Holy Relics: A True Story of Nazi Plunder and the Race to Recover the ( Read more... )

In a message dated 5/7/2004 9:32:33 AM Pacific Standard Time, xxxx@yyy.com writes:

|| Ah, now if only the Goetia would become popular with the lame-ass celebrity crowd! || ( Read more... )

Oh, God, where do I start?

The sins against science of esotericists -- the worst offenders, again, seem to be astrologers -- are one of the most important reasons that today's scientific community heaps such scorn on occultists, hermeticists, and their various avocations and subjects of study. If you want scientists -- not "science," which is a ( Read more... )