“Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, Read More…
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21st Century Demonology – Part 2: Folklore, Sleep Paralysis, and Brainwaves
“But, unhappily, this domain of enchantment is in all respects comparable to the gold of Faerie, which is presumably its medium of exchange. It cannot withstand daylight, the test of the human eye, or the scale of reason. When these are applied, its paradox becomes an anticlimax, its antithesis ludicrous; its contradictions are without genius; Read More…
21st Century Demonology – Part 1: Esoteric Sciences, Fortean Cryptozoology, & Beyond
What the hell is a demon? Is it a red-skinned, horned pigmy that sits on everybody’s left shoulder, consistently trying to muffle out the angel opposite it? Could a demon be considered a poltergeist, where strange and usually malevolent phenomena haunt an entire house or building? What about the strange things that people continuously report Read More…
Psychedelics & Shamanism: An Esoteric Manipulation of Human Culture – Featuring Jan Irvin of Gnostic Media
https://media.blubrry.com/last_american_vagabond/content.blubrry.com/last_american_vagabond/Psychedelics_Shamanism-_An_Esoteric_Manipulation_of_Human_Culture.mp3Podcast (altered-boy-podcast): Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Email | RSSSeptember 12th, 2016, The Last American Vagabond had the privilege of sitting down across the screen from veteran researcher, Jan Irvin, of Gnostic Media. With The Last American Vagabond’s recent and continued elaboration on the ancient, esoteric origins of politics and government through Read More…
The Components of Alchemy and the Philosopher’s Stone
Today, alchemy is an idea that has been pigeon-holed into either fantasy fiction or mad scientist craze (often both at the same time), and like any of the ancient sciences of the Mysteries, alchemy as an idea is shelved by most people before even being considered. Also like the collection of ancient sciences (astrology, numerology, Tarot, Read More…
Your Esoteric Initiation – Part 7: Real Magicians Don’t Read “New Age”
The overall point of this article series has been to propose the following: the objective nature of Natural Law (the Law of Karma); the components of how Natural Law functions—through gnostic understanding of the Microcosm and Macrocosm by the Divination Arts of Astrology, Numerology, Tarot, and the Tree of Life; how gnosis applies to alchemical Read More…