“Along the streets that lead away from the apartment, he can never see anything through the concrete and brick and neon but he knows that buried within it are grotesque, twisted souls forever trying manners that will convince themselves they possess quality—learning strange poses of style and glamour vended by the dream magazines and other Read More…
Tag: Occult
The Occult History of Punk Rock: Part 2 – Punk F**king Hates You
For the extensive analysis at hand, this article will attempt to serve as much like an information chart as possible. Part 1 dealt with the premise of Punk Rock’s Occult History—a setting of the stage—so this section will get straight to the matter. “Punk” culture, as an overarching definition, extends from traditional punk rock, to Read More…
The Occult History of Punk Rock: Part 1 – Tentacles of the Establishment
“The only normal state we know from the 1920’s on is a state of flux. Punk was not a reaction, it was the next stage in deconstruction of a way of life that was no longer necessary, masquerading as a reaction. Posing as a revolution against an Establishment that created it. It was never dangerous Read More…
Former NYPD Talks Process Church Allegations & “Son of Sam” Murders
On January 6th, Ed Opperman, of The Opperman Report investigative radio show, interviewed decorated, former NYPD officer Michael Codella. Having already published a memoir of his career in New York, entitled, Alphaville: 1988, Crime, Punishment, and the Battle for New York City’s Lower East Side, Codella officially came on record to discuss a brief period during Read More…
Psychotherapy as Alchemy
Through the looking-glass, down the rabbit hole—peering into the kaleidoscope. Whether a person is a materialist or a spiritualist, a human being’s birth is the first initiation—and it is an initiation of a certain sequence or order(the individual consciousness of the newborn) into the fractal mathematics of relationship that dictates the material world—the chaos of 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…