Phil Hine
@philh
Occult Author, Researcher, Publisher, Lecturer.
A new blog post. An attempt to comment on the first seven verses of the Kaula Upanishad. enfolding.org/some-notes-o...
Dr Milon did an excellent lecture on Spirituality and Live-Action RPG in 2024 at @treadwells-books.bsky.social.
Shiri Allwood says: "By the 1990s, practices directly and indirectly related to the occult were referred to as Technopaganism." Actually, the phrase was in use by the late 80s. This from "Pagan News" (co-edited by myself and @rodneyorpheus.bsky.social)
From the archives: Daily Mirror, February 29, 1973. "Witchcraft's 'Royal Family'. More Alex Sanders, plus Pat Crowther and others.
A new blog post. A brief reflection on magical objects. enfolding.org/time-machines/ (image: Seven of Cups from "The Sexual Tarot" by Brother R.B.B.)
Here's a quote from "Interview with a Wizard". Might give you some indication of Carroll's leanings.
From the Archive. My favourite Psychic News front page. "Medium Caught Holding Trumpet" November 7 1992. Disclosure: I was working for Psychic Press (the publishers of Psychic News) at the time this was published. The company also owned The Atlantis Bookshop.
From the Archives: "Witch Wife in Razor Attack". Daily Mirror, October 20, 1976.
From the Archives: "King of the Witches is Sacked from a Nightclub" Daily Mirror, Thursday April 15, 1971.
Queer books in my library. An occasional series. Might do reviews. Possibly some overlap with the esoteric books thing from last year. "Men in Frocks" by Kris Kirk & Ed Heath. Gay Men's Press, 1984. #Queer #QueerReading
Queer books in my library. An occasional series. Might do reviews. Possibly some overlap with the esoteric books thing from last year. Devdutt Pattanaik's "The Man Who Was a Woman and Other Queer Tales from Hindu Lore." #Queer #QueerReading
Queer books in my library. An occasional series. Might do reviews. Possibly some overlap with the esoteric books thing from last year. Paul Baker and Jo Stanley's "Hello Sailor: The Hidden History of Gay Life at Sea". #Queer #QueerReading
Queer books in my library. An occasional series. Might do reviews. Possibly some overlap with the esoteric books thing from last year. Shiri Eisner's "BI: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution" #Queer #QueerReading
Queer books in my library. An occasional series. Might do reviews. Possibly some overlap with the esoteric books thing from last year. Another classic: Giti Thadani's "Sakhiyani: Lesbian Desire in Ancient and Modern India". #Queer #QueerReading
Queer books in my library. An occasional series. Might do reviews. Possibly some overlap with the esoteric books thing from last year. Rudi C. Bley's classic "The Geography of Perversion: Male-To-Male Sexual Behavior Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918." #Queer #QueerReading
Queer books in my library. An occasional series. Might do reviews. Possibly some overlap with the esoteric books thing from last year. First off, Peter Ackroyd's "Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day." #Queer #QueerReading
Current reading: "The Log Books: Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline that Listened" - Adam Zmith, Tash Walker. More info and podcast shows at: shows.acast.com/thelogbooks
A great night with @cultauthor.bsky.social doing Hookland at the @forteanlondon.bsky.social venue, The Bell. (Slide image by @mariastrutz.bsky.social)
Such as my second reading of "How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others" by Tanya Luhrmann.
I am slowly making my way through "Rough Music Folk Customs, Transgression and Alternative Britain" by Liz Williams. I keep getting distracted by other things though.
New blog post. The third essay in my series on tantric tattvas. This time I'm taking a look at the tattva schema of Lakṣmīdhara, from his 16th century commentary on the Saundaryalahari (“Flood of Beauty”). [yantra by @mariastrutz.bsky.social] enfolding.org/tripura-tatt...
New blog post. My review of Brooke Palmieri's superb book, "Bargain Witch: Essays in Self-Initiation". enfolding.org/book-review-...
New blog post. A quick tour of the 36 tattvas of the tantric traditions. Second of a three-part series. Sriyantra by @mariastrutz.bsky.social enfolding.org/tantric-tatt...
Flyer from a 2022 presentation by myself and Patricia MacCormack on Lovecraft & Cinema.
Slide from the lecture - Illustration by Brian Ward from "Psychonaut" by PJ Carroll and how it appeared in 2000AD's "Zenith" by Grant Morrison. Artist Steve Yoewell.