Copenhagen: lecture + film screening

On September 26th at 7 pm I will deliver a lecture at Nekropolis, Copenhagen’s greatest esoteric bookseller and hot spot. The theme will be “Abstraction made concrete – The occultural methods and mutations of Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth”. Please contact Nekropolis direct for further information, tickets etc. On September 27th at 7 pm I will introduce and show the wonderful film Dreams Less Sweet (Zimmerman, O’Dowd, Breyer P-Orridge et al, USA, 2013), made for/based on/inspired by Psychic TV’s seminal 1983 album of the same name. This will take place at Husets Biograf. Please contact them for further information, tickets etc.

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Imprisoned Sentences, Sundsvall

  IMPRISONED SENTENCES will be exhibited at Galleri Granen in Sundsvall (see the flyer). The exhibition consists of enlarged textual pages from the novel Mother, Have A Safe Trip, plus inspirational photographs from the writing of the novel. The novel and some other items will be for sale at the gallery. The novel can also of course be ordered via EDDA. Many thanks and see you there!

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The “Thelema Now!” podcast is now online

    Thelema Now!, the great American podcast focusing on Aleister Crowley and Thelemic culture, recently interviewed me. The result can now be heard via their site. The conversations touch upon magic and art, Cotton Ferox, Edda Publishing, the novel Mother, Have A Safe Trip, inspiration, Fredrik Söderberg, The Fenris Wolf, Crowley’s erotica, the Here To Go symposium, the An Art Apart documentary series and more. Many thanks to Frater Puck and Thelema Now. Photograph: Åsa Ersmark

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Scarlet Imprint has “Reasonances” on pre-order now!

[The following text is culled from Scarlet Imprint’s webpage, where you can now pre-order my book Reasonances.] Reasonances is ​an anthology of selected essays, lectures and interviews by​ occultural pioneer Carl Abrahamsson. A subversive, creative, psychedelic collection of 23 essays spanning thirteen years at the forefront of occulture and magic​, followed an interview with the author by Sylvie Walder​. The unifying question of this diverse and stimulating collection can perhaps be stated thus: how does magic hack culture? Or perhaps even: what is the role and magic of the artist? Abrahamsson proposes strategies of engagement that ​draw from TOPY, Thelema and Satanism, with which he is intimately acquainted. His magic is that of the interzone, the hinterland, of the unseen forces that drive culture forward. Reasonances is therefore a nexus of heretical possibilities investigated with ​a ​calm reflection that goes beyond his native Scandinavian cool. It is with great generosity...

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