Beginning this Sunday the 19th of May, Vanessa and I host another four session class on the Cut-Up technique and its relation to magical practice. Sign up HERE. See you on May 19th, 26th, June 2nd, and 9th. It’s going to be great! The cut-up method was originally discovered by Dada instigator Tristan Tzara. In his 1920 manifesto To Make a Dadaist Poem he teaches us how to create what he called “accidental poems” by cutting words from a newspaper, putting them all into a hat, shaking the contents, and pulling them one by one to create poetry by chance. At the Beat Hotel in Paris in 1958, creative partners William Burroughs and Brion Gysin rediscovered the cut-up method and elaborated upon it, moving from wordplay to audio recording, film, painting, collage, and further iterations. Gysin and Burroughs had been immersed in the magic of Morocco when they spent time with Paul and Jane Bowles in Tangier, and began to see the magical aspects inherent in their cut-up methodology. David Bowie...

NEWSFLASH! The pre-ordering for The Fenris Wolf 12 is now active. It is a MASSIVE tome of Occulture & Delightenment, so make sure to get your copy right away: This issue of The Fenris Wolf contains material about topics as diverse as Thai folk magic, performance art as ritual, the psychedelic aspects of Umberto Eco’s work, an interview with Vicki Bennett/People Like us, an excerpt from Val Denham’s autobiography, the power of wishing, trickle down metaphysics, conspiracy theories, Satanic comics, the history of Anton LaVey’s classic ”The Compleat Witch”, the ”Russian Embassy” of hippie era San Francisco, fictional wizards, Oscar Wilde, Freud & the Occult, Covid, planetary myths, Pan, individual vs state, gnosticism, the origins of the movie Freaks, the magic of dogs, shamanic clan activation, JG Ballard, AI language models, the work of Genesis P-Orridge, Yantras and art magic, Crowley’s views on reincarnation, the magic of The Purple Rose of Cairo, conspiracy myths and film...