Now is the time to preorder my new book: • Explores the author’s extensive connections with infamous occultists and organizations, including Genesis P-Orridge and Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth, Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan, and the Ordo Templi Orientis • Details the underlying occult impulses and magical experiences guiding the author’s artistic journey, his experiences in psychedelic culture and the punk subculture, and his experimentation with sex magic, occulture, and sigil magic What does it mean to live a life as an occultist? There may be no single answer, but for Carl Abrahamsson, it has involved work in music, art, and film as well as deep involvement with renowned occult figures and organizations for more than 40 years. Illustrating the possibilities of a life infused with magic, Abrahamsson reflects on his decades spent in the company of some of the most unconventional thinkers of the late-20th and early-21st centuries. Revealing how his immersion in both the...

Wow… Things Happen by Vanessa Sinclair is released today! Coming of age in 1990s Florida… Sex & drugs & dark music… Goth & Fetish Clubs… Abandoned Cocaine Gangster Hotels… Love & Violence… Friendships that last for life & beyond… A psychedelic underground in pastel-colored Miami… Ivy and her girlfriends roll with the crazy Florida waves and vibes and weirdos as they learn the ropes of reality (so-called)… And things happen. They really do. THINGS HAPPEN is American artist & psychoanalyst Vanessa Sinclair’s debut novel: a prism of stories, fragments, and memories chronicling a young woman’s experiences of growing up in the anarchic high weirdness of Florida. It’s a time and space of awakenings in which sunshine, rainstorms and full-on hurricanes create the ambience of wide-eyed realizations that everything might not always be exactly as it seems. ”Vanessa Sinclair is a female William Burroughs for the age of...

I’m on the Magister Dixit Podcast – A GREAT conversation! ”Our guest is none other than Carl Abrahamsson, a visionary force hailing from Stockholm, Sweden. With a career spanning across decades, Carl has blended his passions for filmmaking and the esoteric, creating a tapestry of films that delve into the mysterious and the magical. From the thought-provoking “Into the Devil’s Den,” exploring the legacy of Anton LaVey, to the intimate “Cinemagician – Conversations with Kenneth Anger,” capturing the essence of the iconic filmmaker, Carl’s lens has shaped narratives that transcend the ordinary and delve into the extraordinary. His collaboration with the legendary Genesis P-Orridge has birthed intriguing works, including the documentary “Write Your Own Code,” a fascinating exploration into the intertwining realms of spoken word and visual art. But Carl is not only a maestro behind the camera; he’s also a prolific writer. His books, a...

Hats off to my lovely wife for having had such a productive year 2023! She made eight new albums together with British master musician Pete Murphy, and they are all so, so good. Adding to the seven classic albums they already had together! Vanessa’s cut-ups fit really well together with Pete’s extremely versatile musical mind, and the results are simply staggering, sublime, sexy, and psychedelically seductive. You can listen to them all here: (Or on any other streaming platform you’re comfortable with.) She also created 52 (!) episodes of her magnificent Rendering Unconscious podcast this year. That’s right – that’s on average one episode a week. More information here: So far she’s created 275 podcast episodes in total about the state of international psychoanalysis, psychology, and also art & the occult. I’m in a few of these episodes, and they are of course the best; but do listen to all of this wealth of diverse intelligence… 275 episodes so far… That’s quite a feat! She also...