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Tag Archives: gnosticism
A De-fencing of Agnosticism amid the Imprisoning Structures of (Ir)Religious Semantics
There is a certain well-known social media site where one is asked to declare ‘religious status,’ giving one the opportunity to ‘come out’ in a spiritual sense and hoist a particular creedo flag in all its splendour. Of course, many … Continue reading
Posted in Esoteric, Essays, Recommended reads
Tagged Absolute Truth, Agnostic Pagan, Agnosticism, Agnostics, atheism, Atheists, Belief, Buddhism, Buddhists, Church, Daniel Staniforth, Deism, Deists, doubt, Enlightenment, Epistemology, Escapism, esoteric, Facebook, Faith, Fence, Gnosis, gnosticism, Gnostics, God, human existence, humanism, Humanist, Knowledge, Labels, Occult, Ontology, pagan, Pagan Agnostics, Paganism, Paradox, philosophy, Pragmatism, Rationalism, Realism, Reason, Religion, Science, Secular, Secularism, Semantics, Spiritual, Theology, Thomas Henry Huxley, Truth
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Lud Heat: A Book of the Dead Hamlets by Iain Sinclair
Standing there, on a walk along the whole chain of Hawksmoor churches, we notice five minor obelisks in the fenced area beyond Blake’s burial slab. The Old Street obelisk is aligned beyond the boundary wall: the point of force is discovered. We also come … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Esoteric, Literature, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged 1960s, 1970s, Alan Moore, Albion Village Press, Angela Carter, anthologies, Architecture, Arthur Machen, avant garde, BBC, Bookdealers, British Avant Garde, British Literature, British mysteries, British poetry, Cardif, Chaos magic, Charles Baudelaire, churches in london, Conductors of Chaos, Dining on Stones, documentary, Downriver, Earth Mysteries, Edge of Orison, esoteric, Euclidian, filmmaker, Flaneur, Geography, gnosticism, Gothic, Guy Debord, Hackney, Hawksmoor, hawksmoor churches, History, iain sinclair, innermost sanctuary, J.G. Ballard, Landor's Tower, Lettrists, Ley Lines, Lights out for the Territory, Literature, London, London Film School, London Orbital, London Psychogeographical Association, Louis Aragon, Lud Heat, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Moorcock, nomad, Occult, Peter Akroyd, Psychogeography, ratcliffe highway, River Thames, Robert Graves, Shamanism, Sigil magic, Situationists, Suicide Bridge, Surrealism, The Workshop for Non-Linear Architecture, Thomas De Quincey, Underground, Walking tours, Walter Benjamin, white chappell, WIll Self, William Blake, writing
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Iain Sinclair on Skylight Press
Iain Sinclair describes himself as a “British writer, documentarist, film maker, poet, flâneur, metropolitan prophet and urban shaman, keeper of lost cultures and futurologist.” He was born in Cardiff in 1943 but has lived much of his life in Hackney, … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Esoteric, Literary Criticism, Literature, New authors, Poetry
Tagged 1960s, 1970s, Alan Moore, Albion Village Press, Angela Carter, anthologies, Architecture, Arthur Machen, avant garde, BBC, Bookdealers, British Avant Garde, British Literature, British mysteries, British poetry, Cardif, Chaos magic, Charles Baudelaire, Conductors of Chaos, Dining on Stones, documentary, Downriver, Earth Mysteries, Edge of Orison, esoteric, Euclidian, filmmaker, Flaneur, Geography, gnosticism, Gothic, Guy Debord, Hackney, Hawksmoor, History, iain sinclair, J.G. Ballard, Landor's Tower, Lettrists, Ley Lines, Lights out for the Territory, London, London Film School, London Orbital, London Psychogeographical Association, Louis Aragon, Lud Heat, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Moorcock, nomad, Occult, Peter Akroyd, Psychogeography, River Thames, Robert Graves, Shamanism, Sigil magic, Situationists, Suicide Bridge, Surrealism, The Workshop for Non-Linear Architecture, Thomas De Quincey, Underground, Walking tours, Walter Benjamin, white chappell, WIll Self, William Blake
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The Cult of Seizure by Rikki Ducornet
The lunatic algebra of Love. The frenzied orbits of Mood. The malarial temperatures of Wound. Symbols of the Cult of Seizure: This flesh, this amulet incised. This hot spoor of predators. This zodiac savaged in the sky. Anyone who has … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Literature, New authors, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged Absurdism, alchemy, American fiction, American novel, Andre Breton, Angela Carter, archetypal world, Art, Artaud, avant garde, Avant garde literature, Bestiary, de sade, deep zoo, dream logic, Dreams, Erzsebet Bathory, experimental fiction, fiction, Gaston Bachelard, Gertrude Stein, gnosticism, Helene Cixous, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, Jorge Luis Borges, Language poetry, Lautreamont, Lewis Carroll, Literature, Magic, Magic Realism, novel, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, poetry, Rikki Ducornet, silling, small press, Surrealism, Sylvia Plath, symbolism. Porcupine's Quill, The Cult of Seizure, The Fan Maker's Inquisition, The Fountains of Neptune, William Blake, Wordsworth, writing, Zotl
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