Update: NYC DuQuette Tarot Workshop

Lon Milo DuQuette's Workshop via the OTO (C)

March 12, 2011 will mark LON MILO DUQUETTE’s return to the Tahuti Lodge to bring you the Tarot of Ceremonial Magick goodness.

Lon Milo DuQuette returns to NYC in March 2011

Lon Milo DuQuette (C) Lon Milo DuQuette

Save the Ritman Library (Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica)

Express your protest against the dissolution of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (Ritman Library)

It is widely known that the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in Amsterdam, founded by J.R. Ritman, was in great danger in the 1990s, when the ING bank took possession of the collection and threatened to sell it. Fortunately, the Dutch government intervened: the BPH was put on the list of protected Dutch heritage, and the State eventually acquired over 40% of it. The books remained at the same physical location, integrated with the rest of the collection, and the government would eventually acquire all of it. As part of this process, there were great plans for further expansion. Largely due to the financial crisis and a change of government this was taking somewhat longer than originally anticipated, but nobody doubted that the library was safe.

Last week this turned out to be incorrect. An extremely valuable medieval manuscript owned by the BPH (The Grail of Rochefoucauld) was put on sale at Sotheby’s, and this triggered a reaction from the Friesland Bank, which took possession of the library, that had apparently been brought in as collateral, in order to get back a 15 million euro loan from mr Ritman. At present the BPH is closed, and intense negotiations are going on behind closed doors. It is impossible at this moment to predict the outcome, but there is no doubt that the situation is extremely serious. There is a very real possibility that the Friesland bank will try to sell at least the ca. 60% of the library that is still owned by mr Ritman, and nobody knows what implications this will have for the rest of the collection and the BPH as a whole, including its staff. The brand-new government of the Netherlands has announced a program of radical financial cuts in the culture section and elsewhere, which makes a renewed intervention from that side highly unlikely.

If the Ritman library would go down, this would mean an enormous blow to international scholarship in hermetic studies. The damage would be irreversible. By signing this petition you express your concern, and ask the Dutch government and the Friesland bank to do their utmost to ensure that the collection will be saved and will remain available for the international scholarly community.

Additionally, you can express your concern by means of a signed letter. The initiative for this petition comes from the Center for History of Hermetic Philosophy and related currents at the University of Amsterdam (organizationally independent of the BPH, and not in any danger itself), so please send your letter to its director: Prof. Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Oude Turfmarkt 141-147, 1012 GC Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Email: w.j.hanegraaff [ at ] uva.nl

Sign the petition here.

Robert Anton Wilson Day 2010

Update (RAW Day 2010) here is a previous episode of Right Where You Are Sitting Now!, a podcast named after Bob’s book, where RAW’s life and works are paid tribute to.

Today is once again the day designated to an inspiration to this site and myself, Robert Anton Wilson.  Here is the link to all previous Bob entries.  By the way, his site has been updated lately by his family.

NYC Book Signing Event: Uncover ‘Hidden Wisdom’ This Week with Author and Freemason Tim Wallace-Murphy

(C) The Disinformation Company and Tim-Wallace Murphy

My associate, Ralph Bernardo of Disinfo posted the following (here) to bring awareness to readers and students of the Occult and Western Esoteric Movement on this series of events in New York City:

Sacred Sites on the Korean Penninsula (Buddhist and Korean Indigenous Religion)

From the Places of Peace and Power site.  The descriptions for each sacred site is here.

The Invizible Web Podcast~!! Episode 27/ The Mexipan Power of the Hour No 5 – The DANGERest Finale~!!

In this brief epilogue and finale (for now) of the MMA Blitz Radio Network, I talk myself to sleep until I see Mark Danger on Skype and he tells me of his future prospects. Also (SPOILER ALERT) the Dream/SenGoku FIELDS DYNAMITE results, and I Tarot readings for personalities and promotions in the Combat Sport industry.

Download The Mexipan Power of the Hour No 5 – The DANGERest Finale~!!

Happy Winter Solstice~!

Last year I was able to write a series of articles on Winter Holidays and their deities.  This year I turn it over to Jason Pitzl-Waters on the Wild Hunt:

Updated (11/20/2009) with More Pictoral Content – The Invizible Web Season 4 Episode 2 (25) : Love-Hate and Xtul for All~!

Picture I took at the Anthology Film Archives.

On this episode of the Invizible Web, I interviewed Timothy Wyllie, formerly Father Micah of the Process Church of the Final Judgment.  We talk about the history of the sect and its de-facto leader Mary Ann de Grimston, as well as his new book that tells its story,Love Sex Fear Death:  The Inside story of the Process Church of the Final Judgement.  Also find out if dark dank robes were sexy, what Timothy do if he was the Messiah, and whatever a Xtul is.

The Invizible Web Season 4 Episode 2 (25): Love-Hate and Xtul for All~!

Introducing…Maria Leonza and Her Sect (El Espiritismo Marialeoncero)

Updated: 10-14-2009 Order of Esoteric Research Discussion Annotation Links

OCCULT USA: Process Church Sabbath Assembly Ritual at Anthology Film Archives, NYC