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

Paul Karasik presents the Fletcher Hank Experience @ Strands in NYC

Eric Reynolds wrote for the Fantagraphics Books blog: 

Posthuman Studios Has a Game for You

From an interview Ray Huling recently conducted for H+:

KBOO-FM Interview with Robert Anton Wilson by Cliff Walker

In 1990, Cliff Walker conducted an interview with the late Robert Anton Wilson for KB00-FM in Portland, Oregon.  Here is an excerpt.

Walker: The New Inquisition: persecution of scientific inquiry. What prompted you to write this book?

(Julian Baggini: The New Atheist Movement is destructive) and (Jason Pitzl Waters: Inside the Mind of Linda Harvey)

From a commentary by Julian Baggini:

– The antitheism of the four horsemen is for me a backwards step. It reinforces what I believe is a myth, that an atheist without a bishop to bash is like a fish without water, Julian Baggini writes.

Text: Julian Baggini
Published: March 19. 2009

15 Questions Militant Atheists Should Ask Before Trying to “Destroy Religion”

RJ Eskow writes for the Huffington Post:

MARVEL Comics merges with DISNEY

Happy Birthday King~!!

Robert Anton Wilson Day 2009

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.

WE SHALL CONFOUND ALL THE LISTENERS~! (Invisible Web the Podcast Season 4 Episode One)

Season 4 Episode One – We Shall Confound All the Listeners~!

Grant Morrison on Batman and Robin

Green Eggs and Bob?

Editor’s Note: Yesterday, two years ago, on January 11, 2007 at 4;50 AM PST, Robert Anton Wilson left this life.  I wrote some words to remember him by, last year.  Interestingly, Jason Pitzl-Waters, a premiere blogger of the Pagan community reviewed Green Egg Omlet, An Anthology of Art and Articles from the Legendary Pagan Journal, which contained artciles Rev. Bob wrote for the celebrated peridodical.  From reading the review, and gleaming inside the TOC, I think I might get a copy from Borders.  It would look nice next to my copy of Drawing Down the Moon in my bookcase.  What were the first forty years of the modern Pagan movement like? Here is an an excerpt of Pitzl-Waters’ review of this collection from a bygone era.

The print medium is changing irrevocably. Any clear-eyed assessment concerning the state of magazines and newspapers would see a widespread and unforgiving culling taking place. So many magazines are going under that a regularly updated blog has been created to keep track of the carnage, while digital-age pundits predict that the surviving niche publications will soon have to make hard choices about their future. While I’m no futurist, I’ve seen some of these changes coming for some time now, the struggling economy only hastening a transition already underway. It is part of the reason that the bulk of my writing is focused on this blog, rather than in the more “traditional” outlets for a writer/journalist (though I do admit to a certain romantic attachment to being in print, and I currently write for Pagan publications like PanGaia and Thorn).

Given these shake-ups in the world of print, I think it is entirely timely that I recently received a review copy of “Green Egg Omelette: An Anthology of Art and Articles From the Legendary Pagan Journal”. This book, a compliation of excerpts from one of the most influential Pagan magazines ever printed, shows just how vital and necessary the format once was. While books published for Pagans usually stuck to the “101-isms” of Wicca and other Pagan faiths, it was in the magazines that this loose network of Witches, Pagans, magicians, free-thinkers, and philosophers started to communicate, hash out ideas, argue, and push the boundaries of what they knew. It was a place where Pagan filk could rub shoulders with treatises on magic(k) by Robert Anton Wilson, and initial attempts at describing a Pagan theology could have a place next to explorations of polyamory. It is little wonder that even today Green Egg is remembered fondly by almost all who came across it in their journey.

Read more.

Matt Smith, the New Doctor is In

(C) BBC via TV Guide

January 4th, 2009
Author Troy Brownfield for Newsarama

TV Guide and BBC News report that the new Dr. Who has been named.  And, as expected, it’s . . . wait, who is this guy?  Twenty-six year old Matt Smith becomes the youngest of the 11 Doctors when his episodes begin to air in 2010.

Smith starts filming during the summer.  Present Doctor, the very popular David Tennant, will appear in four specials that will run throughout the year before Smith assumes the role on-screen.

YuleTide: The Twelve Deities of Solstice #12 – 土地公公 TU DI GONG GONG (GRANDFATHER EARTH)

(C) Camau Association of America, Los Angeles

YuleTide: The Twelve Deities of Solstice #11 – BALUMAIN, Protector of the Kalash

In the Chitral district of Pakistan, overshadowed by the Hindu Kush mountain range, live the Kalash. Kalash’s polytheistic indigenous religion is the one of the last of the original Indo-European religions. Although it is related to the other two survivors, Hinduism (which some would call a misnomer as its various branches traditionally thought themselves to be separate from the rest) and Zoroastrianism, this religion has its distinct Gods, tales, rites, and rituals.  The Kalasha religion has only approximately3,000 adherents left in the world .

(C) Rosetta Kureshi on Flickr

YuleTide: The Twelve Deities of Solstice #10 – HERU (HORUS)

A falcon in Queens

WARNING: The following story is explicit for real. Some communities may consider it lascivious.   Do not blame me; blame the Egyptian scribes who originally transcribed the story in the Papyrus Chester-Beatty, and the two translators (alright Chester-Beatty was one guy; seriously, why was the hyphen used when it was both surnames of one man who did not use it officially)?

YuleTide: The Twelve Deities of Solstice #9 – BERTHA (PERCHTA)

(C) Wikimedia Commons

” There were beautiful Perchten with colorful clothes and glittering ornaments, and the Schiachperchten – bold forms, ghostly apparitions with masks of wood or bark, enveloped in furs, moss, lichen…demons represented by the inhabitants. ” (Michael Moynihan and Kadmon, Lords of Chaos New Edition, “Oskoriei,” 382)