Books

The REAL First Rule of Fight Club — Mickey Z.

(credit unknown) Mickey Z. — World News Trust July 23, 2021 Life in the United States of Algorithms has me thinking about Fight Club again — reading snippets, posting quotes, and watching YouTube clips until I finally gave it a re-watch. Such is the power of Fight Club. I saw it in the theater when it came out in 1999. It was love at first sight. Like the well-programmed white male “radical” I wa ...

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BOOKS: The Doctrine of High Magic: Chapter 1 | John Michael Greer

June 9, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- With this post we continue a monthly chapter-by-chapter discussion of The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Lévi, the book that launched the modern magical ...

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Fake News + Bad Journalism = The New Normal — Mickey Z.

(Media Burn) Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 9, 2021 I’ve been interviewed dozens and dozens of times. Those experiences have sometimes left me shaking my head when I’d find factual errors in the e ...

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The Legacy of Luxor | John Michael Greer

May 19, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Late last year, before veering off on several necessary tangents, we brought the story of American occultism up to the point when the Theosophical Society was hitting ...

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BOOKS: The Doctrine Of High Magic: Introduction | John Michael Greer

May 12, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- With this post we begin a monthly chapter-by-chapter discussion of The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Lévi, the book that launched the modern magical rev ...

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BOOKS: The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic: Preliminaries | John Michael Greer

April 14, 2021 (EciSophia.net) -- Last month we wrapped up three years of monthly discussions of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, arguably the 20th century’s most important work of occult philoso ...

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Hanging Out with Arnold at the Gym — Mickey Z.

(YouTube screenshot) Mickey Z. — Worlds News Trust March 1, 2021 I recently told you a little about my gig at the Vertical Club (VC). Think of it as Studio 54 with bench pressing (or is that redundan ...

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Imagining Palestine: On Barghouti, Darwish, Kanafani and the Language of Exile | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 21, 2021 For Palestinians, exile is not simply the physical act of being removed from their homes and their inability to return. It is not a casu ...

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BOOKS: Bill Gates offers a hopeful take on climate change | Jeff Rowe

Credit: CC0 Public Domain "How to Avoid Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need," by Bill Gates (Knopf) Feb. 17, 2021 (AP) -- Watching Bill Gates in the news over the ye ...

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A Gathering of Long Lost Friends | John Michael Greer

Feb. 17, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Regular readers will be aware that many of last year’s posts on this blog were devoted to what we might call the history of American magic, or perhaps the magical his ...

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“All Men Are Trash” (Don’t Judge a Book By Its Title): My Interview with Gina Ranalli — Mickey Z.

(image courtesy of Gina Ranalli) Mickey Z. — World News Trust January 18, 2021 The last time I interviewed Gina Ranalli was all the way back in August 2008. I opened that article like this: “Upon fir ...

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