Episode 9: On Aleister Crowley and the Idea of Magick
Episode 9: On Aleister Crowley and the Idea of Magick  
Podcast: Weird Studies
Rating: Explicit Published On: Wed Apr 11 2018
Description: The plan was to discuss the introduction to Aleister Crowley's classic work, Magick in Theory and Practice (1924), a powerful text on the nature and purpose of magical practice. JF and Phil stick to the plan for the first part of the show, and then veer off into a dialogue on the basic idea of magic. Along the way, they share some of the intriguing results of their own occult experiments. REFERENCES Photo (https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/e/e38b53e4-e148-4e2d-b301-0b3bb15779ff/fpTCS4XJ.jpg) of JF's "large sum" cheque Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice (http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/aba/aba.htm UPLOAD PHOTO of cheque) The Gospel According to Thomas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas) James George Frazer, [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/TheGoldenBough) Erik Davis, "Weird Shit" (https://boingboing.net/2014/07/14/weird-shit.html) [I Ching, The Book of Changes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IChing)_ Joshua Gunn, Modern Occult Rhetoric: Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century (http://www.uapress.ua.edu/product/Modern-Occult-Rhetoric,5019.aspx) [The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheBookofAbramelin)_ The Shackleton Expedition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition) Grant Morrison on how to do sigil magic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtzU9mVlk0) Alan Chapman, Advanced Magick for Beginners (https://archive.org/details/advanced-magick-for-beginners-alan-chapman) David Hume, [A Treatise of Human Nature](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATreatiseofHumanNature) David Hume, [An Enquiry Concerning the Human Understanding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnEnquiryConcerningHumanUnderstanding) Joshua Ramey, "Contingency Without Unreason" (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0969725X.2014.920638?journalCode=cang20#.U6BST5RdWSo) Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency (https://www.amazon.com/After-Finitude-Essay-Necessity-Contingency-ebook/dp/B00OG4EEVW) E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (https://www.amazon.com/Witchcraft-Oracles-Magic-among-Azande/dp/0198740298/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8) H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness (http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx)