Nick Farrell has spent nearly twenty years in the study of occultism, amassing a knowledgeable background in one of the most harrowing subjects of all: magical groups. After flying under the radar for several years, despite his published material, he is finally getting the recognition he deserves thanks to his recent written work for Immanion Press.

What is your background: in life and in magic?

My spiritual life started out in New Zealand when I ...

Pop Culture Magick [PCM] takes the fictional and semi-fictional world of popular culture and examines its use in magic, a principle that has been in existence in chaos magic for quite some time. Do you feel that the relevance of such magic has eclipsed traditional Judeo-Christian mysticism in effectiveness and relevancy?

Actually, I feel that if anything such an approach to magic can be used to take the Judeo-Christianity mysticism and modernize it. I perceive ...

I was originally introduced to the connection between magic and high science (specifically quantum physics) through the literary works of H.P. Lovecraft, as well as the poorly adapted, yet enjoyable, “B” movies that presented his work.

The idea behind it was highly fascinating. The mere suggestion that ancient magic was working its way back into modern society under the disguise of high mathematics and quantum physics was enough to bring a glimmer to my ...

It has been roughly sixteen years since the publication of Modern Magick. Why do you think that your book has survived through so many paradigms and competing texts to remain the most significant training manual in the modern era?

First, thank you very much for the compliment! I think there are many reasons that MM [Modern Magick] has remained popular. It came our fortuitously at the right place and at the right time, so people ...