A narrative account of the mystic sixties usually isn't my idea of exciting bedside reading or a harrowing page turner; however, Gary Lachman's Turn Off Your Mind manages to surprise you in more ways than one.

First let me start with the negative. Lachman has a tendency of drowning his paragraphs with sentences. Long and wordy, sometimes, you as the reader, feel like you're getting lost in the shuffle of facts and ...

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 ...

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 ...

In your own words, what is The Disinformation Company?

The Disinformation Company is based in New York, primarily, and also in Los Angeles, where I am. We publish books, we publish DVD's, we produce television shows, conferences, and live events… and we've been in existence for about eight years [as of April 1st, 2004].

If you had a mission statement, what would that be?

To promote information that doesn't ...