This is a tweener post, I guess. It could fit inside either the religion and philosophy category or in the pop culture category. Considering author Taylor Ellwood's knowledge and use of pop culture, however, I decided to settle on the latter. It seemed more fitting.

For those of you unaware, I occasionally write stuff; and no, I'm not referring to just this blog. Recently, Taylor Ellwood edited an anthology on pop culture magic ...

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 ...

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 ...