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 ...

Taylor Ellwood'sPop Culture Magick can best be seen as a transitional book taking one from the world of fantasy to the real magick that exists behind every doorway and in every shadow of our world. Popular culture may not be popular among many of today's occultists (with the exception of some of the Chaotes), but if Carl Jung was right, and humankind does play out its rite of passage in dreams - or ...

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 ...

Taylor Ellwood is an anomaly amongst occultists. He walks a fine line between academia and mysticism, intermingling biology, literature, and magic into a coherent piece of theory highly approachable in practical work. One of the true experimenters in the occult sciences, his written work is constantly pushing the boundaries of magic in new and exciting directions.

Pop Culture Magick [PCM] takes the fictional and semi-fictional world of popular culture and examines its use in magic ...