My good friend Taylor Ellwood of Imagine Your Reality (a business and social media coaching company) was nice enough to interview me for his radio show on Blog Talk Radio. We spent about an hour talking about technology, social media and the services of my new company Overmortal. My headphones and microphone made me sound a little distant - and my dog barks for no reason at certain points - but the interview went well, and we ...
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 ...
First, let me applaud Taylor Ellwood for his attempt at breaking through the "poor pagan" stereotype. I've always been rather curious about the perceived correlation between the occult and being poor.
It's true that most pagan systems come from the lowlands, and most of these belief systems termed as "pagan" originally come from poorer cultures and what modern science would erroneously call the "superstitious beliefs of primative cultures;" but this still doesn't ...
When Peter Carroll brought chaos magick to the forefront with such works as Liber Null, Psychonaut, and Liber Kaos he touched on some fascinating subject matter in the occult, but left the experimentation up to the reader, much to the dismay of armchair theorists worldwide. But where Carroll leaves off, it seems that the works of Taylor Ellwood pick up to take readers along an occult journey of experimentation and discovery.
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 ...
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 ...