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Independent publications, essays, interviews and blogging on ecology and magic, consciousness and prehistory, from Gyrus & collaborators.
2024-03-06 21:20
Just a quick post to catch you up on where I’m getting my brain food from — a few newsletter and podcast recommendations. I’m getting less and less of my information from s… Read More
2021-08-15 13:21
The second part of my conversation with Earl Fontainelle for his Secret History of Western Esotericism podcast has just been released. Here’s Earl’s summary: We discuss the cosmo… Read More
2021-07-30 14:44
Another week, another appearance on one of my favourite podcasts… Alongside Weird Studies, the Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast has become mandatory listening in my world… Read More
2021-07-07 16:58
A couple of years ago several recommendations from friends pushed me to check out the Weird Studies podcast. They’d mentioned my book North, and I really enjoyed the episodes I listene… Read More
2021-06-12 13:50
Three Hands Press have published a gorgeous second edition of Dale Pendell’s brilliant little meditation on chance and divination, The Language of Birds. You can read my gnomic review… Read More
2020-02-23 15:58
Soon after moving to Leeds in 1993, one morning a zine from TOPY Sheffield dropped through my letterbox. I jumped back under the duvet in my bedsit to enjoy it, and was engrossed by a short… Read More
2019-11-23 16:26
In his curious afterword to a 1991 abridged edition of Philip K. Dick’s mammoth Exegesis, Terence McKenna mused on the hidden harmonies and near-miss junctures surrounding his experien… Read More
2019-04-14 16:55
Conservative and liberal capitalists often attack a supposed lack of gratitude among the disaffected. Among the young, among environmentalists, socialists, take your pick. It’s said th… Read More
2019-04-04 09:32
Approaching Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson’s popular 1996 book Demonic Males from today’s perspective is a crash course in the convolutions and confusions underlying the… Read More
The Cosmic Mountain
2019-02-21 14:59
The Romanian historian of religion Mircea Eliade has had a tremendous influence on contemporary conceptions of ancient cosmologies. One of the most important aspects of his take on archaic r… Read More
Masks Of The Maya
2019-02-18 10:51
At the end of 1993, a now-classic re-assessment of the nature and fate of Maya religion and cosmology was published: Linda Schele, David Freidel and Joy Parker’s Maya Cosmos: Three Tho… Read More
Music For Hyperspatial Living Rooms
2019-02-11 20:18
I thought it’d be an idea to round up the highlights of the music I’ve either discovered or rediscovered in attempts to soundtrack recent psychedelic explorations.1 It goes with… Read More
Book Review: Out Of The Woods
2019-02-09 13:44
At the launch event at London Review Bookshop, Olivia Laing introduced Luke Turner’s Out of the Woods with reference to the recent surge of nature writing. I’m out of m… Read More
The Cave And The Sky
2019-02-06 09:20
Upper Palaeolithic art, the fruit of a creative explosion among humans around 60,000 years ago, is found across Siberia, in the African motherland, and in the outpost of Australia. But the m… Read More
Vertiginous And Twisted
2019-02-04 16:23
Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) is a giddy Rorschach blot of images and themes. Held together by impeccable artistry, the strangeness of its construction creates an enticing lab… Read More
Eliade’s Aboriginal Cosmic Axis
2019-01-31 09:59
Mircea Eliade in 1933In this essay I’d like to discuss the thesis championed by Romanian historian of religion, Mircea Eliade: that one of the most primal and universal elements of hum… Read More
The Wild, Wild North
2019-01-28 22:31
Into the Wild In Sean Penn’s 2007 film Into The Wild, we follow the true story of Christopher McCandless’s escape from the suffocating dysfunctionality of normality in Atlan… Read More
Power & Hunting In True Detective
2019-01-24 21:27
The first season of Nic Pizzolatto’s True Detective spawned a frenzy of interpretation and plot dissection. Its narrative twists and melange of philosophical snippets and cosmic h… Read More
2018-11-01 08:53
On 13th January this year, Dale Pendell died. On 14th April, his family and friends gathered at the North Columbia Schoolhouse Cultural Centre to celebrate the life of this gifted writ… Read More
2018-10-28 10:55
SIREN are an all-female dance music collective in London, throwing queer parties and promoting women and non-binary artists. This is their third zine, an eclectic embrace of literature, arch… Read More
Going Veggie Again
2018-10-25 09:57
A few weeks ago, after about twelve years of returning to eating meat, I became vegetarian again. I was vegetarian — with a couple of abortive attempts at veganism, and a general slid… Read More
The Hero & The Dark Forest
2018-10-16 21:07
Among all the profiles and hit pieces, there’s been surprisingly little attention paid to Jordan Peterson’s attitude to environmentalism. One of the most prominent new voices in… Read More
Book Review: Staying With The Trouble
2018-06-26 20:14
I bought this book, a rambling collection of essays on ways of thinking about and responding to ecological crisis, as travel reading on a trip to Ukraine. At the airport, it was interesting… Read More
2018-03-31 15:37
One thing Jordan Peterson defenders have right is that he’s provoking some interesting discussions. I’m fed up of the more heated ones, the ones where everyone’s assuming a… Read More
Remembering Dale Pendell
2018-01-14 18:15
We just lost a great explorer, a wonderful writer, one of the most important chroniclers of the mind’s inner treasures and its fertile congress with the plant world. He had a true rasc… Read More
2018-01-06 12:29
Psychedelic Press have been independently publishing for nearly a decade now, but this is my first proper encounter with their eponymous house journal. I’ve been a regular at the Break… Read More
2017-11-06 11:31
I’ll be speaking on Pan the goat god in the British landscape – especially Avebury – on Saturday 18th November at Conway Hall, London, at an all-day event, The Haunted Land… Read More
Hillmanian Echoes
2017-10-26 23:09
It’s been interesting recently noting how some key ideas found in James Hillman’s work seem to be cropping up in cutting-edge anthropology. Pluripresence and polytheism Reading N… Read More
2017-10-15 19:04
Jean Baudrillard is quoted here as saying, ‘Marxist anthropology thus seeks from beginning to end to preserve materialist orthodoxy against the heresy of primitive societies.’1… Read More
2017-09-23 09:04
Just about twenty years ago, Simon Dwyer died, at the age of thirty-eight, after living for six years HIV positive. I imagine it’s safe to say that I’m not the only one whose lif… Read More
2017-08-29 14:42
To coincide with my recent efforts to get the contents of 2006’s Dreamflesh Journal online, Amodali has created a large-format serigraph print of the art she created for the… Read More
Book Review: The Myth Of Disenchantment
2017-08-24 23:09
Can a review of a non-fiction book contain spoilers? I’ve never asked myself that question before, and now I have I’m not sure of the answer. In any case, it’s a testament… Read More
Ploughing The Clouds
2017-08-21 21:39
Not to be confused with the book of the same name by the same author, this is an edited transcript of the first part of the Annual Harry Smith Memorial Strange Anthropology and Ethno-Poetics… Read More
Strawberry Fair, Armpit Hair
2017-08-09 10:24
Earlier this year, in the spirit of Cambridges Strawberry Fair, Toby & I dressed up as Prima Ballerinas, all pink netting tutus, green tights & flowers in our hair — Strawberry… Read More
Em’balm
2017-08-04 09:48
The HermAphroditic ChAOrder of the Silver Dusk is a loose global network of occultists aiming to counterbalance, through an emphasis on art and spontaneity, the structured approach to magick… Read More
2017-08-02 16:32
I am hurrying down the street under a gray winter sky. I notice several eerily familiar toys arranged in a storefront, and I stop to look. A flood of realizations arises. First, I know that… Read More
2017-07-28 12:11
Renewing the World Perhaps the most outstanding feature of us humans is our adaptive nature, which gives rise to our restless changing. We dont come with a ready-made identity and purpose in… Read More
2017-07-26 08:24
Dreamflesh was conceived in despair and hope. Its roots are nurtured by these entwined opposites that characterise our interesting times. Either may lead to action: grasping at straws or at… Read More
2017-07-18 22:24
Full disclosure: Dave introduced me to breathwork and it changed my life, so this review may not be fully objective. But then, this book is as much a manual to use as a book to read, so it&r&hell…Read More
2017-07-09 19:32
In 1651, in his book Leviathan, the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes put forward one of the seminal propositions in modern thinking about human nature and society. Hobbes thought that… Read More
Event Review: Breaking Convention 2017
2017-07-04 00:07
I was foolish enough to not carve out time for the whole of this, the 4th International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness. Lesson learned. As soon as I properly entered the flow, I was… Read More
2017-06-28 19:51
On the summer solstice eve in 1997 I was in The Red Lion pub in Avebury, getting drunk with friends and poring over the latest Towards 2012, my journal which had just arrived from the printe… Read More
2017-06-25 13:03
Like many people fascinated by mythology, consciousness, esotericism, and especially dreams, I’ve been influenced by Carl Jung far more than I’ve read him. His ideas have made in… Read More
2017-06-15 20:27
Patrick Harpur’s 1994 classic Daimonic Reality stands as one of the most interesting attempts to grapple with liminal ‘Fortean’ phenomena such as UFO sightings and abd… Read More
2017-06-12 23:04
Jordan Peterson is a Canadian psychologist who’s gained fame and notoriety recently as a fervent opponent of postmodernism and Marxism. Thanks to his well-publicised fight against Bill… Read More
2017-03-07 14:49
From Aeon magazine, an interesting assessment of the 21st century’s new authoritarians. The new authoritarian does not pretend to make you better, only to make you feel better about no… Read More
2017-03-05 22:49
I was quickly impressed by this ambitious book, which aims to summarise the whole of human history. Within the first dozen or so pages, Harari answers one of his own questions with, ‘F… Read More
The Moon Spirits
2017-03-03 09:50
On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the surface of the moon. In the months leading up to their expedition, the Apollo 11 astronauts trained in a remote moon-like d… Read More
2017-02-26 23:10
The late Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke was a much-respected scholar of Western esoteric traditions, most famous for his book The Occult Roots of Nazism (1985). In this he traced the&nbs&hell…Read More
2017-02-15 18:13
There’s a new interview with me online over at The Thinker’s Garden blog. I discuss the experiences in Yorkshire that formed the roots of my research for my book North, animism… Read More
Absolutely Nothing
2017-02-12 23:31
I met Joel Biroco around fifteen years ago, through our mutual friend, the occult performer Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, who was visiting London and noticed that we both lived near each ot… Read More
Some Day A Real Rain
2017-02-07 23:12
I recently moved after living for five or six years near Archway in north London. Archway was always a bit of an oxymoron in the London landscape: a nondescript landmark. An important travel… Read More
2017-02-03 15:03
I’ve always been a bit suspicious of the decrying of environmentalism as ‘puritanical’. My objection can be found in exaggerated form in a Hakim Bey one-liner: ‘The d… Read More
2017-01-31 14:06
Over a decade ago, the blog I’d been keeping blossomed into a print project, Dreamflesh Journal. In the editorial I wrote: Dreamflesh was conceived in despair and hope. Its roots… Read More
Sketches Of The Goat God In Albion
2017-01-07 11:49
I. Snowdonia To grasp Pan as nature we must first be grasped by nature, both ‘out there’ in an empty countryside which speaks in sounds not words, and ‘in here’ in a… Read More
Talk On Animism At The Horse Hospital
2016-10-11 09:41
I’m doing a talk about animism at From the Woods: A Night on Animism and the Environment. Part of the Light and Shadow salon at the wonderful Horse Hospital near Russell Square in Lon… Read More
2016-06-12 11:21
This is one of the most interesting, beautiful and evocative films I’ve seen in a long time. A genuinely different cinematic take on the jungle, a welcome and gruelling exposure of the… Read More
2015-07-09 18:21
Most people interested in the intersections between music, the occult, subversive psychedelia and English eccentricity represented by bands such as Coil, Nurse With Wound and Current 93 will… Read More
2014-11-04 22:14
I’m pleased to announce that my talk on November 25th, at the Ecology, Cosmos & Consciousness salon in the October Gallery in London, will also be the official launch event for No… Read More
2014-10-23 20:40
So, this is why the Dreamflesh blog has been quiet for quite a while. This is the book I’ve been working on for a good seven years, and which has roots stretching all the way through… Read More
North: The Rise & Fall Of The Polar Cosmos
2014-10-23 20:40
So, this is why the Dreamflesh blog has been quiet for quite a while. This is the book I’ve been working on for a good seven years, and which has roots stretching all the way through… Read More
2014-08-15 12:56
My long-awaited book, North: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Cosmos, is in the final stages of preparation for the printers. It’s due out near the end of this year, published by the fa… Read More
2013-10-07 21:02
For quite a few years now, Biroco’s online journal has been periodically emitting caustic observations from the author’s seclusion on the fringes of the Lea Valley. World of Dust… Read More
2013-10-07 18:46
Next up at the October Gallery in London, on Tuesday October 29th, we’ve got the anthropologist and filmmaker Hugh Brody. He’ll be discussing his 40-year career studying, living… Read More
2013-09-16 10:49
This autumn, the founder and host of the Ecology, Cosmos & Consciousness lecture series, David Luke, is on sabbatical in the wilds of Wales. He’s passed the baton on to yours trul… Read More
2013-06-17 21:14
I just finished watching a remarkable DVD from anthropologist / filmmaker Hugh Brody. Tracks Across the Sand follows the progress of a land claim made by ‡Khomani San people, hunter… Read More

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