One thing’s for sure: Finding balance in a wildly tilting world ain’t easy. Shall Magick be our discipline of awareness? Or the mysterie...

Beyond our Ken: a review of ‘Against the Light: A Nightside Narrative’ An, as usual brilliant essay by Alan Moore on the late very lamente...

Kenneth Grant: Writer and occultist who championed Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare Friday, 4 March 2011 http://www.independent.co....

Electronic musician, shamanic explorer, and information theorist Konrad Becker wrote in his essay New World Music , “ new media and post...

The march against the cuts has garnered the usual press coverage.  250 thousand people converge on the capital for a day of peaceful and fun...

New series of 10 Essential Tools for world domination coming soon: 1)  HUMANSCALE LIBERTY CHAIR 2)  MAGNETIC WHITEBOARD The great boo...

Now I really understand the kind of community that read this blog.  The most popular post is about...A CHAIR!  Mind you it's a very nice...

Sleeping It Off in Rapid City by August Kleinzahler – review Guardian Books http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/19/sleeping-it-o...

I think I have applied mediation type skills over the past twenty five years of my career both as a social worker and for the past fifte...

So here goes. We need to redress the balance between cuts and tax rises (currently 3:1)(3), as fairly as possible. That means starting wit...

Audio book 'Silence' by Shusaku Endo-  Available on Audible.  Like Brian Moore's 'Black robe' and due (according to The ...

THEMES OF A LOST LIGHTBRINGER First, there is the forgetting. This allows the unfolding, the fracturing to begin. This forgettin...

The impact of the comprehensive spending review and the proposed cuts in state spending of, in some cases 8% reductions year on year for...

Suzi Feay's Book Bag: books on planes : "Long haul flights always used to involve, for me, a bag full of books just to get me throu...

So this hiatus between Christmas and New Year?  A toe might be dipped back into the work world but it’s not really serious.  This is an in...

First there is the song of WAR that rises, boils, and gurgles in the pumping blood. Sing O Argives cross the dusty plains of Troy a shou...

An extremely lightweight and stylish steed noticed recently in a London street.

BLUE HALLOWEEN The village store has, just this minute, closed. It’s drawbridge has gone up-portcullis down. An aproned granny smirks b...

A very long time ago way way back before iphones and Nintendo's and electric cars, and Tony Blur, I used to live in...Blackpool.  Yes, t...

A few months ago I remember reading in the London Review of Books an article by August Kleinzahler fulminating in a mouth-foamingly hostile ...

Yes it's true, after a string of heartbreaking No 1 hits and a five year domination of the album charts with such essential rockers as ...

TONIGHT MY HEAVING HEART Tonight my heaving heart has laid me low and shudders in the holes of its dark cave. The fractured rhythm ...

In August 2005 we went to Cornwall on holiday and visited Crackington Haven on the day of the Boscastle floods. It never appeared on the new...