Ultraculture

If you’ve ever felt like the whole world is just on the verge of making sense, you are not alone. Ken Wilber has spent his entire life working on pulling together a “theory of everything,” and fitting together every type of human thinking in the world into one giant map. His hope: to create a way... [Read more...]

It’s been over 15 years since the last issue of comic writer and chaos magician Grant Morrison’s magnum opus The Invisibles was released by Vertigo Comics. The Invisibles is the story of how Dane McGowan, a Liverpool hooligan, falls in with a misfit group of freedom fighters in a kitchen sink wor... [Read more...]

In this episode of the Ultraculture podcast, I’m talking to Christiana Key, who performs as Delphic Oracle. [Read more...]

Mandalas are sacred, esoteric diagrams that are present in almost all world religions. They’re often meant to represent the entire cosmos, or the role of divinity in the world. As such, they can be incredible aids to meditation and self-discovery: Either by contemplating them, or even drawing or ... [Read more...]

Let’s begin with a major assertion: Writers are magicians. Sylvia Plath was an excellent example. They’re able to look into the ether and pick vibrant red scarves from it. They can turn mud puddles into Scottish lochs, and find the connective tissue between an episode of Blue’s Clues and Joyce’s ... [Read more...]

In the video below, the esoteric scholar Dr. Stephen Hoeller expands on Gnostic themes present in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. [Read more...]

The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage is a European Kabbalistic grimoire, or book of magick that purports to be a method whereby an individual can make contact with their Holy Guardian Angel. It is attributed to the semi-mythological German Jewish figure Abraham of Worms (c. 1360-146... [Read more...]