Ultraculture

Modern magicians—Thelemites, chaos magicians, Wiccans, esoteric Buddhists, Tantrics, Taoists and everything in between—are sexually diverse today as the occultists of old. So why do we so often tend to forget the specific contributions of LGBT people to the development of magic and mysticism? [Read more...]

Imgur user Constantine89 recently uploaded what have to be the greatest set of occult tattoos of all time. [Read more...]

Mindfulness meditation is quite trendy these days. Universities teach it as part of their student wellness programs. Lifestyle magazines tote it as a way to cope with stress and urge their readers to go on expensive retreats in upstate New York. YMCAs all over the US place it alongside their yoga... [Read more...]

Last year, we posted about 8 Celebrities Who Practice Chaos Magick—an incredibly popular article, demonstrating just how much interest there in this topic. It wasn’t always that way, however: In the 1970s and 80s, when chaos magick was first getting off the ground, in between Genesis Breyer P-Orr... [Read more...]

The Alchemical tradition goes back hundreds of years in Europe—and even farther in India and the Middle East. While Alchemy was, on one level, the quest to turn lead into gold, and was quickly disproven and replaced by modern science, there was another, deeper Alchemy. That was the quest to turn ... [Read more...]

Therapist, philosopher, speaker to the dead: was there anything Carl Jung couldn’t do? It just so happens that he also had a knack for image-making. By “knack,” we mean he was pretty damn good, not like other celebrity painters (we’re looking at you George W. Bush). The text of Carl Jung’s The Re... [Read more...]

These stunning images of the four beasts from the Book of Revelation, done in a style reminiscent of the art of the people of the Chinook Indian Nation, are from the basement of a Catholic Church (found via). [Read more...]