Ultraculture

Last Saturday was the official launch for CLIVE BARKER: IMAGINER, the first book to fully assess horror author/director Clive Barker’s prolific art career. [Read more...]

Individuals capable of lucid dreaming may possess above average problem solving abilities, according to a study published in the American Psychological Association’s journal Dreams. Researchers at the University of Lincoln, UK found a significant correlation between regular experience of lucid dr... [Read more...]

This guest post on the true nature of capitalism is from dear Ultraculture friend Caleigh Fisher. For our podcast interview with her on Magick, TOPY and Wilhelm Reich, click here. [Read more...]

Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris has boldly gone where no man has gone in over 40 years: He’s the first person in the UK to have legally administered doses of LSD to human volunteers since the Misuse of Drugs Act of 1971. Dr. Carhart-Harris wants a final answer to the question “What does LSD do to you?” ... [Read more...]

Thanks to Inner Traditions for sending me Tobias Churton’s new Aleister Crowley biography Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin—Art, Sex and Magick in the Weimer Republic. It’s a fascinating take on Crowley’s “lost years” in Germany, from 1930-32, in which he tried to promote himself as an artist... [Read more...]

Shawn Thornton developed cancer in his pineal gland while attending art school. As his cancer progressed, he created a series of paintings documenting what he saw, that become increasingly complex, occult and beautiful over the course of about six years. (Luckily, he was operated on and healed.) [Read more...]

America is returning to Iraq to carry out airstrikes against the Islamic State—previously known as ISIS and ISIL—who have been killing members of several Iraqi minority groups, including the Yazidi, Shabkas, Turkmen and even Christian nuns (a recent video showed ISIS militants beheading a Christi... [Read more...]