Hey there! Over the last couple years I’ve been very honored and grateful to team up with psychedelic avenger Duncan Trussell and become a regular guest on his show. About once a year I show up to do a “Magick Class With Jason Louv” spot, and Duncan and I travel across the multiverse to discuss t... [Read more...]
The Strange Life of Austin Osman Spare, Chaos Magician
Austin Osman Spare (1886—1956) was an English artist—and practicing occultist. He was also the inventor of many of the techniques that would later be dubbed chaos magick. [Read more...]
Terence McKenna Explains How to Smash the Modern World
The late psychedelic theorist Terence McKenna (check out his books here) is one of the biggest—perhaps the very biggest—heroes of the psychedelic counterculture. For decades, his books and recorded talks have guided generations of seekers to question their culture and get back in touch with the d... [Read more...]
Colin Wilson, Grandfather of the Occult, Wanted His Readers to Become Superhuman
It started in the dark stacks at the back of the public library, where I had spent most of my young days and now, as an extremely shy, awkward and very goth sixteen-year-old, I was about to discover a book that would alter the course of my life. That book was The Occult by the English author Coli... [Read more...]
Buckminster Fuller’s Three Keys to Waking Up & Changing the World
Buckminster Fuller was one of the most brilliant thinkers of the 20th century, an architect and designer who made it his mission to advance the evolution of humanity and to “do more with less.” He created inventions like the geodesic dome (most prominently seen in Disney World’s Epcot Center) and... [Read more...]
God, Annihilator: My Meeting With Kal Bhairav, the Wrathful Form of Shiva
Kal Bhairav is the daunting Hindu god of absolute destruction. He wears a crown of human skulls and his earrings are living snakes. With six arms he carries machetes, severed heads, tiger skins and skinned humans. Kal Bhairav tramples corpses into a dusty red mist under his massive black feet. Wh... [Read more...]
Judee Sill: The Brilliant Folk Singer Who Immersed Herself in the Occult, and Her Haunting Legacy
The occult and music have gone hand-in-hand since Robert Johnson first went to the crossroads to trade his soul for Rock ‘n Roll. Aleister Crowley, the devil and 1,001 occult symbols have held sway over everyone from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones to Lady Gaga—it’s an obvious choice, something... [Read more...]