Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult

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- Terence McKenna asks if we can contact "aliens" with the smokable drug DMT-the answer may surprise you!

- The Executable Dreamtime by Mark Pesce explores the relationship between spellcasting and computer programming.

- Comics genius Grant Morrison's Pop Magic! Explains how YOU can become a practicing magician!

- Memento Mori: (Remember You Must Die) by Paul Laffoley examines the growing fascination with death in our culture and describes "Thanatonic" energy.

- Artist Joe Coleman on the occult aspects of his work in Joe is in the Details.

- Are You Illuminated? by Phil Hine takes the novice magician thru the stages of Initiation and beyond

- Daniel Pinchbeck's psychedelic and magical experiences recounted in an extended excerpt from Breaking Open the Head

- Chapel of Extreme Experience author John Geiger on the harrowing psychic explorations of William Burroughs and Brion Gysin

- Calling Cthulhu: Techgnosis author Erik Davis on H. P. Lovecraft

- The Road to Excess sheds some light on a spooky little known incident in the life of Timothy Leary

- Robert Anton Wilson on the similarities between Crowley and Leary

- Tim Maroney's beginner's guide to Aleister Crowley

- Genesis P-Orridge's personal memories of his magical education under William Burroughs and Brion Gysin (an instant classic!) and his essay on British occult artist Austin Osman Spare

- Donald Tyson's The Enochian Apocalypse. Were the seeds of the end of the world sown in the Elizabethan era?

- The Crying of Liber 49, Richard Metzger's essay on rocket scientist and occultist Jack Parsons

- Julius Evola on Occult War

- Cameron: The Wormwood Star by Brian Butler tells-for the first time ever-of the life and times of Jack Parson's "Scarlet Woman," witch and Beatnik artist Marjorie Cameron

- Magical Blitzkrieg: Tracy Twyman and Peter Levenda on Nazis and the Occult

- Did fallen angels mate with humankind during the time of Noah? Boyd Rice on The Book of Enoch, one of the "forgotten books" of the Bible.

- Allen Greenfield's Secret History of Witchcraft goes to the "roots" of Wicca and modern paganism. They might not be as deep as you think!

- Nevill Drury on Australian witch, Rosaleen Norton

- Michael Moynihan conducts a fireside chat with the Black Pope of the Church of Satan, Anton LaVey

- Season of the Witch by Gary Lachman examines the dark side of hippie and the "Age of Aquarius"

-Hakim Bey on Sorcery and Occult Terrorism

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