"Occult" Blogs & Blog Posts

If you're interested in magic, the occult, tarot and other systems of divination, my friend Michael Hughes produces excellent content on his YouTube channel. In this video, Michael describes what magic is, why you might want to practice it, what the...

Originally conceived in the early 1970s as a collaborative tool for musicians, artists, and other creators, Peter Schmidt and Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies were embraced by generations of users across many disciplines. The continued allure of the ca...

Brian Cotnoir is an artist, Emmy-winning filmmaker, and occult scholar who created a series of handmade 'zines all about alchemy, magick, and theurgy. As we spend so much time in digital mediated space, I'm delighted by the continuing print 'zine rev...

Kenneth Anger, the groundbreaking experimental filmmaker and occultist, has died. He was 96. Anger's visionary approach and integration of magick into his life and work is best embodied by Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969) and Lucifer Rising (197...

Toil and Trouble: A Women's History of the Occult is a new book from Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kröger that describes itself as "a celebration of magical women and nonbinary people in American history, from Salem to WitchTok." Like the authors' pr...

Skeptics deem Rhine's famous ESP trials a bust. The record says otherwise. One of my intellectual heroes is parapsychologist J.B. Rhine (1895-1980), who pioneered ESP card experiments at Duke University in the early 1930s. One evening, one of my kids...

Wednesday, on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the Swedish theatrical metal band, Ghost, performed "Call Me Little Sunshine" from their new album, Impera. True to character, they performed the song at the historic Mountain View Mausoleum in the Los Angeles suburb...