Carl AbrahamssonMeetings with Remarkable Magicians
Life in the Occult Underground
Carl Abrahamsson is a writer, publisher, magico-anthropologist, filmmaker, and photographer. Since the mid-1980s he has been active in the magical community, integrating "occulture" as a way of life and lecturing about his findings and speculations. The editor and publisher of the annual anthology of occulture, The Fenris Wolf, and the author of Reasonances, he divides his time between Stockholm, Sweden, and New York City.
Foreword by Frater U∴D∴
Introduction
PART I
1984–1989
Do It Yourself! ◆ Headquarters ◆ Psychonautic
Individuation ◆ Decorum ◆ Cutting It Up ◆ Harmony of
the Spheres ◆ Psychick Youth ◆ Initial Pilgrimage ◆
Panic Profiteers ◆ Academagic ◆ Source Magic ◆
A Vortex of Inspiration ◆ The Melting Pot ◆
Self-Initiation ◆ Dropping Out, Dropping In ◆ If You’re
Going to San Francisco . . . ◆ The Black House
PART I I
1990–1994
Happiness & Anger ◆ Psychick Release ◆ Cinemagicians
◆ Fraternal Occulture ◆ Back into the Devil’s Den ◆
Psychick Fatigue ◆ “The Great Beast” ◆ “Mr. Satan” ◆
Stockholm Occulture and a Golden Dawn ◆ Beatific
Flicker in the USA ◆ Legacies & Policies ◆
Electric Skies ◆ On the Road
PART I I I
1995–1999
A Two-Way Looking Glass ◆ Necromantic Namedropping ◆
Babalonic Mind-Frames ◆ Pandrogeny ◆ A Para-Academic
Antidote to Intellectual Inertia ◆ Himalayan Highs ◆
Excellencies in Exile ◆ Back to Roots ◆ Ancestral
Meditations ◆ Book Birthings & Devilish Demises ◆ “The
Man We Want to Hang” ◆ Spoken Words ◆ What Is Time,
Anyway? ◆ Bardo Tibet ◆ The Holy Mountain
PART I V
2000–2004
“All You Have To Do Is Go to Kathmandu” ◆ “Are You
Prepared to Pay the Price?” ◆ Searching for Substance ◆
Life on the Couch ◆ Pinnacles & Pedigrees
PART V
2005–2009
Introspection ◆ Transient Lives ◆
The Caretakers’ Cabal ◆ Russian Insights ◆
A Massive Occulturation This Way’s A-Coming
PART V I
2010–2014
Mr. Occulture (Professor Emeritus)! ◆ Book-Makers &
Literary Magic ◆ An Art Apart ◆ The Mega Golem
PART V I I
2015–2019
Flashback & Forth! ◆ Catholics & Sacred Whores ◆
Cinematic Summings-Up ◆ We Travel ◆
PSYCHARTCULT ◆ Raising Hell(fire) ◆ Time Out,
Move On ◆ Teacher’s Pet Subjects ◆ A Pact
Is a Pact ◆ Sacred Intent
PART V I I I
2020 AND BEYOND
And Then Some . . . (Sending Out an SoS) ◆ Spelling IT
Out ◆ It Is Written & Some More Ancestors ◆
“What Do I Know?” & Beyond
Afterword: Becoming the Past, Gently
Appendix: Inspirations
Acknowledgments
Index
