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 Gary Lachman
1 Contra Contra Means Pro
2 Splendor Solis
Lebensreform and Sexual Vitalism in Germany
3 Abstraction Made Concrete
The Occultural Methods and Mutations of Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth
4 Over the Moon and Back Again
5 Pokémon Go Away
6 What Remains for the Future?
An Initial Attempt at a Comparison between Aleister Crowley and Rudolf
Steiner
7 Paul Bowles
Expat Magic
8 Tangible Evanescence
9 Anton LaVey, Magical Innovator
10 Carl Jung, Mythmaker
11 The Imaginative Libido
12 Formulating the Desired
Some Similarities between Ritual Magic and the Psychoanalytic Process
13 Zine und Zeit
14 The Mega Golem Is Alive and Well
15 Sexual-Dynamic Polarity as a Magical Formula
Aleister Crowley’s Views on Gender and Transcendence
16 The Economy of Magic
There’s No Free Lunch or Free Magical Success
17 The Magic of Dreams Made Real
18 Collective Mysticism
It’s Probably a Myth
19 Challenging Inertia and Entropy
20 Memes or Schemes
21 Intuition as a State of Grace
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
