Comments on: The Occult In Today’s Culture

By: Thomas Conlon

Thomas Conlon — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:54:02 +0000

Well with teens who may have had parents who were ‘cool’ or at least more interested in astrology and so forth (1960’s-70’s) they may be a bit more sympathetic to their childrens’ exploration of ‘taboo’ subjects. When I was in high school I was copying some diagrams from “The Golden Dawn” my dad came into the room, called me a “Devil worshipper” and charged right the hell out of there.

Don’t forget the teen angst and marginalization of certain types of people can be mitigated through a sense of community provided through communicating with people on the net, joining a coven, study group, finding a mentor, whatever, I would argue it is sociologically akin to ‘gang membership’ in urban, and increasingly suburban settings.

The dichotomy between youngin’s and their folks definitely has gotten larger due to broken families, lagging church membership, latchkey kids syndrome, etc. There is a void to fill, and you don’t have to listen about how you have to go to hell all Sunday morning.

We are a Christian nation (cf the movie “God Told Me To”)… and definitely there are elements in the higher order of US society and government that consider the ‘occult’ not of God and a threat to society. But it is so twisted with the Bohemian Grove movement etc., clearly there is a wider circle cast, who knows, we need someone with Top Secret clearance or higher as a mole.

By: adam

adam — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:04:07 +0000

but itâ€™s going to become an even bigger issue today with things like forced medication of kids who are probably erroneously considered ADD, or any number of other disorders which didnâ€™t exist before they were created by pharmaceutical companies as marketing opportunities

Now that’s true magick, create a new drug and as if by magic a disorder appears. Whenever I read the definitions of ADD I read a description of myself as a child, thank fuck I grew up at a time when my parents weren’t told I was sick and forced to shove drugs down my throat.

By: channel null

channel null — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:51:12 +0000

7. Why are you interested in the occult in pop culture?

Short answer: itâ€™s cool. I mean, itâ€™s fascinating as hell. It cuts across all aspects of culture and history.

Have you read Kaos 14? Joel Biroco and Co. have researched massive amounts of history to further understand the occult… See also “Liber 118 US 394″? Those, and Richard Metzger’s “The Crying of Liber 49″ may be my favorite occult texts for a long time; this stuff is right below the surface of history, all the time, and it’s a hell of a lot more interesting.