Ran Prieur is what I would call a modern day counter-cultural hero. He’s an author and thinker who uses apocalyptic imagery to explore deep issues of meaning and value in modern life. His work deals extensively with getting off the grid and escaping from artificial social control mechanisms, and there’s some really fascinating and inspiring [...]
Category Archives: Interviews
Ben Mack Interview, Part 2
September 13, 2005 – 10:41 pm
Welcome to Part 2 of Pop Occulture’s interview with advertising expert Ben Mack, author of the consciousness thriller Poker Without Cards. In this exclusive interview series, Ben Mack reveals a detailed behind-the-scenes look at himself, his book, and his marketing techniques.
In case you missed Part 1 of this interview, it’s available here. Special thanks [...]
Ben Mack Interview, Part 1
September 11, 2005 – 10:14 pm
Ben Mack is the author of Poker Without Cards (available at Amazon), which bills itself as a “consciousness thriller”. PWC is a fictionalized exploration of memetics and marketing, areas which Mack has a great deal of experience in as a career adman, having worked on high-profile ad campaigns with such corporations as Grieco Research Group, [...]
Jordan Stratford Interview
August 24, 2005 – 5:38 pm
Jordan Stratford is an ordained minister in the Apostolic Johannite Church and a very prominent voice on contemporary gnosticism on the internet. Jordan maintains the weblog Ecclesia Gnostica in Nova Albion, and I had a chance to do an email interview with Jordan concerning his experiences with gnosticism in an ecclesiastic setting. Thanks Jordan!
PS. Jordan [...]
John Lash Interview
August 13, 2005 – 6:24 pm
In addition to his work as principal author at Metahistory.org, John Lamb Lash is the author of several books covering a variety of spiritual and mythological topics. I put together this email interview with Lash to explore more deeply our shared interest in the gnostic myth and it’s application in the modern world. He has [...]
Joanna Harcourt-Smith Interview
August 4, 2005 – 5:29 pm
I was lucky enough recently to put together an email interview with Joanna Harcourt-Smith. I first encountered Joanna’s work through the website Metahistory, which features a lot of contemporary gnostic material and some really interesting stuff on analyzing belief systems, and moving towards healthier alternatives from those that are pushed on us. More recently, I [...]
