Tag Archives: Helena Blavatsky

kipling the esoteric: the a.r.k. man

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) rudyard kipling is a very famous name in literature. for instance, he was the very first english speaking recipient (and the youngest) of the nobel prize in literature (1907). we all studied him and … Continue reading

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alien seeding: explaining the singular life

Art Chantry on H.P. Lovecraft…. Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): Wilum H. Pugmire, noted Lovecraft scholar and writer, sent me this photo a number of years ago. H. P. Lovecraft lived as a pauper from a Victorian era (though he lived … Continue reading

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spooked: after midnight

getting spooky. And it all began with Helena Blavatsky and her spiritualist movement, then assumed a distinct identity within popular American culture… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): What do the Cramps, Gwar, Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson, Blackstone the Magician, David Copperfield, penn … Continue reading

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HOWL with GURDJIEF: “YOU ALL DIRT!” & Dirty Dancing

Did my Karma run over your Dogma? All is not lost; when one has a metaphysical poop scoop. Even dog doo has consciousness. Who is the unique idiot? Along with Helena Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner, and Aleister Crowley, Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff and … Continue reading

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CASEY AT THE PLATE: BATTER UP IN BABYLON

Gambling, like pornography, has somehow arranged itself to be completely normalized; an integral element in our service based economy. It is still on the margins of acceptable discourse at the Sunday family supper, sort of doing a limbo under the … Continue reading

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DOUBLE BOGEY ON ADULTHOOD

Feeling both grown-up and not grown-up is a timeless, ageless, human state, explored in poetry and fiction for generations. It’s currently being explored by a generation with miserable job prospects and good access to birth control, that’s all. Its called … Continue reading

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THE FUSSY BACHELOR: “BRILLIANT CONTROL” IN THE CONTEXT OF HYSTERIA

“In his The True Value of Oppositions in Life and Art and elsewhere Mondrian argued in favour of trying to reconcile a series of binary oppositions such as good and evil through painting: generally in life we readily perceive oppositions as particular forms, … Continue reading

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FAITH HEALERS AND TOUCHY-FEELERS

Russians have always had a centuries-long passion for the occult, and in times of social and political change  the paranormal mushroomed, with all manner of psychics, wizards and sorcerers popping up to offer so-called “magical services”, on a much grander, … Continue reading

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DREAMS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE

”From a young age (the earliest recorded is twelve), Lewis Carroll liked to play with words, using anagrams and different languages. He even made his pseudonym, Lewis Carroll, by translating his first two names, Charles Lutwidge, into Latin, Carolus Lodovicus, … Continue reading

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WHEN HARRY MET HUBCAP SALLY

“Copengahen is the epitome of modern summitting; a long session, a huge cast earnestly discussing what there is no chance of agreeing, to reach compromises everyone will then ignore, promising to avoid doing what all decry and will continue to … Continue reading

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