210 Alchemy in Las Vegas

On Friday, February 20th, starting at 8pm, We begin with the fourth annual CANDLEDANCE!! This fantastic event will be a magical drum dance party, bringing in the light to illuminate the darkness. Bring your drums and percussion instruments, your party clothes and your dancing feet! There will be special guests, vendors, and a late-night ritual theater presentation.

On Saturday, February 21st, from 2-4pm at the Magical Arts Center Workshop by Dr. Thom Cavalli, author of Alchemical Psychology ALCHEMICAL PSYCHOLOGY We are racing into the future through the doorway of the past. Ancient recipes are emerging in a new form, formulas and prescriptions for the Making of a New World. We need to develop tools that will enable us to transform the lead of ignorance into the gold of peace, harmony and spiritual enlightenment. This seminar presents methods and practices for the transformative work of alchemy within the context of ordinary life. With alchemical tools we will learn to work with the powers of imagination daimons and archetypal forces elements and elemental energies active dreaming and lucid visions

On Sunday, February 22nd, "THE GREAT WORK-shop": Explorations in Magic, Ritual and Spiritual Alchemy with all of our artists begins at 12noon.

All events will be happening at the McBride Wonder Dome, 6295 Pearl Street, suite 300, Las Vegas, NV. For pricing information and more details, including how to register, please go to http://www.vegasvortex.com

209: THE DARK-EYED WARRIOR: Tales of Hidden Bulgaria

In the shadowy world where truth lies, can the hero Doichin ever lay down his weapons? A gripping tale from the heart of Bulgarian myth and folklore about a warrior's search for second sight. Unique British Bulgarian performing arts company, A Spell In Time, presents powerful primal theatre in a brilliant blend of storytelling, folk ritual, evocative music and divine Bulgarian singing.

TOUR DATES

SATURDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2004, 7.30pm: Merlin Theatre, 2 Meadow Bank Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield. Tel.. 0114 2551638. £7/£5 concs. Plus Bulgarian Singing Workshop: 3pm-5pm. £8/£7 concs. £2 off for combined advance ticket.

MONDAY 15 MARCH 2004, 7.30pm: Storytelling Cafe, Loughborough Town Hall. 01509 231914

TUESDAY 16 MARCH 2004, 7.30pm: Storytelling Cafe, Wednesbury Library.

WEDNESDAY 17 MARCH 2004, 7.30pm: Storytelling Cafe, Midlands Arts Centre, Cannon Hill Park Birmingham. Tel. 0121 440 3838

THURSDAY 18 MARCH 2004, 7.30pm: Storytelling Cafe, Good For You Cafe, Firs Parade, Matlock, Derbyshire. Tel. 01629 584304 / 826939

FRIDAY 19 MARCH 2004, 7.30pm: Storytelling Cafe, Solihull Arts Complex, Homer Road. Tel. 0121 704 6962

OTHER A SPELL IN TIME EVENTS FRIDAY 5th FEBRUARY - SUNDAY 7th FEBRUARY 2004: Winter Festival at the Edge, Shropshire A Spell In Time presents a unique series of workshops in Bulgarian Singing, Dance, Rhythm and Ritual leading to a special participatory performance of The Red Blood Rose: Tales of Hidden Bulgaria on Sunday. The Edge Theatre, Much Wenlock. Full programme and workshop details from FATE, Rose Cottage, Church Road, Welshpool, Powys SY21 7LN. Tel. 01939 236626

208 'Through Space Time: the ancient sisterhoods spoke to me'

Theres a retrospective by controversial feminist/pagan artist Monica Sjoo* at the Hotbath Gallery, Hotbath St Bath 28th January - 25th February 04 saturday 31st 7th, 14th 21st there are some interesting gallery events including an imbolc ritual (woman only) otherwise most saturdays have free gallery talks by the artist and friends such as hedge witch Rae Beth. more info: hbgallery@...

*you may remember her 'god giving birth' that so outraged some.

207. Flowers

This poem was inspired by the work of Georgia O’Keefe, an American artist whose paintings of flowers are particularly famous. While O’Keefe herself never admitted to the obvious sexual imagery evoked by her paintings, it is noted by many critics and fans of her work that sexuality, especially female, is portrayed through her close-ups of flowers. Because I was shown her work when I was very young, I always regarded the paintings simply as portraits of flowers, until I reached my twenties and began to see the underlying eroticism of her subjects. Two particular works, “Grey Line” and “Calla Lily Turned Away”, inspired me to write about the sexual images produced by O’Keefe’s flowers.

Georgia

Flowers—
preposterously feminine in their folds, she waits for the rest of the world
to see the wombs of the earth, and life expelled like pollen-
stamens shuddering with life,
slide into the velvet folds of the calla lily—
the most primordial of pleasures.

If you're interested in erotic poetry you might like The Erotic Journal's Poetry Club. The Journal currently has a second edition, even better than the first. The club is for lovers and writers of Erotic Poetry. The Erotica Poetry Club, (so we don't get muddles with porn) we will be charging just 20 pounds a year for a monthly newsletter featuring some of the best erotic poetry from around the world. We are also looking for submissions - writers interested in both exhibiting and publishing their work, and in contacting other erotic poets around the world. Submissions can range from the simple and classical to the more complex, sensual and sexy.

For details of this and the club take a look at http://www.diversepublications.co.uk/.
First newsletter will be out end Feb.

206. The Odin Brotherhood Mark Mirabello

1869928717, £10.99

'When the world is pregnant with lies, a secret long hidden will be revealed.' An Odinist Prophecy

Just like the Cannibal Within, a chance encounter in the Atlantis bookshop blossomed into a dialogue between the author and the anonymous adept of Odin. Called an “occult religion” for adepts, a “creed of iron” for warriors, and a “secret society” for higher men and women who value “knowledge, freedom and power,” the Odin Brotherhood honors the gods and goddesses of the Norse pantheon. This non-fiction book details the legends, the rituals, and the mysteries of an ancient and enigmatic movement.

About the Author: The author of The Cannibal Within and The Crimes of Jehovah," Professor Mark L. Mirabello lectures on Intellectual History, the History of Medicine, and Alternative Religions and Cults at Shawnee State University in the USA. Formerly a visiting Professor at Nizhni Novgorod State University in Russia, he has a Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow.

• Contents
• Introduction
• Introduction to the Mandrake Edition
• The Dialogue
• Odinism and the Mysteries of the Past
• The Odin Brotherhood Today and the Heroic Ideal
• On Polytheism and the Nature of the Gods
• The Eddaic Verses and the Three Ages of Man
• Why Venerate the Odinist Gods?
• The Contacts between Men and Gods
• The God Odin and His Mysteries
• The Goddess Frigg and the Rite of Marriage
• The God Thor, the Nemesis of Titans
• The Goddess Sif, the Mischief of Loki, and the Skill of the Rock Dwarfs
• The God Heimdall and “The-Sojourn-of-the-Brave”
• The God Bragi, the Holy Words, and the Seasonal Rites
• The Fair Goddess Idun and Her Enchanted Fruit
• Brave Tyr, the Warrior God
• The God Njord, Magic, and the Vanir Gods
• The God Frey and the Elves
• The Goddess Freyja, the Lovely Patroness of Birth
• The God Balder and the Adventure of Death
• The Goddess Nanna and the Odinist Death Rite
• The Legend of “The-Mountain-of-Promise”
• Destiny, Ragnarok, and the Mysteries of the Future
• Epilogue -
• Eddaic Sources
• Works on Modern Odinism
• Reviews of Earlier Editions of
• The Odin Brotherhood

205. Secret Chiefs (London)

28th January - Marko Nenonen "Witchcraft And Magic In Finland" Marko Nenonen is a Professor from the University of Tampere in Finland. He is also a publisher and author of several works on witches, magic and witch-trials. Tonight he will guide us through Finland's magical history, from ancient Pagan cults to the modern occult scene.

11th Fevbruary - Mark Poynter "All About Anahita" Mark is an expert in the mythology of Mesopotamia and Persia and a Zoologist (specializing in scorpions and spiders!) as well as being a Priest of Lilith. He explores the origins, attributes and representations of Anahita, the great Persian Goddess of the Waters, of Fertility, of Love and of War.

The Secret Chiefs meet fortnightly on Wednesday evenings in the upstairs room of the Deveraux (Temple Tube). The room opens at 7pm and the talk starts at 8.30pm. Admission is £2 (£1 concs). All are welcome.

204. Bath Omphalos

Moot for LHP magicos in Bath area. For more details contact omphalospaganmoot@.... Essentially a discussion group at the moment, open to all. And from same group 'I've been looking into aspects of sexuality and gender in the magickal world for some time now; from a personal/practical magickal perspective as well as one of general interest. As an extension of this, a friend of mine and I have joined forces and drawn up a questionnaire for women who move within the magickal world. The purpose of this...seems a good thing to do really. Consolidating opinions and experiences (on an anonymous level of course)...looking at what we do and how it affects us. Thus I'm looking into emotional reactions,gender interactions, working with sexual/hormonal cycles etc. The questionnaire isnt allied to any institution, is informal in layout and is aimed at as diverse an area(geographically, racially and socially as well as directions of personal practice)as possible. So if you're interested in participating, just mail me. Many thanks, Charlotte

203. Martin P. Starr's THE UNKNOWN GOD:

W. T. SMITH AND THE THELEMITES, is being published this month by the Teitan Press, Inc. Here is a brief description of the contents from the Teitan Press website:

The first documentary study of the followers of the English mystic Aleister Crowley in North America, told through the life of their defacto leader, Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885-1957). To promulgate the Crowleyan teachings in Hollywood, in 1934 Smith incorporated the "Church of Thelema"--known to Los Angeles newspaper readers as the "Purple Cult." The following year he started a lodge of Crowley's co-masonic Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) which attracted its own cast of characters including John Carradine and the gay radical Harry Hay. Smith's life reached its conclusion when Crowley, taking a page from Louis Bromfield's novel, THE STRANGE CASE OF MISS ANNIE SPRAGG sent him off on a retreat to determine which God he was incarnating, a journey from which he never returned....

432 pages, over 44 photographs and illustrations, this long-awaited book will be required reading for those interested in 19th and 20th century esoteric movements, including the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Theosophical Society and the Crowley-derived organizations. ISBN 0-933429-07-X $49.95 hardback.

202. Aleister crowley's phantom

201 Throbbing Gristle for Beltaine

"A Celebration of Industrial Musics in the 21st Century"

Chris Carter, Peter Christopherson, Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti will briefly regroup to present RE~TG, a weekend of music, art, film performance culminating in an exclusive set by THROBBING GRISTLE. The location will be Pontin's Holiday Resort, Camber Sands, near Rye, England. RE~TG will take place on 14th -16th May 2004.

Book now to ensure a place at this once in a lifetime time historic event. http://www.throbbing-gristle.com/

200 Ritual magick website

What is Ritual Magick UK about?

Standing together and learning from each other : We welcome contributions of articles, links, reviews and artwork from all members. Feel free to plug your events and projects here, all we ask is that you provide as much information as possible - you can use html (contact us if you are unsure!).

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000. Groups, events et al

Moot for LHP magicos in Bath area. For more details contact omphalospaganmoot@....

'Oxford Talking Stick Pub Moot' meets every Thursday at The Port Mahon Pub (St . Clements st)Oxford. Each week we discuss a topic, using a talking stick, which we have collectively agreed upon the week before, we do so in fellowship and each person is free to speak or not as is their wish. Most folks get to the pub about 9:00 to start 9:30 ish. The Oxford Talking Stick moot is an independent group open to all pagans, witches, Tantrics, Druids, Wiccans, Shaman and magickians etc wishing to take part in the discussion. Prior knowledge of the weeks subject is not essential as these moots should and can be an opportunity for us to learn from each other. Contact JackDaw pendark@...

Cardiff contacts sought for occult moot perhaps
leading to ritual seed group on OGDOS lines
email mandrake-owner@yahoogroups.com

The West Herts moot is held on the 2nd Sunday in every month. The next one will be on 11th May at 1pm onwards at the Fishery Inn, Hemel Hempstead.

Full details including a map can be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/westherts-moot/ or email Sophie at hintlemin@...

Norwich Magician's Moot, which occurs the second Thursday of every month in Norwich in
floating venues. For information
e-mail denise@...
or phone Anton or Denise at 01603 622142.