Bantu Religion + Kongo Shamanism in California
SOURCE : Plastic Shamans and Astroturf Sun Dances: New Age Commercialization of Native American Spirituality
Commercial exploitation of Native American spiritual traditions has permeated the New Age movement since its emergence in the 1980s. Euro-Americans professing to be medicine people have profited from publications and workshops. Mass quantities of products promoted as “Native American sacred objects” [...]
SOURCE : Boycott Llewellyn Publications
I practice Brujeria… in a close group we call Los Brujos del Cuervo … One night a few of us were together browsing online bookstores. We came upon books on Brujeria, or with Brujeria in the title, published by Llewellyn in Spanish. We couldn’t believe it! Someone had actually written about [...]
Welcome to mayombe.org, your source for clear and easy-to-understand information about Palo Mayombe – one the most magical, mysterious and misunderstood religious traditions in the world. Curious about African witchcraft, psychic phenomena, secret societies and spiritual evolution? You’ve come to the right place!
If you have any questions about the Palo Mayombe religion, or about this [...]
SOURCE : The Three-fold Law of Return, Exposing This Lie and its Origins
This three-fold teaching was taken from the eastern concept of “karma” after it merged with Western Christianity. After the eastern teachings of karma picked up the Judeo/Christian overtones of divine punishment, the product evolved into yet another system of control with the same [...]
Llewellyn Worldwide is “the world’s oldest and largest New Age Publisher specializing in books, tarot decks, audio and video products.”
A favorite source of information for the Wicca set, they are also (apparently) now dabbling in Afrophobic witchunt fiction:
SOURCE : iCrew – Scratched
Based on the non-fiction book “Scratched” due to hit the shelves February [...]
Jason Louv is a copywriter and self-proclaimed “magician” who published the influential anthology Generation Hex, a sort of postmodern guide to guide to magic for the MySpace generation. I’ve had it on my amazon wishlist for ages but never actually ordered it; now I’m glad I didn’t.
I say this because of a recent search which [...]
SOURCE : absentmindedart: GENERATION HEX: HIGH ROAD ANAMNESIS 2005
In such a marketplace of belief, in which every world faith has been pureed into a homogenized feel-good power shake, it is often the options with a tad more grit to them that stick out. Voodoo, witchcraft, the abyss-transfixed “magick” of Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare…
While [...]
SOURCE : Ultraculture: Aryan People Only Please
Typical wannabe occultist wankers. I think this is really just Jason trying to make a name for himself in the “occult” world, not because he wants to make change, but because he wants to sell books. His latest book, Generation Hex, has been out for a while and if [...]
SOURCE : Heroes of the Ultraculture! – Ultraculture International | Google Groups
Shivanath is a bull in a china shop with the social and argumentative graces to match. He is also right. If there is any confusion here it is between the darker aspects of the Yoruban traditions, such as Voudon and Palo Mayombe, with the [...]
SOURCE : Heroes of the Ultraculture! – Ultraculture International | Google Groups
Voodoo is a Bad Tradition.
The basic mechanism: displacement of an individual human consciousness from their body and temporary replacement with a parasitic life-force-harvesting energy – this kind of psychic body prostitution in payment for magical favors – is inherently problematic.
AAAW! You say, but it [...]
