The High Priest and the Great Beast: Timothy Leary’s Belief That He Was a ‘Continuation’ of Aleister Crowley John HiggsWednesday, August 15th In 1972 Dr. Timothy Leary picked up a pack of Aleister Crowley-designed tarot cards and asked them the question, “Who am I and what is my destiny?” He then cut ... 3 Comments13 min read
Stars, Fools and Lovers: An Illustrated Guide to the Art and History of the Tarot GregMonday, August 6th Powerful divinatory device, helpful decision support tool, or aesthetically pleasing work of art - for whatever reason you might like to choose, interest in tar... 0 Comments2 min read
#FolkloreAgainstFascism Cat VincentThursday, August 2nd In early June, the British found-footage documentary Arcadia was released. A film showing the folklorish customs of Britain with a soundtrack by Portishead’s Ad... 12 Comments16 min read
Review – CHASING ERIS Cat VincentMonday, July 30th By Brenton Clutterbuck, 2018. ----------- Discordianism is sixty years old. Yeah, I did a double-take when I realised that, and I’ve been involved with Disco... 0 Comments6 min read
Review: BECOMING DANGEROUS Cat VincentThursday, July 26th Becoming Dangerous: Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers, and Magical Rebels on Summoning the Power to Resist Edited by Katie West and Jasmine Elliott (Fiction and ... 0 Comments6 min read
Forbidden Histories: Why Everything You Knew About the History of Science and Magic Might Be Wrong GregMonday, July 9th Regular readers of the Daily Grail will know that we regularly explore the strange interactions between science and the occult through history, as well as the r... 0 Comments2 min read
The Little Known History of the Tarot GregMonday, July 2nd In recent years there's been a huge upswing of interest in the Tarot, the card-divination technique that is often claimed to have truly ancient roots, dating ba... 1 Comment1 min read
Words are Magic – How the Language You Speak (and Hear) Changes Your Reality GregMonday, June 18th In the modern world, science has gifted (or is that cursed?) us with an awareness that what we once thought was 'reality' is actually just a highly filtered, ti... 1 Comment6 min read
Dark Star Rising: Fascism and the Occult Meet in Russian Philosopher Alexander Dugin Gary LachmanWednesday, June 6th This is an excerpt from my new book, Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump, which looks at the strange "occult politics" that in recent times s... 14 Comments12 min read
Flying Saucerers: The Role of Science Fiction and the Occult in the Birth of the UFO Era GregMonday, May 28th (Excerpted from Darklore Volume 4, which is available from Amazon US and Amazon UK) by The Emperor In an essay in Darklore (Volume 3), I looked at the odd ... 0 Comments40 min read
