Explores the role of magic and the occult in art and culture from ancient times to today • Examines key figures behind esoteric cultural developments, such as Carl Jung, Anton LaVey, Paul Bowles, Aleister Crowley, and Rudolf Steiner • Explores the history of magic as a source of genuine counter culture and compares it with our contemporary soulless, digital monoculture • Reveals how the magic of art can be restored if art is employed as a means rather than an end and offers strategies to rekindle intuitive creativity Art, magic, and the occult have been intimately linked since our prehistoric ancestors created the first cave paintings some 50,000 years ago. As civilizations developed, these esoteric forces continued to drive culture forward, both visibly and behind the scenes, from the Hermetic ideas of the Renaissance, to the ethereal worlds of 19th century Symbolism, to the occult interests of the Surrealists. In this deep exploration of “occulture”--the liminal space where art and magic meet--Carl Abrahamsson reveals the integral role played by magic and occultism in the development of culture throughout history as well as their relevance to the continuing survival of art and creativity. Blending magical history and esoteric philosophy with his more than 30 years’ experience in occult movements, Abrahamsson looks at the phenomena and people who have been seminal in modern esoteric developments, including Carl Jung, Anton LaVey, Paul Bowles, Aleister Crowley, and Rudolf Steiner. Showing how art and magic were initially one and the same, the author explores the history of magic as a source of genuine counter culture and compares it with our contemporary soulless, digital monoculture. He reveals how the magic of art can be restored if art is employed as a means rather than an end--if it is intense, emotional, violent, and expressive--and offers strategies for creating freely, magically, even spontaneously, with intent unfettered by the whims of trends, a creative practice akin to chaos magick that assists both creators and spectators to live with meaning. He also looks at intuition and creativity as the cornerstones of genuine individuation, explaining how insights and illuminations seldom come in collective forms. Exploring magical philosophy, occult history, the arts, psychology, and the colorful grey areas in between, Abrahamsson reveals the culturally and magically transformative role of art and the ways the occult continues to transform culture to this day.

Occulture: The Unseen Forces That Drive Culture Forward

Politics & Social Sciences

Abrahamsson, Carl

Social Sciences

Park Street Press

An intimate exploration of the life, philosophy, and lasting occult influence of Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan * Includes never-before-published material from LaVey, including transcripts from his never-released "Hail Satan!" video * Shares in-depth interviews with intimate friends and collaborators, including LaVey's partner Blanche Barton, his son Xerxes LaVey, and current heads of the Church of Satan Peter Gilmore and Peggy Nadramia * Provides inside accounts of the Church of Satan and activities at the Black House, personal stories and anecdotes from the very colorful life of the Black Pope, and firsthand explanations of key principles of LaVey's philosophy With his creation of the infamous Church of Satan in 1966 and his bestselling book The Satanic Bible in 1969, Anton Szandor LaVey (1930-1997) became a controversial celebrity who basked in the attention and even made a successful career out of it. But who was Anton LaVey behind the public persona that so easily provoked Christians and others intolerant of his views? One of privileged few who spent time with the "Black Pope" in the last decade of his life, Carl Abrahamsson met Anton LaVey in 1989, sparking an "infernally" empowering friendship. In this book Abrahamsson explores what LaVey was really about, where he came from, and how he shaped the esoteric landscape of the 1960s. The author shares in-depth interviews with the notorious Satanist's intimate friends and collaborators, including LaVey's partner Blanche Barton, his son Xerxes LaVey, current heads of the Church of Satan Peter Gilmore and Peggy Nadramia, occult filmmaker Kenneth Anger, LaVey's personal secretary Margie Bauer, film collector Jack Stevenson, and film historian Jim Morton. Abrahamsson also shares never-before-published material from LaVey himself, including discussions between LaVey and Genesis P-Orridge and transcripts from LaVey's never-released "Hail Satan!" video. Providing inside accounts of the Church of Satan and activities at the Black House, this intimate exploration of Anton LaVey reveals his ongoing role in the history of culture and magic.

Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan: Infernal Wisdom from the Devil's Den

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Inner Traditions

An exploration of how magic can be found within all human activities\n• Offers a “magical-anthropological” tour from ancient Norse shamanism to the modern magick of occultists like Genesis P-Orridge\n• Looks at how human beings are naturally attracted to magic and how this attraction can be corrupted by both religious organizations and occult societies\n• Examines magic as it relates to psychedelics, Witchcraft, shamanism, pilgrimage, Jungian individuation, mortality, and the literary works of Beat icons like Burroughs and Gysin\nSince the dawn of time, magic has been the node around which all human activities and culture revolve. As magic entered the development of science, art, philosophy, religion, myth, and psychology, it still retained its essence: that we have a dynamic connection with all other forms of life.\nExploring the source magic that flows beneath the surface of culture and occulture throughout the ages, Carl Abrahamsson offers a “magical-anthropological” journey from ancient Norse shamanism to the modern magick of occultists like Genesis P-Orridge. He looks at how human beings relate to and are naturally attracted to magic. He examines in depth the consequences of magical practice and how the attraction to magic can be corrupted by both religious organizations and occult societies. He shows how the positive effects of magic are instinctively grasped by children, who view the world as magical.\nThe author looks at magic and occulture as they relate to psychedelics, Witchcraft, shamanism, Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY), the panic rituals of the Master Musicians of Joujouka in Morocco, psychological individuation processes, literary “magical realism,” and the cut-up technique of Beat icons like William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. He explores the similarities in psychology between poet Ezra Pound and magician Austin Osman Spare. He looks at the Scandinavian Fenris Wolf as a mythic force and how personal pilgrimages can greatly enrich our lives. He also examines the philosophy of German author Ernst Jünger, the magical techniques of British filmmaker Derek Jarman, and the quintessential importance of accepting our own mortality.\nSharing his more than 30 years of experiences in the fields of occulture and magical anthropology, Carl Abrahamsson explores ancient and modern magical history to reveal the source magic that connects us all, past and present.

Source Magic: The Origin of Art, Science, and Culture

Anthropology

Meetings with Remarkable Magicians: Life in the Occult Underground

Arts & Literature

Mother, Have A Safe Trip

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Trapart Books

The Fenris Wolf is a research journal focused on the human mind, developments in comparative magico-anthropology, and on the occultural implications and applications of these fields of study. This volume contains material by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Frater Achad, Timothy O’Neill, Philip Farber, Kendell Geers, Sasha Chaitow, Derek Seagrief, Vera Nikolich, Alexander Nym, Vanessa Sinclair, Stephen Sennitt, Antony Hequet, Patrick Lundborg, Henrik Dahl, Angela Edwards, Jason Louv, Kasper Opstrup, Peter Grey, Antti Balk, Kjetil Fjell, Sandy Robertson, Adam Rostoker, Emory Cranston, Manon Hedenborg-White, Sara George and Carl Abrahamsson, on topics as diverse as Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, Anton LaVey, Sar Peladan, Fernand Khnopff, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Heinlein, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Wilhelm Reich, Thelema, Satanism, Symbolism, psychoanalysis, Dada, apocalyptic witchcraft, psychedelic philosophy, visionary book covers, Cannabis, artificial human companions, sacred prostitution, German Expressionist cinema, slam poetry, independent universities, extraterrestrial influences, astrology, sexual magic, science fiction and more…

The Fenris Wolf 7

Achad, Frater

Grey, Peter

Sinclair, Vanessa

Lundborg, Patrick

Geers, Kendell

Breyer P-Orridge, Genesis

Hedenborg-White, Manon

Farber, Philip

Philosophy

The Fenris Wolf is a research journal focused on the human mind, developments in comparative magico-anthropology, and on the occultural implications and applications of these fields of study. This volume, the tenth, contains material by Ludwig Klages, David Beth, Henrik Dahl, Peter Sjöstedt-H, Jesse Bransford, Max Razdow, Christopher Webster, Kendell Geers, Kadmus, Billie Steigerwald, Fred Andersson, Zaheer Gulamhusein, Charlotte Rodgers, Craig Slee, Damien Patrick Williams, Philip H. Farber, Thomas Bey William Bailey, Mitch Horowitz, Ramsey Dukes, Anders Lundgren, Peggy Nadramia, Nina Antonia, Jack Stevenson, Andrea Kundry, Joan Pope, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Vanessa Sinclair, Claire-Madeline Corso, and Carl Abrahamsson, on topics as diverse as magico-anthropology, sexual magic, eroto-psychedelic art, Friedrich Nietzsche’s use of psychoactive drugs, the occult meaning of the Fenris Wolf in Scandinavian Asatro, joint dreaming, mytho-historical traces within Völkish photography, the magic and influence of African art, disease as magical incentive, Cripkult, daoism, buddhism and machine consciousness, memetic entities, memetic magick, the transformative power of causative thinking, an interview with author Gary Lachman about Colin Wilson and his magical writings, dark Hollywood, Mike “Hellboy” Mignola and the Lovecraft connection, the full story of Benjamin Christensen’s cinematic masterpiece “Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922), the full story of Anton LaVey’s Satanic Bible, the gnostic-alchemical eroticism in the art of Joan Pope, Genesis P-Orridge’s memories of a life of occultural experimentation, and much more...“Wherever we look in and into time and space, there is that one fundamental phenomenon which seems more ingrained and integrated in the human psyche than anything else. Soundly embedded inside the survival instinct, the human being’s relationship to magic has never really disappeared.”– Carl Abrahamsson, from the chapter “Onwards to the Source!”

The Fenris Wolf 10

LACHMAN, GARY

HOROWITZ, MITCH

Antonia, Nina

P-Orridge, Genesis Breyer

Nadramia, Peggy

Abrahamsson (Ed), Carl

Pope, Joan

The Fenris Wolf is a research journal focussed on the human mind, developments in comparative magico-anthropology, and on the occultural implications and applications of these fields of study. This volume, which is an anthology of the first three issues (originally published 1989-1993), contains material by Anton LaVey, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, William Burroughs, Austin Osman Spare, Hymenæus Beta, Ben Kadosh, Freya Aswynn, Rodney Orpheus, ONA, William Heidrick, Terence Sellers, Zbigniew Karkowski, Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Leif Elggren (KREV), Lionel Snell, Stein Jarving, John Alexander, Tim O’Neill, Peter Gilmore, Phauss, Frater Nigris, Jack Stevenson, TOPYUS, Nemo, Philip Marsh, Beatrice Eggers, Andrew McKenzie, Fetish 23, and Carl Abrahamsson, on topics as diverse as dreams, Christian right-wing conspiracies, ritual aspects of performance art, Aleister Crowley’s roots and his philosophy of Thelema, Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth (TOPY), Jayne Mansfield, Kenneth Anger, Harry Smith, Satanism, Pythagoras, Plato, the Hellenes, demonic aspects of cinema, the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), psychedelics as agents of creativity, Acid House as a liberating subculture, the inauguration of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland, the technology of consciousness, pornography, the esotericism of the left-hand path, Northern magic, and much more... Trapart Books 2020, 6x9" paperback, 322 pages.

The Fenris Wolf 1-3

BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.

Spare, Austin Osman

Gilmore, Peter

P-Orridge, Genesis

Aswynn, Freya

Beta, Hymenaeus

Stevenson, Jack

LaVey, Anton

Sellers, Terence

The Fenris Wolf is a research journal focused on the human mind, developments in comparative magico-anthropology, and on the occultural implications and applications of these fields of study. This issue contains material by Peter H Gilmore, Peter Grey, John Duncan, Ramsey Dukes, Tim O’Neill, Thomas Karlsson, David Beth, Payam Nabarz, Hiram Corso, Jean-Pierre Turmel, Kendell Geers, Z’EV, Robert Taylor, Phil Farber, Thomas Bey William Bailey, Ernst Jünger, Baba Rampuri, Aki Cederberg, and Carl Abrahamsson, on topics as diverse as Thelema, Kenneth Anger, Satanism, democracy, the astral technology of “Civilization X”, the blood mysteries of the Blutleuchte, The Process Church of the Final Judgement, an interview with Timoth Wyllie, the power of profane language and cursing, the cabalistic calls, the pantheon of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, magical uses of the Dreamachine, the esoteric order Dragon Rouge, Terence McKenna, psychedelics, LSD, psilocybin, Indian spirituality, Naga Babas, magical pilgrimages, a unique series of evocative ink images by Swedish artist Fredrik Söderberg, and much more.Trapart Books 2020. Originally published by Edda Publishing 2011. 256 pages, 6 x 9". Cover art by Fredrik Söderberg.“From the smallest genome to the loftiest vision, man’s totality is an unsurpassed vessel of potential. One of the reasons being the ability to transcend immediate communication. In every use of communication by proxy lies individual will ingrained. Love charms and jewellery, cave paintings and sympathetic tribal hopes, Luther’s German translation of the Bible as an act of monocultural defiance, fairytales as moral education, Picasso’s “Guernica” as an act of war against war itself... This desire to formulate emotion and will through generalised expressions, along with the capacity for suicide, may be the most fundamentally human trait. If we, for some reason, are incapable of expressing ourselves, we actively seek out resonance with those who are capable. Their works arouse the spirit of Gemeinschaft, of being a part of the human community rather than a single solitaire grain of sand in a scorchingly hot desert.”– Carl Abrahamsson, from the chapter “Someone is messing with the Big Picture.”

The Fenris Wolf 4

McKenna, Terence

Wyllie, Timothy

Farber, Phil

Beth, David

Rampuri, Baba

God proposes the challenge of the millennium: if Satan sorts out the ever growing human mess on Earth, God will lovingly take him back to Heaven as his favorite Archangel. Satan accepts, and sets out on a massive operation to balance out over-population, pollution, corruption, and other severely Satanic headaches – many of which he originally helped create... Easier said than done!Satan’s love of the ambitiously mischievous humans is challenged as his own “Team Apocalypse” fervently sets to work. But as the world begins to change quickly and dramatically for the better, a new question arises: can God and his suspicious Archangels really be trusted in this cataclysmic, cosmic undertaking? (Size 5 x 8", 190 pages.)

The Devil's Footprint

Humor & Satire

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