We moved secretly through the streets at night. Food was taken in doorways and shallow alcoves. Tattoos were performed on the open floors of abandoned factories. Bedecked with cloth and feathers. Our vehicles ran not on benzine but the oil given to us by those no longer needing. We…

I was on the coast and you had a boat, You were coming to kill my people. You said it wasn’t personal, But you made it so very so. The colonial gaze Has given very few shelter For life settled in sentience, Long before whites set up shop.

Some Personal Reflections — (This essay can be downloaded as a PDF from here. The online version here includes multimedia content) When psychedelic drugs captured the popular imagination of the West in the 1960s they were seen by opponents as very dangerous. But their proponents saw them as almost sacred and revolutionary. The separation…

The music contained here is the sound tracks to a thousand journeys and a million shelters. As we absorb the fragments of our lives in the Digital Empire, we so often lack the sound to step between each momentary space, independent of the machines that control us. The genius…

All human life is confined to huge domes that are half flooded, and where people cling to floating debris. Many suffer from strange fungal…

Choice and Desire Took a room Then struggled through their prepositions, Until they were naked. Promises were made And left upon the table To be collected by staff Or police in the morning, Whoever came first.

In July of 1969, John Krummell, John Norman and Charles Little stood in the dock of the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court, charged, on the information of officers of the Vice Squad, with using obscene language in a public place. They had uttered this obscene language in the course of performances of…

“If schooling is to be a source of empowering enlightenment rather than an instrument of domesticating indoctrination, its intellectual content must recruit the creative imagination of the growing child. And if the consequences for the local community are to be cultural enrichment and socio-economic progress, rather than debilitating social conflict…

Digital necromancy with DALL-E AI image generator from text. From The Cry of the 1st Aethyr, a magical text by A.E Crowley.