#kink #masochism #spirituality

BDSM can entail perceptions in the dominant and the submissive conducive to the spiritual or religious journey of the individual.

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Baker, A.C. 2018. Sacred kink: finding psychological meaning at the intersection of BDSM and spiritual experience. Sexual and Relationship Therapy. 33(4), pp.440–453.

Charles D’Avalon, A. 2020. Pain and Power: BDSM as Spiritual Expression. Inquiries Journal. 12(11).

Fennell, J. 2018. “It’s All About the Journey”: Skepticism and Spirituality in the BDSM Subculture. Sociological Forum. 33(4), pp.1045–1067.

Glucklich, A. 2001. Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul. Oxford University Press.

Robertson, A. 2017. Beating the Boundaries: An Exploration of BDSM as Religioning.[Online] London: The Open University. [Accessed 7 January 2022]. Available from: https://www.proquest.com/openview/2f9178336eff89cd5fb942b6c01ab67e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=51922&diss=y.

00:00 Introduction: Magick a transformative tool that affects one’s life

01:32 BDSM, Top and Bottom defined

02:28 The private dimension of religion

03:06 The beneficial impact of BDSM

04:38 Sacred Pain

07:23 Disintegrative and integrative pain

11:01 Visionary experience

12:56 A sense of the Numinous

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00:00:00 Intro to Dr Alison Robertson

00:03:35 What is BDSM?

00:04:42 Research methodology

00:07:02 BDSM, Religion and Altered States

00:21:00 Gestalt, more than the sum of its parts

00:28:05 BDSM and Paganism

00:36:46 BDSM, Magic, Esotericism

00:44:30 Intentionality in Magic & BDSM

00:52:38 Is BDSM deemed a Pathology?

00:57:00 BDSM & Transcendence of pain

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Robertson, A. & Wildcroft, T. (2016). Sacrifices at the Altar of Self-Knowledge. Body and Religion, 1, 88-109

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#krampus #pagan #christmas

Is Krampus really a Norse Pagan deity, the Anti Santa Claus fighting the Christmas spirit or Saint Nicholas Companion?

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Honigmann, J.J. (1977) The Masked Face. Ethos, 5 (3), pp.263–280.

Peterson, K.A. (2019) Merry Krampus: Alternative Holiday Praxis in The Contemporary United States. The University of Oregon. Available from: https://www.proquest.com/openview/ca0706d9c4dc3635e64b4cbb3656e185/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

Rest, M. & Seiser, G. (2018) The Krampus in Austria: a case of booming identity politics. EthnoScripts: Zeitschrift für aktuelle ethnologische Studien, 20 (1), pp.35–57.

00:00 Introduction: Who is the Krampus?

00:53 Methodology of historians of religion

02:35 Context: Kraumpus or Krampuses

04:04 Popularisation

06:11 Link to St Nicholas

06:57 Krampus in US pop culture

09:03 Pagan origins?

11:28 Krampus the antinomian

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#typhonian #thelema #kennethgrant

History and Traits of the Typhonian order, traits of magick and influences on Thelema and Chaos Magick.

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Bogdan, H. (2012) Envisioning the Birth of a New Aeon. In: H. Bogdan & M. P. Starr eds. Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism. Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp.89–106.

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Bogdan, H. & Starr, M.P. eds. (2012) Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism. Oxford University Press.

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Pasi, M. (2006) Ordo Templi Orientis. In: W. J. Hanegraaff ed. Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism. Leiden ; Boston, Brill, pp.898–906.

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Woodman, J. (2003) Modernity, selfhood, and the demonic : anthropological perspectives on ‘Chaos magick’ in the United Kingdom. Ph.D. Goldsmiths, University of London. Available from: http://research.gold.ac.uk/28683/

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#metal #rock #satan

Are Rock and Metal music Satanic? Are rockers and metalheads devil worshippers? Occult and esoteric themes in Heavy metal.

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Granholm, K. (2019) Why all that satanist stuff in heavy metal? In: Hermes Explains: Thirty Questions about Western Esotericism. Amsterdam University Press, pp.120–126.

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#chaosmagick #chaosmagic #chaote

The conflict between Peter J Carroll and Ralph Tegtmeier (Frater U. D.) that led to the schism in the Chaos Magick order of the IOT

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Otto, B.-C. (2019) The Illuminates of Thanateros and the institutionalisation of religious individualisation. In: M. Fuchs, A. Linkenbach, M. Mulsow, B.-C. Otto, R. B. Parson, & J. Rüpke eds. Religious Individualisation. De Gruyter, pp.759–796. Available from: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110580853-038/html

00:00 Introduction: Betrayal?

01:25 The protagonists

01:50 The term ‘Ice Magick War’

02:28 The Ice Lord

03:53 Carroll’s 5 concerns

05:00 Tegtmeier’s response

05:28 The schism

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09:27 Tegtmeier splits from the Ice Lord

10:55 Summary

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#iot #chaosmagick #illuminatesofthanateros

Academic overview of the history and establishment of the Illuminates of Thanateros, founded by Peter J Carroll and Ray Sherwin

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Otto, B.-C. (2019) The Illuminates of Thanateros and the institutionalisation of religious individualisation. In: M. Fuchs, A. Linkenbach, M. Mulsow, B.-C. Otto, R. B. Parson, & J. Rüpke eds. Religious Individualisation. De Gruyter, pp.759–796. Available from: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110580853-038/html.

Urban, Hugh. 2006. Magia sexualis: Sex, Magic and Liberation in modern Western Esotericism.

Berkeley: University of California Press.

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Illuminates of Thanateros. 2002. The Book: Illuminates of Thanateros: The Truth, http://www.pauladaunt.com/books/Illuminates_of_Thanateros.pdf

00:00 Introduction: Betrayal?

01:25 The protagonists

01:50 The term ‘Ice Magick War’

02:28 The Ice Lord

03:53 Carroll’s 5 concerns

05:00 Tegtmeier’s response

05:28 The schism

07:07 Tegtmeier’s version

09:27 Tegtmeier splits from the Ice Lord

10:55 Summary

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#witchcraft #esoteric #rationality

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Hammer, O. (2019) Isn’t esotericism irrational? In: Hermes Explains Thirty Questions about Western Esotericism. 137-144, Amsterdam University Press.

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00:00 Introduction: Is the practice of magic irrational?

00:27 Max Weber’s dichotomy

01:17 Bounded rationality

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#crowley #abyss #thelema

The concept of the Abyss according to Aleister Crowley.

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Owen, A. (2012) The Sorcerer and His Apprentice: Aleister Crowley and the Magical Exploration of Edwardian Subjectivity. In: H. Bogdan & M. P. Starr eds. Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism. Oxford, Oxford University Press, p. 32.

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00:42 The guardian Choronzon

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#demon #exorcism #possession

What's the difference between spirit possession and demonic possession? How can we identify or classify a demon? How is trance different from possession and can there be a non-religious form of possession?

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Boddy, J. (1994) Spirit Possession Revisited: Beyond Instrumentality. Annual Review of Anthropology, 23 (1), pp.407–434.

Cohen, E. (2008) What is Spirit Possession? Defining, Comparing, and Explaining Two Possession Forms. Ethnos, 73 (1), pp.101–126.

Cohen, E. & Barrett, J.L. (2008) Conceptualizing Spirit Possession: Ethnographic and Experimental Evidence. Ethos, 36 (2), pp.246–267.

Crapanzano, V. (2005), ‘Spirit possession: an overview’, in L. Jones (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Religion (2nd ed). Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 8687–94.

Schmidt, B.E. (2016) Spirits and Trance in Brazil: An Anthropology of Religious Experience. Bloomsbury Publishing.

00:00 Introduction: Possession and trance

02:19 What classifies as a demon

04:29 Types of spirit possession

06:48 Trance vs possession

08:35 Personhood in relation to possession

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