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February 16, 2024
An evening with The Devil’s Footprint
Join Swedish author Carl Abrahamsson for a moment of delightful yet explosive Devilry… Using his novel The Devil’s Footprint as a springboard, Abrahamsson will talk about his own background in LaVeyan Satanism and interest in the Infernal as Occultural tools to change society and culture. He will not only read from the novel and talk about it with Vanessa Sinclair (and possibly you, dear attendee!) but will also metamorphose through his own method of Saccharine Lycanthropy into a critic of his own work, inviting characters from the novel to chip in. Who will win this battle of literary prowess within the Circus Maximus of Supposed Good Taste? There is only one way to find out… Get a ticket and proceed with ecstatic caution! To make things even better – and more dangerous… It’s a FREE event!
The literal showdown lowdown: 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?
Join author Carl Abrahamsson as he takes the audience on a cosmic journey in his swashbuckling apocalyptic novel. Beginning with a tale as old as time, Abrahamsson brings God, Lucifer, Galatea, and the Archangels to life as they run into characters such as Ambrose Bierce, Niccolo Machiavelli, and some carefree Russian oligarchs. ”It’s not easy being Evil in a world that’s gone to Hell!” Or… Perhaps it is?
Carl Abrahamsson (b 1966) is a Swedish author, focusing on fiction and material about occulture and magico-anthropology. www.carlabrahamsson.com
#satan #satanism #morbidanatomy #occulture #vanessasinclair #carlabrahamsson
February 15, 2024
A film class of its own!
Get your tickets now for this epic cinemagical autumn class with me:
#morbidanatomy #occulture #cinemagic #vanessasinclair #carlabrahamsson
February 14, 2024
More pre-order links for my new book
You can now pre-order my forthcoming book from various online booksellers:
Simon & Schuster: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Meetings-with-Remarkable-Magicians/Carl-Abrahamsson/9781644118481
Simon & Schuster UK: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Meetings-with-Remarkable-Magicians/Carl-Abrahamsson/9781644118481
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1644118483?tag=simonsayscom
Inner Traditions: https://www.innertraditions.com/meetings-with-remarkable-magicians
Books A Million: https://www.booksamillion.com/p/9781644118481
Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org
#innertraditions #fraterud #meetingswithremarkablemagicians #carlabrahamsson
February 13, 2024
A Prague Experience
I hope to see you in Prague soon, as Nicolas Ballet and I talk about the great film Other, Like Me in general and Genesis P-Orridge in particular.
https://www.dox.cz/en/whats-on/industrial-culture-and-the-figure-of-genesis-p-orridge
#coumtransmissions #throbbinggristle #tg #genesisporridge #nicolasballet #carlabrahamsson
February 7, 2024
White Stains CD now available
“Dreams Shall Flesh” (redux) is the second chapter in the series of WHITE STAINS publications reissued by Polish label Zoharum. It is also the second studio album in the band’s discography. As indicated by the note “redux” in the title, this edition has been enriched with bonus recordings, found in Carl Abrahamsson’s private archive, which have never been published before. We are still dealing here with dark wave music with elements of gothic rock. However, unlike the compilation containing vinyl EPs, a new direction is increasingly felt here, which will be fully developed on the next albums. In these songs with a verse-chorus-verse structure typical of rock music, there is more and more space for a slightly atmospheric, slightly psychedelic aura, which is reflected in the final sound that the band achieved on this material. This is especially noticeable on the additional songs, which they perfectly complement the new version of “Dreams Shall Flesh” (redux). The material has been remastered again and has a new graphic design. Edition of 300 CDs folded in a six-panel digipack.
https://www.bygge.trapart.net/?product=white-stains-dreams-shall-flesh-redux-cd
February 6, 2024
A new lecture coming up…
Got your ticket yet?
Get Thee Behind Me, Satan – Carl Abrahamsson
Taking a look at some golden era Hollywood films, Carl Abrahamsson ponders the occasional occurrence of Satan in various guises. How come this popular yet stigmatized figure/symbol popped up when and as it did in Hollywood? Expect an infernal rollercoaster through masterpieces like ”Madam Satan”, ”Seven Footprints to Satan”, ”Angel on my shoulder” and many more. Was Satan merely an entertaining symbol of the Immoral, or perhaps of the Immortal principle of lust for life and proud defiance?
#thelasttuesdaysociety #viktorwynd #satan #occulture #carlabrahamsson
February 5, 2024
A great book event coming up
Do you have your ticket for the DEVIL’S FOOTPRINT event on Feb 18?
I’ll be talking about and reading from my novel about Satan’s attempts at cleaning up the human mess – a swashbuckling thrill-ride of infernal justice. Don’t miss out!
#satan #thedevilsfootprint #morbidanatomy #occulture #carlabrahamsson
February 4, 2024
Dreams Shall Flesh (Redux)
Dreams Shall Flesh (redux) by White Stains is now available on CD:
http://zoharum.com/en/wydawnictwa/dreams-shall-flesh-redux-2/
Originally released in 1991, this classic album features many magical pop tunes… Play loud!
#whitestains #dreamsshallflesh #zoharum #carlabrahamsson
January 24, 2024
Pre-order my new book
Now is the time to preorder my new book:
https://www.innertraditions.com/meetings-with-remarkable-magicians
• Explores the author’s extensive connections with infamous occultists and organizations, including Genesis P-Orridge and Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth, Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan, and the Ordo Templi Orientis
• Details the underlying occult impulses and magical experiences guiding the author’s artistic journey, his experiences in psychedelic culture and the punk subculture, and his experimentation with sex magic, occulture, and sigil magic
What does it mean to live a life as an occultist? There may be no single answer, but for Carl Abrahamsson, it has involved work in music, art, and film as well as deep involvement with renowned occult figures and organizations for more than 40 years.
Illustrating the possibilities of a life infused with magic, Abrahamsson reflects on his decades spent in the company of some of the most unconventional thinkers of the late-20th and early-21st centuries. Revealing how his immersion in both the underground and above-ground world of art and the occult only grew through his adolescence and into adulthood, the author details his involvement with psychedelic culture, the punk subculture, and numerous occult figures and organizations, including Genesis P-Orridge and Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth, Anton LaVey’s Church of Satan, the Ordo Templi Orientis, and a branch of the American Golden Dawn.
Interwoven with his occult experiences and meetings with infamous practitioners of magic, Abrahamsson describes his evolution as a multi-disciplinary artist, detailing his pursuits in writing, making music, and working as a photographer and filmmaker, always imbuing his diverse artistic practice with a developing occult philosophy. He also details his ongoing efforts to disseminate the occult arts via publishing companies like Psychick Release, Looking Glass Press, Edda Publishing, Trapart Books, and the occultural journal The Fenris Wolf—as well as fieldwork in Tibet, Nepal, and India through The Institute of Comparative Magico-anthropology.
Through each encounter and reflection on the magical, shamanic, and mystical practices that have structured his own life, Abrahamsson richly illuminates how it’s possible to experience a rich, wise, and abundant life of wisdom and miracles.
#fraterud #innertraditions #occulture #carlabrahamsson
January 23, 2024
Vanessa’s debut novel!
Wow… Things Happen by Vanessa Sinclair is released today!
https://www.bygge.trapart.net/?s=Things+Happen
Coming of age in 1990s Florida… Sex & drugs & dark music… Goth & Fetish Clubs… Abandoned Cocaine Gangster Hotels… Love & Violence… Friendships that last for life & beyond… A psychedelic underground in pastel-colored Miami… Ivy and her girlfriends roll with the crazy Florida waves and vibes and weirdos as they learn the ropes of reality (so-called)… And things happen. They really do.
THINGS HAPPEN is American artist & psychoanalyst Vanessa Sinclair’s debut novel: a prism of stories, fragments, and memories chronicling a young woman’s experiences of growing up in the anarchic high weirdness of Florida. It’s a time and space of awakenings in which sunshine, rainstorms and full-on hurricanes create the ambience of wide-eyed realizations that everything might not always be exactly as it seems.
”Vanessa Sinclair is a female William Burroughs for the age of desperation.” – Val Denham
Trapart Books, 2024. 176 pages, 6 x 9”. Available in paperback, hardback, and e-book editions.
This book is also available from Amazon:
#trapartbooks #vanessasinclair
