Carl Abrahamsson's Blog, page 33
December 6, 2020
What community means to us
Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson: “What Community means to us”
We are involved in many different forms of creation and expression, and we are both distinct networkers. This has led to many questions in regard to which is the best “platform” to present all our products, news and events.
We try to diligently cover the social media sphere (and we possibly spend far too much time in it!). This we do because we love to be in touch with other people who appreciate who we are and what we do.
Since we opened our Patreon gates in early 2018, we have written some 1500 posts about our work and experiences in many fields: art, literature, occulture, podcasting, psychoanalysis, movies, conferences, travel, and much more.
The engagement and support from our patrons has been of immense importance for us in our work. Not only is it a show of love and respect. It is also a source of inspiration and important immediate feedback. Seen from this perspective, the financial side of the support becomes almost secondary.
For us, this community means primarily engagement, encouragement, inspiration, knowledge, fun, communication, transcendental creativity, miraculous magic, and a whole lot of love.
Quite simply: our community allows us to do more, and on so many more levels. Our patrons are not only friends. They are active participants in the creation of the Rendering Unconscious podcast, 23rd Mind TV, Radio Mega Golem, the Highbrow Lowlife music label, Trapart Books, Films & Editions, our individual and joint creative projects in writing, collage-, music- and filmmaking, conferences, cut-ups, photographs, etc. Yes, that is indeed a lot. So… Thank You!
By joining our community, you’ll get all of our massive backlog, plus news on all our creations and processes. From product updates, to private photos and experiences, to magical insights from our individual and joint practices, musical pieces, unpublished writings, and a hell of a lot more. Dive right in!
And… We also encourage communication within our community. There can never be enough inspiration. So, don’t be a stranger. Come join our community, and let us know what you think!
LOVE Vanessa & Carl
November 25, 2020
The Fenris Wolf 5 is back!
The Fenris Wolf 5: This popular occultural classic is now available again.
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, the fifth, contains material by Jason Louv, Patrick Lundborg, Gary Lachman, Timothy O’Neill, Dianus del Bosco Sacro, David Griffin, Philip Farber, Aki Cederberg, Renata Wieczorek, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Ezra Pound, Gary Dickinson, Robert Podgurski, Stephen Ellis, Mel Lyman, Hiram Corso, Frater Nagasiva, Peter Grey, Vera Mladenovska Nikolich, Kevin Slaughter, Lionel Snell, Phanes Apollonius, Lana Krieg and Carl Abrahamsson, on topics as diverse as the psychedelic William Shakespeare, secret societies, Rosicrucians, Illuminati, neurological interpretations of magic, the esoteric gardens of Quinta da Regaleira in Portugal, Italian witchcraft, Pierre Molinier, Derek Jarman, the I Ching, Geomancy, the logic of evil and vice versa, Remy de Gourmont, Aleister Crowley, Liber AL vel Legis, Macedonian vampires, Satanism, Goethe’s Faust, and the creation of a “mega Golem” within the context of developing a contemporary yet timeless terminology of magic.
Trapart Books 2020, 6×9″ paperback, 330 pages
Get your copy HERE.
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November 21, 2020
“Mors certa, hora incerta”
My dear, dear friend Michael Matton just moved on to other realms of consciousness/existence. It is with deep sadness that I write this, but at least this means the end of a long and troublesome period of hardship and illness for him.
We first met in 1986. We both worked at a printshop in Stockholm, and Matton was so incredibly helpful in my manic fanzine work at the time: feed-backing, printing, copying, driving boxes of paper back and forth. It developed into a friendship that took us through TOPYSCAN, The Fenris Wolf, Psychick Release, Cinematick and many other projects, too.
Between 1994 and 1998, Matton and I ran Looking Glass Press (together with Jens Näsström), which took our occult publishing to a whole new level (including publishing Crowley and LaVey in Swedish, plus an assortment of books in English). We also branched out into part-ownership of American publishing company Spirit Vision/93 Publishing, temporarily owning the literary copyrights of Jack Parsons.
Matton was instrumental in the work of “building” TOPY in Scandinavia, as well as the O.T.O. in Sweden. Without his loyal friendship and dedicated hard work, it would have been a very different story. Matton was completely integrated in all these processes of planning, construction, development and execution, working tirelessly and unselfishly to make great and interesting things happen.
Anyone who had the good fortune to be in Matton’s sardonically mercurial company quickly realised what a good-natured being he was; always freely sharing his experiences (and opinions!) and displaying a genuine sense of curiosity.
His massive appetite for great movies and books became part of my own formative fodder attitude, and I can only hope it was mutual. A genuine appreciation of macabre and cosmic horror fiction à la Lovecraft was always present in Matton’s mind, as well as a psychedelic sensibility and sense of humour in dealing with the bizarre absurdities of the norm-core world. As all friends do, we shared a language of silent understanding, in which details from our own particular occultures bloomed into dark flowers of wisdom and resonance.
Now this resonance moves on into the dreamworld of weird cosmic beings and sensual sentiences, swirling like multi-coloured hookah-smoke in the dark forests of primeval witchcraft. In the sacred grove, a newly arrived wizard dances ecstatically with the alluring witches of eternity. Home, at last.
Carl Abrahamsson, Stockholm, November 21st, 2020
November 15, 2020
A Fenris Wolf podcast-lecture
I’ve added a podcast/lecture to the Fenris Wolf Newsletter / site: “Lux Per Nox – The Fenris Wolf As Libidinal Liberator”. Prime Occulture for everyone! Don’t forget to sign up so you don’t miss all the future fun. Thank You!
November 13, 2020
Bulwer Lytton’s VRIL is back!
“VRIL,” Edward Bulwer Lytton’s sci-fi classic is now finally back in print via Trapart!
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton’s cautionary tale of occult super-powers and advanced subterranean cultures have fascinated readers since 1871. Part early science-fiction, part educational tract, part occult romance, Vril keeps spellbinding readers thanks to its wide range of themes and emotions, as well as its thrilling sense of adventure.
A curious man descends into a mountain through a mine and experiences far more than he bargained for. Deep inside the mountain lies a completely different world. Its inhabitants, the Vril-ya, are human-like but physically superior and philosophically more advanced. They live in harmony made possible by their wisdom but also by the powerful and potentially destructive magical energy they call “Vril.”
The impressed yet terrified visitor is allowed to stay and learn more about their ancient and advanced culture, something very few visitors have – it seems that all the previous adventurers have been mercilessly disposed of by the Vril-ya…
This edition includes an introductory essay by Swedish author Carl Abrahamsson.
Trapart Books, 2020. 6×9” paperback, 122 pages.
November 12, 2020
I’m on “Rendering Unconscious”
I’m now on Vanessa’s “Rendering Unconscious” podcast, talking about Carl Jung:
Please support the podcast and our other endeavours!
November 9, 2020
The Fenris Wolf newsletter
“It’s an institution of absolute freedom, a voice of contemplative silence, a roar of the subtle, a “colorful grey area,” an umbrella in a rainstorm of dogmatic manipulations, a repository of wise gems of all ages (including the future), etc, etc.”
The Fenris Wolf now has its own newsletter. News, updates and frequent material of relevance and interest. Come join!
The Fenris Wolf 1-3 is back!
Well, well… The future belongs to the past, it seems! The Fenris Wolf 1-3 has now been republished. A bag of occultural sweets like no other!
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, 6×9″ paperback, 322 pages.
November 6, 2020
The Fenris Wolf 10: bundle of joy
Not only have I been diligently reading the latest issue of The Fenris Wolf recently. I have also been blessed by so many nice reviews and words about it from others. It’s a massive issue, jam-packed with many different thoughts and mind-frames, presences and pasts. Happy to hear the book is finding its readers.
Of course, you can’t expect to swallow it whole! Pick pieces here and there, and be dazzled by expressions of everything from contemporary urgency to timeless poetry – all basking in the pleasant shadow-light emanating from the Fenris Wolf.
Need specifics? Here goes:
This jubilee volume 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!”
Trapart Books 2020. Cover art by Val Denham. 6 x 9” paperback. 422 pages.
You can get your own copy of the most recent issue right HERE!
November 2, 2020
Reading brings a lovely feeling
I just received author copies of my new novel, The Devil’s Footprint. Call me narcissistic, but I just couldn’t resist sitting down and flipping through it. The swashbuckling story and funny narrative grabbed hold of me immediately. It was such a rainy, drizzly day anyway, so why the hell not spend it wisely and read my own book?
I am very happy with this novel. Not only because it’s a brand new release, but because this one is so particularly timely and satirically prescient/present. Over-population, political corruption and environmental havoc are absolute realities, and this book deals with them all, and then some.
The Devil has always been the agent of opposition against inertia, regardless which culture we focus on. The spirit of opposition and provocation is one of the most important there is… Especially in times like this!
I know you will enjoy this book a lot, and thank you in advance for doing so.
Here’s the backside blurb:
“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?”
What can I add to this but the beautiful word… “Enjoy!”
