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An intimate exploration of the life, philosophy, and lasting occult influence of Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan
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Explores the role of magic and the occult in art and culture from ancient times to today.
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Sharing 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.
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Sacred Intent gathers conversations between artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950-2020) and longtime friend and collaborator, the Swedish author Carl Abrahamsson. From the first 1986 fanzine interview about current projects, over philosophical insights, magical workings, internat...ional travels, art theory and gender revolutions, to 2019's thoughts on life and death in the the shadow of battling leukaemia, Sacred Intent is a unique journey in which the art of conversation blooms. With (in)famous projects like C.O.U.M. Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth (TOPY) and Pandrogeny, Breyer P-Orridge has consistently thwarted preconceived ideas and transformed disciplines such as performance art, music, collage, poetry and social criticism; always cutting up the building blocks to dismantle control structures and authority. But underneath the socially conscious and pathologically rebellious spirit, there has always been a devout respect for a holistic, spiritual, magical worldview - one of sacred intent. Sacred Intent is a must read for anyone interested in contemporary art, deconstructed identity, gender evolution, and magical philosophy. The book not only celebrates an intimate friendship, but also the work and ideas of an artist who never ceased to amaze and provoke. Also included are photographic portraits of Breyer P-Orridge taken by Carl Abrahamsson, transcripts of key lectures, and an interview with partner Jacqueline Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge from 2004. This expanded edition also contains material written by Abrahamsson after Breyer P-Orridge's death in March, 2020.
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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, an...d 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?
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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, Pet...er Sjoestedt-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 Voelkish 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!
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Different People is an anthology of interviews by Swedish author Carl Abrahamsson, focusing on art, life and the creative process. Included are in-depth conversations with Conrad Rooks, Malcolm McLaren, Stelarc, John Duncan, Charles Gatewood, Mark McCloud, Ralph Metzner, Peter Be...ard, Bill Landis, Ralph Gibson, Maja Elliott, Michael Bowen, Bob Colacello, Dian Hanson, Anton Corbijn, June Newton, Kendell Geers, Simeon Coxe III (Silver Apples), Vicki Bennett (People Like Us), and Brian Williams (Lustmord). These groundbreaking artists, writers, musicians, photographers, filmmakers, editors and psychedelic researchers have all helped shape the culture we live in. But what makes them do what they do? Which are their driving forces and their inspirations; their joys and fears?Trapart Books, 2021, 6 x 9 paperback, illustrated with photographic portraits, 292 pages.
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Outsider Inpatient is an anthology of perspectives about the value of art and creativity within psychiatric environments. It specifically shines the light on experiences at Lillhagen Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, where inpatients were allowed to paint and decorate the entire wa...lls of long corridors in the basements of the hospital. Also included are valuable thoughts about creativity in general from clinicians, art historians, psychoanalysts, and artists. What constitutes outsider art? How can creativity be used in the treatment of (in)patients? Why do certain artists create the way they do, and how does it affect them? Outsider Inpatient is an informative study about a topic that has created as much controversy and criticism as it has support and adherents, in environments as diverse as clinical psychiatry and psychology, art theory, social sciences, psychoanalysis and philosophy. This book has been produced in cooperation with the Center for Critical Heritage Studies and the University of Gothenburg, and contains texts by Elisabeth Punzi, Per Magnus Johansson, Johannes Nordholm, Inez Edstroem, Christian Munthe, Carl Abrahamsson, Vanessa Sinclair, and Val Denham.Trapart Books 2021, 6 x 9 paperback, 100 pages, illustrated.
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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, 6x9 paperback, 330 pages
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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, Nina Antonia, Gary Lachman, E...rik Davis, Vanessa Sinclair, Carl Abrahamsson, Charles Stansfeld Jones (Frater Achad), Kendell Geers, Jason Louv, Timothy O'Neill, Derek Seagrief, Alexander Nym, Stephen Sennitt, Henrik Dahl, Kasper Opstrup, Antti Balk, Aki Cederberg, Michael Moynihan, Friedrich Hielscher, Orryelle Defenestrate Bascule, Zbigniew Lagosz, Bishop T Omphalos, Johan Nilsson, Gordan Djurdjevic, Carey Hodges, Chad Hensley, Zaheer Gulamhusein, Ingo Lambrecht, Hagen von Tulien, N, Kadmus, Stojan Nikolic, Miguel Marques and Renata Wieczorek on topics as diverse as polymorphous perversity and pandrogeny, Alchemy, Lord Alfred Douglas & Aleister Crowley, Indian erotic art, Polish magicians, rejected knowledge, Intuition, the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, Crowley & Daoism, H.P Lovecraft, Robert Anton Wilson, August Derleth, Greek mysteries, psychedelic art, New Orleans Voodoo, Kabbalah in contemporary culture, Ritual & Analytical spaces, religious Scientism, death/exit horoscopes, new poetry and much more... A smorgasbord of occulture & delightenment! Trapart Books 2021. 6 x 9 paperback, 334 pages. Cover painting by Andreas Kalliaridis.
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