Footnotes

*1. The Real Magic series that ran from 2015 to 2016. This specific lecture was followed by a conversation with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.

*2. For instance, see Gordon Kennedy’s highly recommended Children of the Sun: A Pictorial Anthology from Germany to California 1883–1949.

*3. For instance those by Sutin, Booth, Churton, Kaczynski, Lachman, Symonds, et al.

*4. This project was made possible through a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, and the archive including all recordings is now housed in the U.S. Library of Congress. In 2016, the recordings were released in a CD box with an accompanying booklet by Dust to Digital.

*5. For more on Aleister Crowley and Lord Alfred Douglas, please see Nina Antonia’s “Bosie and the Beast,” in Carl Abrahamsson, ed., The Fenris Wolf, no. 8 (Stockholm: Trapart Books, 2016).

*6. For more on my interpretation of the Babalon concept and formula, please see “Babalon” in The Fenris Wolf, no. 6 (Stockholm: Edda Publishing, 2013).

*7. An exhibition of occult-themed artworks called “Language of the Birds” was on display at the 80WSE Gallery parallel to the conference, which was held at New York University from February 5–7, 2016.