Month: April 2021
The mysterious ruins of Malden Island, in the Pacific Ocean
The remote islands of the Pacific are often characterized by megalithic idols and elevated structures (the characteristic "Marae"), once used during sacred rites. Malden Island is no exception, also presenting, among the various sites of archaeological interest, huge streets paved in basaltic stone that nowadays disappear among the ocean waves: an apparently inexplicable discovery that has suggested to researchers the hypothesis of existence, in the past remote, of a lost continent.
βThe cyclical cosmos and the myth of the eternal returnβ, on Stroncature
Monday 26 April from 18:30 pm Stroncature hosts the presentation of two volumes: the first, βAbraxas: the magic of the drumβ (Mimesis) by Paolo Riberi and Igor Caputo; the second, βCarcosa unveiledβ by Marco Maculotti (Mimesis). The authors dialogue on the two texts. Moderated by Nunziante Mastrolia.
Waiting for John Frum. Vanuatu's βCargo Cultβ
Villagers in the South Pacific adore a mysterious American they call John Frum, and believe he will one day flood their remote island with riches..
PDF / SLIDES: "Alien Folklore"
As promised during the convention on Sunday evening, we make available to our readers, as an attachment, the slides of our speech on "Alien folklore".
25 years of "Arcano Enchanter": conversation with Pupi Avati
Exactly 25 years ago, on April 19, 1996, "L'Arcano Incantatore" was released in Italian cinemas: a variation by Pupi Avati on the theme of a genre he himself conceived and codified - the "Po Valley Gothic". For the occasion we went to interview the director and we retraced the "making of" of the film and the final result.
Video: "Alien Folklore"
Online on the Youtube channel the video of our speech a βBEYOND: Ufology & Esotericism. National Conference XNUMXst Edition ", aired last night on the channel of the Society of the Sulfur.
In the dark meanders of Carcosa
Il new essay by Marco Maculotti, published by Mimesis, allows you to cross the threshold of the lost city, to orient yourself among the symbols and references hidden behind the first season of βTrue Detectiveβ.
βBEYOND: Ufology & Esotericismβ. National Conference, XNUMXst Edition
Press release from the Sulfur Society for the Sunday event in which we will speak.
Some reflections on John Keel's "superspectrum" theory
In this article we will consider the superspectrum theory of John Keel, the founder together with Jacques VallΓ©e of the βnew ufologyβ. We will be concerned essentially with four questions: we will try to highlight the importance and significance of John Keel's personality and work in American ufology; we will present and comment on John Keel's theory of the superspectrum; we will highlight the similarities and differences between Keel's and VallΓ©e's theories; finally we will consider some of the possible applications of the superspectrum theory to phenomena belonging to the mystery dimension.
Video: Was HPL an "unconscious medium"? Two shorts on Lovecraft
Was HPL an "unconscious medium" of "alien" powers? On our Youtube channel we started uploading some short videos, which we appropriately edited, to shed light on the issue. In the first of the two we start from the dream experiences that he needed since childhood, while in the second we analyze the "revelational" elements dehis very personal * cosmic mythopoeia.
Sarban, the pilgrim from the heart of darkness
On April 11, 1989, 32 years ago, the English writer John William Wall, better known under the pseudonym of Sarban, one of the few traveling writers of our era, left us. Let's recap two works by him that Adelphi has published in Italian in recent years: the short story βZubrowka. A Christmas story βand the novelβ The call of the horn β.
The βOmega Pointβ: where Mircea Eliade and Teilhard de Chardin meet
On April 10, 1955, the French theologian, philosopher and paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin died. Its 'heretical' and eschatological conceptions they found a point of intersection in those of the Romanian historian of religions in the idea of ββthe Universal Christ, of cosmic religiosity and of the "Omega Point" in which history would have known its extinction.
The disturbing Japanese case of the "spirits of the tsunami"
In Japan, the survivors of the tsunami that claimed more than 2011 victims in 15.000 say they continually see the restless spirits of the victims, already dubbed "ghosts of the tsunami" by local folklore.
Cyberpunk is dead: long live Cyberpunk
When the commercial apex of a genre testifies to its spiritual death, it is necessary to trace its origins to give it new life.
Out now! Β«ARTHOSΒ» n.29 / 2020
Finally, with a little delay due to the health situation, the 2020 register of ARTHOS (n.29 of the new series, Arya Edizioni - OICL), magazine of Traditional Studies founded in 1972 and directed by prof. Renato Del Ponte, on which I begin with a contribution extremely dear to me. Obviously, for me it is an absolute honor to have been invited to collaborate in the annual edition of this magazine which is not very historical to define as historical, and it is doubly so by virtue of the theme of the essay that bears my signature, given that it is a subject to which I personally care a lot: THE WORSHIP OF FAIRY IN CELTIC COUNTRIES: AN ESCATOLOGY OF DEATH AND REBIRTH.
Presentation of Β«AXIS mundiΒ» at the General States of Psychedelia in Italy 2020
Our video intervention at the SGPI20, last December, gave us the opportunity to briefly present the anthropological and sacred perspective with which the "AXIS mundi" project was originally conceived and then carried out in recent years, as well as (given the right opportunity) to identify the sacral elements discernible in the psychedelic experience. Here you can exclusively read the full text that will be published in the Conference Proceedings.
