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General Semantics and the Chicken Suit Murders - The hypnotic realities of Dr Ronald Dante and Dr Michael Dean

by John-Ivan Palmer

[ march 05 ]

“When I asked the fugitive hypnotist about the time he tried to kill Michael Dean, he said, echoing the title of Lana Turner’s book, ‘there’s his truth, my truth, the real truth, and the mythological truth.’”

Hostile break-up, sinister reunion: Mesmerism & the Boob

by John-Ivan Palmer

[ march 04 ]

"The first recorded Code of broadcast standards was created by King Louis XVI. What happens, the Commissioners asked, to "sensitive women" who go into a screaming mesmeric convulsion which terminates in 'the sweetest emotion'?"

The Rites of Roerich

by Mike Jay

[ march 04 ]

"A holiday. Let it be the one with which the victory of the springtime sun was always celebrated. When swift dances were danced, when all wished to please. The people rejoyced. Among them, art was born..."

Squidgygate revisited

by Garrick Alder

[ february 04 ]

The Princess of Wales may be dead and buried, but the controversy about her life and death certainly is not.

The magical world of Fernando Pessoa

by Gary Lachman

[ january 04 ]

"It offends my intelligence that a man can master the Devil without being able to master the Portuguese language." Life wasn't easy for the angst-ridden poet and occultist...

The Air Loom Gang: James Tilly Matthews and his visionary madness

by Mike Jay

[ july 03 ]

"For everyone who has since had messages beamed at them through fillings, mysterious implants or TV sets, or via hi-tech surveillance, MI5, Masonic lodges or UFOs, James Tilly Matthews is Patient Zero."