A portable camera obscura as first proposed by mathematician Friedrich Risner, 16th c.

Hockney’s biggest influence on me was surely his Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters. Once you know the signature of these tools, their introduction and spread is easily observed in any museum of historic European painting. RIP to a maestro.

Fantastic thread on the academic study of “cults” in the post-1970s era.

Luigi Pericle, Yellow Book (Periousia I)

If you know about but have never visited Theosophy Hall in DTLA, this is an excellent opportunity.

The success of the creative arts over the past 100 years has proved its ability to bring about total moral and civilisational change.

Everyone knows about George Van Tassel’s Integratron. Almost nobody knows about Walter Bartoo and his giant wooden pyramid that he built in North Carolina- he believed he was continuing the same extraterrestrial technology. According to those involved, the pyramid wasn’t just an experiment - it was designed to communicate with ETs through resonance, energy fields, and principles they claimed originated from non-human intelligence. A forgotten story involving UFO contactees, strange technology, and one of the most bizarre chapters in the history of the UFO movement. Have you ever heard of it?

Remedios Varo Still Life Being Resuscitated, 1963 Varo’s final painting before she passed from a heart attack at 50.

Shambhalah, An Inner Waking Dream Vision Melchior Lechter, 1925.

Richard Pousette-Dart, Golden Center. 1964. Oil on linen.

Watching Fritz Lang’s Woman in the Moon (1929) for the first time.

Only that which is constant perceives change; only the permanent can perceive impermanence. However dimly we may perceive it, there is that in us which is eternal and changeless. Robert Crosbie, “What Reincarnates?” 1910

It’s a miracle that we’re alive and that anything at all exists for us to experience.

The World Waite-Trinick Tarot, 1923

In the future awaits a fundamental redefinition of Modernism and the entire through-line of the 20th century . You cannot re-enchant what is already enchanted.

Judgement Waite-Trinick Tarot, 1923

Rudhyar’s The Galactic Dimension of Astrology: The Sun is Also a Star is a trail map towards “galactic consciousness.” A stand-out expression of 1975-era, new age esotericism. Appears to have never been digitized?

The Hermit Waite-Trinick Tarot, 1923

There is no Modernism without the New Age.

The zodiac is an artifact of viewpoint just like the retrograde motion of planets. Retrograde is an illusion of geocentrism; the fixed stars are an illusion of heliocentrism.