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Phil Hine
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Occult Author, Researcher, Publisher, Lecturer.
https://enfolding.org/
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Phil Hine @philh.bsky.social · Feb 6
Out now, "Delinquent Elementals" edited by myself and @rodneyorpheus.bsky.social available from @strangeattractor.bsky.social
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book cover: "Delinquent Elementals" edited by Phil Hine & Rodney Orpheus. Hardback with dustjacket showing two men and a woman sitting in a magical circle with a computer surrounded by a variety of demonic figures, plus political figures from the 1980s.
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Current reading. Arun Saldanha. "Psychedelic White: Goa Trance and the Viscosity of Race" (Univ Minnesota Press, 2007).
Book cover: Arun Saldanha "Psychedelic White: Goa Trance and the Viscosity of Race". Pink/Mauve backgrouns with whitish outlined figures dancing. Text written vertically.
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
People talk about us Children of The Hum as 'weirdo hippies, 'ragged walkers' blindly following something they couldn't hear, couldn't understand. They never understood that we lived in a landscape of wonder. They saw pylons, we saw sublime structures. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person #VOH
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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New for the reading pile. Melissa Seims' new book "Light in Extension: A History of Bradford's 1888 Golden Dawn Temple Horus No.5"
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cover of Melissa Seims' new book "Light in Extension: A History of Bradford's 1888 Golden Dawn Temple Horus No.5" Collage of Temple, photos, enochian tablets and a painting of the god Thoth.
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Some notes on the goddess Durgā: her battle with the demon Mahiṣa, a Durgā meditation, and the nine Navadurgās. (image source: Wikipedia).
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The Indian goddess Durgā, wearing a red sari and tiara, bearing her weapons in her eight arms, and sitting astride a lion. Mountain and trees in the background, the buffalo demon Mahiṣa lying at her feet.
November 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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larkfall.bsky.social
A date for your diaries! Leeds' underground goth club returns! Sets running the gamut from OG post-punk to industrial techno, with special set from SOBORGNOST!!! (- recently seen supporting Cabaret Voltaire). I'lll put up a ticket link in the next few days! Art by @mariastrutz.bsky.social !
November 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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A fox jumping over a tomb, jumping over the moon.
If you are lucky enough to witness such an event, you may choose to whisper important news to the fox:
the passing of a loved one, the birth of a child, the fall of tyrants.
The news will be passed on to the clan
#FullMoon #FoxMoon #SuperMoon🦊🐾🌕
This image captures a glimpse of a Fox jumping over a full moon above a Neolithic tomb, three standing stones holding up a slab. There are foxgloves in the foreground, stars whirling around a full moon. Linocut, dark blue and white, Maria Strutz
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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birdwhisperers.bsky.social
Calling all bird loving artists! This month's bird is the Spotted Owlet. 🤎 Draw! Paint! Sculpt! We hope you'll join us. Posting day is Nov 26th.

Rules and Full Size Ref. Photo here: birdwhispererproject.com/participate/

#birds #BirdWhisperer #art #owl
The spotted owlet (Athene brama) is a small owl which breeds in tropical Asia from North Pakistan to Southeast Asia. The upperparts are grey-brown, heavily spotted with white. The underparts are white, streaked with brown. The facial disc is pale and the iris is yellow. There is a white neckband and supercilium. Sexes are similar. (from Wikipedia) Our reference photo has the owl perched in a tree, where two branches diverge. Body is in side profile, breast facing our left, and their head is turned to face us. In the background are more large tree limbs
November 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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The episode in question: zencastr.com/z/e6-2aUqk
Chaos Magic and the Tongue of Angels: Discovering Leeds' Occult History by @ Swailes
Welcome to The Bell Witch Podcast- “Witching in the 21stCentury” This episode is dedicated to my Mum-Alison Claire Swailes. Episode 59 welcomes Moot Loot guest Doctor Phil, a senior lecturer at Leed...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
philh.bsky.social
Video lecture "ripartite Lineages and Cremation Ground Revelations: Crossovers Between Early rDzogs chen and Kaula Śaivism".
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Tripartite Lineages and Cremation Ground Revelations: Crossovers Between Early rDzogs chen and Kaula Śaivism | University of Oxford Podcasts - Audio and Video Lectures
Paul Thomas presents evidence that Indian Tantric Śaivism exerted a direct influence on Tibetan Dzogchen in the 11th and 12th centuries.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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darklecat.bsky.social
Fancy delving into some earth mystery based magazines from the last 40 years? Take a look at these suggestions: stonefolklore.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/p... #EarthMysteries #Zines #NeoAntiquarian
Published Pages: Earth Mysteries, Zines, & More (Part 2)
In a previous post I looked at some current ‘earth mysteries’ magazines, one brand new and two that had been going strong for decades. In this post I will take a look at some of the reg…
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November 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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mariastrutz.bsky.social
Here is a latter-day Child of the Hum @philh.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Fox curled around the skull of a young fox 🖤
Black tea, beetroot ink and blackberry ink
#FoxFriday 🦊 #Samhain 🌀
Closeup of a fox looking out at the viewer. In front of her on the right of her muzzle a small skull looking up towards her. On the right hand side a heart shaped fossilized sea urchin, Micraster. Above and to the right hand side brambles and blackberries. Linedrawing, black tea, blackberry ink, beetroot ink. Shades of white, buff, brown and reddish purple. Maria Strutz
October 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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New blog post. A short introduction to the goddess Bagalāmukhī, one of the Mahāvidyās. She is particularly associated with binding the speech of enemies. (image source: wikipedia)
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nineteenth-century watercolour painting of the Tantric goddess Bagalāmukhī grasping the tongue of the demon Madan.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
philh.bsky.social
Nice essay on Yantras from Tarka Journal's Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/tarkajou...
On Yantra
Yantra is not a representation of a deity or principle, but is understood and experienced as the deity Itself.
open.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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New blog post. Some reflections on speech, language, and active listening in group discussions. From the archives of the London Tantra Discussion Group.
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Speaking from Experience « https://enfolding.org/
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October 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Nice piece on the etic/emic divide:
open.substack.com/pub/tarkajou...
What’s not Etic about an Emic Perspective?
By Tova Ollson
open.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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treadwells-books.bsky.social
Last night we had a party to celebrate Patricia MacCormack's latest: Death Activism. Ideas, conversation, drinks, books. When Continental philosophy and thoughtful occulture are at their best, they're luminous. @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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mariastrutz.bsky.social
For the storytelling competition the fox wanted something special, and went to Bespoke Beasties;
So for one day and one night he turned into a fox of many tails/tales, became a flying fox, and donned an antler crown.
Dear Reader, he won the competition! 🦊🌀🌒
#Guild11Mysterium
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a seated fox facing the viewer with outstretched tawny owl wings, a deer's antlers on the fox's head and several fox tailes waving and undulating behind him in the night sky dotted with stars. A labyrinthine shape around and in front of the fox. Line drawing, black and white and water colours, shades of brown and dark blue. Maria Strutz
October 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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mariastrutz.bsky.social
First prompt for Guild Eleven Mysterium
Mine has morphed into 'Precious Pumpkin-lings'; a fox having collected a hoard of delicious little pumpkins for winter 🦊🌖🍂
#Guild11Mysterium
a sitting fox facing the viewer surrounded by pumpkins, pumpkins hanging on vines above the fox. In the nightly sky an orange full moon. line drawing and water colours, Maria Strutz
October 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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alephblackram.bsky.social
Also just how some of the Shinto kami look like almost Lovecraftian monsters but are indeed gods, manifestations of the mysterious power and presence of the divine (linked to Brahman) and operating along the lines of some incomprehensible will or destiny. See Onamuchi above but also Take-Minakata.
Take-Minakata in the Ankoku Shinwa manga
October 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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21rosa.bsky.social
"Light as the moon’s path over the sea
the run of the hare over the land"

Anna Crowe from 'A Calendar of Hares'
🎨 'Running of the Hare' Robert Gillmor

#BookWormSat
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The poem is featured in 'A Secret History of Rhubarb' (Glasgow: Mariscat, 2004) Of her poem, Crowe writes: "I have tried always to keep faith with the creature itself, bearing in mind its behaviour in the wild as well as the mythic, magical values it has acquired in human consciousness over the millennia" 🎨 Linocut showing both stages of 'the run of the hare'. Brown hare on a grassy background. (1936–2022). Gillmor produced many natural history illustrations, among his other artistic works, over a long and successful career
October 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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skionar.bsky.social
Health allowing, I am planning an M. R. James post from 1st December every evening to Christmas Eve. This will include items and artefacts from my own collection, some of them extremely rare #Book #ghosts #DeadDecember 👻📚
October 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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New blog post - from the London Tantra Group wiki project.
The Gaṇeśa Upaniṣad, translated by the late Mike Magee, with explanatory footnotes by me. Gaṇeśa painting by @mariastrutz.bsky.social
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Painting of the elephant-headed Indian god Gaṇeśa by Maria Strutz.
October 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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SIgn up now for our forthcoming campaign to publish the lost books of Victor Neuburg!

tinyurl.com/vinepress
Coming soon: Lost occult books of the 1920s: relaunching Vine Press
Publishing never-before-seen books by legendary British occultist Victor Neuburg and officially relaunching his 1920s Vine Press.
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September 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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New blog post: How the Hindu goddess Santoshi Ma achieved fame through a 1975 film, "Jai Santoshi Ma".
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Colour postcard of the Hindu Goddess Santoshi Ma.
September 17, 2025 at 6:02 AM