In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god.

Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don’t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations in psychological terminology when it implies finding meaning or pattern where none exists; and some positive ones when it implies finding something important, useful or beautiful. It thus links creativity and psychosis, genius and madness.

If someone claims to have free will, ask them, free from precisely what?

Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.

It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.

In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects.

In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.