POT TV – Burning Shiva explores drugs, magick and the philosophy of Aleister Crowley with Dr Richard Kaczynski.
Host Chris Bennett talks to Dr. Richard Kaczynski, author of Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley; Panic in Detroit: The Magician and the Motor City; and Forgotten Templars: The Untold Origins of Ordo Temple Orientis, about the role of drugs in Aleister Crowley’s magick and philosophy of Thelema.
Special thanks to Troy at www.scholomance.ca for setting up the interview.
Show notes:
Books by Richard Kaczynski
Aleister Crowley – The Psychology of Hashish, First published in The Equinox, Volume I, Number 2, September 1909
Aleister Crowley, Francois Rabelais and the Herb of Thelema
Hashish, Richard Wagner’s Prose, and the Ordo Templi Orientis
The Cactus and the Beast: Investigating the role of peyote (mescaline) in the Magick of Aleister Crowley by Patrick Everitt
Peyote and Aleister Crowley – Patrick Everitt
Timothy Leary e Aleister Crowley