by Jack Barrow | Jun 1, 2015 | Fiction, Magic, Magick, Occult, Publishing, reviews, Writing
Back in 2004 I remember seeing Susanna Clarke on TV promoting her book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, a book about two magicians in England at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. I recall that the book was inevitably labelled as Harry Potter for grown-ups, which was...
by Jack Barrow | Apr 30, 2014 | General Blog, Magick, Psychology, Thoughts and Observations
Aleister Crowley, the infamous Victorian occultist and all round bad boy, once beloved of the Beatles, believed that everybody had potential to develop to their ultimate fulfillment. Later, in the Sixties as The Beatles were putting Uncle Aleister on the cover of Sgt...
by Jack Barrow | Jan 8, 2014 | General Silliness, Magic, Magick, Pop Philosophy
This is something I wrote when I was recently asked to contribute to the Huffington Post Weird News, but apparently it was too weird for them; then again it’s not really news. It’s just a bit of nonsense really. According to physics we might be living in a...
by Jack Barrow | Feb 7, 2013 | eBooks, Fiction, Magick, Pagan, Publishing, Social Media, Writing
About two or three years ago I decided I wanted to create a viral video to promote The Hidden Masters and the Unspeakable Evil. The original plan was to take a scene from the story and make a short film. Ideally the scene selected should show something of the nature...
by Jack Barrow | Dec 27, 2012 | Magic, Magick, Occult, Paganism
A few years ago I went to a magical conference having heard about this fantastic event populated by proper magicians in a spectacular location. I say proper magicians because I’m drawing the difference between magicians and the sort of people you get at many...
by Jack Barrow | Dec 24, 2012 | eBooks, Magick, Pagan, Publishing, Social Media
Here’s the album with the frames for the video And here’s the final...
