Magister Carl Abrahamsson’s “Occulture: The Unseen Forces That Drive Culture Forward” Pre-Order Available Explores the role of magic and the occult in art and culture from ancient times to today • Examines key figures behind esoteric cultural developments, such as Carl Jung, Anton LaVey, Paul Bowles, Aleister Crowley, and Rudolf Steiner • Explores the history of magic as a source of genuine counter culture and compares it with our contemporary soulless, digital monoculture • Reveals how the magic of art can be restored if art is employed as a means rather than an end and offers strategies to rekindle intuitive […]
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California Infernal: Free Shipping Worldwide July 15 to August 15 Movie star Jayne Mansfield and notorious Satanist Anton LaVey met in 1966. Both were publicity conscious and made the most of the meetings, which evolved into friendship. Almost always present was German paparazzo Walter Fischer, stationed in Hollywood and catering to image- and scandal-hungry photo magazines all over the world.Fischer’s unique collection of photos takes us straight into the ritual chamber of the Church of Satan in LaVey’s infamous “black house” in San Francisco, as well as into Mansfield’s Hollywood “pink palace”. We also get to follow LaVey on excursions […]
California Infernal is Back! 15% Discount at TRAPART Books Movie star Jayne Mansfield and notorious Satanist Anton LaVey met in 1966. Both were publicity conscious and made the most of the meetings, which evolved into friendship. Almost always present was German paparazzo Walter Fischer, stationed in Hollywood and catering to image- and scandal-hungry photo magazines all over the world. Fischer’s unique collection of photos takes us straight into the ritual chamber of the Church of Satan in LaVey’s infamous “black house” in San Francisco, as well as into Mansfield’s Hollywood “pink palace”. We also get to follow LaVey on excursions […]
Magister Carl Abrahamsson Talks Anton LaVey in Rue Morgue Magazine I was recently interviewed by Sean Plummer for the Canadian horror film magazine Rue Morgue. Sections of that interview was used for Plummer’s piece on Anton LaVey and his legacy, and the issue in question can be acquired HERE! To read the interview in its entirety, please read on. CARL ABRAHAMSSON / RUE MORGUE What does the word ”Satan” mean to you now? And how has that word’s significance evolved for you over the years? From having been a term that I used ”mechanically”, i.e. via someone else’s definition, I […]
CUT TO FIT THE MOUTH Cut to fit the mouth is the debut album by Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson, released on cassette by the American label Arcana Machine. Vanessa Sinclair’s cut-ups and poetry are read by Sinclair and Abrahamsson, and set to music by Abrahamsson. Psychedelic fragments and intriguing memory mosaics are woven into ambient scapes and sensual sound collages, creating an overall impression of a psycho-sexual journey far beyond consensus reality and its mechanical anticipations. Cut to fit the mouth is a slice of life seasoned with anxiety, confusion, determination, delight and, eventually, complete satisfaction. C-60 Cassette. Arcana […]
THE FENRIS WOLF 9 This volume contains material from the conference Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult (London, 2016). Trapart Books 2017, 248 pages, 148 x 210 mm, perfect bound. Contents: Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson Editors’ Introduction: Looking back at the crossroads Katelan Foisy Invocation: Homage to the spirits of the land/London Sharron Kraus: Art as Alchemy Demetrius Lacroix: The Seven Layers of the Vodou Soul Graham Duff Sublime Fragments: The Art of John Balance Ken Henson: The American Occult Revival In My Work Gary Lachman: Was Freud Afraid of the Occult? Peter Grey: Fly the Light Val Denham: Proclaim […]
Now Available from Carl Abrahamsson – Tom Benson:Visionary Tom Benson (1935-1999), Sweden’s surrealist master, created a multitude of phantasmagoric images based on fictive characters and dream-like landscapes. Using his powerful photographs in mind-altering collages, he opened up and displayed inner vistas saturated with mystery, adventure and eroticism. Benson’s rich visions mercilessly catapult the viewer into unchartered psychic and emotional territories filled with intelligence, humorous twists and turns, sexual fantasies, eerie people and spooky environments – all elegantly woven together in a turbulent tapestry celebrating the human imagination. Tom Benson: Visionary contains 80 of his strongest images, and also includes an introduction by […]
9 Questions, 9 Satanic Answers – Magister Carl Abrahamsson Conducted & Translated by Der Rabe Hello Carl. Thank you for taking the time to give an interview to Der Rabe. As a starter, how would you explain Satanism to someone who comes again and again with the same old arguments like child molestation, animal sacrifice, and church burnings, to name but a few? It is after all difficult to make it clear to these bigoted humans and also to the media that this is bollocks. I think the main thing to do is point to the web site of the Church of […]
CALIFORNIA INFERNAL – NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER FROM TRAPART & UNDERWORLD AMUSEMENTS Magister Carl Abrahamsson is proud to announce the debut of CALIFORNIA INFERNAL, a stunning collection of photos capturing a magical time in Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan’s history. Introduction by Kenneth Anger, and forewords by Carl Abrahamsson and collector Alf Wahlgren. Movie star Jayne Mansfield and notorious Satanist Anton LaVey met in 1966. Both were publicity conscious and made the most of the meetings, which evolved into friendship. Almost always present was German paparazzo Walter Fischer, stationed in Hollywood and catering to image- and scandal-hungry photo […]