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Historian of religions and esotericism. Author, 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 (2024, Exeter University Press, co-author Francis Young). Forthcoming: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 (Equinox Publishing). Website: https://www.robindouglas.org
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"The Mysteries were, and are, to a large extent based on the workings of the irrational mind. They are as irrational as is a man's love for a particular woman, and his desire for complete and ecstatic union with her." - Colonel Charles Seymour

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What if Muhammad ibn Abdullah had died of a snakebite in his cradle?

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On my Substack: The Jewish boy who was kidnapped by the Pope: The grim story of Edgardo Mortara religionoffthebeatentrack.substack.com/p/the-jewish...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Lots of Bluesky vs Twitter chat today, so let me just point out that Bluesky is not currently awash with accounts trying to monetise and weaponise footage of a horrific incident in Liverpool, nor indeed is it full of deliberate disinformation about that incident. So that's something.

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

New blog post. First of a series examining the British Satanic Panic, beginning with a look at the background to the North American Panic. enfolding.org/the-satanic-...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Has this site passed its peak? And if so where else can I find an audience interested in esotericism and unusual religious content? Rejoining Twitter would just bring back the same problems - suppression and the algorithm - that I came here to get away from.

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Very interesting piece from the late Eidolon on the story of Briseis and modern retellings of it. eidolon.pub/reading-cons...

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It is better for a general microblogging site to have a larger number of users than a smaller number of users.

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"Those who compare the age on which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in their imagination may talk of degeneracy and decay: but no man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present." -Macaulay, History of England

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"I would simply have arranged *not* to be born in Nazi Germany"

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🚨New episode of my podcast!🚨 = Crowley the Agnostic = Dr Richard Kaczynski (Yale University) talks about his book "Friendship in Doubt: Aleister Crowley, J. F. C. Fuller, Victor B. Neuburg, and British Agnosticism". Links in next post.

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mick jagger music as fertility talisman send tweet

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I found this a very interesting blog discussion. In summary, an LDS (Mormon) leader, Gene R. Cook, claimed that he had had a lengthy conversation with Mick Jagger on a flight from Mexico to the USA. www.arisefromthedust.com/mick-jagger-...

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BaSEd ORthOdOxY www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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🚨New episode of my podcast!🚨 = Crowley the Agnostic = Dr Richard Kaczynski (Yale University) talks about his book "Friendship in Doubt: Aleister Crowley, J. F. C. Fuller, Victor B. Neuburg, and British Agnosticism". Links in next post.

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Joseph Smith and the Magician Tarot bycommonconsent.com/2025/05/04/j...

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