New PDF release: In the Center of the Fire: A Memoir of the Occult 1966-1989

In this bold disclose by way of a survivor of a distinct period within the big apple occult scene, James Wasserman, an established proponent of the lessons of Aleister Crowley, brings us right into a global of candlelit temples, burning incenser, and sonorous invocations. the writer additionally stocks an intimate examine the hot York Underground if the Seventies and introduces us to the corporate of such avant-garde luminaries as Alejandro Jodorowsky, Harry Smith and Angus MacLise. A stone's throw away shape the Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol's manufacturing unit, William Burrough's "bunker," and the mythical Chelsea inn was once a scene way more esoteric than even perhaps they can have imagined.

When James Wasserman joined the O.T.O. in 1976, there have been fewer than a dozen individuals. at the present time the Order numbers over 4,000 participants in 50 international locations and has been accountable for a sequence of groundbreaking guides of Crowley's works.

The writer based big apple City's TAHUTI inn in 1979. He chronicles its early background and offers a window into the heyday of the long island esoteric community.

This can be a saga with a truly human tableau choked with smooth romance, passionate friendships, an abiding non secular starvation, risk, ardour, and ecstasy. It additionally explores a number of hidden magical byways together with the rituals of Voodoo, Tibetan Buddhism, and Sufism.

Reconstructed from own thoughts, magical diaries, a number of interviews, court docket transcripts, witness depositions, trial proof, and broad correspondence, this publication elucidates a hithero misreported and ill-understood nexus of recent magical history.