Yes, food and cooking is the real subject for this week’s story. I’m definitely having some fun with this one, but at the same time I think that the topic has been very useful in terms of exploring Satanism in an authentic and meaningful way. One of my favorite pastimes is cooking, and this is a skill that is particularly reflective of Satanic values. In fact, I think that the practice is a kind of microcosm of Satanism, a reflection in miniature of the ways that a Satanic philosophy can transform one’s life and experience.
Month: September 2019
On Spiritual Teachers
Some people claim to have a spiritual authority that permits them to teach of spiritual matters to others. I think that some people do indeed have this authority, by virtue of their experience and education in such matters and the authenticity of their character, while others are charlatans.
Joel Osteen and Christian Hegemony
I’ve written often on the subject of the Hegemon, my collective word for religious and cultural hegemonies that appropriate and contort religions and their sacred texts for the purposes of power and manipulation, but it’s largely been in the abstract. Today I’ll take a look at a real-world, concrete example.
Pilgrimage to Kathmandu
In the summer of 2013, I arranged a pilgrimage to a religious monument: the Boudhanath stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal.