Aleister Crowley in America: Art, Espionage, and Sex Magick in the New World
English
By (author): Tobias Churton
An exploration of Crowleys relationship with the United States
Details Crowleys travels, passions, literary and artistic endeavors, sex magick, and psychedelic experimentation
Investigates Crowleys undercover intelligence adventures that actively promoted U.S. involvement in WWI
Occultist, magician, poet, painter, and writer Aleister Crowleys three sojourns in America sealed both his notoriety and his lasting influence. Using previously unpublished diaries and letters, Tobias Churton traces Crowleys quest to implant a new magical and spiritual consciousness in the United States.
In 1914 Crowley returned to the U.S. and stayed for five years: turbulent years that changed him, the world, and the face of occultism forever. Diving deeply into Crowleys 5-year stay, we meet artists, writers, spies, and government agents as we uncover Crowleys complex work for British and U.S. intelligence agencies. Exploring Crowleys involvement with the birth of the Greenwich Village radical art scene, we discover his relations with writers Sinclair Lewis and Theodore Dreiser and artists John Butler Yeats, Leon Engers Kennedy, and Robert Winthrop Chanler. We experience his love affairs and share Crowleys hard times in New Orleans and his return to health, magical dynamism, and the most colorful sex life in America. his role in the sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania, his making of the Elixir of Life in 1915, his psychedelic experimentation, and his run-in with Detroit Freemasonry. We also witness Crowleys influence on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. We learn why J. Edgar Hoover wouldnt let Crowley back in the country and why the FBI raided Crowleys organization in LA.
Offering a 20th-century history of the occult movement in the United States, Churton shows how Crowleys U.S. visits laid the groundwork for the establishment of his syncretic religion of Thelema and the now flourishing OTO, as well as how Crowleys final wish was to have his ashes scattered in the Hamptons. See more
Details Crowleys travels, passions, literary and artistic endeavors, sex magick, and psychedelic experimentation
Investigates Crowleys undercover intelligence adventures that actively promoted U.S. involvement in WWI
Occultist, magician, poet, painter, and writer Aleister Crowleys three sojourns in America sealed both his notoriety and his lasting influence. Using previously unpublished diaries and letters, Tobias Churton traces Crowleys quest to implant a new magical and spiritual consciousness in the United States.
In 1914 Crowley returned to the U.S. and stayed for five years: turbulent years that changed him, the world, and the face of occultism forever. Diving deeply into Crowleys 5-year stay, we meet artists, writers, spies, and government agents as we uncover Crowleys complex work for British and U.S. intelligence agencies. Exploring Crowleys involvement with the birth of the Greenwich Village radical art scene, we discover his relations with writers Sinclair Lewis and Theodore Dreiser and artists John Butler Yeats, Leon Engers Kennedy, and Robert Winthrop Chanler. We experience his love affairs and share Crowleys hard times in New Orleans and his return to health, magical dynamism, and the most colorful sex life in America. his role in the sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania, his making of the Elixir of Life in 1915, his psychedelic experimentation, and his run-in with Detroit Freemasonry. We also witness Crowleys influence on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. We learn why J. Edgar Hoover wouldnt let Crowley back in the country and why the FBI raided Crowleys organization in LA.
Offering a 20th-century history of the occult movement in the United States, Churton shows how Crowleys U.S. visits laid the groundwork for the establishment of his syncretic religion of Thelema and the now flourishing OTO, as well as how Crowleys final wish was to have his ashes scattered in the Hamptons. See more
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