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The Witches’ Flight (1798) by Francisco Goya.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 At Wormwoodiana: Mark Valentine<\/a> reviews the latest book from Tartarus, a biography of T. Lobsang Rampa by R.B. Russell. You don’t hear much about Rampa today but, as Mark says, old copies of his books have for many years been common sights on the Spiritualism\/Occult shelves of British bookshops. Rampa wasn’t a Tibetan monk as he claimed in his first book, The Third Eye<\/em>, but a very non-Tibetan Englishman, Cyril Henry Hoskin, whose stories about his early years evolved following press investigations into a claim of being possessed by the spirit of a Tibetan doctor named Tuesday Lobsang Rampa. Hoskin maintained the Rampa persona for the rest of his life, writing many more books about the mystic East, as well as accounts of his contact with the planet Venus and his psychic connection with his Siamese cat. The Rampa books were very popular in the 1960s\u2014my mother had three or four of them\u2014despite continual accusations that their author was a fraud.<\/p>\n

\u2022 New music: The Hadronic Seeress And Other Wyrd Tales<\/em><\/a> by The Wyrding Module; Master Builder<\/em><\/a> by Xeeland; Resurrection Of The Foghorns<\/em><\/a> by Everyday Dust.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The twelfth installment of Smoky Man\u2019s exploration of The Bumper Book of Magic<\/em> has been posted (in Italian) at (quasi)<\/a>, and in English at Alan Moore World<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rivers of galaxies: Mark Neyrinck<\/a> on the cosmic web and other metaphors that describe the largest structures in the Universe.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Curation becomes subservient to metrics.” Derek Walmsley<\/a> on how Spotify distorts genre histories.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Spoon & Tamago: Erica Ward<\/a> presents Tokyo as a living, breathing organism.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At the BFI: Chloe Walker<\/a> chooses 10 great films by one-time directors.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Unquiet Things: How Yuko Shimizu<\/a> rewires ancient stories.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Steven Heller’s font of the month is Jana Thork<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 RIP Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Web Weaver<\/em><\/a> (1974) by Hawkwind | The Web<\/em><\/a> (1985) by Cabaret Voltaire | Web<\/em><\/a> (1992) by Brian Eno<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Witches’ Flight (1798) by Francisco Goya. \u2022 At Wormwoodiana: Mark Valentine reviews the latest book from Tartarus, a biography of T. Lobsang Rampa by R.B. Russell. You don’t hear much about Rampa today but, as Mark says, old copies of his books have for many years been common sights on the Spiritualism\/Occult shelves of … Continue reading “Weekend links 788”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Weekend links 788","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,51,29,7,48,3,16,44,13,10,23],"tags":[145,13685,150,14105,14100,14103,14104,13770,13775,222,14102,2903,14107,14099,1878,14098,5337,14101,14106],"class_list":["post-28276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-cities","category-electronica","category-film","category-illustrators","category-music","category-occult","category-painting","category-science","category-typography","category-work","tag-brian-eno","tag-bumper-book-of-magic","tag-cabaret-voltaire","tag-chloe-walker","tag-cyril-henry-hoskin","tag-derek-walmsley","tag-erica-ward","tag-everyday-dust","tag-francisco-goya","tag-hawkwind","tag-mark-neyrinck","tag-mark-valentine","tag-ozzy-osbourne","tag-r-b-russell","tag-smoky-man","tag-t-lobsang-rampa","tag-the-wyrding-module","tag-xeeland","tag-yuko-shimizu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7m4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}