Beyond a doubt, the most listener-requested show up to this point. Seemingly everybody has their own take on Sex Magic. And why not?! For something as personal and important as sex, particularly when applied to a ritual or spell-based context, the topic itself is one that draws fascination as well as controversy. In this wonderful episode of WMiT? we are joined by the always luminous Luxa Strata of Lux Occult Podcast to hash out as much as possible our understandings of Sex Magic as we can! You asked for it.
My Guest for this episode is Luxa Strata! Luxa has been an absolute Titan of Podcasting; the amount of work they produce puts someone like me to shame. If you have yet to listen to Lux Occult podcast, it is without a doubt one of the finest Occult and Magic Podcasts out there! Luxa is also the founder of the Green Mushroom Project– an ongoing Hyphosigil. Check out Luxa’s other podcasts Ad Hoc History as well as Smut’s Up! To find Lux Occult Podcast, click below!
Show Notes
- Sex Magicians: The Lives and Spiritual Practices of Paschal Beverly Randolph, Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons, Marjorie Cameron, Anton LaVey, and Others by Michael William West
- Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism by Hugh B. Urban
- Heiros Gamos
- The Erotic and Separation Spells of the Magical Papyri and Defixiones
- The Bizarre Sexual Habits of Early Christians
- Yes, the Gnostics Practiced Sex Rituals (get over it)
- Gnostic Mysteries of Sex: Sophia the Wild One and Erotic Christianity by Tobias Churton
- Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian and Sex Magician by John Patrick Deveney
- Excerpts from Paschal Beverly Randolph’s Eulis!, and an Introduction to His Work
- Eluis! A History of Love by Paschal Beverly Randolph
- Heavenly Bridegrooms by Ida Craddock
- Psychic Wedlock by Ida Craddock
- The Beast with Two Backs: Aleister Crowley, Sex Magic, and the Exhaustion of Modernity
- List of some of Aleister Crowley’s writings on Sex Magic
- Aleister Crowley’s Scarlet Women
- Eroto-comatose Lucidity
- Maria de Naglowska
- Maria de Naglowska, A Herald of the New Era
- The Books of Maria de Naglowska
- The Collected Writings of Jack Parsons
- Willhelm Reich
- Love, Work and Knowledge: The Life and Trials of Wilhelm Reich
- The Brazen Vessel by Alkistis Demech and Peter Grey
- Ecstatic Ritual: Practical Sex Magic by Brandy Williams – Friend of the show Michael Lux has mentioned that this is one of the best books for approaching Sex Magic
- The Rosicrucifixion by Jake Stratton-Kent – Suggested by Michael Lux as well. It is… An interesting read, particularly if you enjoy Crowley
- Sex, Sorcery, and Spirit: The Secrets of Erotic Magic by Jason Miller – A pretty good practical guide
- Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy by Marla Segol
- Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries
- Sex and Imagination – Article by Gary Lachman
- Modern Magick: Eleven Lessons in the High Magickal Arts by Donald Michael Kraig – Now, I’m not really a fan of this book, but the Sex Magic segment is pretty good
- Dianism
- Tantra in Practice by David Gordon White – A pretty good introduction
- The Omnipotent Oom: Tantra and its Impact on Modern Western Esotericism by Hugh Urban – Interesting read about Pierre Bernard
- The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker
Correction – Jack Parsons was instrumental in creation of solid-state fuel, not Liquid based fuel. Got them mixed up on my end.
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