Introductory note by Sunfrog People connected with the ‘zine and mail art communities of the 1980s or with the rural, artistic, experimental music factions of the anarchist milieu in the 1990s might remember the co-founder of Dreamtime Village, Lyx Ish,…

Electricity was known to the ancients. Archaeologists found primitive batteries in Crete—probably based on lost Mesopotamian or Egyptian prototypes. Clearly the old mages kept it a deep secret. Franklin didn’t discover it, he appropriated it from Hermeticism and gave it…

The hunter/gatherer school of anarcho-anthropology and the anarchist critique of Civilization (e.g., Perlman’s Leviathan) proposed the domestication of plants and animals as the first step toward separation and ultimately the State.

Imagine an alternate dimension where dervishes are roaming around America sects of Swedenborgian hobos, etc. You’re there camping in the cemetery long black hair in tangles ghostwhite face

“By banning the telephone from the home, Old Order Amish…try to maintain the primacy of communication within the context of community.” –D.Z. Umble “Church splits are bad, some things are worse, and one of them is to keep on compromising…

for Diane di Prima St. John’s Eve (Midsummer) 2006 1. It’s the idea of code that’s cool not the actual bother of decipherment: the utopia of not having been in a state of anticipation or regret. The Dowager Empress took…

For all we knew, Robert Anton Wilson and I were related. On an intuitive basis–i.e., after several rounds of Jameson’s and Guinness–we decided we were cousins. Subsequently we came to believe ourselves connected to the Wilsons who play so murky…

a review of Diane di Prima, Revolutionary Letters San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2007. 160 pages, available for $15 from the Barn

Swear fealty to the dark leprechaunism of revenge Social Camouflage Fabulous Insularity become a lump of sensual actuality in the thin gruel of Spectacular Electromagnetism Set your basement afloat.

In fairy tales, humans can possess exterior souls, things magically containing or embodying individual life force–stone, egg, ring, bird or animal, etc. If the thing is destroyed, the human dies. But while the thing persists, the human enjoys a kind…