Stains, smells, secrets, thieves, dead bodies, and even a radioactive towel have all found their way down one. By Sarah Minor.

The Church of the SubGenius recruitment video from 1989, revised in 2004.

What is more titillating — knowing that someone is guarding a delicious secret you might never be invited to share, or being charged with protecting some precious confidence of your own? By Edward M. Gómez.

The western esoteric tradition has been a victim of what we might call a “consciousness war,” which has been taking place over the last several centuries. By Gary Lachman.

In his pioneering 1998 book Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information, Erik Davis traces the importance of Gnosticism to the more ecstatic techno-mystical visions of early 1990s cyberculture. Speaking to its enduring prescience, Techgnosis was recently updated...