Calling all seekers, scholars, and practitioners of the esoteric arts and occult sciences. You are amicably invited to join a book discussion group, focused on exploring all paths numinous and eldritch. There are many lifetimes worth of study to be had in occult literature. The hope is that by reading as a group, we may extract more understanding from these texts, than by wandering alone in the dark. Alt-religion, rebel science, forgotten history, mad art, astrology, alchemy, magic, herbalism, wellness, parapsychology, paranormal happenings, hermeticism, paganism, witches’ craft, and things far stranger, are all potential topics. Bring the book, a keen mind, and a curious heart. See you there………

  • Weekly meetings, with shorter readings, to foster deeper discussion.
  • Free and open to all.
  • 6:30pm Mondays, in the ponderosa room at the Bozeman Public Library
  • How to join - show up.
  • How to quit - stop showing up.
  • Times, locations, and readings subject to change, please see our signal chat and website.


This is a group with an in-person emphasis, but the club's online home is on Signal. Reading assignments, updates, discussion, and memes are all posted there.

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There is also a Facebook group, but the moderator only logs in ever so often.


NEW LOCATION

Hence forth we shall be meeting in the Ponderosa Room at the Bozeman Public Library. The coop is still cool but this space provides us with some privacy for open discussion. It's also more thematic to meet in the temple of knowledge don't you think. Apologies for any confusion due to this change.


The Current Book

The spectre of witchcraft is haunting the West, the dead giving up their secrets. This is a ritual unveiling of these mysteries. It is a vision and a revelation of the mythopoetic structure of the Art.

Apocalyptic Witchcraft is a bold project which does not seek to impose an orthodoxy on what is the heresy of heresies. Instead, it suggests a way forward. Apocalyptic Witchcraft gives a compelling and profound account of the Sabbat and Wild Hunt as living experiences. These are the core of our ritual practice. Dream, lunar and menstrual magic are explored as a path to this knowledge. The wolf, the devil, and the goddess of witchcraft are then encountered in a landscape that ultimately reveals the witch to her or himself. These are not separate threads, but arise from a deep mythic structure and are woven together into a single unifying vision. Alternating between polemic, poetic and ecstatic prose, an harmonious course is revealed in a sequence of elegant stratagems. The book is threaded together with a cycle of hymns to Inanna, pearls on the tapestry of night. Seemingly disparate aspects are joined into a vision which is neither afraid of blessing nor curse. This is a daring undertaking, born from both urgency and need. It offers a renewed sense of purpose and meaning for a witchcraft that has seen many of its treasured ideas about itself destroyed. An apocalyptic age demands an apocalyptic witchcraft, and this is a book which is offered up to revolutionise the body of the craft, a way out of the dark impasse.

Tradition is not static, it flows, and this work pours forth a vision for the future. Founded in pilgrimage and ritual, encountered in dreams and gleaned from the conversations of both doves and crows, a remarkable narrative unfolds. Its wings span from prehistory, through the witch panic and it emerges fully fledged into our present moment of crisis. It offers a witchcraft for our time. 


 


Some of our passed books