Articles by Tristram Burden
On this site:
- Discordianism and Thelema
- Hermeneutics of the left-hand path: viewing modern occultism as a contemporary spirituality
On other sites:
- Entheogens: Sacred Plants and Interface with the Divine
The consumption of Psychoactive drugs and Entheogens (from the Greek word 'Entheos' meaning God Within) have been a legitimate path to Consciousness Expansion for aeons.. more...
- Sociological Functions of Magick: Discordianism and Thelema in Existential Context
In the first article we examined the roots of these two movements, we will now look at the possible wider socio-biological effects of their practices more...
- Hunting the Illuminati: Ruling Elites: Facts, Falsehoods and Mystery
The Illuminati are a popular concept within New Age beliefs, follow the author hunting them down! more...
- Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality: Towards A Unification of Understanding about Experience of the Divine
Religious and Mystical Experiences Have Been An Integral Part of Culture and Society for Millenia: what are they and how can we effectively describe them? more...
- Gnostic and Pagan Worldviews: The difference between the Gnostic and the Pagan in Contemporary Spiritualities
While sometimes described as New Age, Gnostic and Pagan refer to distinct world views, and describing them can mark the differences between the New Age and the Pagan more...
- Reiki and the Healing Revolution: Healing for the 21st Century
Reiki, Sekhem and other energy healing systems are visible manifestations of New Age thought and healing techniques more...
- Discordianism and Thelema: Sociological Perspectives
Are Discodianism and Thelema representative of emerging consensus belief in the 21st Century? more...
- The Mystical Experience: Religion and the Experiential Dimension of the Sacred
Mystical experiences are a birth-right but veiled whithin culture, even though proven to improve quality of life. Let's move towards a better understanding of them! more...
- Gnosis, Enlightenment, Salvation: Towards a New Understanding of Religion without Dogma
Encoded within religious traditions of the past millenia are systems which enable the human species to evolve and mutate our innate capacities. more...
- New Age Definitions: Describing New Age as a term, a practice and a contemporary spirituality
Defining the New Age, its roots and usage as a cultural term, and the practices and beliefs it attempts to describe. more...
- Open Sesame (short story), Ashé Journal, Vol 6, Issue 1, 51-57, Spring 2007.
- Robert Anton Wilson was the secret agent of synchronicity - By Tristram Burden
'Cultural Engineering With Eyes Wide Shut? Playback/Feedback Magicks And The Archaeology Of The Now', Ashé Journal, Vol 5, Issue 3, 343-348, Fall 2006.
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Tristram's novel
- My Hero: A Wild Boy's Tale
(finalist in the Project: QueerLit 2006 contest)
In a post-apocalyptic America, 17 year old Joshua My Hero lives out a humdrum existence, struggling to find truth and sense in his parent's fundamentalist-Christian trailer park. His psychic powers and sexual tastes leave him an outsider of his community. When his father, Joe Hero, suspects Joshua of being gay, he tries to teach Joshua a lesson, but while his father tries to rape him, Joshua commits patricide in a desperate struggle for self-defence. Escaping into a wasted planet, Joshua searches for work, love, intimacy, and answers to the many questions he poses to the universe: armed only with an oracular penis, the patronage of an ancient God sent to rid Planet Earth of all of its ills, and the wisdom of the Tao Teh Ching. Settling in a town called Mortlake, Joshua meets a mysterious foreigner, William D'Reel. And while tragedy after tragedy strikes, Joshua falls victim to a range of ecstatic visions, discovers the mysteries of sex, death, and dreaming, gradually unveiling a secret conspiracy to sell the planet to an extra-terrestrial race which reaches critical mass right where Joshua has decided to find home. During his adventures, he meets Marlow, William's demon servant disguised as an owl; Michael of the Bone, hermaphrodite assassin and conspirator; Alice, an over-sexed but affable teenager; the mysterious Callum, a cyborg and ex-pupil of William D'Reel,who Joshua finds love and hate with. And the giant sorcerer, Moojaffa Marjook, who upon his mountain-top home teaches Joshua the secrets of sorcery, initiating Joshua into the ancient witch-cult that he and William belong to, introducing Joshua to great Baphomet himself...
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