Occult

Though historical moments like the Salem Witch Trials would suggest that witches (and any related witchcraft) are inherently evil, the fact remains that many people engage with the practice for the opposite reason: to try and gain some control over their surroundings — particularly those who may not have much control in the first place. One need look no further ...

Just in time for Halloween, a controversial Satanic temple has set up its international headquarters in Massachusetts’ beloved Salem.  Located one-mile from historic sites tied to Salem’s 1692 witchcraft hysteria, the building — a former funeral home — was inaugurated last month by activist Malcolm Jarry, a self-described “secular Jew” who co-founded The Satanic Temple (TST) in 2013. Jarry is ...

Americans looking for a way to keep their kids busy after a day of heavy book-learnin’ will soon have a new alternative: After School Satan Clubs.  The Satanic Temple, which labels itself as “an atheistic religious organization that uses the symbol of Satan to inspire civil justice,” will soon be petitioning public schools across the U.S. to allow them to ...

When The Satanic Temple officially opens its doors on Friday, Salem will become home to the organization’s international headquarters.  But pitchfork-wielding mobs protesting the move seem unlikely, as the fire-and-brimstone theology of the Puritans who once populated the city has given way to a “live and let live” attitude in present day Salem.  Less than a mile from Gallows Hill ...

Satanists are not merely mystical eccentrics wearing black Gothic garb, sacrificing animals and operating in shady and secret societies. They are now ordinary people who call themselves ‘secular’ and praise reason and the individual freedom of thought.  In the US, explicitly satanic groups have begun drawing attention to themselves in the context of public governmental ceremonies.  Just this month, a ...

Representatives at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, otherwise known as CERN, say they are investigating startling footage appearing to show a mock human sacrifice conducted at their site.   A video emerging from the particle research center, situated in Geneva, Switzerland, shows eight figures outfitted in black robes standing in the shadows around a statue of the Hindu goddess Shiva. ...

A debate over religious freedom has led to a Satanist leading an invocation at one Alaska borough’s assembly meeting.   Following a discussion over whether to do away with invocations entirely, the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly decided to open invocations up to all religions.  According to Assembly President Blaine Gilman, a group of pastors used to previously lead the assembly’s invocation. ...

CNS News reported that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) told a recent gathering of the “We Power” Women’s Political Committee that the spirits of suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul spoke to her at the White House.  [1] Pelosi said she heard them say: “At last we have a seat at the table”.  A video ...

New Age Mumbo Jumbo and the Channelling of Eleonor Roosevelt In 1994, reeling from the Democrats’ defeat in congressional elections, Hillary Clinton, that otherwise apparently sane woman, invited five professional feel gooders to spend the weekend with her and Bill. They included Stephen Covey, author of the Seven Habits of Highly Successful People and Jean Houston, a self-styled “sacred psychologist” ...

A group of witches unsatisfied with the sentence of former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner gathered Tuesday for a mass ‘hexing.’  The organizer invited more than a thousand people to gather at home altars and recite the following: Brock Allen Turner we hex you. You will be impotent You will know constant pain of pine needles in your guts Food will ...

Swiss engineer Carl Eduard Gruner first imagined it in 1947: a massive tunnel, unprecedented in length, buried a mile and a half under Switzerland’s symbolic Gotthard mountain range.  Nearly seven decades later, after redesigns, political disagreements and the long, slow work of drilling beneath the Gotthard massif, as it’s called, Gruner’s dream is complete. [5] To celebrate this accomplishment Europe’s elite attended ...

June is a time of celebration. Graduations take place. Father’s Day is observed. And summer officially begins.  It’s also when the Satanic Temple of Los Angeles has scheduled festivities for a revered day in the diabolic community — 6/6/16.  Yeah, you know what time it is, Black Sabbath fans.  The group, which has 12 members, says it’s heading to Lancaster on ...