The good
guys at Headpress have just published Gathering Of The Tribes: Music and Heavy
Conscious Creation to which I contributed an essay on Elvis, Nick Cave, and
Satan. Today our pals at Dangerous Mind posted an excerpt….
“Even the most cursory
theological (or even Reichian) shakedown will reveal that rock’n’roll has
quantum multiples of the potential mythic/mystic power ever commanded by
conventional Satanism. Where so much of contemporary Satanism—with its upside
down crosses, modified but still liturgical robes and rituals, its ammended
litanies, the serving of a faux-Eucharist from the naked torso of an
immobilized cooch dancer on bad acid (shout out, hey, Susan Atkins!)—reveals it
as nothing nothing more than an inverted critique of Christianity in general
and Catholicism in particular. (Much in the way that Marxism was essentially a
critique of Victorian capitalism rather than a stand alone philosophy.)“
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