#gordon white

[huariqueje]

Met Life building in Manhattan, New York - Gordon White

American , b. 1950s

Watercolour , 30.5 x 40.6 cm. 12 x 16 in.

[upthewitchypunx]

I guess Gordon White of Rune Soup has died while he was traveling. I really enjoyed his takes on magic, especially his description of sigils... Until he went off the deep end with COVID and deep state conspiracies. I haven't listened to his podcast in years. I found this reddit post about it and glad to see some are speaking up about his complicated legacy.

[graceandfamily]

Grace Kelly, Gordon White, chairman of Hanson Industries (left) and Rupert Allan. Cannes Film Festival gala evening. Cannes 1955.

[thetriplesnake]

Navigating through grief.

The rigging snapped and parted from the shock.

[formlines]

Humpback Whale 

Gordon White

[hadit93]

This post was written in poor taste. An update will be coming at some point. Although I am sure the people in question have no idea who I am, they deserve some form of apology for my own conduct online. Whilst I disagree with the ideas presented, I do not want to be another cog in the cancel culture machine.

[spiralhouseshop]

We just added some books from Scarlet Imprint to the Spiral House the catalog!

Mystai: Dancing out the Mysteries of Dionysos by Peter Mark Adams

The Red Goddess

Apocalyptic Witchcraft by Peter Grey

Ani.Mystic: Encounters with a Living Cosmos by Gordon White

Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits by Gordon White

[onpyre]

Wendy Doniger got the name for her celebrated lecture… The Implied Spider, from considering what this story ‘stuff’ was made of, and who was ‘spinning’ it:

“In a… famous essay, [anthropologist Clifford] Geertz speaks of humans as animals suspended in webs of significance that they themselves have spun, webs of culture.[..] This is a useful metaphor for the comparatist if we take the spider to be… the shared humanity, the shared life experience that supplies the web-building material, the raw material of narrative to countless human webmakers… These human storytellers gather up the strands that the spider emits, like silk workers harvesting the cocoons of silkworms, to weave their own individual cultural artifacts… The implied spider generates, and is therefore implied by, the stuff that myths are made on… [W]e must believe in the existence of the spider, the experience behind the myth, though it is indeed true that we can never see this sort of spider at work; we can only find the webs, the myths that human authors weave.”

Gordon White, Pieces of Eight: Chaos Magic Essays and Enchantments