#Catherine bardon

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Une femme debout de Catherine Bardon

“Une femme debout” est un roman portant haut et fort les valeurs de l’autrice Catherine Bardon. Depuis, “Les Déracinés”, Catherine Bardon met en lumière les oubliés, ceux qui ont fait l’histoire sans y avoir laissé leur nom. Dans chaque texte, l’autrice met en évidence la force de la (re)construction, le dépassement des limites imposées par le vivre ensemble ou le pouvoir en place. Ce dernier…

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Catherine Bardon

[dislyte-incorrect-quotes]

Bardon: There's nobody I'm afraid of!

Catherine: ...

Bardon: ...there's one person I'm afraid of.

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[nameace]

Halleon and most of shotpost furball thing

[iryomito]

I'd like to imagine that when together, Freddy avoids certain places such as the elevator at all costs and refuses to tell Bardon why, who of course is oblivious about it, until one day Freddy gets a sudden panic attack when he is trapped inside a small place and a distressed confused Bardon tries desperately to calm him down, only to realize he is actually claustrophobic.

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My sister reacts to Dislyte characters. Oh yeah, remember she’s very young still. Child she is

Bai Liuli: she sorta likes her, but she doesn’t like her hairstyle.

Yun Chuan: She sorta likes him, but she thinks he looks like Ryder from Paw Patrol.

Nicole: She reminds her of golden cheese cookie, unaware if that’s good or bad

Liam: Absolutely adored him. Called him awesome.

Catherine: She likes her, but she wants to know why she’s “so sad.”

Kara: She likes her, for her scorpion hair and her sharp teeth.

Anesidora: She also likes her, but was giggling about her being bald.

Farrah: She wouldn’t elaborate further than ocean.

Elif: she likes her, but thought she had two faces.

Bardon: She wants him and Farrah to kiss?? For some reason?? Ok. Whatever.

Embla: She said she was eh. She was confused by her flowers on her body.

Leora: Called her weird and told me to go back to someone she liked.

Also, if anyone is curious, her downright favorite is Tang Yun because he is the six eared macaque. She stared at him for like ten minutes after we finished this.

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List of all 144 Espers in Dislyte (alphabetized)

Abigail (Frigga)

Adrina (Chantico)

Ahmed (Geb)

Ain (Ptah)

Alexa (Aphrodite)

Alice (Gullveig)

Alolin (Pazuzu)

Anesidora (Pandora)

Anna (Persphone)

Arcana (Hermes)

Archibald (Mictlantecutli)

Asenath (Nefertem)

Ashley (Heimdall)

Aurelius (Ullr)

Bai Liuli (White Snake)

Bardon (Baldr)

Berenice (Bastet)

Biondina (Poseidon)

Bonnie (Eris)

Brewster (Garmr)

Brynn (Valkyrie)

Camille (Hati)

Cang Ji (Cang Jie)

Catherine (Hela)

Cecilia (Isis)

Celine (Siren)

Chalmers (Idun)

Chang Pu (Yao Ji)

Chloe (Medea)

Chu Yao (Tai Yi)

Clara (Hera)

Daniel (Charon)

David (Jason)

Daylon (Sobek)

Dhalia (Calypso)

Djoser (Atum)

Donar (Thor)

Drew (Anubis)

Eira (Freya)

Elaine (Nyx)

Elliot (Thoth)

Embla (Ymir)

Emma (Jade Rabbit)

Ethan (Pan)

Everett (Tyr)

Fabrice (Freyr)

Falken (Horus)

Farrah | Aminah (Tiamat | Abzu)

Fatum Sisters (Nornir)

Feng Nuxi (Nuwa)

Feng Xun (Fu Xi)

Freddy (Fenrir)

Fu Shi (Suan Ni)

Fumitsuki (Kaguya-hime)

Gabrielle (Njord)

Gaius (Zeus)

Ginny (Hestia)

Hailey (Hephaestus)

Hall (Hodur)

Helena (Helen)

Heng Yue (Chang’e)

Hilda (Hypnos)

Hyde (Hades)

Ife (Meretseger)

Ikki (Tsukuyomi)

Intisar (Kauket)

Jacob (Jormungand)

Javid (Shamash)

Jeanne (Gerd)

Jiang Jiuli (Chiyou)

Jiang Man (Meng Po)

Jin Qiu (Ru SHou)

Jin Yuyao (Queen Mother)

Jin-Hee (Dokkaebi)

Kara (Serket)

Kaylee (Anuket)

Koharu (Ame No Uzume)

Laura (Neith)

Lauren (Heket)

Layla (Medjed)

Leon (Vali)

Leora (Athena)

Lewis (Ares)

Li Ao (Tao Tie)

Li Guang (Vermilion Bird)

Li Ling (Nezha)

Liam (Xolotl)

Lian (Jiao Tu)

Lin Xiao (White Tiger)

Long Mian (Ao Bing)

Lucas (Apollo)

Luo Yan (Yanluo Wang)

Lu Yi (Dayi)

Lynn (Hathor)

Mateo (Prometheus)

Mavis (Mictecacihuatl)

Mei (Kaya-no-Hime)

Melanie (Medusa)

Meredith (Scylla)

Mona (Artemis)

Narmer (Ra)

Nick (Magni)

Nicole (Nephthys)

Norah (The Muses)

Odette (Skadi)

Ollie (Osiris)

Ophelia (Thanatos)

Parmi (Ninsun)

Pritzker (Mimir)

Q (Eros)

Raven (Odin)

Ren Si (Black Tortoise)

Sachiko (Hare of Inaba)

Sally (Sif)

Sander (Set)

Sienna (Gaia)

Stewart (Dionysus)

Su Jue (Daji)

Tang Xuan (Sun Wukong)

Tang Yun (Six-Eared Macaque)

Taylor (Hercules)

Tevor (Sphinx)

Tiye (Nut)

Toland (Tezcatlipoca)

Triki (Loki)

Uday (Sopdet)

Unas (Shu)

Unky Chai (Yue Lao)

Valeria (QUetzalcoatl)

Wu You (Dijiang)

Xiao Yin (Azure Dragon)

Xie Chuyi (Death Guard Hei)

Xie Yuzhi (Death Guard Bai)

Xuan Pin (Jiutian Xuannu)

Yalina (Mamitu)

Yamato (Izanagi)

Ye Suhua (Shao Siming)

Yu Ran (Bai Ze)

Yu Xu (Jing Wei)

Yun Chuan (Yang Jian)

Yuuhime (Izanami)

Zelmer (Sekhmet)

Zhong Nan (Zhong Kui)

Zora (Amunet)

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what determines canon esper strength

obviously rarity make things stronger but that’s just gameplay

But despite rarity

Bardon and Lewis are equal in power but from the story the thing that differentiates the two are how they fight Bardon more cautious and Lewis is more wild

Bardon stronger that Catherine and she doesn’t humor the idea of taking him on in a fair fight

Freddy is just as strong as Long Mian fighting each other for hours

Fabrice is terrified of an angry Melanie and rather just run

so storywise what exactly is the reason characters are so strong

1. More experience

The reason The Esper Seven are so powerful is because they’ve had their powers longer than others and have discover esper abilities and powers that others espers have simply yet to unlock

Getting your esper powers at a young age allows an esper to just naturally come across powers that most wouldn’t think about but kids are just curious and reckless enough to try it out

2.Technique

While having superpowers is nice but have solid execution can make up for it. A character like Drew can take on many people relying on his fencing and proper posture

3.Ferocity

Being crazy or excessively cruel is a very powerful thing. You can always make up for strength and technique by just being wild with some killing intent

4. Mythological source

Sometime simply having a strong power is all you need. Although if too strong and you might not be able to handle it yourself

5. Augmentation

They were already powerful and esper powers added onto it. Case in point being Cecilia already being a witch that got esper powers from the Eygptian Goddess of Magic just got a power boost to what she was already doing

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Almah, une jeunesse viennoise

Comme cela arrive pour les franchises à succès au cinéma, Catherine Bardon nous propose un préquel à sa saga des Déracinés en imaginant les jeunes années d'Almah. L'occasion de plonger dans la Vienne de l'entre-deux-guerres.

En deux mots Almah voit le jour dans la banlieue chic de Vienne en 1911. Son père Julius est médecin, puis dirigera un hôpital, sa mère est pianiste. Elle soigne sa dépression chez Sigmund Freud jusqu’à l’arrivée de sa fille qui va mettre du soleil dans leur vie. On va suivre de la Première Guerre mondiale jusqu’aux prémices de la Seconde. Ma note ★★★★ (j’ai adoré) Ma chronique Les jeunes années…

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L’Américaine - Catherine Bardon

“Le bonheur, on doit le fabriquer de ses propres mains.”

Il y a quelques semaines, je tombais sous le charme des Rosenheck, rencontrés dans les Déracinés de Catherine Bardon. Cette famille autrichienne, chassée de son pays natal par la guerre, installée par dépit en République Dominicaine à défaut d’avoir pu trouver refuge aux Etats-Unis, m’avait séduite et j’avais grandement apprécié le voyage proposé par Catherine Bardon, à travers le monde mais aussi l’histoire, car j’avais découvert alors un pays et un pan de la Shoah que je ne connaissais pas auparavant. Quand j’ai découvert qu’il y a une suite, je n’ai eu qu’une hâte et la lire, et c’est ainsi que je me suis lancée dans L’Américaine, qui nous relate les aventures de Ruth, la fille de Wilhelm et Almah.  

Qu’est-ce que ça raconte ?

Alors que le pouls de New York bat au rythme des années 1960 et de la contre-culture, une jeune fille, Ruth, s'y installe pour y suivre ses études en rêvant de devenir journaliste. Elle y découvre l'amitié, le rock, l'amour... tout en se questionnant sur son identité. Pas évident d'avoir laissé derrière elle sa famille et sa terre natale, la République dominicaine... Septembre 1961. Depuis le pont du bateau sur lequel elle a embarqué, Ruth tourne le dos à son île natale, la République dominicaine. En ligne de mire : New York, l'université, un stage au Times. Une nouvelle vie... Elle n'en doute pas, bientôt elle sera journaliste comme l'était son père, Wilhelm. Ruth devient très vite une véritable New-Yorkaise et vit au rythme du rock, de l'amitié et des amours. Des bouleversements du temps aussi : l'assassinat de Kennedy, la marche pour les droits civiques, les frémissements de la contre culture, l'opposition de la jeunesse à la guerre du Viêt Nam... Mais Ruth, qui a laissé derrière elle les siens dans un pays gangrené par la dictature où la guerre civile fait rage, s'interroge et se cherche. Qui est- elle vraiment ? Dominicaine, née de parents juifs autrichiens ? Américaine d'adoption ? Où va-t-elle construire sa vie, elle dont les parents ont dû tout fuir et réinventer leur existence ? Trouvera-t-elle la réponse en Israël où vit Svenja, sa marraine ?

Que dire ? En toute sincérité, je ressors déçue de cette lecture, et je ne m’y attendais vraiment pas au vu de mon enthousiasme à l’issue du premier tome. Je pensais retrouver le brio des Déracinés, mais il se trouve que Wilhelm était le vrai cœur et moteur de l’histoire, et sans lui, les autres personnages ont perdu de leurs couleurs. Je les ai trouvés caricaturaux, loin des standards établis dans l’opus précédent. Almah, qui était une femme inspirante, unique, rebelle, n’est qu’une pâle parodie d’elle-même; je n’ai pas retrouvé la femme malicieuse et pétillante que j’avais aimée. Ruth, prometteuse, est finalement une héroïne avec peu de charisme, qui est assaillie par les mêmes doutes pendant tout le roman, qui tourne en rond, rêve de s’échapper de son île, puis la regrette, rêve de New York, puis l’exècre, rêve d’amour et de famille avec des hommes qui ne lui rendent pas son amour. Elle ressemble à beaucoup de protagonistes, manque de confiance et on se lasse rapidement de ses questionnements à trois francs six sous; ses indécisions et états d’âme prennent trop de place dans le roman, et c’est ce qui, à mon sens, mine l’histoire. Je ne parle pas du cliché Arturo, enfant mal aimé de sa famille et de son pays, meilleur ami gay de Ruth; ni de Frederick qui devient un patriarche agricole pas très malin; ni de Lizzie l’esprit libre embrigadée dans les expériences hippies jusqu’au fin fond du Mexique. 

La suite n’est pas désagréable à lire pour autant, elle est sympathique, se lit facilement, mais on ne retrouve pas le rythme et le riche tissu historique, complexe et bien amené, qui était un élément coup de cœur de la série. Pourtant il y avait de quoi faire; mais la guerre du Vietnam et la lutte contre les discriminations racistes sont évoquées de façon pâlotte. On imagine déjà bien la suite, je vois déjà Nathan et Arturo finir ensemble, les mariages et les naissances se multiplier...Ma mère a également le troisième, que je lirai certainement pour voir si la plume retrouve de son brio et ce que la vie réserve à nos héros. Mais, je maintiens que certains romans n’ont pas besoin de suite : Les Déracinés en tant que roman aurait pu être un chef-d’œuvre de littérature contemporaine, mais la saga est finalement peu inspirée et aurait mieux fait de s’arrêter au premier opus. Pour ma part, j’aurais préféré ne pas avoir entamer la suite pour garder un souvenir immaculé du brillant “Les Déracinés”. 

Vous voulez l’acheter ? Ma mère a acheté cet exemplaire sur Amazon pour la somme de 8,70€. Toutefois, je vous encourage à l’acheter plutôt chez un libraire indépendant ou un grossiste français. 

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Randoms

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Dats offensive 🙄

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Halleon and horny impower

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Dislyte Chinese Names pt. 2

After writing my long ass post about the Chinese Espers’ names I did one for the other Espers too, here you go

Generally, the non-chinese esper names are just phonetically sinonized. Conventionally, pinyin is does not use capitalization so ignore the capitals cause i can’t be arsed to change them lol Note: most of their names are conventional Anglophone names, so there’s a corresponding conventional translation of their names, i think it’s just interesting to note that some are changed for whatever reason

5 Stars// Legendaries: Donar 多纳尔 duō nà ěr Tiye 泰伊 tài yī Lewis 刘易斯 liú yì sī Raven 瑞雯 ruì wén (notably, her name can be a common given chinese girl's name) Narmer 纳尔迈 nà ěr mài Triki 特里基 tè lǐ jī Hyde 海德 hǎi dé Biondina 翁迪娜 wēng dí nà Gabrielle 加贝莉 jiā bèi lì (note: though it would be more accurate phonetically to use 加贝尔 Jia Bei Er for Gabrielle, to keep that feminine -elle form, they used li 莉 instead cause 加贝尔 Jia Bei Er is the usual sinonized form of masculine Gabriel) Sally 萨丽 sà lì (note: 萨 Sa here is the word used in 菩萨 Pu Sa, Bodhisavatta/Buddha, possible association with the fact that she's a saintly healer figure)   Ollie 奥利 Ào lì Unas 乌纳斯 wū nà sī Lucas 卢克斯 lú kè sī (usually Lucas is sinonized as 卢卡斯 Lú kǎ sī, but by using  卢克斯 lú kè sī instead, it reads as "Lux") Clara 克莱拉 Kè lái lā Cecilia 西西莉娅 xī xī lì yà (Pronounciation of Xi Xi is close to english 'sissy'; her nickname in chinese circles afaik is 西西 Sissy which i think is kinda cute) Sienna 席安娜 xí ān nà Tevor 崔佛 cuī fó (okay. so. There's not really a "Te/Tre" sound in chinese with the soft ‘e’ sound; Cui Fo is the conventional sinonization of Trevor) Ahmed 亚罕莫德 Yà hǎn mò dé (Ah- sounds are usually translated as 亚 Ya for proper names, especially in the front; another way to sinonize Ah- sound is 阿, but it risks reading the name as a nickname bc 阿- is a common way to dimunitivize someone's name) Zora 佐拉  zuǒ lā

4 Stars// Epics: Asenath 安瑟尼斯 Ān sè ní sī Djoser 左塞尔 zuǒ sài ěr (I’ve mentioned, but Djoser’s name follow CN naming convention with the surname-given name,  左 is an uncommon surname tho!) Mona 莫娜 mò nà Celine 席琳 xí lín Kara 卡拉 kǎ lā Eira 艾拉 Ài lā Falken 佛肯 fó kěn Fabrice 法布里斯 fǎ bù lǐsī Arcana 阿卡纳 Ā kǎ nà Sander 桑德 sāng dé Alexa 阿莱莎 Ā lái shā Chloe 克洛伊 kè luò yī Catherine 凯瑟琳 kǎi sè lín Pritzker 普利兹克 pǔ lì zī kè Jacob 雅格 yǎ gé (Jacob is usually translated as 雅各布 Yǎ gè bù, so it's interesting that they used 雅格 yǎ gé, which reads more as Jager) Lynn 琳恩 lín ēn (also can be a common cn girl given name) Anesidora 安妮斯朵拉 Ān nī sī duǒ lā Bonnie 邦妮 bāng nī Dhalia 达利亚 dá lì yǎ Taylor 泰勒 tài lēi Nicole 妮可 nī kě Laura 劳拉 láo lā Meredith 梅丽达 méi lì dá (reads as Merida rather than Meredith) Kaylee 凯丽 kǎi lì Aurelius 欧雷尔斯  Ōu léi ěr sī Stewart 斯图尔特 sī tú ěr tè

3 Stars// Rares: Bardon 巴顿 bā dùn (also same sinonization as Patton lol) Brynn 布琳 bù lín Drew 德鲁 dé lǔ Q 丘比 qiū bǐ (lit. Cupid, interesting they changed it to Q but explains his design fr; also also, it fits the chinese naming convention, 丘qiū is a surname) Melanie 梅兰妮 méi lán nī Zelmer 赛默 sài mò Hall 霍尔 huò ěr (no note, i just had to dig out my old dictionary cause i had no idea what the heck that first character was lmao) Freddy 弗雷迪 fú léi dí David 大卫 dà wèi Lauren 洛伦 luò lún Chalmers 查尔姆斯 chá ěr mǔ sī Berenice 贝蕾妮斯 bèi lěi nī sī Layla 莱拉 lái lā Leon 里昂 lǐ áng Helena 海伦娜 hǎi lún nà Jeanne 雅妮 yǎ nī (another instance where 珍妮 zhēn nī might have been a more direct translation for Jeanne's name, im inclined to think the dislyte dev Team reads Jeanne's name as Jean-nie rather than how the fandom reads it as Jean)

Bonus: Sieg 齐格 qí gé (which reads more like Zig than Sieg, usually Sieg is translated as 西格 xī gé)

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Useful Publications and Media from the 80s 1: The Paranormal/Occult

Just compiling some things to use in fanfic, either as reference material or just as things to mention for flavor text. Largely focusing on US publications/media or things I think are fairly big name or would relatively easy to get in the US in the 1980s. 

This is a long post so I’m just gonna cut it here there’s no better place to put it lol

BOOKS

obviously not all the books about these topics published at the time but it’s a mix of what I could fine and what I knew was a big deal.

The Anatomy of the Occult by Raymond Buckland. Pub. 1980

Inside Voodoo: Black Magic, Zombies, Prophecy, Telepathy, and the Supernatural by Marcus Bach. Pub. 1968

A Treatise on Cosmic Fire by Alice A. Bailey. Pub. 1989

The Book of Ceremonial Magic by Arthur Edward Waite. Originally called The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts.  It was first published in a limited run in 1898, and distributed more widely under the title The Book of Ceremonial Magic in 1910.  It is an attempt to document various famous grimoires, explain the history behind them, discuss the theology contained therein, and to synthesize many famous grimoires into one system.

The Book of Ceremonial Magic/The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts by Arthur Edward Waite was originally called  It was first published in a limited run in 1898, and distributed more widely under the title The Book of Ceremonial Magic in 1910.  It is an attempt to document various famous grimoires, explain the history behind them (refuting many of the legends surrounding them), discuss the theology contained therein (e.g. raising the question why good angels would be summoned to kill an enemy), and to synthesize many famous grimoires into one system.

The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley. Pub. 1912-3.

Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of The Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson.Pub. 1977. (the other 2 are written in the 90s)

Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen. Pub. 1974.

Dictionary of Occult, Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils, written by Fred Gettings. Pub. 1981.

Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex, and Politics by Starhawk. Pub.1982.

Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions by James Randi. Pub. 1980.

Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Contemporary Americans by Malachi Martin. Pub. 1976.

Initiation into Hermetics by Franz Bardon. Pub. 1956. Eng Trans. 1962.

The Magical Revival by Kenneth Grant. Pub. 1972.

Mastering Witchcraft: A Practical Guide for Witches, Warlocks and Covens by Paul Huson. Pub. 1970.

Mysteries of the Unknown is a series of books about the paranormal, published by Time-Life Books from 1987 through 1991.

The Occult: A History by Colin Wilson. Pub. 1971.

The Other Side by Bishop James Pike with Diane Kennedy. Pub 1968.

The Perfect Matrimonyor The Door to Enter Into Initiation by Samael Aun Weor. It was first published in 1950 then revised and amplified in 1961.

The Secret Lore of Magic by Idries Shah. Pub. 1957.

Spirits, Stars, and Spells: The Profits and Perils of Magic by L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp. Pub. 1966.

Publications

Anabiosis/Journal of Near-Death Studies - a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the field of near-death studies. Founded in 1982 originally called Anabiosis then got a name change in 1987.

The Equinox (subtitle: The Review of Scientific Illuminism) - a periodical that served as the official organ of the A∴A∴, a magical order founded by Aleister Crowley (although material is often of import to its sister organization, Ordo Templi Orientis). Begun in 1909, it mainly featured articles about occultism and magick, while several issues also contained poetry, fiction, plays, artwork, and biographies. The last issue was published in 1998.

Fate - a U.S. magazine about paranormal phenomena. Fate was founded in 1948. Fate magazine is the longest-running magazine devoted to the paranormal.

Journal of Parapsychology - a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on psi phenomena, including telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis, as well as human consciousness in general and anomalous experiences. It was established in April 1937.

The Society for Psychical Research (UK) body of publications:

Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research First published in 1882 as a public record of the activities of the SPR, the Proceedings are now reserved for longer pieces of work, such as Presidential Addresses, and are only occasionally published.The current editor is Dr David Vernon.

Journal of the Society for Psychical Research The Journal of the Society for Psychical Research has been published quarterly since 1884. It was introduced as a private, members-only periodical to supplement the Proceedings. It now focuses on current laboratory and field research, but also includes theoretical, methodological and historical papers on parapsychology. It also publishes book reviews and correspondence. The current editor is Dr David Vernon.

Psi Encyclopedia The Psi Encyclopedia is a collection of articles and case studies about psi research, involving the scientific investigation of psychic phenomena. A bequest of Nigel Buckmaster enabled the foundation of the encyclopedia.

UFO Magazine - an American magazine that was devoted to the subject of  unidentified flying objects (UFOs), the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH), as well as paranormal and Fortean subjects in general. Founded in 1986, when defunct in 2012.

The New Equinox was a Ritual Magic publication founded in the mid-1970s by Ray Sherwin whose main interest at that time was the magic of Aleister Crowley. It was published between 1976 and 1979.The magazine was based in East Morton in Yorkshire.Tony Venables was joint editor for a few issues. Peter J. Carroll, who later went on, with Ray Sherwin, to found the Illuminates of Thanateros, was a regular contributor. 

Other media

Coast to Coast AM america’s leading paranormal radio show to this day. Tackles everything from aliens to Big Foot to ghosts. Founded 1988