#temple of psychic youth

[bloodandflame]

[abrahadabra777]

Via Alec Yushkoff

[catheadreynolds]

[femmepathy]

Psychic TV: First Transmission (1982)

[newyorkkiss]

“THEE TEMPLE OV THEE PSYCHICK YOUTH” mail order pamphlet from 1983

[alephskoteinos]

John Balance called himself a pagan but used the term in the sense that to him it just meant being "godless" in the eyes of others, rejecting every god save for "except those you created yourself". I noticed Thee Temple ov Psychic Youth identified with the same basic idea. Genesis P-Orridge characterised TOPY as "self-professed and reconstructed heathens, godless and proud", but this term is clearly not in the sense of things like Norse Heathenry, and more like the way Christians call non-believers "heathens", embracing it as a positive term. It seems to me to mean something very similar to what John Balance was talking about, in that TOPY didn't formally believe in any gods as such, but they did see themselves as "pagans" in a way that meant a more or less non-conformist approach to religion and magic. TOPY's idea of what that is remains very relevant in some ways: to unite the conscious and subconscious will, in order to reintegrate and reconstruct the individual personality, thus liberating it.

[bilrost]

[jamesusilljournal]

Psychic T.V. & The Temple Of Psychick Youth - Roman P. artwork, Jean-Pierre Turmel, 1984

[disease]

[meattzar]

dream show february 2024 adobe photoshop

[bloodandflame]

[abrahadabra777]

[echocodex]

Do You Doubt That?

[alchemisoul]

Robert Anton Wilson & Genesis P. Orridge Discuss Aleister Crowley & Species Evolution

[suede-edge]

Bout It Bout It