Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan with Carl Abrahamsson

Carl Abrahamsson is both a filmmaker and author. His most recent film is titled Anton LaVey: Into the Devil’s Den. Other films include Poems Are Living Things and Cinemagician: Conversations with Kenneth Anger. His most recent book is titled Occulture: The Hidden Forces That Drive Culture Forward. He also edits The Fenris Wolf, an annual anthology of occulture.

His websites include https://www.carlabrahamsson.com .blogspot.com/ https://store.trapart.net/ https://www.facebook.com/authorcarlabrahamsson https://www.trapartfilm.com/ https://soundcloud.com/highbrowlowlife https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com/music http://highbrow-lowlife.com/

Here he describes how he met Anton LaVey and became an official member of the Church of Satan. He describes LaVey’s love of music and of old film noir movies. He points out that the Church of Satan represented a social critique of mainstream hypocrisy, as well as a celebration of life’s pleasures. He suggests that LaVey’s Satanic Bible combined astute psychological insights with a deep knowledge of occult principles, particularly concerning ritual magick. He describes LaVey as a modern occultist, as compared with either Aleister Crowley or Rudolf Steiner.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980).

(Recorded on June 15, 2020)

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Carl Abrahamsson, Reasonances – https://amzn.to/2NWa8JA

Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible – https://amzn.to/3iyJvs2

Carl Abrahamsson (Ed.), The Fenris Wolf – https://amzn.to/2O23LnT

John DeSalvo, Decoding the Enochian Secrets – https://amzn.to/31KziTr

White Stains, Sweet Jayne (audio recording) – https://amzn.to/2NUR0eZ

David Boaz, The Libertarian Mind – https://amzn.to/3e1ak4E

Sigmund Freud, The Unconscious – https://amzn.to/3iy5j7t

Wilhelm Reich, The Function of the Orgasm – https://amzn.to/3iyKmsK

Connie Zweig, Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality – https://amzn.to/3f1XxAm

Lawrence Sutin, Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley – https://amzn.to/2AyAUVm

Rabelais, Complete Works – https://amzn.to/3f00u4H