Cosmology (from the Greek κόσμος, kosmos “world” and -λογία, -logia “study of”) is a branch of astronomy concerned with the studies of the origin and evolution of the universe, from the Big Bang to today and on into the future. It is the scientific study of the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe. Physical cosmology is the scientific study of the universe’s origin, its large-scale structures and dynamics, and its ultimate fate, as well […]
Atheism is, in the broadest sense, an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which, in its most general form, is the belief that at least one deity exists. The etymological root for […]
Refers to any literary or artistic work that deals substantively with subject matter that is erotically stimulating or sexually arousing but is not pornographic [emphasis added]. Erotic art may use any artistic form to depict erotic content, including painting, sculpture, drama, film or music. Erotic literature and erotic photography have become genres in their own […]
Disinformation is false or misleading information that is spread deliberately to deceive. This is a subset of misinformation, which may also be unintentional. The English word disinformation is a loan translation of the Russian dezinformatsiya, derived from the title of a KGB black propaganda department. Joseph Stalin coined the term, giving it a French-sounding name to claim it had a Western origin. Russian use began with a “special disinformation office” in […]
NOTE: it is in the following sense that I use the words ‘magick’ and ‘magic,’ in my fiction comporting, as it does, to an actual part of nature. —GTJ Magick, in the context of Aleister Crowley‘s Thelema, is a term used to show and differentiate the occult from performance magic and is defined as “the Science and Art of causing Change […]
The Dreamlands is a universe where H. P. Lovecraft’s Dream Cycle series take place. It is an alternate reality that can only be entered via dreams. The Dreamlands are divided into several regions: The West, the most well-known and safe region of Dreamlands, a place where many dreamers enter the universe through the Steps of […]
Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English playwright, novelist, film director, and visual artist. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works, and his fiction has been […]
The Middle Marches, also known as the Mittelmarch, are a fictional land found in the Von Bek series of novels written by Michael Moorcock. They are described as “the world in between heaven and ours”. In my fiction, the Mittelmarche is an etheric world that stitches together the ‘normal’ parts of inhabited space. The technology […]
The Færie Doors are a Portal Network entirely separate from the one created by the Templars, though some claim that passage from a Network Portal to a Færie Door (and vice versa) is possible. This network was created by the elves of the Elven Convocation around the time of the First Templar War. Elfkin currently […]
The Portal Network is a vast linkage of individual wormholes stitching together the Thirty Aions of the former Shining Empire of the Pleroma. This network was created and maintained by the rulers of the Empire, the Templars, until the Pleroma’s dissolution at the end of the First Templar War. It is now maintained by the […]