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And welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nori with you Carl A. Brathamson is a writer, publisher, magic, anthropologist, filmmaker and photographer.

Since the mid 1980s he's been active in the international magical community integrating what we call a culture

as a way of life and luxury and about his findings and speculations.

The author of Source Magic, a culture, resonances and Anton LeVey and the Church of Satan as well as editor and publisher of the annual anthology of a culture, the Fenris Wolf.

Carl, welcome back to the program. How have you been, sir?

Thank you very much for having me. It's great to be here and I've been good. I've been a diligent little boy writing away writing new books.

Excellent. Good for you. You do a great job writing. How'd you get started in all this?

I think it was already back in school, you know, you get these early senses of vocation and I found that my vocation was in writing.

And then of course, what should you write about? Well, that's the game of life. You accumulate experience and you find interesting things to go to interesting places and you start connecting docs and suddenly you have your own mind frame, you know, and I was very

very interested in magic and sort of the supernatural and fantasy and myth and all these things. And I've just rolled with it basically and today I write about it from the sort of down to our perspectives.

It's not high brow and it's not, you know, too symbolic or too arcane. It is tried to see what's magical today in a way and then I write about that.

And I kind of smell magic ending in a K you have an MAGIC as we have it here in the United States. Is there really a difference?

The difference is having to do with this probably most famous or infamous magician of the 20th century, a British guy called Alice the Crowley.

Yeah, he spelled his magic word with a K to sort of differentiate it from the older systems that he had been taught in, you know, as kids doing away, you know what you want to set yourself aside from whatever's been before.

And some people have taken that to heart and spell it like that. I prefer the normal spelling in a way because it's more inclusive.

And what is your thoughts on a culture OCC ULT URE?

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