ADOLFO CATELLI

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Adolfo Catelli
Scholar of ancient Roman Escathology







 

ANDREA ARMATI

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Andrea Armati
Publisher, writer, specialized in Ageography and  Wenstern Medioeval History.

Le Edizioni Eleusi nascono con il preciso scopo di riportare alla luce il paganesimo bandito dalla storia. Ci interessa la ricerca storica su queste origini tradite, ma anche la pratica coraggiosa di chi riscopre oggi il sentiero perduto degli Dèi.

BLAKE VIOLA

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Blake Viola
Writer, Multimedia artist, Performer.

Photo from Bill Viola's "Ocean Without a Shore" 2007 Video/sound installation.
Performer: Blake Viola | Installation view, Church of San Gallo, Venice | Photo: Thierry Bal.

Based in Long Beach, California, where he grew up, Blake attended The Evergreen State College in Washington graduating in 2010 with a Bachelors of Arts Degree, in visual art, mythology and religion, and creative writing.  Blake Viola's work and my writings are a direct interaction with concepts and images from an ongoing study into the occult, shamanism, Vodou, and various ancient cultures, especially the Greeks. I have been extremely inspired by the physicality and raw nature of "Primitive" Art, from over modeled skulls of New Guinea, to Nkisi objects of the Congo.  The goal of my work has always been to create powerful objects and images that come from the space outside of the ego and conscious realms in order to realize deeper inner essences greater than the self, to actuate them and to allow others to feel the place from whence they came, and hopefully, to awaken a similar space within their own bodies.  In a sense my work is attempting to follow the ancient practice of embodying principles, or spirits into matter, to create a domain, a flesh for them to peer out and hopefully interact with the world.  At the same time, this is an attempt to bring the viewers closer to their world.

 

CARL ABRAHAMSSON

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Carl Abrahamsson
Writer, photographer, musician, publisher, misanthropologist, experimental artisit, et cetera.

Carl Abrahamsson was in the '80s leader of the Scandinavian department of the Temple ov Psychic Youth, and was for a short time in the early 90's, also associated with Anton LaVey. Abrahamsson has had contacts with several well-known subcultural names, like Michael Gira, Kenneth Anger, Richard Kern, Freddie Wadling and Genesis P-Orridge. He start his carrer as publisher of music/subculture fanzines Lollipop and Acts Of Interstellar Torture, music-making with the band White Stains, Initial record label and publishing activities through TOPYSCAN, Edited and published occultural journal The Fenris Wolf, Founded and worked with record label and book publishing company Psychick Release, Co-founded and worked with film society Cinematick in Stockholm, organising numerous film shows, events and parties, including in-person-appearances by Herschell Gordon Lewis, Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch, Jörg Buttgereit and several others, Co-founded and worked with book publishing company Looking Glass Press, Founded and worked with advertising agency/think tank Übertex, co-founded Edda publishing with the artisit Fredrik Söderberg, and publish many books like ”Allt var bättre förr men inte länge till”, ”Bardo Tibet”, "Olika Människor" etc, Music-making with the bands Cotton Ferox and Deform Project, Editor at Tidningen Kulturen, music and film sections, Editor at The Fenris Wolf web magazine.

DYLAN MICHAEL BURNS

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Dylan Michael Burns
Professor at Dep. of Biblical Exegesis - University of Copenhagen

 

GIOVANNI ZUCCONI

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GIOVANNI ZUCCONI

IRWIN LEE

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Irwin Lee
Professor in the Religious Studies Department at the College of Charleston.

Irwin Lee teaches world religions with an emphasis on Native American traditions, western esotericism, hermeticism, contemporary spirituality, mystical cosmology, and transpersonal religious experience as related to dreams and visions. He is the Vice President of the Association for the Study of Esotericism (ASE) and a board member of the Sophia Institute and the Institute for Dream Studies. He has been a workshop leader and group facilitator for over twenty years, particularly in the areas of visionary cosmology and the development of the sacred human. He is the author of many books and articles, including: The Dream Seekers, Visionary Worlds, Awakening to Spirit: On Life, Illumination, and Being, The Alchemy of Soul, and Coming Down From Above: Prophecy, Resistance, and Renewal in Native American Religions.

KEN JEREMIAH

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Ken Jeremiah
Assistant Professor presso Western International University.
Class "A" PGA Golf Professional presso Narragansett Driving Range. Writer presso Author / Translator.
Teacher of Spanish, Italian, and Japanese presso South Kingstown High School, USA.

Ken Jeremiah has written extensively about Japanese Buddhism, and about other religious and historical phenomena, including the self-mummified monks of Yamagata, Japan. He is a PGA golf professional, and he leads tour groups to Japan, Italy, and other countries yearly.

LUCIANO SCHERER

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Luciano Scherer
Visual and Multimedia Artsit

Luciano Scherer was born in 1987, in Santa Vitória do Palmar, a small city in Southern Brasil. Multidimensions, encounters in different levels, invocations of created deities, trance and ritual as a challenge to represent what cannot be represented, what is beyond visual consciousness.


 

LUIGI GARLASCHELLI

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Luigi Garlaschelli
Professor at Dep. of Organic Chemistry - University of Padova
and member of CICAP (Comitato Italiano per il Controllo delle Affermazioni sul Paranormale)

Ricercatore presso il Dipartimento di chimica organica dell’Università di Pavia, si occupa di ricerca e di  didattica. Prima  che all’Università, ha lavorato presso il Politecnico di Milano, negli Stati Uniti e  per la Società Montedison. E’ autore di diverse decine di lavori scientifici e brevetti.  Dal 2001 al 2004 è stato  professore a contratto per l’insegnamento di Chimica Organica per  il corso di laurea in Biotecnologie presso l’Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele di Milano. Dal 2007 è professore aggregato presso l'Università di Pavia. A fianco delle sue occupazioni ufficiali, si interessa da diversi anni di, anomalie, pseudoscienze e fenomeni paranormali e misteriosi. E' socio dal 1991 del C.I.C.A.P. (Comitato Italiano per il Controllo delle Affermazioni sul Paranormale), nel quale riveste l'incarico di responsabile delle sperimentazioni.   Il C.I.C.A.P. è un comitato scientifico senza fini di lucro, di cui fanno parte personalità famose della scienza e della cultura (Piero Angela, Silvio Garattini, Margherita Hack, Tullio Regge, Roberto Vacca ecc.) Sui risultati di alcune indagini ha pubblicato articoli su riviste nazionali e internazionali dedicate alle pseudoscienze, alla parapsicologia e al paranormale. E' stato (nel 1999-2000) correlatore di tesi di psicologia sperimentale presso il Dipartimento di Psicologia generale dell'Università di Padova: una sull'illusione percettiva delle "Salite stregate" e una sulle esperienze di premorte;  nel 2005-2006 di una tesi Erasmus sui metodi dei "pietrificatori di cadaveri".  E’ stato nel 2001 coordinatore di un programma di indagini e analisi scientifiche dedicate alla figura di San Galgano e alla sua “Spada nella roccia” del XII secolo.  Questa iniziativa ha avuto il patrocinio di vari comuni della provincia di Siena, della Region Toscana, della Sovrintendenza Archeologica toscana, e del Ministero dei Beni culturali. Ha partecipato a indagini scientifiche su reliquie di San Guglielmo di Malavalle.  Persegue anche un'attiva opera di divulgazione scientifica. E' comparso numerose volte alla televisioni italiane e straniere (BBC, National Geographic, etc.), e tiene spesso conferenze su questi argomenti, anche nelle scuole e presso Università. Collabora alla rivista del Comitato, Scienza & Paranormale, alla rivista Magia e ha pubblicato articoli riguardanti il paranormale anche su quotidiani e altre riviste (Sapere, Liberal , Micromega, ecc.). Ha tenuto per diversi anni una rubrica  (Chimica e... misteri) sulla rivista della Società Chimica Italiana, La Chimica e l'Industria. Garlaschelli ha pubblicato vari libri, esiti delle sue ricerche: I Segreti dei fachiri e Investigatori dell’occulto (con Massimo Polidoro), Rabdomanzia (con Andrea Albini) e Processo alla Sindone.(Avverbi Ed) Nel 2006 ha pubblicato un'opera di narrativa, il mystery  Corpi di pietra (Neftasia Ed.). Nel 2009 è stato curatore del Quaderno Cicap n 10 (Indagatori del Mistero) e del Quaderno Cicap n. 11 (In cerca di miracoli) e nel 2011 del volume LOURDES - I dossier sconosciuti  (Italian university Press)  Nel dicembre 2009  è stato  nominato Fellow del C.S.I. (Center for Skeptical Inquiry)
 

LUIGI PRESICCE

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Luigi Presicce
Visual and Multimedia Artsit

He was born in Porto Cesareo (Lecce) in 1976, and lives and works in Milan and Porto Cesareo. He attended the Fine Arts Academy in Lecce, but his work has been decisively influenced by his independent studies. In 2007 he took part in the Advanced Course in Visual Arts (CSAV) at the Antonio Ratti Foundation in Como with the American artist Joan Jonas. In 2008, as part of the Artist in Residence initiative, he took part in the workshop at Viafarini in Milan with the American artist Kim Jones. In Milan in 2008 he also founded (with Luca Francesconi and Valentina Suma) the magazine Brownmagazine followed by the Brown Project Space, for which he acts as curator. In 2011 with Giusy Checola and Salvatore Baldi he started running “Archiviazioni” (research and discussion activities regarding contemporary culture in southern Italy) in Lecce. In 2012 he took part in Artists in Residence at MACRO, Rome. With Luigi Negro, Emilio Fantin, Giancarlo Norese and Cesare Pietroiusti he is involved in the Lu Cafausu project, which has been invited by AND AND AND at dOCUMENTA13, Kassel. He performed at Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Venice (2010), Performance Festival Thessaloniki Biennale 3, Greece (2011), Festival Reims Scènes d'Europe, Frac Champagne-Ardenne, France (2011), MADRE, Neaples (2012), We Folk - Drodesera Festival, Centrale Fies, Dro (2012). He won Epson Art Prize, Antonio Ratti Foundation, Como (2007), Emerging Talents Prize, CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (2011), Long Play, MAGA, Gallarate (2012).
 

MARCO PUCCIARINI

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Marco Pucciarini
Professor at Dep. Studi Storici - University of Perugia

Marco Pucciarini (Perugia 1955), laureato in Epigrafia Semitica all’Università “La Sapienza” di Roma, Diplomato in Scienze Religiose ad Arezzo, ha perfezionato le sue competenze filologiche con una Borsa internazionale presso la Hebrew University di Gerusalemme, ha condotto ricerche presso l’istituto di Storia Ceca dell’Università Karlova di Praga sui fondi manoscritti magici, alchemici e cabalistici delle biblioteche della Boemia. E’ docente di Storia delle Religioni nel biennio di specializzazione in Teologia Fondamentale dell’Istituto Teologico (aggregato alla Facoltà di Sacra Teologia della Pontificia Università Lateranense) e nell’Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose di Assisi, ha insegnato “Storie delle Istituzioni politiche, sociali e religiose dei Paesi Asiatici” alla Scuola Superiore Universitaria per Interpreti e Traduttori di Perugia. Fa parte del gruppo di esperti sull’Islam della CEI. Giornalista pubblicista iscritto all’Ordine dei Giornalisti dell’Umbria; è membro di diverse società scientifiche come, fra le altre, la Società Italiana di Storia delle Religioni, la Buddhist Society, la British Association for the Study of Religions, l’ Association d’Etude et d’Information sur les Mouvements Religieux;fa parte del Comitato tecnico-scientifico dell’Istituto di Ricerche e Documentazione sugli antichi Umbri di Gubbio.


 

MICHAEL ESPOSITO

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Michael Andrew Esposito
Experimental Artist, Paraphycology researcher

Michael Esposito was born 1964 in Gary, Indiana. He is an experimental artist and researcher in Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP). An ancestor of Alfred Vail, who invented the Morse Code and several early telegraph devices with his partner Samuel Morse. Another ancestor, Jonathan Harned Vail was office manager and assistant to Thomas Edison in his later years when Edison was attempting to develop a device to communicate with the dead. Michael studied communication theory at Purdue University, University of Notre Dame, American University in Cairo, Egypt and Governor's State University. Over the years, under the Phantom Airwaves institution, Michael has participated in hundreds of paranormal investigations all over the world. He has conducted extensive research at many active locations and has developed a great deal of unique theory and devised many unique experiments within the field of EVP. Focusing primarily on EVP research, he has collected tens of thousands EVPs and video. He is featured in the films:

Dead Whisper, Paranormal Labs: Ghosts - Dead Whisper, Ghost Asylum, The Sallie House - Gateway to the Paranormal, Dead Whisper: In Search of Ghosts and the Supernatural, Paranormal Labs Presents: Ghost Asylum, The Sallie House - Gateway to the Paranormal, 2011 Ash 8.3 #3 presented to Michael Esposito by Ash International.

Michael has appeared in numerous television, radio and newspaper features. Working extensively with EVP's relationship to experimental music, Michael combines EVP with field recording and related frequency tones of research sites to provide an audio-archeological picture of both sides of the veil.
Michael is currently published by Touch Music[MCPS] UK.

NICOLA MASCIANDARO

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Nicola Masciandaro
Writer, Editor, Publisher.

Nicola Masciandaro is Associate Professor of English at CUNY, Brooklyn College, a specialist in medieval literature, and founding editor of the journal Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary. He is is currently completing a book on the subject of mystical sorrow.

PAOLO MEONI

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Paolo Meoni
Visual Artist.
Nato a Prato nel 1968, dove vive e lavora, Paolo Meoni indaga l’intimità dell’immagine video attraverso semplici dispositivi che mettono in forma la fenomenologia del mezzo nella sua purezza evocativa mostrando,  con accorgimenti rudimentali,  la  potenzialità dell' immagine. 
Dopo aver partecipato nel 2008 a “New Delhi: Urban  Landscapes”, al Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea L . Pecci di Prato  all’Italian Cultural Institute di New Delhi, nel 2010  è selezionato al  32°  Film festival mediterraneo di Montpellier nella sezione sperimentale. Nel 2011 partecipa al  Festival delle città impresa , impatto paesaggio , a cura del centro studi Usine e Fondazione Francesco Fabbri. 
Nel 2012 En plein air, doppia personale Galleria Die Mauer e Dryphoto arte contemporanea,  partecipa alla collettiva del museo MAN di Nuoro “L’evento immobile. Sfogliare il tempo”, ed ad una selezione del premio Terna tenutasi al Multimedia Art Museum di Mosca e al progetto “Mondi”, in vari luoghi della citta’ di Prato.
Sempre nel 2012 ha partecipato al Museo Mart  alla “ La Magnifica Ossessione ’’.Nel 2013 sempre al museo Mart di Rovereto ha partecipato ad una mostra  curata da il filosofo Jean-Luc Nancy dal titolo “L’altro Ritratto”. Presenta la nuova sigla per Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival 2013, termina il 2013 con la personale Volumi nella galleria AplusB di Brescia.

PIETRO MANDER

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Pietro Mander
Professor at Dep. Assiriology - University of Naples "L'Orientale"

 

RICCARDO FABIANI

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Riccardo Fabiani
Visual artist, Illustrator.

Willing to do everything, as long as a pencil is involved. A marker is good too.
Willing to do everything that involve a comics. A video or a pics will do also.

RITA LUCARELLI

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Rita Lucarelli
Professor at Institute for the Study of the Ancient World -University of Bonn

 

ROMOLO ROSSI

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ROMOLO ROSSI

VINCENT COMO

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Vincent Como

Visual Artist

The work that engages me and drives me forward is powered by Black. In applying my research and interest for the history and traditions of Color Theory, Physics, Alchemy, Heavy Metal, Religion and Mythology I am working toward a comprehensive understanding of the interrelation of Black, Darkness, and Matter. Black is the pure and unrepentant mark of information; both the origin of recording thoughts, and the fully saturated realization of all pigment as one. Darkness is the event, or phenomena of Blackness; the threshold over which light can no longer affect a receptor (eye, camera, etc.). Matter is the physical manifestation of Black-made-flesh; the Ka'abah or Black Stone of Mecca, Dark Matter and Black Holes, the Nigredo stage of alchemical transformation. Through these investigations, the goal of my work is to expand and cross the boundaries which define and divide Black, Darkness and Matter into a unified concept. A Black Singularity.