Silver

About me... not my ice chest. Blair MacKenzie Blake graduated from Miskatonic University in the 1970s, which inspired him to become a professional mysteryologist. As the founding member of the experimental magick-oriented P.U.P. Lodge, Mr. Blake has been studying, practicing, and writing about the western esoteric tradition for over twenty years. More recently, he has been focusing his attention on the neurochemical basis of successful magickal workings (and paranormal activity in general). Through a careful examination of cryptic references in occult literature and grail iconography, he suggests that the psychic transmutation of the alchemical opus is actually facilitated by a post-mortem endogenous substance that he describes as “the Residuum of Paradise” (called by others “The Philosopher’s Stone”). Incorporating a magical vocabulary and Nightside symbolism, his first book, IJYNX, a collection of occult prose-poems, attempts to convey the ritually-machined ecstatic states that allow one access to hyper-dimensions of consciousness and encounters with trans-mundane entities. He is currently one of the contributing authors of an anthology entitled “Dark Lore – Volume One”, and is simultaneously working on several books with occult themes. For nearly 8 years he has been the writer/content manager for Toolband.com, ToolArmy.com and DannyCarey.org. A classically trained musician (and card-carrying psychonaut in the 1970s) he was the co-writer of the prog rock rhapsody Assault on Merryland by “Surprise”, and also appeared on the Butcher CD Auricle as a songwriter, keyboardist, and wordsmith. Mr. Blake is an avid collector of antiquarian books (specializing in the occult), and is a well-traveled, non-apologist ufologist. The self-described heathen near-Vegan resides in Los Angeles, but spends much of his time in the state of Texas, where he brakes for armadillos, barbecue shacks, and anomalous black aeroforms (that he doesn’t shoot at).