Ramsey Dukes Rides Again! / Magick, Science, and Virtual Reality with Lionel Snell

About this episode

The episode features Ramsey Dukes, also known as Lionel Snell, discussing his experiences and insights on magic, science, and virtual reality.

Ramsey Dukes is the current and most well-known pen name of Lionel Snell, a contemporary English magician, publisher, and author on magic and philosophy.Lionel was born to a Kibbo Kift couple as WW2 was ending and lived his childhood in a converted water mill deep in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. From his village school he won a scholarship plus government bursary to attend prep and public school in Bristol, where he discovered a wonderful library of ancient alchemy and magic books that had been bequeathed to the school by EJ Holmyard.A scholarship to Cambridge University enabled him to study Crowley and other occult books in the University library, and he still had time to graduate in pure mathematics. He tried teaching, gardening, aircraft stress analysis, copy writing, technical writing and a few other things before becoming a freelance promotional writer, mostly for hi-tech industries.Meanwhile he had made a name for himself – or rather a number of names – writing and self-publishing books and articles on magic, occult philosophy, and radical worldviews. These included a wicked satirical column for Aquarian Arrow, a UK neo-pantheist magazine in the 1970-80s. He is now best…

People in this episode

Host: Hermitix

Guests: Ramsey Dukes, Lionel Snell

Topics covered

• magic
• philosophy
• occult
• virtual reality
• science
• personal history

Keywords

• Ramsey Dukes
• Lionel Snell
• magic
• philosophy
• occult
• virtual reality
• Cambridge University
• Kibbo Kift

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kibbo Kift, Cambridge University, Aeon Books

Books & works: Aquarian Arrow

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