Name: Session 1: Who is Aleister Crowley
Start: 2026-02-28T18:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-28T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Lincoln, England

Biography, entanglements, contradictions
This opening talk focuses on Crowley as a historical person rather than a symbol, villain, or icon.
The aim is to strip away caricature and examine the conditions that produced him, the choices he made, and the tensions he lived with.
This session explores:
- His family background and his reaction against it
- Education, class, privilege, and rebellion
- Mountaineering, excess, discipline, and contradiction
- Why he cultivated shock … deliberately?
- Where myth has replaced fact
Crowley wasn’t just one thing like many believes. He was a bundle of drives, some productive, some destructive, shaped by his time and circumstances. Understanding that complexity is essential before engaging with his ideas or influence.
Important to mention that, there will be no ritual work and no practical magick in this session.
This is a talk intended to give clarity, context, and intellectual distance.
This series is for those who want to understand the foundations of modern occult practice without sensationalism or mythology, and for those who value thoughtful, unsanitised discussion that moves beyond the limits of the ‘love and light’ approach.
£22pp