Theo Paijmans

@memizon.bsky.social

They were strange days—curious dream-like days—and they followed each other silently, like shadows over grain fields. Edith Allonby, The Fulfilment, 1905.

Perverted By Language Collage made from Ladybird books, Wills cigarette cards, Babycham coaster, 1960s Vogue & Woman magazines & 1960s wallpaper, acrylic marker, watercolour, felt tip

A colourful collage made from 1960s magazines books and wallpaper with a thin white blond young model applying stick blusher in the bottom left with her hair coloured in blonde and stars drawn on her face, eyeballs in the centre of the white flowers on the teal and gold wallpaper and a blonde white glove puppet in the top right surrounded by drawn stars and clouds

Two times The Unknown Woman of the Seine. Resting on one of my very few walls that isn’t completely book lined. Took me years to find her - and when I finally did, she was just a street away. The other is a smaller version, made in Germany in 1939.

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My latest find takes me on a journey to 1920s German-Austrian occult orders as Pansophia, Bauherren, Loge Hekate and Faternitas Saturni. A descent into the dark heart of German-Austrian esoterism. A small window on the absolute elsewhere (1918-1933), slammed shut when the Nazis came to power.

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I found this obscure publication, only 22 copies published. Much non-human contact occurred in the G:.D:., its offshoots and members during their 19th century astral travel rituals. I wrote a 7,000 word paper on astral travel that was published in the ‘UFO Encyclopedia’, 4th edition, this year.

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Shop update! 👻 Signed copies of Women of the Paranormal: Volume II are now available! The new Spooky Feminist enamel pin is also live, and I've added bundle discounts if you purchase multiple items. ✈️ Orders are open through July 8 before I leave for London. The shop reopens July 20.

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This came in today thanks to the tireless postal worker (we have a heatwave here at the moment): two issues from 1933 (July and October) of ‘The Inner Light’, published by Dion Fortune’s order. They are quite rare these days. I have about seven other issues from 1937 to 1940.

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A weird Wednesday shelfie from my library. I am always amazed at how many strange books were published. After decades of reading, searching and studying, not a day goes by where I am learning of the existence of other weird books.

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