PayPal and Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel is embarking on an unusual intellectual journey this fall—delivering a sold-out four-part lecture series on the biblical figure of the Antichrist. The private lectures, which will be held at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, represent the latest evolution in Thiel’s increasingly public theological interests that intertwine his Christian faith with his concerns about technology’s potential to enable authoritarian control.
It can, but I generally recommend sex magic with people not in the Church of Satan as the Ayn Rand level of treating selfishness as a virtue doesn’t make for great sex. Sex magic is very much just a thing among the more libertine occultists and neopagans, whether that’s people setting up a gangbang for Beltane or some prayers before sex or a CoS or Thelema style whole ass ritual.