Richard Kaczynski, PhD

Richard Kaczynski, Ph.D., is a writer, musician, research scientist and teacher. The Times Literary Supplement called his Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley , "the major biography to date" of this seminal figure of modern magick. Richard is also the author of Forgotten Templars: The Untold Origins of Ordo Templi Orientis , The Weiser Concise Guide to Aleister Crowley , Perdurabo Outtakes , and Panic in Detroit: The Magician and the Motor City . He has also appeared on television in the...See more

Richard Kaczynski, Ph.D., is a writer, musician, research scientist and teacher. The Times Literary Supplement called his Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley , "the major biography to date" of this seminal figure of modern magick. Richard is also the author of Forgotten Templars: The Untold Origins of Ordo Templi Orientis , The Weiser Concise Guide to Aleister Crowley , Perdurabo Outtakes , and Panic in Detroit: The Magician and the Motor City . He has also appeared on television in the documentaries Secrets of the Occult and Aleister Crowley: The Beast 666 . Richard earned his Ph.D. in social psychology in 1993 with a dissertation on metaphysical beliefs and experiences in New Religious Movements. He has lectured internationally, and over those years his writing has appeared in various books ( Tarot in Culture , Mathematics in Popular Culture , Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism , Rebels and Devils , etc.). See less