Rob Doyle

Propaganda organ for the author of THRESHOLD, AUTOBIBLIOGRAPHY, THIS IS THE RITUAL, HERE ARE THE YOUNG MEN. Out now: CAMEO (W&N) . IG - skullhotel

[Rob Doyle @RobDoyle1]

Any of you near Gort, County Galway? If so, come hear me give a talk at W.B. Yeats’ tower Thoor Ballylee about his strange occult practices and late-life surge of horniness. Tomorrow Thursday October 1st 7:30pm https://t.co/FgnAQMNNR2

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[Rob Doyle @RobDoyle1]

1st episode of new books podcast The Lost Shelf has dropped. I discuss the mad and amazing book ‘Meditations on the Tarot’. Do I sound like a loon? YOU decide.
https://t.co/PlQd3WlIzK

[Rob Doyle @RobDoyle1]

1st episode of new books podcast The Lost Shelf has dropped. I discuss the mad and amazing book ‘Meditations on the Tarot’. Do I sound like a loon? YOU decide.
https://t.co/PlQd3WlIzK

[Rob Doyle @RobDoyle1]

Man what happened to Bob Dylan’s twitter. He was the only one round here making any sense

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“The WIFI password is on the back of the router”

The back of the router:

[Rob Doyle @RobDoyle1]

@ajlees @Mirabeau_Press The broken eggs to the omelette!

[Rob Doyle @RobDoyle1]

Things Get Fucked Up On the Road - on reading The Odyssey

https://t.co/mGG5dKVuGJ

[Rob Doyle @RobDoyle1]

The new book by Roisin Kiberd - my gurl! - now exists. It’s about everything: Barbie and Hitler, ketamine and yoga, muscle-freaks and drag queens, blondes and bitches, Botox and Berlin, aliens and handbags. Beauty, obsession, the elusive concept of normalcy. Beautifully published by Tramp Press. THE MOST NORMAL WOMAN.

[Rob Doyle @RobDoyle1]

May as well retweet all my fuckin tweets on here cos they all get seen by like 10 people anyway. Broken fuckhead bullshit app. Still, at least it’s not bluesky 🤠🤠🤠🕋🛸🔥

[Rob Doyle @RobDoyle1]

‘The Most Normal Woman: Essays On Appearances’ by Roisin Kiberd - reviewed in the Irish Times https://t.co/XBZvHuAE3x

[Rob Doyle @RobDoyle1]

I wrote for @unherd about one of the more out-there and startling books I've encountered in ages: 'Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism', which was published anonymously in the 20th century. Also my fledgling investigations into the Tarot, and why the Devil is in the details.
https://t.co/UBv6rs9EAw

[Rob Doyle @RobDoyle1]

‘The Most Normal Woman: Essays On Appearances’ by Roisin Kiberd - reviewed in the Irish Times https://t.co/XBZvHuAE3x

[Rob Doyle @RobDoyle1]

All the Things She Said! Roisin Kiberd interviewed about ‘The Most Normal Woman: Essays on Appearances’ https://t.co/bFB93M2Fvz

[UnHerd @unherd]

How Tarot re-enchanted my life, by Rob Doyle (@RobDoyle1)

Much has been made lately of a renewed interest in religion — itself surely symptomatic of a widespread ontological disaffection. Many people sense, often as a result of personal experiences unaccountable within the current philosophy, that the reigning scientific-materialist paradigm simply no longer holds.

The reductive, ultra-rationalist outlook that emerged from the Enlightenment and reached its apogee with the 19th century’s mechanistic vision of the cosmos has grown as antiquated as monocles and top-hats. As the planet burns up in consequence of nihilistic science and myopic greed run amok, the world suffers too from spiritual asphyxiation.

Traditions, techniques, and bodies of knowledge that once seemed unworthy of serious attention to modern minds exert a renewed pull. At the end point of a philosophical crisis, the horizons of the possible expand afresh.

Read more ⬇️

https://t.co/Nsv9eKJWis

[UnHerd @unherd]

How Tarot re-enchanted my life, by Rob Doyle (@RobDoyle1)

Until recently, I had no interest in the Tarot. My partner, however, is a dabbler. For some time now she’s been drawing cards from her Rider-Waite deck — sometimes one, sometimes three — as a way to gain perspective on her dilemmas and life-challenges.

I observed this with cautious curiosity until eventually I allowed her to draw a card for me. She did so on several occasions, always at moments of acute psychic tension on my part. Each time, the card drawn was clearly linked to interpretations that spoke to my predicament in an uncannily precise way.

Suffice it to say I was startled. To the committed rationalist: all pure coincidence. To anyone with a touch more ideational flexibility — anyone not automatically loyal to strict, post-Enlightenment materialism — this demanded a sitting-up-straight. For the first time, I started really looking at the cards.

Read more ⬇️

https://t.co/Nsv9eKJWis

[Rob Doyle @RobDoyle1]

Reading it, I was stunned at the apparent depth and richness of the Christian Hermetic tradition. After a couple of years of studying the Islamic mystical tradition, I imagined that nothing matched it within Christian mystical thought for its rigour, subtlety and sophistication. ‘Meditations’ helpfully challenged that.

[Rob Doyle @RobDoyle1]

I wrote for @unherd about one of the more out-there and startling books I've encountered in ages: 'Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism', which was published anonymously in the 20th century. Also my fledgling investigations into the Tarot, and why the Devil is in the details.
https://t.co/UBv6rs9EAw

[Rob Doyle @RobDoyle1]

I got a suitably grateful paragraph about the ever-inspiring @weirdstudies podcast into this piece. Hail Weird Studies