From MaybeLogic Academy website:

The Magickal Realism of H.P. Lovecraft

Once an obscure figure, H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) is now widely recognized as a pulp visionary of the highest order—a prophet of the darkside imagination that everywhere surrounds us now. In this six-week course we will unpack Lovecraft’s unique blend of fantasy, materialism, and meta-fictional play. Linking the revolutionary “outsideness” of Lovecraft’s brand of horror to his scientific materialism, we will also explore the occult potentials of his fictional universe, and its relationship to his own rich dreamlife. The class will close with a group web research project devoted to tracking the “magickal reality” of Lovecraft’s so-called “Mythos” and its central grimoire: the Necronomicon.

WEEK ONE: Meet the Man
An introduction to Lovecraft through a selection of his fascinating letters.

WEEK TWO: The Moldering Past
HPL’s relationship to the past, both literary (the Gothic; occult lore), regional, and genetic.

WEEK THREE: Mad Reason
How HPL fused and contrasted modern scientific rationality and supernatural horror.

WEEK THREE: Writing the Dream
HPL had a remarkable dream life that seeped into his fictions, which often engage the parallel world of dreaming.

WEEK FOUR: Fictional Magick
What elements within Lovecraft’s texts allowed later occultists to turn his fictions into magickal material.

WEEK FIVE: The Meta-Mythos
How the mythos has spread beyond HPL, into other fictions and a widespread subculture of fandom.

WEEK SIX: The Dread Tome
We will spend our last week tracking the magickal reality of Lovecraft’s ultimate grimoire.

Erik Davis is the author of TechGnosis: Myth, Magic & Mysticism in the Age of Information (Five Star Paperback) and The Visionary State: A Journey Through California’s Spiritual Landscape. Besides his popular Maybe Logic classes, Erik has taught courses at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Pacifica, and the California Institute of Integral Studies.

More course info: http://www.maybelogic.org/courses.htm

Previously on Arthurmag.com:

1. “The plant-mind can be *experienced*”: ERIK DAVIS on the Avatar-ayahuasca connection