flann o'brien - to me the third policeman reads like a satire of the golden dawn's history, and the massive influence (through yeats) its symbolism had on irish letters.
in the english-speaking comics world, just to recap, there's alan moore, grant morrison and pat mills.
there's the blondie guy's new book that i've not read, which i imagine might convince you that jagger and roeg were 'practising' for a bit at least.
ted hughes - anglo shamanism ahoy
iain sinclair - urban shamanism ahoy
stewart home - skinhead chaote
(those last two are hardly famous i know. though hardly a week goes by without sinclair popping up on the bbc)
also yr latterday gnostic saints, who would've looked funny at you if you'd told them they were a magician, but post-mortem there's not much they can do about it: hplovecraft and pkdick
allejandro jodorowsky - you could miss it from his comics perhaps, but not his films
henri michaux - tried writing his own voynich manuscripts under mescalin
most the surrealists to greater or lesser degrees
led zeppelin, whoever the fuck they are
obviously there's a point where Magicqk-ians become difficult to spot, and what you have is an artist whose themes overlap with the esoteric.
or
charles II - poshest alchemical lab in the world
black brothers:
walt disney and george lucas |
, Mae West practiced techniques for developing esp, the lead singer for Muse (I forget his name) is really into magic mushrooms and ouija boards, Tony Robinson of time team is a worshipper of the yog-sothoth....