esoteric delights

  ĕs'ə-tĕr'ĭk dĭ-līt's

"Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient philosophies were of two kinds, -- exoteric, those that the philosophers themselves could partly understand, and esoteric, those that nobody could understand. It is the latter that have most profoundly affected modern thought and found greatest acceptance in our time."  --Andrew Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

A fool hath no delight in understanding. --Prov. xviii. 2.

My name is Eric Murray.  I live in Oakland, CA, with my fiance and our cat.  I've been a musician most of my life, and have a deep love for most types of music, especially if it actually does rock, and doesn't simply declare itself to.  I'm currently 50% of the beautiful and brutal aural mysticism that is Pegataur, the true catalyst for this web site's existence.  This site is about the intersection for my love of music, love of coding, and love of the Western esoteric and mystery tradition.  I'll probably sneak some other love in there.  I'm a Scorpio, I can do that. 

Credit for the image above goes to Mr. David Grant for an old band (Stay Gold Pony Boy, R.I.P).  I really love this painting.  Somehow Aaron has the real thing hanging in his house, so this is the next best thing (it's also the wallpaper on my cell).