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Aleister Crowley also recorded his experiences with visionary and dream herbs while traveling in India and Nepal, including a combination of alpine turmeric and wild alpine galangal that dream workers still use today. He left the biggest mark on modern occultism in founding the order of Thelema, a religious philosophy involving the ritual practice of magic that required its followers to master astral projection as part of the path to spiritual fulfillment.īesides being a prominent occultist, Aleister Crowley was an outspoken libertine and social critic, mountaineer, student of yoga, and lifelong drug experimenter whose semi-autobiographical work, Diary of a Drug Fiend, chronicled his fascination with opium among other things. Aleister Crowley was active in several secret orders throughout his life, including the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (a Masonic brotherhood), the Order of Oriental Templars, and the Great White Brotherhood, which he co-founded. Best known today as an English occultist and mystic, Aleister Crowley was born Edward Alexander Crowley in Warwickshire, England, to an upper class family.