Help Save Occult of Personality!

Occult of Personality Podcast produces high-quality informative podcasts featuring interviews with writers, mystics, esotericists, and philosophers.

Unfortunately, as many of us have learned over the years, there are individuals who devote themselves to silencing and harassing people they disagree with.  The Occult of Personality site was targeted by a DNS attack and is offline.  Because this site is a major source of income for the Kaminsky family, they're facing an immediate and urgent crisis;  please consider helping out if you can.

http://www.gofundme.com/198q8o?pc=fb_d

From the Kaminskys:

Kaminsky family is in "all hands on board" crisis mode this morning and we need your help! Greg's website was hacked last night and is out of commission. The hosting company said that denial of service messages came from thousands of IP addresses that kept changing and were targeting specifically Greg's website. Sounds like a major conspiracy theory stuff from a bad movie and it would be amusing if we didn't rely on Greg's site to generate half of our monthly budget! As of now, the hosting company has dropped Greg's website and he needs to find a new hosting company that specializes in handling malicious attacks. We welcome any suggestions you might have there.

For now, we need to deal with the reality of the site being gone. While Greg is going to rebuild it, that will take time and money. Better security costs more! And some of Greg's subscribers are jumping ship which is totally understandable. After all, would you be paying a monthly fee if you could not even get to the website?

Who knew that posting interviews with esoteric authors is such a dangerous business?! I certainly didn't think so! As I listen to the podcasts while Greg edits them, inevitably the message is about the human race awakening, spirituality playing a bigger role in our lives, and different ways of following a spiritual path.

I would like to ask for your help in covering the website rebuilding costs for Greg. Better security means higher monthly costs and apparently each time there is an attack like this there is a one-time fee to deal with it. There is also a lost time and subscriber cost that makes me nervous. Did I mention this is how we pay our bills? Every little bit you can give will help us get over this unfortunate event, help Greg bring his site back, and put food on the table. Food is good!

Thank you for your help!

You can donate here.


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Update:  As of today (10/9/12),  supporters and friends of Occult of Personality have come through with more than $2,500 since they were "palm-treed" by a deliberate DNS attack that specifically targeted the site.  Over the past few years, several of us in the Gnostic/Esoteric community have been the targets of disinformation campaigns, slander, criminal stalking, and other forms of harassment by self-appointed heresy hunters.  The overwhelming support for Greg and the Occult of Personality is an important victory of community and free inquiry over the modern inquisitors.  If you haven't taken a stand to support Occult of Personality, you can still contribute here.