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This article is about the journalist. For the soccer player, see Mike Magee (soccer).
Mike Magee (born 7 December 1949–) is a British journalist. He co-founded The Register in 1994, which he left in 2001 to found another well known technology news website, The Inquirer.[1] He is credited with introducing a tabloid-style approach to the coverage of technology news.[1][2] In 2001, Magee was one of 100 people honored by E-consultancy.com "for their input and influence on the development and growth of e-commerce and the internet in the UK over the last ten years."[3] On 18 January 2008 it was announced that Magee would leave the Inquirer at the end of February and pursue other interests.[4] He has since founded the technology news website IT Examiner, and tabloid site The News.[5] In September 2009 the Daily Telegraph named him number 35 in its list of Top 50 most influential Britons in technology[6]
[edit] Marriage and familyHe married Jan Bailey in a civil ceremony at Edgware Registry Office in 1978. There were two witnesses, one of whom was pulled in from the Street. His son, Tamlin Magee, occasionally also writes articles for The Inquirer. [edit] Tantra and the OccultDuring the 1960's Magee experimented with the occult teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Kenneth Grant's Typhonian Order leading to his work being cited in Grant's books Cults of the Shadow, Nightside of Eden, and Outside the Circles of Time. In 1971 he started a small occult magazine called Azoth, and in 1973 in conjunction with David Hall, and his girlfriend Janet Bailey, started a more ambitious six monthly magazine called SOTHiS. In 1978, he went to India and met with an English tantrik guru (and former student of Aleister Crowley) called HH Shri Gurudev Mahendranath (1911-1992) who was a guru of the Uttarakaula Tantric Order of northern India. Mahendranath gave him the title of a guru and a charter to form a group of students. Magee took the tantrik name of Lokanath.[7] Later this was to become a nucleus for the "Arcane Magical Order of the Knights of Shambhala" (AMOOKOS) This group was highly influential, particularly in the way it bought Tantrik teachings to the West. In the UK it had about 500 members.[8] In 1980, Mahendranath claimed, despite some evidence to the contrary, that he had not ever given Magee the right to form AMOOKOS and the group fragmented. Since then Magee has concentrated on providing translations for Tantra website Shiva Shakti Mandalam.[9] While those familiar with his writing and habit of poking fun at wikipedia have suggested that his career in the world of tantra is an elaborate hoax, several books sold on Amazon predating mention him by name as a translator of tantric texts in the 1990's. [edit] Published Works
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