Rock Is Lit Rock is Lit Bonus Episode: Zeena Schreck on Spirituality
Zeena Schreck, formerly LaVey, is an interdisciplinary visual and musical artist based in Berlin, Germany.
Raised within the Church of Satan, she came to international prominence early in life as the organization's High Priestess and first public spokesperson, defending the Church in the 1980s during the infamous media-fuelled U.S. Satanic Panic. She resigned her position in 1990, severed ties with her father, Anton LaVey, and renounced Satanism and Western occultism to pursue her own religious path, which led to her becoming a practitioner and lineage holder of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism.
In early October 2022, I had the great pleasure of interviewing Zeena about her godfather, the avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger, for Episode 6 of Rock is Lit, which features Zachary Lazar’s rock novel ‘Sway’, a story that brings together the early Rolling Stones, members of the Manson Family, and Kenneth Anger’s film ‘Invocation of My Demon Brother’ in a fictional setting.
During my lengthy conversation with Zeena, we ventured into a lot of unrelated territory that didn’t make it into the episode. I saved these outtakes because I found them so fascinating, especially the segment in which she talked about her spiritual awakening that led to her becoming a practitioner and lineage holder of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism. I was touched that she would share such a personal journey with me and grateful to her for letting me share it with you here in the Rock is Lit Vault.
Enjoy the interview, then listen to the full Episode 6 wherever you get your podcasts.
Music used in this interview is by Zeena Schreck and used with her approval and cannot be reproduced without her permission:
- “ENDLICH DAHEIM,” from ‘Bring Me the Head of F. W. Murnau’ EP
- “Summer Swelter"
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