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Vestron Vulture - "I Want to Be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

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OCCULTURE 141: Phil Hall // Bigfoot, Patterson, Gimlin & The Weirdest Movie Ever Made

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 07:33:00 +0000

Phil Hall is the author of, among other titles, a book called The Weirdest Movie Ever Made: The Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film. Phil is a film writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Daily News and Wired, and he is the host of the podcast "The Online Movie Show with Phil Hall", which is available on SoundCloud.

What Phil has done in this book is look at the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film from a technical filmmaking standpoint and as a cinematic and cultural artifact. He also looks at the men who made the film and the details of their story before, during and after their infamous Bigfoot footage became a meme.

We're not too interested, for the purpose of this discussion, in the "authenticity" of the film. Whether the footage is real or a hoax doesn't matter. Because this is a piece of art whose impact can be felt beyond belief systems. At the end of the day this is just a film, a movie. And as Phil says, it's perhaps the weirdest movie ever made.

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Vestron Vulture - "I Want to Be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

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This podcast is produced in the Kingdom of Ohio and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Executive Producers: Carter Y., Mauricio G., Daniel R., Kelly C., Bruce H., Christopher B., Timothy W., Nick F., Michael Q., Jamaica J., Mute Ryan, John W., Andy E., Colleen F., Saliyah S., Michael S., Kevin C., Megan B., Kaleb H., Dionisio T., Scotty R., CL, Raymond G.

REMINDER

Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.

OCCULTURE RAW 15: Nichole Hamilton on Jordan Peele, Ari Aster & The Stephen King Renaissance

Sat, 12 Oct 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Nichole Hamilton is the mind and voice behind the Chiaroscuro Horror blog and podcast. She joins the show to rap about the current state of the horror genre, including riffing on the rise of writer-directors Jordan Peele and Ari Aster, last year's Halloween sequel, the recent IT films, and the renaissance of Stephen King film adaptations.

OCCULTURE 140: Alkistis Dimech & Peter Grey // Rewilding Witchcraft, The Witches' Dance & The Sacred Conspiracy

Tue, 01 Oct 2019 02:00:00 +0000

Alkistis Dimech and Peter Grey are the powerhouse tag team behind Scarlet Imprint, one of the premier purveyors of what I call dank esoterica. You know these two, you love these two, and by the end of the chat you may want to marry these two. Or maybe you'll just want to buy their new book, The Brazen Vessel, a collection of selected texts, essays and presentations that documents the creative, magical partnership of Alkistis and Peter from 2008 to 2018.

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Alkistis' translation of 'The Book of Spirits', which unlocks the hierarchy of the Ars Goetia
Mystical language
The alchemical quintessence
The Luciferian revolt
Is myth an endangered species?
An erotic eschatology of union and of love, and Babalon as a obviously a representation of this
"The certainty of death is felt by lovers"

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Vestron Vulture - "I Want to Be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

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REMINDER

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OCCULTURE RAW 14: Derek Hunter on Love, Chaos, Sex, Art, Magick, Insecurity, Albert Camus & The Discomfort of Living

Mon, 16 Sep 2019 07:33:00 +0000

Derek Hunter is the creator and author of "Love Chaos", a way of life that embraces unpredictability while focusing on love. A follow-up book, "Love Chaos in Theory and Practice", is out now.

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OCCULTURE 139: Alan Abbadessa // The 9/11 Spider-Verse, The Loose Change Legacy & The Post-Postmodern Conspiritainment Zeitgeist

Wed, 11 Sep 2019 07:33:00 +0000

Alan Abbadessa is one of the minds behind TheSyncBook.com, a multimedia web platform dedicated to nurturing and exploring the art of synchronicity. If you've ran in these circles online long enough you've surely come across their books or videos or podcasts.

Alan is here to talk about one of The Sync Book's latest projects, a docu-series he's producing called Hindsight 20/20, the first episode of which is online now. It's called 9/11 Spider-verse, and it explores a cinematic world where 9/11 conspiracy theories are just the tip of the iceberg.

This episode is going to spider out and spiral out from 9/11 and explore the legacies of the Loose Change and Zeitgeist films as well as the synchromystic subculture and post-postmodern artistic movement these films may have spawned.

One note on the chat from a sound quality perspective. Alan's computer was out of commission, so we had to record via phone, plus we just recorded this on Monday, September 9, and I wanted to turn this around quickly because of the subject matter, so I did not edit nearly as much in post-production as I normally do. This one sounds more like a RAW episode, so please excuse any umms, uhhs, longer-than-usual pauses or any annoying mouth or breath noises. If you can get past those things, this is one conspiritaining chat.

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9/11 as a synchronistic mystery
Why syncs may be appearing in popular media
2001: A Space Odyssey as a massive sync with 9/11
The role of the monolith according to the website 2001: A False Flag Odyssey
The implications of studying synchronicity and how to incorporate this way of magical thinking into your daily life

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OCCULTURE 138: Cavan McLaughlin // The Alchemical Journey of the Self, Liminal Space & The Art of Crossing Over

Wed, 04 Sep 2019 07:33:00 +0000

Cavan McLaughlin is a broadcaster, creative media practitioner and Senior Lecturer in Media Production at the University of Northampton, with research interests around the role of spirituality and occultism in contemporary visual culture. He joins the show to talk about his forthcoming book and conference, both titled Trans- States.

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How art transcends false binaries
A sneak peek of Cavan's presentation at this year's Trans- States, called "Revisionary Mythmaking: The antidote to codified structural oppression"
Taking the authorship of your own story back

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Vestron Vulture - "I Want to Be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

Vestron Vulture - "I Want to Be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

PRODUCTION & LICENSING

This podcast is produced in the Kingdom of Ohio and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

REMINDER

Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.

OCCULTURE 137: Daniel Duke // The Outlaw Jesse James & Alchemical Templar Treasure Maps

Fri, 23 Aug 2019 07:33:00 +0000

Daniel Duke is a descendent of the outlaw Jesse James and the author of the book "Jesse James and the Lost Templar Treasure: Secret Diaries, Coded Maps and the Knights of the Golden Circle." Dan's contention is that Jesse left behind treasure, maps to it, and that it might not be material gold that we're hunting for.

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REMINDER

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OCCULTURE 136: Bob Frissell // Redefining Humanity, Breath Alchemy & Our Physical Geometry

Mon, 12 Aug 2019 07:33:00 +0000

Bob Frissell is the author of, among other things, "Nothing in This Book Is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are", which was just re-released with a 25th anniversary edition. Bob's work is something I stumbled upon several years ago, and this book was pretty instrumental in shaping the young, inquisitive mind I had at the time.

Bob's book is considered an underground classic in the realm of metaphysics and spirituality, and it explores everything from higher consciousness and human evolution to sacred geometry, the secret government, UFOs, Atlantis and so much more.

We're not going to get too metaphysical though, so if you're here for UFO and Atlantis talk, this is not for you. This chat is more about the topics that more directly affect our everyday lives and how we can continue on the path of positive personal transformation. Because, really, that is my primary interest here and always has been, and it turns out it's Bob's primary interest too, so it was nice to explore that common ground together.

So take a few deep circular breaths and let Bob Frissell guide you through the hidden hallways that make up the haunted house we all have living inside us.

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Universal law & the three basic principles of breath alchemy
How suppressed energy affects our breathing
Syncing your breath with other people
Heart-based unity
Modern conspiracy culture and what that says about humanity's path forward
What the title of the book means to Bob

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Vestron Vulture - "I Want to Be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

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OCCULTURE 135: Aaron French // The Mandela Effect, Conspirituality, New Memory & The Convergence of Everything

Tue, 30 Jul 2019 07:33:00 +0000

Aaron French has written what he says is the first academic paper focused on one of the most batshit theories any of us have ever heard of. His paper is called "The Mandela Effect & New Memory" and was recently published by the academic journal Correspondences: Journal for the Study of Esotericism.

Aaron's paper looks at this recent phenomenon and why it's become such a popular conspiracy theory and Internet meme, and how it sheds light on our contemporary technoscience culture and the influence of advanced information technology on human cognition, memory, and belief, and aspects of the Mandela Effect that are familiar to esotericism, since both conspiracy theories and esoteric knowledge cohabit the same marginalized cultural space.

Aaron is also an accomplished academic and has written many pieces of weird fiction, some of which we'll talk about in the Patreon extension. And he's also an accomplished anthology and magazine editor, having put together publications that featured interviews with names like Graham Hancock, Peter Levenda, Richard Smoley, Donald Tyson and Whitley Strieber.

But it is that paper, the Mandela Effect & New Memory, that lays the foundation for our conversation here today, so let's groove to that sweet sweetback badass song of conspiracy, spirituality and the memory of how fucked up our childhood really was.

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D-Wave's connection to the Mandela Effect & the Great Old Ones from Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos
Q Anon as a symptom of the Mandela Effect
Weird & horror fiction as a mystical didactic experience
The evolution of esoteric & exoteric philosophy in weird fiction from Poe to Lovecraft to Ligotti
The Mandela Effect as postmodern weird fiction & postmodern alchemy

RESOURCES

Aaron's paper - The Mandela Effect & New Memory

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Vestron Vulture - "I Want to Be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

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OCCULTURE 134: Erik Davis // High Weirdness, Psychedelic Spirituality, Counterculture & The Paranoid Magic of Verisimilitude

Fri, 12 Jul 2019 07:33:00 +0000

Erik Davis is back in the house for a second time to rap a bit about his latest book High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica and Visionary Experience in the Seventies.

Most of you know Erik from his podcast, Expanding Mind, or from the tome known as TechGnosis, or perhaps from his work on The Exegesis of Philip K Dick. No matter how you know Erik, you know he is the sultan of high strangeness, and High Weirdness may just be his magnum opus, which is saying quite a bit if you've read his previous work.

High Weirdness charts the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from American countercultural voices of the 1970s, including Philip K Dick, Terence McKenna and Robert Anton Wilson. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought, dreamed, and experienced reality―but how did their writings reflect, as well as shape, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America?

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Erik's idea of weird naturalism
Terence & Dennis McKenna's experiment at La Chorrera
Robert Anton Wilson's idea of Chapel Perilous
Verisimilitude and the idea of a hoax
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick as a piece of weird fiction
Erik's thoughts on The Owl in Daylight, Dick's unrealized novel

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Vestron Vulture - "I Want to Be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

PRODUCTION & LICENSING

This podcast is produced in the Kingdom of Ohio and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Executive Producers: Carter Y., Mauricio G., Daniel R., Kelly C., Bruce H., Marcelo T., Christopher B., Timothy W., Nick F., Michael Q., Jamaica J., Mute Ryan, John W., Andy E., Colleen F., Saliyah S., Michael S., Kevin C., Kyle A., Megan B., Kaleb H.

REMINDER

Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.

OCCULTURE 133: Pam Grossman // The Witch Wave & The Enduring Popularity of the Witch Archetype

Fri, 21 Jun 2019 07:33:00 +0000

Pam Grossman is the author of "Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power" and the host of The Witch Wave podcast.

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Pam's experience with the darker side of witchcraft & what she learned from it
The witch's appearance in allegories about youth
Female sex drive as a "satanic" force & why we fear sexualityca
The taboo of women not having children
WItchery in Mary Poppins
Witches as healers
Pam's hot take on the film The Craft
Female friendship
The relationship between art, creativity & magic

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Vestron Vulture - "I Want to Be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

PRODUCTION & LICENSING

This podcast is produced in the Kingdom of Ohio and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Executive Producers: Mike K., Carter Y., Mauricio G., Daniel R., Kelly C., Bruce H., Marcelo T., Christopher B., Timothy W., Nick F., Michael Q., Jamaica J., Mute Ryan, John W., Andy E., Colleen F., Saliyah S., Kevin C., Michael S., Kyle A., Megan B., Kaleb H.

REMINDER

Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.

OCCULTURE 132: Janaka Stucky // Ecstatic Poetry, Jewish Mysticism, Destruction of Self & The Magic of Performance

Tue, 11 Jun 2019 07:33:00 +0000

Janaka Stucky is a mystic poet, performer, and founding editor of the award-winning press Black Ocean. He's here to talk about his latest book of poetry, Ascend Ascend, recently released by Jack White's publishing imprint, Third Man Books.

Ascend Ascend was written over the course of twenty days, coming in and out of trance states brought on by intermittent fasting and somatic rituals while Janaka secluded himself in the tower of a 100-year-old church. The book is rooted in the Jewish mystical tradition of merkabah literature, chronicling an ascent up the kabbalistic sefirot. Janaka noted in his description of the book that traditional merkabah prose tends to be rather dry and focused on preparations for the journey while sort of avoiding descriptions of the experience itself. But Ascend Ascend skirts that norm and Janaka instead has chosen to document the entire journey, which he describes as the ecstatic destruction of the self.

There is a 25-minute Patreon extension with Janaka, and more on that after the chat, but for now let's sit back, relax and let Janaka lay some icky thump on us with what Vice recently called his doom-metal mysticism.

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Finding the show's mantra (love yourself, think for yourself and question authority) embedded into Janaka's poetry
- Janaka's spiritual anarchism
- Poetry as a form of protest
- Activism from a place of love vs activism from a place of anger
- Poetry as both theurgy and thaumaturgy
- Destruction of the self and ego death
- Janaka's meditation experience where he turned into a mountain
- Living in a pirate utopia
Being among a group of the first poets to take the stage at the Newport Folk Festival and meeting Jack White backstage
And maybe possibly Jack White's occult interests

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OCCULTURE 131: Michael Joseph // Occult Catholicism, The Talmud, Satan & The Golems of the Pharisees

Tue, 04 Jun 2019 07:33:00 +0000

Michael Joseph is back in the house for the third time to wade into the deep end of his most recent YouTube series that centers around a conflict that he describes as the Old versus the New World Order in relationship to a Catholic or Universal doctrine.

And that phrase, New World Order, conjures many ideas and images, but with it comes a question not asked by many: if there's a New World Order, what then is the Old World Order? And that is a question Mike has sought to answer, and it's an answer that will spiral out in directions that question the occult and esoteric doctrines we're all familiar with, and it examines where they may have came from, who may be the true authors of them, and what secret doctrine they might be trying to impart onto us, the profane masses.

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The Golems of the Pharisees
- What a golem is and how it's used by Qabalist "adepts" to attack their enemies
- How HP Blavatsky and Theosophy views the Talmud and its teachings
- How the teachings of Blavatsky – and in turn the United Nations and Rockefeller clan – might just be fit the bill as being one of these golem creations
- The importance of Alexandria as a multicultural cosmopolitan "paradise"
- How Alexandria relates to other "holy lands" and peoples of the "Secret Doctrine" such as Anatoly Fomenko's suppressed Tartary empire
- How Freemasonry connects with the doctrines of the Talmud
- Hiram Abiff as equal to Christ and other "solar-saviors" of the mystery religion
- How Philo, Gnosticism & Paul's writings in the New Testament connect with the doctrines of the Talmud and its "wisdom" or "Sophia"
- How the 66 books of Protestantism connect with the doctrines of the Talmud and its "wisdom" and end-time prophecies
- Potential golems being created in the alternative media or "truther" world

RESOURCES

Videos discussed: 8.0 - 8.14 of Mike's Occult Catholicism series
Mike's website
Mike on Twitter
Astrology readings from Mike

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OCCULTURE RAW 13: Sean Michael Wilson on the Tao Te Ching, Graphic Novels, Manga & Anarchism (Patreon Bonus Teaser)

Mon, 03 Jun 2019 00:08:06 +0000

AUDIO QUALITY WARNING: NOT THE BEST.

This is a clip of a recent RAW chat that was posted for $5+ patrons on Patreon with graphic novelist & manga author Sean Michael Wilson, who joined the show to talk about his recent visual interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, a classic Chinese philosophical and religious text.

In this clip, we chat a bit about anarchism and how it relates to the Tao Te Ching.

Apologies for the audio quality here, as Sean's connection was a bit on the bad side. Still, good stuff, I think. If ya dig it, Patreon.com/occulture at the $5 level is the place to hear more chats like this.

OCCULTURE 130: Michael Wann // The Notre Dame Cathedral Fire, Atmospheric Transitions & The Starboard

Fri, 24 May 2019 07:33:00 +0000

Michael Wann is the founder of the independent research project Susquehanna Alchemy. He returns to the show for the fourth time to discuss symbolism and synchronicity found in the recent fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, atmospheric transitions and weather changes, and something he's put together called the Starboard and what that is and how it works. (And keep your ears tuned into the Starboard chatter because one of you will be able to experience that first-hand.)

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Notre Dame fire symbolism in the "I, Pet Goat II" video
Fire as purification and destruction
Mike's view of fire as the uncomfortable vs the comfortable
The grand fire trine that took place right before the Notre Dame fire
The esoteric/synchromystic connection between Ashland, Oregon and Ashland, Ohio, & how it relates to Mike's work on The Susquehanna Mystery

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This podcast is produced in the Kingdom of Ohio and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Executive Producers: Mike K., Carter Y., Mauricio G., Daniel R., Kelly C., Bruce H., Marcelo T., Christopher B., Timothy W., Nick F., Michael Q., Jamaica J., Mute Ryan, John W., Paul S., Andy E., Colleen F., Saliyah S., Raymond G., Kevin C., Michael S., Kyle A., Megan B., Kaleb H.

REMINDER

Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.

OCCULTURE RAW 12: Peter Bebergal on Gene Wolfe, Religious Literature, Unreliable Narrators & Game of Thrones

Sun, 19 May 2019 23:43:51 +0000

Peter Bebergal drops by the show to chat about "sci-fi's difficult genius" Gene Wolfe in the wake of his death last month. We talk sci-fi, fantasy, religion in literature, literary tropes (including my favorite, the unreliable narrator), and Peter's thoughts on season 8 of Game of Thrones.

Peter's 2015 article on Gene Wolfe for The New Yorker

Peter on Twitter

OCCULTURE 129: Carl Abrahamsson // Cinemagician: Conversations With Kenneth Anger & Documenting Anton LaVey

Thu, 16 May 2019 07:33:00 +0000

Hopefully you've got your creativity caps on, because our guest this time around is Carl Abrahamsson. He's making his third appearance on the show, and much like the previous two, this one is rooted in human artistic expression.

Carl was here twice last year talking about his book Occulture, but he's here this time to rap about a recent documentary he put out called Cinemagician: Conversations with Kenneth Anger, which is about exactly what it sounds like it's about. Carl recorded a couple conversations with highly regarded independent filmmaker Kenneth Anger about his life, his work and the artistic process that is filmmaking. Good stuff, and you will hear all about it, as well as some tidbits on an upcoming documentary Carl's producing about Anton LaVey, a conference he's putting on at the end of May in the Italian Alps, and a juicy Patreon extension about what Carl calls our human poetry.

So if that sounds like your tune, then let's jam.

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Our human poetry
Social media conditioning
Being visible in physical reality
Giving chance a chance

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REMINDER

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OCCULTURE RAW 11: Derek Hunter on Terry Gilliam & Imagination vs Reality in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Patreon Bonus Teaser)

Fri, 10 May 2019 01:49:39 +0000

Derek Hunter from Love Chaos talks with us about Terry Gilliam's recent film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.

Get more by upgrading to the $5 tier at patreon.com/occulture

OCCULTURE 128: Jeremy Johnson // Jean Gebser, Structures of Consciousness & The Three Worlds

Tue, 30 Apr 2019 07:33:00 +0000

Jeremy Johnson is the author of Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness.

Seeing Through the World introduces the reader to the work of German-Swiss philosopher, poet, and intellectual mystic Jean Gebser. Writing in the mid-20th century during a period of intense cultural transformation and crisis in Europe, Gebser intuited a series of mutational leaps in the history of human consciousness, the latest of which emerging was the "integral" structure, marked by the presence of a concept Gebser called time-freedom.

Jeremy says that Gebser's structures of consciousness are as significant an ontological insight as Carl Jung's "reality of the psyche." Yet, until now, very little secondary literature has been available in the English-speaking world as it relates to Gebser and his work. And, until now, very few podcasts have been recorded about Gebser and his work, but that is why Jeremy is here: to guide us through these structures and to show us how this integral structure of consciousness is a means of divination, a crystal ball we can scry with to further illuminate what it is about our current age that seems so damn different.

A lot of scrying coming up, indeed, and a lot of prying too, because we're pulling the lid back on that third eye of yours and pushing our way into that ear canal with another case of this nasty sonically transmitted discourse.

PATREON EXTENSION

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Gebser's concept of Origin
Gebser's concept of time-freedom
Westworld & mass consciousness shifts
The synergy between Gebser's work & recent guest Douglas Rushkoff's Team Human book

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This podcast is produced in the Kingdom of Ohio and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Executive Producers: Mike K., Carter Y., Mauricio G., Alyssa S., Daniel R., Kelly C., Bruce H., David G., Jeremy V., Marcelo T., Christopher B., Timothy W., Nick F., Michael Q., Jamaica J., Mute Ryan, John W., Paul S., Andy E., Colleen F., Saliyah S., Raymond G., Kevin C., Michael S., Blake S., Kyle A., Megan B.

REMINDER

Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.

OCCULTURE RAW 10: David Gunderson on Diet Choice as a Predictor of Personality & The Problems With Scientific Studies (Patreon Bonus Teaser)

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 01:34:33 +0000

David Gunderson calls in to chat about his thesis, which studied diet choice as a predictor of personality. He set out to clarify the personality trait differences between a sample of vegetarians and a sample of non-vegetarians through an investigation of cooperativeness and competitiveness as well as the Big Five personality traits, which is explained during the chat.

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OCCULTURE 127: Sandor Katz // The Art & Alchemy of Fermentation & The War on Bacteria

Tue, 16 Apr 2019 07:33:00 +0000

Sandor Katz in the house to talk to us a bit about the art and alchemy of fermentation. Sandor is a New York Times bestselling author. His books include Wild Fermentation and The Art of Fermentation, both of which we drew on for the chat here.

Fermentation is one of the steps in the ancient alchemical process, both the material and spiritual versions. It's also an easy and practical way to reclaim your food and your health, because fermented foods are easy to make yourself and can help revitalize your gut microbiome, which has become quite the hot topic in health and wellness circles in the last couple years. And we get into that as well, this war on bacteria that a lot of us are unknowing participants in. Hopefully after this chat we're a bit more comfortable with the culture growing inside and on us.

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The potential energy efficiency benefits of fermentation
The spiritual aspect of fermentation
The alchemy of fermentation and what we can learn about ourselves from observing the process
The effect of globalization on fermentation practices and fermented foods
What you need to get started fermenting (hint: not much!)

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OCCULTURE 126: Recluse // Opus Dei, Le Cercle & Clerical Fascism

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 07:33:00 +0000

Welcome to part two - let's call it P2 - of a continuing conversation with blogger Recluse. This one is long overdue, which is my fault not scheduling it sooner.

Recluse blogs at visupview.blogspot.com, where he explores topics such as mind control, deep politics, the occult, the supernatural, high weirdness and Forteana in all of its fucked-up forms.

This chat builds off our chat from last June, which we recap at the start of our conversation so I won't repeat all that here, but this is about one of the lesser known and lesser discussed sources of power in times both past and present. We started with the Knights of Malta and now we're spiraling out into some other related groups and their ties to governments, organized religions, banks, multinational corporations, intelligence agencies, killers-for-hire and mafiosos across the world.

This is very much still table-setting, just another information dump, but it is chapter two of a story that brings together the church's historical interest in the occult, population control and political subversion. It is, as Recluse has called it, a strange and terrible journey into the heart of the deep state.

A quick note on Recluse's audio: he was on a landline, and while he is clearly understood, there is some interference at times, and I'm pretty sure the line was tapped as well. You will definitely here some audio oddities in the background while he's speaking.

But what's a strange and terrible journey into the heart of the deep state without them monitoring your every move along the way? So let's make like one of those Catholic bishops and move up and to the right, where novels by Dan Brown and Dave Eggers set the stage for not-so-fictional narratives playing out in the shadows of a mass near you.

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The American Security Council and its ties to Le Cercle
The Mellon family's low-key role in American sociopolitics
The International Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture
Le Cercle's "worldwide spiritual offensive"
Opus Dei's possible connections to Rick Santorum, the Penn State football scandal and the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
Donald Trump and his mentor Roy Cohn's ties to the Knights of Malta

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Le Cercle blog series
- Part 1
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Part 4
- Part 5
- Part 6
- Part 7

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OCCULTURE 125: Dan Attrell // The Picatrix, Astral Magic & Platonic Orientalism

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 07:33:00 +0000

The Modern Hermeticist himself in the house. Dan Attrell is here to talk all about translating one of the preeminent texts, maybe the preeminent text, in the history of Western esotericism: the Picatrix.

The Picatrix is perhaps the premiere text written on the subject of astrological magic - a manual for constructing talismans, mixing magical compounds, summoning planetary spirits, and determining astrological conditions. Originally composed in Arabic around the 11th century, it was then translated into Latin in the 13th century, and it is that Latin translation that Dan and his co-translator David Porecca have worked to produce this new English version, which offers important insights not only into occult practices and beliefs but also into the transmission of magical ideas from antiquity to the present.

Dan is an historian, classicist, philosopher, and musician. He has a Bachelor of Arts in History and Classical Studies, a Masters in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures from the University of Waterloo with a thesis on shamanic motifs in the ecstatic mystery rites of Attis and Cybele. He's also completed a Post-Baccalaureate in Classics at UCLA, focusing on the translation of ancient Greek and Latin texts. And he is currently at the University of Waterloo doing his PhD in History on Renaissance Hermeticism/Platonic Orientalism, Medieval religion, and science.

Some of you also know him from his Modern Hermeticist YouTube channel, where he has more than 30,000 subscribers and has produced some of the most in-depth material on the subject of Hermeticism in his series of lectures called Encyclopedia Hermetica.

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The morality and ethics of the Picatrix
Nigromancy vs necromancy
The hierarchy of beings in the Picatrix
The concept of Perfect Nature
Trying to figure out what the hell the quadrivium actually is
The original author of the Arabic text
The concept of God in the Picatrix and in magic
The type of rituals in the Picatrix
The role of psychoactive substances in Picatrix rituals
The intentions of the original author

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OCCULTURE 124: Douglas Rushkoff // Team Human & Disconnecting From the Antihuman Agenda

Tue, 05 Mar 2019 08:33:00 +0000

Returning guest Douglas Rushkoff is back to spit some hot fire about his latest book, Team Human, a manifesto written with one goal in mind: to remake society and culture in our image and in our favor; to reconnect with ourselves and with each other; and to return to our roots as the social creatures we truly are, with face-to-face interactions IRL, as they say in the not-so-social media.

For those of you don't know Doug or didn't hear him way back in episode 17, he is perhaps the most accomplished guest to grace the airwaves with me. He's an award-winning author, broadcaster, and documentarian who studies human autonomy in the digital age. He hosts the popular Team Human podcast, has written more than twenty books, contributes regular columns to Medium, CNN, Daily Beast, and the Guardian; has made two PBS Frontline documentaries; and has also coined such concepts as "viral media" and "social currency." He's also a research fellow of the Institute for the Future, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens, where he is a professor of media theory and digital economics.

This chat is Doug firmly in his element, riffing on topics such as technology's antihuman agenda, digital and social media, spiritual pursuits, language, nature and art. You will absolutely hear why Doug was named one of the world's ten most influential intellectuals by MIT.

There's no Patreon extension this time due to the length of the chat, so this is the full show for everyone. I originally did have about 20 minutes of it chunked out for an extension, but based on the material, I just wanted everyone to hear it all. And hear it all I hope you do.

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REMINDER

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OCCULTURE 123: Dr. Kasper Opstrup // Cultural Alchemy, Avant-Garde Social Movements & The Invisible Insurrection

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 08:33:00 +0000

Hopefully by now you've heard the last episode with Gordon White and Jay Springett, because it is a great companion piece to the conversation you're about to hear with our guest, Dr. Kasper Opstrup.

Kasper is a writer and researcher of what he calls radical culture, specializing in concatenations of art and literature, radical politics, and occultism as counterculture and underground phenomenon. Kasper published his PhD in book form back in November 2017. It's called The Way Out: Invisible Insurrections and Radical Imaginaries in the UK Underground 1961-1991.

His book charts a hidden history of experiments with cultural engineering, with the hopes of expanding current discussions of art, media, politics, radical education and the occult revival. Along the way, we encounter a series of figures – including William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Genesis P-Orridge and Alexander Trocchi – all of whom blurred the lines between inner and outer, the invisible and the material. But instead of turning things upside down, the world was to be changed from the inside out.

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Using fiction and images to navigate a territory
Image politics and the production of myth
The Situationist idea of détournement and its similarity to cut-up
The consciousness consciousness
Identity politics
Immigration & psychogeography
Foucault's idea of the apparatus
Becoming invisible & refusing identity

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OCCULTURE 122: Gordon White & Jay Springett // Solarpunk, Hopepunk & The Magic of Envisioning a Better Future

Tue, 12 Feb 2019 08:33:00 +0000

We've got a really cool episode here with Gordon White and Jay Springett.

Most of you know Gordon. He's been here before, back in episode 66, and he's the man behind the magic at the Rune Soup blog and podcast. He's also the author of three books, StarShips, The Chaos Protocols and Pieces of Eight. And some of you in the Twitterverse surely know Jay. He's @thejaymo out in those parts. Jay will tell us a bit about himself up front in the chat here, so I won't repeat any of that, but this chat is focused on one of Jay's chief concerns and passions - and one of Gordon's as well - and that is the movement known as solarpunk.

What is solarpunk? Well, it's exactly what it sounds like, and we'll explain it in the discourse you're about to hear.

One caveat before we get to it, though: Jay and Gordon only had an hour to chat, so no Patreon extension here. Gordon and Jay were actually hanging out together down on Gordon's farm, which Gordon had just returned to after some crazy wildfires in his area, and I did not want to monopolize much of their time, so we covered as much as we could in that hour, with the hopes of giving some context to this solarpunk thing and also laying the foundation for the ideas both in the narrative of this show and, more importantly, in your consciousness.

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OCCULTURE 121: Jasun Horsley // Aleister Crowley, Timothy Leary, Wicca & The Left-Hand Path

Fri, 08 Feb 2019 08:33:00 +0000

Just when you thought it was safe to turn on the ol' self-grappling show, we're venturing back into the dark side of occultism with Jasun Horsley.

Jasun was here just a couple episodes ago talking about the first half of his new book, The Vice of Kings: How Socialism, Occultism and the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse. That chat focused primarily on the Fabian Society and their brand of socialism and how it has shaped, or helped shape, modern society and the culture of abuse that seems to have grown up in it.

This time around, Jasun is going to dig a bit deeper into the role occultism plays in this, particularly the brand of occultism made popular by Aleister Crowley. We also touch on the left-hand path as social engineering, and Crowley's influence on Timothy Leary and Wicca.

It is quite a thought-provoking chat, so make of it what you will. Pun intended. Of course, any healthy discourse and discussion is encouraged.

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Returning to nature & nature worship
Sex magick and gender & sexuality liberation
More about pedophilia in the DSM-5
The influence of primitivism on Crowley & the Fabian Society
Whether conversations like this help or only aid in the normalization of behaviors

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OCCULTURE RAW 9: Darryl Sloan on Consciousness, Spacetime, High/Low Magick & Rebuilding Spirituality for a Scientific Age (Patreon Bonus Teaser)

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 00:29:36 +0000

Hey yo, so this be a clip from a recent RAW chat I had with Darryl Sloan, author of a book called I, Universe: Demolishing and Rebuilding Spirituality for a Scientific Age.

We chatted about - well, about the subjects you see in the title: consciousness, the nature of space and time, and Darryl's view that spirituality must be rebuilt for a scientific age and why. We also touched on high and low magick, and that's the focus of this clip.

If you enjoy it, the full-length RAW episode is available for patrons on Patreon at the level of $5 a month and up. So if you're at $2 level, it's easy to increase that to $5 or more, and if you're not and want to support the show and get access to content like this, the $5 level at patreon.com/occulture is the place to do that.

I, Universe on Amazon

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Darryl's website

Darryl's YouTube channel

OCCULTURE 120: Nikki Wyrd // Age-Old Magic, Epigenetics & Ways to Approach Death

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 08:33:00 +0000

Nikki Wyrd is in the house. This chat was inspired by a lecture she gave at the Occulture conference in Berlin last fall on age-old magic and ways to approach death. It was an appropriate theme there, because of the time of the year, and I still think it's appropriate here in the northern hemisphere because we're right in the middle of winter, which, if you deal with such seasons, you get it.

And it's also appropriate considering recent space weather. That astrology's been crazy recently, especially with that recent lunar eclipse. Lot of things changing, lot of things evolving, lot of things ending, lot of things dying. Such is the cycle of life.

Nikki doesn't do a lot of podcasts these days, from what I've seen anyway, so for her to make some time for us was much appreciated. And hopefully the content and context of the chat resonates with some of you out there.

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Ryan Unlocks the Doors of Perception on The Cosmic Keys Podcast

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 02:38:18 +0000

Hey yo, so I was recently on a new-ish podcast called The Cosmic Keys, co-hosted by former guest Scarlet Ravenswood and her friend Dan Shukis.

We covered some of the same terrain that Niles Heckman and I chatted about on his podcast recently, a bit about me and the format of the show, skepticism, conspiracy culture and my birth chart and some astrology. Scarlet and Dan have a tarot and astrology forecast for the week at the beginning and our chat follows. So, please do enjoy.

OCCULTURE 119: Jasun Horsley // Fabian Socialism, Social Engineering & The Culture of Abuse

Fri, 18 Jan 2019 08:33:00 +0000

Jasun Horsley is the author of The Vice of Kings: How Socialism, Occultism and the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse.

He returns to the podcast for another conversation after rattling a few cages back in episode 90. But that is exactly why I asked him back. I want to rattle some cages every now and then. I think that's necessary. And the title is quite reflective of the content of the book and the content of this conversation.

We are going to chat a bit about Jasun's family history, which has ties to the Fabian Society and their socialist ideals and subsequent cultural movement, which may be the driving force behind the idea known as social engineering. We also talk about the role of occultism in this.

One note, though. We had to cut this way shorter than we both probably would have liked, because Jasun's schedule changed on the day of the interview. So a bit of a shorter show here both on Patreon and the free feed. Although there is a Patreon extension of about 22 minutes, which is where we talk a bit about the role the sexual revolution played, or plays, in this culture of abuse.

Regardless, open ears, open minds and open hearts required if you choose to venture further. I mean if you ain't comin' correct like that - well, this is not for you.

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Ritual sexual abuse & pedophilia
The sexual revolution of the 1960s & possible associated social engineering programs
The Fabian role in the mental health development of children

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Ryan Stumbles Along An Infinite Path

Wed, 16 Jan 2019 03:27:56 +0000

Hey yo, so I was recently on a podcast called An Infinite Path, hosted by former guest and I guess a friend of mine on some level, Niles Heckman. Niles was on the show back in episode 84, and this is a great continuation of that chat, only with me in the hot seat this time.

Although I have to be honest, this was recorded the morning after my office Christmas party, so I had a bit of the ol' cocktail flu. I lost my train of thought a few times, so my apologies to Niles and to any of you who continue to listen to this.

Regardless, it turned out a lot better than I remember it being as we were recording it. We talked about my influences and inspirations for this podcast, art, the occult and esoteric, occulture at-large, what I've taken from the conversations on this show, my growing skepticism and where that comes from, and summoning Alan Moore.

A fun and introspective chat, with a great outro that I have to thank Niles for throwing together. Enjoy.

https://www.nilesheckman.com/podcast/

OCCULTURE 118: Jeff Nixa // Shamanic Healing & The Lost Art of Heart Navigation

Fri, 11 Jan 2019 08:33:00 +0000

Jeff Nixa is a shamanic practitioner, teacher and author of The Lost Art of Heart Navigation: A Modern Shaman's Field Manual. In 2010 he founded Great Plains Shamanic Programs, an array of counseling, healing and education services, including one-on-one fire talks, seminars, university classes, outdoor retreats, and wilderness trips.

In this chat Jeff and I are going to dig a bit into what is known as the heart path and that lost art of heart navigation. Basically, that's taking wisdom from ancient shamanic traditions and using it to teach ourselves how to follow our heart so we live a more fulfilling life.

And despite what I just said about my personal new year celebration, I think it's a great chat for this time of year when many of us are looking to make some changes in our lives. And it is a great companion to the last episode of 2018 about the forgotten art of love.

I was under the weather a bit when we recorded this. I think I had a bit of what Jeff calls hurry sickness. Just working myself into a state of dis-ease. Regardless, this conversation is - well, it's fucking poetry on tape, I think. Yeah, I said tape. I'm analog, man, and I'm not the least bit ashamed of it.

Anyway, I do hope you enjoy this, and I hope you get on the Patreon to hear the extension, because it's well worth it.

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Soul loss, soul extraction, soul retrieval
Dragons and dragonwork
How to alleviate self-induced suffering
Mindfulness and the body's energy cycles
Toltec wisdom and shamanism
What dreams tell us about the heart path
Guided and unguided shamanic journeying

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OCCULTURE 117: Dr. Armin Zadeh // The Forgotten Art of Love, What It Means & Why It Matters

Mon, 31 Dec 2018 08:33:00 +0000

It's the last show of 2018, and this year-end show has somehow developed a theme of what we call in my hood, real talk. Last year I chatted with a man named Gilbert Bates about love, the three levels of consciousness, primal pain and primal therapy, which got a tremendous response. So with that in mind we return to the subject of love to close out the Gregorian calendar year that has been 2018.

Our guest for this one is Dr. Armin Zahdeh, who published a book in 2017 called The Forgotten Art of Love: What Love Means and Why It Matters. Armin is a cardiologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University. He has authored more than 100 scientific articles and is an editor of scholarly books in medicine. Besides medicine, he has a strong interest in philosophy with a particular focus on mending its ideas with concepts from biology and sciences.

In the book, Armin revisits psychologist Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving and examines love through the lenses of biology, philosophy, history, religion, sociology, and economics to fill in critical voids in Fromm's classic work and to provide a contemporary understanding of love and a look at its role in every aspect of human existence.

There's a lot packed into this conversation, including love as a religion, love's similarity to creativity, what Armin thinks of polygamy and so much more. Just a raw, honest chat about love. I even said during the chat this is nothing that groundbreaking, and it really isn't, but that's what I like about it. It's just real talk about the one subject that seems to continue to elude us both individually and collectively. Especially collectively.

It's been a trying year for some of you out there, and with that in mind, there is no Patreon extension here. This is the full show for everyone, so I hope by the end of it you walk away with, at least, a reminder and some reassurance.

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OCCULTURE 116: Dr. Al Cummins // The Lore & Spellcraft of the Magi & 17th Century Folk Necromancy

Sun, 23 Dec 2018 08:33:00 +0000

It is with certain seasonal celebrations in mind that we welcome back the one and only Dr. Al Cummins. Al, of course, is a professional diviner and historian, as well as a poet and consultant of all things magical. He was here not too long ago, back at the beginning of October in episode 105 where we talked about geomancy, cartomancy and other forbidden arts. And what a great companion piece that is to this chat that you're about to hear.

Al is going to rap about a book he published earlier this year called A Book of the Magi: Lore, Prayers and Spellcraft of the Three Holy Kings. And in the Patreon extension we'll also get into one of those other forbidden arts - necromancy, particularly as it was practiced in 17th century England, which is a period Al has some serious interest in.

One note on the chat: a couple Skype dropouts, which I did not notice live, but nothing that detrimental to the quality of the audio or the conversation, which is a rather jolly one.

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Defining necromancy in theory and practice
Why Al is particularly interested in 17th century necromancy
Death rituals and customs from the time period
Sin eating
Soul cakes
Working with corpses and humoral theory
The tripartite soul
The relationship between necromancy and scrying
Ghosts in early modern England
Practical necromantic advice

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OCCULTURE 115: Brad Warner // Zen Buddhism, Meditation, Pop Spirituality & The Punk Rock Mentality

Wed, 19 Dec 2018 08:33:00 +0000

Brad Warner is the author of six books, including the critically acclaimed Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality. This book put Brad on the map in the Buddhist community because of its no-nonsense, plainspoken - and maybe even outspoken - approach to zen, meditation and the nature of individual reality.

In fact, Hardcore Zen actually begins with these words: "Nothing is sacred. Doubt - in everything - is absolutely essential. Everything, no matter how great, how fundamental, how beautiful or important it is, must be questioned."

So you know that yours truly - what, with my plainspoken mantra recited at the end of each episode - you know that this is right up my anti-dogmatic, anti-authoritative alley.

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Psychedelics in Buddhism & drug-based spirituality
Encountering demons during meditation
Conspiracy thinking
The self image as a useful fiction
Teaching Buddhism in the same way you teach art
"From birth to death, it's just like this"

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OCCULTURE RAW 8: Katy Bohinc on Poetry, Sociopolitics & The Great American Divide (Patreon Bonus Teaser)

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 05:00:00 +0000

Quite a different experience this time around. Katy Bohinc is back in the house. She was our guest in episode 71, talking about her previous book of poetry Trinity Star Trinity. She's got a new book of poetry out now called Scorpio, which has garnered some really nice press recently. I think the poems mimic the persona of the astrological sign of Scorpio, the traits and characteristics present in those of us born from October 23 to November 21. Equal parts dramatic, nostalgic and erotic, but with a throughline of that elusive L word that you hear so much about.

And this conversation with Katy, I think, mimics those same Scorpionic traits and tendencies. Some good, grounded energy running through here. But the experiential part of this is we recorded this in the car, together, a few days after Thanksgiving, so just after Scorpio season ended. Driving through rural southwest Ohio. And I think the mood of that was also captured. Of course the car recording does come with a caveat in terms of quality, so venture forth at your own listening risk.

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OCCULTURE 114. Dr. Nick Berry // A Guide to the Alchemy, Geometry & Art-Magic of Essential Oils

Thu, 06 Dec 2018 08:33:00 +0000

Dr. Nick Berry is the proprietor of Essential Oil Wizardry, which is, I dare say, the leading essential oils company in the world. Sorry, doTerra. But not sorry. Because Nick has definitely set the standard for essential oils, with custom extraction methods and meticulously harvested and crafted blends. I mean, he's using ultrasonic technology, he's amplifying the oils with targeted frequencies in crystal bowls, he's imprinting the oils with orgonite, mixing in ormus. He's an artist, magician and alchemist in the purest sense of the words.

What's more, he takes a holistic approach to health and wellness that supports mind, body and spirit. He's a licensed pharmacist with a diverse background integrating the study of plants, pharmacology, alchemy, superfoods, therapeutic-grade essential oils and nutrition.

Needless to say, Nick knows his shit. And hopefully after some time with him, you'll know some shit too - and hopefully be at least somewhat curious about incorporating essential oils into your daily health and wellness regimen.

If you are curious, check out Essential Oil Wizardry and use the coupon code 'alchemy' to save 10%.

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CO2 extracts, floral absolutes & ultrasonic extracts
Ormus, monoatomic minerals & live oil infusions
Orgonite & crystals
Plant consciousness & plant intelligence
Some oil recommendations for common illnesses, pain relief, digestion, immune support, lucid dreaming, negative energy, psychic protection, botanical perfumes

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Essential Oil Wizardry on YouTube
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Nick's personal website

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OCCULTURE 113: Dr. Kristen Gallerneaux // Sonic Spectres, Audio Anomalies, Earth as Media & The Object Hereafter

Thu, 29 Nov 2018 08:33:00 +0000

Our guest this time around is Dr. Kristen Gallerneaux, an artist, curator and sonic researcher with a Ph.D. in Art Practice & Media History, an MA in Folklore and an MFA in Art. She is also the Curator of Communication and Information Technology at The Henry Ford Museum in Detroit, Michigan, where she continues to build upon one of the largest historical technology collections in North America.

But it is Kristen's recent book High Static, Dead Lines that forms the basis for our conversation. This book has been described as "a literary mixtape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape and esoteric belief."

The book contains essays and fictocritical interludes are arranged to evoke a network of ley lines for the "sonic spectre" to travel through—a hypothetical presence that manifests itself as an invisible layer of noise alongside the conventional histories of technological artifacts. And the connective thread is the recurring presence of sound charting the contentious sonic histories of paranormal culture.

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Tree telephony & the internet of trees
Charles Francis Jenkins' work on marine fax machines & listening to Mars
Hacking TV stations & broadcast possession
ARPANET, bridging dimensions, witchcraft & coding
Legend tripping & local folklore
Imprinted trauma & memory on objects & physical places
Loving the trauma of horror films
George Tyrell's theory of apparitions & "when I think a haunting, I make a haunting"

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REMINDER

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OCCULTURE 112: Stefan Kiesbye // Ancestral Trauma, White Picket Paranoia & The Black Mirror Cyberpunk Dystopia

Wed, 21 Nov 2018 08:33:00 +0000

Stefan Kiesbye is the author of the recently released novel Berlingeles, a dystopian cyberpunk story that conjures up names like William Gibson, Philip K Dick, Franz Kafka and the television series Black Mirror.

Stefan teaches creative writing at Sonoma State University in Northern California and Berlingeles is his sixth novel. It's set in a future Los Angeles that has been walled in, much like Berlin back in the day, and follows the stories of Gaz, a rising member of the city's most notorious street gang, and a 96-year-old man known only by the letter K.

Here's a line from the synopsis of the book: "Seeking a way out of this hellish maze of sweeping slums, waves of violence, and little hope, Gaz might just have found his path to salvation, while the underworld hangs on the prophecies of blind prophet Gerut, and the rest of the lost city still smolders in the ashes of a civil war."

And a story like that, with themes like this, combined with Stefan's background, made for quite the chat, so hopefully you take something positive from this. Maybe the following dialogue will help you tear down whatever wall has been built around you.

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More about the virtual & augmented reality
Religion & divination
The future of the little things
Pop culture in the future
Lizard people & labyrinths in LA
Stefan chooses a city to wall himself in & the three books he'd take with him

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OCCULTURE 111: Susie Chang // Tarot Correspondences, Water Symbolism & The Dial of Fate

Wed, 14 Nov 2018 08:33:00 +0000

We are all the way live with this one, and that's because we welcome an old friend back into the house. Susie Chang returns to the show to talk about her life, her journey and her new book Tarot Correspondences: Ancient Secrets for Everyday Readers.

Some of you surely know Susie as the cohost of the Fortune's Wheelhouse podcast, which I geek out on every Wednesday. And some of you may remember her first visit here back in episode 70 with her co-host Mel Meleen.

For those who don't know Susie, she's a multi-talented artist and creator. Many different areas of practice and expertise, and I think that came through in the conversation you're about to hear. And that conversation lives at the same intersection that some of my favorite chats live at: this nexus of idea-sharing, personal introspection and a healthy dose of laughter.

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The switch of the order/number of the Strength and Justice cards
Why the Golden Dawn system is still the standard bearer in tarot and Western magick
The Four Temperaments in the tarot
Finding balance in the tarot
Breaking down the correspondences in the Queen of Cups

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OCCULTURE 110: Chris Knowles // Synchromysticism, Jack Kirby & Black Magick LARPs

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 08:33:00 +0000

Chris Knowles is the synchromystic mind behind The Secret Sun, a blog that should be required reading for any open-minded types out there.

Some of you are no doubt aware of Chris's work on his blog, and if you're not, you'll get a crash course here. And just a crash course, not a deep dive. Because Chris is so much more than just his blog. He's also the author or co-author of three books, the Eagle Award-winning "Our Gods Wear Spandex: The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes", "The Complete X-Files: Behind the Series, the Myths, and the Movies", and "The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll". He's also had a career in the advertising, publishing and entertainment fields.

All of that forms the basis for our chat here, about Jack Kirby, black magick LARPs, and if you're on Patreon, the siren of the philosophers.

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The increase of siren symbolism in culture
Supernova 1987a
Chris's definition and views of apocalypse
The constellation Lyra
Star maps
Sound/sonic frequency bridging dimensions
James Joyce's fractal writing
The Massive attack album that was recently coded into DNA
What music is

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OCCULTURE 109: Dacre Stoker & JD Barker // Bram Stoker, Vampire Fiction & The Dracula Legacy

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 04:00:00 +0000

Happy Halloween or Samhain or Day of the Dead or whatever you may be celebrating this time of year.

And we have a show that's apropos this time around. Dacre Stoker and JD Barker are in the house. They are the co-authors of the recently released novel Dracul, the official Stoker-family endorsed prequel to the original Dracula story. Very cool, very excited to have them here for our annual Halloween episode.

As you will hear in the chat, Dacre is the great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker, the author of that original Dracula story. Dacre is a former teacher and athletics coach; he even coached for Canada during the Olympics. But he's made the transition to full-time writer and speaker. He gives presentations about Bram and Dracula, takes folks on tours of sites related to the Dracula mythos as well as the real-life inspiration for the character, Vlad the Impaler. And, along with his wife, manages the Bram Stoker Estate.

JD is an international best-selling author whose work has been broadly described as suspense thrillers, often incorporating elements of horror, crime, mystery, science fiction and the supernatural. His first novel Forsaken was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Best Debut Novel and won a handful of others including a New Apple Medalist Award. Any occult fans out there would definitely enjoy that novel. And that Bram Stoker nomination is what led to this Dracul collaboration.

So let's close our eyes and hope that this vampire thing is just imagination, but something tells me sooner or later you'll hear that creature creepin' up behind. And when it does--well, no mere mortal can resist.

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The importance of eyes and eye colors in Dracul and the work of James Joyce
The Hellfire Club's inclusion in the story
Scrying as a scientific method of locating people
Bram's view of the occult
The roots of traditional vampires and vampire tropes
Capturing the Victorian/Gothic aesthetic and atmosphere on the page
The pacing of the book mirroring the lure of the vampire

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Vestron Vulture - "I Want to Be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

Nightmare Before Christmas - "This Is Halloween (Ponzoo Trap Remix)"

Rezo - "Horror Music Mashup Remix - Halloween Special"

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Halloween F(r)ight Companion: Introducing Blackwood

Wed, 24 Oct 2018 11:30:00 +0000

If you're into stories about the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot, you'll probably dig this story of three small town teenagers who start a podcast to investigate an urban legend called the Blackwood Bugman, who's linked to a host of mysterious disappearances and murders. And, of course, the kids soon find out that the danger is much more real than they first thought. As stories like this tend to go.

Listen to more Blackwood here.

OCCULTURE 108: Joshua Cutchin // Faeries, Aliens, UFOs & Supernatural Child Abductions

Wed, 24 Oct 2018 07:33:00 +0000

You won't find too many people who work in and around paranormalia like our guest this time around. His name is Joshua Cutchin, and he's the author of the recently released Thieves in the Night: A Brief History of Supernatural Child Abductions.

Thieves in the Night deals with complex and delicate issues pertaining to human sexuality, reproduction, mental health, and gender, with a particular focus on the Faery Faith and the parallels to UFO and extraterrestrial abduction experiences.

And as Josh himself notes in his intro to the book, this should be treated as a thought experiment and launching point for further discussion and debate of the paranormal, rather than objective truths. Which is an approach I can absolutely get down with.

And get down with that approach Josh and I most definitely did.

PATREON EXTENSION

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The story of the Tailor and the Changeling
Changeling analogs in the alien hybrid theory and other spiritual and Fortean phenomena
More on mental disorders and changelings
The Sasquatch analog/connection to the fae/alien abduction motif
Josh's next book, co-authored with Timothy Renner and tentatively titled Weird Bigfoot
The phrase fairy tale and what Josh thinks that really means
Some of Josh's favorite abduction anecdotes from the book

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REMINDER

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OCCULTURE 107: Dr. John Cussans // The Zombie Complex, Haitian Voudou Horror Politics & The Undead Uprising

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 07:33:00 +0000

I remember the first time I sat down and watched Night of the Living Dead. I was 16 years old, and I rented the VHS tape, no joke, from my local video store. Around this time of year. And I was blown away by the aesthetic of the film, the black and white, the social commentary, and what I would later come to know as the zombie motif in fiction.

And I've been - not obsessed - but heavily interested in this motif since then. And I've been looking for someone to chat with about it for two years now. Because not only is the zombie an integral part of horror fiction and greater pop culture, it's an integral part for an entire sociopolitical and religious structure that emanates in Haiti.

You wouldn't know that if all you know about the zombie is from George Romero films or Walking Dead comic books. Thankfully, our guest this time, Dr John Cussans, is in the house to dig deep into the history of the zombie and tell us about something he calls the zombie complex.

John is an artist, writer and educator based in London with an academic background in art history and theory, and cultural history. His work is informed by critical re-evaluations of anthropological theory in the mid 20th century, and investigates patterns of theoretical and practical convergence between contemporary art, philosophy, psychology, social movements and popular culture from a post-colonial and anti-imperialist perspective.

That is the foundation for his book Undead Uprising: Haiti, Horror and the Zombie Complex, which explores the uses of Haiti as a locus for Euro-American fears about African culture and spirituality in the Americas, and their sublimation into popular horror tropes, and which forms the basis for our chat here.

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More about the book The Magic Island and its fascinating, enigmatic author William Seabrook, who apparently was a pioneer in S&M, bondage, and also spent some time with one Aleister Crowley
Seabrook's supposedly cannibalistic tendencies
The legacy of the first zombie film, White Zombie
Cinema as hypnosis
The evolution of the zombie motif in cinema with the release of Night of the Living Dead
John's idea that all horror expresses what we desire

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OCCULTURE 106: Peter Bebergal // The Occult Imagination, Spirit Communication & The Technological Quest for the Supernatural

Tue, 16 Oct 2018 07:33:00 +0000

Our guest this time is one of the first guests to share the airwaves with me. His name is Peter Bebergal, and he's written maybe the coolest book you'll read this year. Actually there's no maybe about it. It's the coolest. It's called Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural, and it's a journey through the attempts artists, scientists, and tinkerers have made to imagine and communicate with the otherworldly using various technologies, from cameras to radiowaves to maybe even something like this here podcast.

Which makes sense, because technology has been used for centuries to bridge the gap between the material and the mystical, revealing that the workshop and the séance parlor have more in common than we might think. And if technology is the bridge between worlds, then I say we're living in the most magical time in recorded human history.

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Performance and it being the most potent form of magic
The role of emotion in magic
Stage magic, technology and Harry Houdini
Peter's trip to a seance in New York
Phantasmagoria and the television as the new phantasmagoria
The dream reality, the subconscious and a contraption known as the Dreamachine
Audio frequencies inducing out-of-body experiences
Peter's experiments with EVP for the book
More about the analogy Peter made between magicians and hackers

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OCCULTURE RAW 7: Michael Wann on the Hidden Psychodrama of the Kavanaugh-Ford Hearing, Kanye, Trump & UFC's McGregor-Khabib

Sun, 07 Oct 2018 17:18:24 +0000

Michael Wann is going to talk about the Kavanaugh-Ford story here, but more on a psychological, symbolic, archetypal level. We're not getting political about it. We're not dismissing the allegations or the claims of anyone involved. We recognize the systemic cultural problems that this story highlights. We're just not talking about them directly. I guess you could say we're looking at a more occulted layer of what this story represents. We'll also touch on the connection between the Kavanaugh-Ford story and the recent UFC fight between Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov, as well as Kanye West, SNL, Donald Trump and pro wrestling.

OCCULTURE 105: Dr. Al Cummins // Geomancy, Cartomancy & Other Forbidden Arts

Wed, 03 Oct 2018 07:33:00 +0000

Dr. Al Cummins is in the house to chat about some of the forbidden arts, as they were known during the Renaissance: a few different forms of divination, including geomancy, which Al is gearing up to teach here very soon. More on that after the chat. And also cartomancy, which both fascinates and excites me, probably in an unhealthy, strange sort of way.

Of course, Al is a professional diviner and historian, as well as a poet and a consultant of all things magical. His approach to ritual, divination, and sorcery comes from both a long-term practice and an academic background in the history of early modern magic.

And we put that background to the test at the very end of this chat. We had a little fun, and if you're a patron, there's something really cool in store for a couple of you here soon.

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Saint Raphael the Archangel and working with him for matters of health and healing, both physical and psychological
The physical, psychological and spiritual nature of magic itself
A bit about the cut-up technique made popular by Brion Gysin and William Burroughs, and how it relates to occult philosophy and magical practice
And the magic of scissors

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REMINDER

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OCCULTURE 104: Tracy Twyman // AI Takeover, Censorship, Snow Crash & The Tower of Babel

Mon, 01 Oct 2018 04:00:00 +0000

It's the first of October so you know what that means. It's time to get a bit spooky. And who better to get spooky with than Tracy Twyman. Because I'll tell ya, every time I listen to her talk, I get the bejesus scared out of me. She's real, she's raw, and she brought something fierce here.

Of course, Tracy needs no introduction. She's been here before in episode 58 to discuss her novel Genuflect and some of the wild ass ideas she threw in there. I'd recommend listening to that first if ya haven't heard it yet. It'll give some further context to this discussion. But not completely necessary.

Tracy's had quite an interesting trip around the sun since then, though, and she will tell us all about it, or as much as she wanted to about it, and how she sees it all connecting inside this Metaverse we seem to be living in.

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Neal Stephenson's 1992 novel Snow Crash and the parallels the book's narrative has with the internet and modern technology
Inanna and the Tower of Babel
Pepe the Frog being an optic virus

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OCCULTURE 103: Alan Green // Manifesting Intentions, Karma & Dee-coding the Shakespeare Mystery

Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:24:00 +0000

And the plot just continuously thickens. Or maybe it continually thickens. I still don't have this grammar thing down.

Anyway, I'll tell you who does have the grammar thing down. William Shakespeare. Or Shack-speare. Or Shake-spears. Whoever that is, whatever that is, you can't deny the utter brilliance of those plays and sonnets. And you can't deny that the Shakespeare authorship mystery is one of the more intriguing cultural conundrums that we know of.

But our guest this time around takes the authorship mystery and turns it up to 11. His name is Alan Green, and he's worked for the past 15 years trying to solve not only who was Shakespeare, but what was Shakespeare. That's resulted in one book, with two more on the way, and several videos and multimedia presentations available on YouTube.

You will come to know a lot about Alan over the course of the next couple hours, because this is a bit of a different chat than I've heard from Alan before. And the Patreon extension here is well worth $2, or more, a month. It's chock full of good shit, as they say where I'm from.

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More about the mathematical constants found on the cover of Shakespeare's Sonnets & their connection to mystery schools, secret societies & John Dee
Thales, who was Pythagoras' mentor and whom the Thales Theorem is named after, and how that theorem connects to the Great Pyramid in Egypt
Yet-to-be published work from Alan, including his work on the world's first crossword puzzle, which as you might guess, connects to the Shakespeare mystery and the Enochian table constructed by John Dee and Ed Kelley
How Alan's background in music prepared him to comprehend the mathematics involved in his research
More about the Rosicrucian connection to this story. Hint: rose gold
And then we asked the most important question, not who was Shakespeare, but what was Shakespeare. Hint: bath

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OCCULTURE 102: Judika Illes // Intellectual Archeology, Spellcraft, Tarot & Occult Detective Fiction

Tue, 18 Sep 2018 07:33:00 +0000

If you're like me and you're a fan of short stories, detective fiction and the occult, then a book like The Weiser Book of Occult Detectives is something you rush to pick up at the old brick-and-mortar. So imagine my delight when that exact book arrived unexpectedly on my doorstep one day. And imagine my further delight to see Judika Illes' name on the front cover.

Because, even if you're not that into the occult, if you don't know much about the people who write in this genre, Judika's name is one you've seen if you've wandered through any bookstore. Sadly, if you're wandering through one of those chain bookstores, her books are typically lumped into the New Age section and relegated to a dimly lit corner. But any curious bookworm will have undoubtedly seen her name at the bottom of a spine on those shelves, and that is exactly how this curious bookworm first learned the name of Judika llles.

Judika is, of course, a prolific scholar, educator and author of several books of folklore, folkways, and mythology about the subjects of magic, the occult, divination, diverse spiritual traditions, witchcraft, and the paranormal. I originally reached out to her to discuss The Weiser Book of Occult Detectives, but as it turned out, that was only a drop in the old cauldron, because this chat took us in all kinds of directions. You might say it turned out to be a bit encyclopedic itself, because we wandered through many pages of the occult encyclopedia, and I think you will dig each and every one of them.

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OCCULTURE 101: Aidan Wachter // Punk Rock, Buddhism, Animism & Practical Magick

Wed, 12 Sep 2018 07:33:00 +0000

Our guest this time around is Aidan Wachter, talismanic jewelry maker and author of the recently released "Six Ways: Approaches & Entries for Practical Magick", which is the basis for our conversation here today.

This book really struck me in some feel spots as I was reading through it, and you will hear a bit about why and how it did that. Six Ways is a handbook of practical sorcery and magic, as Aidan knows and works it.

He says that, "Magic and sorcery have many definitions, and will have many more as we move as a species forward through time. The basic idea is that there are ways of being and interacting in the world that allow for certain kinds of communication, the production of change on both internal and external levels, and the development of what could be called 'special skills and talents'. These are psychic powers or arts, in the old usage of the word: meaning 'relative to the soul, spirit, mind'. These arts of soul, spirit, and mind come down to us in various ways. They come as full-blown systems of magic or witchcraft, as religious practices, as shamanry, as tales and ideas surviving via folklore, song, and literature."

And if you've been listening to the show here for a while, it should come as no surprise that that description, which comes directly from Aidan's book, is firmly my jam, as the older kids like to say.

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How to get into a trance state
Finding your magickal voice and magickal aesthetic
The concept of sacred fear or holy fear
Aidan's advice on reclaiming yourself and your power
Names for our punk band

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OCCULTURE Frequency Fight Companion: Alan Brunton Talks Cymatrax, Sound, Frequency, Vibration, Love & Tesla Technology + A 5G Warning

Sun, 09 Sep 2018 20:04:00 +0000

Hey yo, so I recently chatted with Alan Brunton, the CEO of a startup called Cymatrax. Alan is planning to launch an app that scrubs white noise and bad frequencies from audio files and replaces them with better frequencies.

If you know anything about the history of the podcast here or have been a listener since its inception, you've probably heard me talking about experimenting with frequencies myself, which I've done since the jump. I've recorded episodes at 432, 528 and now 320 Hz, as opposed to the standard 440 or 441. And Alan is approaching this app with the same sort of mentality. There's a long history of frequency manipulation and sound weaponization against populations, some of which we'll get into.

But the intent of this chat is not to delve too deep into the history or the conspiracy of this subject, but instead to focus on a practical, modern solution to a damn near undetectable problem that affects us all, whether we realize it or not.

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OCCULTURE 100: Dr. Amy Hale // Ithell Colquhoun, Alchemy, Golden Dawn Color Theory & The Academic Study of Esotericism

Thu, 30 Aug 2018 07:33:00 +0000

You couldn't ask for a more dynamic personality to be in the house than Dr. Amy Hale, whose work on British Surrealist and esotericist Ithell Colquhoun is the foundation for our conversation here.

Amy is a scholar of all things occult and esoteric, and has a PhD in Folklore and Mythology from UCLA. Her research and writing ranges from contemporary Cornwall to modern Pagan and occult subcultures in the United States and the United Kingdom. She's written about topics as diverse as modern Druidry, Cornish ethnonationalism, Pagan religious tourism, color theory, the occult, and extremist politics in modern Paganism. We'll touch on some of those ideas and concepts throughout our chat here.

One note: Amy's audio did have some inconsistencies in terms of volume, but I enhanced what I could, so hopefully it's not too bad.

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Ithell's interest in the convergence of color, metaphysics and space
The Golden Dawn's Book T and how Ithell interacted with it
A concept called the cube of space
A concept called psychological morphology that Ithell used
The structure of the tarot deck
How Ithell incorporated her idea of feminism into the deck

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OCCULTURE 99: Neil Edwards, Edward Mason & Jeff Wolfe // The Theology & Art of the Process Church of the Final Judgment

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 07:33:00 +0000

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Search 'The Process Church of the Final Judgment' online and you will discover a long list of lurid conspiracy theories. The cult has been accused of being the inspiration for Charles Manson's 'crimes of the century', influencing the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, and being the root of the notorious Son of Sam serial killings.

Formed in 1960s England, many of its members were drawn from wealthy families and aristocracy. Newspapers branded them the 'Mindbenders in Mayfair' and 'The Devil's Disciples'.

Thing is, former members seem to have taken a vow of silence and secrecy. They've stayed hush on the group's beliefs, rituals and closely guarded secrets, and they haven't addressed even the most mundane of the conspiracy theories levied against them.

Until now.

A lot of names on the marquee for this one, and that's because we're discussing the Process Church of the Final Judgment with a few folks who know a thing or two about it.

First up, Neil Edwards, the director and producer and - well, he did about everything for his documentary on the Process Church. It's called Sympathy for the Devil?, and after more than two years of screening the film, it's finally out for mass consumption on home video, so dust off that VCR because it's well worth the time.

Neil's film gets behind the veils of the cult known as the Process and tracks their journey from their formation in London's prestigious Mayfair district, through wilderness experiences in Mexico, flirtations with pop royalty, and their spread stateside that resulted in them being 'christened' 'one of the most dangerous satanic cults in America'.

The film features contributions and insights from filmmaker John Waters, musician George Clinton, artist Genesis P-Orridge, and several renowned authors, including Gary Lachman, former guest here. It also features commentary from leading former members of the cult, including Edward Mason, who's also in the house to deliver a ton of inside perspective on the group.

And if that isn't enough, we're also joined by Jeff Wolfe, who blogs at SecretTransmissions.com and holds a lifelong interest in the theology and psychology of the Process. This is Jeff's fourth appearance on the show, and he brought a slew of great questions and valuable insights, especially in the Patreon extension, where we want from a foursome, to a threesome, to just Jeff and I chatting. So, an interesting format and progression here for those of you listening on Patreon. And if you're not and you want to, and believe me, you'll want to, patreon.com/occulture is the place to be.

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OCCULTURE 98: Tayannah Lee McQuillar & Katelan Foisy // Libyan Sibyls, African Deities, Matriarchy & Divination

Wed, 15 Aug 2018 07:33:00 +0000

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Our guests this time around are Tayannah Lee McQuillar and Katelan Foisy. They have recently collaborated on a project called The Sibyls Oraculum: Oracle of the Black Doves of Africa, which is a system of divination inspired by the Libyan Sibyls, the African prophetesses of the classical world.

The deck was created by Tayannah, a tarot reader and researcher of religion, esoterica, and mysticism, and drawn by Katelan, a visual artist, writer, and occultist who specializes in vintage style mixed media art and photography.

This contemporary oracle pays homage to the oft forgotten African founding mothers of the sibylline traditions. Drawing on both the African and the Classical traditions, the card art is in a style reminiscent of the Libyan mosaics popular in the 1st century B.C.E. And in the deck's accompanying guidebook, Tayannah details how to consult the oracle, providing in-depth write-ups about the meaning of each of the 44 cards and the symbolic language represented by each card's imagery. There's also a history of the Sibyls of the ancient world and an exploration of the continuing Sibyl tradition in North Africa today.

But the framework for our conversation here comes from the true intention of the deck, which is to directly address the spiritual lessons underlying the seeker's question, and to facilitate self-examination and decision-making, and help improve the likelihood of success and broaden the perspective of the situation.

Now, we did have some audio and connection issues, so that cut this chat a bit shorter than usual. You will notice Tayannah's connection got better about halfway through, because we had to reconnect a couple times during this call. But please do stick with it, because I quite liked it, all things considered. And I hope you do as well.

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OCCULTURE 97: Jason Louv // John Dee, Cryptography & Unlocking the Substrate With Enochian Magick

Thu, 09 Aug 2018 07:33:00 +0000

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Jason Louv is back in the house. And why wouldn't he be? We had maybe my favorite chat this year back in episode 77. I think we damn near tore the house down with that one. So if you haven't heard that one yet, I'd slather that across your earholes first and then come back to this one.

But, like any good sequel, this one stands alone, on its own. And you can judge for yourself if it lives up to the first one.

Jason is, of course, the author of the recently released John Dee and the Empire of Angels. He's also written and edited a slew of other books and teaches magic at his website Magick.Me. And he's also the guy who is fresh off a rather entertaining Skeptiko appearance which left me with both a chuckle and a reminder of why I no longer listen to that podcast.

Anyway, in this episode Jason and I will be chatting a bit about John Dee's mentors and syncretic beliefs, Dee's interest in cryptography and if the Enochian tables could be elaborate ciphers, and Jason gets really into this idea of unlocking substrate consciousness with Enochian magick, which is an interesting idea, to say the least.

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OCCULTURE 96.1: Michael Wann // Basebaal, Geological Anomalies, Serpent Wisdom & The Rites of the 40th Parallel (Patreon Bonus Teaser)

Thu, 02 Aug 2018 07:33:00 +0000

Hey yo there. So, as mentioned in episode 96, I recorded another two hours of material with Michael Wann about the Susquehanna Mystery. We chatted about baseball's theosophical and freemasonic connections, impact craters, Herkimer diamonds, serpent wisdom & personal transformation along the 40th parallel, which is what this clip is about. I thought this was the most important aspect of this chat and, despite it being recorded for Patreon, I thought it was worth sharing with everyone. Again, this is just a part of what was a 2-hour long addendum to episode 96. It was pretty lively, and is well worth a listen. And for just two bucks, you won't find a better deal in the podcasting game. Well, it could be free. That'd be a better deal. But hey, I'm poor, so you know, I gotta do what I gotta do. Anyway, I do hope you enjoy this clip with Michael Wann.

OCCULTURE 96: Michael Wann // The Susquehanna Mystery, River Altars, Rosicrucian Alchemy & The Georgia Guidestones

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 07:33:00 +0000

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Independent researcher Michael Wann is in the house to introduce us to what he calls the Susquehanna mystery.

Mike has uncovered a potential nexus of advanced-level conspiracy and occult history that centers around both the Susquehanna River, which starts in New York state and empties into the Chesapeake Bay, as well as the 40th parallel.

This is a story that also has connections to John Dee and the Enochian system, as well as the technological singularity. Really, there's a ton of data here and it can be quite difficult to parse through it all in even two hours. If you're a patron, however, there's another two hours coming with Mike on this subject, and if you're not a patron and want more, please do check out patreon.com/occulture.

I should also note that due to length of this - it clocked in at 3.5 hours in total - I did not do as much post production on this as I usually do. So if you hear more breath noises or uhhs and umms than usual, I do apologize.

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OCCULTURE 95: Thomas Sheridan // The Æon of Cthulhu, Irish Folklore, Stone Magic & The State of Sorcery

Thu, 26 Jul 2018 07:33:00 +0000

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The one and only Thomas Sheridan is in the house. Thomas is the author of Sorcery: The Invocation of Strangeness, self-published recently on Lulu.com, and the book focuses on magic as a real force in the world employed by powerful people, as most of us overstand by now, but it's an honest and practical approach to defending yourself against that force.

This is one of the best books on the subject I've read, and one of the most entertaining, because not only it is narrated by one of the most outspoken sorcerers you'll find anywhere, it also contains a ton of awesome stories and anecdotes. And as Thomas describes himself in his Facebook profile, he has no interest in waking you up, he's here to improve the quality of your dreaming. And hopefully after an hour (or two if you're a patron), your dreams will be much improved.

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OCCULTURE 94: Carl Abrahamsson // Art, Sexuality, Counterculture & The Deceitful Nature of the Language of the Mind

Wed, 18 Jul 2018 07:33:00 +0000

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Carl Abrahamsson is back in the house for the second time. You may remember the first time earlier this year, when Carl engaged in some sonically transmitted discourse with Mitch Horowitz. A really popular, well-received episode, but one where I had some questions left unanswered from Carl's latest book, which is aptly titled Occulture: The Unseen Forces That Drive Culture Forward. So consider this is the redux of the meta-analysis that we began back in episode 67.

This is a bit of a shorter episode than most due to some unforeseen circumstances. But I will say that it is jam-packed with some of the best and most satisfying conversation I think I've been able to produce. And that is strictly because of Carl and his book.

This one will definitely kickstart your heart chakra. It has what I can only call a great rhythm throughout. So let's rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz and wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug, and if you feel the urge to freak - well you know what to do.

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OCCULTURE RAW 6: Grimsteak & James Cruz on Virtue Signaling, Ritual Magic, Frequency Healing & Visiting the Serpent Mound on Mushrooms (Patreon Bonus Teaser)

Mon, 16 Jul 2018 01:07:09 +0000

Hey yo. So, I recently chatted with my friends Grimsteak and James Cruz for a RAW bonus episode over on Patreon. You may remember these fine gentlemen as the hosts of the Cruzin With Steak podcast, which I have been on twice before. Grim and James hung out with me for more than two hours to chat about virtue signaling, UFO encounters, my ritual magic hesitations, media consumption habits, former drug consumption habits, fasting, frequency healing, doing mushrooms at the Serpent Mound and literally too many other subjects to list. And, as a way to drum up support for the Patreon but also for the Cruzin With Steak podcast, this episode is actually available for free in their podcast. So if you like how this clip teases you, you can get the whole thing by searching Cruzin With Steak in iTunes or your podcatcher of choice. I do hope you enjoy it, and I do hope you head on over their way to check out the full episode, which is linked in the show notes. Enjoy.

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OCCULTURE 93: Dr. Richard Kaczynski // The Magick, Poetry & Religion of Aleister Crowley

Fri, 13 Jul 2018 07:09:00 +0000

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What better way to honor this 93rd episode than by talking about the life and work of the notorious Aleister Crowley. The Great Beast himself, the wickedest man in the world, the man who's performed more sex magick rituals than there are pages in the book we're about to discuss, and that's a lot of pages, folks. 705 of them in this book called Perdurabo by our guest, Dr. Richard Kaczynski.

Richard is also the author of The Weiser Concise Guide to Aleister Crowley. He has been a student of the Western hermetic tradition since 1978, and has lectured internationally on these topics since 1990. His writing has appeared in numerous magazines and books, including High Times, Concordance to the Holy Books of Thelema, and The Golden Dawn Sourcebook.

Richard and I are gonna essentially make our way nearly chronologically through Crowley's life, and if you're on Patreon you're getting nearly two hours of show here. But if you're not you're only getting that first hour. And, of all the shows you want to hear in their entirety, this is the one you really don't want to miss, because you're only getting half the story. Patreon.com/occulture is the destination for the whole shebang, and it's as little as $2 a month.

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REMINDER

Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.

OCCULTURE RAW 5: Wren Collier & Jerry Cthulhu Respond to Episode 90 // Magic, Consciousness & Psychological Fragmentation (Patreon Bonus Teaser)

Mon, 09 Jul 2018 02:40:16 +0000

As you might expect, episode with 90 with Jasun Horsley elicited some strong reactions from some folks in the occult and paranormal community. So I invited a couple folks who heard the show and had some opinions on it to chat with me for a bonus PAW Patreon show. And those folks were Wren Collier, who blogs at LiminalRoom.com, and Jerry Cthulhu, who is the co-host of the Nox Mente podcast. We covered a lot of ground in about 80 minutes, talking magic, consciousness, paranormal experiences, psychological fragmentation and a whole lot more. And be a clip from that chat. If you enjoy it, you can hear the rest of it plus all previous and forthcoming RAW episodes by signing up at the $5 level at Patreon.com/occulture. So please do enjoy.

Apologies for the inconsistent audio quality. This was recorded via Zoom.

Wren's blog

Jerry's YouTube channel

OCCULTURE 92: George Pendle // Strange Angel: Jack Parsons, California, Magick, Pulp Fiction & Rocket Science

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 07:33:00 +0000

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George Pendle is the author of the book Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of John Whiteside Parsons, which if ya haven't heard has been adapted to series for CBS All-Access, and it's airing there right now, as you read this.

George makes his way into the house to talk a bit about what it was like to research and write about Jack Parsons, some of the atmosphere and aesthetic around him that shaped who he became, and his thoughts on Jack Parsons going mainstream.

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REMINDER

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OCCULTURE 91: Joe Atwill // Typology, Weaponized Anthropology & The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus

Tue, 03 Jul 2018 21:00:00 +0000

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Joe Atwill is in the house to talk about his work on typology and weaponized anthropology, which focuses on the crucial fiction known as the New Testament as well as the works of Shakespeare, JD Salinger, Ken Kesey, George Orwell and more.

Joe has a new book forthcoming called The Secret Language of Oligarchs, and this is hopefully part one of a two-part series that will lay the foundation for what is a thought-provoking journey behind the curtain that reveals a symbolic framework employed by scribes throughout history. There's about a 20-25 minute Patreon extension with Joe. More on that after the chat, which will provide you with a healthy dose of skepticism, conspiracy and questioning of authorities.

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OCCULTURE 90: Jasun Horsley // UFOs, Social Engineering & The Psychology of Fragmentation

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 07:33:00 +0000

If you've been here before you know we have always questioned authority, and that doesn't just extend to the usual suspects - ya know, the government, the church, the corporations. We questions all kinds of authority. And our guest this time around has been doing exactly that, but he's taken it a step further and turned his attention towards authorities who are part of the occulture, for lack of a better term.

His name is Jasun Horsley and he's recently published a book called Prisoner of Infinity: UFOs, Social Engineering & the Psychology of Fragmentation. And when I first came across it that title immediately hooked me and then when I read the synopsis, I sat back in my chair and said, "Well, I have to read this."

In addition to this book, Jasun has authored seven previous books with another one coming in early 2019 that builds on his work from Prisoner of Infinity. Jasun also hosts his own podcast called The Liminalist, and has a blog called Auticulture, which is a portmanteau of autism and culture. The autism portion of that is an interesting angle, and we do talk a bit about that right up front here.

Really, this is one of the more interesting pieces of research I've read, and Jasun is one of the more interesting people I've met since I've started doing this. This conversation will ruffle some feathers. And his book will ruffle some feathers (and already has).

There's a Patreon extension here too, another 30 minutes. More on that after the chat, which might not be an easy one to get through. This may not be for you.

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REMINDER

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OCCULTURE 89: Gary Lachman // Magick, Postmodern Theatre & The Responsibility of Imagination in the Age of Trump

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 07:33:00 +0000

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My oh my what a guest we have this time around. Gary Lachman has brought his imagination to the house party, and we'll be chatting a bit about two of his recent books, Lost Knowledge of the Imagination and Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump.

Those two books are just a couple of the now more than 20 Gary has authored on topics ranging from the evolution of consciousness to literary suicides, popular culture and the history of the occult. Gary is one of, and may be the, pre-eminent esoteric scholar in the game today. Some of you know him as Gary Valentine from the band Blondie, others know him as a biographer of names like Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, Carl Jung, Helena Blavatsky and Colin Wilson.

And after this chat, all of you will know him as woke af, because Gary is going to illuminate the dark recesses of the sociopolitical imagination, which features a pro wrestling hall of famer as the current sitting US president, a team of Russian propagandists creating this wonderful postmodern theatre, and a cartoon frog that's been passed around so much on the internet you'd think its name was Stormy.

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REMINDER

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OCCULTURE 88: Greg Kaminsky // Pico della Mirandola's Christian Cabala, Syncretic Angelology & System of Spiritual Ascent

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 07:33:00 +0000

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I am so pleased and so honored to welcome this particular guest into the house. His name is Greg Kaminsky, and he is the host of a podcast called Occult of Personality. I was trying to think of a good analogy for Greg and I coming together, and the best one I could think of is the first time you heard Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg together.

Greg is the podfather - Doggfather? - of occult podcasts. We'll talk a bit about how he became that, and then we're gonna dig into one of my favorite topics and talk about one of my favorite dudes to ever do this damn thing: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Such a fascinating figure with some downright heretical ideas. And Greg is gonna creep to the mic like a phantom and parse out this story for us over the course of the next hour.

So sit back, relax, and strap on your seatbelt, because you've never been on a ride like this before, with a producer who can rap and control the maestro. It's time to roll another dope episode up and take a toke but don't choke, because if ya do, you'll have no clue what me and my homie Greg Kaminsky came to do.

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REMINDER

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OCCULTURE 87: Recluse // The Knights of Malta, Black Lodge Freemasonry & The Original Men in Black

Wed, 06 Jun 2018 07:33:00 +0000

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Our guest this time around is a blogger who goes by the name Recluse. He's one of the more impressive alternative bloggers in the game today, and after this one you will know why. This is a bit of a unique episode, because it's part one of a series Recluse and I have agreed to do with each other based on some blogs he's written about one of the lesser known and lesser discussed sources of power in times both past and present.

Some of you have probably heard of the Catholic military order known as the Knights of Malta, and after this series you'll know more about them than you'd ever want to know. What some of you probably haven't heard of is their connection to a host of other shadowy groups that have ties to governments, organized religions, banks, multinational corporations, intelligence agencies, killers-for-hire and mafiosos across the world.

This is the beginning of a story that brings together the church's historical interest in the occult, population control and political subversion. It is, as Recluse has labeled it, a strange and terrible journey into the heart of the deep state.

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REMINDER

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OCCULTURE 86: Nick Redfern // Slenderman, Tulpamancy, HP Lovecraft, Chaos Magick & The Internet Monster

Thu, 31 May 2018 07:33:00 +0000

Nick Redfern makes his way into the house for the first time. Nick is the author of damn near 50 books on various paranormal and fortean topics, and we'll be chatting be about one of his latest books, The Slenderman Mysteries: An Internet Urban Legend Comes to Life.

If you're not familiar with the Slenderman phenomenon, be prepared to get familiar, because we're gonna give you all the crazy details of it, as well as take some detours into the worlds of HP Lovecraft, Alexandra David-Neel, Dion Fortune, Aleister Crowley and Coast to Coast AM, and we'll touch on some Slenderman-type mythos from before Slendy himself was even a meme.

But for now, grab some popcorn and maybe a flashlight and let's venture through the wooded recesses of the Internet mind with the paranormal's most prolific private eye, Mr. Nick Redfern.

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Vestron Vulture - "I Want to be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

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REMINDER

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OCCULTURE 85: Robert Sullivan IV // Occult Horror Fiction, The Royal Arch of Enoch & Cinematic Sorcery

Wed, 30 May 2018 10:16:00 +0000

Robert Sullivan IV is in the house. Rob is here to talk about - well, about a little bit of everything. He's written four books and we touch on them all throughout the conversation. His latest book is a horror novel called A Pact With the Devil. Of course, Rob's most well-known for traveling the fringe-y podcast circuit to dissect the occult symbolism in film. He's one of the very best in the game at doing that. He's written two books on the subject, Cinema Symbolism and Cinema Symbolism 2. And then we'll also touch on his first book, The Royal Arch of Enoch: The Impact of Masonic Ritual, Philosophy and Symbolism.

Rob is a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Freemason so he's well-versed in the occult and esoteric, and after 90 minutes you'll know it for sure.

If you're on Patreon, you're getting all 90 minutes, and if you're not you're getting the first 60. So head over to patreon.com/occulture to hear this in its entirety.

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REMINDER

Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.

OCCULTURE 84: Niles Heckman // Yellow Brick Road: Spiritual Maturation & Discovering Selfhood

Fri, 25 May 2018 07:00:00 +0000

I will not lie to you, good people. The conversation you're about to hear is one of the most enlightening and one of the most personal that you'll ever hear on this show.

And I have to thank our guest Niles Heckman for that. He brought a really cool idea to me for the chat, and I had no idea what to expect before we hit the record button, but what transpired, I think, is pretty inspiring. Niles is a multimedia savant. He's a writer, photographer, podcaster and the man behind the films Shamans of the Global Village and the forthcoming Transmutation. He's also a frequent guest on my friend Ed Liu's Psychedelic Milk podcast.

And what we did here was, we talk a lot about our own growth and maturation, how it applies to our creations and our art, and then looked at how a man named Lyman Frank Baum followed a similar path to create maybe the most recognizable fairy tale in the history of art, The Wizard of Oz. Some of you may have heard of that.

The Wizard of Oz part of this, though, is actually the second hour of the chat, and if you're not supporting the show on Patreon, you're only getting the first half of this. So, if you want to hear this in its entirety, head over to Patreon.com/occulture to support the show for as little as $2 a month. That'll get you access to extensions like this one as I continue to enhance and expand my Patreon content. And this is the first time I've really tried the whole first hour free, second hour for patrons thing. It's worth it too, because what we talk about in the first hour is really a blueprint for Baum's creation of The Wizard of Oz and all the esoteric and occult symbolism found within it. And there's quite a bit of it, actually.

RESOURCES

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REMINDER

Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.

OCCULTURE 83: Miguel Conner // Gnostic Cosmology, William Blake & Gnosticism in Fiction

Mon, 21 May 2018 07:33:00 +0000

Miguel Conner is the host of Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio, which he calls a cult show dealing with the forbidden wisdom of the Gnostics that is more relevant than ever in a fracturing world. It is one of my absolute favorite podcasts, and if ya haven't heard it yet - well, you're probably too busy feeding other demiurges.

Miguel also describes himself as a garage philosopher and hedge historian. And he's also a professional storyteller, which is evident in his podcast and also because he's written a few books, the critically acclaimed Voices of Gnosticism and Other Voices of Gnosticism as well as some fiction, the post-apocalyptic vampire epic series, The Dark Instinct Trilogy, as well as a fantasy novel, The Executioner's Daughter. His writing has also appeared in such publications as The Gnostic Journal and Reality Sandwich, among others.

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Vestron Vulture - "I Want to be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

PRODUCTION & LICENSING

This podcast is produced in the Kingdom of Ohio and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Executive Producers: Mike K., Erick, Carter Y., Mauricio G., Alyssa S., Daniel R., Tess, Joe T., Kelly C.

REMINDER

Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.

OCCULTURE 82: Ivo Dominguez // The Triple Shadow, Elemental Energy & The Keys to Psychic Perception

Mon, 14 May 2018 09:30:00 +0000

Ivo Dominguez is in the house. We're gonna talk a lot about shadow selves and shadow senses and elemental energy and get some tips on how to best connect with our own psychism.

Ivo is a practitioner of a variety of esoteric disciplines. He has been active in Wicca and the Pagan community since 1978 and has been teaching since 1982. Ivo was a founding member of the first coven of The Assembly of the Sacred Wheel, a Wiccan Tradition where he currently serves as one of its Elders. Ivo is also a professional astrologer who has studied astrology since 1980 and has been offering consultations and readings since 1988.

He is the author of five books, and his most recent is Keys to Perception: A Practical Guide to Psychic Development, which forms the basis for our chat.

RESOURCES

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Vestron Vulture - "I Want to be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

PRODUCTION & LICENSING

This podcast is produced in the Kingdom of Ohio and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Executive Producers: Mike K., Erick, Carter Y., Mauricio G., Alyssa S., Daniel R., Tess, Joe T.

REMINDER

Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.

OCCULTURE Antisocial Commentary // Childish Gambino's This Is America: The Society of the Spectacle

Wed, 09 May 2018 04:14:00 +0000

Breaking down some of the messaging and symbolism in the music video that's been breaking the internet - Childish Gambino's "This Is America".

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY

Video lyrics: https://genius.com/Childish-gambino-this-is-america-lyrics

OCCULTURE 81: Dr. Dean Radin // Psience: Consciousness, Hermeticism & The Evidence for Real Magic

Mon, 07 May 2018 07:00:00 +0000

Dr. Dean Radin is in the house to talk about his latest book, Real Magic, which takes an evidential approach to psychic phenomena.

I first heard Dean over the airwaves with Art Bell, so it was quite a thrill to chat with him here. It's an interesting chat, all things considered, and one that had me questioning some things afterward.

RESOURCES

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Vestron Vulture - "I Want to be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

PRODUCTION & LICENSING

This podcast is produced in the Kingdom of Ohio and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Executive Producers: Mike K., Erick, Carter Y., Mauricio G., Alyssa S., Daniel R., Tess, Joe T.

REMINDER

Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.

OCCULTURE RAW 4: SMQ.AI on the Mandela Effect, Human Anatomy Changes, William Burroughs & Museums on the Moon (Patreon Bonus Teaser)

Thu, 03 May 2018 09:03:00 +0000

SMQ.AI returns to the show get RAW on the Mandela effect, coincidence theory, changes to human anatomy, the work of William Burroughs, critical thinking, museums on the moon & more.

SMQ on Twitter

SMQ on YouTube

Patreon

OCCULTURE 80: Jason Miller // The Influence of Magick, Set Point Theory & The Elements of Spellcrafting

Mon, 30 Apr 2018 07:00:00 +0000

The one and only Jason Miller is in the house. Jason is the author of five books that focus on the more practical side of magick - things like protections, reversals, financial sorcery, and erotic magic. And his latest book is right that wheelhouse too. It's called The Elements of Spellcrafting: 21 Keys to Successful Sorcery. That, and Jason's all-around magical mojo, forms the basis for our chat here.

RESOURCES

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MERCH

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SOCIAL

MUSIC

Vestron Vulture - "I Want to be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

PRODUCTION & LICENSING

This podcast is produced in the Kingdom of Ohio and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Executive Producers: Mike K., Erick, Matt A., Carter Y., Mauricio G., Alyssa S., Daniel R.

REMINDER

Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.

OCCULTURE RAW 3: Linda Raedisch on Walpurgisnacht, Fairy Tales & The Personality of Place (Patreon Bonus Teaser)

Sat, 28 Apr 2018 17:45:27 +0000

Hey yo, so I recently chatted with author and friend of the show Linda Raedisch for Occulture RAW, a bonus feature for $5+ patrons over at patreon.com/occulture. We chatted about Walpurgisnacht, the Night of the Witches, which is on the night of April 30. Big celebration in certain parts of Germany and Scandinavia. We also chatted about Linda's Germanic roots, fairy tales and books, including her newest book, which is a fantasy novella where the main character is a castle.

OCCULTURE Shadow Self Fight Companion: Fiona Horne on Witchcraft, Diversity, Love, Drugs & Fire

Sat, 28 Apr 2018 07:00:00 +0000

Hey yo, so I had a chance to chat with Fiona Horne recently. Fiona is widely recognized as a leading expert on modern witchcraft, and she's also an accomplished television and radio personality, singer/songwriter and author. She actually recently released her autobiography here in the US. It's called The Naked Witch, which has a double meaning, seeing as how Fiona is well-known for posing in Playboy magazine, and also because she exposes herself in a different way on the pages of this book.

The Naked Witch on IndieBound

Fiona's website

Music: The Gun Club - "She's Like Heroin to Me"

OCCULTURE 79: Alkistis Dimech // The Divine Feminine, Eroticism, Dance & The Dynamics of the Occulted Body

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:00:00 +0000

What a conversation we have in store for you this time around. Alkistis Dimech is in the house. She's the co-founder of Scarlet Imprint, perhaps the finest occult publishing house going today. But Alkistis is so much more than that. She's a dancer and choreographer and a student of music and theater and the arts. She also kinda-sorta took me to task on Twitter not too long ago, and rightly so, and - well, you'll hear about that too.

RESOURCES

Alkistis' website
Alkistis on Twitter
Alkistis on Instagram
Scarlet Imprint
Flambeau Noir
Essays by Alkistis quoted in this episode:

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OCCULTURE 78: Chris Bennett // Liber 420: The Alchemy, Magick & Occult History of Cannabis

Fri, 20 Apr 2018 08:20:00 +0000

Chris Bennett has been researching the historical role of cannabis in magic and religion for over a quarter century. He's written three previous books: Green Gold the Tree of Life: Marijuana in Magic and Religion; Sex, Drugs, Violence and the Bible; and Cannabis and the Soma Solution. But he's here because today, Friday, April 20, he's just released his most comprehensive book yet. It's called Liber 420: Cannabis, Magickal Herbs & the Occult, and it is literally anything and everything you'd want to know about the occulted use of cannabis in religion, mystery traditions, magickal rituals, alchemy and much more, and we're gonna talk a bit about that.

Chris joined me via cell phone, so the audio is good, but not great. And we covered a lot of ground in a short amount of time. And, honestly, this one is pretty chill and relaxed, as one might expect given the content. So do yourself a favor and make like Chong, and fire this one up and take a hit from this audio bong.

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OCCULTURE 77: Jason Louv // John Dee, Enochian Magick & The Occult Roots of the Modern World

Mon, 16 Apr 2018 07:00:00 +0000

We've got a hell of a show here for you this time around. We're gonna talk about one of my favorite topics in the world, maybe my favorite actually: John Dee. And who better to do that with than Jason Louv, author of "John Dee and the Empire of Angels".

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Vestron Vulture - "I Want to be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

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Executive Producers: Mike K., Erick, Jason N., Matt A., Carter Y., Mauricio G., Alyssa S.

REMINDER

Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.

OCCULTURE 76: Scott Gosnell // Infinity War: An Oral Biography of Giordano Bruno, Heretic

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:00:00 +0000

This time around we welcome Scott Gosnell into the house. Scott and I will be discussing the life and death of Giordano Bruno. Of course, Bruno is one of the reasons you are hearing my voice in the first place, so it's really cool for me to be able to chat about his life with Scott, who may be the pre-eminent Bruno scholar here in the States. Scott has translated four volumes of Bruno's writings from Latin and Italian into English, and it's the first time these works have been translated. How cool is that? How he came to do that is also a cool story that we'll talk a bit about as well.

This is also a bit of an experimental episode, at least in terms of the format and preparation that went into this behind the scenes for me personally. It may not be that noticeable as a listener, but see if you can pick up what I'm puttin' down.

And what I'm puttin' down is a story that's not so much about Bruno's ideas as it is about him and the road he traveled to even arrive at those ideas, and some of the characters he may have encountered along the way.

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REMINDER

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OCCULTURE 75: Peter Sjöstedt-H // The Alchemy of Nietzsche, Panpsychism, Metaphysical Creativity & The Reality Canvas

Tue, 03 Apr 2018 04:00:00 +0000

Peter Sjöstedt-H is an Anglo-Scandinavian philosopher of mind and a metaphysician who specializes in the thought of such philosophers as Alfred North Whitehead, Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer, with special regard to panpsychism and altered states of sentience.

Peter received a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and a Master's degree in Continental Philosophy from the University of Warwick. He subsequently became a Philosophy Lecturer in London for six years but is now working on his PhD at Exeter University where he also teaches philosophy modules and writing skills.

Peter is also the author of Noumenautics, a collection of essays which traverses the mindscape of metaphysics, nihilism and psychedelic phenomenology and will form the basis for our conversation here. Peter's writing on neo-nihilism was also an inspiration behind the Marvel superhero Karnak, which oddly enough did not come up in conversation here. *shrug*

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Vestron Vulture - "I Want to be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

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OCCULTURE 74: Julian Vayne // Psychedelic Ritual, Baphomet & The Medicine Path

Thu, 29 Mar 2018 04:00:00 +0000

Julian Vayne is the author of "Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony".

The book is a manual for exploring the use of psychedelic substances in the contexts of spirituality, self-transformation and magic. If you're an occultist and a psychonaut, this is your guidebook, this will show you how to blend your practices together to take yourself to the next level, quite literally.

Julian and I will dig deep into some of these ancient ritual psychedelic practices and how to pair them with music and dancing and singing and sex. And as you will with a guy who also co-wrote a book called The Book of Baphomet, we will absolutely tie that into this as well.

So if this sounds like the cup of hallucinogenic tea you want to drink from, by all means please partake. But get that mindset right and find yourself a comfortable space, because this psychedelic pod is about to cast a triangular spell of love, truth and awareness.

RESOURCES

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Vestron Vulture - "I Want to be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

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Executive Producers: Mike K., Erick, Jason N., Matt A.

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OCCULTURE 73: Austin Coppock // Qigong, Decans, Lunar Mansions, Time & Contradictions of the Heart

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 07:00:00 +0000

If you studied the natal chart of this podcast, you'd know that this was the timeframe that Austin Coppock would make his debut on this de-program.

Austin is one of the pre-eminent astrologers of our time and is the author of the groundbreaking and much-lauded "36 Faces: The History, Astrology and Magic of the Decans". Austin is also well-versed in general esoterics and magical traditions such as Hermeticism, as well as Chinese martial arts, all of which will pop up in conversation here.

RESOURCES

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Vestron Vulture - "I Want to be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

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REMINDER

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Ryan Constructs the Seven Levels of the Woke Kingdom on Psychedelic Milk

Fri, 23 Mar 2018 01:11:09 +0000

Hey yo. So I was recently on the Psychedelic Milk podcast with my friend Ed Liu.

Ed was a guest on this show back in episode 37, and he was kind enough to invite me into his house to drink from his milkshake. If you get that reference, you're my kinda people. Regardless, Ed and I had a really fun, sort of tongue-in-cheek chat where I outlined the seven levels of woke. And Ed really challenged me with some questions, which I was completely unprepared for. We also disagreed on a couple things, but ultimately found common ground in the end. And we laughed a lot, which is really what it's all about.

I should note too that Ed split this chat in half and the second half of it was available for his patrons on Patreon, so you're only getting half the conversation here. But if you make it through the next hour, trust me that is more than enough of my idiocy.

PsychedelicMilk.com

OCCULTURE 72: Preston Gibbs // Fate, Pattern Recognition, Astrology & Tarot

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 04:00:00 +0000

Cause for celebration! It's the Spring Equinox! Rejuvenation, rebirth, everything's blooming, all that crap! And who better to invite to a celebration than your friends, and the one-man guest list for this celestial soiree is my friend - and soon to be yours - Mr. Preston Gibbs.

Preston is a professional astrologer and tarot reader. We're talking the Spring Equinox, fate, pattern recognition as it relates to astrology and tarot, the impact of Millennials on astrology, a little bit of science fiction & more.

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SOCIAL

MUSIC

Vestron Vulture - "I Want to be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

PRODUCTION & LICENSING

This podcast is produced in the Kingdom of Ohio and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Executive Producers: Mike K., Erick, Jason N., Matt A.

REMINDER

Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.

OCCULTURE RAW 2: TruthSeekah on Jordan Maxwell, UFOs, Angels, Demons & Backwoods Louisiana Churches (Patreon Bonus Teaser)

Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:07:26 +0000

TruthSeekah is an esoteric hip-hop artist, author and speaker and is also the host of The TruthSeekah Podcast, a weekly show that discusses spiritual, esoteric and metaphysical topics.

We chat about growing up on negative hip-hop music, life in the Deep South, real-life True Detective stories in backwoods Louisiana churches, warlocks, angels, demons, aliens, UFOs, elemental spirits, biblical interpretations, creativity as God, true alchemy & the work of Jordan Maxwell.

TruthSeekah.com

OCCULTURE RAW 1: Ian Wilson on Ultra-Rare Lucid Precognitive Dreams & Remote Viewing (Patreon Bonus Teaser)

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 03:20:34 +0000

This is a teaser for a new feature for patrons over at patreon.com/occulture. It's called Occulture RAW. How original, right?

But it is raw. These are unedited, unscripted and unprepared conversations with new & former guests, friends & foes. And when I say unedited, I mean it. No post-production whatsoever. When I say unscripted and unprepared, I mean it. No notes, no questions prepared. Just raw, spontaneous conversations.

This first episode was with former guest Ian Wilson who was talking about having ultra-rare lucid precognitive dreams, remote viewing and visiting the famed Monroe Institute. So, again, just a short teaser here, but if you dig it, more like this coming in the future for $5+ patrons at patreon.com/occulture.

OCCULTURE 71: Katy Bohinc // Poetry, Philosophy & Rediscovering Feminine Spirit

Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:04:53 +0000

Katy Bohinc is the author of Trinity Star Trinity, a long poem dedicated to the divine feminine recently released by the fine folks over at Scarlet Imprint.

Katy is a poet and a data scientist; an avant garde publisher and a professional marketer; an activist, an astrologer and an innovator. She studied pure math and comparative literature, and in her words, she doesn't think these things are contradictory; she thinks it's the future.

As for Trinity Star Trinity, this was written after experiences Katy had in the home of Greek lyrical poet Sappho and at the birthplace of the Greek Olympian Hera. The long poem takes shape as an ode or chant and is comprised of 27 poems of 27 words each, and speaks to Katy's interest in astrology, triangles, and mathematics.

Katy did join me via cell phone and the audio was a bit problematic at times, but the message comes through loud and clear in the end, so stick with it, because we did some thinking, we did some questioning, and we did a whole lot of laughing.

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Vestron Vulture - "I Want to be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

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REMINDER

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OCCULTURE 70: Susie Chang & Mel Meleen // Fortune's Wheelhouse, Tarot, Esoteric Correspondences & How to Abide

Mon, 05 Mar 2018 08:00:00 +0000

Susie Chang and Mel Meleen are the wise and wonderful hosts of Fortune's Wheelhouse, one of my favorite podcasts.

Susie and Mel are in the midst of breaking down the esoteric correspondences of all 78 tarot cards found in the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, Aleister Crowley's Thoth deck and Mel's own Tabula Mundi deck. They're looking at the cards and telling us how symbols from Hermeticism, kabbalah and astrology are incorporated into the cards, as well as other correspondences like the Golden Dawn color scales, musical notes and scents and smells.

It's a fascinating and informative podcast, and I couldn't be happier to have them here. We're gonna talk some tarot, the quartered cross, the history of cartomancy and other oracular games. There's even some Lebowski thrown in for good measure, and we give you guys a taste of how Mel and Susie break down these esoteric correspondences by doing a one-card reading for yours truly.

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Ryan Gets Profane AF on the Proud 2 Be Profane Podcast

Fri, 02 Mar 2018 02:25:35 +0000

I was recently on the Proud 2 Be Profane podcast, which is hosted by Michael Joseph. Mike's been on the show twice before, in episodes 50 and 63.

Here's how Mike described the chat in the show notes: Ryan and I talk about the challenges, glories and vexes of being a podcast host; we whine like teenage girls about dealing with trolls, negative comments and our own deep insecurities of hearing ourselves talk after the fact. From there it spirals into a maze of conspiracy theory analysis, spirituality, the paranormal and our favorite presidents; somehow we made it out alive. Enjoy.

OCCULTURE 69: Franceasca Seiden // Sexual Alchemy, Blood Magick, Sound Baths & Japanese Rope Bondage

Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:09:00 +0000

Franceasca Seiden is a documentarian, fine art photographer and a writer with a BFA in visual arts and art history and an MFA in film. She's written for several art publications focusing on the Los Angeles creative community, with a focus on art that incorporates esoteric themes. She's also the founder of LAiCREATIVES, a digital magazine serving creatives in LA.

But she's not here today to talk about that. She's here to talk about her knowledge of esoteric healing methodologies, which are focused around ritual magick, sound therapy and sex. Some of that sexual healing. Franceasca has created a series of workshops based around these methodologies called Sexual Alchemy Healing Arts, with a mission to take our innate sexual energy and transmute it into manifesting one's creative purpose in life using esoteric practices such as meditation, visualization and magick while also encouraging open and healthy, non‐judgmental conversations relevant to the human condition.

And that is exactly what you're going to get here.

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68. Erik Davis, Miguel Conner & Jeff Wolfe in "Babalon Rising" // Jack Parsons, Feminine Archetypes & the Existentialism of Our Current Philip K. Dick World

Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:00:00 +0000

You picked a good time to hit the ol' play button because we're having ourselves a foursome for the first time. Erik Davis, Miguel Conner and Jeff Wolfe are all in the house. The basis for this chat is a couple pieces of writing Erik has done on Jack Parsons and what he calls Parsons' magickal feminism.

Erik, of course, is a scholar, journalist, and public speaker best known for his cultural analysis and creative explorations of esoteric mysticism. He's written about music, art, film, pop culture, and technology for Spin, Details, Rolling Stone and Wired magazines.

I had invited Erik onto the show to talk about those Parsons' articles and was planning to tackle this solo. I even re-read Erik's book TechGnosis, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, in preparation for this because I did want to pull some ideas out of that too. And the more I got into that book, and the more I got into Parsons and Babalon and magickal feminism, the more that this pairing here just made sense. I know Jeff is a mark for Erik's work. Miguel is as well, in addition to being one of today's pre-eminent Gnostic thinkers, and they both brought unique perspectives to this chat. This is, really, the three of us tag-teaming Erik, and it's one of the better episodes I think we've been able to put together.

RESOURCES

Erik's recent articles on Jack Parsons
- Babalon Rising
- Babalon Launching

TechGnosis

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OCCULTURE 68: Erik Davis, Miguel Conner & Jeff Wolfe // Jack Parsons' Magickal Feminism & The Existentialism of Our Current Philip K. Dick World

Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:00:00 +0000

RESOURCES

Erik's recent articles on Jack Parsons
- Babalon Rising
- Babalon Launching

TechGnosis

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Ryan Drinks Mushroom Coffee & Swoons Over Transhumanist Vegan Brides on My Alchemical Bromance

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 04:48:30 +0000

I was recently on My Alchemical Bromance, which is hosted by the dank and dapper Erik Arneson. He was a guest here back in episode 53, where we talked about starting our own monastery and learning the art of memory way off the grid somewhere.

This chat is not about that. It is about how this podcast has changed my life. Or something like that. It's also about mushroom coffee. And Alan Moore doing sex magick to My Chemical Romance songs. And Russian mail-order transhumanist vegan brides.

The quality is so-so at times because Skype is a piece of shit. So I don't blame ya if you don't stick with it, but if you do, I hope you enjoy it.

Check out more My Alchemical Bromance at MyAlchemicalBromance.com or search the show in Apple Podcasts.

OCCULTURE 67: Carl Abrahamsson & Mitch Horowitz // Anton LaVey, Real Magic & The Nature of the Mind

Tue, 13 Feb 2018 11:16:00 +0000

Look, I'm not gonna lie to you - we have a pretty badass show this time around. Carl Abrahamsson and Mitch Horowitz are in the house.

Carl Abrahamsson is a Swedish freelance writer, lecturer, filmmaker and photographer specializing in material about the arts & entertainment, esoteric history and occulture. Carl is the author of several books, including a forthcoming title from Inner Traditions called Occulture: The Unseen Forces That Drive Culture Forward.

Mitch Horowitz is the author of One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life; Occult America, which received the 2010 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for literary excellence; and Mind As Builder: The Positive-Mind Metaphysics of Edgar Cayce. Mitch has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Salon, Time.com, and Politico. Mitch is currently in the midst of publishing a series of articles on Medium called "Real Magic".

And it is that series paired with Carl's book that lays the foundation for our conversation here.

RESOURCES

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REMINDER

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67. Carl Abrahamsson & Mitch Horowitz in "Occulture (Meta)" // Anton LaVey, Spiritual Migration & Re-enchanting the Mind

Tue, 13 Feb 2018 08:00:00 +0000

Look, I'm not gonna lie to you - we have a pretty badass show this time around. Carl Abrahamsson and Mitch Horowitz are in the house.

Mitch Horowitz is the vice-president and executive editor at TarcherPerigee, a division of Penguin Random House, and the author of One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life, and Occult America, which received the 2010 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for literary excellence. Mitch is currently in the midst of publishing a series of articles on Medium called "Real Magic".

And it is that series paired with Carl's book that lays the foundation for our conversation here.

RESOURCES

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REMINDER

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OCCULTURE 66: Gordon White // Ursula Le Guin, Dragons & The Story Shape of the 21st Century

Tue, 06 Feb 2018 01:10:34 +0000

If ya hit the ol' play button on this one, it's probably because of the name in the title. Gordon White is in the house. Mr. White as he's known in the metafiction that is our current cultural narrative. But Mr. White is no reservoir dog in this story. He's the Humphrey Bogart of High Magic, the main mage behind the oh-so-popular Rune Soup blog and podcast. You've read it, you've heard it. And if ya haven't, well, you're in for quite the trip on this here starship.

Gordon's mind is a cabinet of curiosities and we pull out quite a bit of them here, including how we can rearrange our reality, the magic of fiction, artistic impulses, Game of Thrones, a game of tomes, and if ya ever wanted to hear Gordon White speak in pro wrestling terminology, well, there's a bit of that too.

So let's do this damn thing already and cast this pod off deep into the primordial chaos, where the protocols of the elder scrolls read more like a legend on a map of Middle Earth than they do a plan of global domination.

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OCCULTURE 65: Andrew Austin // Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Solomonic Magic & The Religion of Psychotherapy

Sun, 04 Feb 2018 10:30:00 +0000

This time around we welcome Andrew Austin into the house. Andrew has been a psychotherapist since 1994 and authored the best-selling book "The Rainbow Machine - Tales from a Neurolinguist's Journal", which has drawn comparisons to both Robert Anton Wilson and NLP co-creator Richard Bandler.

Andrew also has a lifelong interest in magick and mysticism. He's an ordained minister for The Church of Subgenius, 2nd degree initiate in the Ordo Templi Orientis, trainee member in the Builders of the Adytum, member of the Order of Oddfellows and The Masonic Philosophical Society and the Chief Executive for the Order of the Historia Illius Itineris International. Hope I pronounced all that right.

Andrew has developed a bit of a different approach to psychotherapy. He's combined his interest in magic and mysticism with psychology and neurolinguistic programming to offer clients an alternative to the numbing, ineffective pharmaceutical prescriptions we all love to hate.

And that is the basis for our chat here today. It's a rather productive conversation that touches on psychotherapy's religious structure, psychedelics, NLP, Solomonic evocations and Andrew's disdain for New Age-y spiritual and healing practices. So if you're about to do a chakra cleanse, maybe tune that part out. But the rest you should absolutely tune in for.

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Ryan Pretends to Be an Ascended Mind on the Ascended Minds Podcast

Sat, 03 Feb 2018 03:51:39 +0000

I was recently on the Ascended Minds podcast with my new friend Ryan (no relation). Ryan is a lovely guy with a real sense of lightness about him. He has a rather bearable lightness of being, you might say.

In this chat, we talk a lot about me and my growth. It's quite introspective. Ryan actually posed a great question to me at the end that I really appreciated. So, if you make it that far, there is that. If you don't, no hard feelings.

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OCCULTURE 64: Dr. Carolyn Elliott // The Conspiracy Against Magic & The Occult Millennial Generation

Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:00:00 +0000

Our guest this time around is Dr. Carolyn Elliott. Carolyn has a PhD in Critical and Cultural Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. Her dissertation ended up as the basis for the cult-favorite book on creativity called Awaken Your Genius. Carolyn is also the founder of WITCH magazine, which gives voice and prominence to the subtle witching in the world that's not confined to tradition and convention. She's also the teacher of INFLUENCE, a course on mastering practical magic. All in all, Carolyn's professional ventures aim to help people achieve dramatic positive change in their lives through shadow integration practices and applied occult philosophy.

Carolyn is in the house because I came across an article she wrote for Witch magazine called "5 Keys to Understanding the Conspiracy Against Magic". That led me to a free ebook she co-wrote called "Pluto in Scorpio", which is an occult look at the millennial generation. Both these pieces of writing are the basis for the conversation you're about to hear. There's magic and psychology, the fear of the feminine and even the alchemy of Oprah. And if you don't mind a few Skype gremlins and sexual innuendos, you'll like this one quite a bit.

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OCCULTURE 63: Michael Joseph // Esoteric & Exoteric Astrotheology, Blavatsky & The American Alchemical Experiment

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 07:06:00 +0000

Some of you may remember Michael Joseph from episode 50, where he interpreted my natal chart for me, and then we rambled on about a few other things, including this idea that there may be more beyond what we consider the occult. A fun chat all around, one that I was extremely grateful to have, all things considered.

But this one here is - well, there are some parallels, but it's also quite different. There is some astrology talk near the end, but the bulk of this discussion centers around some of Mike's work in his Occult Science video series on YouTube, which gives a comprehensive dissection of the belief system of the "elite", which is based on the work of Helena Blavatsky. In his video series, Mike addresses the major differences between adept occultism, orthodox religion and mainstream scientism, and this chat serves as a nice introduction to his work.

Of course I take issue with that word elite, so we argue about that a bit too. And we also talk some about my interpretation of Manly Palmer Hall's book "The Secret Destiny of America".

All in all, another fun chat that requires an open mind and a Tool musical underscore.

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OCCULTURE 62: John le Bon // Bitcoin, Crowd Psychology, Illuminati Cards & The Saturn Sync

Mon, 15 Jan 2018 17:00:00 +0000

Our guest this time around is John le Bon. We'll be talking about Bitcoin and some of the more curious aspects of it, including its relationship to this thing called Tether, crowd psychology and some more conspiratorial angles involving Saturn and the Illuminati card game.

John is what he calls a deep skeptic. Here's a bit from his bio: Since coming to prominence in the so-called 'truth movement' circa late 2014, JLB has developed (and attempted to share) a method of research he describes as 'deep skepticism', whereby even the most fundamental truths people generally take for granted are evaluated on an empirical and logical basis, and no field of inquiry is considered taboo.

John does have some pretty controversial material out there on his website and YouTube channel, and he's ruffled a few feathers, and we will talk a bit about some of that at the beginning of this chat here because I wanted you guys to hear a sample of John's overall skepticism and his approach to the topics he researches and writes about. Make of it what you will, but once we get into the Bitcoin portion of the discussion, this one really takes off - to the moon, some might say.

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Ryan Gets Passionate-Aggressive on Cruzin With Steak

Sun, 14 Jan 2018 03:43:04 +0000

Hey yo. So, I was recently back on the CWS podcast with my friends Grim and James. I was first on there last summer talking about this show, how it started, things like that. But this time, a bit of a different chat. This one is like sitting around listening to me talk to some friends. But I did get a bit passionate, a bit passionate-aggressive maybe, and dropped a whole lot of expletives, more so than I normally do, but if you can make it past that and my stuttering and stammering and mouth noises, this was a fun one. So here's Grimsteak, James Cruz and myself talking about magic and UFOs, power and control, infinite timelines and near-death experiences, and my problem with Face ID and what I call Apple fuckboys. If you're not easily offended, you'll enjoy this one. And if you are easily offended, grow up.

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OCCULTURE 61: Danny Nemu // Cognitive Anarchy, Biblical Linguistics, Ritual Poetics & The Neuroscience of the Apocalypse

Wed, 10 Jan 2018 23:00:00 +0000

You picked a helluva time to hit the ol' download button, because we've got a good one with Danny Nemu. Reverend Danny Nemu, if you're in the market for reverand-y things.

Danny is the author of "Neuro-Apocalypse", a book about how language shapes human consciousness and evolution. And that really is saying the least about it, because there's a ton of great content and insight in this book, and you're about to get an earful of it.

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OCCULTURE 60: Sarah McAllister // Tarot Journeying, Burning Man & Adopting a Magical Worldview

Fri, 05 Jan 2018 02:20:31 +0000

We're starting 2018 with sort of a B-side to how we ended 2017. And the featured player here is Sarah McAllister, friend of the show and friend of mine actually. She's the proprietor of Spirit Cell Tarot, where she offers, you guessed it, tarot readings. We talk a bit about that, a bit about Sarah's trip to the last Burning Man event, and a bit about fish.

We also chatted the day after I recorded my chat with our guest in episode 59, Gil Bates, so his work was top of mind as well, and that's why I think of this one as a B-side of sorts. It's definitely not less important in the traditional musical B-side sense. In fact, I think the rhythm and flow of this one gets us a lot closer to where we need to be in our personal journeys. At least that's how I felt. But I'll let you be the judge of that. Enjoy.

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OCCULTURE 59: Gilbert Bates // Love, Primal Therapy & The Three Levels of Consciousness

Sat, 30 Dec 2017 21:55:22 +0000

This time around we're chatting with Gilbert Bates, author of a book I stumbled across earlier this year called "Love and the Three Levels of Consciousness". Gil has authored a couple other books on similar themes, but this is the one that we focus on for the purpose of this conversation.

The book is about the three levels of the brain, the brainstem, the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex, and how early emotional trauma is registered as a painful sensation in the lower brain, the brainstem. The need to repress this pain from conscious awareness leads to a disconnection between the cognitive brain and the social and emotional brain.

Gil posits that the disconnection between these three distinct levels as well as the lack of essential input from the deeper sensing/feeling brain areas are the root cause of nearly all mental illness, and the reason why humans have so much trouble relating to each other in loving ways.

We also talk a bit about how to heal ourselves with primal therapy, which is a therapeutic theory and process invented by Dr. Arthur Janov that's designed to take a subject deep into their social and emotional brain and clear out the traumas that affect us all in some form or another.

This book gave me some feels that I hadn't felt before, and you'll find out why during the course of our chat here. So let's cast this pod off into the depths of our primal feel spot, where behind all those painful skeletons lies the uncoiled serpent they've been desperately trying to keep you away from.

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OCCULTURE 58: Tracy Twyman // Plus Ultra, Q Anon, Hidden Hyperspace Kingdoms & Superman Diamond Alchemy

Tue, 26 Dec 2017 05:58:00 +0000

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If you're familiar with Tracy Twyman's work, if you've read any of her books or blogs or heard her on other podcasts, you know what you're in for here. If you're unfamiliar with Tracy, Jesus tapdancin' Christ are you in for a sweet, sweet audio treat. We're talking Q Anon and 4chan, hidden hyperspace kingdoms of the elite, Mount Analogue, Trump, Plus Ultra, and a ton of ideas embedded into Tracy's latest novel, "Genuflect", including Cybele, Mithras, Saturn, the crystal sun, John Dee, the Superman diamond and the Rothschilds' alchemical fascination with it, and more. Seriously, there's more!

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OCCULTURE 57: John Crowley & John Michael Greer // Talking Crows, Pocket Utopias & The Future of Storytelling

Tue, 19 Dec 2017 08:30:00 +0000

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John Michael Greer joins the show to chat with author John Crowley about his latest novel, "Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr", as well as Frances Yates, creative writing, pocket utopias, the future of storytelling and the slow decline of industrial society.

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OCCULTURE 56: Daniel Sadler // Zoroastrianism, Jesus, Mithras & The Knights Templar

Tue, 12 Dec 2017 04:45:21 +0000

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Daniel Sadler is in the house to do an introductory exercise in comparative mythology. Jesus! Mithras! The Avesta! The ice age! The magi! Sumerian kings! Ragnarok! The Templars! Hiram Abiff! Moses! Jupiter! Saturn! It's all here!

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OCCULTURE 55: P.D. Newman // Distilling the Alchemical Allegories of Freemasonry: Mithras, Baphomet, Christianity & Crowley

Thu, 07 Dec 2017 05:14:44 +0000

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Anyway, P.D. Newman is the author of "Alchemically Stoned: The Psychedelic Secret of Freemasonry", which proposes a bold and daring new theory on symbolism found in Freemasonry and other esoteric mystery schools. What is it? Only one way to find out.

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OCCULTURE 54: Taylor Ellwood // Creating Your Own Pop Culture & Spacetime Magic Systems

Sat, 02 Dec 2017 18:25:37 +0000

You like pop culture, right? And you like magic, right? And you wanna know how you can merge the two together to create a workable magical system, right? Why don't we stimulate our magical feel spot and let our guest Taylor Ellwood tell us a bit about how to create our own pop culture magic system? Sound good? Hey, we'll even throw in a little spacetime magic to heighten that sensation.

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OCCULTURE 53: Erik Arneson // The Art of Memory, Giordano Bruno & The Death of Imagination

Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:54:13 +0000

Erik Arneson is in the house. If you're on Woke Twitter, you know him as Arnemancy and from his blog of the same name. He's also part of the podcasting team at My Alchemical Bromance. We're talking about the art of memory, and a bit about Giordano Bruno and the imagination (or the death of it, perhaps). And we're also gonna get distracted a few times. A bit of irony, perhaps, considering the subject matter.

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OCCULTURE 52: John Michael Greer // Druidry, Storytelling & The History of the Occult

Wed, 22 Nov 2017 03:30:19 +0000

The best beard in occultism, John Michael Greer, is in the house. We're talking "The Occult Book", a collection of 100 of the most important stories and anecdotes from the history of the occult in western society. We also touch on the subject of storytelling as well as some other recent material from John, including his book "The Coelbren Alphabet: The Forgotten Oracle of the Welsh Bards" and his translation of a neat little number called "Academy of the Sword". RESOURCES

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OCCULTURE 51: Tessa Dick // The Life, Work & Metaphysics of Philip K. Dick

Mon, 13 Nov 2017 17:47:45 +0000

Our guest this time around is Tessa Dick. Tessa is the ex-wife, and the fifth and final wife, of one of my favorite writers - the late sci-fi scribe Philip K. Dick. Phil is the author of many classic works of science fiction and alternate history, including the novels The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly, Ubik and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Phil was also the author of a plethora of notable short stories, including The Minority Report and We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, which was the basis for the film Total Recall.

Tessa is an author in her own right, having published several books of both fiction and nonfiction, including the recently published Conversations With Philip K. Dick, which is the basis for this conversation. It's a cool little chat about the life, experiences and ideas of both Tessa and Phil, so let's do this damn thing already, and cast this pod off into a sci-fi world that doesn't seem so fi anymore, where the adjustment bureau is busy rewriting our history and where androids definitely do dream of electric sheep.

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OCCULTURE 50: Michael Joseph // The Astrology of a Natal Chart, Questioning Occulture & Beyond the Veil of Isis

Tue, 07 Nov 2017 08:30:00 +0000

If you're listening to this on November 7, it is my birthday. Now, I don't care about celebrating my birthday. I usually don't. Just another day for me. So this episode is not some egotistical, self-indulgent crap that I'm throwing out there because I want the attention. In fact, this wasn't even going to be an episode that I shared with you guys.

This started as a casual conversation with Michael Joseph, the man behind the schism206 YouTube channel. Some of you may have heard Mike on the Sage of Quay Radio Hour or The Higherside Chats. He is quite the resource for occult and esoteric information. He's spent a lot of time reading and interpreting texts in this area and showing how the information in these texts comprise an occult belief system of the "elite", and how those beliefs are portrayed in our cultural and political institutions.

The basis of this conversation though stems from Mike's blossoming interest in astrology, to the point where he wants to start offering astrological services to folks who are interested in such things. And he asked me if I wouldn't mind being a guinea pig for him. And who am I to turn down a free natal chart reading?

So the first hour or so of the chat is focused on that. And then it transitions into more of a self-reflective conversation, where Mike and I really open up about our concerns with occult and conspiracy culture. We may ruffle a few feathers here, because I think we touch on a couple areas and make a couple points that I don't think get discussed much.

I should also point out that the video version of this on YouTube does contain visual support. I've included a link to the YouTube video in the show notes if you're interested. It really is this best way to interact with this episode. If you're not interested in video, I've also included a link to an image of my chart if you just wanna glance at it throughout. I should also note this one just sort of starts. There's no formal introduction or greeting. It's just Mike and I chatting.

So let's open our minds and get ourselves ready for a nice, long critical think, and let's cast this pod off deep into the heart of the zodiac as it was on November 7, 1983, at 9:20 pm, when the sun was in Scorpio, the Moon was in Sagittarius, and when my mom finally decided she'd had enough of me kicking and screaming inside of her.

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OCCULTURE 49: Seth Breedlove // Paranormal Ohio, Mothman & Invasion on Chestnut Ridge

Tue, 31 Oct 2017 01:20:27 +0000

We're gettin' our creep on yet again with our guest, Seth Breedlove. Seth is the filmmaker behind Small Town Monsters, an independent film series that explores lost and bizarre history around the United States. Seth's films focus on small town folklore and tell stories through the words and experiences of the residents and witnesses who were most affected by these stories.

Seth's previous films under the Small Town Monsters banner include 2015's Minerva Monster, 2016's Beast of Whitehall, 2016's Boggy Creek Monster, 2017's The Mothman of Point Pleasant, and his latest film, Invasion on Chestnut Ridge, which lays the foundation for our discussion here.

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OCCULTURE 48: Jeff Wolfe // Subversive Horror Cinema: Remembering George Romero & Tobe Hooper

Tue, 24 Oct 2017 07:00:00 +0000

INTERVIEW BEGINS AT 7:58 - Some of you have been clamoring for Jeff Wolfe to return to the show after our first conversation back in episode 23. Jeff, of course, is the scribe at SecretTransmissions.com, one of, I think, the must-read blogs on the intrawebz if you're into things like the occult or counterculture, or, as is this case with our chat here, the subversiveness of horror cinema.

Jeff is one of the biggest horror geeks I know, and I thought it was fitting to ask him back on the show to have a conversation that not only pays tribute to the film genre that he and I love most, but to give a honor two of its very best artisans in George Romero and Tobe Hooper. Both passed away earlier this year, and were primarily responsible for laying the groundwork for what most of us know as modern horror cinema.

If you're a fan of the genre or any of the movies of these guys, you'll quite enjoy this chat. And if you're not, hopefully you will be interested in their work afterward. Jeff and I are gonna slip on our leatherfaces, crank up this chainsaw and cast this pod off deep into the heart of the dark counterculture, where zombies and those who run from them aren't so different.

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OCCULTURE 47: Natalie Zaman // Coloring Spells, Samhain Witchcraft, Astrology & Returning to Our Roots

Thu, 19 Oct 2017 07:30:00 +0000

Arziana EverDark cameos in the intro to talk a little Samhain witchcraft, but our featured player is Natalie Zaman. She's back in the house because she has a super cool new book out from Llewellyn called Color and Conjure: Rituals & Magic Spells to Color. It's part coloring book, part collection of spells, but it's all about manifesting your desires with magic and creativity. We talk about that, as well as a little astrology, a little colorstrology, and much more. So grab your crayons and colored pencils and toss them into this bubbling cauldron of fall ish, because it's time to mount our broomsticks and cast this pod off back to where it came from.

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OCCULTURE 46: Matt deMille // Stranger Things, Baron Trump & The Weird Energy of Los Angeles

Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:00:00 +0000

#TRAPorTREAT2 continues with Matt deMille. And for the film buffs in the audience, yes, THAT deMille. Matt will touch on his Hollywood bloodline, and then tell some weird and paranormal tales from his personal Hollywood experiences and reveal some hidden things in some of our favorite films.

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OCCULTURE 45: Tracey Rollin // Santa Muerte Worship, Mexican Folk Magic & Death Veneration

Wed, 04 Oct 2017 08:10:00 +0000

#TRAPorTREAT2 kicks off with Tracey Rollin. Tracey is the author of the new book "Santa Muerte: The History, Rituals, and Magic of Our Lady of the Holy Death", just released this week by Red Wheel/Weiser, one of the preeminent publishers of occult and esoteric literature.

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OCCULTURE 44: Nathan Dube // Hypersigils, Egregores, Music & Making Magic

Tue, 26 Sep 2017 08:44:00 +0000

Nathan Dube is the author of the novel "A Labyrinth of Dreams", which lays the foundation for our conversation here. The book doubles as a hypersigil and is about 18-year-old Julian Crane who, after the murder of his grandfather, leaves the Christian faith to study occultism and the magical arts and discovers what he calls the realm of the seven dream worlds.

It caps off a nice trilogy of sorts with the two previous episodes with Dick Khan and Ian WIlson. So let's kickstart this heart and cast this pod off into a place where the highest form of magic is and has always been art, and where that art is indeed resistance.

Also, the Mistress of Magic, Katelan Foisy, joins me for a few minutes in the intro to talk about a Kickstarter she's involved in for "BECOMING DANGEROUS", a nonfiction book of deeply personal essays by marginalized people using the intersection of feminism, witchcraft, and resistance to summon power and become fearsome in a world that would prefer them afraid.

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OCCULTURE 43: Ian Wilson // Lucid Dreams, Precognition, Qualia & Interconnectedness

Tue, 19 Sep 2017 07:00:00 +0000

We're slashing through your subconscious like a nightmare on Elm Street with this supernatural sonic paralysis, and we're diggin' deep into the dreamscape in this one with Ian Wilson.

Ian is a private dream researcher and dream explorer who has been recognized by members of the International Association for the Study of Dreams as a pioneer in the exploration of precognitive dream phenomena.

Ian is also the man behind the website YouAreDreaming.org, which is a wet dream for anyone interested in dream research, consciousness or anything associated with these fields. Ian has tons of free articles, abstracts and ebooks available on his website, including a book titled "You Are Dreaming", which I stumbled across a few years back and recommend to anyone with even a passing interest in this topic. We'll be digging into the material in that book and much more.

So why wait? Let's curl up, close our eyes and cast this pod off into a space where the kick is something you get while you're sleeping and where dreams really do come true. Enjoy.

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OCCULTURE Footnote 2 // The Vampire Ward Ritual (Thought Experiment)

Fri, 15 Sep 2017 04:04:47 +0000

I recently came across a thought experiment called "The Poison-Cactus-Vampire-Ward Problem: What's your ethical intuition?" and wanted to share it. This experiment is designed to capture your ethical intuitions. It's brief, but telling. Check it out: http://bit.ly/2x48Og1

And if you want, let me know what you came up with. Tweet me @occulturepod or hit me up on Facebook.

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OCCULTURE 42: Dick Khan // DMT & The Occult Mind: Investigating Occult Realities Using the Spirit Molecule

Tue, 12 Sep 2017 01:11:00 +0000

We've got a true modern-day psychonaut in the house. His pseudonym is Dick Khan, and he's the author of the book "DMT & My Occult Mind: Investigation of Occult Realities Using the Spirit Molecule".

This book is actually the first of a three-book series that chronicles more than 600 DMT experiments that Dick conducted over the course of three years. His experiments landed him a speaking gig at the recent Breaking Convention 2017, the fourth International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness, and after his talk there, his story was then featured on VICE.com.

He's a man who's smoked DMT more times in a day than I have in my lifetime, and a man who's got entities on speed dial. But let's do some dialing of our own and ratchet this thing up to 528 Hz and cast this pod off into the occulted Land of Pineal, where we find the answer to life, the universe and everything.

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OCCULTURE 41: Joe aka d8_thc // Nassim Haramein, The Holographic Universe, Sacred Geometry & Unifying Physics

Tue, 05 Sep 2017 02:24:00 +0000

I suppose it's the de facto end of the summertime, and the lovin' may not be so easy as we head into the next part of our celestial cycle. With the eclipse aftermath and Mercury retrograde and the new moon, we've all been doing some heavy lifting recently. And this episode is direct reflection of that, because we're doing some heavy lifting with my man Joe aka d8_thc. He's the creator and one of the moderators of the /holofractal subreddit over at Reddit. Joe and I are gonna dig into the subject that inspired the creation of the subreddit, and that is the work of Nassim Haramein and the Resonance Project, which seeks to bridge the gap between science and spirituality and unify physics.

We'll be talking the theory of the holographic universe and the differences between that and the standard model of physics. We'll also hit on fractal geometry, the holographic theory as expressed in a story from Buddhist philosophy, the Music of the Spheres, how the human brain fits into this theory, the Bible, creation myths from the Dogon and the Egyptians, the Ark of the Covenant, crop circles, squaring the circle, and a bit of a teaser for a future episode that tackles Shakespeare's connection to all of this.

So let's light this mother up and cast this pod off into a space where the measurement of the internal far exceeds the measurement of the external. Enjoy.

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OCCULTURE 40: Greg Kading // Tupac & Biggie Murders, Judaism, Islam, Friday the 13th & Occult Las Vegas

Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:03:00 +0000

My partner in crime, my ride or die, for this one is Greg Kading, a retired Los Angeles Police detective who spent a couple years heading up a task force charged with investigating the murder of Christopher Wallace aka rapper Biggie Smalls. That case eventually crossed paths with the unsolved murder of Tupac Shakur, and, according to Greg, both these cases have been cracked, but, for reasons he'll outline for us, Greg had to self-publish the findings of the task force investigation in his 2011 book "Murder Rap: The Untold Story of the Biggie Smalls & Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations". The book has since been made into a documentary of the same name and is now being adapted as a television series for the USA network.

This story has a lot of moving parts, a lot of names and dates, and I only had an hour with Greg, so I did my best to streamline the major players and events. There's a lot of conspiracy theories surrounding these stories, and I did ask Greg about one of them that I'm gonna dig more into on my own after our conversation.

But for now, let's bump and grind to this slow jam and cast this pod off onto the streets of LA, from Oakland to Sacktown, the Bay Area and back down, because Occulture is where we're puttin' this mack down. Enjoy.

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OCCULTURE 33.1. Greg Stewart // The Great Work & Conspiracy Theories + Purpose & Love

Sat, 26 Aug 2017 07:33:00 +0000

Here's some bonus audio from a recent conversation with Greg Stewart, a 3rd-degree Blue Lodge Mason and a 32nd-degree Scottish Rite Mason. The audio quality is so-so because Greg was wearing a headset microphone that clicked and clacked, so apologies in advance for that. Regardless, there's some good stuff in here, including some talk on podcasting as both occult practice and a contribution to The Great Work, as well as some chatter on conspiracy theories. Greg actually mentions reptilians, which made me chuckle, all things considered. And I may have gotten a bit personal in terms of my personal romantic history and why I started podcasting to begin with. It gets a little personal here too, and also in the outro. So I hope you stick this one out if only for that reason. Enjoy.

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OCCULTURE 39. Lance Gilbert // Demon Conjuring, Mind Control & Sexual Possession

Wed, 23 Aug 2017 02:28:03 +0000

This one's dark. We've got a guest in the house who writes under the name Blood Ritual Monarch. We'll be chatting about a couple of books he's written based on his experience with the occult and perhaps some experience he's had with government-funded mind kontrol programs.

BRM is speaking to us from his own personal experience of occult study and practice, which led him to some really fuckin' weird experiences with demon evocation and sexual possession, and there's also an aspect of mind kontrol in here that we flesh out quite a bit.

But, per usual, let's open our minds and approach this with a heroic dose of discernment, and let's cast this pod off onto the other side of the veil, where Baal, Paimon, Beleth and their 69 friends are anxiously awaiting our arrival.

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OCCULTURE 38: SMQ.AI // We Died in 2012: The Mandela Effect, Cymatics, CERN & Transhumanism

Wed, 16 Aug 2017 02:25:26 +0000

YouTuber SMQ.AI is in the hooooouuuuuuse. SMQ has been making videos for the past few months that present a personal philosophy and cosmology based on one simple idea: that we all died in 2012.

A lot of strange things happened that year, if you recall. You had the supposed end of the Mayan calendar, which seems like bullshit now. You also have false flag events such as Sandy Hook, which woke up a lot of people, this guy included. You also had the supposed discovery of the god particle by scientists at CERN, the Curiosity rover supposedly landed on Mars, and then there's something that SMQ brings up regarding a potentially prophetic quote from Terence McKenna that has to do with 2012. And then this thing called the Mandela Effect seemed to really ramp up around this time as well.

And that's the basis for SMQ's YouTube videos, which constructs his cosmology of our collective death in 2012 via subjects such as the aforementioned Mandela Effect, cymatics, the cyclical nature of time, CERN, and transhumanism. We touch on all these topics and more, including creativity, muses, art as magic, and vertical thinking vs. lateral thinking.

This is one of the more thought-provoking episodes I've done, and we sort of ease into it, but once we get going, we gone. So hang on. 'Cause this pod is casting off into a reality where time and art are the only currencies that matter.

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OCCULTURE 37: Ed Liu // Psychedelic Milk, Being Woke & Finding Your Magic

Wed, 09 Aug 2017 07:07:00 +0000

Ed Liu and I are blasting through Barstow with a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, and laughers at our disposal.

Ed is the host of Psychedelic Milk, one of my favorite podcasts, and the most downloaded psychedelic podcast on iTunes. Ed's approach is fresh and clean, like an Outkast song. His podcast covers psychedelics from a more intimate perspective. Ed takes listeners along on his personal journey of Self discovery and development, from episode to episode. It's definitely more spirituality than science, which is rare in the psychedelic podcast niche, but that's what we're all about here at Occulture.

Ed is joining us all the way from Hong Kong to drop this oral illustration of spiritual stimulation, so let's go to our vulnerable space and curl up by this alchemical fire, because when Ed and I are on the microphone you best to wear your sweater, 'cause this one's cooler than a polar bear's toenails. Oh hell, there I go again, talking that shit. So let's just bend corners like we're a curve, and cast this pod off into the center of that nerve, 'cause your earholes are 'bout to get served. Enjoy.

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OCCULTURE 36: Carmen Di Luccio // Astrology, Cryptocurrency & Nutritional Alchemy

Sat, 05 Aug 2017 15:16:36 +0000

We're grooving to the beat of that celestial drum with Carmen Di Luccio, the astrologer-in-residence at the website Collective Evolution. Carmen has sort of become my personal astrologer. Been helping me with some astrological business here and there. I also refer to him in my head as the Fabio of the Zodiac, because he looks a little like Fabio. Or maybe a lot. Or maybe not at all. I don't fucking know.

What I do know, however, is that we're talking the astrology of the Great American Eclipse, coming up on August 21, and how that will affect us as individuals and as a group. Also some outer planet retrogrades, and some cryptocurrency, including what may be in store for Bitcoin and what may be its biggest competitor, Ethereum. We also get into some talk on superfoods and nutritional alchemy and how you could possibly use astrology to improve your health. So, some speculation paired with some practicality. My favorite sort of conversation. Maybe it'll be yours too. Only one way to find out, and that's by casting this pod off into the houses that the gods built.

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OCCULTURE Magical Egypt Cancer Fight Companion: Den of Lore's Chris George Zuger on The John Anthony West Project

Mon, 31 Jul 2017 02:44:34 +0000

Hey yo. So I wanted to take some time here to share with you guys some information on a cause that's near and dear to me. I assume most of you who listen to this show are familiar with the work of John Anthony West, the man who, along with Dr. Robert Schoch, put forth the hypothesis in the early 90s that the Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt, showed evidence of weathering brought on by prolonged and extensive rainfall. This is significant because that hypothesis, as one might expect, is not in line with the mainstream history of the Sphinx that most Egyptologists subscribe to. In fact, West and Schoch's Sphinx erosion hypothesis predates the widely accepted account that the Sphinx, along with the Second Pyramid at Giza, was built by Egyptian pharaohs around 2500 BC.

Now, we're not going to get into all of that right now, although I would love to some other time. Instead, the point of this recording is to shed some light on the personal life of John Anthony West as it stands in this moment. John was recently diagnosed with cancer and is currently fighting for his life. He is 85 years old, so you really don't know how much time someone at that age has left regardless of disease. But the man has made such an impact on people who are into esoterica of any sort.

John has spent the last few decades raging against the quackademics, the presstitutes, the Church of Progress, and those still living in Dumbfuckistan. John has helped enlighten many, many people as it relates to our occulted history along the way. Because of that impact, and because John has much business left unfinished, there's a number of people rallying to help him in this battle.

One of those people who has been helping raise awareness and funds for John's battle is in the house. His name is Chris George Zuger, aka Mr. Scotch-a-Lot. Chris has helped put together a couple telethons that were broadcast live on Den of Lore, his live-streaming YouTube show/podcast.

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Ryan Enters the Den of Lore for a Brief Cameo

Sun, 30 Jul 2017 05:13:57 +0000

Hey yo. So, I made another new friend recently. His name is Chris George Zuger, and he's the host of a YouTube show called Den of Lore, which has quickly became a staple of my audio consumption habits. You'll be hearing more from Chris in the next few days here on Occulture, but Chris was kind enough to invite me to plug my show at the beginning of a recent episode that featured an interview with Richard Hoagland, the guy who's well-known for proposing theories relating to ancient civilizations on Mars and the moon, among other things. I didn't have much time here with Chris because we got started a bit later than we wanted to. Regardless, I am grateful to him for inviting me into the Den of Lore for this brief cameo appearance, and I hope we can do it again sometime. Enjoy.

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Sat, 29 Jul 2017 03:57:19 +0000

#FuckMUFON

So, I made a couple new friends recently. They're named Grim and James, and they host a new podcast called Cruzin with Steak. These guys are really big supporters of the Grimerica Show, which I'd recommend checking if you've never heard it. Darren and Graham, who host that show, were kind enough to join me in episode 3 before I really knew what the hell I was doing here. And the community that they've built through their show really might be the tightest knit fanbase of any podcast in this genre that I've seen. And I think that's really awesome. They're bringing people together who have similar interests and may not have anyone in their own personal lives to talk to about certain subjects or ideas or concerns. And this Cruzin with Steak podcast has grown out of that Grimerica community. I was honored to have been asked to be a guest on their show and spend some time talking about the genesis of Occulture and some behind the scenes things about the show, and a whole range of topics, from my own personal journey to this point in my life, our problems with conspiracy theories, I throw out a couple ideas for other podcasts I wanna do, my affinity for pro wrestling comes up, and so do public boners. That is a pun, but they really come up... in the conversation. But the most important thing we talk about is love. And if there's one thing you take from this, let it be what is said by all of us on that topic. At the very least, it's quite a fun chat, and I gotta thank Grim and James for inviting me on, and I hope to talk to them again soon. Enjoy.

OCCULTURE 35: Occult Fan // The Holy Gift: Trivium, Quadrivium, Kabbalah & Fibonacci in TOOL's Lateralus

Tue, 25 Jul 2017 03:11:00 +0000

Holy gift! Nathan Lee Miller Foster, better known across the intrawebz as Occult Fan, is back in the house for an epic chat about the occult symbolism found throughout an album called Lateralus, released in 2001 by the band Tool.

Now, as it stands, Lateralus is a beautiful piece of music, maybe the most beautiful piece of music, by a band that's revered for its hypnotic and psychedelic progressive metal sound. It is High Art, capital H, capital A.

After its release, this album became the subject of much speculation across online forums and now has a firm place in internet lore. Essentially, it was discovered that this album, Lateralus, could have its songs rearranged into a different order, and that order provided an entirely new and different listening experience, one that was, honestly, more coherent and more metaphysical, and dare I say more spiritual. Not to mention, the rather overt - and also covert - references to popular occulture, which our number one Occult Fan is going to point out for us.

Now, despite our previous episode together, this is actually the first time Nathan Lee and I spoke, so we also cover some personal stuff up front - you know, the who are you, what do you do, what sort of juju is your jam sort of stuff - and there are some tangents here and there, and a few interludes of sort. But if you guys stick around for the entirety, I don't think you'll be disappointed.

We cover a ton of ground here, including the discovery of The Holy Gift album itself, the thematic thread that runs through this rearranged album, and the symbolism found in the album artwork. This is jam-packed with everything an occult fan could want: the seven liberal arts and the Fibonacci sequence, alchemy and magic, interdimensional entities and archonic control, the kabbalah, consciousness, conspiracy theories, Coast to Coast AM and pop occulture references galore. Hell, I may even share some information with you on how to possibly jump between dimensions, and hell, Nathan Lee may even read us some fuckin' Tolstoy, and hell, this whole thing may even loop around and spiral up and down and end where it began.

This is, honestly, one for the aeons and one for the archons.

Contact Occult Fan via email at TheHolyGift@occultfan.com.

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OCCULTURE 34: Chris Garetano // The Montauk Project, Stranger Things, Time Travel & Other Dimensions

Tue, 18 Jul 2017 08:44:00 +0000

Filmmaker Chris Garetano is in the house to talk about his 2015 documentary Montauk Chronicles, which examines the stories of three men who claimed to be involved in one of the more sinister government programs anyone this side of the Upside Down has heard of. It's a program that's rumored to include some serious high fuckery: child kidnappings and murder, mind kontrol, time travel, extraterrestrial intelligence, other dimensions, and a chair. And if ya didn't catch the Stranger Things reference there, the Montauk Project was the inspiration for that hit Netflix series, for those unaware.

Chris also has a new show debuting on the History Channel in August called The Dark Files, the first episode of which continues his investigation into the Montauk Project.

All of that sets the stage for this conversation, which requires both an open mind and a hefty dose of discernment. Per usual.

RESOURCES

MontaukChronicles.com
Rent/buy a digital copy of "Montauk Chronicles" on VHX.com
Buy the "Montauk Chronicles" Blu-ray on Amazon
The Dark Files
Montauk Project

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OCCULTURE 33: Greg Stewart // The Morals & Dogma of Freemasonry: Hermeticism, Gnosticism & Kabbalah

Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:33:00 +0000

Ooo wee, we're back with nothin' but pure unadulterated love drippin' down into that ear canal. And things are about to get a bit more intimate, because it's time to lay back and settle in for a long, hot, spine-tingling eargasm.

And the man with the master plan for building us up to that is the Hermetic Hermit himself, Mr. Greg Stewart.

Greg is a 3rd-degree Blue Lodge Mason and a 32nd-degree Scottish Rite Mason. He's been called a Masonic bodhisattva because of his quest to return Freemasonry to its esoteric roots. As a devoted student of the esoteric mystery schools, Greg is a firm believer in the Masonic connection to the Hermetic traditions of antiquity, its evolution through the ages, and its present configuration as the antecedent to most present day esoteric and occult practices.

Greg has explored the rites of Masonic initiation through a variety of initiatory systems with the goal of understanding the deeper meaning behind them. In that process, Greg's exploration has converged with mainstream and esoteric religious traditions, rituals of religious practice, and their intersecting undercurrents.

Now, on the other side of that journey, the focus of his attention is on how those intersections relate to the Great Work, a subject he explores in a book series called Symbolic Lodge, which looks at the first three degrees of Blue Lodge Freemasonry and brings together aspects of Hermetica, the Kabbalah, the tarot, and other esoteric and occult fields to help understand the hidden meaning at work in the Symbolic Lodge of Freemasonry.

Greg previously maintained a blog called Masonic Traveler from 2005-2009, and you can read some of his essays and commentary from that blog in book form, published under the same name. Greg also formerly co-hosted and produced the Masonic Central podcast, the archives of which can be found, along with the rest of his personal Great Work, on the website FreemasonInformation.com.

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FreemasonInformation.com
"Masonic Traveler" by Greg Stewart
"The Apprentice - A Treatise on the First Degree of Freemasonry" by Greg Stewart
"Fellow of the Craft - A Treatise on the Second Degree of Freemasonry" by Greg Stewart
"The Kybalion" by The Three Initiates

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OCCULTURE Addendum i // A Spiritual Interpretation of Antarctica & The Inner Earth

Thu, 06 Jul 2017 09:00:00 +0000

This didn't really fit into the footnote that I posted yesterday, but it was part of the original 45-minute script that I wound up scrapping because it made little sense. But I wanted to share my interpretation of what's happening in Antarctica, beyond the physical, materialistic explanation of what may be going on down there.

Of course this does require some context of that explanation. For those unaware, Antarctica has been making news in the alternative media recently because a lot of public figures from various countries have been visiting the continent for reasons not yet known. I've seen theories that run the gamut of the fringe: the discovery of a giant hole that contains some serious heavy, ancient machinery; the rediscovery of the lost continent of Atlantis, or Antarctica itself being Atlantis; the discovery of another race of beings, be it terrestrial or extraterrestrial; and the discovery of an entrance into the inner earth.

Whichever of these theories is true, we know that we're not just now discovering it. We've heard these stories for years. But the increase in visits and attention on Antarctica is curious nonetheless. If I had guess, I'd say a combination of the first theory and the last theory - a giant hole with some serious heavy, ancient machinery and an entrance beyond that into the inner earth.

I theorize this because it represents the journey inward that I talked about in that footnote. Discovering an entrance to the interior of the planet on which we exist, or to the interior of the plane in which we exist, really does align nicely with the spiritual development a lot of people seem to be going through at the moment. It makes sense that if many individual parts of the collective are spiritually blossoming that the reflection that is our collective physical reality would match up with the journey of the Self, which is always inward, not outward. It's similar to how the fringe community was obsessed with space travel many decades ago. That seems to have waned. Now, it seems we're keener on exploring what's already part of us, places like Antarctica, places that are already here. We've been so concerned with exploring other planets and star systems while much of Earth remains unexplored.

It really is an exciting time, if you don't let all the constant fear, paranoia and propaganda get to you. And it does seem like that which is above is reflective of that which is below, like that which is without is reflective of that which is within. Maybe we're just now rediscovering the infinite universe within.

Question is: what will we do when we learn of that entrance to the interior?

What will you do when you discover it?

OCCULTURE Footnote 1 // Order, Chaos & The Wizard of Oz

Wed, 05 Jul 2017 08:30:00 +0000

I struggle with where to start stories. I heard Dan Carlin, one of the godfathers of podcasting, I heard him say on his last episode of Hardcore History that he's addicted to context. He has stories he wants to tell and once he gets into them, the story changes so much that his original idea for one show on one topic turns into a six-part series on something else entirely. That's how I feel about what I'm going to share with you right now. I've rewritten this several times, and each time it just got further and further away from me, to the point where I didn't understand what I was even trying to communicate. So I'm just going back to basics, simplifying this for myself and for you. Honestly, you would have heard me rant for 45 minutes and go on tangent after tangent and try to tie a bunch of disparate points into one coherent message. But that wasn't working for me, which means there's no way it would have worked for you. Instead, I'm just gonna strip all that away - including the Reddit thread that initially inspired me to record this - but I'm gonna strip all that away and just be real.

In episode 29, I spoke with Dan Willis. The first hour of that conversation Dan talked at length and in great detail about some of the hidden history of extraterrestrial contact with humanity and the process of disclosing that to the general public. But, when I contacted Dan about coming on the show, I didn't mention this topic at all. I was much more interested in his work with Dr. Marcel Vogel on quartz crystals and the sacred geometry of water and how to structure it. Obviously Dan's background beyond that is compelling, and if you heard that episode, you know why. He's an ex-Navy guy whose professional travels have taken him many different places, including to Washington DC, where he testified in front of the National Press Club about what's most commonly referred to as ETI, or extraterrestrial intelligence. He talked about human contact with ETI, deals cut between governments and ETI, technology embargoes with ETI, and so on.

Honestly, I wasn't expecting to talk about that in such great detail. I hadn't prepared to talk about it. As I said, I was more interested in the other topics that we talked about in the second hour. Frankly, the disclosure topic doesn't interest me much. It's not because I don't see any truth in the stories. I'm sure there's something there. Where there's smoke, there's usually fire, right?

My issue with this is the large group of people pushing for it, pushing for the truth to finally come out. But that group is pushing for this truth from a gang of corrupt authority figures. The people fighting for disclosure are fighting against an entity that has done nothing but hide, cloak, lie and kill to keep secrets. The more I think about disclosure, the more I think it's just a matter of telling people what they want to hear, not necessarily what's actually going on. It seems more like they'v spent all this time building up the fervor, creating another false reality beyond the veil, so that when the time came to "lift the veil", when people started clamoring for some appeasement beyond this superficial bullshit we've all come to hate, that they'd have an answer for us.

Honestly, it seems like just another distraction. It's just another false construct being built for you, instead of being built by you. That's the heart of the issue for me. It's more hive-mind groupthink. It's more humans externalizing their search for truth instead of internalizing it. The further out you go to search for truth, the further away from it you actually are. That's why I got rid of everything I had initially written and rewritten. I had 15 pages of me tumbling down a rabbit hole that started with disclosure, then somehow got onto coronal mass ejections and reptilians and the whole Corey Goode stuff, and then I just got lost in it. The whole thing made no fucking sense. It was me trying to externalize. I was trying to turn chaos into order, and that never works.

Those of you familiar with the occult know that answers are rarely found outside. They're rarely given to you by others. You seek within, and you find within. The universe, the uni-verse, your one verse, is a reflection of you, of your truth within, whatever it may be. We need to stop assuming the external and the others that populate it are going to give us any sort of truth. Because others are only giving you their truth. The trick is to not let someone else's truth become yours. Because then they can wield power over you. That's the trap we've fallen into again and again as individuals and as a species.

I heard Walter Bosley say recently that paranormal phenomena knows your motives. It knows what you want to see. He said, "If you wanna go out and have the Close Encounters of the Third Kind, or the ET experience, you can go out and it will give you that. Of course that might not be what's really going on."

What is the "it" he's talking about? Is it this aetheric energy that can literally manifest anything we desire? I don't know, and I don't want to pretend like I do. Who does know what's really going on? No one does. We're all trying to explain something that's unexplainable. Which, again, is our fatal flaw as individuals and as a species. Each of us is trying to make order out of chaos. Instead of embracing the random, we settle for tidy, convenient, comfortable little reality bubbles that make too much sense. You ever met someone who's too nice and it actually bothers the shit out of you? That's what this is. It's too nice, too comfortable - which means there's something wrong with it.

Honestly, the universe, our individual uni-verse, our one verse, it's completely random. There is no single explanation, interpretation or understanding of it that is correct or accurate. It's chaotic and therefore cannot be made sense of. Anyone that says something is one specific way is a charlatan. Physicist or priest, parishioner or podcast host, I don't care - charlatans, all of them. There is no such thing as objectivity; there is only subjectivity. The observer effect. No one can avoid it. As a group, we have forgotten this. As a group, we have forgotten this because we have lost touch with our subjectivity, with our individuality. We have herd mentalities, that groupthink, those hive minds I mentioned earlier. We have allowed our Selves - our (space) Selves, capital S - to be swindled. Our psyches have been manipulated, our senses raped, our spirits pillaged. We have allowed the chaotic nature of our (space) Self, we have allowed that real chaos inside us, to be siphoned off and used against us, to construct this fake order outside.

You remember the quote, right? Order from chaos, or out of chaos comes order. That's exactly what we've allowed to happen. We allowed our individuality to be stripped away from us. Our individual sovereignty dissipated because it was easier on these mortal vessels. The chaos we all have inside of us was plundered and replaced by order, a new world order, constructed for you, not by you. They - whoever they are - built their order out of your chaos. Order is easier to control. Order is easier to explain, to interpret, to understand. Order is what ego feeds on. It's what ego craves. Order is governed by the almighty dollar. Order is your shitty 9-to-5 job; all the bills you have to pay; all the rules, regulations, restrictions, and laws you're forced to live under; all the incessant celebrity gossip, rigged sporting events, and mass media theatrics you subject yourself to. Order is genetically-modified bread and geopolitical circuses.

But that order is breaking down. Finally! Finally, we're getting back to that chaos. We're reclaiming our sovereignty, our psyche, our senses, our spirit! Yes! Yes! Finally! We're awakening! Ascending! Our collective consciousness is rising!

Or is it?

See, this is where we have to be careful. This is where our discernment is going to be tested. We really have to let our hearts guide us here. Because maybe, just maybe, these ideas of collective consciousness and spiritual awakening and ascension, maybe this is the new order. Maybe this is the new world order that's being constructed for us, instead of by us. Maybe the foundation for this order has been laid in the last several decades, and now the rest of it is being constructed, brick by brick, hashtag by hashtag, woke hipster by woke hipster.

This leads me to a theory, to an idea, known as hypernormalisation. This was an idea first presented in a 2006 book by Alexei Yurchak, titled "Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation". Here's a quick synopsis of the book, from Wikipedia: "(The book) is about the paradoxes of life in the Soviet Union during the 20 years before it collapsed. A professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, (Yurchak) argues that everyone knew the system (in the Soviet Union) was failing, but as no one could imagine any alternative to the status quo, politicians and citizens were resigned to maintaining a pretence of a functioning society. Over time, this delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy and the 'fakeness' was accepted by everyone as real, an effect that Yurchak termed 'hypernormalisation.'"

As I said, this book was published in 2006, but I wasn't aware of it until about three months ago. I had stumbled across a documentary released late last year by the British Broadcasting Corporation called "HyperNormalisation". This was directed by a British filmmaker named Adam Curtis, who's a rather respected filmmaker. He's won four BAFTAs, which is the British equivalent to the Emmys.

(I'll link to this doc on YouTube in the show notes. I'd encourage you all to watch it, although it is about three hours.) The point of the film is simple, though: since the 1970s, governments, financiers, and technological utopians have given up on the complex "real world" and built a simple "fake world" that is run by corporations and kept stable by politicians.

Now, I discern this as an idea likely to be true. I say likely to be true because I'm reminded of the theory that Robert Anton Wilson put forth that states the only thing that exists is probability. So in this case, I find the probability of hypernormalisation being true to be higher than the probability of it being false. (I could also get really meta and say I find the probability of Wilson's theory of probability being true to be higher than the probability of it being false. But I digress.)

This begs some important questions: If hypernormalisation is probable, what exactly is the fake world and what exactly is the real world? Where does the fake end and the real begin?

The fake world seems rather easy to parse through. It's the one we've all been actively participating in, the one built on materialism and governed by the almighty dollar. It's the genetically-modified bread and geopolitical circuses.

But what if this fake world also extends to what we consider to be real? By we, I mean people into the fringe, into the occult and the paranormal, conspiracy theories, spirituality, mythology, alternate cosmologies, etc. What if this paranormal portion of the fake world has also been constructed for us and we're getting ready to walk right into it?

As Bosley said, paranormal phenomena knows your motives and knows what you want to see. And if the people who know this about the phenomena - and TPTB know about this, believe me - they're doing all they can to influence you into wanting certain things, things that appear to be what we want, but things that ultimately keep order in place. Hey, if more and more people want corrupt leaders exposed, or extraterrestrial disclosure, guess what we're gonna get? If you want to live in a world with 120 different alien species, here ya go. Here's your draco reptilians and your greys and your blue avians. Ladies and gentleman, the deep state may have constructed an even deeper state for us to get lost in. We're gonna get that flavor of bread, and we're gonna get those types of circuses.

I guess all I'm saying is: be careful. Be careful with whom you've been cohabitating with, or co-creating with. You may feel as if your juju is on point, but unless you've mastered your Self and don't need a co-creator, you're still very much under the influence of their order.

Yes, this is a pivotal moment in our collective existence, but we have to remember that this in an individual journey.

One of my favorite movies is The Wizard of Oz. And 78 years after its release, it's as relevant now as it's ever been. We all want the man behind the curtain to reveal himself to us. But if The Wizard of Oz taught us anything, it's that the answers we seek are already here. Remember that line when Dorothy and the gang stroll into meet the wizard and the curtain gets pulled back? "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain." You know why? Because he's a charlatan. An illusion. A reflection of your creative capabilities. Seriously. Pay him no mind. Your character is already courageous. Your mind is already sharp. Your heart is already pure.

But it's time to reclaim your spirit.

It's time to reclaim your chaos.

OCCULTURE 32: Olav Phillips // The Secret Cold War in Space, Nordic Aliens, Alternative Three & Missing 411

Fri, 30 Jun 2017 10:30:00 +0000

Nazis in outer space! Antarctica! Nordic aliens! Missing people! Deep underground military bases! The end of the world! This is the audio equivalent of sick ass B-movie-turned-cult-classic.

The featured player? Olav Phillips, a conspiracy researcher and writer, specializing in the Secret Space Program, Exotic Aircraft, High Technology, Foreign Policy, Prehistory and Mysterious Civilizations. He is a regular contributor to several magazines and newspapers as well as the publisher of the legendary Paranoia Magazine.

In addition to writing and publishing, Olav has also been featured on Beyond Belief with George Noory, America Unearthed with Scott Wolter, and UFO Hunters. Olav also serves as an Executive Producer and Principal Researcher for Ground Zero Radio with Clyde Lewis as well as having authored or contributed to several books, including his most recent self-published work, "The Secret Cold War in Space: Soviets, NATO, Nazis, Alternative Three and the Secret War in Space".

MENTIONS & RESOURCES

"The Secret Cold War in Space: Soviets, NATO, Nazis, Alternative Three and the Secret War in Space" by Olav Phillips
"The Ark of the Covenant and Other Secret Weapons of the Ancients
Paranoia Magazine
The Paranoia Podcast
Walter Bosley's blog
AP story on Nazi artifacts
Dr. Joseph Farrell's take on the Nazi artifacts

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OCCULTURE 31: Laurel Airica // Word Magic, The Power of Language, Spellcasting & Recreating the World

Fri, 23 Jun 2017 10:23:00 +0000

In this episode, a chat with Laurel Airica, the Oracle of the Metaphorical, the Alphabet Alchemist, Sorceress of the Thesaurus, the Metaphysical Mother Goose. Laurel is a cunning linguist (ooh, see what I did there?!) and the true personification of a wordsmith. We're talking about the magic and power of language; conscious thought and creation; casting spells with words; poetry as a form of alchemy; recreating the world with the word; Trump's degradation of language; and much, much more!

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Laurel's website: http://www.laurelairica.com/
Laurel's performance presentation, WordMagicGlobal: http://www.wordmagicglobal.com/
Laurel's TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HctQ8YuWOdg
Laurel's article on the language of the birds: http://awarenessmag.com/july-august-2012/july-aug-2012-awareness-magazine-pg-18.html
Recent New York Times article on Trump's degradation of language: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/opinion/donald-trump-degradation-of-the-language.html
"The Hidden Messages in Water" by Masaru Emoto: http://amzn.to/2sWX1Pn
Joshua P. Warren & para-cymatics: http://www.joshuapwarren.com/

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OCCULTURE 30: Tommie Kelly // Models of Magick, Hypersigils, Divination & Black Mirror Scrying

Wed, 14 Jun 2017 10:14:00 +0000

In this episode, Tommie Kelly is in the house to chat about his adventures in woo woo. We're talking about how he got turned onto the magickal path; the different models of magick; hypersigils and his own attempt at it with "THEM"; divination and his new deck "The Forty Servants"; black mirror scrying; and many more magickal things.

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Adventures in Woo Woo: http://www.adventuresinwoowoo.com/
"THEM": http://amzn.to/2ss4aXE
"The Forty Servants": http://www.adventuresinwoowoo.com/thefortyservants/
Tommie Kelly Podcast: https://www.adventuresinwoowoo.com/tommie-kelly-podcast/
Chaos Magick Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/chaosmagic/
Stuart Wilde: http://www.stuartwilde.com/
Grant Morrison Disinformation lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-cxBuRU09w
Rune Soup: http://runesoup.com/
"Advanced Magick for Beginners" by Alan Chapman: http://amzn.to/2t9Ys9C
Grant Morrison's hypersigil "The Invisibles": http://amzn.to/2scplwC

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OCCULTURE 29: Dan Willis // Disclosure, Mind Control, Quartz Crystals & The Geometry of Water

Wed, 07 Jun 2017 10:07:00 +0000

In this episode, a chat with Dan Willis, one of The Disclosure Project's top secret military witnesses. A little bit of everything in this episode: extraterrestrial disclosure, deep state infiltration and mass media manipulation, mind kontrol, quartz crystal technology, the sacred geometry and memory of water, how to properly structure water, and love love love.

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Dan testified at the National Press Club in Washington DC in 2001 in front of major media outlets. This National Press Club event was a world disclosure event that was asking for a congressional hearing in order to bring forth witnesses and scientists from within government black projects in an effort to release technologies derived from extraterrestrial reverse engineering that have been hidden for nearly 70 years, technologies that could stop further damage to our planet. But instead, the message delivered by those who testified that day was sanitized by a controlled mainstream media.

Dan's first-hand experiences, as well as his research into the historical indicators that have been purposely omitted from our education system, reveal an infiltration of unwarranted influences operating behind the secrecy established for the US national security system, a system that is used to indoctrinate the public, control their opinions and form their perceptions of an "agreed upon reality", all done in order to hide illegal operations and cover up the true nature of our reality.

Dan is a veteran of the US Navy, an ex-radio broadcast engineer and former ABC newsman who has taken a keen interest in how the mainstream media has withheld information from the public. Not only has Dan been involved in the Disclosure Project, but his personal and professional interests also led him to the work of Dr. Marcel Vogel, a former research scientist for IBM who Dan became an associate of. Dr. Vogel did pioneering work in human-and-plant communication experiments, which then led him to the study of quartz crystals and the creation of faceted crystals for therapeutic use. Dr. Vogel's research into the therapeutic application of quartz crystals also led him to the investigation of the relationship between crystals and water, where he discovered that he could structure water by spinning it around a tuned crystal, altering many of the characteristics of the water and converting it into an information storage system.

As I said, this is one hell of an episode. We get into all of this and a whole lot more, if you can believe it.

MENTIONS & RESOURCES

Dan's website: http://thewebmatrix.net/
Marcel Vogel's work (also maintained by Dan): http://marcelvogel.org/
http://disclosureproject.org/

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OCCULTURE 28: Wanderweird // Art, Consciousness & The Ars Goetia

Tue, 30 May 2017 09:30:00 +0000

In this episode, a chat with occult, esoteric & psychedelic artist Wanderweird (aka Chops) about meditating on DMT and encountering entities; consciousness and models of reality; and his comic books, video game mandalas, trilogy of fiction, and upcoming video game based on the 16th century grimoire on demonology known as the Ars Goetia.

Check out Wanderweird's work at http://www.wanderweird.com/ and watch him live paint at https://www.twitch.tv/wanderweird.

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Vestron Vulture - "I Want to be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

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OCCULTURE 27: Occult Fan // Occult & Esoteric Symbolism in David Lynch's Twin Peaks

Sun, 21 May 2017 09:21:00 +0000

In this episode, a chat with Nathan Lee Miller Foster aka Occult Fan about occult symbolism in the Twin Peaks Universe.

If you're a fan of filmmaking, you're undoubtedly familiar with David Lynch and the surreal stories and soundscapes he's contributed to the lexicon of popular culture. His work is filled with an education typically reserved for initiates and adepts of the various mystery schools found throughout our occulted history, and one of those works that speaks perhaps the greatest truth most of us have never known is found in a universe known simply as Twin Peaks.

Comprised of the original thirty television episodes, a feature film called Fire Walk With Me, a novel published by the show's co-creator Mark Frost called The Secret History of Twin Peaks, and the television reboot that premieres Sunday, May 21st on Showtime, the Twin Peaks Universe has done more to divulge the true nature of reality than perhaps any other piece of art ever has or will.

On the surface, Twin Peaks is more of a story about conspiracy and corruption in a small town in Washington State than it ever was a story about who killed Laura Palmer. But unravel a thread here and unpeel a layer there and you'll discover a world inhabited by duæling magicians, Jungian archetypes, mutable realities and extradimensional entities, with references to everything from the writings of Aleister Crowley, UFOs, secret societies and the secret space program to Lewis & Clark, alchemy, Native American mysticism and Jack Parsons' Babalon Working.

And while I'm not nearly famous enough to pull a guest like David Lynch or Mark Frost--and believe me, I tried--I did get the next best thing: an occult fanboy named Nathan Lee Miller Foster who has lent his ear and support to me as I venture down this podcasting path, and someone who's shown me privately just how well he can dissect occult symbols and themes in showpieces such as this. And now it's time for him to do the same thing for you publicly. Nathan Lee is full of extradimensional energies and eccentricities, and as any of our grandfathers would say, he's quite the character. We've struck up a bit of a friendship, so this conversation may strike you as a bit more casual than most. Honestly, while I was in the midst of it I had no idea how it would play back, but after editing it I have to say that we turned a molehill into a magical mountain that David Lynch and Mark Frost would be proud of.

This requires a bit of working knowledge of the Twin Peaks Universe, and those of you who have that will hopefully appreciate our efforts. And those of you who may not know the first thing about it, well, I hope what you're about to hear piques your curiosity, pun definitely intended.

MENTIONS

"The Secret History of Twin Peaks" by Mark Frost: http://amzn.to/2qJyTfO
"Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons" by John Carter, with an introduction by Robert Anton Wilson: http://amzn.to/2r4R4PV
"Moonchild" by Aleister Crowley: http://amzn.to/2rDXq60
Black & white lodges: http://edgeba.webs.com/blackandwhitelodges.htm
Dualism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism
Jungian archetypes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes
Mutable realities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse
Extradimensional entities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdimensional_hypothesis
Native American mysticism: http://www.dwildepress.net/critica/native1.html
Jack Parsons' Babalon Working: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babalon_Working
Ætheric consciousness: http://www.plotinus.com/subtle_bodies_copy.htm
The Lesser Key of Solomon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Key_of_Solomon
Joseph Campbell's monomyth "The Hero's Journey": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey
Rick Strassman's work on psychedelics: https://www.rickstrassman.com/
The videos of Frater Xavier: https://www.youtube.com/user/mindandmagick
The work of Mike Clelland: http://hiddenexperience.blogspot.com/

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Vestron Vulture - "I Want to be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)"

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OCCULTURE 26: Joel Selvin // Rock 'n Roll's Darkest Day: Altamont, The Rolling Stones & Hells Angels

Thu, 11 May 2017 09:11:00 +0000

In this episode, a chat with music journalist Joel Selvin, author of "Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day".

Joel and I are gonna be chatting about the historic free concert thrown by the Rolling Stones at the Altamont Speedway in December 1969. Joel has called this rock 'n roll's darkest day, and I'm sure many others would agree.

I'm also sure some people are probably like, "Ryan, what the hell does this story have to do with the occult?" And to that I say this: as with anything occult, if you get caught up with the story on the surface, you've missed the message completely.

To be fair, though, this doesn't have anything to do with occult study or philosophy, but this story does have an interesting place in the annals of not just rock music, but also American culture. The Altamont concert is not a forgotten moment, by any means, but I think it does merit some attention because of the time in which it took place and how the hippie movement was viewed afterward.

Joel is a San Francisco-based music critic and author best known for his weekly column in the San Francisco Chronicle, which ran from 1972 to 2009. In addition to his book on Altamont, Joel has penned several books examining the cross-section of music and culture, including "Summer of Love: The Inside Story of LSD, Rock & Roll, Free Love and High Time in the Wild West", as well as "Peppermint Twist: The Mob, the Music and the Most Famous Dance Club of the 60s". He's also authored or co-authored biographies on some notable musicians, including Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Ricky Nelson and Sammy Hagar.

But our focus here is the story surrounding a free concert held at Altamont Speedway in Northern California in December 1969. The Rolling Stones headlined a bill any fan of rock music would loved to have seen, but the day was marred by biker beatdowns, bad drugs and the death of a young black man named Meredith Hunter.

Whether you've heard the story before or not, I think you'll learn a little something from this. It's a fine chat with one of the premier chroniclers of the San Francisco music scene. And if you're into speculation and conspiracy theory, please do stay tuned for the outro. Enjoy.

MENTIONS

Joel Selvin: http://joelselvin.com/
"Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hell's Angels and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day": http://amzn.to/2plOGnq
"Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream": http://amzn.to/2q4hHDd
Sally Stevens anecdote: http://rockphiles.typepad.com/a_life_in_the_day/2011/02/mick-jagger-london-school-of-economics.html

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