That great bathtub gurgle sound you are hearing is the sound of all the remaining wealth on earth draining into the United States. Although the clue is in the name, what a lot of people don’t realise about a global […]
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In this week’s episode we talk to esoteric author and Rock N Roll Hall of Fame musician, Gary Lachman about his excellent new book, Secret Teachers of the Western World. …
During the early colonial period, many Indigenous Tasmanians believed they would go to London when they died. You can understand the thinking in a way. Here were a group of ghostly …
It was my very great pleasure to be shown around the Royal College of Physician's exhibition, Scholar, Courtier, Magician: The Lost Library of John Dee, last week before the event opened …
In this episode, we talk to author and astrologer, Austin Coppock, about how astrology works, what to do during retrogrades and whether or not Donald Trump is the next President. It …
It's good to have a life where you can take a cold January Tuesday off and get a Templar church to yourself. At least for most of your visit. I …
Something was missing in my attempts to write a review of SyFy's Childhood's End. Whatever that was arrived today in the form of the latest Skeptiko podcast. The book has been mentioned …
In this bumper episode, we talk to The Secret Sun’s Christopher Knowles about the Nine, Esalen, elite belief systems, alien cargo cults, Star Trek, tarot, psychogeography and what may or …
This is how close it is! A number of you have asked how to get signed copies of the book which is just... a lovely thing to hear. As you might expect, this …
A little less star light here on earth today and from each day hence. One more star in the sky. How grim a thought there will be no new Bowie songs. …
Einstein declared by fiat that the aether did not exist and so it did not. Now, a century or so later and we are struggling to fit consciousness, psi results, …
How bad can a year be that opens with a new Bowie album? Probably still pretty bad. He has released a lot of albums. Nevertheless, today is both his birthday and album release …
We talk to noted Fortean journalist, former professional combat magician and all around good egg, Cat Vincent about his life and adventures. Topics include urban magic, sci fi fandom, Forteana, comics, …
https://soundcloud.com/samfeldt/i-am-oak-on-trees-birds-fire-sam-feldt-bloombox-remix-available-september-8 It was something I mentioned while talking to Sarah. The brashness of youth meeting a complete lack of context. My self-induction into magic was, with the benefit of two decades …
It's Thursday in Australia so that means podcast time. This was a good 'un. Al and I typically catch up when I go to NYC and the conversation felt like something …
There is a joke in here somewhere. I know that your home town changes over time but I am looking at a shirt I used to wear in an actual …
There is something faintly 'ancient intercalendary' about the time between Christmas and New Years. My sister and I refer to it as The Feast of St Bickany (between Christmas and …
Christmas is a time for togetherness, for family, for asking your mother about ghosts and saints and pyramids. And so I did. You can download the episode from here or you can listen below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky1axZ1iYpA Whilst …
I'm trying to remember the last time I let the salt of the Pacific Ocean dry on my skin. It has been years and was in another country all together …
Behold! On this episode we talk to Sarah Lawless about witchcraft, herbalism, animism, working with your ancestors, working with plant spirits and a whole lot more.... including when and how to …
It's that time of year again. Not really. But it is still far enough out that any of these ideas can make it under your tree before that time of year comes …
Yeah, so I podcast now. Below is the very super duper first episode of what is to be a weekly show, featuring the perennially awesome Peter Grey of Scarlet Imprint. Yes, …
I stand in the garden where Uranus made himself known to mankind. Sir Patrick Moore -with whom I had the pleasure of speaking once- dates the beginning of our space age; …
In the between space of what blogs were and what they are becoming -in person discussion, comments, social posts, actual blog posts and lived personal experience- let us see if …
When visiting America, the conversation inevitably turns to differing cultural calendars. They cast envious eyes across the sea at the various village festivals and historical sites still available for magical/cultural …
Magic is all about getting 'their' attention. I've been rolling this description around and around in my head since Chris said it during his recent appearance on THC. Because I think …
What would you like me to say? That we were going to be in Paris this weekend? It's true. But it was the risk of refugee-caused delays to the Eurostar eating into …
Oh but I do love meeting new weirdos. Last night I was invited to slightly monopolise the conversation at the monthly gathering of the London Alternate Explanation Society. Which was held …
Not a lot of people know that my birth country was 'discovered' by a secret military project masquerading as a scientific one. Ostensibly, James Cook's Endeavour mission to Tahiti was to observe …
So I have to tell you about those syncs I mentioned in the last post. Waking up to Chris's post about Childhood's End on the day Alkistis, Peter and I were …
The long-predicted law changes that allow for a dual speed -ie official/unofficial- internet continue to be passed around the world. Google has announced it is already using "AI" (ha!) as …
There must be something biological about the universal popularity of this time of year. Chalking it up to thinned veils fails to account for the fact that even the most …
We all get where Lovecraft was going with this. It's a remarkably parsimonious (for him, anyway) description of an early twentieth century horror worldview, still shaking off the Gothic Romanticism …
Here's a conversation M1k3y and I recorded on the weekend. We talk about Star Trek, the secret space programme, Mars and its water (and nuclear bombs), cultural manipulation and generally …
Somewhat surprisingly, we only got around to watching Jurassic World last night. I say somewhat surprisingly because Jurassic Park is the film that made me realise I want to go to …
After a week of extremely late, debauched nights out in a foreign country, manflu was more or less guaranteed. I picture my immune system as a cantankerous, steampunk still that …
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