This week we welcome back a very special regular guest for a very special recurring feature. The one and only Austin Coppock gives us an end-of-2017 report as well as a peek through what I assume is an ornate, steampunk telescope of what is coming up in 2018. Good times, as ever. Download the episode […]
A couple of times in my life I have come close to being musically ‘cool’. The first was with my very first job after university, with Virgin Records in Sydney. I helped set up the biggest record store in the Southern Hemisphere and I was still young enough that my opinions on music automatically carried […]
This week we speak with the one and only Tobias Churton about his latest Crowley book, Aleister Crowley in America. We discuss his New York experience, mountain climbing in Mexico, to what extent he was working for British Intelligence, his curious UFO incident in New Hampshire and a whole lot more. A splendid discussion with one […]
“I’m a member of a kind of consortium. We represent certain global interests.” We come to it at last. Tragedy and Hope. The most important book nobody has read. In no small part because it is actually quite dull -except for the parts that precisely describe the formation of a tiny power bloc that largely runs […]
Another solo show this week. (Sort of.) There’s some further elaboration required on some of the notions skimmed in the Thanksgiving episode, plus some real talk on what is to be done. We return to normal programming for the rest of the year, but -like the Double Talking episodes- this is in danger of becoming […]
A solo show this week. Just me, talking about history and how we think with the past when it no longer matches up to our expectations of the present. Big shout out to all our American cousins doing exactly this under the challenging conditions of a competitive eating environment. Download it here or listen along […]
The first actual book we will be looking at in this series is Miles Copeland’s A Game of Nations. It is long out of print and physical copies can often go for hundreds of dollars. But, putting it delicately, in this particular instance Google is your friend. At first glance it may appear surprising that […]
Paul Weston on the mic this week. Paul is an author and lecturer based in Glastonbury, and one that I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with in the flesh multiple times. Today he joins us to talk about synchromystic creative journeys, psychogeography, mermaid goddesses, ancient Egyptian spirits and the works of Kenneth Grant. Story time! […]
Paul Stamets appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast the same day I gave my Dominant of Witchcraft presentation in Sydney, which I took as a good sign. It’s Joe at his least annoying in years so you should watch it. I took it as a sign because there is a whole sequence in the presentation expanding […]
The resurrected series has got off to a great start. What I want to do next is add in the additional, archonological aspects of Zeihan’s presentation in the first post. Thing is, I’ve already done it. It is the middle third of The Devil’s Dice Game -which I presented in the Blue Mountains a few months […]
In many respects, the original archonology series is an evidence-based exploration. At the time, it seemed necessary to explore or demonstrate the materia of various control mechanisms and groups. Directed energy weapons, tax havens, electro-gravitics and so on. The thinking behind it is and remains the proverbial “it only takes one black swan to prove […]
This week we welcome Dr Richard Miller. Dr Miller is a radio host, former advisor on the Presidents Commission on Mental Health and founding board member of the Gestalt Institute. He has been a clinical psychologist for over fifty years and has been on faculty at the University of Michigan and at Stanford University. He […]
Look. We all wanted to like it. Lord knows we could do with a break from reality. Yet here we are. Daring each other to express the opinion we should probably express. So climb aboard if that sounds like something you want to do. Many hands make light work, as they say. In lieu of […]
This week, Peter and Alkistis of Scarlet Imprint return for their now-traditional ‘state of the magical world’ address. We talk trends in occultism and culture, the impact of the Sola Busca and the looming return of the Djinn. Download the episode directly here, or listen along on YouTube below. Good times. Show Notes Scarlet Imprint […]
My grandmother’s shepherds pie was always very bland. But that is what I am making this evening. My own mother, presumably because she grew up eating it, more or less refused to cook mashed potato or peas during my own childhood. So eating shepherds pie at my grandparents’ house was impossibly exotic. I think about […]
This week we are joined by master herbalist, ritual artist and educator, Catamara Rosarium. Catamara is the proprietor of Rosarium Blends and the co-founder of the Viridis Genii conference. We talk plant magic, astrological timing, weeds, psychedelics and growing a poison garden. Great stuff. Download the episode directly here or listen along on YouTube below. […]
Just a quick one today. A previous guest on Rune Soup had me on his own show recently. That would of course be Phil; podcaster, shaman and market gardener. Kinda fun to see my name in the same list as some of my all-time heroes. Anyway, enjoy!
This week the amazing José Leitão returns to the show to update us on his Ninth-Gate-style Cyprian quest across Portugal and to talk to us about his latest book, Bibliotheca Valencia, out from Hadean Press. We chat about perpetual almanacs, magical bestiaries and the impact of culture and context on praxis. Great stuff. Download the episode […]
My little nephew is making tractors out of Play-Doh. I decide to blow his mind a bit. “You know, uncle Gordon has a tractor.” His eyes widen. No you don’t. Are such things even possible? But I do. I own a tractor now. I got the owner of the small farm I bought in southern […]
Next month, I’ll be presenting to Sydney Spore -a local psychedelic group. Here’s the blurb: Dominant of Witchcraft: Rethinking psychedelics, spirits and the natural world in a post-materialist age The very existence of psychedelics has always had metaphysical implications beyond the world of psychedelics. From the continued presence of mandrake and henbane through the folk […]
Friday the 13th of October is the one hundredth anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun -one of the most remarkable High Strange events ever witnessed and the culmination of the Fátima appearances. I wrote about it at length a few years ago and you can read that post here. Our Lady of Fátima is […]
This week we are speaking to Ivy Bromius. Ivy is a magician, tarot reader and writer with a specialism in project management. She writes about the how and why of where these topics blend at Circle Thrice and that is also what she joins us today to discuss. Along the way we also talk haunted […]
Seeing as the visualisation exercises in last week’s newsletter proved pretty popular, let’s try another one: The CIA gives you $200 for ‘web services’ in which they will store data on the citizens of the world. You buy a newspaper best described as ‘the CIA’s Facebook Wall’ (Catherine Fitts) for $100. Who is running the […]
This week, we are speaking with Danny Nemu. Danny is a writer, presenter and researcher in the fields of psychedelics and the history of science. We cover ayahuasca, the shortcomings of double-blind experiments, drugs in the Bible and flesh-eating bacteria. Also other things, obviously. Great stuff! Download the episode directly here or listen along on […]
Another double-talking episode this week. Sarah and Juniper talk us through plant allies, entheogens, journeying and just generally interacting with the non-human world in a neighbourly fashion. There’s also some great ritual advice for solo and group praxis. Fantastic stuff. Download the episode directly here or listen along on YouTube below. Show Notes Sarah’s website […]
This week we are speaking with the luminously bright Sam Block. Sam is a blogger, magician and geomancer. We talk divination, spirits, Greek Magical Papyri and -as you might expect- geomancy. Very good times. Download the episode directly here or listen along on YouTube below. Show Notes Sam on Twitter The Digital Ambler on Facebook […]
This week we are speaking to my good friend and the internet’s master of conspiramonies, Greg Carlwood. As you are no doubt aware, Greg is the prolific and thoughtful host of The Higherside Chats. In a thematic follow up to last week’s show on Gnosticism, it seems useful to explore how we map and respond […]
Another super fun, recent podcast appearance. Ed and Mike asked some good questions and offered some thought-provoking personal experiences from a parallel field to magic. Download here. Enjoy.
This week we are taking the new format out for another spin by welcoming back two popular previous guests, Miguel Conner and Chris Knowles, to double talk the most contemporary of ancient philosophies -Gnosticism- and whether or not we live in the most gnostic of times. So. Good. Download the episode directly here or listen […]
This is a fun one. Cody comes from more of a psychedelics direction so the discussions of magic are 101 in a direction I haven’t had the opportunity to take them before. Also a pleasing match as the premium member journeying course begins in earnest this week. Download and listen along here. Quite literally something […]
This week we are speaking with Dr Francis Young. Dr Young is an historian, author and translator, hailing from and with a particular interest in East Anglia. He joins us today to speak principally about the history of exorcism and his book, A History of Exorcism in Catholic Christianity. Good stuff. Download the episode directly here […]
It didn’t start with Bill of course. Although Bill knew him in his later years. It started with another Australian agricultural designer whose system has since spread to thousands of acres around the world. P.A Yeomans, in his classic Water for Every Farm. Watching a recent video from my favourite permaculture FILF, Richard Perkins, the […]
How other kinds of beings see us matters. That other kinds of beings see us changes things. If jaguars also represent us -in ways that can matter vitally to us- then anthropology cannot limit itself just to exploring how people from different societies might happen to represent them as doing so. Such encounters with other […]
This week we are debuting a sporadic new show format. For the ‘Double Talking’ episodes we bring back two prior guests for a three headed discussion about various shared topics. First cabs off the rank are Dr Al Cummins and Julio Ody and the topic is all things practically grimoiric. Right here. This is my […]
This past weekend, a few dozen weird kids assembled on a windy, sometimes-sleeting mountain for The Devil’s Dice Game. As always with these sorts of events, I come away largely in awe of how wild and brilliant magical folk can be. Some of the attendees had flung themselves across the world to Australia for no […]
This week sees the return of one of the show’s most popular guests, Lionel Snell aka Ramsey Dukes. Lionel joins us to discuss his most recent book, My Year of Magical Thinking, as well as various magical ways of being in the world and their benefits. Amazing stuff. Download the episode directly here or listen along […]