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HEY YO! GRAB OUR NEW T-SHIRT ON OUR WEBSITE OR ON ETSY! 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! RESOURCES “Genuflect” by Tracy Twyman “Mount Analogue” by René Daumal Blogs by Tracy related to the discussion Related to the plot & ideas in “Genuflect” http://tracytwyman.com/bloomberg-london-is-open/ http://tracytwyman.com/bloomberg-musk-and-mithras-billionaires-busting-the-matrix/ http://tracytwyman.com/templars-cybele-mithras-alchemy-william-blake-mic

HEY YO! GRAB OUR NEW T-SHIRT ON OUR WEBSITE OR ON ETSY! 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. RESOURCES “Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr” by John Crowley John Michael Greer’s blog   SUPPORT Check out our support page. Because podcasting costs money. Website maintenance, storage space, equipment, late night organic juice runs when we're up all night editing. Help us offset some of that cost by supporting the show monthly. This will also help us increase our storage space so we can provide longer episodes and more of them. Leave your name in a note and you’ll be recognized on air (if you don’t mind). We have seven levels of monthly support: Initiate - $1.11 Astrologer - $3.33 Magician - $5.55 Alchemist - $7.77 Adept - $9.99 Shaman - $11.11 Ascended Master - $13.13   Don't want to support

HEY YO! SHOP OUR NEW T-SHIRT ON ETSY! 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! RESOURCES Daniel’s website Avesta.org The Zend Avesta by Friedrich Max Muller: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Sumerian King List The Hiram Key by Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas   SUPPORT Check out our support page. Because podcasting costs money. Website maintenance, storage space, equipment, late night organic juice runs when we're up all night editing. Help us offset some of that cost by supporting the show monthly. This will also help us increase our storage space so we can provide longer episodes and more of them. Leave your name in a note and you’ll be recognized on air (if you don’t mind). We have seven levels of monthly support: Initiate - $1.11 Astrologer - $3.33 Magician - $5.55 Alchemist - $7.77 Adept - $9.99 Shaman - $11.11 Ascende

HEY YO! SHOP OUR NEW T-SHIRT ON ETSY! 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. RESOURCES “Alchemically Stoned: The Psychedelic Secret of Freemasonry” by PD Newman Alchemically Stoned on Facebook PD on Twitter   SUPPORT Check out our support page. Because podcasting costs money. Website maintenance, storage space, equipment, late night organic juice runs when we're up all night editing. Help us offset some of that cost by supporting the show monthly. This will also help us increase our storage space so we can provide longer episodes and more of them. Leave your name in a note and you’ll be recognized on air (if you don’t mind). We have seven levels of monthly support: Initiate - $1.11 Astrologer - $3.33 Magician - $5.55 Alchemist - $7.77 Adept - $9.99 Shaman - $11.11 Ascended Master - $13.13   Don't

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. RESOURCES “Pop Culture Magic Systems” by Taylor Ellwood “Space/Time Magic” by Taylor Ellwood Taylor’s website Taylor on Twitter Closet of Mysteries on Etsy   SUPPORT Check out our support page. Because podcasting costs money. Website maintenance, storage space, equipment, late night organic juice runs when we're up all night editing. Help us offset some of that cost by supporting the show monthly. This will also help us increase our storage space so we can provide longer episodes and more of them. Leave your name in a note and you’ll be recognized on air (if you don’t mind). We have seven levels of monthly support: Initiate

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.   RESOURCES Erik’s blog Erik’s podcast Erik on Twitter   SUPPORT Check out our support page. Because podcasting costs money. Website maintenance, storage space, equipment, late night organic juice runs when we're up all night editing. Help us offset some of that cost by supporting the show monthly. This will also help us increase our storage space so we can provide longer episodes and more of them. Leave your name in a note and you’ll be recognized on air (if you don’t mind). We have seven levels of monthly support: Initiate - $1.11 Astrologer - $3.33 Magician - $5.55 Alchemist - $7.77 Adept - $9.99 Sha

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 “The Occult Book” by John Michael Greer “The Coelbren Alphabet” by John Michael Greer “Academy of the Sword” translated by John Michael Greer John’s blog   SUPPORT Check out our support page. Because podcasting costs money. Website maintenance, storage space, equipment, late night organic juice runs when we're up all night editing. Help us offset some of that cost by supporting the show monthly. This will also help us increase our storage space so we can provide longer episodes and more of them. Leave your name in a note and you’ll be reco

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 andro

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

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. RESOURCES SmallTownMonsters.com Small Town Monsters on Facebook Seth on Twitter Seth on Instagram Buy or rent Invasion on Chestnut Ridge on Amazon   SUPPORT Check out our support page. Because podcasting costs money. Website maintenance, storage space, equipment, late night organic juice runs when we're up all night editing. Help us offset some of that cost by

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 le

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. RESOURCES “Color & Conjure: Rituals & Magic Spells to Color” by Natalie Zaman Natalie’s website Natalie on Instagram Natalie on Twitter “Samhain Witchcraft: Halloween Magic Spells, Rituals, Potions, Ways to Celebrate And Much More” by Arziana EverDark Arziana on YouTube “Colorstrology” by Michele Bernhardt   SUPPORT Check out our support page. Becau

#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. RESOURCES Matt’s YouTube channel   SUPPORT Check out our support page. Because podcasting costs money. Website maintenance, storage space, equipment, late night organic juice runs when we're up all night editing. Help us offset some of that cost by supporting the show monthly. This will also help us increase our storage space so we can provide longer episodes and more of them. Leave your name in a note and you’ll be recognized on air (if you don’t mind). We have seven levels of monthly support: Initiate - $1.11 Astrologer - $3.33 Magician - $5.55 Alchemist - $7.77 Adept - $9.99 Shaman - $11.11 Ascended Master - $13.13   Don't want to support the show monthly? No sweat. You can make a one-time donation in an amount of

#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. RESOURCES “Santa Muerte: The History, Rituals, and Magic of Our Lady of the Holy Death” by Tracey Rollin Tracey’s website “The Fifth Sun: Aztec Gods, Aztec World” by Burr Cartwright Brundage “Funerals, Festivals, and Cultural Politics in Porfirian Mexico” by Matthew Esposito “Witchcraft in the Southwest: Spanish and Indian Supernaturalism on the Rio Grande” by Marc Simmons   SUPPORT Check out our support page. Because podcasting costs money. Website maintenance, storage space, equipment, late night organic juice runs when we're up all night editing. Help us offset some of that cost by supporting the show monthly. This will also help us increase our storage space so we can provide longer episodes and more of them. Leave your name in a note

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. RESOURCES “BECOMING DANGEROUS” Ki

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

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. SUPPORT: https://www.occulturepodcast.com/support Podcasting costs money. Website maintenance, storage space, equipment, late night organic juice runs when we're up all night editing. Help us offset some of that cost by supporting the show monthly. This will also help us increase our storage space so we can provide longer episodes and more of them. Leave your name in a note and you and your support level will be recognized on air. We have seven levels of monthly support: Initiate - $1.11 Astrologer - $3.33 Magician - $5.55 Alchemist - $7.77 Adept - $9.99 Shaman - $11.11 Ascended Master - $13.13   Don't want to support the show monthly? No s

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. RESOURCES “DMT & My Occult Mind” by Dick Khan Dick’s writing on Academia.edu Dick’s social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram Dick’s

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 f

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