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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.   RESOURCES 33. Greg Stewart // The Morals & Dogma of Freemasonry & Its Hermetic & Gnostic Influences FreemasonInformation.com “Masonic Traveler” by Greg Stewart “The Apprentice - A Treatise on the First Degree of Freemason

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. RESOURCES Ye Olde Magick Shoppe on Etsy “Blood Ritual Monarch: Tales of Demon Conjuring, Mind Control, and Madness” “Sexual Possession: A Ghost Hunter’s Guide to the Paranormal Realm” Blood Ritual Monarch/Zeppelin Curse on Twitter   SUPPORT Podcas

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 t

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

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 casti

The John Anthony West Project on Fundly 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 i

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.

#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 pers

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, des

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-ra

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 eso

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 disc

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 initial

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

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! MENTIONS & RESOURCES 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 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.   MENTIONS & RESOURCES  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   SUPPORT Podcasting costs money. Website mai

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. Big news too. Check out https://www.occulturepodcast.com/support. We are open for business. 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 co

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.   MENTIONS & RESOURCES Ars Goetia: 1, 2 Lesser Key of Solomon Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy Anthony Peake The Daemon Egyptian concept of the body & soul John Dee & Edward Kelley Joseph Smith Metatron’s cube Episode 11 with Dr. Jerry Brown on The Psychedelic Gospels   MUSIC Vestron Vulture - “I Want to be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)” https://soundcloud.com/thevulturex/2-i-want-to-be-a-robot-tribute   SOCIAL https://www.snapchat.com/add/ryanpeverly https://www.facebook.com/occulturepodcast/ https://twitter.com/occul

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 c

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 afterw