On this episode of Against Everyone with Conner Habib, I talk with esoteric author and scholar MARK BOOTH (AKA Jonathan Black), whose excellent new book, THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE: HOW ANCIENT WISDOM MADE THE WORLD , traces the occult influences found in modern science, especially the science of physics. Mark’s book is not just an outline of confluences. In other words, it’s not one of many books already available which seem to validate spiritual wisdom with modern science. Instead, it ...
Jun 09, 2026•1 hr 28 min
Using AEWCH 317-320 as a starting point, I talk with JOSHUA RIVERS , poet and host of the excellent BUSY BEING BLACK podcast + frequent AEWCH guest, SHULI BRANSON (host of the podcast THE BREAKUP THEORY podcast , and translator of Guy Hocquenghem's Gay Liberation After May '68 .) about the small task of remaking the world. At the center of the episode is a thought that's something like: We have to lose - via transformation - so much to gain the world. The last time Shuli was on the show was a co...
Jun 04, 2026•1 hr 57 min
Like many people, I often feel that I don’t understand economics, but, like everyone, I have my own role to play in the economy. So do you. So does everyone. We are all in economy, so we all have something to offer in understanding it. AEWCH 24 guest Erin Ryan once joked that “Economics is astrology for dudes” Economics feels intentionally mystified, filled with untruths and abstractions, and hopelessly complicated. Those who claim they do understand it are usually people (certain kinds of men, ...
May 07, 2026•1 hr 13 min
Friends, we might not feel up to the task, of changing the world, but not only are we up to the task, but we are all engaged with it already . Shaping the world is part of being alive and we all contribute, whether we know it or not. This episode is part of my series on the social art of renewing, rethinking, and revitalizing the social organism: A NEW SPIRITUAL SOCIETY This time, I talk about POLITICS - why politics in our time is about so much more than elections, political parties, protests, ...
Apr 29, 2026•45 min
Friends, we might not feel up to the task, of changing the world, but not only are we up to the task, but we are all engaged with it already . Shaping the world is part of being alive and we all contribute, whether we know it or not. Welcome to my new series of episodes on the social art of renewing, rethinking, and revitalizing the social organism: A NEW SPIRITUAL SOCIETY This time, I talk about CULTURE, what culture really is in our time and what we're being called to do to renew this sphere s...
Apr 21, 2026•42 min
Friends, We might not feel up to the task, of changing the world, but not only are we up to the task, but we are all engaged with it already . No one who has ever lived, even briefly, has not altered the earth by contributing their own destiny to it, and the way in which that destiny radiated out to affect everyone. Shaping the world is part of being alive. We all contribute. This is often broken down into a clunky simplistic and fundamentally flawed statement that “everything is political.” But...
Apr 14, 2026•26 min
In an episode that is at once political, spiritual, and intensely personal, I talk about why we need to see the Epstein files in the right light to understand what's at stake: for survivors, for abusers, and for the world at large. Support the show: patreon.com/connerhabib
Mar 12, 2026•59 min
I talk with author, teacher, and cohost of Weird Studies, J.F. Martel about how art is the only way out of our predicament. Support the show: patreon.com/connerhabib Buy J.F.'s book . Listen to Weird Studies .
Feb 04, 2026•2 hr 5 min
Asad Haider, the political theorist and philosopher, whose book critiquing identity politics from a (non-class-reductive) leftist perspective, Mistaken Identity: Mass Movements and Racial Ideology remains a powerful contribution and who was on AEWCH 26, died suddenly in December of last year. I’ve reproduced that episode as AEWCH 314*, with a new introduction. To plant a tree in Asad's memory, go here . To support the show, go to patreon.com/connerhabib...
Jan 21, 2026•1 hr 22 min
In conversation with Pilar Lesko about change, Christianity, the dead, and more. Happy New Year! support the show: patreon.com/connerhabib
Jan 07, 2026•2 hr 4 min
Friends, Happy New Year! And welcome to the New Year’s Resolution episode of Against Everyone with Conner Habib, featuring my conversation with esoteric scholar and writer, MITCH HOROWITZ . But this show is filled with special guests, including: Philosopher and writer FEDERICO CAMPAGNA Esoteric teacher ALAN CHAPMAN Bestselling author and death expert CAITLIN DOUGHTY Mystery and horror novelist SARA GRAN Christian Community priest and esoteric christian PATRICK KENNEDY Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc, an...
Dec 30, 2025•2 hr 5 min
In this double-length and in-depth episode, I look at the social-political project of the late 19th early 20th century occultist, philosopher, and social reformer Rudolf Steiner with scholars and academics Aaron French and Henry Holland, who are writing Steiner's biography for SUNY Press, and have just offered the keynote at Harvard University's conference on Rudolf Steiner's life and work. On this episode, we attend to a question Henry asks: “Is a leftist reading of Steiner possible?" Please su...
Dec 17, 2025•2 hr 35 min
Friends, This is the fourth episode* in a series called The Spirit-Era and Its Aftermaths in which I look at the way spiritual, technological, and occult flourishings at the turn of the 19th into 20th century are still with us today, and in fact, being echoed by our own time. This time, we’re moving closer and closer to our present age, away from the Spirit-Era and into its aftermaths, tracking the ways that paranormal investigations, and paranormal phenomena themselves, changed as they emerged ...
Dec 10, 2025•1 hr 31 min
This is the third episode in a series called The Spirit-Era & Its Aftermaths in which I look at the way spiritual, technological, and occult flourishings at the turn of the 19th into 20th century are still with us today, and in fact, being echoed by our own time. The Spirit-Era is marked by occultists, paranormal investigators, and magicians... But it is also marked by performances of all kinds: stage magic, but also actual magic. Stage magic passing as real magic, real magic posing as trick...
Dec 02, 2025•1 hr 20 min
This is the second episode in a series called THE SPIRIT-ERA & ITS AFTERMATHS in which I look at the way spiritual, technological, and occult flourishings at the turn of the 19th into 20th century are still with us today. In the second installment in the series, I talk with ALLAN JOHNSON Professor of English Literature at University of Surrey, meditation coach, and author of the excellent book, The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature: Immanence, Occultism, and the Making of the Modern World ...
Nov 25, 2025•1 hr 40 min
This is first episode in a series called The Spirit-Era and Its Aftermaths. Across the next few installments of AEWCH, I’ll be investigating the way the spiritual, technological, and occult flourishing at the turn of the 19th/20th century is affecting our lives to this day. The Spirit-Era was a time marked by spirits, of course. But also miracles, hucksters, paranormal investigators, and genuine spiritual teachers. There were seances and fakirs, performances of incredible feats in private and on...
Nov 18, 2025•1 hr 38 min
Friends, When I was on my book tour for Hawk Mountain , I did an event with Andrea Lawlor where we spoke, at length, about horror. In the Q&A, someone raised a hand and asked: WHAT IS HORROR? Andrea and I both laughed. We found ourselves at a loss. Horror : Once you consider it, it’s not clear. There’s the assumption that horror is scary. Sometimes that’s true. But obviously what’s scary for you might not be scary for me, and vice versa, so that can’t define the genre. We say horror has cert...
Oct 28, 2025•1 hr 50 min
Friends, Is there any ghost lore in your town or where you grew up? Have you ever seen a ghost? What are ghosts, anyway? Three questions, three different ways to approach (or be approached by ghosts). Ghosts are at the heart of our folktales, our fears, and our fiction. And belief in them is almost universal. Unlike aliens, UFOs, cryptids, and other strange entities, belief in ghosts cuts across all demographics and borders. We're afraid of ghosts and fascinated by them. As you probably know fro...
Oct 22, 2025•1 hr 39 min
On the second of two back to back episodes on christianity in the world today, I talk with my sister, LAURA SCAPPATICCI , host of the podcast THAT GOOD MAY BECOME . We ask each other three questions about how christianity came into our lives, even though we were raised with no religion... and how that christianity is sometimes at odds with our communities and even, absurdly enough, at odds with the way christianity is itself of perceived today. This is a very personal episode, and I'm so happy t...
Oct 15, 2025•1 hr 46 min
On the first of two back to back episodes on christianity in the world today, I talk with writer LAMORNA ASH whose latest book, Don't Forget We're Here Forever: A New Generation's Search for Religion chronicles her conversations with christian converts and the newly faithful in the still-secular UK. In the process of writing the book, Lamorna has her own reevaluations of christianity and her own beliefs as a queer person. Of these conversations, Lamorna writes, “They taught me how to believe the...
Oct 07, 2025•1 hr 41 min
I'm so excited to welcome philosopher and author Federico Campagna back to the show! Together, we find the magic in defeat and the strength that it offers, using his new book, Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons on Escaping History as a springboard for our wide-ranging and empowering discussion. Federico gives many potent examples of the hidden strength in defeat. Whether it’s through Egyptian gods or the writer Joseph Roth, esotericists or people who felt the mythic effects of being defeated by ...
Sep 24, 2025•1 hr 34 min
Friends: We need ideas which are not just radical or "revolutionary." We need ideas, feelings, and actions that work on many levels; that are systemic; that have multiple potentials for realization, and have enough points of articulation that they can touch on their own fabric and maneuver to witness themselves. And what better place to start then the ground beneath your feet: where you live? After all, you see the place you live every day. It's entered you as a daily language of patterns. It's ...
Sep 17, 2025•2 hr 44 min
Friends, When I started Against Everyone With Conner Habib, there were a few guests I wanted to have on more than just about anyone. Happy to say, now, on episode 300, one of those central figures to my imagination has arrived for the conversation. GRANT MORRISON doesn't need much introduction. He's* a rebel artist, spiritual visionary, comic book writer, magician, novelist, and nonfiction writer. The first time I ever heard of Grant Morrison was here , over twenty years ago. in a talk he gave. ...
Sep 02, 2025•1 hr 48 min
Friends, After writing my previous episode, AEWCH 298 , where I laid out my thoughts on how to reflect on A.I. to get to beyond the basic, boring conversation, I read ADAM BECKER 's excellent book, More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanit y . I immediately invited him on the show, and I wish I would've read it before. Even though there is plenty of overlap, Adam's vantage point offer a full vision of tech culture, and revea...
Jul 31, 2025•1 hr 40 min
Friends, One reason I started this show eight years ago was to have big talk instead of small talk, to get us past surface conversations and into thinking more deeply. I hate small talk is because it’s so algorithmic or pre-programmed. It's limited by its connection to the past and expectations. I don’t want to have conversations that could be produced by just anyone in any context with predictable results. I wanted something more living, surprising, vitalizing; conversations that nourished push...
Jul 17, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Friends, Welcome to this massive double-length episode on religion in our time with Diana Young-Peak. You may not know Diana, or if you do, it may be from exactly 200 (!) episodes ago on AEWCH 97: DIANA YOUNG-PEAK or THE GREATEST STRIPPER OCCULT PRIESTESS YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF . That episode was recorded BEFORE I had a podcast - back in 2011, when I was part of her small esoteric church, the Church of the Living Christ Order of Melchizedek. That episode is at the end of this one - it gives all t...
Jul 03, 2025•3 hr 28 min
Lory Widmer Hess is the author of When Fragments Make a Whole, as well as a caregiver and spiritual direction facilitator in Switzerland. Her book chronicles her healing journey with the gospels - through various illness, medical procedures, and emotional and soul challenges - from an esoteric viewpoint. Support AEWCH on patreon: patreon.com/connerhabib Lory's website: https://enterenchanted.com/ Lory's book: When Fragments Become A Whole...
Jun 19, 2025•1 hr 22 min
Friends, Against Everyone with Conner Habib is eight years old today! Not many media projects last for eight years or make it up to nearly 300 episodes at this point. To celebrate, I talk here about conversation; what it means to all of us. After all, if I asked you if conversation had changed your life, you’d probably say yes. A conversation that set you down a career path, or a new place to move to. An argument that went haywire and ended your relationship. A flirtation that led to the great l...
Jun 05, 2025•49 min
Episode Description I'm joined by author, teacher, and theorist, Douglas Rushkoff. He’s one of the most important intellectuals of our time, some people call him a futurist, but he's always a step ahead of the future. The is the part 2 of the conversation we had on Doug’s podcast, TEAM HUMAN called "LIVE UP TO YOUR FOOL POTENTIAL" . But of course, it also stands on its own and you don't have to listen to them in order. This show is supported through listeners. No ads! Please do support it via Pa...
May 15, 2025•1 hr 53 min
I talk with co-hosts of the Light in Every Thing podcast, Rev. Jonah Evans & Rev. Patrick Kennedy about meeting the world not as a "problem" to be solved, but as a realm already overcome by spiritual love.
May 06, 2025•1 hr 22 min
