Forde's book explores the psychedelic experience from a phenomenological perspective, argues that the psychedelic experience can reveal aspects of reality which would not otherwise be disclosed, and discusses how psychedelic experience can open the subject to the essential nature of realityBook link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-95203-6--- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https:/...
Nov 12, 2025•1 hr
Review of The Lime Works by Thomas Bernhard---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74
Nov 06, 2025•47 min
Steve Dowden is a Professor of German language and literature in the Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures. He graduated in 1984 from the University of California with a Ph.D in German literature. After a decade teaching at Yale and a year as a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Konstanz he joined the Brandeis faculty in 1994. Dowden has published on German literature, art, music, and intellectual history from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. John Burt i...
Nov 05, 2025•1 hr 11 min
Brook Ziporyn is the Mircea Eliade Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. He is the author and translator of many books, most recently Daodejing.Book link: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo230169826.html---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix:Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpodHermitix Merchandis...
Oct 29, 2025•1 hr 19 min
Review of The Twilight World by Werner Herzog---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74
Oct 28, 2025•28 min
Devaraj Sandberg is a body-based therapist, author and workshop leader with a radical perspective on psychology and authenticity. He champions new ideas, loves working with people and is a digital nomad.Devaraj's site: https://bioenergetics.org.uk/author/devaraj/Devaraj's Youtube @DevarajSandberg ---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix:Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpodHermitix Merchandise - h...
Oct 22, 2025•1 hr 5 min
The Gospel of Gargoyle by James HarpurPrevious chat with Harpur: https://youtu.be/tXwyjQbnQk8?si=BUff65kWPVme-klqHarpur's site: https://www.jamesharpur.com/Book link: https://eblanapress.com/---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKP...
Oct 19, 2025•34 min
Jakub has an active research interest in eco-apocalypticism. He is the author of A Philosophy of Climate Apocalypticism: In and Against the World.Book link: https://www.routledge.com/A-Philosophy-of-Climate-Apocalypticism-In-and-Against-the-World/Kowalewski/p/book/9781032391267---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix:Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpodHermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/st...
Oct 15, 2025•1 hr 1 min
This episode I'm joined once again by Todd McGowan to discuss the work of Jacques Lacan.Book link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-introduction-to-jacques-lacan/8A8D3C7E67375B173684A3DC916A648D---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix:Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpodHermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPu...
Oct 08, 2025•1 hr 6 min
A review of Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74
Oct 05, 2025•57 min
Toby Chappell is a musician, writer, and lecturer on the intersection of language and magic. An independent researcher and practicing magician, his interests include runes, semiotics, weird tales, and the mysteries of ancient Egypt. The author of Infernal Geometry and the Left-Hand Path, he lives in Atlanta, Georgia.Chappell's site: https://semiurgist.com/about.htmlToby's book link: https://www.innertraditions.com/the-languages-of-magic---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - ...
Oct 01, 2025•1 hr 32 min
A review of In Search of the Miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74
Sep 25, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Justin D. Garrison is a scholar of American literature and political thought who frequently applies René Girard's mimetic theory to his research, demonstrating its utility for understanding topics in American culture, literature, and politics. Garrison has published reviews and articles, including a review of Girard's All Desire is a Desire for Being, highlighting the value of Girard's ideas in analyzing contemporary societal issuesGarrison's paper: https://politicalsciencereviewer.com/index.php...
Sep 24, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Aaron J. French is a post-doctoral researcher in Religious Studies at the University of Erfurt in Germany. His main research focuses on the History of Esotericism, the History and Philosophy of Science, Sacred Space and Architecture, modern German Philosophy, and Science and Technology Studies. In this episode we discuss UFOs, UAPs, and Esotericism.Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1irPsTBWXxA&feature=youtu.beKnowing Others paper: https://correspondencesjournal.com/ojs/ojs/index.ph...
Sep 17, 2025•1 hr 12 min
Karl White is a graduate of King’s College London where he tutored for several years in ethics, philosophy in film and literature. He has published work on Samuel Beckett and has also authored work on Shakespeare for secondary-level education. His writings have appeared in several philosophical and literary magazines. Book link: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/e-m-cioran-and-the-human-condition-9781350498563/---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Hermiti...
Sep 10, 2025•1 hr 14 min
Raphael Christian Cormack, is a British writer and scholar of the Arab world and Assistant Professor of Arabic at Durham University. He obtained his PhD in Egyptian Theatre from the University of Edinburgh. He has also been a visiting researcher at Columbia UniversityCormack's X: https://x.com/raphaelcormackBook link: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/holy-men-of-the-electromagnetic-age/---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Hermitix Discord - / ...
Sep 03, 2025•1 hr 5 min
James Harpur is a British-born Irish poet who has published eight books of poetry. He has won a number of awards, including the Michael Hartnett Award and the UK National Poetry Competition.Harpur's site: https://www.jamesharpur.com/Book link: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/dazzling-darkness/---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Hermitix Discord - / discord Support Hermitix:Hermitix Subscription - https://hermitix.net/subscribe/ Patreon -...
Aug 27, 2025•1 hr 21 min
Q&A from Youtube. Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - /hermitixpodcast Hermitix Discord: https://discord.gg/6eYtM986t3 Support Hermitix: Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0xfd2bbe86d6070004b9Cbf682aB2F25170046A996...
Aug 25, 2025•2 hr 8 min
Luis Moris is from the south of Chile. After finishing high school, he left his home country to spend six years studying psychology in the United States. After receiving a Master's degree specialized in clinical psychology he departed from the US to live in Lagos, Nigeria, where he volunteered for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in a program against AIDS. Following this experience, he spent six years in Paris, France, and then moved to Zurich. He came to Zurich to study Jungian psychology, and aft...
Aug 20, 2025•55 min
A review of Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group by Rebecca GransdenBook link: https://thetangerinepress.com/FICTION/RG-FCTFTTG/Gransden's site: https://rebeccagransden.wordpress.com/---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKP...
Aug 17, 2025•20 min
Christoph Schuringa is a philosopher and associate professor in philosophy at Northeastern University London. He is known for his works on German philosophy and is Editor of the Hegel Bulletin.Schuringa site: https://christophschuringa.com/Book link: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3018-a-social-history-of-analytic-philosophy---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Hermitix Discord - / discord Support Hermitix:Hermitix Subscription - https://her...
Aug 13, 2025•1 hr 15 min
Allison P. Coudert, PhD, is the Paul A. and Marie Castelfranco Endowed Chair in the History of Christianity in the Religious Studies Program at the University of California, Davis, CA.Coudert's academia: https://allisoncoudert.academia.edu/Gallowglass Yates' edition: https://gallowglassbooks.shop/products/giordano-bruno-and-the-hermetic-tradition-by-frances-a-yates---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Hermitix Discord - / discord Support Hermitix:H...
Aug 10, 2025•55 min
Gabriel Kennedy, aka Prop Anon, is an actor, musician, and writer whose work has been featured in BoingBoing.net, Realitysandwich.com, Mondo2000.com, and his own website, Chapelperilous.us. Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson is his first book.Book link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chapel-Perilous-Thought-Crimes-Robert-ebook/dp/B0DHV9PLTX---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Hermitix Discord - / discord Support Hermitix...
Aug 06, 2025•1 hr 18 min
Victoria Walker researches twentieth-century British women’s prose fiction, especially experimental writing. She has published widely on Anna Kavan and edited a special issue of Women: A Cultural Review – ‘Anna Kavan: New Readings’ (Winter 2017-18), a collection of Kavan’s short writing, Machines in the Head (2019), and Anna Kavan: Mid-Century Experimental Fiction (2023)Book link: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-anna-kavan.htmlAnna Kavan society: https://annakavan.org.uk/---Become part...
Jul 30, 2025•55 min
A review of Give Me Your Answer, Do by Peter MarchantBook link: https://toughpoets.com/marchant_givemeyouranswerdo.htm (including the cited review by Michael Joseph)---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation A...
Jul 27, 2025•35 min
In this episode I'm joined by Bryan Counter to his book Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience: Reading Huysmans, Proust, McCarthy, and CuskBook link: https://anthempress.com/books/four-moments-of-aesthetic-experience-hb---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Hermitix Discord - / discord Support Hermitix:Hermitix Subscription - https://hermitix.net/subscribe/ Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod...
Jul 23, 2025•56 min
Guy Stagg is an award-winning British writer interested in travel, religion, mental health and the places where they meet. In 2013 he walked from Canterbury to Jerusalem. His first book, The Crossway (Picador, 2018), was an account of this journey. It was a BBC Book of the Week and shortlisted for several prizes. His second, The World Within (Simon and Schuster, 2025), looks at the role of retreat in creative lives.Stagg's site: https://www.guystagg.co.uk/Book link: https://www.simonandschuster....
Jul 16, 2025•54 min
Joseph Turner is a PhD student in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in the dialogue between continental and Japanese philosophical traditions. His dissertation explores the development of a political ontology that bridges Nishitani Keiji's concept of emptiness with Jean-Luc Nancy's shared ontology of "being-with."He holds an MA in Literary Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and has published on Jean Baudrillard's work. Joseph has presented a...
Jul 09, 2025•1 hr 10 min
A review of Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth ---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74
Jul 06, 2025•35 min
Mark Vernon is a British psychotherapist and writer In this episode we discuss his book Awake! William Blake and the Power of the ImaginationBook link: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/awake/Vernon's site: https://www.markvernon.com/---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Hermitix Discord - / discord Support Hermitix:Hermitix Subscription - https://hermitix.net/subscribe/ Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.payp...
Jul 02, 2025•59 min
