Alley Faint Wurds https://linktr.ee/elephantwords , author of GPT-3 TECHGNOSIS; A CHAOS MAGICK BUTOH GRIMOIRE, and Sub/Urban Body Butoh Fu: A CYOA Chaos Magick Grimoire and Oracle and more joins Luxa for a conversation about their many interesting projects related to using artificial intelligence and butoh in an occult context. Topics include 8D chess, rituals generated and performed by computers and much more! There is also a special episode within the episode featuring Taylor Ellwood https://w...
Jun 16, 2022•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 46
Dave Neal returns to join Luxa for conversation about power, social change, conformity, and control viewed through the lens of Sociology. It’s meta-context galore! But wait, there’s more: Shane Thomas stops in for an episode within the episode about implementing one’s personal code of ethics which includes a side of pokemancy. Also for your enjoyment are salty poetry snacks including an ode to the void written by Joy https://www.instagram.com/occulture_jammer/ . There are also updates about The ...
May 23, 2022•2 hr 32 min•Ep. 45
This The Green Mushroom project guided meditation was written by Green Mushroom Council members Shane Thomas, who blogs about discovering and learning magic at https://buildingthephilosophersstone.wordpress.com with help from Joy the Sporeceress https://www.instagram.com/occulture_jammer/ and Luxa Strata https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata . It is read by EK Menw, host of The Woodlands Show https://www.intothewoodlands.net/ and features music composed and performed by Kue Varo https://kuevaro.bandcamp....
May 07, 2022•36 min
This special bonus episode features an introduction by Luxa and a new The Green Mushroom guided meditation written by Green Mushroom Council members Shane Thomas, who blogs about discovering and learning magic at https://buildingthephilosophersstone.wordpress.com with help from Joy the Sporeceress https://www.instagram.com/occulture_jammer/ and Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata . It is read by EK Menw, host of The Woodlands Show https://www.intothewoodlands.net/ and features music composed and p...
May 07, 2022•46 min
This guided meditation written by Green Mushroom Council members Shane Thomas, who blogs about discovering and learning magic at https://buildingthephilosophersstone.wordpress.com with help from Joy the Sporeceress https://www.instagram.com/occulture_jammer/ and Luxa Strata https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata . It is read by EK Menw, host of The Woodlands Show https://www.intothewoodlands.net/ and features music composed and performed by Kue Varo https://kuevaro.bandcamp.com/ as well as Adam Matlock ak...
May 07, 2022•36 min
Esoteric Eddie, author of The Lucifer Mystery Revealed , joins Luxa to talk about the history of the name of the Lightbringer as well as how it might have ended up in the bible, and how the context surrounding its conceptualization has shifted over time. Rachael from Fourth Dimension Fitness stops by for an episode within the episode to talk about how she’s incorporating her work with Chaos Magick and The Green Mushroom project into her fitness practice. Also discussed is Robert Nozick’s “Experi...
Apr 30, 2022•2 hr 17 min•Ep. 44
For this second in an ongoing series about working with The Green Mushroom Hyphosigil project, Luxa is joined by Flood from Ex V Planis, Yaramarud from Faith Blind Council and Administrism, Miguel, The Rabbit, Josh (aka Junior C), and Shane for a lively panel discussion about working with the Green Mushroom Astral Temple. There is also a very special episode within the episode ft. author, magicacin and all-purpose badass Aidan Wachter to talk about working with the project as well as his new boo...
Apr 01, 2022•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 43
Writer, occultist and all-purpose badass, Aidan Wachter https://www.aidanwachter.com/ , joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata once again for a conversation about his new book, Changeling, and much more. He offers some great insight and perspectives about being a magically operant person in our modern context, as well as some helpful advice about doing the difficult Work. There is also an update about what The Green Mushroom project has coming down the line and some lunar lyric for the full moo...
Mar 19, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Artist, theoretical occultist and creator of various oracular devices, Eric J. Millar, joins Luxa for a conversation about pop magick, creating divination tools, his monthly offering, No Gods But My Own, and much more. This episode also features a discussion about divination, a reading using one of Eric’s creations, the Tethered Elements dice oracle, as well as with Luxa’s newly built Magic the Gathering divination deck. Also featured is a track produced by Luxa as part of a divination experimen...
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 41
Join Luxa for a special Valentine’s Day / Lupercalia episode featuring Joel of Dream Mirror, who returns to talk more feedback worship and reflect on his year-long video ritual project, Desires in Motion, as well as sharing thoughts about alchemy in music and making a commitment to prioritize your practice in a sustainable way for your own lifestyle. Also featured is poetry by E.A. Toles (and a smattering of other literary treats), a dubiously-sourced discussion on the magical uses of the Tomato...
Feb 14, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 40
Join Luxa for a fantastic conversation with Stevie about how they’ve incorporated ideas from Spoon Theory into their practice. We also talk about Thaumaturgy, Theurgy and Miracles, as well as Stevie’s upcoming foot interest zine. Luxa shares some thoughts about deity work, as well as some automatic writing and a sample from the new sound and sex magick project which is yet to be released. Much Love! Thank you for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show by helping L...
Feb 02, 2022•1 hr 32 min
For this first in an ongoing series about working with The Green Mushroom Hyphosigil, Luxa is joined by Dave Ardery from Unearthing Paranormalcy, Yaramarud from Faith Blind Council and Administrism, Joy the Sporeceress, The Rabbit, Josh aka, Junior C, and Menw https://twitter.com/occultboyscout . In this introductory episode, we talk about the creation of the project, how we began working with it and how others might get involved. There is a lot of great practical advice about everything from me...
Jan 14, 2022•1 hr 28 min
Join Luxa for a very dope conversation with Adam Matlock aka An Historic https://adammatlock.bandcamp.com/ about Audio Sigils, Teaching, Process vs. Product, the magical usefulness of Gullibility, and much more! There is also a discussion about The Green Mushroom project and the Saprotroph Servitors as well as Adam’s Hypersigil Cassette Tapes. This episode includes some of Luxa’s philosophical musings on the topic of Art, Magick and Identity as well as original (and sometimes fungus themed) musi...
Jan 07, 2022•2 hr 22 min•Ep. 37
Join Luxa as she speaks once more with Cliff of Enochian Today https://enochiantoday.wordpress.com about his experience doing the Gebafol Ritual, his new Angelic Astrology services and the Zodiacal Holy Table and Lamen he’s created. Also discussed are several areas where spirituality and mathematics intersect, Enochian Magick being a prime example. Is math really “real”? Find out, once and for all, in this episode! There is an also update about the many cool things happening with The Green Mushr...
Dec 22, 2021•2 hr 34 min•Ep. 36
Join Luxa as she speaks with Matt from Spear of Fire Tarot https://linktr.ee/SpearofFire about his journey into the esoteric and finding depth in his tarot practice. He sheds some light and shares some insight about the archetypes represented by the Devil and Magician cards, and also puts on a demonstration by reading for Luxa using a tarot spread of his own devising! Luxa shares a sigilized poem, some thoughts about magical tools and the history of the tarot, as well as an experience she had wo...
Nov 15, 2021•2 hr 8 min•Ep. 34
Join Luxa as she speaks with Amy Ardrey from the Unearthing Paranormalcy Podcast https://www.unpnormalcy.com/ for this very special Halloween edition of Lux Occult. Amy shares about her experiences as a Medium and hanging out in graveyards, as well as offering some advice about how one might become more in touch with their Spirit Guides and Ancestors. There is also some talk of Sexy Cryptids and other seasonally-appropriate shenanigans! Also touched on is the holiday, Dia de los Muertos, and a m...
Oct 30, 2021•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 33
Join Luxa as she speaks with Lonnie Scott, who is the host of Weird Web Radio Weirdwebradio.com (as well as wearing many other hats) about Chaos Heathenry, Honoring the Ancestors, Hypnosis and so much more. Also discussed is the hypnosis experiment in the series, Hellier, as well as the problems with time traveling, and the word “folkish.” There’s also a story from Mayan mythology about two brothers, and two trees, as well as a sound magick track about zero and infinity and an update about the o...
Oct 21, 2021•1 hr 45 min
Join Luxa for a very fun start to season 2 as she is joined by Frater Drednought from the Faith Blind Council Podcast https://www.faithblindpodcast.com/ to talk about Magick, Games, and Hypersigils. How can we use tabletop RPGs and video games for magical purposes, and what elements of these games might we employ in our everyday lives towards magical means? What can we learn from the characters we chose to play, and how is gaming in a magical context different than in a non-magical one? Topics c...
Sep 29, 2021•2 hr 41 min•Ep. 31
Join Luxa for this special one-year anniversary edition of the show as she speaks with her brother, Asher (host of Ad Hoc History), in a conversation about dreams and how they can be useful to us in our waking lives and our magical practices. Asher shares his experiences as a prolific dreamer and the pair talk about Jungian dream analysis. Also making an appearance are Decartes and Ramanujan. What is the purpose of dreaming? How have people’s dreams played an important part in the events of hist...
Sep 07, 2021•2 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Note: This version contains an introduction and discussion of the exercise. A version with just the meditation will also be available for convenience. This meditation was written by The Green Mushroom Council member S Shane Thomas with Narration by Dave Ardrey, Amy Ardrey & Chad, and Production and Sound Design by Luxa Strata. S Shane Thomas blogs about discovering and learning magic at https://buildingthephilosophersstone.wordpress.com . This meditation is intended to guide you through the ...
Aug 27, 2021•1 hr 16 min
Note: This version does not contain the introduction and discussion of the exercise. A version with the introduction as well as the meditation will also be available for convenience. This meditation was written by The Green Mushroom Council member S Shane Thomas with Narration by Dave Ardrey, Amy Ardrey & Chad, and Production and Sound Design by Luxa Strata. S Shane Thomas blogs about discovering and learning magic at https://buildingthephilosophersstone.wordpress.com . This meditation is in...
Aug 27, 2021•33 min
Join Luxa as she speaks again with Aidan Wachter, magician, podcaster, talismanic jeweler, and author or Weaving Fate and Six Ways about how changing the way we think about the term “Visualization” as well as how we frame the practice of Imagination Magick can make it much more accessible. There’s also a ton of other great, practical advice about framing our approach to the practice of magick, and life, in general, as well as some commentary on fine cinema. There’s an update about a Sound Sigil ...
Aug 09, 2021•2 hr 6 min•Ep. 29
Join Luxa as she speaks with Matt Marble, an artist, writer, and audio producer whose music and visual art are informed by symbolic geometry, divination methods, and ongoing dreamwork practice, about his work and his approach to creating. Matt is also the host of the Secret Sound podcast and the author of Buddhist Bubblegum, an upcoming book about Arthur Russell, which will be available Winter 2021. Also featuring music from Matt Marble, alchemists with fun names, an update about The Green Mushr...
Jul 23, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 28
This instrumental meditation track is intended to be used for doing work with The Green Mushroom Hyphosigil Project, particularly work with the Astral Temple. It can, of course, be used however you see fit. The track ends with a composition for The Green Mushroom project by Kue Varo. Three versions of different lengths will be released to suit people’s current needs. Much Love. Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show consider giving on Patreon...
Jul 16, 2021•55 min
Join Luxa as she speaks with Dr. Rob C. Thompson of Occult Confessions and The Dark Pool podcasts about conspiracist ideation and the roots of the “Occult Conspiracy” narrative. Learn the ingredients in a “Conspiracy Burger” as well as how to vaccinate yourself against hoaxes and faulty logic. Also, a classic prank, new music from Matt Marble, poetry from Frater Yaramarud, an update on The Green Mushroom Project, and much more! Full Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSqhNLK...
Jul 09, 2021•1 hr 57 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Join Luxa as she speaks with Dave Neal, Writer, Theater Director and Trauma Specialist, about how Metacognition can help us better contextualize our experiences and responses, how Trauma affects the brain, and how the concept of Neuroplasticity tells us that it is possible to heal from the hardship of past events. Also featuring Dave’s Erisian poetry, an update on The Green Mushroom Project, and much more! Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the sh...
Jun 24, 2021•1 hr 51 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Join Luxa for a short introduction and a sound magick track. It’s a sort of sonic offering to Hekate, a Deipnon, or feast, which was traditionally given to her during the dark moon. The track includes a shoal of sigils and some cut up poetry, as well as audio from several related operations I ran as part of its creation. The beat is symbolic of Hekate leading the spirits of the unavenged and wrongfully killed up from Hades, which the Ancient Athenians thought happened during the liminal time bet...
Jun 10, 2021•11 min
Join Luxa as she speaks with Elise Oursa, card reader, craniosacral therapist, practicing witch and creator of The Blood & Ink Tarot , which came to her in a whirlwind of a weekend! Elise shares about her experience creating the deck, as well as sharing some insights about cartomancy and using the Tarot. This episode also features an in-depth look at The Star Card (XVII), a nod to Hekate and the first in an ongoing talk series about The Green Mushroom Project Astral Temple Experiments. There...
Jun 04, 2021•1 hr 53 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Join Luxa for this special bonus episode as she makes a big announcement and speaks with her collaborators! Thank you so much for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instag...
May 26, 2021•1 hr 32 min
Join Luxa as she speaks with artist, occultist, curator and activist Izdiahd Afyouni about her path to Chaos Magick, maintaining balance with a divination practice, the importance of being cognizant of the sociopolitical parameters of the spiritual practices in which we engage, and much more! Luxa provides some context from Liber Null and Psychonaut about two “different” ways of looking at Kia or Life Force (or Whatever) as well as some thoughts about Authority and Communication. Show Notes: htt...
May 21, 2021•1 hr 41 min•Season 1Ep. 24
