In October's solo show, we discuss the eruption of the witch into so-called 'popular culture', with a particular emphasis on the reboot of Charmed , The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and American Horror Story: Apocalypse . And, for once, there aren't spoilers! Show Notes The Witchy Beauty Trend's Ancient, Sexist Roots ....
It is once again time for our annual catch up with Alkistis and Peter of Scarlet Imprint! I always look forward to these discussions as -for one- I learn so much and -for two- it gives me those warm, 'find the others' feels. This week's episode has all of that in spades. We talk angels, landscape, tarot, books and, inevitably, witchcraft and the wider culture. Enjoy! Show Notes Scarlet Imprint Alkistis Dimech Scarlet Imprint on Twitter Alkistis on Twitter Scarlet Imprint on Instagram Alkistis on...
This week, we welcome to the show physicist, light therapist, researcher and author of Light Therapies: A Complete Guide to the Healing Power of Light , Anadi Martel. Now, if you've read Pieces of Eight , or if you've seen some of the premium member bonus material, you'll know I've long been fascinated by what we stupidly still call 'alternative medicine' rather than the more clunky if not much more accurate 'modes of living and healing that do not emerge from a dysfunctional belief system'. And...
This week we speak with artist, teacher and maker, Daniel Mack . Daniel is also the chairman of the Seligmann Center Committee in upstate New York and joins us to talk about the life and work of the surrealist painter, Kurt Seligmann -in particular his book, The Mirror of Magic , first published in the late forties. In this wide ranging discussion, we talk art, irrationality, the impact of the Unconscious on the flow of history, early experiments in creative homesteading and the remarkable Selig...
This week we welcome back to the show one of the most popular returning guests, Jenx. As you might expect, he's back in your ears talking us through Thai Occultism, to coincide with his recently released tour de force, The Thai Occult . Along the way, we cover land spirits, uses for specific ghosts, the universality of candle magic and the many nuances of love charms. Show Notes The Thai Occult. The Thai Occult Books on Facebook....
This week, we welcome back to the show author and researcher, Joshua Cutchin. Josh's last three books -including his most recent, Thieves in the Night , explore under-examined categories of evidence for the range of phenomena uneasily labelled 'paranormal'. Who better, then, to pick over Skinwalkers, abductions and the thorny issue of what constitutes evidence in the first place? Show Notes Josh's website . Josh's recent post on evidence and skepticism . Thieves In The Night: A Brief History of ...
This week, we welcome hereditary witch, tarot creator and new Huon Valley neighbour, Avalon Cameron, onto the actual farm for a face to face chat. Our wide-ranging discussion explores growing up both weird and Brazilian in regional Australia, the goods and the bads of living off-grid and what to do with over 3,000 tarot decks when downsizing into a tiny house. Very good times! Show Notes So Below : Melbourne astrological magic event Avalon's website and blog Avalon on Patreon Avalon on Instagram...
This week, Dr Becca Tarnas returns to the show to discuss two of my very favourite things: Imaginal Journeying -including some really useful practical advice on Active Imagination- and The Lord of the Rings . Why it was written, how it was written, and what even am Middle Earth. Extremely good times. Enjoy! Show Notes Dr Tarnas's new course, Journey to the Imaginal Realm: Reading J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings . Website of Dr Becca Tarnas . Becca Tarnas on Twitter ....
This week, in an ever so slightly delayed show, we have an ever so slightly brilliant guest, Dr Amba J Sepie. I first encountered Dr Sepie's work in Damned Facts , which is a Charles-Fort inspired collection of essays by academics who are exploring or confronting the broadly Fortean, edited by another previous guest, Dr Jack Hunter. We talk about navigating the academy's shortcomings, better ways of thinking with the broadly paranormal and participating in indigenous modes in a non-appropriative...
Two solo shows in a row? Why, yes. This is technically the September one if you don't look at a calendar. But it is also a wild ramble through the politics, poetics and metaphysics of walking in public and private spaces. Dedicated with big love to the premium members who are officially embarking on the Q3 Course: Magical Geography and Spirits of Place . Show Notes Skewing the Picture - China Miéville...
The August solo show! In the lead-up to the Q3 premium member course on Magical Geography, this month we explore the notion of near and far places, cold places, and imaginal places. Colonial ghosts, Antarctica and Ursula Le Guin ahead. Enjoy.
This week we welcome to the show permaculture designer and theorist, Dan Palmer. Dan is the host of the podcast, Making Permaculture Stronger , where he facilitates fascinating discussions on what's right and what's wrong with permaculture and where it might be headed next. And the tl;dr is that what's wrong with permaculture is, in the main, what's wrong with everything else. So we have a great discussion on the theory of design in general, the shortcomings of western categorisations and their ...
This week, we speak to James Sullivan. James is a fellow podcaster and -more importantly- a fellow fan of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series. So these books form the through-line for a wide ranging discussion on the state of modern philosophy, theories of mind, the role of fantasy fiction and what might be called subversive, anarcho-pacifist self-transformation. Great stuff. Show Notes James the Giant Podcast James on Twitter James on Facebook...
This week, we are speaking with Kenric McDowell. Kenric is a musician, public speaker, and AI curator for Google Research. We discuss AI, inevitably, but not from either a lurid 'the world is ending' way or from a 'techno-utopian jibber jabber' way. Instead we look at what the implications of AI are for personhood, a theory of technology and its appropriateness, and whether we're teaching AI to think or AI is teaching us to. Very, very good times. Show Notes Kenric's website Kenric on Twitter Go...
As promised, and just in time, here's the July solo show. It was gonna be too annoying to have dropped a week for mere illness after 136 episodes delivered rain, hail, or shine in five countries, on boats, in hotel rooms, and so on. So! The broken run has been mended with a Mars Retrograde ghost story. Enjoy.
This week, we welcome the one and only Richard Dolan to the show. As you're very likely aware, Richard is the author and publisher of many books in the UFO field, as well as a radio host, trained historian and gifted public speaker. We actually met out in the central Australian desert in May of this year and had the opportunity to chat about what's right and what's wrong with the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH). For those of you who are unaware, ETH is the model for UFO phenomena that asserts ...
Another solo show this week, inspired in part by Douglas Rushkoff's recent article on the grimness of the billionaire future . We play around with notions of technology and personhood and agency and morality and AI. Also hobbits. Enjoy.
This week, we welcome back to the show my good friend, Conner Habib. Writer, sex worker, activist, Anthroposophist and host of Against Everyone with Conner Habib . And the topics under discussion are how desire destroys materialism and what a cosmic or fully haunted activism might look like. Show Notes Against Everyone with Conner Habib . AEWCH Episode exploring how desire destroys materialism . Conner on Twitter ....
This week we have one of my favourite discussions of the entire year. Joining us is Dr Diana Walsh Pasulka. Diana is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. She is a specialist in Catholic history with a particular emphasis on the saints. Her current research sits in that really compelling intersection between psi, UFOs, technology and religion. We talk saintly powers, Marian apparitions, UFOs, Vatic...
In honour of a very special anniversary and in light of a new biographical series, Paul Weston returns to the show to regale us with his strange angelic blend of history, synchromystic analysis and personal adventure. Rockets, redheads, dianetics, Beat poets and the Babalon Working. It's all in this week's episode. Show Notes Paul's website and blog Paul's Babalon Working presentation...
This week sees the return of one of the show's most popular and only recurring episodes, our half-yearly catch-up with Austin Coppock. Yes, we are halfway through 2018 but is the dumpster halfway through burning or is it just about to hit some highly flammable medical waste? Let's find out. SHOW NOTES Austin's website. Austin's latest book, The Celestial Art . Austin on Twitter . Austin on Facebook ....
This week we welcome to the show Sinéad Spearing. Sinéad is the author of the recently released Old English Medical Remedies . She joins us to talk about extracting ravens' eyes, the myriad uses of gall, hag attacks, the Nine Herbs Charm and many more of our favourite things. Great stuff. Show Notes Old English Medical Remedies . ( US .) ( UK .) Sinéad's website . Sinéad on Twitter ....
This week, Gary Lachman returns to the show to discuss his two latest books, Lost Knowledge of the Imagination and Dark Star Rising . In this wide-ranging chat we cover the Socratic Turn, how the west abandoned the imagination, how we might recover it and what happens in world politics if we pretend it isn't there. Very good stuff. Show Notes Lost Knowledge of the Imagination Dark Star Rising Gary's website Gary on Twitter Gary on Facebook...
This week it is my extra special pleasure to be speaking with one of the co-originators of permaculture itself, David Holmgren. David is an author, educator, designer, activist and permaculturalist (obviously) with many decades experience. He joins us today to talk about his fantastic new project and accompanying book, Retrosuburbia, the details for which you will find in the show notes. Extremely good times. Show Notes Retrosuburbia website . Buy the Book: US , UK , AU Retrosuburbia on Facebook...
This month's solo show is my impressions and observations from spending last week out in the desert with a group of amazing people. It covers Aboriginal star lore, Songlines, the Dreaming and how we can think with and derive inspiration from indigenous lifeways. There are a bunch of photos from the trip on the post page at runesoup.com. Enjoy! Show Notes Photo Gallery of APY Lands The Tale of the Seven Sisters...
This week, Dr Jack Hunter makes his return to the show. Jack is the author and/or editor of Talking With The Spirits , Strange Dimensions , Why People Believe in Spirits, Gods and Magic, Damned Facts and the recently published Engaging The Anomalous . He joins us for a fascinating chat about spirits, anthropology, ecology, animism, the limits of our modern frames in coming to terms with all these notions and a surprising detour into the state of permaculture. Enjoy. Show Notes Jack's latest book...
Something of a special episode this week. Julio Ody returns to the show for a vigorous discussion of the best depictions of spirits and the spirit world from a practitioner perspective on film and television. We spent the past week throwing titles back and forth to each other, compiling the list, striking some names and adding others. I had to break out my old DVD collection from storage and then find some way to actually play them. (There is at least one good thing about the modern world: the d...
This week we welcome Jason Louv to the show. Jason is an occultist, author and journalist. He joins us today to talk about his latest book, John Dee and the Empire of Angels . Along the way we cover the prevalence of magic in Elizabethan England, the influence of Enochian on the story of western ritual magic and the role of the extradimensional in world politics. Great stuff. Show Notes John Dee and the Empire of Angels Jason's website Jason on Twitter Magick.me...
Another solo show this week, and -fair warning- an intense one. But we need to talk about antiwar strategies as the war cycle continues its uptrend. Open up those liquor cabinets.
Dr Dean Radin joins us once again this week to talk about a topic near and dear to all our hearts, which also happens to be the title of his latest book: Real Magic . We cover NDE evidence, how one might conduct experiments to demonstrate the reality of spirits, strengths and shortcomings of scientific epistemology, tea, chocolate and goats. Great stuff. Do yourself a favour and check out the book. Show Notes Real Magic ( US ) ( UK ) ( Au ) Dr Radin's website Dr Radin on Twitter...
