Nathaniel Gillis is a religious demonologist and author. After living in a haunted house, He spent 20 years researching what it was he encountered. He is the founder of Preternatural Epiphenomenal Philosophy and he has sought to redefine the nature of haunting phenomena, ghosts and high strangeness. Nathaniel poses the question if the abduction phenomenon is in fact a part of the OBE and NDE family…then we need to re-examine many of the ancient funerary texts. He outlines how the Atrahasis epic ...
Mar 18, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 88
For episode 87 we welcome back author and healer Peter Mark Adams to discuss his new book 'The Power of the Healing Field'. Sharing remarkable cases of healing and personal transformation from his and his wife’s more than 20 years of intensive professional energy healing work as well as experiences from other gifted healers, psychics, and shamans, Peter illustrates the role of transpersonal fields of consciousness in healing a range of issues--from inherited family and ancestral problems to past...
Feb 25, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 87
L. A. Marzulli is an author, lecturer, and filmmaker. He has penned twelve books including The Nephilim Trilogy which made the CBA best sellers list. His book series On the Trail of the Nephilim vols I & II reveal startling evidence of a massive cover-up of what he believes to be the remains of the Nephilim, the giants mentioned in the Bible. L. A. teamed up with film producer Richard Shaw to create The Watchers series which grew to an eleven-episode catalogue. One of those instalments, Watc...
Feb 18, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 86
For episode #84 we are joined by Dr Megan Rose to discuss her new book ‘Spirit Marriage'. Megan Rose, Ph.D., has a doctorate in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and a master’s degree in Religion in Society from the Graduate Theological Union. She is an initiated ceremonial magician, a Shakta Tantric practitioner, and a senior seer in the House of Brigh Faery Seership Institute. She serves as an ordained interfaith minister and psycho-spiritual counselor, and...
Feb 11, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 85
For episode number 84 we welcome the fascinating and erudite Sasha Ravitch! Sasha is an astrologer, practitioner of folkloric witchcraft, and a (psycho)spiritual counselor. In the this episode we talk about Sasha’s work at the intersection of astrology and folklore witchcraft and how she has noted the prevalence of repeating astrological patterns in relation to spirit and non-human issues and relationships. We also discuss the frequently, generational origin of these issues and to that end, Sash...
Feb 04, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 84
For episode #83 we welcome Gabriel McCaughry to the Spirit Box. Gabriel is an author, a magical practitioner and the founder of Anathema Publishing. In the show we get into Gabriel’s background, and the interesting crooked path that led him to found Anathema Publishing. We discuss Pillars periodical and its recently released volume, A Wayfarer’s Hearth , of which I am a proud contributor. This is a collection of stories of holy pilgrimages, transformative journeys and revelatory voyages. "A Wayf...
Jan 28, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 83
For episode #82 we welcome Dr Mark Fitzpatrick. He is a teacher, writer, and independent scholar, specialising in the Weird and the Wonderful. He has a PhD in Literature from the Université de Paris – Sorbonne Nouvelle, and is currently an invited lecturer in several Paris universities. Originally from Cork, he spent twenty years in Paris, living in garrets and trying to get his novels published. When this proved to no avail, he began publishing his work online on his website thehollowbehindtheh...
Jan 21, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 82
Today we will be exploring the work of explorer Kira Salak and her experiences in Libya regarding the ‘The Fortress of the Jinn' or Kaf Ajnoun. Kaf Ajnoun is a jagged ridge with several peaks, the largest being The Qala'a (castle), along the Libya/Algeria border near the town of Ghat by the Akakus Massif. As it is in the Sahara, the native peoples are the nomads of the Tuareg and Tibu tribes. Looking like a haunted citadel crowned with a magical fortress-like summit, the mountain was thus assume...
Jan 14, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 81
For episode 80 it is an honour and privilege to be joined by BAFTA award winning writer, Geoff Thompson. He is a highly regarded martial artist. He has a 7th Degree Black belt in Shotokan Karate along with a 1st Degree Black Belt in Judo. He worked as a night-club doorman for about 10 years in various clubs. He became a doorman to face and overcome his fear of violent confrontation. He has written fifty books, several multi-award-winning films, three stage plays and hundreds of articles, many pu...
Jan 06, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 80
For episode #79 it is my great pleasure to welcome the author, visionary CEO and shaman (although he denies it) someone I’m very proud to call a friend; the Reverend Danny Nemu. Danny’s background is in the history and philosophy of medicine from the University of Manchester. He first encountered ayahuasca when living in Japan. After six years drinking there with a Santo Daime group, he followed the trail back to its source in the Brazilian Amazon, where he was bitten by a sandfly, leading to a ...
Dec 17, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 79
For episode 78 we are joined once again by the great Aidan Wachter for a Spirit Box exclusive! This is his first interview on his new book, ‘ Changeling: A book of Qualities ’! "Changeling considers the craft as a vessel, a container for ideas and approaches that help clarify the path to sovereignty and effective practical magic. It looks at the qualities and practices that when integrated into a life can lead to a more beneficial understanding of self and the world. Changeling helps us to deftl...
Dec 10, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 78
For episode #77 we are joined by Peter Mark Adams, Peter is a Scarlet Imprint, Inner Traditions & Corbel Stone Press author, poet, and essayist specialising in ethnographies of spirit, sacred landscapes, esotericism, consciousness, and healing. Peter has a background in Philosophy and has undertaken advanced studies with the Warburg Institute, London. He is an Associate Member of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE) and a Member of the British Wittgenstein Societ...
Dec 03, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 77
Verónica Rivas (Melong Yeshe) is an Uruguayan author and researcher based in Brazil. Her cosmological and anthropological studies in magical practices among Eastern cultures led her to become interested in healing techniques. When she became a Reiki Master, she started to research the possibilities of integrating Reiki techniques with other forms of energy work, using her academic training in Philosophy as an epistemological background. Verónica is also an initiated practitioner of Vajrayana Bud...
Nov 24, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 76
What do a Karst landscape, the Kentucky anomaly, a meat shower, and a mysterious cult have in common? They are linked by the strange and unexplained activity originating from the Pennyroyal Plateau, Kentucky and the subject matter of the superb Penny Royal Podcast. Today we are joined by the creator and host Nathan Isaac as he takes us through the remarkable story he and his colleague uncovered as they created the show. In the Plus show the Spook element in the area and what's coming up in Seaso...
Oct 22, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 75
For episode 74 we are joined by Tommie Kelly and Spud Murphy, the hosts of the “ Tommie and Spud Talk About ” podcast amongst many other things. In a very lighthearted show, we discuss, finding the divine in nature, and realities of foraging or growing your own food. We chat about folklore surrounding bloodletting on St Martin’s day, and the use of blood in magick. In the Plus show we get into personal relationships with deities, concepts of the afterlife and we talk about vegetables a bit more....
Oct 15, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 74Ep. 1
For episode 73 we’re joined by Wren Collier . Wren is a ritual magician and an avid scholar of the paranormal, having been obsessed from an early age with the anomalous and the occult. He is a skilled creator and maker, crafting beautiful magickal tools. He is also a keen gardener and mushroom cultivator and has created an online calculator utilizing the New Aeon English Qabalah. We talk creativity and magick and finding animism in one's garden and Wren’s remarkable Astral travel experiences and...
Sep 24, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Dr Maria Vivod is an Ethnologist and anthropologist from Serbia, with an interest in Visual Anthropology. Today we discuss the subject of one of her short documentary films and accompanying paper “The Fairy Seers of Eastern Serbia” The fairy-seers of Southeastern Europe are usually women who fall into trance through dancing on special days in a year and are able to communicate with women-like creatures from the supernatural world. During the process of communication with the fairies the fairy-se...
Sep 17, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 72
For episode 71 we welcome Jason Miller. He has written five books including the now classic Protection and Reversal Magick and he teaches a number of courses online including the Strategic Sorcery Training Course , The Black School of St Cyprian , and The Sorcery of Hekate . In his 20’s he was initiated into a Coven that worked Witchcraft along the lines of Mastering Witchcraft, joined the Ordo Templi Orientis, and the Chthonic Auranian Temple. In his mid 20’s he took his first Tantric initiatio...
Sep 09, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 71
For episode 70 we are joined by martial artist, researcher and mystic Michelle DeVrieze discussing her research paper into the hidden predator behind the missing 411 phenomena and its relationship with archetypes and initiation. Are we dealing with a self-serving, predatory race using an advanced form of psychological warfare that’s terraforming our reality through the human mind? Or is this predatory intelligence an aspect of some elaborate alchemical process, which, on a macro scale, maintains...
Sep 03, 2021•1 hr 44 min•Season 1Ep. 70
For episode 69 we welcome EFT practitioner, Reiki healer and Tarot reader, Hand of Nikara to the Spirit Box. In this episode, she shares her experience with Ayahuasca and what she has learned over the years as a result of the trauma she went through during her 2014 Ayahuasca ceremony. Her journey through the world of ceremonial magick has shown her the necessity of learning how to protect one's own energy, especially when it comes to plant medicines of this kind. In the Plus show our guest descr...
Aug 22, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 69
A few weeks back I was talking about the Puck Fair in Killorglin, Co Kerry, in the southwest of Ireland. For those of you not familiar with the fair, essentially is a Lughnasadh adjacent festival where a wild billy goat is caught on the mountainside the goat is brought back to the town, and the Queen of Puck, traditionally a schoolgirl from one of the local primary schools crowns him King Puck. They are then paraded around the town looking down on their subjects from a kind of mobile tower that ...
Aug 14, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 68
For episode 67 it is my great pleasure to welcome author Peter Grey. Peter is also the co-founder of iconic occult publishers Scarlet Imprint and joins us today to discuss his new book ‘ The Two Antichrists ’. “The Two Antichrists is a monograph by Peter Grey on the figure of Antichrist in a post-Christian and progressive Thelemic context. Opening with considerations on the future of witchcraft and its relation to radical ecology, Grey returns to the Babalon Working of Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hu...
Jul 30, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 67
For episode #66 we are joined by Jake Kobrin . Jake is a visionary artist and tattooist he is also the founder and designer of a jewelry and fashion brand called Medicine Dragon Designs, and is a DJ and musician, as well as a published writer, speaker, and podcaster. Jake’s work is psychedelic, unusual, dark, beautiful, and elegant. His work seeks to illuminate experiences which Jake has had that are outside of the realm of normal waking consciousness, moving into numinous and visionary realms w...
Jul 23, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 66
For episode #65 we are joined by author and esoteric researcher, Anthony Tyler. We discuss the dualistic nature of good and evil and how definitions fade from different perspectives. We discuss Jungian archetypes with regards to evil and whether evil is subjective or objective. Diving deeper we discuss what it is that ‘evil’ entities get from attacking human beings and the nature of possession. In the Plus show, we discuss perception of the relationship between environmental pressures and religi...
Jul 15, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 65
To give you an idea of what the podcast Patreon is like I've compiled this show from some of last years bonus content from the community. Yes, I'm on the hard sell... The 'Man in black' is a figure that has come up a few times in the podcast not least as an adversary in the guise of 'Old Nick' or in a more modern context the MIB phenomenon. In this bonus show, I'll talk about how this figure is represented in both Irish folklore and in Irish mythology as the 'Fear Dubh Dorcha'. The stories I hav...
Jul 13, 2021•49 min
For episode #64 we are joined by occultist, poet and writer Celeste Mott . Born in England and raised in Australia, Celeste has made New Orleans her home. She was gifted her first tarot deck in the 90s, and at age 13 she began seriously studying the cards, along with every book about spiritualism, magick, and the occult she could get her hands on. Her personal studies and practices led her to earn an B.A. in Philosophy & Comparative Religion, with a special focus on New Religious Movements a...
Jul 02, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 64
For episode #63 we are joined by clinical hypnotherapist and abduction researcher Laurie McDonald. Laurie is a graduate of the Dale Carnegie Effective Speaking and Human Relations courses, is a member of the Sacramento Institute of Noetic Sciences and is on the mental health referral list for organizations such as Passages of Malibu addiction center, MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) and is the president of OPUS (Organization for Paranormal Understanding and Support). As a lifelong experiencer Laurie g...
Jun 24, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 63
For episode 62 we welcome back author, magican and talismanic jeweller, Aidan Wachter . We discuss he last book Weaving Fate and Aidan’s writing process, including the importance of flow and how his work is made up of broken pieces which makes sense at a later point. We talk magic as a tool for altering future probabilities and ones past through ritual and manipulation of the mind and the world. Magic and sorcery are ways of being in the world and Aidan's writing offers us his way without condit...
Jun 18, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 62
For episode 61 we welcome back to the Spirit Box the fabulous Mademoiselle Vendredi. Mme Vendredi is a black magician who in her previous appearance on the show took us through her work with Sigils, Servitors and her own brand of seduction magick. Today she’ll be taking us through her journey working with spirits from Santa Muerte, St Expedite to the Demons of the Goetia and beyond. We also go over her servitor work and discuss her upcoming course in Servitor creation. In the show MME Vendredi d...
Jun 04, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 61
For episode 60 we are joined by the charming Douglas Batchelor , a Magician and host of the wonderful ‘ What Magic is This? ’ podcast. I hugely enjoyed this show, it was great to chat with Douglas and we really got into his journey into magick and what it has meant to him. We also dug into how the show came about and what the driving goal behind the it is about and the contribution Douglas’s ancestors have made to the direction of the podcast. We discuss the healing and self development aspects ...
May 14, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 60
