Today we welcome back to the Spirit Box the wonderful 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 the reality of Djinn work, Abramelin square magick and working with the The Forbidden Grimoire of Harut and Marut Book by Egyptian Sorcerer Al-Toukh. We will also go through a recent encounter with what Mme Vendredi believes was a dji...
Jul 20, 2023•56 min•Season 2Ep. 17
oday we welcome Michael Le Flem to discuss his book V isions of Atlantis: Reclaiming our Lost Ancient Legacy. Michael Le Flem, M.A. is a researcher, adjunct professor of history and philosophy, columnist for New Dawn Magazine, a scuba diver and guitarist. He grew up in South Florida, and attended Florida State University, where he studied Western intellectual history and U.S. foreign policy. People the world over have grappled with the story of Atlantis for millennia. How much is fact? How much ...
Jun 25, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Today we welcome Gordon MacLellan to the Spirit Box to discuss his book Sacred Animals He is a writer, storyteller, animist pagan and environmentalist who has recognised that to really involve people with a renewed interest in, and commitment to, the world around us we may need more than traditional stories or religious parables and moral fables. The stories that grow from direct experience are powerful ways of building connections, building a sense of belonging and when we pare away the green-w...
Jun 10, 2023•59 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Today we welcome back the great Joshua Cutchin to discuss his masterwork of scholarship and research, Ecology of Souls This is a comprehensive dive into the overlaps between a huge range of mythological, paranormal and consciousness phenomena. We live our entire lives knowing that death awaits us. The hopeful believe—they insist—that some part of us endures after we make our final transition. Their convictions are corroborated by eyewitnesses who swear to have seen spirits of the dead haunting t...
May 26, 2023•54 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Today we welcome back the great Phil Hine on his new book Queerying Occultures. What is Queerying Occultures? 'Queerying' is a portmanteau word from 'Queer’ and 'Query'—classic Phil Hine word play. Occulture is another portmanteau word meaning 'Hidden Culture' (from ‘Occult’ and 'Culture'). The occult is Queer. Historically. Intrinsically. Radically. Wonderfully Queer. Yet at times this essential fact can feel unacknowledged in wider Occulture dialogues. Addressing this, Phil Hine’s Queerying Oc...
May 12, 2023•47 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Salicrow is a natural psychic medium who weaves the traditions of her Irish Traveler and Blackfoot heritage with modern magical techniques. For more than 30 years she has worked as a spirit channel, seer, and intuitive healer, offering readings and teaching workshops throughout the United States and internationally. She is the author of several books and today we are discussing her latest book, Spirit Speaker: A medium’s guide to Death and Dying/ In this compassionate and straightforward guide t...
Apr 29, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Today we welcome medium, occult practitioner and spiritual cleaner Andy Starkweather. Andy has been a medium for over 20 years ago and has had ‘a wild ride’. Everything from being attacked by spirits to bizarre animal interactions to cleansing properties of trapped spirits and dealing more sinister entities. Andy has a wealth of information derived from practical experience and regales us with many stories from his 20 years of work as a medium. One thing I really found useful was Andy’s view on ...
Apr 18, 2023•52 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Today we are joined by J.M. Hamade on the subject of Al- Khidr. J.M. Hamade is an interdisciplinary artist, astrologer, writer, and educator residing in New York City. Focusing on the aesthetics of esoterica and the occult, they’re work bridges contemporary artistic practice with archaic forms of knowing. They have lectured, exhibited, and enacted live performances in the conjuration of phantom forms and ritual magic. Al-Khidr is a figure described but not mentioned by name in the Quran as a rig...
Mar 20, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Today we welcome magicians and the hosts of the Soapbox podcast. Reverend Janglebones and Kurt Huggins. Reverend Janglebones is an animist practitioner, prayer writer, course facilitator, Buddhist dabbler, recovered addict, podcast host, musician, and accidental Diogenes channeler. Kurt is a New York times bestselling illustrator who has worked in comics, films, and television. A long time spelunker of the imagination and believer that all creative acts are acts of magic he does his best to stum...
Mar 09, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 9
The brilliant Sasha Ravitch is back on the Spirit Box! Sasha is a practitioner of Stellar Witchcraft, passionate Astrolater, and Devotional and Oracular Writer. She seeks out meaning, magic, patterns, connection, and intimate co-creation betwixt the Self and the Other in every golden meadow, ocean floor, and subway station available to her. Her desire to blur the line between the ensorceled forest of Elphame and the mundane road-more-traveled is a priority from the moment she wakes up, to the mo...
Feb 24, 2023•52 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Today we welcome back the one and only Peter Mark Adams! In his new book Hagia Sophia / Sanctum of Kronos, he presents a remarkable study of the esoteric beliefs and spiritual traditions contained within the architectural and decorative features of Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia . Hagia Sophia / Sanctum of Kronos tells the story of the building's hidden purpose: to conceal and preserve a sacred mystery in the face of rising Christian tyranny, right under the nose of Constantinople's Christian as...
Feb 17, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 7
For episode 6, season 2 we welcome podcast host, folklorist, researcher and Lover of all things wyrd Jo Hickey-Hall. Jo is the researcher behind The ‘ Modern Fairy Sightings ‘ Project which collects and preserves contemporary experiences and explores the resistant cultural taboo surrounding disclosure. It also provides a community for people to share their experiences with others who have experienced similar. She is also the host and creator of The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast which was launch...
Feb 10, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Today we are joined by Traditional witch and host of the Lavender Scare podcast, Keanu Baxter. Keanu takes us through their journey into witchcraft, rootwork and ancestral magick and demonstrates the need for patience and consistency in practice. We discuss their relationship with Hecate and Lucifer respectively and how these two great spirits complement each other. We get into animism and witchcraft and the nature of transformation and how igniting the witch flame affects not just our magick bu...
Feb 05, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Today we are joined by Scottish witch Lucken Hare. Lucken is a traditional witch and has a relationship with The Dark Man. In the show we go through how that came about for Lucken, what the experience was like, and how it changed him. Lucken takes us through his experiences with what he terms his ‘fetch’. This is is a form of possession during which he experiences an animal consciousness, a form of shapeshifting. It is a remarkable conversation and one I took a lot from. In the Plus show we disc...
Jan 23, 2023•59 min•Season 2Ep. 4
For episode #3 of season 2 we are joined by magician and body training expert Emmet Louis. Emmet has spent a long time meandering through various systems of Western esotericism. A chance encounter with the system of G.I Gurdjieff radically altered his life and set him on his current path, His work currently is focused on the combination of body training with an emphasis on its interaction with spirit work and energy mechanics. For the last eight years he has studied under a lineage of Daoist Mag...
Jan 11, 2023•56 min•Season 2Ep. 3
For episode # 2 of season 2 we are joined by author and journalist Mike Magee. Mike Magee is a well-known name to lovers and practitioners of Tantra to whom he has offered for decades the essential, condensed contents of many Tantras of the medieval period. This book is a fruit of his maturity and vast experience. Containing reliable translations and many Kālī Vidyàs, it is a valuable manual for practitioners and an important source for scholars. Magee has written since the 1960s on matters rela...
Dec 23, 2022•56 min•Season 2Ep. 2
For episode #1 of season 2 we are joined by author and translator David Pantano to discuss the recent publication ‘The Hermetic Physican’ on Giuliano Kremmerz. Giuliano Kremmerz (1861–1930), born Ciro Formisano, was one of the most influential Italian occultists, alchemists, and hermetic masters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, though he remains almost unknown to English readers. In 1896, Kremmerz began writing about natural and divine magic, healing, and alchemy through the journal Il...
Dec 08, 2022•58 min•Season 2Ep. 1
For episode 101 we are joined by by the immensely talented Alkistis Dimech. Alkistis is an artist, dancer-choreographer and writer exploring the occulted dimensions of the carnal body and its subtle anatomy. Her art and praxis is grounded in ankoku butô (dark dance), which she has practised since 2002. With Peter Grey, Alkistis is the co-founder of Scarlet Imprint, the leading independent press which publishes practitioner-oriented works on magic, esotericism and the occult. She has performed in...
Sep 12, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 101
For episode 100 we are joined by hereditary witch, writer and creator Shullie H. Porter who takes through her extraordinary life working with the Dark Man. This is an intriguing conversation and one, those of you who have been listening for some time will know features a prominent topic on this show. Shullie’s mother was a gifted Cunning woman from whom Shullie learned the nature of her gifts. Born dead, Shullie was brought back and death has featured in her life ever since from the ability to s...
Jul 23, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 100
For episode 99 we are joined once again by Geoff Thompson. A prolific author and teacher. He is a BAFTA award winning writer. He is a world renowned martial artist and has taught seminars for Chuck Norris. 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-winni...
Jul 15, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 99
For episode 98 we are joined by author Andrew Collins. Andrew Collins is a science and history writer who has been investigating the origins of human civilization since 1995. He is the co-discoverer of a massive cave complex beneath the Giza plateau, now known as “Collins’ Cave.” The author of several books, including Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods , he lives in Essex, England. In this show Andrew discusses his new book Origins of the Gods co-written with Gregory little. It’s a remarkable stu...
Jul 07, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 98
Dr Simon Young is a British folklore historian based in Italy. He has written extensively on the nineteenth-century supernatural. His book The Boggart (from Exeter University Press) and The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends (from Mississippi University Press) are both out in 2022. He is the editor of Exeter New Approaches to Legends, Folklore and Popular Legends . Dr. Young has undertaken the biggest folklore survey of its kind, on behalf of the Fairy Investigation Society. A C...
Jun 12, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 97
Dr. Scott Taylor is the President of the Expanded Awareness Institute. EAI helps people curious about near-death experiences explore what that experience means to them and to our culture as a whole. Dr Taylor has served as President and Executive Director of The Monroe Institute. He has been a trainer for The Monroe Institute since 1985. He is an expert in the use of binaural beat technology to achieve and hold expanded states of consciousness. He is also the author and voice of six best-selling...
May 27, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 96
For episode 95 we are joined by Psychic Medium Jim Hunt from the TV show "Knock Knock Ghost" (currently available on Amazon Prime). Jim is an acclaimed Psychic Medium who became aware of his sixth sense at the early age of five. Born in Montreal to a half Native Psychic mother, he was raised, nurtured and guided by both the living and the dead. Over the years, Jim has helped thousands of people around the globe set and achieve goals both personally and professionally with his unconventional meth...
May 20, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 95
Charles Christian is an English barrister and Reuters correspondent turned writer, podcaster, award-winning tech journalist, and sometime werewolf hunter. He now writes, talks and makes videos mainly about folklore, urban myths, history, and the weird. He was born a ‘chime child’ with a caul so, according to legend, cannot drown at sea but can see and talk to ghosts and fairy folk without fear of coming to harm... He is the author of "A travel guide to Yorkshire’s Weird Wolds: The Mysterious Wol...
May 13, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 94
For episode 93 we are joined Meredith Herrenbruck, a Master NLP Practitioner and Kahuna. We discuss some of her cases including a ghost in the closet- how she had two clients with serious issues. One a ghost, the other was an entity attached to a toy Meredith describes how energy (sometimes even entities, too) is attached to objects: Rings, gifts, WWII helmets and a knife hidden beneath a newly paved street, wreaking havoc on the living. She stresses the importance of keeping ourselves and our h...
May 06, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 93
For episode 92 we welcome McCalla Ann, founder, podcaster and creator behind SaturnVox, a multimedia occult education and divination platform based out of New Orleans, Louisiana. McCalla was born in Atlanta, Georgia to a Catholic family on her mother's side and with Jewish heritage on her father's. Though she attended Catholic school until high school, she turned to the occult at an early age, beginning her studies on witchcraft and tarot at the early age of 15. McCalla left Atlanta for New Orle...
Apr 22, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 92
For episode 91 we are joined by patron Jessica Mitchell who will recount for us her amazing encounter with a ‘dark man’ on the top of Glastonbury tor after a nighttime ascent to watch the sunrise. It's remarkable story and one that will no doubt resonate with many listeners. We go through what it means for the individuals who witness such reality shattering events and Jessica describes the impact of the event on her life and worldview. Now a point to note which we didn't discuss in the show is t...
Apr 08, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 91
For episode 90 we welcome Dr Alexander Cummins . Dr Al is a consultant, diviner, writer, magician, and historian. He approaches ritual, divination, and sorcery both as a long-term practitioner and a historian of early modern magic. Dr Cummins has worked as a professional diviner for over a decade, and published several works on astrological magic, grimoires, and folk necromancy. He also provides training, workshops, and coaching in many aspects of magical theory and practice. Originally from the...
Apr 01, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 90
For episode 89 we discuss one of the most infamous books ever penned in the Arabic language—indeed, one of the most infamous books in the history of Islam. Feared, banned, and burned, the Sun of Knowledge or Shams al-Maʿarif has nonetheless survived the vagaries of time to rise to prominence as the most famous Arabic grimoire. Today we are joined by Amina Inloes & J. M. Hamade to discuss their collaboration in translating the book into English (for the first time!) and illustrating The Sun o...
Mar 25, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 89
