Rune Soup

This week, we are speaking with Danny Nemu. Danny is a writer, presenter  and researcher in the fields of psychedelics and the history of science. We cover ayahuasca, the shortcomings of double-blind experiments, drugs in the Bible and flesh-eating bacteria. Also other things, obviously. Great stuff! Show Notes Danny’s Site and Blog Psychedelic Press, including Danny’s books  Tickets for Danny’s presentation in Berlin on November 3rd and 4th Tickets for Danny’s presentation in London on November 9th Getting High with the Most High Taboos from the Jungle to the Lab (Part 1 and 2): https://vimeo.com/131074831 https://vimeo.com/131159303 Ritual Poetics, Ayahuasca and Goetia

Another double-talking episode this week. Sarah and Juniper talk us through plant allies, entheogens, journeying and just generally interacting with the non-human world in a neighbourly fashion. There's also some great ritual advice for solo and group praxis. Fantastic stuff. Show Notes Sarah's website and blog Sarah's store Sarah on Twitter Juniper's website and blog Witches Sabbat event site Juniper on Twitter

This week we are speaking with the luminously bright Sam Block. Sam is a blogger, magician and geomancer. We talk divination, spirits, Greek Magical Papyri and -as you might expect- geomancy. Very good times. Show Notes Sam on Twitter The Digital Ambler on Facebook Digital Ambler: Helios Consecration Digital Ambler: Selaphiel Chaplet Digital Ambler: Da Geomanteia post series  

This week we are speaking to my good friend and the internet’s master of conspiramonies, Greg Carlwood. As you are no doubt aware, Greg is the prolific and thoughtful host of The Higherside Chats. In a thematic follow up to last week’s show on Gnosticism, it seems useful to explore how we map and respond to the known and unknown in our world. And so that’s what we are going to do. Enjoy. Show Notes The Higherside Chats The Higherside Chats Plus Greg on Twitter

This week we are taking the new format out for another spin by welcoming back two popular previous guests, Miguel Conner and Chris Knowles, to double talk the most contemporary of ancient philosophies -Gnosticism- and whether or not we live in the most gnostic of times. So. Good. Show Notes Miguel's site and podcast, The God Above God Miguel on Twitter Chris's blog, The Secret Sun

This week we are speaking with Dr Francis Young. Dr Young is an historian, author and translator, hailing from and with a particular interest in East Anglia. He joins us today to speak principally about the history of exorcism and his book, A History of Exorcism in Catholic Christianity. Good stuff. Show Notes Dr Young's website Francis on Twitter A History of Exorcism in Catholic Christianity The Cambridge Book of Magic

This week we are debuting a sporadic new show format. For the 'Double Talking' episodes we bring back two prior guests for a three headed discussion about various shared topics. First cabs off the rank are Dr Al Cummins and Julio Ody and the topic is all things practically grimoiric. Right here. This is my jam. Show Notes Dr Al's website and blog Al on Twitter Julio's blog Julio on Twitter  

This week sees the return of one of the show's most popular guests, Lionel Snell aka Ramsey Dukes. Lionel joins us to discuss his most recent book, My Year of Magical Thinking, as well as various magical ways of being in the world and their benefits. Amazing stuff. Show Notes My Year of Magical Thinking Lionel's Website Lionel's YouTube Channel

This week we are speaking with my good friend, Deborah Castellano. Deb is a fiction writer, blogger, witch, weaver and author of Glamour Magic which -if you’re listening to the show on podcast Thursday- was released yesterday. We talk ritual, death customs, learning magic by doing magic and -of course- glamour in the twenty first century. Show Notes Deb's brand new book, Glamour Magic Deb site and blog Deb on Twitter.

This week we are speaking to Dr Camelia Elias. Originally from Romania and based in Denmark, Camelia is a firebrand fortune teller, tarot teacher and author of several books. She is the writer behind the popular Tarotflexions blog and joins us today from a mountain in Norway. We discuss growing up around cartomancers, the best headspace for divination and how to read like the Devil. Show Notes Taroflexions Camelia's YouTube channel Camelia's website The Oracle Travels Light The Power of the Trumps Marseille Tarot: Towards the Art of Reading

This week we are speaking with the one and only Dave Lee. Dave is an author, novelist, breath working and personal development coach based in the UK. He is also one of the formational influences on the rise of chaos magic. Dave has himself been a practising magic for over thirty five years. His latest book is Life Force and it arrived just in time to line up with our sporadic series of energy model discussions. We also talk LSD, meta-models, chaos magic history and personal metaphysics. Show Notes Dave's website Dave's blog Dave's newsletter Dave on twitter

This week we will begin something of a sporadic miniseries on energy. A number of premium members have remarked that I’m typically pretty down on energy models. And I suppose I am, but with the qualification that I am pretty down on the prevailing energy models we have inherited from the 19th century with very little subsequent criticism. Freed from these unexamined assumptions, 'energy' in the broadest sense is an inarguable component of worldwide magical systems. In many ways, this may be the final shoe to drop in this current magical revival. Restoration of context is well on its away. The decolonising turn is a bit behind that but also on its way.  So to kick it all off, we are speaking with Phil Watt. Phil is a writer, podcaster, self-described neoshaman working exclusively with an energy model and -living my actual dream- a market gardener in the delightful New South Wales town of Bellingen. Show Notes Phil's podcast series, Redesigning Society Phil's coaching and guidance services Phil's YouTube chann

This week, we're trying something new. I'm dancing talking with myself about discourse, analogue networks and the whole point of speaking and listening on magical and psi topics. The show is also my meandering post-analysis of Chaotic Good -the event I participated in with Conner Habib and Caitlin Doughty in Los Angeles last week.  

This week, our man in Thailand returns to talk us through the world of Sak Yant. Now, today’s episode is going to be a little different. In between recording it and releasing it, Jenx has had to pulp every remaining copy of the book we’re discussing. There’s no real point in talking about the why but it has nothing to do with what’s between its covers, so to speak. As a result, Jenx is keen to have the content come out in other formats, which includes this  podcast. Some of it will be showing up in the next book that we talk about at the end of the episode. And over the next couple of months, I’ll also be publishing some of the interviews with the adjarns as well as various images from the now forbidden book on the blog. Be sure to jump over to ‘The Thai Occult Book’ Facebook page and follow for further material. Show Notes The Thai Occult Book Facebook Page The Thai Occult: Sak Yant (Gold Edition) The Thai Occult: Sak Yant (Silver Edition)

This week we are speaking to the one and only George P Hansen. As most of you probably know, George is a parapsychologist, researcher and author of the much admired psi classic, The Trickster and the Paranormal. Great stuff. Show Notes George's Trickster website George on Academia George on Twitter

This week we are speaking to Dr Beatriz Labate. Bia is an anthropologist and author or editor of dozens of books and academic papers on psychedelics. She is one of the world’s leading experts on ayahuasca culture and indigeneity. I have been trying to get our calendars to line up for most of this year so I was very much looking forward to our conversation. Enjoy! Show Notes Bia's website Bia on Twitter Chacruna Kahpi

This week we are speaking to ghosthunting's most dynamic duo, Dana Matthews and Greg Newkirk. Greg and Dana have almost four decades combined experience into paranormal investigation and are the proprietors of the world’s only travelling museum of the paranormal and the occult. Goooooood times. Show Notes The Travelling Museum of the Paranormal and the Occult Planet Weird Dana on Twitter Greg on Twitter

He's back, ladies and gentlemen! Austin Coppock returns for our biannual look at what the stars have in store for us for the remainder of 2017 and into 2018. Show Notes Austin's website and blog Austin on Facebook Austin on Twiter Three Hands Press

This week the singular polymath behind The Secret Sun -Christopher Knowles- returns to the show to review and dissect Ridley Scott's Alien Covenant. Naturally that means the show contains quite a few spoilers if you have yet to catch the film. Although I would point out it is actually very difficult to spoil the plot of an Alien film: Humans encounter xenomorphs Most of them are gruesomely killed by xenomorphs A couple of them escape by the skin of their teeth No one turns out to be a ghost the whole time Inevitably, the discussion ranges far and wide over the presence of 'Ancient Alien Theory' (AAT) in popular culture over the last six decades and what that might portend. So yes. A great chat. Listen now, listen after you see the film. It's all good. Show Notes Why, The Secret Sun, of course.

This week we speak to professional astrologer, educator and fellow podcaster, Chris Brennan. Chris hosts The Astrology Podcast and is the author of the recently released book Hellenistic Astrology. As you would expect, our wide ranging chat covers astrology's Babylonian and Egyptian origins, how it was used in the ancient world, how previous cultures conceived of it and how these conceptions changed over the intervening millennia. We also talk about how one might use some of these recently-rediscovered methods and whether or not astrology is in another golden age. Great stuff. Show Notes Hellenistic Astrology -Chris's website and book The Astrology Podcast -Chris's show The Astrology Podcast on Twitter The Astrology Podcast on Facebook