Rune Soup

This week we talk to the wondrous Geraldine Beskin of the world famous Atlantis Bookshop. Our freewheeling chat, conducted in the Gerald Gardner room of the shop, covers magical London, the Victorian occult revival, Austin Osman Spare and just a whole boatload of life advice for the magically inclined. Do not miss it.

Oh, but I was looking forward to this one. I've read a lot of Dr Kripal's previous work and the Super Natural seems perfectly timed to coincide with Star.Ships... other hands on the same elephant and all that. Anyway, it's a good ol' chat. We conducted it via the Skype/phone octoparrot, which you may notice in the audio. Topics included  Animism Phenomenology Materialism in the academy Challenges in parapsychology The origin of the term numinous as well as how it is experienced Show Notes Jeff's academic page The Super Natural (Amazon US) Authors of the Impossible (Amazon US)

Raj and I have a good ol' chat about narrative, psychology, spirit contact, London, the role of art and plenty move. Plus I got to nerd out about the X-Files with someone far more knowledgeable than me. Show Notes Raj's website Excerpts from the two X-files episodes we discuss Paper Hearts Jose Chung's From Outer Space The Rune Soup piece about consciousness and art we reference One of Raj's video mash-ups  

In this week's episode we talk to the queen of encyclopedias herself, Judika Illes. Naturally the conversation roams across spells, magical advice, writing careers and tarot... so very much tarot. This is not one to miss!   Show Notes Judika's website Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells

We talk to the one and only Ramsey Dukes (Lionel Snell) about his magical career, publishing, Austin Spare, the British magical renaissance, the rise of chaos magic and just life in general. Do not miss this one!   Show Notes Ramsey's Facebook page Ramsey's excellent YouTube channel. (Subscribe!) Ramsey's author page  

On this episode we are joined by author, speaker and researcher, Chris Aubeck, to talk about his new book 'Return to Magonia', as well as Ufology and mythology in general. Good times.   Show notes Chris's website: http://www.chrisaubeck.com/ Chris’s latest book: http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=85 The Magnolia Exchange: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/magonia_exchange/info Chris’s Madrid UFO event: https://vimeo.com/129520716

This week I speak to the one and only Alex Tsakiris from the powerhouse podcast, Skeptiko. The show has been regularly namechecked at Rune Soup for years so it was a real personal pleasure to get some of Alex's time. Time that I may or may not have monopolised slightly thanks to about a hundred Skeptiko episodes of pent-up opinion I foolishly thought would fit in a single episode. This one really is more of a conversation then, and I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. We talk through the limits of materialism (naturally), consciousness science, podcasting and having an authentic voice, money, the role of academia, UFOs and consciousness phenomena, the implications of after death communication and a whole lot more.

In this episode we talk to author, alchemist and Palero, Chris Bradford. We cover Hawaii, island spirits and ghost stories, chaos magic in the 90s, spirit kingship, palo, spirit medicine, the interplay between African diaspora magic and the European tradition… even Magic: The Gathering! Show notes: Chris's blog  Chris's Palo Mayombe tumblr Chris on twitter

In this week’s episode we talk to esoteric author and Rock N Roll Hall of Fame musician, Gary Lachman about his excellent new book, Secret Teachers of the Western World. We also cover Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, the 1970s New York occult scene, Colin Wilson. Something for everyone!   Show notes Gary’s Website: http://garylachman.co.uk/ Gary’s latest book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-Teachers-Western-World/dp/0399166807 The David Bowie story we mentioned: http://garylachman.co.uk/2016/01/11/the-david-bowie-colin-wilson-story/

In this episode, we talk to author and astrologer, Austin Coppock about how astrology works, what to do during retrogrades and whether or not Donald Trump is the next President.

In this bumper episode, we talk to The Secret Sun’s Christopher Knowles about the Nine, Esalen, elite belief systems, alien cargo cults, Star Trek, tarot, psychogeography and what may or may not be coming down the pipe in 2016.   Show notes:   Chris’s blog: http://secretsun.blogspot.co.uk/   ‘Burn Witch Burn’, the film Chris references: https://youtu.be/g7emkorevvo   Also, the presentation from Dr LaViolette I reference actually talks about the B2 using electrogravitics. Got the wrong plane. As an apology, watch the whole presentation:   https://youtu.be/F4lhGDYCUTs

We talk to noted Fortean journalist and former professional combat magician, Cat Vincent about his life and adventures.   Topics include urban magic, sci fi fandom, Forteana, comics, Neil Gaiman, Slenderman, Colin Wilson, polyamory and all the Bob Wilson you could want.   Show notes: https://youtu.be/RBD06b1trAY https://youtu.be/0EXXMZLBELo catvincent.com http://tinyletter.com/CatVincent @catvincent

Dr Cummins, occult historian extraordinaire, talks grimoires and the story of the western magical tradition. We also discuss living in New York, studying under Professor Hutton and magic's relationship to the rise of modern science and medicine. Follow Dr Al on twitter. Get his first book here.

As a special holiday treat, I sit down with my mother to talk about saints, the Dead, Aboriginal women's magic, haunted houses, sacred travel, energy healing and a whole lot more.

On this episode we talk to Sarah Lawless about witchcraft, herbalism, animism, working with your ancestors, working with plant spirits and a whole lot more.... including when and how to drop the C bomb! Find out more about Sarah at sarahannelawless.com Fine out more about the show at runesoup.com

Scarlet Imprint's Peter Grey joins us to talk about his latest book, Lucifer: Princeps. We use this as a jumping off point to talk about the western magical tradition, grimoires, the role of the Dead and the impact of the rise of digital on the experience of magic.