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Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work. Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos. When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania.
- 484 - How To Get Good at Magic - Notes From Bolivia | Solo Show
Coming to you from the shores of Lake Titicaca! Some lessons on how to get good at magic, specifically sigil magic, learned on the road in Bolivia.
The short answer is your first hundred sigils will teach you more about magic than any book ever will. The long answer is.... this podcast.
Here I share my notes and observations from spending time in mountaintop villages with lineaged shamans descending directly from the Incas, San Pedro ceremonies in the mountains and client encounters in the Witches Market in La Paz.
We talk about:
Desire cross-currents Incorporating oracle cards into your enchantments How to REALLY 'forget' about your spells so they actually come off.Show Notes How To Make Magical Sigils: A COMPETE Beginners Guide. The Missing Witches fundraiser is back this year!Thu, 25 Apr 2024 - 40min - 483 - Is Marxism Gnostic? Responding To Jordan Peterson | Miguel Conner
Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio's Miguel Conner returns to the show this week for an in-depth unpacking of claims made by Jordan Peterson, James Lindsay and others in the online Right that Marxism is actually Gnosticism.
We look at
The origins of these claims. Exactly WHERE and HOW they are wrong. The origins of Gnosticism. The 'true' origins of 'woke' thought.We also explore some possible points of consent with the analysis Jordan Peterson presents regarding Lucifer and the archetypal significance of clowns, jesters and evil.
Many thanks to Miguel for coming back on the show again. I have actually tried several different ways of doing this topic as a solo show since catching the discussion between Jordan Peterson and James Lindsay back in June of 2023. But imagine trying to have a discussion on the history of Gnosticism without Miguel?
Turns out that was the very obvious unlock I needed all along. Enjoy!
Show Notes Catch Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio here. This is the video examining Jordan Peterson's shadow projection that I mention during the show.Wed, 27 Mar 2024 - 1h 35min - 482 - Kate Middleton, Willy Wonka and the Spice Memes of Arrakis | World Without Sin
This week's episode is an installment in the long-running World Without Sin series, examining how we respond to monolithic media and how not every outsider is a plucky freedom fighter.
We also look at how and why it might be that all forms of expression are collapsing into a meme singularity and what this might have to do with the jester archetype.
After that there is a life update and a travel magic story. And then -on the video version only- we have a Q&A where we speculate on the whereabouts of Kate Middleton, what's really going on with Boeing, healing from trauma patterns and G. K. Chesterton.
Also, I promised I'd share some of the memes that were hard to convey in audio format, but instead, I am just sharing a link to the presentation from the livestream. It's all here if you're interested.
The show notes are just some other things that are coming up or going on, because why not?
Peter Grey's talk at Occulture Berlin 2023: Atomic Gods: Magick beyond the nuclear horizon. J. F. Martel of Weird Studies has a new course coming up this months on the films of Stanley Kubrick. This Missing Witches fundraiser that Rune Soup listeners contributed so generously is coming back around again. I probably mentioned this one a few weeks too early as I have no detail on prizes and such yet, lol. But the link is here! Hadean Press have just released the final Jake Stratton-Kent book we'll ever get, Cyprian's Offices of Spirits. My own fancy, pre-ordered copy is winging its way to the farm where it is useless to me for the Q2 member course will be Grimoires 2: Your Greek Inheritance (The Jake Edit) as I am currently back in South America. Lol. Anyway, more details on that closer to the date.Mon, 18 Mar 2024 - 2h 06min - 481 - Leaning Into 'Mixed' (Bad) Fortune | Life Update | Solo Show
Hello from the road!
Just wanted to get out a little solo show of what I have been up to, which also morphed into how to deal with foreseen rather than unforeseen dramas.
We also cover some updates on the Sigil A Day project, and speculate on the development of media and podcasts in our post-Putin-interview World Without Sin.
Enjoy! Chat soon!
Wed, 14 Feb 2024 - 37min - 480 - UFOs, Jung and the Apocalypse | Mystic and the Machine
You may recall that Angie from Angie Speaks guested on the podcast last year. Well, she graciously invited me on a show she co-hosts, Mystic and the Machine, where we have a good ol' chat about UFOs, Jung, the looming apocalypse and how all of these things are interrelated.
It was such a good chat, I'm releasing it as a main podcast episode this week.
Should you wish to watch it instead, catch the interview at the Mystic and the Machine YouTube channel.
Fri, 12 Jan 2024 - 1h 22min - 479 - Turning New Year's Intentions Into Enchantment Targets | Solo Show
Here we are in 2024, eh?
And it’s off to a bang for people starting on the #SigilADay2024 Project and, to a lesser extent, Japan Airlines.
In this solo show, we cover:
Locating your intentions and goals for 2024. Turning them into enchantment topic areas. How to create sigils from scratch. The initial sigil activation I am offering for those embarking on this project and why. (Hint: It needs to be quick but not as quick as some of you ejaculate. That’s right, I made a sigil joke.)NOTE: the audio version does not contain the Q&A which starts at the one hour mark of the livestream, should you wish to check that out.
As far as show notes go, I would recommend you also check out a video I shot over the Christmas break about setting and achieving powerful goals in 2024. It teams with the practical enchantment theme.
Enjoy! Let's do this!
Thu, 04 Jan 2024 - 58min - 478 - H1 2024 Astrology Forecast | Austin Coppock
You know the festive season has begun when Austinmas rolls around! Join Gordon White and Austin Coppock for a look into the first half of 2024 and how to navigate it.
We look at
Risk of war. What we can and can't learn from 2024. The best time of year to GTD. The Year of the Dragon. Mars, Mars and also some Mars to go with your Mars.Plus there's this whole subplot about fish.
Enjoy!
Fri, 22 Dec 2023 - 2h 12min - 477 - Join Me In Launching A Sigil A Day In 2024
After tabling the possibility in the last live stream and thrashing out some of the details with the Rune Soup Premium Member brain trust, we'll be moving forward with the goal of launching one sigil a day for every day of next year.
The audio version of the announcement -ie this one- is a bit more involved than the video one. That's because 58% of YouTube watchers aren't subscribed, so I had to pitch it a bit more as 'beginner'. But if you're subscribed to the podcast I wanted to speak more at your level.
But if you want the video one, you can watch me wandering around on the first beach day of Tasmanian Summer. (It poured with rain almost immediately after I finished filming). Or you can consume both. It's the festive season. Treat yourself.
The only relevant show note is a link to the Rune Soup telegram group, where the ongoing sigil project will be discussed. It's free and available to members and non-members.
Enjoy!
Sat, 16 Dec 2023 - 22min - 476 - AI: Worlding and Shapeshifting (I Would Cheat) | Solo Show
We come at last to the final in the AI For Magicians series of solo shows.
This time we explore how we co-create with non-human beings and what that AI co-creation looks like for magicians.
As is traditional, there is a video slide presentation that goes along with this episode, which you absolutely do not need to watch if you're vibing more with the audio.
Show Notes
Ursula K. LeGuin and Donna Haraway discuss technology. James Bridle discussing Ecological Technology on the Emergence Magazine podcast. Previous episodes in the AI series: Tools of the Magician Transhumanism, Technocracy and AI: The Complete Story Can We Trust AI To Censor Reality?Sat, 09 Dec 2023 - 1h 00min - 475 - My Year In Review And How To Do Yours | Solo Show
This weekend was the livestream of my year in review, as well as a suggested shape for
How to conduct your own. Why you should do it now as a separate act to your new year intention setting.As is now traditional, we did a Q&A on YouTube at the end which is only available on the video version, starting around 1:40. Two things came up that have already sparked some discussions regarding next year's plans. We're spinning up teams for:
Launching one sigil a day for a whole year. A new year's detox.More on both of these if and as they happen.
Enjoy!
Sun, 26 Nov 2023 - 1h 39min - 474 - Exploring Cartomancy And Fortune Telling
Who says you can’t teach an old (27) dog new tricks?
For something a bit different, I’m sharing the audio version of, not my podcast, but I podcast I was on. Specifically The Coffee and Divination Podcast with JoAnna Farrer.
One of my goals for next year is to push the boat a bit more with the format of the podcast. This year we brought in more regular solo shows, more livestreams, and so on. I want to start throwing in some shorter episodes in addition to the main ones, and I want to start sharing other shows I was on that I think are really good discussions. It won’t happen every time, of course. But JoAnna is a very experienced practitioner herself so we have a really chat. And not enough of you click through when I just point to them. So I made it easy for you! You don’t have to do anything!
But actually what you should do is subscribe to Coffee and Divination if you like this episode. Do that here.
And if you’d like the video version, you can watch that here.
Enjoy!
Wed, 22 Nov 2023 - 1h 40min - 473 - Academia's Gatekeepers | Samuel Urban
This week's episode is the audio version of a live stream discussion with Samuel Urban of the Illegitimate Scholar podcast. We talk about
The educational industrial complex. So-called 'alternative' history. Find the good in the total failure of academia over the past few years. Invisible colleges. What comes next and what to do.A really fun chat -and one that only had a few technical issues for once, some of which weren't even on my side! Thanks, Elon! (We got Starlink while I was in Paraguay.)
Show Notes
The Illegitimate Scholar podcast. Illegitimate Scholar on YouTube.Wed, 15 Nov 2023 - 1h 51min - 472 - Reading Landscape with David Holmgren
Legendary co-originator of permaculture, David Holmgren, returns to the show this week on the ery special occasion of the launch of the feature-length documentary, Reading Landscape.
In the show notes below, you will find the link and the password to watch the full documentary for free.
Please share it widely with anyone who may be interested, with the blessing of the producers.
David and I discuss
The development of the film What is meant by 'landscape' What is meant by 'reading' What has changed in permaculture over the decades Learning from Indigenous teachers in Australia and New ZealandAnd a whole lot more. It was a personal pleasure to be involved in the financing of this film as an individual and during my tenure at Permaculture Tasmania.
Show NotesUse the Password: Melliodora
Sat, 04 Nov 2023 - 1h 07min - 471 - White Pilling The Apocalypse | Cam White
Astrologer and YouTuber Cam White joins the show this week to bring some helpful reframings to the space weather we'll all be enduring over the next few years.
We discuss
How astrology works The role of a fortune teller in troubled times What sort of conflicts and wars are likely to appear when Whether the so-called Barbault Basket configuration ushers in a new golden age or not.Super fun and spicy times. Enjoy the White Pill!
Mon, 30 Oct 2023 - 1h 44min - 470 - Christianity's Surprising Resurgence - An Ivan Illich Perspective | Dougald Hine
Author, activist and educator, Dougald Hine returns to the show this week for a discussion that is simultaneously timely and timeless.
If you've been following along on the blog, you'll know that I have been wrestling with how to say things, with whom and to what end, given how the world is going.
One of the topics I had been meaning to record on for months now was the resurgence of Christianity: whether it is surprising or not, whether it is automatically reactionary, whether it is a sign of things improving or devolving. And I tried coming at that from several angles -including recording a whole solo show before leaving Paraguay on the topic that I didn't release- but found none of them were satisfactory.
Then I messaged Dougald about it, and it turns out it's an area he is also exploring, both personally and 'culturally' (whatever that means) right now. Plus, he's something of an aficionado of the works of Ivan Illich -whose insight is especially useful in these times. So he graciously agreed to come back on the show to prove that two heads are definitely better than one.
We explore the possible why of Christianity's resurgence, who 'owns' it and what happens if we don't engage, plus its different forms and mutations. Then we turn to Ivan Illich himself, beginning with a biography and an overview of his thought, before finishing with what he might have to say about these very strange times we are living through. (And depending on when you catch this episode, there is still time to get in on some Illich discussions with Dougald. Details in the show notes.
An excellent discussion. Enjoy!
Tue, 24 Oct 2023 - 1h 31min - 469 - Here Be Monsters | Rhyd Wildermuth
Rhyd Wildermuth returns to the show on the occasion of his latest book launch, Here Be Monsters.
So we have a freewheeling chat about the mutation and fall of leftism, the what and where of activism accordingly, whether things are getting 'worse' or 'better', updated definitions of capitalism and fascism, Russell Brand, all kinds of incendiary stuff.
Oh, and gay werewolves.
Show Notes Get Here Be Monsters. Rhyd on Substack. Rhyd on X.Mon, 25 Sep 2023 - 1h 45min - 468 - Russell Brand versus Establishment | Solo Show
This week I had been meaning to do a World Without Sin solo show on the censorship laws rolling out around the world and their implications.
Then, as we all know by now, whatever is going on with Russel Brand started happening, so we begin our story there. (It's worth noting I recorded this about 24 hours ago, before YouTube demonetised his channel.)
Today's episode is a bit of a read-along so you may wish to watch the video version. Of course, all accommodation is made for the audio folks as well. No child left behind. We explore some of our looming technological dystopia and then finish off with some tactics on what to do about it.
Show Notes
Rune Soup on Odysee. Rune Soup on Rumble. A live event on the censorship industrial complex hosted by none other than Russel Brand himself.Wed, 20 Sep 2023 - 1h 18min - 467 - Top 10 Best Alternative Healing Books of All Time | Greg Carlwood
Greg Carlwood returns to the show for another instalment of the book club nobody asked for! We explore the best alternative medicine -perhaps 'true healing' or 'actually effective' is better- books that we know of.
Nutrition, breathwork, light therapy, terrain theory, energy healing. It's all here, baby. Greg has spent years interviewing some of the leading lights in what allopathy absurdly calls 'alternative' healing on The Higherside Chats. So this is a really comprehensive exploration.
Your wish list will have grown by the time this episode is done, that's for sure!
Show Notes The Higherside Chats.Fri, 18 Aug 2023 - 1h 49min - 466 - Thoughts on Fortune Telling | Solo Show
It's been one of the highlights of my year to start getting messages and images of the Fortune's Fools Lenormand oracle out in the world. And, as you might expect, it's got me thinking about fortune-telling.
One of my personal creative goals for the project was the queer (lol) the Little White Book concept, and so the companion book IS my fortune-telling book, in the sense that it is a book-length exploration of the techniques and metaphysics of telling fortunes. I've been reading fortunes for two decades, teaching tarot for almost one decade and have interviewed some of the best modern minds on the subject.
And so I have some takes. Several of them spicy.
This week, the audio version is an off-the-cuff exploration of those takes, recorded immediately after my deck artist, Colin Alexander, and I completed a full unboxing of the deck. An unboxing obviously makes for a terrible audio-version of a podcast so this week they're completely separate.
And there are still some decks available if you want to buy them here. (It still says pre-order, but they totally exist, I swear.)
Note: James and I are travelling for the next few days. For the 36 who purchased the top-tier package, we'll be in touch next week with the dates for the training and initiation.
Thu, 10 Aug 2023 - 40min - 465 - Are There Aliens In The Bible? | Rev. Danny Nemu
One of my favourite guests returns to the show this week for a scintillating and freewheeling dive into the perennial question of whether there are aliens in the Bible. Author, researcher, psychonaut and hypnotist Danny Nemu.
The impetus for this discussion is a book and a thesis that’s been translated out of Italian and into English relatively recently: Mauro Biglino’s Gods of The Bible. Speaking of translation, for years, Mauro was a translator of Biblical texts for the Vatican’s official publisher. Over the course of that work, he began to have questions about this term, ‘Elohim’, and all the other strange stuff that’s in there. So he decided to translate the Old Testament literally and what emerges is alien beings and flying saucers and all that classic Ancient Aliens fare.
A few people started asking me about the Biglino hypothesis, and then Mauro himself was on Graham Hancock’s podcast. And then, Graham’s son Luke quoted from one of Danny’s books in the same podcast. Danny was the person whose take on the hypothesis I most wanted to hear because of his work on the presence of entheogens and drugs in the Bible. So that was enough of a sign for me to repeatedly peer-pressure him into buying and reading the book so we could talk about it.
Anyway, he graciously obliged. So here is a Star.Ships meets ‘are there drugs in the Bible’ take on aliens, the power of language, the use of metaphor, literalism as spells and a whole lot more.
Super excited for this one.
Enjoy!
SHOW NOTES Danny Nemu’s website. Mauro Biglino’s YouTube channel, which gives a really good overview of his thesis. My AI-generated presentation on the life and work of Zechariah Sitchin. My AI-generated presentation on Owen Barfield’s thesis on the origin of language.Sat, 29 Jul 2023 - 1h 24min - 464 - Pluto In Aquarius - The Madness and Wisdom of Crowds
This week's solo show is a necessary side quest in our AI series up into space and out into the future.
It's also a standalone exploration of:
Understanding 'big' or archetypal stories, such as zodiac signs and planets, as containing all stories. Using longer cycles to formulate timing and meaning. What is yours to do in a looming world of social credit scores, digital control grids and the tyranny of niceness.And if you'd like to also listen to the Q&A, it starts around the one-hour mark of the video version over on YouTube.
Enjoy!
Show Note(s)
A bit of a rarity for a solo show, but we have a show note. Here's a link to Dan Waites's and S. J. Anderson's discussion of the Barbault Basket.Fri, 21 Jul 2023 - 59min - 463 - Ancient Entheogens of the Magi | Dr Shauheen Etminan
This is one of the most fascinating discussions I have had this year. For centuries, people have speculated as to the formulation of the legendary substance of the Gods known as soma. It's something I have kept my eye on for a couple of decades now.
And, as far as I can tell, Dr Etminan's research is the best pointer in the direction of what that might have been. Even better than that? His research has developed into a completely legal product you can try for yourself today.
In this show, we explore exactly who the Zoroastrian Magi were, what customs and beliefs fed into their practices and what haoma might have been and how it was used.
Then we'll explore Shauheen's journey toward the development and release of the Ancestral Magi products and how they can be used today. I am particularly excited to see these in the hands of visionary astrologers. Have at it!
Brilliant stuff. Enjoy!
Show Notes
Get the Ancestral Magi supplements here. Watch Shauheen's presentation on Zoroastrian shamanism here. Shauheen on Twitter.Sun, 16 Jul 2023 - 1h 27min - 462 - The Fall of The West | Chris Knowles
The one, the only Christopher Knowles returns to the show this week for a breezy romp through our near-term future. No, seriously. The end of the west offers perhaps the best time in centuries to be a weird kid.
Chris and I talk about the latest UFO nonsense, modern parallels to the fall of Rome, just how long collapses actually take and what they look like for those of us who came to earth to live through one.
Combined with last week's astro forecast, this is a really great discussion to have and a collection of worthy points to table in the lead-up to the final AI solo show. There's just one more piece to play coming up and then we can release those particular robot hounds.
But until then, settle in and enjoy the Gospel according to Knowles!
Show Notes
The Secret Sun. The Secret Sun on Patreon. Chris on Twitter.Sat, 01 Jul 2023 - 1h 55min - 461 - Astrological Forecast H2 2023 | Austin Coppock
Can you believe it’s been six months since Austinmas??? Anyway, it has. A very big thank you to those who joined us on the live stream this weekend -and for all the birthday wishes.
During the show, Austin and I
Looked back over what hit and what didn’t these past six months. Explored some of the wider contexts of Pluto in Aquarius and what it has to do with Uranus. Tabled some scenarios for current events in Eastern Europe. Looked at the forecast for the rest of this year. Unpacked, in particular, the upcoming Venus Retrograde and how we can be with that on an individual and collective level. Answered some fun questions from the live chat at the end. Named several peacocks.You can, of course, listen to this audio version or you can watch along on YouTube below. Because it is a live show I put some slides together but, as always, they are not in the least bit necessary. (This is my long-running performance piece about how that is true of all slides in every professional setting anywhere.)
Either way, enjoy!
Sun, 25 Jun 2023 - 2h 06min - 460 - Curing Politics with Spirituality | Angie Speaks
Vlogger, podcaster and cultural commentator Angie Speaks joins the show this week.
We dive deep into:
The medicine in Diaspora cultural experiences. Being abandoned by the Left and abandoning the Left. Political shortcomings of materialist thinking. Why the Left hates C. G. Jung. Reality tunnels.A really rich, powerful conversation. Enjoy!
Show Notes
Angie on YouTube. Angie on Twitter. Angie's podcast, Mystic and the Machine.Thu, 15 Jun 2023 - 1h 33min - 459 - Can AI Be Trusted To Censor Our Reality? | Solo Show
The penultimate instalment in our AI series! This time we talk about the impact of algorithms and the mental frames of the builders of Artificial Intelligence and what that means for access to a living cosmos.
What happens when AI gets to decide what is real?
If you have already used Chat GPT, you may have found that it refuses to answer some questions -about biopolitics or geopolitics or even exopolitics. Or if it does, it simply enforces the party line. Either that or it gives you a Lisa Simpson-style caveat about how 'important it is' to respect diversity or something at the end. We have seen what happens when political information is dropped from Google results. AI will multiply that effect a thousandfold.
(As is traditional now, there is a Q&A at the end for those who choose to watch the video version.)
Either way, here is the link to the Marc Andressen piece that is referenced.
Enjoy!
Fri, 09 Jun 2023 - 1h 34min - 458 - Crossroad Pacts and Cartomantic Crosses | Camelia Elias
The one and only Camelia Elias returns to the show this week to talk about demons and crosses.
Specifically, we explore what demons actually are and their relation to human desire. We examine the curious case of Andromalius, the final spirit of the Goetia. We discuss occult style.
Then we turn to the role and function of crosses in cartomancy: Why and how is the cross so potent in the tarot? And why does the Celtic Cross suck so much??
Really great stuff. Enjoy!
Show Notes
Camelia's Website. Eyecorner Press. Aradia Academy.Thu, 01 Jun 2023 - 1h 28min - 457 - Transhumanism, Technocracy and AI: The Complete Story | Solo Show
What is transhumanism? Is it different from technocracy? What about posthumanism?
Where do these ideas originate, and how have they become so prominent today?
In this week's solo show, we look at the history of some mostly-insane ideas and explore their significance for today's magical folk. Join Gordon as we continue our series looking at the arrival and impact of AI from the perspective of a living cosmos.
Enjoy!
Tue, 23 May 2023 - 1h 21min - 456 - UFOs, Magic and The Imaginal | JF Martel
Writer, speaker, filmmaker, podcaster and cultural theorist J. F. Martel joins the show this week to explore art, creativity, UFOs and the Imaginal.
We discuss C. G. Jung, David Lynch, Ramsay Dukes, Bergson, and Corbin. We look at what insights might come from having a better definition of 'image' when it comes to UFO phenomena. We talk about creativity as and with magic.And generally try to wrestle down to earth something approaching a Grand Unified Weird Theory.
Super fun, super deep discussion.
Enjoy!
🔼🔼SHOW NOTES🔼🔼
Weird Studies Podcast The Twin Peaks Mythos - a watch-along experience with J. F. Martel and Phil Ford. Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice.Thu, 18 May 2023 - 1h 39min - 455 - Archetype of the Witch |Risa Dickens and Amy Torok
This week, we welcome to the show artists, musicians, authors and fellow podcasters Risa Dickens and Amy Torok.
Amy and Risa from the Missing Witches project join us for a deep dive into the archetype of the witch.
What is it? What changes does it portend? What does it mean when it is so close to the surface? What are our obligations to it?We also talk ancestors, reclaiming history, art-as-magic and a whole lot more.
Super great chat! Enjoy!
Fri, 12 May 2023 - 1h 20min - 454 - Tools of The Magician: AI, Technology and The Future | Solo Show
Continuing our multi-part exploration of AI and its implication for These Capitalised Times we are living through and with, we look at the metaphysics of technology this week.
What are the implications of Artificial Intelligence for
The performing of magic? Living in a magical universe?What is an animist understanding not just of 'intelligence' but 'artifice'? What -if any- is the difference between a tool and a magical tool?
This week we explore:
The work of Ivan Illich. A metaphysics of tools. What it means to operate in the ruins. Steiner's description of Ahriman and what it means for our moment.Show Notes
Donate to the Missing Witches fundraiser for the Native Women's Shelter. Towards a Definition of Magic. At Work in The Ruins. Unlocking the Secrets of Prophecy - For Sorcerers, Astrologers and Magicians. Are Humans The AI Of The Mineral Realm? w/ Matías De Stefano.Fri, 05 May 2023 - 1h 27min - 453 - At Work In The Ruins | Dougald Hine
Author and (post)activist Dougald Hine joins us this week for a powerful discussion about our moment and what -if anything- we should 'do' with and about it.
The springboard for our chat is Dougald's recently-released book, At Work in the Ruins. We unpack the title -what do we mean by 'work'- as well as what we mean by 'ruins'. Physical? Cultural? Social?
We talk about what it means to hospice modernity and we unpack why one of the founders of the Dark Mountain project is no longer talking about climate change.
Really good stuff. Good, timely stuff.
Enjoy!
Thu, 27 Apr 2023 - 1h 21min - 452 - Ethnobotany, Traditional Medicine and Modern Healing | Mark J Plotkin
Legendary ethnobotanist, Mark J. Plotkin, joins the show this week for a fascinating chat about traditional medicine, Indigenous knowledge, plant healing and modern medicine.
Dr Plotkin studied under the great Richard Evans Schultes himself and has been exploring the Amazon as a friend and researcher for five decades. He is the co-founder of the Amazon Conservation Team -a nonprofit that partners with Indigenous communities to conserve biodiversity, protect traditional lifeways and support sustainable Amazonian livelihoods.
During the lockdown era, Mark started an excellent and highly recommended podcast, Plants of the Gods. We discuss
A fantastic discussion with a personal hero. Dive in. And if this is the first time you've heard about Plants of the Gods, well, I'm pleased to be able to share it with you!
Thu, 13 Apr 2023 - 1h 03min - 451 - Understanding Prophecy for Magicians and Astrologers | Solo Show
In this solo show, we dive deep into the origin of our understanding of prophecy, how it is different from prediction and where this understanding is useful for sorcerers, astrologers and magicians.
We explore the Old Testament prophets and how their roles changed over the centuries, how they positioned themselves toward power and what kind of 'Prophetic moment' we might find ourselves in.
Enjoy!
Fri, 07 Apr 2023 - 1h 01min - 450 - The Legacy of Jake Stratton-Kent | Peter Grey & Alkistis Dimech
Alkistis Dimech and Peter Grey of Scarlet Imprint return to the show for an exploration and celebration of Jake Stratton-Kent: In particular his thought, his research and his impact on the western magical world.
We discuss:
His generosity as a thought leader. His attitude to academia and academics. His role in the return of spirit-centric approaches to the grimoires. His revitalisation of blue grimoires. His understanding and love of the Ancient and Archaic Greek world. "I don't do angels." His championing of practice over theorising. His role as a key participant in the return of the Dead to contemporary western magical practice.I'm very grateful to Peter and Alkistis for sharing their thoughts about their friend and colleague, Jake.
Thu, 30 Mar 2023 - 1h 13min - 449 - Visiting the Island of the Witches | Solo Show
In the middle of the Philippines archipelago is the mysterious Siquijor -known variously as the Island of the Witches, the Island of Sorcerers or the Island of Healers. This remarkable place is home to several thriving magical and healing lineages.
Here is my story of visiting and encountering these traditions during the time of year where the healers travel up sacred Mount Bandilaan in order to collect the healing herbs their work requires for the whole year. These visits only happen on the seven Fridays between Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. I was fortunate enough to come along on one of these harvests.
It's a fascinating place that is illuminating in comparison with cunning traditions, curanderismo and other cosmovisions around the world: Saints, sacred timing, herb lore, energy work. And if you are looking to visit Siquijor, check out the show notes.
If you'd prefer some visuals, head over to YouTube.
- Note - Episode has been updated due to audio not playing properly.
Show NotesI have added the following places to Google Maps on Siquijor, so go to the island and search for these:
Annie Ponce (Nearest town is San Antonio). Batong Hakut (the name of Noel Torremocha's healing practice. Nearest town is Cantabon). Loreto Quimno (bolo-bolo healer in the town of San Juan).If you are visiting, I recommend the guide I used, Chelsey, whom you can contact via Facebook or Instagram. He came with me to each of the healers and accompanied me gathering herbs so he knows everyone and all the places. He's also a great guide just if you are visiting Siquijor:
Chelsey on Facebook. Chelsey on Instagram.Fri, 24 Mar 2023 - 48min - 448 - Visiting the Island of the Witches | Solo Show (Re-upload)
In the middle of the Philippines archipelago is the mysterious Siquijor -known variously as the Island of the Witches, the Island of Sorcerers or the Island of Healers. This remarkable place is home to several thriving magical and healing lineages.
Here is my story of visiting and encountering these traditions during the time of year where the healers travel up sacred Mount Bandilaan in order to collect the healing herbs their work requires for the whole year. These visits only happen on the seven Fridays between Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. I was fortunate enough to come along on one of these harvests.
It's a fascinating place that is illuminating in comparison with cunning traditions, curanderismo and other cosmovisions around the world: Saints, sacred timing, herb lore, energy work. And if you are looking to visit Siquijor, check out the show notes.
If you'd prefer some visuals, head over to YouTube.
- Note - Episode has been updated due to audio not playing properly.
Show NotesI have added the following places to Google Maps on Siquijor, so go to the island and search for these:
Annie Ponce (Nearest town is San Antonio). Batong Hakut (the name of Noel Torremocha's healing practice. Nearest town is Cantabon). Loreto Quimno (bolo-bolo healer in the town of San Juan).If you are visiting, I recommend the guide I used, Chelsey, whom you can contact via Facebook or Instagram. He came with me to each of the healers and accompanied me gathering herbs so he knows everyone and all the places. He's also a great guide just if you are visiting Siquijor:
Chelsey on Facebook. Chelsey on Instagram.Fri, 24 Mar 2023 - 48min - 446 - Place Myth and Story | Martin Shaw (Bardskull)
Legendary storyteller and mythologist, Dr Martin Shaw joins the show this week. On the occasion of the release of his remarkable and uncharacterisable (although I try) new book, Bardskull.
We talk about the weakness of the word archetype, we talk about place and story and transformation, we talk about myth and landscape, we talk about Tolkien, Gandalf and Merlin, we talk about defending indefensible books, and… in the end and ultimately, we talk about spiritual transformation.
A fantastic chat. One of the best of the year, for sure. Enjoy!
Show Notes
Get Bardksull:
https://unbound.com/books/bardskull/ School of Myth https://schoolofmyth.com/Thu, 09 Mar 2023 - 1h 21min - 445 - Mayan Healing, Shamanism and Plant Medicine | Rosita Arvigo
This week we welcome to the show the legendary Rosita Arvigo. Rosita is the author of ten books, she is a naprapathic physician, a herbalist and a specialist in traditional Mayan healing. For decades she has lived in western Belize, operating a healing practice and maintaining an organic farm. During this time she studied under Don Elijio Panti -a powerful and famous shaman then in his nineties. (He lived to 103.) This story is described in her book, Sastún.
Rosita joins us today to discuss Mayan healing and shamanism, what it entails, the state it is in today and what we can learn from it. This is a fascinating discussion that we managed to record from regional Belize all the way to Wellington New Zealand -during a cyclone.
Enjoy!
Show Notes Rosita's website and books. Rosita on Facebook. The Abdominal Therapy Collective. Rosita presenting at the New York Botanical Garden.Thu, 23 Feb 2023 - 1h 03min - 444 - Platonic Survivals In Sacred Architecture | Peter Mark Adams
Peter Mark Adams joins us today on the occasion of the imminent release of his new book, Hagia Sophia: Sanctuary of Kronos. Like The Game of Saturn before it, this is an exploration of curious survivals of pagan cosmologies hidden in seemingly plain sight -in this case Hagia Sophia in his home of Istanbul.
Check out the show notes at runesoup.com for some companion images.
Along the way, we also discuss what happened to the Mysteries when Eleusis was closed, the School of Athens and whether any such thing as Neoplatonism even existed.
Enjoy!
Wed, 08 Feb 2023 - 1h 14min - 443 - Even The Very Wise Cannot See All Ends | Solo ShowFri, 03 Feb 2023 - 36min
- 442 - Ghost Hunting, Haunted Places and Parapsychology | Brian Laythe PhD
Parapsychologist Dr Brian Laythe joins the show for a discussion on ghosts and haunted places.
We explore definitions: what IS a ghost? That's a slippery question right there.
We look at what makes a place 'haunted'. Are they haunted because they have ghosts or do they have ghosts because they are haunted?
And we investigate how ghost encounters fit into the wider ecosystem of High Strangeness. Can anyone really be 'just' a witness or are we at least co-creating these contact events?
A great chat. Enjoy!
Show Notes
Get Brian's book, Ghosted!: Exploring the Haunting Reality of Paranormal Encounters.Visit the Institute For The Study of Religious And Anomalous Experience.
Thu, 26 Jan 2023 - 1h 21min - 441 - Gnosticism is a Spell | Solo Show
After last year's Astro-Gnostic conference and some extended jungle experience, I want to revisit some comparisons between 'gnosticism' and 'animism' -whatever they happen to be.
And in particular I want to make the case for how the assertion that the cosmos is a prison built by an evil God and the cosmos is a community of beings can share co-presence in the same overall framework. So this is a gathering of thoughts in that general direction.
Show Notes There is a Higher Soup meetup in Wellington NZ on Saturday Feb 11th. It's open to all but please RSVP so we have an idea of numbers. And once again for no reason other than it's a good way for me to organise my talking points so I don't forget them, I used Tome again. If you want to try it out, here's the invite link.Thu, 19 Jan 2023 - 43min - 440 - Animal Spirits Ancestral Skills | Harmony Cronin
This week we welcome to the show hunter, leather maker, tracker, artist and educator Harmony Cronin.
Over the course of her career, Harmony has been a big game skinner, she has convened and continues to convene women's hunting groups, she provides support for Indigenous buffalo hunts and has lived in a tent she built herself beside Yellowstone, where her neighbours were a wolf pack she fed with road kill.
Harmony joins the show for a powerful conversation about the roles and obligations of being a human in a living cosmos.
Obviously this one has some pictures to go with it. So you can watch the video version on YouTube, or you can check out all the images we discuss in the show notes at runesoup.com.
Enjoy!
Show Notes Find out about Harmony's classes and everything else she has going on at Gathering Ways. Find out about the Buffalo Bridge project here.Thu, 12 Jan 2023 - 2h 01min - 439 - If not now, when? | Solo Show
Join me for the first solo show of the year!
In this episode, we walk through a presentation that can help best situate you to achieve and transform in 2023.
Extreme ownership. Correctly setting priorities. How to build a map of both official reality and reality. Stepping into an attitude that thrives in chaos. Using time magic to shift from 'goals' to 'sites of magical transformation'.Oh, and if you want to have a play around with the fun little AI presentation creator I used, here's an invite link.
You can also watch this episode on YouTube, if you'd prefer.
Fri, 06 Jan 2023 - 46min - 438 - New Year's Special | Conner Habib
Tis the season once more for our annual chat with the one and only Conner Habib.
We started by discussing Christmas and then ended up having quite a detailed exploration of ceremony, place and context that set the theme for the rest of the chat.
So this one is a little different from our usual new year chats. Enjoy!
Show Notes Conner on Patreon. Conner's debut novel, Hawk Mountain.Fri, 30 Dec 2022 - 1h 37min - 437 - Working With Intention And The Field In 2023 | Lynne McTaggart
Continuing our End-of-Year run, the legendary Lynne McTaggart returns to the show to talk about working with The Field and the Power of Intention for healing, manifestation and transformation.
We catch Lynne up on some of the work of the Rune Soup Premium Member intention groups, compare notes and experiences and speculate as to how all this stuff might 'work'.
Always a good time. Enjoy!
Show Notes Lynne's website. Get on the waiting list for the 2023 Power of Eight masterclass here.Sun, 18 Dec 2022 - 1h 02min - 436 - Essential Skills Of The Magician | John Michael Greer (300th Episode)
Welcome to the 300th episode of Rune Soup! They grow up so fast, eh?
To celebrate the occasion, I had two options: The first was to hold a big party and then slip on a magic ring mid-speech, vanishing before your very eyes. The second was to invite onto the show perhaps the most-requested guest, John Michael Greer.
And really this timed very well because John has a new book out called The Occult Philosophy Workbook: A One Year Course In The Secret Wisdom. Plus we're looking at a whole new year a few days away. Plus we're doing a very special six month premium member course at the beginning of next year called The Foundations which -as the name suggests- is a comprehensive course on all the foundational magical practices from setting up altars to casting circles to scrying and all of that. I'll be taking you through exactly how I do All The Things.
So with all this going on, John and I have a conversation at the Venn overlap of all these territories: What are the essential skills of a (broadly speaking 'Western') magician and have they changed over time?
Wed, 14 Dec 2022 - 1h 17min - 435 - 2023 Astrological Forecast (H1) with Austin Coppock
A Christmas tradition to rival eggnog and embarrassing yourself at the office party, this week we once again have the astrological forecast for the first half of 2023 with the incomparable Austin Coppock.
Enjoy!
Mon, 12 Dec 2022 - 2h 02min - 434 - The Top 10 Conspiracy Books of All Time | Greg Carlwood
Greg Carlwood from The Higherside Chats joins the show for a countdown of the 10 best conspiracy books of all time. UFOs, technocracy, CIA coups, predatory capitalism, ancient aliens, Big Pharma, elite networks… here's the list!
Some you might expect. Others you most definitely will not. And half the fun is hearing the justification for why one book made it into the list and another didn't.
I had a blast with this one. Enjoy!
Wed, 30 Nov 2022 - 1h 47min - 433 - Brazilian Magic with Julio Cesar Ody: Halloween Special
The one and only Julio Cesar Ody returns to the show for our annual Halloween special!
Julio joins us from his native Brazil for a fascinating romp through his country's magical landscape: Spiritism, Umbanda, Quimbanda, Candomblé. The impact of Diaspora African frameworks, Amazonian plant spirits, ayahuasca. The impact of Catholicism and the role of the saints. The disastrous impact of modern, evangelical Christianity. It's all here!
Spooky season's greetings to you all. Thank you so much for listening.
Show Notes Julio's book, Magister Officiorum. Julio's website, Figueria Mágica. Figueria Mágica on YouTube. The thesis/article Julio mentions: Umbanda, Uma Religião Sincréta e Brasileira.Sun, 30 Oct 2022 - 1h 37min - 432 - Talking Pulp Magic | Chris Knowles
The good Doctor Knowles makes a welcome return to the show this week.
We talk about the presence of nineteenth century occultism in the pulps, how those pulps influenced the superheroes of the twentieth century, Watcher cults, imperial worldviews and the synchromysticism of the apocalypse.
A freewheeling romp for all!
Show Notes The Secret Sun. The Secret Sun on Patreon.Mon, 10 Oct 2022 - 1h 55min - 431 - Intention with Jess Waters and Brian Wilkins| Rune Soup Healing Dialogues
This week we have the first triple-header of the energy healing dialogues. Brian Wilkins returns to the show with first-time guest, Jess Waters.
Jess and Brian are principally responsible for creating and maintaining a weekly intention group based on the principles outlined in Lynne McTaggart's Power of Eight.
So we discuss their respective paths through various healing modalities, how they came to intention-based work, what it's good for, how it might work and what its efficacy implies for the cosmos at large.
Really scintillating chat. Excellent stuff with some excellent people.
Enjoy!
Show Notes Jess and Brian's substack, Banhe. Brian's website.Wed, 05 Oct 2022 - 1h 21min - 430 - Traditional Chinese Medicine with Brandt Stickley | Rune Soup Healing Dialogues
This week, returning guest Brandt Stickley joins us for another instalment of our energy healing dialogues series.
We discuss how Chinese medicine sees the human energy body/ies, the antiquity of the system, how it works, what it works best with and the attitude or ways of thinking that characterise TCM. In particular, we look at what even am meridians, how TCM understands human organs, polarity and all that good stuff.
Enjoy!
Show Notes Brandt's website. Brandt's Patreon.Wed, 28 Sep 2022 - 1h 12min - 429 - Talking Homeopathic Psychiatry | Jerry M. Kantor
One of my favourite books of the year is Jerry Kantor's Sane Asylums. He joins us this week for an equally-scintillating episode.
We explore how homeopathy works, the 19th century heyday of homeopathic psychiatry -including the successful treatment of Abraham Lincoln's widow's 'incurable madness' with three months of homeopathy. And we find out just how it was homeopathy was erased from history and why. (Spoiler: Money.)
Really great stuff.
Show Notes Get Sane Asylums. Jerry's website, Vital Force Health Care. Jerry's publishing website, Right Whale Press.Mon, 12 Sep 2022 - 1h 04min - 428 - Biofield Tuning with Eileen McKusick | Rune Soup Healing Dialogues
The legendary Eileen McKusick joins us this week for the next Rune Soup Energy Healing Dialogue.
We discuss the origins of biofield tuning, how it and other forms of sound healing work, what it's best for and what other modalities it best supports. A fantastic discussion with a true healing pioneer.
Enjoy!
Show Notes Biofield Tuning Store. Biofield Tuning Website.Fri, 02 Sep 2022 - 1h 07min - 427 - Talking Thai Occultism, Magic and Prophecy | Jenx
Jenx returns to the show with his latest and best book, The Thai Occult 2.
We catch up with what’s been going on with Jenx’s ongoing cultural survey and research on and with various Ajarns, we talk about global candle magic, Thai astrology, talisman, doll magic and why you might want to live in a graveyard for a month.
He also explains that this latest book is a 'living' book. Get the PDF once and you will automatically receive all ongoing updates, additional material and interviews.
Great stuff.
Show Notes
Get The Thai Occult 2.Wed, 31 Aug 2022 - 1h 09min - 426 - Mind Connection Healing with Kenzie Adams | Rune Soup Healing Dialogues
Continuing the energy healing dialogues this week, we welcome to the show Kenzie Q. Adams. Kenzie is a Reiki master and teacher, professional healer, industrial engineer and the creator of Mind Connection Healing. She also happens to be the better half of Scarlet Imprint author, Peter Mark Adams.
MCH is a healing and trauma release system incorporating meridian therapy, Reiki and several other modalities into an holistic synthesis. Kenzie and I discuss her own journey as a healer, the road to developing MCH and what it can be used for.
Note: Kenzie is giving a training webinar this weekend (Sunday Sept 4th) as part of the Rune Soup Premium Member energy healing course. So if you like what you hear, there's still time to join us!
Show Notes Mind Connection Healing.Tue, 30 Aug 2022 - 1h 15min - 425 - Resonant Attention with Stella Osorojos | Rune Soup Healing Dialogues
This is one of my favourite shows of the year so far!
Continuing our dialogues with energy healers as part of the Rune Soup Premium Member course on energy healing, this week we welcome to the show Stella Osorojos.
Stella is a mother, a writer, an acupuncturist and multi-disciplinary healer, and the creator of a powerful healing modality called Resonant Attention.
We discuss the origins of Resonant Attention in her own miraculous health journey, working with and learning from 'non-western' systems, the importance of understanding trauma, how healing systems 'work' and what health even 'is'.
Splendid stuff!
Show Notes Stella's Substack, Resonant Attention. Part 1 of Stella's serialised healing memoir, The Universe Is Generous. Stella's website. A guided resonant attention exercise.Fri, 19 Aug 2022 - 1h 17min - 424 - Pranic Healing with Trisha White | Rune Soup Healing Dialogues
Continuing our dialogues with and about different energy healing frameworks, this week we welcome to the show Pranic Healer, Trisha White -who also happens to be my mother.
We chat about the origins of Pranic Healer, Trisha’s career as a professional healer, how the system works and what it works best for.
And if you would like to participate in the energy healing course, join the Rune Soup Premium Membership here.
Enjoy!
Sun, 14 Aug 2022 - 50min - 423 - Talking Devotional Astro Magic and The Decans | Brian Wilkins
Poet, author, taiji instructor and intentionist (this will make sense shortly), Brian Wilkins joins the show this week, on the occasion of the publication of his book, A Wheel of Small Gods.
We discuss how poetry can be a container or place for spirits, different methods of experiencing and understanding energy, healing magic, magic-as-time-travel as well as the how's and why's of coming into relation with star spirits.
Super fun discussion. Enjoy!
Show Notes Get A Wheel of Small Gods. Brian's website.Sun, 07 Aug 2022 - 1h 33min - 422 - Reiki with Lance Baker - Rune Soup Healing Dialogues
The Q3 premium member course beginning shortly is on energy healing and -to go alongside it- we'll be doing a series of dialogues with practitioners from various energy modalities.
First cab off the rank is fellow Newcastle boy, Lance Baker, to talk about certainly the most well-known (and perhaps the least understood?) modality, Reiki. Lance is a Reiki Master, hypnotherapist, author and teacher.
Definitely the right person to talk me through it!
Show Notes Lance's website and business, Branches of Healing. Lance's YouTube channel.Thu, 04 Aug 2022 - 1h 14min - 421 - Talking Ancestral Living and Sacred Landscapes | Matawhero Lloyd
The one and only Matawhero Lloyd returns to the show this week. More specifically, while I am in New Zealand, I returned to Whetu Ariki to spend some time with Matawhero and to see what’s been happening with his pā project over the past couple of years. This is a project many of you will be familiar with from Ani.Mystic, where it gets a whole chapter of its own.
I’m releasing this one as an audio version as well as the video tour because -while I definitely think you should actually watch it so you can put images to the words- Matawhero goes really deep on Maori metaphysics, indigenous philosophy and all kinds of powerful topics. So there’s still a lot to pick up just in the conversation.
But if you do want to watch it, jump over to YouTube and watch it there.
Enjoy!
Show Notes
Get Ani.Mystic.Fri, 22 Jul 2022 - 1h 22min - 420 - H2 2022 Astrological Forecast | Austin CoppockSat, 02 Jul 2022 - 2h 07min
- 419 - Thoughts On Shamanic Healing From The Middle Of The Amazon | Solo Show
An Amazonian solo show this week, exploring the one-year anniversary of providing shamanic energy healings.
One of the things I mention during the episode is how I consider some of the seemingly bolder claims of shamanic healing from a different perspective having been in the jungle a number of times now. There’s certainly a shared underlying metaphysics there.
Note: As mentioned at the top of the episode, this is a video one. So you may want to jump over to YouTube instead.
Show Notes
Register to be notified for the next availabilities for healing sessions here.Tue, 28 Jun 2022 - 42min - 418 - Visiting Pablo Amaringo's Amazonian Art School in Peru | Solo Show
Something different -and personally very exciting- this week. In the few days in between my Ecuadorian ayahuasca retreat and a return to my Peruvian jungle dieta, I got to visit the art school founded by my favourite artist, Pablo Amargino. Even better… I got given the tour by Pablo’s son, Juan!
Juan is himself an artist, so I also got to see some of his work, and some of the work of Pablo’s students. Plus I got the opportunity to ask some questions about Peruvian shamanism and curanderismo, and have some of the amazing concepts depicted in the painting spelled out.
This is very much a video episode, rather than an audio on, so be sure to head over to YouTube and check it out.
Enjoy!
Mon, 06 Jun 2022 - 04min - 417 - Talking Supernatural Thailand| Jenx
The one and only Jenx returns to the show to discuss his latest book, Supernatural Thailand. And so of course we discuss graveyards, Naga caves, boy spirits, dying for one’s city and a whole bunch more.
Then we end the show looking at some of Adjarn Apichai’s forecasts for the next few years and where they precisely align with our own.
Great stuff, as always! Please note I’m still in the Andes so there are a few audio dropouts. Also this was recorded as a live video discussion if you would prefer to watch rather than listen.
Enjoy!
Show Notes
The Thai Occult. Get Supernatural Thailand.Tue, 31 May 2022 - 1h 13min - 416 - Ani.Mystic Abroad! | Solo Show
A solo show this week, in which I explore Ani.Mystic now that it's about two months out from launch, and how it has been immensely helpful in coming to terms with Mexican and explicitly Mayan sense making.
As I have basically been travelling since the thing came out, I've been remiss in sharing some of the shows that have kindly had me on to discuss the book.
So let that be your show notes for this week. Each episode is remarkably, remarkably different in a way that shows I've done for Star.Ships or The Chaos Protocols or Pieces of Eight weren't. And I genuinely think that's down to the material in the book.
Which means, if you are so inclined, you have hours of material to enjoy! (And hopefully that makes up for the travel-based radio silence.)
This week's solo show is the audio of my presentation and discussion with the guys from Watkins -the most recent discussion of the book- for reasons spelled out in the opening of the episode.
Show Notes
Gordon talking Ani.Mystic on The Higherside Chats. Gordon talking Ani.Mystic on Coffee and Divination. Gordon talking Ani.Mystic on Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio.Sun, 01 May 2022 - 1h 22min - 415 - Talking Ways of Being | James Bridle
I joke at the beginning of the episode that James wrote the best book I read this year that I didn’t write. But actually, it’s true.
Ways of Being is an excellent book that toils in many of the same vineyards as Ani.Mystic. So James and I discuss our notions of technology, artificial intelligence, publishing, language and how these all interrelate and are interdependent.
We also have an excellent discussion on the true significance of randomness as well as speculating on political and technological futures.
Enjoy!
Show Notes
Get Ways of Being. Get Ways of Being on audiobook. James's website.Mon, 11 Apr 2022 - 1h 15min - 414 - Talking Dreams and Time | Gary Lachman
The one and only Gary Lachman returns to the show this week.
And the topics of the hour are dreams and time: precognition, sacred time, time slips, machine time and what even am dreams in the first place? Definite food for thought here.
Always a pleasure!
Show Notes Gary's latest book, Dreaming Ahead of Time. Gary's website.Sat, 12 Mar 2022 - 1h 19min - 413 - Advice For Professional Astrologers During An Apocalypse | Solo Show
Wait a minute. Gordon of all people is giving advice about what now?
Relax. I truly would never dream of it. Think of it more like Advice To A Young Wife From An Old Mistress. It's a dramatic frame that allows us to explore ways of being with this moment that -oh, just a thought- don't contribute to a field of war that brings everyone closer to nuclear annihilation while somehow assuming doing so gives you the moral high ground.
So it's not actually (just?) for professional astrologers and other fortune tellers. It's for any of you looking around at the entire planet losing its mind and working out what role -in your profession, in your family, in your friendship group, in your communities- you are being called to step into. It's my offering to you, delivered in the form of a presentation given to a strictly hypothetical group of professional astrologers.
Yeah, it's long. I mention at the beginning that the personal reason for sharing this is a healing one, around finding transformative ways of being with anger and defence. It may be challenging to watch or listen to for some of you. Healthy anger is a useful warning that situations or people are approaching important boundaries (physical or otherwise). And it is not that it means these boundaries must never be crossed or must always be defended. Anger simply calls you to an urgent awareness that boundary business is afoot.
For instance, being wrong about something or some position you have taken in which you have invested a lot of emotional energy. When someone points this out or when you begin to realise it yourself, the anger signal is there. But this is probably one instance where you allow that signal to draw your attention to the boundary and, rather than defending it, allow that pent up energy to dissipate across it.
I sincerely hope you come to your own understanding of the sentiment in which this presentation is offered, why it is offered at this time, as well as my intention that you find whatever medicine is meant for you in it.
Note: This is a video presentation with slides and such. It is only available on Rumble. Though it will still work fine as an audio offering if that is what you prefer.
Show Notes War and the Hyperreal. Rhyd Wildermuth. Tears for Ukraine, Sanctions for Russia, Yawns for Yemen, Arms for Saudis: The West’s Grotesque Double Standard. The Overton Window Is Being Shoved Toward Warmongering Extremism. Caitlin Johnstone. Defending Freedom And Democracy Sure Requires An Awful Lot of Censorship. Caitlin Johnstone. The Field of Peace. Charles Eisenstein. Bunny Rabbits and the Big Bad Wolf: Ukraine and Russia through the lens of Western reporting. Gilbert Doctorow. The Tom Woods Show episode I truly hope you watch. Ukraine Neo-Nazis Infiltrate EVERY LEVEL Of Military & Government. Jimmy Dore. Ukraine War Driving Rampant Censorship At Home. Jimmy Dore. There's More To This. Russell Brand.Sun, 06 Mar 2022 - 1h 56min - 412 - Talking Pagan Beingness | Rhyd Wildermuth
Everyone's favourite expat druid and substacker, Rhyd Wildermuth, returns to the show this week.
His latest book, Being Pagan: A Guide To Re-Enchant Your Life, forms the through-line of a wide ranging discussion on beingness, paganism, embodiment and the general state of the world.
Electrifying stuff, as ever. Enjoy!
Show Notes Rhyd's latest book. Rhyd's substack. Rhyd's website.Wed, 02 Mar 2022 - 2h 00min - 411 - Talking Anton LaVey | Carl Abrahamsson
Everyone's favourite Swedish polymath returns to the show for a discussion about the Black Pope, Anton LaVey, himself.
This is on the occasion of the release of Carl's latest book, Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan. It's the biography LaVey boths needs and deserves. So we talk a little bit about his life but mostly we examine his legacy, what he might think of today's cancel culture and whether or not the ol' devil has got his dues yet.
It's a great chat and had both Carl and I reminiscing about our own wayward youths.
Enjoy!
Show Notes Get the book here. (It's also available as an audiobook.) Follow Carl's work here. Trapart Publishing.Fri, 25 Feb 2022 - 1h 18min - 410 - We Are the Witchcraft | Peter Grey - Protection and Malefica Module 3 (Free)
Here is the next of the free or publicly available modules of the latest premium member course, Protection and Malefica. It is a discussion on morality frameworks and how, when and we we might magically intervene.
The one and only Peter Grey of Scarlet Imprint joins us for a deep dive on one of Jack Parsons's most important texts, We Are The Witchcraft.
This is a video discussion with slides and such, but if you would prefer to listen to it like a normal podcast, this audio version is eminently followable.
Extra Material Download a PDF of We Are The Witchcraft. Peter Grey reading We Are The Witchcraft.Thu, 24 Feb 2022 - 1h 08min - 409 - Talking Astro Gnosticism | Chris Knowles and Miguel Conner
The one(s) and only(s) Miguel Conner of Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio and Chris Knowles of The Secret Sun join the show this week for a discussion of all things astro-gnostic.
We discuss the true antiquity and use of star lore, stars in the Bible, gnostics in history as well as a gnostic study of history as well as which components of gnosticism may or may not be universal.
This chat was arranged in honour of a conference that Miguel is arranging that Chris and I will both be speaking at next month (March 20 - 22) in Playa del Carmen called the Astro Gnostic Conference. We discuss the event during the show and you can find out more, including details on tickets, accommodation and excursions in the show notes.
Show Notes The Astro Gnosis Conference website. The Secret Sun. Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio.Sun, 20 Feb 2022 - 1h 42min - 408 - Talking The Shamanic Origins of Astrology | Michael Ofek
This week, we welcome to the show astrologer, philosopher and shamanic practitioner, Michael Ofek.
Michael and I have a great chat about topics very near and dear to our hearts: star lore, star magic, and the true antiquity of what we can broadly call astrology, or perhaps coming into relation with Sky Country.
Along the way, we also talk about the metaphysics of light, the shamanic origins of Greek and European civilisation, hag attacks and spontaneous OBEs.
Good times!
(Note: This is a repost as there was an error with the file. This is another live video episode so if you would prefer to watch it rather than listen, jump over to YouTube or Odysee.)
Show Notes Michael's website and upcoming course. Book a reading with Michael. Michael's Facebook page.Sat, 12 Feb 2022 - 1h 34min - 407 - Revisiting Apocalypse Pharmaka | Solo Show
This week we complete our revisitation of classic blog post series from back in the day. And we have saved my favourite for last: Apocalypse Pharmaka.
It’s my favourite for a bunch of reasons that I explain in the episode. But, basically, the contested landscape of medicine and power and the body is where the witch and the cunning person has always lived. (Not that you’d know it from looking around in the past couple of years, although the shrillness is mercifully receding.) So if you want to say you are a participant in the ‘western’ understanding of magic or witchcraft in any capacity and have the people around you keep a straight face, one way or the other you need to ‘come to terms’ -in the animist sense- with this contested landscape that is our homeland. It really is as simple as that.
Of course -and this is pretty much the whole point- we have all been pushed off these homelands over the past two years and into both literal and metaphoric quarantine camps. Which is to say these discussions are even more fraught than at the time I wrote the series. So you won’t find this episode on YouTube. You can listen to the audio version as per usual, or you can watch along on Odysee or Rumble.
Enjoy!
Show Notes
The Apocalypse Pharmaka series.Wed, 26 Jan 2022 - 1h 12min - 406 - Talking Energy Medicine and the Field with Peter Mark Adams
Researcher, energy healer and fellow Scarlet Imprint author, Peter Mark Adams, returns to the show this week. We discuss his book, The Power of the Healing Field.
We also have a fantastic chat about what the field even am, and why it is an idea and framework whose time has come. We explore various energy-based healing modalities and pause to consider that we should not even be using the word 'alternative' for such disciplines, as the majority of the population of the planet incorporates them into standard medical practice. It is us in the west who are the 'alternative'.
Excellent stuff, and a great discussion to for the first month of the year!
(Note: This episode was first livestreamed on YouTube, should you wish to watch it instead.)
Show Notes Get The Power of the Healing Field. Peter's website. Mind Connection Healing.Thu, 20 Jan 2022 - 1h 15min - 405 - Blood, Prophecy and Forgiveness: New Year Special with Conner Habib
We begin the new year with the traditional podcast catch-up with Conner Habib.
This time around we explore the full cosmic significance of the heart, the metaphysics of blood and blood sacrifice and then spend a lot of time with the notion of prophecy: What it is, what it isn’t, which medicines it holds, what it says about time and what it can say about our moment.
Then we turn to 2022 and thrash out some frameworks for sin, trauma and forgiveness. A splendid start to the year!
Show Notes
Conner on Patreon. Conner on Twitter.Mon, 03 Jan 2022 - 1h 34min - 404 - H1 2022 Astrological Forecast with Austin Coppock
Austinmas comes but twice a year!
Yes, it’s the traditional half-yearly forecast with the one and only Austin Coppock.
Join us as we explore the space weather for the next six months, as well as a discussion on how to be with said space weather. (And stick around for the amusing tech fails on both sides of the call.)
Enjoy!
Sun, 19 Dec 2021 - 2h 22min - 403 - Talking Depictions of Shamanism | Niles Heckman
This week, we are joined by essayist and filmmaker, Niles Heckman. Among other things, Niles is the co-creator of the Shamans of the Global Village series. So we talk about that, obviously.
And we also talk about creativity, filmmaking, the power of the essay format, as well as how -or if it's possible- to participate in cross-cultural learning in non-extractive ways.
Great chat. Enjoy!
Show Notes Niles's website, podcast and blog. Watch Shamans of the Global Village. Trailer for Episode 1. Trailer for Episode 2.Thu, 09 Dec 2021 - 1h 13min - 402 - Revisiting Archonology: Understanding Power and Conspiracy
Continuing our revisitations this week, we turn to the archonology series -a long running exploration of power and conspiracy.
And you know what? A lot of these have held up pretty well. I especially like how so many of the videos shared in the posts are now gone from YouTube, and how many links have died. It’s like burning the edges of a pirate map. Adds character.
Enjoy!
The Archonology Series
Things That Persist: Archonology (Part 1). While We Pray For A Long Summer: Archonology (Part 2). Spook Tech: Archonology (Part 3). The Money: Archonology (Part 4). Collaborators: Archonology (Part 5). The Weapon of the Enemy: Archonology (Part 6). Knives in the Dark: Archonology (Part 7). Fate of Empires: Archonology (Part 8). Dispatches From The Front: Archonology (Part 9). Force Majeure: Archonology (Part 10). Listening to Demons: Archonology Redux. Pointing Out Devils: Archonology Redux. Section 31: Archonology Redux. The Syndicate: Archonology Redux. Offers Unrefused: Archonology Redux.Thu, 02 Dec 2021 - 1h 01min - 401 - Talking Deck Creation and Fortune Telling | Colin Alexander
A bumper episode this week and a veritable romp through the Fortune's Fools project as the finish line appears over the horizon.
I was told going into a project like this that it would show up in your life in strange ways: seeing a cardiologist the week of the Heart card, having a friend lose is eyebrow ring at your house the week of the Ring card, taking ayahuasca the week of the Tree card.
None of these things were planned out beforehand but if you read cards, you know these things tend to happen. They just seem a little extra when you're creating a deck.
So artist extraordinaire Colin Alexander returns to the show in order to reminisce and commiserate on this wacky journey so far.
This episode will probably work better as a video, but it still works audio only, especially if you want to download this large image of all the cards we discuss in the episode. Otherwise you can jump over to YouTube and watch it there.
Enjoy!
Show Notes
Watch the episode on YouTube. Pre-order the cards and the book. Join the Fortune's Fools Telegram group. The Fortune's Fools playlist on Spotify. Colin on TikTok. Colin on Instagram.Fri, 19 Nov 2021 - 2h 07min - 400 - Revisiting The World Without Sin: Reframing Censorship and Propaganda
Continuing our whistle-stop tour of classic blog series, this time we revisit a term I lifted from the (pre-cancelled) Joss Whedon film, Serenity.
It’s the term I use to better frame the totality of digital systems and social media in the context of how they see the world and what it is they seek to do to ours. For people who may be unaware, I had a career in digital media and publisher strategy before doing whatever it is you call what I’m doing now. And I’ve long been interested in that overlap between communication and magic.
These posts weave all of that together. And it’s necessary to continue the revisitations with this series next, because it gives us the context for why probably the rest of the revisitations won’t be found on YouTube.
"I'm Going To Show You A World Without Sin." The First World Without Sin. Worlds Jurassic and Without Sin. World Without Sin: Farming Spies. Blowing Filter Bubbles: World Without Sin.NOTE: Last week's revisitation didn't push out an MP3 file, so this week you are getting two. Add them together and it's almost a podcast!
Mon, 15 Nov 2021 - 21min - 399 - Revisiting The Whisky Rant: The Pros and Cons of 'Alternate' History
Based on some suggestions that came out of the recent solo show on the story of Rune Soup, I'm going to be revisiting the classic blog post series from back in the old timey bloggy days of yore.
The first such series is The Whisky Rant: where the name came from, the benefits and shortcomings of alternate history, which UFOs are actual aliens and which of the various rants stood the test of time.
For new people, this was a series that covered off all the exciting hits like ruins on Mars and the Moon, the location of Atlantis and my own version of the stoned ape hypothesis.
Fri, 05 Nov 2021 - 48min - 398 - Halloween Special: Curses From Outer Space (Necro-Astrology) | Sasha Ravitch
It's that time of year again!
And for the traditional Halloween special, we are joined by astrologer, witch and counsellor, Sasha Ravitch. Sasha joins us to talk about star spirits, astrology and the dead, and what sort of ancestral curses and blessings can show up in your natal chart.
Awesome stuff.
Show Notes Sasha's website. Sasha's Linktree. Sasha's Instagram. Sasha's Twitter. Sasha's Patreon. AstroMagia conference website.Thu, 28 Oct 2021 - 1h 23min - 397 - Talking Animist Herbalism | Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue
This week, we welcome to the show author, teacher and herbalist, Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue.
Seán joins us today to talk about his journey to animist herbalism, how he defines it, and what constitutes health in a living framework.
Really good, timely stuff. Enjoy!
Show Notes Seán's website, Otherworld Well. Seán's course, Holistic Pharmacology for Herbalists.Thu, 21 Oct 2021 - 1h 14min - 396 - The Story of Rune Soup | Solo Show
A long-overdue solo show this week, telling the story of Rune Soup from its beginnings as a blog in Bristol, through the books, through the development of the podcast, and the membership and the events and so on.
At the end, there is also some discussion of where to next.
Subscribe to Rune Soup on Rumble. Subscribe to Rune Soup on Odysee. Check out Fortune's Fools.Tue, 28 Sep 2021 - 53min - 395 - Talking Health Crises as Initiations | Ivy Bromius
Author, magician, returning guest and friend, Ivy Bromius, joins us again this week on the occasion of the publication of her completely free book, The Cancer Grimoire.
We talk about her experiences treating and overcoming cancer, blending allopathic and holistic methods, and finding meaning in our own health crises. An important discussion at the best of times. Probably more so now.
Download the episode directly here or watch along on YouTube below.
Show Notes Find everything Ivy has going on at Circle Thrice.Tue, 07 Sep 2021 - 1h 06min - 394 - Talking Cancellation | Clementine and Jay from Fucking Cancelled
This week, we are joined by the hosts of one of my very favourite podcasts, Fucking Cancelled.
Clementine and Jay talk to us about their own journey to activism, through what they call the nexus -that toxic combination of social media bullying and neoliberal group thing- and out the other side to a genuine left they call 'socialism with freaky options'.
Along the way we discuss what cancellation is, how old it is, why it works and whether or not its efficacy is fading.
Super fun show with some super fun people!
Wed, 25 Aug 2021 - 1h 22min - 393 - Talking Whitehead and the World Soul | Dr Matthew Segall
This week, we welcome back to the show Dr Matthew Segall. Matt joins us to talk about his recently released book, Physics of the World Soul: Whitehead's Adventure in Cosmology.
So we chat about the shortcomings of materialism, what science could be like and how it could be done. We also discuss the concept of the Anima Mundi -or World Soul- and what the point of the universe might be.
Sun, 15 Aug 2021 - 1h 09min - 392 - Talking Grief and Healing | Karen Johnson
This week we welcome to the show Karen Johnson.
Karen is a shaman, healer, and former judge. She was catapulted into the life of a healer when her son died suddenly of a heroin overdose at the age of twenty seven. Leaving her old life behind, Karen embarked on a multi-year spiritual quest around the world, ultimately discovering -among many modalities and sources of spiritual nourishment- shamanic energy medicine. (Karen is actually my teacher at the Four Winds Academy, which comes up a couple of times in the show.)
She joins us today to talk about her brand new book, Living Grieving: Using Energy Medicine to Alchemize Grief and Loss.
A really great chat about a really powerful topic. Enjoy.
Show Notes
Living Grieving: Using Energy Medicine to Alchemize Grief and Loss. Karen’s energy medicine website and blog. Karen's Instagram.Wed, 21 Jul 2021 - 1h 02min - 391 - H2 2021 Astrological Forecast | Austin Coppock
Christmas only comes but once a year, which makes the half-yearly astrological forecasts twice as good as it!
Big thanks to the one and only Austin Coppock -as well as the premium members and patrons who join the call. As is now tradition, we look at the previous six months, the upcoming six months and situate our discussion in the context of longer cycles.
I always look forward to these chats!
Wed, 30 Jun 2021 - 2h 08min - 390 - Politics As Religion, Ressentiment and Identitarianism: Finding the Ekumen with Rhyd Wildermuth
Something a bit different and exciting this week in lieu of a normal show. One of the things the premium members will be doing over the coming month is participating in calls and Q&As with thinkers who have something to share or contribute to this notion of operating at the level of the living field.
First cab off the rank is none other than Rhyd Wildermuth. Finding The Ekumen gets its name from Ursula K. Le Guin's space utopia, effectively an anarchist version of Star Trek's far more militant United Federation of Planets. So if we are going to have a series of discussions beyond traditional politics, we should begin with a discussion of what politics is, what it isn't and where it might be that you come in. I can think of no one better than Rhyd for that chat, so here it is!
Big thanks to Rhyd and the members for participating! This is obviously a video discussion if you would prefer to watch on YouTube or Odysee.
Sun, 13 Jun 2021 - 2h 07min - 389 - Talking Entheogens, Dreams, Prophecy and Releasing the Past | Nick Sun
Comedian, author, ceremonialist and healer, Nick Sun, joins us this week.
Back in January, Nick wrote a piece on Medium called Watch Your Dreams Die And Be Happy Now. It's about how childhood dreams in general and the insistence we all follow them is not always a good thing. In fact, it can even be pathological.
Obviously that sort of piece has Big New Year Energy given the world is awash with resolutions at the time. But it is also good and insistent medicine for now -particularly for younger readers. There is a lot about this in the wealth magic course in the members area, but desire is very poorly understood and even more poorly experienced in the modern world.
Given the dramatic changes to how society functions we have all been through these past sixteen months have barely begun to be felt, the work of sitting with, parsing and simply showing up to your dreams, desires, goals -as well as how they all differ- takes on a different form of urgency.
So that's what Nick came on to discuss ostensibly. We also talk about a bunch of other stuff too, I hasten to add. Encountering different plant spirits, prophecy, healing from trauma, all very good times.
Show Notes
Nick on Medium. Nick's Patreon.Tue, 08 Jun 2021 - 1h 35min - 388 - Talking Indigenous Thinking | Tyson Yunkaporta
This week, we welcome to the show the author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World -genuinely one of my favourite books ever- Tyson Yunkaporta. In addition to being an author, Tyson is a poet, an artist, a wood carver, a linguist and and is senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University.
I had a fantastic time with this chat. We talk about ceremony, metaphor, the pitfalls of the new age, right relation and all that good stuff. We also talk about communicating via body odour, getting fat and 80s movies.
Enjoy!
Show Notes
Get Sand Talk.Sun, 30 May 2021 - 1h 40min - 387 - Talking The Two Antichrists | Peter Grey
Author, speaker and Scarlet Imprint co-founder, Peter Grey, returns to the show this week to talk about his latest book, The Two Antichrists.
This means we explore the Babalon Working(s), the influence of Jack Parsons on science fiction and science fiction's influence on Jack Parsons, the sophistication in Parsons's later work, L. Ron Hubbard's fascination with Aleister Crowley -as well as some of the ways he managed to out-Crowley the Beast himself.
We also talk about what witchcraft could and should do now, as well as the urgent necessity of coming into relation with the stars.
Enjoy!
Mon, 24 May 2021 - 1h 10min - 386 - Talking Nordic Animism | Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen
This week, we are speaking with Danish historian and animist, Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen.
Animism is the main topic of our discussion, inevitably. We talk about what it looks like in the doing, and what academic work does and still might come from operating within an animist framework rather than a materialist-naturalist one.
We also examine both some of the opportunities and risks inherent in learning from and with indigenous ways of thinking and being.
Absolutely killer chat. Enjoy!
Show Notes Rune's website, Nordic Animism. Nordic Animism on YouTube. Nordic Animism on Patreon.Tue, 27 Apr 2021 - 1h 28min - 385 - Talking Microanimism | Dr Siv Watkins
Microbiologist, teacher and ritualist, Dr Siobhan Watkins joins the show this week.
We have a really great chat about the how and why of coming into right relation with the microbial world, what all forms of biology look like from an animist perspective and the ancestral implications of being a composite being.
Awesome discussion. Enjoy!
Show Notes Microanimism website. Thinking Like A Plague course. Siv on instagram.Sun, 18 Apr 2021 - 59min - 384 - Talking Yagé, Ayahuasca, Spirits and Ecology | Jonathon Miller Weisberger
Ethnobotanist, ecologist, author and teacher Jonathon Miller Weisberger joins us this week.
We talk about growing up in Ecuador, living among various Amazonian nations, ecology, eco-spirituality, environmental activism and the difference between ayahuasca and yagé -among many, many other topics (including being dispatched by Terence McKenna to buy a paddleboat).
This is an amazing and lengthy chat which I have wanted to have since reading Jonathon's book, Rainforest Medicine, a few years ago. And we are having the conversation now because Jonathon is convening three upcoming series of yagé ceremonies at his amazing facility in Costa Rice known as Ocean Forest Ecolodge in April, May and June 2021. I mention it at the opening of the audio-only version of the show and then we discuss it again toward the end of the episode in both the audio and video versions.
Details and dates in the show notes!
Show Notes
Details on Rainforest Medicine the book, as well as the yagé ceremonies. April 24 – May 1 (option to add 3 days til May 4) May 29 – June 5 June 6 – June 12 Learn more and book your ceremony. Don Pablo's copal ceremony. Ocean Forest Ecolodge video tour.Sun, 11 Apr 2021 - 1h 43min
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