Spirit Box

Hailing from Carlow, Ireland, David Halpin is a writer with a deep knowledge of Ireland’s fairy lore and  pagan heritage. On his facebook blog, Circle Stories, he explores these themes in great depth.  David is also the creative force behind Occult Book Review on Twitter and YouTube.
What I really love about David’s work is he is an active participant in preserving the lore and mythology of Ireland. He goes out and sees the stones and raths and teases their stories from them. Which provides us with a vital link to our past.
In the show David talks how fairy spirits of alleged different forms can manifest in the same ways. He gives his thoughts on the parallels with UFOs and we get into the differences and similarities between cities and rural places with fairies and go down a bit of a rabbit hole after the Pooka. 

In the plus show we get into the dangers of summoning the Good People and David regals us with a story of brushing up against the strange while on a trip to a remote stone circle. We also discuss fairy ointments and from there discuss the use of psychedelics in Irish mythology and folk practice and go off on interesting tangents on the Djinn, Our Lady of Fátima and consciousness.
Enjoy

Show notes:
Circle Stories https://www.facebook.com/CircleStoriesDavidHalpin/

Occult Book Reviewhttps://twitter.com/OccultReview
Wolf-Men and Water Hounds: The Myths, Monsters and Magic of Ireland https://www.waterstones.com/book/wolf-men-and-water-hounds/manch-n-magan/steve-doogan/9780717196111 

The Duchas archives, home of the Irish folklore collections https://www.duchas.ie/en
Cillín, a burial ground for unbaptised children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cill%C3%ADn

Corpse toothache cure https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4569057/4567629/4574604?HighlightText=corpse+hand&Route=stories&SearchLanguage=ga

The Spancel of Death https://youtu.be/6CstZ-0Lwxo?si=NdnJ6N_MofOAFNx4

Athgreany stone circle https://visitwicklow.ie/listing/pipers-stones/

The Amadán https://www.facebook.com/505240543157960/posts/904390903242920/

Biddy Early https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biddy_Early

Puck Fair https://puckfair.ie/

Púca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%BAca

Krampus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus
St Knut’s day and Nuuttipukki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Knut%27s_Day

Poulaphouca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poulaphouca

Living with Djinns https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780863566950/Living-Djinns-Understanding-Dealing-Invisible-0863566952/plp

Fairy mist or ‘Ceo draíochta’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9th_f%C3%ADada

David on WMiT https://whatmagicisthis.com/2023/02/27/fairies-ireland-with-david-halpin/

Cenobites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenobite_(Hellraiser)

Fairy ointment story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_Ointment

The witches of Selwood https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/the-witches-of-selwood-witchcraft-belief-and-accusation-in-seventeenth-century-somerset-by-andrew-pickering

Entopic phenomena https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entoptic_phenomena_(archaeology)

Irish slang of mushrooms is Pookies https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/fungi-folklore-and-fairyland/
Ploughing the Clouds, the search for Irish Soma https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/657241
Aos sí https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aos_S%C3%AD

Tuatha Dé Danann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann

Gaoithe Sídhe https://beanfeasa9.wordpress.com/an-sluagh-sidhe/

Malak Taus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taw%C3%BBs%C3%AE_Melek

Our Lady of Fátima https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_F%C3%A1tima

Stalking the wild pendulum https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stalking-Wild-Pendulum-Mechanics-Consciousness/dp/0892812028

Eddie Lenihan Storyteller TV show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATjJX7C6fiI

Nathaniel Gillis, an author and religious demonologist, with over  two decades work under his belt following his experience in a haunted house. He has actively redefined the understanding of haunting phenomena, ghosts, and high strangeness and is frequently cited for his unique perspective on the demonic, emphasizing "The reason they are playing by different rules is because they are playing a different game,".

Nathaniel  brings a unique twist to his exploration of the Devil, demons, and unclean spirits. In his research, he suggests a potential connection between these supernatural entities and aliens. This unconventional perspective that expands the boundaries of traditional demonology and explores the intersections between different realms of the paranormal.

Nathaniel posits the notion that demons engage in a form of self-replication through a process involving hybridism. According to this concept, these supernatural entities are believed to create hybrid beings through interactions with humans, which are often depicted as seductive demons. This unconventional theory suggests a link between the demonic realm and the potential for a unique form of reproduction, involving the creation of hybrid entities that share characteristics from both demonic and human origins. It is a speculative and imaginative interpretation within certain mythological and paranormal narratives.

In the plus show we get into what these spirits might want? We get into some deep stuff on hybridism and how this self-replication happens. To quote Nathaniel, possession to us is pregnancy to them. To close out Nathaniel goes into some of the cases he’s investigated.
Enjoy
Show notes:
Nathaniel’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thenathanielj.gillis/
Nathaniel’s YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRD3sBZ0cvejvWAFBSPc5MgAwakening Expo 2024 https://awakeningexpo.com/LAM https://dannycarey.com/30032-2/Fr Sinistrari https://occult-world.com/sinistrari-lodovico-maria/
Ahriman https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ahriman#:~:text=AHRIMAN%20(Avestan%3A%20Angra%2FA%C5%8Bra,be%20supplemented%20from%20later%20sources.
Ahriman (Steiner) https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/Rudolf-Steiner-Lucifer-Ahriman-Asuras.pdfDybbuk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk
Yakshini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakshini

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Rejoice! The legendary Aidan Wachter is back on SB! Aidan is a magician and the author of three books, Six Ways,  Weaving Fate and Changeling. This show is called ‘it’s solved buy walking after a phrase Aidan used in our conversation. We discuss the impact nature can have on us as we’re working through the often challenging landscape of our lives. We discuss how our engagement and immersion into the landscape of our environment can nourish and bring healing to our internal world. And actually just how simple that process can be.

We get into ones allies guiding writing, how it can be a collaborative process. What it’s like to write three very successful books.

In the plus show we discuss what it's like to be a vehicle for the current. The field as an organism and as magical practitioners we have a function. We also go through how it's unlikely one will remain the same as ‘you once were’ if you develop a magical life and how that change will not always be pretty. It rarely is. We also go into how there is a sense that similar is happening on an international level and how to navigate things when confronted with difficult and the downright awful. It’s good stuff.
Enjoy

Show notes:
Aidan’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/aidan_wachter/

Althaea Sebastiani https://www.instagram.com/ladyalthaea/

Co-regulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-regulation

Birdsong frequency benefits https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-20841-0

Aidan Wachter https://www.aidanwachter.com/

Six ways https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39028487-six-ways

Weaving fate https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54854252-weaving-fate

Changeling https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59717179-changeling

Aidan on Weird Web Radio https://www.patreon.com/weirdwebradio/posts

For episode 28 of season 2 we welcome back the noble and scholarly Douglas Batchelor of the What Magic is This? A podcast for those curious about Magic, the Occult, Witchcraft, the Esoteric, the Paranormal and the Supernatural. Douglas has been doing sorcery and magic for close to 20 years. And has a wealth of knowledge and experience. Today we focus on how his practice and areas of interest have changed since his recent move to the west coast of Canada. And we discuss his recent patreon show on Isobel Gowdie, his remarkable memory and his ability to communicate complex ideas. The title for this show is a reference to a phrase used by John Moriarty in one of his many Irish radio interviews where he talked about not sitting well with the modern world and feeling its separation from nature acutely. Consequently he left his academic career and moved home to Ireland to Connemara in Co. Galway. The conversation with Douglas reminded me of Moriarty’s phrase not least because of their both moving to a rural location but in a topic that came up in the plus section of the show where we discuss the horror of poorly done TV and film adaptations. And how film becomes less story and more spectacle, that as a narrative form it is exhausted, the well has run dry. We discuss the need for new stories, new dreams and round out the conversation with hope and belief in the young generations and generation to be born will dream new stories and new art into being. The show notes are extensive for this one so do check them out there is a wealth of material to be explored there. Enjoy! Show notes: Website https://whatmagicisthis.com/ WMiT? Patreon show on Isobel Gowdie https://www.patreon.com/posts/waiting-in-wings-91738950 The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1734638.Visions_of_Isobel_Gowdie Apocalyptic Witchcraft https://scarletimprint.com/publications/p/apocalyptic-witchcraft The Brazen Vessel https://scarletimprint.com/publications/p/the-brazen-vessel The Two Antichrists https://scarletimprint.com/publications/p/the-two-antichrists The Battle of Auldearn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Auldearn James Burke Connections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_TV_series) Robin Artisson https://serpenthall.com/about/ Joshua Cutchin’s Ecology of Souls https://www.joshuacutchin.com/single-post/welcome-to-the-ecology-of-souls Joshua Cutchin’s Thieves in the night https://www.joshuacutchin.com/thievesinthenight Them old ways never die https://www.joshuacutchin.com/them-old-ways-never-died The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/25489537 Cave of the Trois-Frères https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Trois-Fr%C3%A8res Graham Hancock - Supernatural https://grahamhancock.com/supernatural/ Neil Gaiman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Gaiman Keep in touch? https://linktr.ee/darraghmason Music by Obliqka https://soundcloud.com/obliqka

Alexander Moore is a practising esotericist with over two decades of active experience in several occult systems including Solomonic Magic, Conjure and other folk practices and Traditional Witchcraft. He is proud to provide coaching, mentorship and divination for occultists who are interested in taking their magic and their lives to the next level in a changing world.
From a magical family has been practising magic from an early age. In a candid discourse Alexander outlines his view on the core pillars of magic from a practical perspective and the necessity of being precise with your magic. And he begs the question, if you’re not using magic to make a better, more enjoyable life, whats the point?

In the Plus show we get into the need to do more magic and practice regularly. Alexander talks more about the type of techniques he uses. He discusses how cursing has changed in the last ten years and precautions people should be aware of.  Then he takes us through his thoughts and experiences on gaining and working with familiar spirits. To close out Alexander gives his advice on going to the crossroads.
Enjoy

Show notes:
Alexander’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/the_hexdoctor/

Alexanders Linktree https://linktr.ee/the_hexdoctor

Protection course https://practicaloccult.com/courses/protection/

The Silva Method https://silvamethod.com/

Psalm 51 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2051&version=NIV

Djinn and Tonic https://www.houseofzophiel.net

Born in Angola, Africa, David Beth is the co-owner of Theion Publishing and the founder of the Pandaemonic Current and Hierophant of its associated initiatic groups. University educated in Germany and the USA, he has received various Western esoteric transmissions and is well known for his past work as the former head of Michael Bertiaux’ Voudon Gnostic orders. For the past decade he has focused most of his attention on advanced work with a small group of dedicated esoteric students. David is also a Houngan Asogwe of Haitian Vodou and an initiate of Afro-centric secret societies. Having lived and travelled all over the world, David has now made his home in the South of Germany.

David takes us through how the Black Man of the Sabbath leads the initiate into a different type of consciousness with which to engage the world. This type of consciousness is called ‘Night Consciousness’. The path to this type of consciousness can often require one's worldview to be shattered, a difficult and often horrifying experience.

In the Plus show David takes us deeper into his teaching on death and good and evil. David outlines why every life is unique and sacred. There are some huge concepts discussed here and not to be missed.

Enjoy

Show notes:

Theion Publishing https://theionpublishing.com/Further reading https://kosmic-gnosis.org/beth-supreme-katabasis/
Jessica Grote https://www.jessicagrote.com/Master Leonard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_(demon)
Katabasis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KatabasisDjinn and Tonic event https://www.houseofzophiel.net

Event details https://www.houseofzophiel.net/

The venue is Unstone Grange which is between Sheffield and Chesterfield.

Hope to see you there!

Robert Peter is a chaos magician with an interest in all things Occult. His practice of Deity communication and veneration has found its home in the framework of Catholic belief, specifically the Saints. Robert takes us through how he developed his practice and details some of the successes he’s had with clients through the intercession of the Saints.

In the Plus show we get into more detail on how this style of practice work and how to approach the saints.

Enjoy

Show notes:

Instagram https://instagram.com/rhdeityspecialist?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Patreon https://www.patreon.com/SacredHeartOccultSt Joan of Arc https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=295St Therese of Lisieux https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=105The Child of Prague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_Jesus_of_Prague
Santa Muerte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_MuerteSt Anthony https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=24St Cyprian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Saint_Cyprian40 Servants https://www.adventuresinwoowoo.com/thefortyservants/Grant Morrison Dis info con https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-cxBuRU09wOur Lady of Sorrows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_SorrowsOur Lady of Guadalupe https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=456St Rita of Casica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_of_CasciaEtsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/SacredHeartOccult?fbclid=PAAabNJkiZpXIwUKhdqIybSEuBs5YLbKMCKaPOk0nTTDiHMObuvQESxdDR3R4&load_webview=1&bid=9ngKe4hzm43GtVmHRfFblIaE7RZb

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Dr Christina Oakley-Harrington is Treadwell’s founder and presiding spirit. She was voraciously interested in spirituality and magic since childhood, and grew up in West Africa, Burma, and Chile, only moving to the West at the age of fifteen. In her early twenties, she was heartened to discover Europe’s own native religious traditions and has been a pagan ever since. A former academic, she left university life in 2001 to establish Treadwell’s. These days she serves as a consultant for programs and projects but is usually at the shop. She is the author of two books and numerous articles and was co-founder and literary editor of Abraxas: International Journal for Esoteric Studies.Today we discuss her new book from Black Letter Press - Dreams of Witches. Free, pagan, transgressive: worshippers of Pan, devotees of Diana. The men and women who meet under a full moon in the wild woods danced, sing, made music, and made love; in the home they make potions and mutter spells, be it to curse or cure.

The witch image infused the European imagination down the centuries, appearing in court records, prose, and poetry. The impulse the literature described finally became a practiced mystery religion in the twentieth century, in the form of Wicca as it coalesced in the New Forest in the 1930s and 30s. The poems and passages in this book illustrate the supportive imagination of the New Forest Coven and its most famous initiate, Gerald Gardner. They date from the late medieval period through the Edwardian age, and all were instrumental, influential - inspiring early pagans, and hopefully, too, readers today.

In the Plus show we get into cunning folk. The covens importance around doing no harm and acting with integrity. The body as the source of magical energy and more broadly the adoption of magic and part of ones agency. Christina then poses the question 

Enjoy

Show notes:

Treadwells https://www.treadwells-london.com/Dreams of Witches https://www.blackletter-press.com/product-page/christina-oakley-harrington-dreams-of-witches

Kibbo kif - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/nov/02/kindred-of-the-kibbo-kift-1920s-youth-movement

Margaret Murray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Murray

Gerald Gardener https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Gardner

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Dr Andrew Manns is a historian and the creator behind The Thinker’s Garden, a blog specialising in overlooked history. As editor, he has written and published a variety of historiettes on little-known Bohemians, occultists, and mystics, such as the “Los Angeles Noah” (Reverend J.E. Lewis), Lady Walburga Paget, and Baron Seymour Kirkup. Today takes us through his research into the little known folklore and occult history of the  Auvergne a little-known historic province in central

France. Which he has dubbed the ‘Transylvania of France’.

In the Plus show we get into the legends of Lake Pavin (the storm-raising lake). An interesting angle on the lost children plane crash from Colombia story from earlier in the year. And Andrew tells us about the unique healing tradition of the “Guerisseurs” which is absolutely fascinating. Andrew wraps up with an interesting note on the belief in the area that fairies can be seen at a certain high altitude.

Show notes:
Charles Godfrey Leland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Godfrey_LelandBrotherhood of the Wolf movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIjDB31KfsMThe Beast of Gévaudan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan

The "kind" werewolves story and a deeper explanation on why Auvergne is like Transylvania:
https://visitauvergne.org/occult-auvergne-5-spine-chilling-legends/

The 1588 werewolf tale:
https://visitauvergne.org/a-werewolf-in-auvergne-a-poem/

Skinwalkers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin-walker

The Wendigo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo

Reddit thread by a Navajo police officer on Skinwalkers https://www.reddit.com/r/skinwalkers/comments/db1fgy/skinwalker_info_from_a_navajo_policeman/
The story about the "Two Lovers" (the Clermont-Ferrand senator who rose from the dead to lie by his wife) can actually be found in Historia Francorum, a book by Gregory of Tours https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_of_Tours

The name of the vampire-like female spirits is: "fatsillères"
Puy de Dôme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puy_de_D%C3%B4me

The 16th century witches' Sabbat on the summit of the puy de Dôme: https://visitauvergne.org/the-puy-de-dome-a-mystical-olympus-in-auvergne/

The Raelians ​​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%ABlism

The legends of Lake Pavin (the storm-raising lake):

https://visitauvergne.org/the-mysterious-lake-pavin/

The academic book on Pavin which Andrew contributed to: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-39961-4Colombian lost kids story https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12206055/Colombia-jungle-dad-says-hallucinogenic-drug-used-Prince-Harry-key-searchers-finding-children.html

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Today we welcome Indiana Stones himself, the one and only David Keohan. Hailing from Ireland, David is a Stone lifter, a kettlebell world champion, an artist and a musician. He’s been on a mission to recover Ireland's lost stone lifting culture and has done so through our literature and folklore. We spoke all about his stone lifting journey from his lifting of the fianna stone in Scotland which inspired his own search in Ireland. Culminating in the rediscovery of the stone described by the famous Galway writer Liam O'Flaherty in his short story ‘The Stone’. He has rediscovered 30 testing stones, a remarkable act of reclamation and celebration of this lost tradition. Through this act David has created a remarkable and unique magical act of healing of the multi-generational trauma of Ireland's colonisation. These great testing stones, now rediscovered form a chain back into our ancient past, before colonisation, before christianity and in lifting these stones once more the chain is renewed, in a feat of strength and deep ancestral healing. His work is a brilliant and inspiring intersection of folklore, magic, mythology, and strength. In the Plus show we get into ancestral work, and animism. We talk about Peig Sayers and Ghosts leading us to tell their stories. The death stone of Cú Chulainn, the Irish Hercules and to close out the show I read Liam O'Flaherty’s short story ‘The Stone’. Show notes: David’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/_indiana_st... David’s YouTube    / @davidindianakeohans3566   Duchas.ie https://www.duchas.ie/en Liam O'Flaherty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_O%... David’s article on the Stone of Inishmore THE QUEST FOR THE STONE OF INISHMORE - Ireland The Stone by Liam O’Flaherty https://archive.org/.../shortstorieso... The Aran Islands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aran_Islands The Aran Islands drone footage    • THE ARAN ISLANDS BY DRONE (IRELAND)- ...   Caher Island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caher_I... Pre famine Irish tallest in Europe https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-s... Peig Sayers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peig_Sa... Cú Chulainn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%BA... Feature on my grandfathers book https://roaringwaterjournal.com/2023/... My grandfather's book https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-searc... And here's the photos of the Kusthi wrestlers I mentioned. https://www.darraghmason.com/index/G0... Keep in touch? https://linktr.ee/darraghmason Music by Obliqka https://soundcloud.com/obliqka

Dr. Tomas Vincente is a scholar of ancient religion, magic and esotericism. His past work explores the emergence of Christian monotheism and the resulting decline of the chthonic cults of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. He is dedicated to recovering the integrity of this archaic spirituality of blood and fire, which has been demonised by the Abrahamic religions for two millennia. In the show we discuss his work The Faceless God. The book has a triple focus—Lovecraftian, Egyptian and Sabbatic—which may seem bizarre at first glance. Through an initiated reading of Lovecraft’s fiction, relating especially to the figure of Nyarlathotep, certain hitherto unexplored connections are revealed between European witch lore and the Egyptian mysteries of Osiris and Anubis. The claim that there was a germ of truth beneath the diabolical stereotypes and accusations of European witchcraft was advanced long ago by Margaret Murray, who argued that witchcraft was an organised cult of pagan origin, which had somehow survived the processes of Christianization. Dr Vincente’s argument is much more subtle, and closer in spirit to the more recent research of Carlo Ginzburg. He would not speak of an organised witch cult, but rather of diverse and analogous survivals of shamanistic practice, which carried forward certain symbolic and ritual elements of archaic and pre-Christian origin. The most novel aspect of his argument lies in the unearthing of the deep symbolic resonances between the lore of witchcraft, relating to the black man and the Goat of Mendes, and the archaic fertility cult of the ram-headed Banebdjedet, who was a totemistic representation of Osiris—or more precisely Osiris in union with Ra in his netherworld aspect. In the Plus show we get into similarities between the Dark Man and the King of the Fairies. We discuss the importance of art and artists and what they bring back from the dark womb. We get into why this experience happens? What is the point of it? Dr Vincente goes on to describe the response to this summons is a radical openness to profound mystery not about the application of will. Big stuff. Show notes: https://theionpublishing.com/authors/tomas-vincente/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyarlathotephttps://www.facebook.com/people/Tomas-Vincente/pfbid0sXCvHBXuU7m5LHtDZs1CzYJUjGFLsPZ9ustA13tCXdqSD1ZGA5isNhLxu441MAgJl/?fref=ts

https://skepticaloccultist.com/post/159757289693/the-faceless-god

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Today we welcome back the multi talented Tommie Kelly to the show. Tommie is an Irish artist and writer who has had a lifelong interest in all things Occult and Spirituality. He makes comics, videos, music, podcasts and very occasional blog posts, and is probably best known for his oracle deck The Forty Servants.

In the show Tommie recounts having had a hard year and figuring out that he was packaging his magick badly. We go over the elemental nature of success and how things collapsing can in fact be your magick working.

In the Plus show we get into speaking Irish, the Dark Man in Irish Folklore, the experience of shifting. Tommie’s remarkable experiences with the entity “Black” and saturnine synchronicities.

Show notes:
Tommie's website:  http://AdventuresInWooWoo.com
Tommie's twitter: https://twitter.com/TommieKelly
Tommie's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tommiekelly
Tommie’s music: https://tommiekelly.bandcamp.com/
The Nidana cards: https://www.adventuresinwoowoo.com/nidanacards/
The Forty Servants: https://www.adventuresinwoowoo.com/thefortyservants/
Contacting BLACK, a member of The Secret Chiefs
March 3rd 2022 -
The Introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiLRdMhJqrQ
March 23rd 2022 - The Six Petals:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thoeXx7h4V0
March 29th 2022 - The Dawn Ritual:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ5M06fjfWA
April 14th 2022 - Spud's Inquiries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiGmHYb9zRY
May 25th 2022 - The Ultraterrestrial Hunt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS2j7_zi9jk
June 13th 2022 - Three Questions for Black: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrOMTjgffE0
Thoughts: https://www.adventuresinwoowoo.com/?na=view&id=49
August 7th 2023  - Return of The Black: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCji_u-jEts
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Wetiko is an Algonquin word for a cannibalistic spirit that is driven by greed, excess, and selfish consumption. It is a virus of the mind that underlies much evil and destruction n the world.
Author and researcher Paul Levy joins us today to discuss his work on the concept of Yet, and reveals that, encoded within wetiko itself lies the very medicine needed to combat the mind-virus and heal both ourselves and our world.  
A pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, Paul is a wounded healer in private practice, helping others who are also awakening to the dreamlike nature of reality. His work has gone through three phases: because of his intense interest in dreams (both night dreams and the dreamlike nature of reality), he was first known as "the dream guy." After writing DispellingWetiko, he became associated with the idea of wetiko. After the publication of The Quantum Revelation, he is now seen as connected with quantum physics. All three aspects - dreams, wetiko and quantum physics are interconnected and complementary facets of a deeper reality into which he is continually deepening his investigation.
He is the author of The Madness of George Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis (2006), Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil (2013), Awakened by Darkness: When Evil Becomes Your Father (2015) and The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality (2018). A Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for over 30 years, he has intimately studied with some of the greatest spiritual masters of Tibet and Burma. He was the coordinator of the Portland chapter of the PadmaSambhava Buddhist Center for over twenty years.

Show notes:
Paul's website https://www.awakeninthedream.com
Wetiko https://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/seeing-wetiko-on-capitalism-mind-viruses-and-antidotes-for-a-world-in-transition/
Philip K Dick https://www.britannica.com/biography/Philip-K-Dick
The Black Iron Prison https://discordia.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Iron_Prison
Valis https://bookshop.org/p/books/valis-philip-k-dick/8407714
Colin Wilson https://www.britannica.com/biography/Colin-Wilson
The Mind Parasites review https://realitystudio.org/texts/reviews/mind-parasites/
The Mind Parasites https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-mind-parasites-colin-wilson/12274723?ean=9780974935997 

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Today we welcome Peter Hine and Stephen Buckley of the Vayse podcast Peter C Hine is a lawyer, a writer and a dirt worshiping heathen. Stephen James Buckley is an electronic musician and audio producer. Their podcast was born out of their experiences and exploration into the world of the weird and the mystic.
In the show we get into their experiences with the subconscious and dreaming in particular. Peter takes us through an extraordinary experience he attributes to the great God Pan and details how it changed their perception and interaction with nature.

We get into the resonance of childhood nightmares in adulthood and the connections between spirits, symbols and animals.

In the Plus show we get into the spiritual dynamics between the organic and inorganic, Rudolf Steiner’s work, experiencing animal consciousness, the magic of fungus, doing something good, the dark man’s PR drive and Peter’s Dark Man experiences and the synchronicities surrounding it and dealing with the fear generated from this kind of encounter.
Enjoy and be sure to check out the Vayse podcast!
Show notes:
Vayse website https://www.vayse.co.uk/Mugwort and herbs for dreaming https://commonwealthherbs.com/mugwort-for-dreaming/Steiner on Ahriman https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/AhrDec_index.htmlMycorrhizae Network https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWD_1Nq6iwQ  
VYS0007 dream experiments https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0007?t=0

I thought listeners might enjoy this sample of the Djinn lecture series on the Spirit Box patron. In this lecture I get into Hybridism and the forms djinn appear in.

This involves the folkloric view on djinn hybridism and how it correlates with fairy lore and the types of forms the djinn are said to take. If this is of interest come and check out the rest of the lectures https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox Quick correction I call Gef the Mongoose 'Jed' in error towards the end of the video. Show notes & further reading: Sargon of Akkad https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sargon Child mortality rate (under five years old) in the United Kingdom from 1800 to 2020* https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041714/united-kingdom-all-time-child-mortality-rate/ Aisha Qandisha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aicha_Kandicha Andro Man http://witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.caserecord&caseref=C%2FEGD%2F2172&search_type=searchaccused&search_string=lastname Get the mongoose https://medium.com/illumination/the-bizarre-case-of-gef-the-talking-mongoose-df4c69131755 Bridget Cleary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Bridget_Cleary

Today we welcome back to the Spirit Box the wonderful Mademoiselle Vendredi. Mme Vendredi is a black magician who in her previous appearance on the show took us through her work with Sigils, Servitors and her own brand of seduction magick.
Today she’ll be taking us the reality of Djinn work, Abramelin square magick and working with the The Forbidden Grimoire of Harut and Marut Book by Egyptian Sorcerer Al-Toukh.

We will also go through a recent encounter with what Mme Vendredi believes was a djinn possessed person. Our guest recounts a trip to Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi, home to 10,000 djinns earlier this year and goes over the dangers of practicing magic in the Middle East sharing a recent case of magickians being imprisoned and executed. 

In the Plus show we continue discussing the dangers of practicing sorcery in the middle east. And how this has led to memorising magickal work and the importance in servitor magick as camouflage.  Finally she explains the difference between Demon and Djinn magic, specifically in how the spirits behave and how with the djinn there is waves of after effects.

It's good stuff, enjoy.

Show notes:
Mme Vendredi links https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MademoiselleV/membership?fbclid=PAAabBXIRKTIw4VN4GoyMSnZ2N85mNB-GZDtoN9Bxhk-0hRyEDbbhoYMOS-_Y
City of Djinns (Feroz Shah Kotla) https://www.darraghmason.com/index/G0000VFRBfQCfShI 

oday we welcome Michael Le Flem to discuss his book Visions of Atlantis: Reclaiming our Lost Ancient Legacy.

Michael Le Flem, M.A. is a researcher, adjunct professor of history and philosophy, columnist for New Dawn Magazine, a scuba diver and guitarist. He grew up in South Florida, and attended Florida State University, where he studied Western intellectual history and U.S. foreign policy.
People the world over have grappled with the story of Atlantis for millennia. How much is fact? How much is fiction? How much is something else, filtered through the obscuring lens of time?

Using clairvoyant impressions from Edgar Cayce, Frederick Oliver, Rudolf Steiner, Barbara Hand Clow, Michael Le Flem builds a concerted scientific, philosophical and historical investigation of humanity's antediluvian achievements and Atlantis' tragic demise.

At the same time, readers will see just how the story of Atlantis has evolved from the seminal account passed down by Plato almost 2,400 years ago into those of the present day, as we engage with some of its strongest proponents and harshest critics alike. More than just a dry catalog of Atlantean footnotes, Visions of Atlantis strikes at the core of the great divide between materialist reductionism and the frontiers of metaphysics, enjoining readers to reconsider some of their most deeply held beliefs about ancient technology, psychic phenomena, reincarnation, the vast unknown past, and our uncertain future.

In the Plus show we get into Cuban Anomaly and Azores pyramid. We also discuss the Bosnian pyramid and the mysteries of the polar regions... and creativity and channelling.

Show notes:
Michael’s Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=91690436

Visions of Atlantis https://a.co/d/0QR8vKJ

Michael’s website https://www.michaelleflem.com/

A dweller on two planets https://archive.org/details/adwellerontwoplanets_202002

Atlantis: the antediluvian world https://archive.org/details/atlantisantedilu00donnuoft

Bosnian Pyramids https://www.darraghmason.com/index/G0000sH9fSOZ4aHI 

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Today we welcome Gordon MacLellan to the Spirit Box to discuss his book Sacred Animals He is a writer, storyteller, animist pagan and environmentalist who has recognised that to really involve people with a renewed interest in, and commitment to, the world around us we may need more than traditional stories or religious parables and moral fables. The stories that grow from direct experience are powerful ways of building connections, building a sense of belonging and when we pare away the green-washing, the jargon, the endless blurbs, a lot of environmental urgency and anxiety just now can come down to connection: to renewing (or refreshing) that sense of really being part of the world. This connection forms a deeper purpose, one of rewilding the soul. His book Sacred Animals is not always animals to see or touch or run away from, but animals to see with the eyes of your mind, to encounter in the other ways. Animals to wonder over in the Otherworld and in this, the physical, world. The heart of this book is a spiritual adventure into contact and friendship with the animal world. It draws on ancient knowledge, surviving traditions, memories of other customs and the simple imagination that helps fill in the gaps. In the Plus show we discuss rewilding the soul. We discuss the human - nature divide and Gordon treats us to one of his wonderful Kelpie stories. Show notes: Ordering books: https://creepingtoad.blogspot.com/2023/05/sacred-animals-new-book.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/creepingtoad Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/creepingtoad Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creepingtoad/ Website: https://creepingtoad.com/ Blog: https://creepingtoad.blogspot.com/ Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Creepingtoad Films on youtube mentioned in conversation: Trolls: https://youtu.be/S-XtWbAC3bQ Pond ripples: https://youtu.be/6xLPhiosBfg Keep in touch? https://linktr.ee/darraghmason Music by Obliqka https://soundcloud.com/obliqka

Today we welcome back the great Joshua Cutchin to discuss his masterwork of scholarship and research, Ecology of Souls This is a comprehensive dive into the overlaps between a huge range of mythological, paranormal and consciousness phenomena. We live our entire lives knowing that death awaits us. The hopeful believe—they insist—that some part of us endures after we make our final transition. Their convictions are corroborated by eyewitnesses who swear to have seen spirits of the dead haunting the living... and even appearing during alien abductions. Is the UFO mystery reaching out to us from beyond the stars... or from beyond the grave? This staggering implication demands not only scrutiny of the UFO phenomenon but nearly every unexplained mystery haunting us today. In the Plus show we get into why Ireland is such a hotspot. What causes a hotspot in the first place? Joshua’s favourite story from the collection. Which religion has the best take on death in his opinion? And his new book on fairies in film. Show notes: Joshua’s website https://www.joshuacutchin.com/ Ecology of Souls https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ecology-Soul... Keep in touch? https://linktr.ee/darraghmason Music by Obliqka https://soundcloud.com/obliqka

Today we welcome back the great Phil Hine on his new book Queerying Occultures.

What is Queerying Occultures? 'Queerying' is a portmanteau word from 'Queer’ and 'Query'—classic Phil Hine word play. Occulture is another portmanteau word meaning 'Hidden Culture' (from ‘Occult’ and 'Culture').

The occult is Queer. Historically. Intrinsically. Radically. Wonderfully Queer. Yet at times this essential fact can feel unacknowledged in wider Occulture dialogues. Addressing this, Phil Hine’s Queerying Occultures is a collection of queer-themed essays exploring, questioning and reflecting on the diverse trajectories that might arise from applying queer questioning to occultural themes and practices. Drawing on perspectives from Queer Theory, history, Continental Philosophy, and shared experience, Hine explores subjects as diverse as Shamanism and gender-variance; the rise of the Queer Pagan approaches; the uncomfortable history of occult homophobia; Queer perspectives on Tantra, Pan, Sacred Spaces, and Crowley in Boy Bar Berlin. This far-reaching, necessary book is both a celebratory resistance text and indispensable investigation of the Queer in Occulture.

In the Plus show we get into the Aghori, ideas on the left hand path and the innate queerness of the left hand path. The Shivite story of the woman who became a ghoul. We get into the history of Masquerade balls, and discuss the relationship between the battle brothers Cuchullian & Ferdia and the curse of Macha of birth pain on the men of Ulster

If you want to hear the plus show, it’s very simple to do, simply join the patreon and get the entire Plus show back catalogue and all the bonus show extras. If you are watching this on YouTube or any other video platform remember to subscribe.

Show notes: Signup for Phil’s substack newsletter https://enfolding.org/unfoldings-a-substack-newsletter/ Queerying Occultures from Original Falcon Press https://originalfalcon.com/queerying-occultures.php Phil's Twitter - https://twitter.com/PhilH86835657 Keep in touch? https://linktr.ee/darraghmason Music by Obliqka https://soundcloud.com/obliqka

Salicrow is a natural psychic medium who weaves the traditions of her Irish Traveler and Blackfoot heritage with modern magical techniques. For more than 30 years she has worked as a spirit channel, seer, and intuitive healer, offering readings and teaching workshops throughout the United States and internationally. She is the author of several books and today we are discussing her latest book, Spirit Speaker: A medium’s guide to Death and Dying/

In this compassionate and straightforward guide to the spiritual process of dying and what happens after death, psychic medium Salicrow answers the most common questions asked by her clients over her decades of work as a spirit speaker. Seeking to normalize the spiritual aspects of end-of-life care, she explains how active dying exists outside of normal reality, in a state in which the dying person and their caregivers often experience a heightened state of consciousness. Describing how the spirit is separate from the body and continues to exist after death, she shares thought-provoking stories of spirit contact and synchronicities that occurred for those actively involved in the dying process. She reveals how these encounters are common and act as guideposts along the journey into death, helping to ease the transition. She offers simple techniques for helping loved ones who are stuck or struggling to cross over and shares practices designed to help honour our beloved dead and develop living relationships with our ancestral spirits.

Presenting an outline of what may be experienced during the dying process and beyond, Salicrow explores the time when a soul is actively dying or recently departed. She explains the multiple ways spirits reach out to communicate with us and provides a deep understanding of the signs, symbols, and sensations that spirits use to contact us as well as ways to strengthen that connection. She also explores challenging situations such as suicide, murder, and healing unresolved issues with the dead.

Crafted through years of spirit communication sessions, this guide details how the spirit world works while revealing the beauty, healing, and love that exist in death.

In the Plus show we get into the subject of body locks which keep people stuck in their bodies when dying. Salicrow also takes us through the moving account of being with her close friend during their assisted suicide. We go through the importance of a practical approach to the spirit world and the state of mind that is most conducive to spirit communication. Salicrow takes us through the many ways in which the beloved dead communicate with us and visit us from time to time. We wrap up discussing how there has been a spike in people having psychic experiences and how Spirit Speaker came out of that as a way to address this and help people navigate these experiences.

Show notes:
Sali’s website https://www.salicrow.com/
Sali’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/salicrow/
Sali’s Facebook https://www.facebook.com/salicrowpsychicmedium/ Spirit Speaker https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/spirit-speaker-a-medium-s-guide-to-death-and-dying-salicrow/7230037?ean=9781644117286

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Today we welcome medium, occult practitioner and spiritual cleaner Andy Starkweather.

Andy has been a medium for over 20 years ago and has had ‘a wild ride’. Everything from being attacked by spirits to bizarre animal interactions to cleansing properties of trapped spirits and dealing more sinister entities.

Andy has a wealth of information derived from practical experience and regales us with many stories from his 20 years of work as a medium. One thing I really found useful was Andy’s view on boundaries and how he would employ discernment when working with spirits.

In the Plus show we get into some of Andy’s cases and strategies employed to deal with them, ranging from hauntings to poltergeists to demons. This is rich stuff. We also go through the challenges of shadow work and the occult… spoiler, it ain’t pretty. To close we discuss and compare our own past life regression experiences.

Enjoy!

Show notes:

https://instagram.com/starkweather_93?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

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Today we are joined by J.M. Hamade on the subject of Al- Khidr.

J.M. Hamade is an interdisciplinary artist, astrologer, writer, and educator residing in New York City. Focusing on the aesthetics of esoterica and the occult, they’re work bridges contemporary artistic practice with archaic forms of knowing. They have lectured, exhibited, and enacted live performances in the conjuration of phantom forms and ritual magic.

Al-Khidr is a figure described but not mentioned by name in the Quran as a righteous servant of God possessing great wisdom or mystic knowledge. In various Islamic and non-Islamic traditions, Khidr is described as a messenger, who guards the sea, teaches secret knowledge and aids those in distress. The meaning of the name has traditionally been taken to be "the Green One" or "the Verdant One". Which connects him to folkloric figures such as the green man and spirits of spring and of ‘greening’. We discuss Khidr’s liminal nature and his role as guide and get into the mysteries of the northern poles.
In the Plus show we discuss Khidr’s association with being two horned and Mose’s being depicted with two horns. We get into the ideas around the non-human language of nature and what Khidr as a spirit of creativity means to our guest. To close we get into the similarities between Khidr and Krishna.
Enjoy!
Show notes:
https://starnightdwell.com/

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Today we welcome magicians and the hosts of the Soapbox podcast. Reverend Janglebones and Kurt Huggins. Reverend Janglebones is an animist practitioner, prayer writer, course facilitator, Buddhist dabbler, recovered addict, podcast host, musician, and accidental Diogenes channeler. Kurt is a New York times bestselling illustrator who has worked in comics, films, and television. A long time spelunker of the imagination and believer that all creative acts are acts of magic he does his best to stumble into profundity as a co-host of the soapbox podcast.

In the show we talk about the concept of ‘holding the post’ for the imagination meaning there’s more to what’s going around you than you might realise. We discuss in relation to one's Dharma. We also discuss my love of Mudlarkers on YouTube and Arthur Beale jumpers.

In the Plus show we discuss the influence of Angels in the creation of Soap Box and how podcasting has solidified magic for them. We talk to the initiation of addiction and get into Rev's courses, Thai amulets work and the use of Merit in magic and Rev’s astonishing approach to caving and visionary work. 

Show notes:
Kurt’s website http://www.kurthuggins.com/
Rev Janglebones links https://linktr.ee/reverendjanglebones
Soap Box Podcast https://rss.com/podcasts/thesoapbox/
Mudlarker magical offerings https://youtu.be/eJeR1xQnSa8?t=2058
Darragh's favourite jumpers https://arthurbeale.co.uk

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Music by Obliqka https://soundcloud.com/obliqka 

The brilliant Sasha Ravitch is back on the Spirit Box!  Sasha is a practitioner of Stellar Witchcraft, passionate Astrolater, and Devotional and Oracular Writer. She seeks out meaning, magic, patterns, connection, and intimate co-creation betwixt the Self and the Other in every golden meadow, ocean floor, and subway station available to her. Her desire to blur the line between the ensorceled forest of Elphame and the mundane road-more-traveled is a priority from the moment she wakes up, to the moment she falls asleep. In the show Sasha discusses her work in Stellar witchcraft and the experience of being the vessel for received writing. How you undergo changes in lifestyle in preparation of the work to come.   

Now you may notice some clunky edits in the show, this is due to some pauses in the conversation to compare magical notes which are not for the airwaves. Sorry to be all secret squirrel about it but rules are rules.  In the Plus show we discuss the process of finishing a book and our experiences with the Witchfather, the Darkman.  

Enjoy!  

Show notes:
Sasha’s website https://www.sasharavitch.com/
Sasha’s patreon https://www.patreon.com/sasharavitch
Sasha’s Insta https://www.instagram.com/sasha.ravitch/

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Today we welcome back the one and only Peter Mark Adams! In his new book Hagia Sophia / Sanctum of Kronos, he presents a remarkable study of the esoteric beliefs and spiritual traditions contained within the architectural and decorative features of Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia.

Hagia Sophia / Sanctum of Kronos tells the story of the building's hidden purpose: to conceal and preserve a sacred mystery in the face of rising Christian tyranny, right under the nose of Constantinople's Christian ascendancy. Represented in the sacred geometry, light, materials, and architecture of this astounding and powerful building, this sacred teaching is revealed by Adams’ in his remarkable thesis.

As with Adams’s previous books, this is a meticulously researched, captivating and illuminating piece of work. Punctuated with carefully selected, evocative photography and illustrations, it deconstructs the Hagia Sophia to reveal its esoteric heart.

Culturally, the structure acts as a repository for the metaphysical preoccupations of a Hellenistic culture that evolved from the great mystery cults of antiquity to become the metaphysical engine of subsequent European thought.

In the Plus show we discussed why Saturn is a focal point of Peter’s research and how the other plays a part in his creative process. We get into his next project in this Saturnian current  and the relationship with providence and fate. We wrap up the show on the subject of energy work and healing and how this is foundational to Peter’s work and indeed his life

Show notes:
Scarlet Imprint title information  
Sanctum of Kronos pre-order
petermarkadams.com/
Icons of Sound - Total Sacred Immersion Hagia Sophia
Power of the Healing Field

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Music by Obliqka
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For episode 6, season 2 we welcome podcast host, folklorist, researcher and Lover of all things wyrd Jo Hickey-Hall.

Jo is the researcher behind The ‘Modern Fairy Sightings‘ Project which collects and preserves contemporary experiences and explores the resistant cultural taboo surrounding disclosure. It also provides a community for people to share their experiences with others who have experienced similar.

She is also the host and creator of The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast which was launched in 2020 and features fairy encounters told first hand.

Jo goes through the incredible healing experience she had which lay the foundations for the sequence of events that would lead to the creation of the Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast and how diamonic activity seemed to be directly involved in the project. Pulling that thread we discuss how we, like many others, started a podcast on the subject of entities and spirits around the same time and how this seemed to be a compulsion.

In the Plus show we discuss the fairy teas Jo uses to help build a connection with the fae. We discuss listening to children in relation to their experiences with entities and spirits and letting them express themselves. Jo stresses the importance of not dismissing childrens accounts but helping them navigate the other.

To close out the plus show Jo recounts her favourite story from The Modern Fairy Sightings podcast… no spoilers but it's astonishing.


Show notes:
Jo’s website
The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast
Jo’s Patreon
The Modern Fairy Sightings Facebook Group
Podcast Instagram
Podcast Twitter

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Today we are joined by Traditional witch and host of the Lavender Scare podcast, Keanu Baxter.  

Keanu takes us through their journey into witchcraft, rootwork and ancestral magick and demonstrates the need for patience and consistency in practice. We discuss their relationship with Hecate and Lucifer respectively and how these two great spirits complement each other. We get into animism and witchcraft and the nature of transformation and how igniting the witch flame affects not just our magick but our creative endeavours and our communication.  

Keanu takes us through the goal of their show and how they use their podcast as a creative outlet, with music and guests chatting the weird, wild places, occult and queerness of witchcraft. A place for folks to feel safe and seen and have fun.  

In the Plus show Keanu explains how they magickally play with technology incorporating the planetary hertz sounds in their witchcraft. They discuss how their ancestors come to the fore when working with plant medicines and we get a remarkable account of their work with the spirit of the San Pedro cactus and the experience known as the ascent into the sun.  

Show notes:
Keanu’s Instagram
Lavender Scare Podcast
Sound of Saturn and Saturn rings
Sound of Venus

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Today we are joined by Scottish witch Lucken Hare. Lucken is a traditional witch and has a relationship with The Dark Man. In the show we go through how that came about for Lucken, what the experience was like, and how it changed him.  

Lucken takes us through his experiences with what he terms his ‘fetch’. This is is a form of possession during which he experiences an animal consciousness, a form of shapeshifting. It is a remarkable conversation and one I took a lot from.  

In the Plus show we discuss how the Dark Man can be a tough teacher and how frightening encounters with him can be and we get into the importance of getting out of your own way to enable creative flow states.   

Speaking of creativity and the Dark Man, Bob Dylan’s odd comments about the ‘Chief Commander of the world come up, the links to which are in the show notes. We go on to discuss spirit communication with the Dark Man, what it’s like and what comes through. Further to that we get into the physical impact of this current on the body.  

Show notes:
Lucken Hare’s blog https://theluckenhare33.wordpress.com/  
Lucken Hare's instagram https://instagram.com/luckenhare?igsh...
Bob Dylan interview https://youtu.be/m_wAZ02JUtM  
Magic in Dylan’s song writing https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Fh3pAJ...

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For episode #3 of season 2 we are joined by magician and body training expert Emmet Louis. Emmet has spent a long time meandering through various systems of Western esotericism. A chance encounter with the system of G.I Gurdjieff radically altered his life and set him on his current path,  His work currently is focused on the combination of body training with an emphasis on its interaction with spirit work and energy mechanics. For the last eight years he has studied under a lineage of Daoist Magick.  

In the show we discuss the reality of martial arts and body training and Emmet recounts some interesting psychedelic adventures and spirit contact in rural Ireland. We also have a guest appearance from the Dark Man.   

In the Plus show we discuss being pushed to live in rural areas, the wide variety of spirits that can be found there… specifically what it's like dealing with shadow people. We also discuss how specific physical exercises can be a gate to nonduality.  Wonderful stuff.  

In the Plus show we discuss being pushed to live in rural areas, the wide variety of spirits that can be found there… specifically what it's like dealing with shadow people. We also discuss how specific physical exercises can be a gate to non-duality.  

Show notes:
https://ggurdjieff.com/

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For episode #2 of season 2 we are joined by author and journalist Mike Magee.

Mike Magee is a well-known name to lovers and practitioners of Tantra to whom he has offered for decades the essential, condensed contents of many Tantras of the medieval period. This book is a fruit of his maturity and vast experience. Containing reliable translations and many Kālī Vidyàs, it is a valuable manual for practitioners and an important source for scholars.

Magee has written since the 1960s on matters related to occult and esoteric religions. In 1971 he started a small occult magazine called Azoth, and in 1973 in conjunction with David Hall, and his girlfriend Janet Bailey, started a more ambitious six monthly magazine called SOTHiS. In 1978, he went to India and met with an English tantrik guru (and former student of Aleister Crowley) called HH Shri Gurudev Mahendranath (1911–1992) who was a guru of the Uttarakaula Tantric Order of northern India. Mahendranath gave him the title of a guru and a charter to form a group of students. Magee took the tantrik name of Lokanath. Later this was to become a nucleus for the "Arcane Magical Order of the Knights of Shambhala" (AMOOKOS). This group was highly influential, particularly in the way it brought Tantrik teachings to the West.

Kali Magic brings together Mike Magee’s decades of experience in translating and elucidating tantrik texts. The first section—Sadhana—explores the ritual worship of Kali through mantra, her various aspects, and her yantras. The second section—Tantras—includes new English translations of the Matrkabheda, Todala, and Yoni tantras, plus two Kali Upaniṣads and abstracts of ten tantras related to the worship of the goddess. With a comprehensive bibliography and glossary of key terms, Kali Magic will be of great value to devotees and scholars of the goddess alike.

In the Plus show we discuss some of the rituals in Kali magic in relation to Western Ritual magic. We go through how Kali represents the killing of Ego. Tantra the similarity between sex and death. The importance of waking up. And how Mike sourced the materials found in the book.

Show notes:
https://shivashakti.com/
https://www.twistedtrunkbooks.com/
https://www.twistedtrunkbooks.com/items
https://enfolding.org/books/
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Mike-Magee/author/B0B86CGGR6

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For episode #1 of season 2 we are joined by author and translator David Pantano to discuss the recent publication ‘The Hermetic Physican’ on Giuliano Kremmerz.  Giuliano Kremmerz (1861–1930), born Ciro Formisano, was one of the most influential Italian occultists, alchemists, and hermetic masters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, though he remains almost unknown to English readers.

In 1896, Kremmerz began writing about natural and divine magic, healing, and alchemy through the journal Il Mondo Secreto (The Secret World). At the same time, he founded a school known as the Schola Philosophica Hermetica Classica Italica as well as a magical group, the Therapeutic and Magical Fraternity of Myriam. Within the Myriam, he sought to use hermetic, magical, andPythagorean principles to harness the power of the psyche and convey collective energies for therapeutic purposes and distance healing. His initiatic order would become the principal esoteric society in Italy—comparable to its British counterpart, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn—but forced to be a carefully guarded secret as Mussolini’s government rose to power.

In this unique compilation of essays, David presents an in-depth study of Kremmerz’s life and work by his student and initiate, Italian esotericist Marco Daffi. Throughout this collection, David Pantano provides extensive annotations, offering the English reader essential historical and mystical context for Daffi’s work. Connecting to untranslated Italian texts and elucidating Daffi’s poetic style, Pantano’s commentary reveals the unique tradition of Italian esoterism.  

In the Plus show we discuss the Fraternity of Myriam today, and its current state. Further to that David talks about how the adepts of the order would work with the Aeon entities. And we unpack what the Aeon spirits are?  We then go on to discuss he charms used in the order to engage with the Aeon spirits   

Show notes:
https://www.innertraditions.com/author/david-pantano   

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For episode 101 we are joined by by the immensely talented Alkistis Dimech.

Alkistis is an artist, dancer-choreographer and writer exploring the occulted dimensions of the carnal body and its subtle anatomy. Her art and praxis is grounded in ankoku butô (dark dance), which she has practised since 2002.

With Peter Grey, Alkistis is the co-founder of Scarlet Imprint, the leading independent press which publishes practitioner-oriented works on magic, esotericism and the occult.

She has performed in the UK, Europe and the United States, solo and in collaboration with musicians and artists and spoken on her practice and given workshops at conferences and events in the UK, Europe and the United States.

In the show Alkistis explains Butô as a form of expression and goes through what it means to her in terms of the unfolding of consciousness in movement. She goes on to discuss the body in as a vehicle for mantic vision and magic. Alkistis also gives her thoughts on the witches dance.

In the Plus show we discuss the dangers of digital immersion of the self and how unplugging from digital is liberating and important for ones wellbeing. We also have a free flowing chat about the joys and struggles of having a relationship with one's garden. Naturally this is my fault as I tend to lose the run of myself when anyone mentions their garden in passing. We also go into recovery after the energetic drain one can experience after ritual work.

Enjoy!

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https://www.alkistisdimech.com
https://scarletimprint.com

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For episode 100 we are joined by hereditary witch, writer and creator Shullie H. Porter who takes through her extraordinary life working with the Dark Man. This is an intriguing conversation and one, those of you who have been listening for some time will know features a prominent topic on this show.

Shullie’s mother was a gifted Cunning woman from whom Shullie learned the nature of her gifts. Born dead, Shullie was brought back and death has featured in her life ever since from the ability to see the dead to multiple near death experiences. Through all the experiences she takes us through there Dark Man was never far from her.

In the Plus show we get deeper into the topic and discuss the nature of working with the Dark man and Shullie warns against the personification of deities, stressing the need for boundaries. She goes on to warn against making flippant deals with the Dark Man, he is the Devil after all. We also go into how proximity to nature and borders can facilitate working with the Dark Man.

Shullie is a gifted artist so do check out her Etsy store and instagram for some gothic delights in the links below

Show notes:
https://www.instagram.com/thedelightful_mrsp/
https://thedelightfulmrsp.com
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TheDelightfulMrsP

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For episode 99 we are joined once again by Geoff Thompson. A prolific author and teacher. He is a BAFTA award winning writer. He is a world renowned martial artist and has taught seminars for Chuck Norris. He has a 7th Degree Black belt in Shotokan Karate along with a 1st Degree Black Belt in Judo. He worked as a night-club doorman for about 10 years in various clubs. He became a doorman to face and overcome his fear of violent confrontation.

He has written fifty books, several multi-award-winning films, three stage plays and hundreds of articles, many published in national magazines and broadsheets.

In the show we discuss the shadow and how irrespective of what’s going on in the outside world no matter how crazy it is, all change starts within and in facing our shadow and our individual behaviour.

In the Plus show Geoff explains, how in looking to grow we can find happiness. How the divine finds the optimum route for us, we just need to listen. Geoff explains how perceptions become reality in an absolute sense. In that we create, we maintain and we dissolve our reality. Fundamentally we need to work on ourselves and be distracted by the outside world via what he terms as Radical ownership. In doing so challenges will arise in the form of our shadows, We must catch these shadows at the level of there provocation. He asks the question of us - who are you when you’re in the dark at night?

Enjoy

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https://www.instagram.com/geoff_thompson_official/

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For episode 98 we are joined by author  Andrew Collins.

Andrew Collins is a science and history writer who has been investigating the origins of human civilization since 1995. He is the co-discoverer of a massive cave complex beneath the Giza plateau, now known as “Collins’ Cave.” The author of several books, including Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods, he lives in Essex, England.

In this show Andrew discusses his new book Origins of the Gods co-written with Gregory little.

It’s a remarkable study taking us from Göbekli Tepe in Turkey to the Egyptian pyramids, from the stone circles of Europe to the mound complexes of the Americas, Andrew Collins and Gregory L. Little show how, our ancestors built permanent sites of ceremonial activity where geomagnetic and gravitational anomalies have been recorded.

In the show Andrew goes into how the earliest forms of animism and shamanism began at sites like the Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia and in particular Qesem Cave in Israel more than 400,000 years ago. He explains how shamanic rituals and altered states of consciousness combine with the natural forces of the earth to create portals for contact with otherworldly realms—in other words, the gods of our ancestors were the result of an interaction between human consciousness and transdimensional intelligence.

Andrew discusses the science of quantum entanglement and David Bohm’s theory of Implicate order which support his own theories on what’s happening with these portals and the ultraterrestrial, possibly multidimensional intelligences that appear.

Show notes:
www.andrewcollins.com
Origins of the Gods
Implicate order https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicate_and_explicate_order
David Bohm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bohm
Qesem Cave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qesem_cave

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Dr Simon Young is a British folklore historian based in Italy. He has written extensively on the nineteenth-century supernatural. His book The Boggart (from Exeter University Press) and The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends (from Mississippi University Press) are both out in 2022. He is the editor of Exeter New Approaches to Legends, Folklore and Popular Legends .

Dr. Young has undertaken the biggest folklore survey of its kind, on behalf of the Fairy Investigation Society.  A Cambridge-educated historian Dr. Young,  revived the society for a new fairy census - 60 years on from the last one. It gathered details of as many fairy sightings from the past century as possible and to measure contemporary attitudes to fairies, the details of which he shares with us in the show.

Simon briefly discusses his new title ‘The Boggart, Folklore, History, Place-names and Dialect. Detailing the little-studied and once much-feared boggart is a supernatural being from the north of England. .

We discuss the Wollaton Gnomes - a famous sighting that happened in 1979 in Nottingham, England. A  small group of children were wandering the park early one evening when much to their surprise they were chased by gnomes in motor cars!

In the Plus section of the show we discuss how children's cultural trends and images can become folkloric figures in their own right and create moral panics. We discuss the nightmare and the interest fairies have in human sexuality. Simon goes into detail how fairy interactions have changed over the last 200 years from more intense, sometimes physical encounters to more sedate sightings. The subject of UFOs and the arguments for and against the fairy analogues come up and we explore some interesting ideas around the men in black and the wider thematic interrelations between the phenomenons. Simon goes on to describe the fairies as ‘social beings’ and how they represent a distorted mirror of our own society which provides a way we can think of ourselves outside the box.

Show notes:
Simon’s academia page: https://independent.academia.edu/SimonYoung43
Boggart & Banshee Podcast: http://www.strangehistory.net/podcast/
Simon’s new Boggart book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boggart-Folklore-History-Placenames-Approaches/dp/1905816901/ref
More on Boggarts: https://folklorethursday.com/folktales/the-boggart-a-study-in-shadows/
The Fairy census: http://www.fairyist.com/survey/
The Wollaton Gnomes: https://faeryfolklorist.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-wollaton-park-gnomes.html
Press articles on Simon’s work:
https://metro.co.uk/2017/12/06/people-sex-outdoors-joined-sexy-fairies-magical-dogging-7136692/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5156475/Fairies-them.html
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/return-of-the-fairy-hunters

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Dr. Scott Taylor is the President of the Expanded Awareness Institute. EAI helps people curious about near-death experiences explore what that experience means to them and to our culture as a whole.

Dr Taylor has served as President and Executive Director of The Monroe Institute. He has been a trainer for The Monroe Institute since 1985. He is an expert in the use of binaural beat technology to achieve and hold expanded states of consciousness.

He is also the author and voice of six best-selling CDs of guided meditations on near-death experiences in his Into the Light series. He is a spiritual teacher, speaker and researcher on near-death experiences.

Dr Taylor is also an experiencer and in the show recounts his own moving ‘shared death experience’. We go on to discuss, what happens in NDE’s, what in fact is ‘the light’ and how NDE’s are malleable, participatory experiences.

In the Plus show we get into dimension sliding, folklore analogs for the NDA entity experience. We also discuss the strangest story he ever heard in this territory and finally the importance of meditation in order to be focused when in an expanded state of consciousness.

He reflects on how some of the frightening things people experience are metaphors designed to get our attention and how meditators tend to do better in these cases. Dr Taylor then goes into detail on how binaural beats can be used to induce the same state as experiences during NDEs.

Good stuff enjoy,

Show notes:
Website: https://neardeathmeditations.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM62CGQRwgxnYbshkhjVMeQ
The Afterlife files: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw_bDDnpxi0RHiKVm9iwfMQ

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For episode 95 we are joined by Psychic Medium Jim Hunt from the TV show "Knock Knock Ghost" (currently available on Amazon Prime). Jim is an acclaimed Psychic Medium who became aware of his sixth sense at the early age of five. Born in Montreal to a half Native Psychic mother, he was raised, nurtured and guided by both the living and the dead.

Over the years, Jim has helped thousands of people around the globe set and achieve goals both personally and professionally with his unconventional methods.

In the show we go through the experience of seeing spirits, what family spirits want, the nature of contracts, entities and attachments and a deeply interesting section on shapeshifters. In addition to that he starts to spontaneously read me!

In the Plus the show we discuss Elementals, Djinn, Fairies, well this is the Spirit Box after all! Anything else would be a disappointment. We also discuss the Afterlife and previous lives and Jim starts reading me again with remarkable accuracy!

Show notes:
https://www.jimhuntofficial.com
https://www.facebook.com/jimhuntofficial

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Charles Christian is an English barrister and Reuters correspondent turned writer, podcaster, award-winning tech journalist, and sometime werewolf hunter. He now writes, talks and makes videos mainly about folklore, urban myths, history, and the weird. He was born a ‘chime child’ with a caul so, according to legend, cannot drown at sea but can see and talk to ghosts and fairy folk without fear of coming to harm...

He is the author of "A travel guide to Yorkshire’s Weird Wolds: The Mysterious Wold Newton Triangle” and “Saints & Sinners in Dark Age England”. His latest book is “Shuckland: Weird tales, ghosts, folklore and legends from East Anglia’s Waveney valley” – volume one of a new haunted landscapes series – and he is currently writing an almanack of real witches and sorcerers, along with other practitioners of magic – black and white, from earliest times through until the modern era.

If you are fascinated by the weird, the unexplained and the bizarre, then you’ll enjoy this fascinating road trip around what he calls the Wold Newton Triangle, where rather odd events have occurred, unmatched anywhere else in Britain. We also talk about the aforementioned werewolf hunting, and a grisly discovery he made while investigating the Highgate vampire.

In the Plus show we discuss Charles’s upcoming book on Witchcraft and the legends of the Woodwose, England's analogue for the Bigfoot. And we wrap up discussing the nature of folklore.

Show notes:
https://www.urbanfantasist.com
https://twitter.com/urbanfantasist

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For episode 93 we are joined Meredith Herrenbruck, a Master NLP Practitioner and Kahuna.

We discuss some of her cases including a ghost in the closet- how she had two clients with serious issues. One a ghost, the other was an entity attached to a toy  Meredith describes how energy (sometimes even entities, too) is attached to objects:  Rings, gifts, WWII helmets and a knife hidden beneath a newly paved street, wreaking havoc on the living.  She stresses the importance of keeping ourselves and our houses clean and vibrant- need to keep things clean, organised and energetically happy. Negativity breeds negativity and entities and come in and attach and deplete you of yours.   

Change in personality? New Phobia? Perhaps it’s an entity that is attached. They bring their baggage with them. Still mourning the loss of a loved one years later? Still crying when you think about them? Perhaps they didn’t go to the great beyond, but are actually attached to you.  

In the plus show we discuss Meredith's Family constellation practice and how sometimes there are forces greater than ourselves, and sometimes those forces can make a mess of a family. Often when a trauma has occured upstream in the family and has not resolved, the younger generations can come in and grab onto that stuck energy to heal it, in effort to say "I love you."  All the while, it is actually wreaking havoc on themselves and their families: and doesn't actually heal the original problem.  

Constellations are a great basis to assist in clearing out other parts of our lives, not only stuck family energy, but  entities, soul fragments, vows, curses and more.  Discovered and expanded by Burt Hellinger, a psychoanalist in Germany, this system has an amazing way of teasing apart what's stuck and offers a resolution to the system. Like ripples in a pond, the resolution allows greater healing to take place.  

Enjoy!  

Show notes:
https://www.livingyourawesome.com/
www.ghostfreeproperty.com  

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For episode 92 we welcome McCalla Ann, founder, podcaster and creator behind SaturnVox, a multimedia occult education and divination platform based out of New Orleans, Louisiana.

McCalla was born in Atlanta, Georgia to a Catholic family on her mother's side and with Jewish heritage on her father's. Though she attended Catholic school until high school, she turned to the occult at an early age, beginning her studies on witchcraft and tarot at the early age of 15.

McCalla left Atlanta for New Orleans to attend college at Loyola University, where she graduated with honours in Philosophy and World Religions with a concentration in Buddhism and its implications on language. Studying Buddhist philosophy and Chinese linguistics gave McCalla a unique perspective into language use as depicted by pictorial symbols, as opposed to the phonetic style of the west. This perspective involves an understanding of each pictorial symbol as holding multiple layers of meanings, and the ability to be able to hold all those meanings in one’s mind, so as to map out a full four dimensional picture out of these two dimensional shapes.

During her Downtime in college McCalla began delving deeper into the more formal realms of occult studies, beginning her study of the Jewish kabbalah and mysticism with vigour. Upon graduation, she was more than happy to turn her attention to these studies, along with those of traditional witchcraft, full time. She currently practices a flavour  of witchcraft that flawlessly blends her studies on philosophy, folklore, and linguistic arts into a fusion of animism, theurgy, and kabbalistic as well as astrological study.

In the Plus show we discuss aesthetics and art is juxtaposed with magic and pull that thread into ideas around Tiphereth and explore the concept of living in joy. McCalla also discusses Saturn in further details. An illuminating and engaging conversation!

Show Notes:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saturnvox/
Website: https://www.saturnvox.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SaturnVox

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For episode 91 we are joined by patron Jessica Mitchell who will recount for us her amazing encounter with a ‘dark man’ on the top of Glastonbury tor after a nighttime ascent to watch the sunrise. It's remarkable story and one that will no doubt resonate with many listeners. We go through what it means for the individuals who witness such reality shattering events and Jessica describes the impact of the event on her life and worldview.

Now a point to note which we didn't discuss in the show is the Tor has an association with 'Gwyn ap Nudd'.

Gwyn ap Nudd is a Welsh mythological figure, the king of the Tylwyth Teg or "fair folk" and ruler of the Welsh Otherworld, Annwn, and whose name means “Gwyn, son of Nudd”. Described later on as a great warrior with a "blackened face", Gwyn is intimately associated with the otherworld in medieval Welsh literature, and is associated with the international tradition of the Wild Hunt.

Food for thought...

Show notes:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessie_twobears/
Glastonbury: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury
The Tor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Tor
Gwyn ap Nudd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwyn_ap_Nudd

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For episode 90 we welcome Dr Alexander Cummins. Dr Al is a consultant, diviner, writer, magician, and historian. He approaches ritual, divination, and sorcery both as a long-term practitioner and a historian of early modern magic. Dr Cummins has worked as a professional diviner for over a decade, and published several works on astrological magic, grimoires, and folk necromancy. He also provides training, workshops, and coaching in many aspects of magical theory and practice. Originally from the Midlands of the UK, Al now makes his home in the US.

We discuss his new title "The Art of Cyprian's Mirror of Four Kings: An Early Modern Experiment of Cyprianic Conjuration". The Art of Cyprian, found in MS Sloane 3850, contains instructions for the construction and use of a magic mirror attributed to Saint Cyprian of Antioch. Along with the preparation of the mirror itself – which includes making and consecrating a particular ink for drafting certain figures of Solomon – come instructions detailing a conjuration of the ‘four worthy princes of the earth’, including a special appeal to the King of the East as their primus inter pares, and a dismissal of these same ‘four kings of the four parts of the world’. In this Guide to the Underworld, Alexander Cummins illuminates further Cyprianic dimensions of these directional courts of the various cardinal kings and their messenger-king attendants in the grimoiric corpus.

We also discuss his journey into magic which including the collaborative storytelling of  Dungeons and Dragons and the influence of Aikido and childhood paranormal experiences at national trust properties and the spectrum of ancestor work and working with the dead.

In the Plus show we talk to how the dead can step forward in a practical sense and our ‘family’ is bigger and stranger than we think it is. We also continue Dr Al’s journey into the occult as he started Chaos Magic as a young adult and discuss at point in his life things became ‘real’. Dr Al relays an intriguing story about using divination that returned life changing results for a sick friend whose condition had baffled doctors.

We get into responsibility to others when practising spirit work and co-habiting and keeping oneself grounded. We discuss dealing with the restless dead and necromancy courses Dr Al has coming up.  We also go through his approach to dealing with hauntings and dealing with ancestors, especially the tricky, more pushy ones!

Show Notes:
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/grimoiresontape/
Website http://www.alexandercummins.com
Art of Cyprian's Mirror of Four Kings https://www.hadeanpress.com/shop/the-art-of-cyprians-mirror-of-four-kings-an-early-modern-experiment-of-cyprianic-conjuration
Courses https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/everyday-planetary-magic-a-seven-part-series-on-simple-star-sorcery-and-spellcraft-with-historian-dr-alexander-cummins https://www.thecauldronblack.com/event-details/necromancy-for-beginners-an-online-5-part-modular-class-series-with-dr-alexander-cummins-2022-03-28-19-00

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Nathaniel Gillis is a religious demonologist and author. After living in a haunted house, He spent 20 years researching what it was he encountered. He is the founder of Preternatural Epiphenomenal Philosophy and he has sought to redefine the nature of haunting phenomena, ghosts and high strangeness. Nathaniel poses the question if the abduction phenomenon is in fact a part of the OBE and NDE family…then we need to re-examine many of the ancient funerary texts. He outlines how the Atrahasis epic states... “The soul of a man is made from the flesh of a god.” This speaks to consciousness being more than mere thought or memory…this speaks of consciousness actually possessing texture of some sort. The soul being fleshly is a reference to the tangibility of an apparition and the way it maintains a solid form.  This hidden potentiality is why he has begun to call Greys and other apparitional manifestations as “Inner Dimensional.” In the Plus show Nathaniel takes us through some of the astonishing cases he has investigated and helped with and helped him understand how some of this phenomena works. We also go into the potency of iron as a protective amulet against this phenomena. Show Notes: https://www.amazon.com/Moment-Called-Man-Nathaniel-Gillis/dp/B07Y4NDY92 Keep in touch? https://linktr.ee/darraghmason Music by Obliqka https://soundcloud.com/obliqka

For episode 87 we welcome back author and healer Peter Mark Adams to discuss his new book 'The Power of the Healing Field'.

Sharing remarkable cases of healing and personal transformation from his and his wife’s more than 20 years of intensive professional energy healing work as well as experiences from other gifted healers, psychics, and shamans, Peter illustrates the role of transpersonal fields of consciousness in healing a range of issues--from inherited family and ancestral problems to past lives and womb trauma to near-death experiences, merged identities, and spirit attachment. Drawing on esoteric tradition as well as scientific research, such as Rupert Sheldrake’s morphic field studies, the author maps out the human energy field in all its subtleties, providing diagrams of the human energy body, the spectrum of states of awareness, the multilayered fields of consciousness, and the psychoenergetic dynamics of the transformation process.

Through compelling testimonials of powerful healings, Peter shows how the processes of healing and of peak spiritual experience are closely aligned with harmony within the larger energetic field of consciousness.

In the Patreon Plus show we talk rebirth, chthonic visions, family timelines, the Spancel of death, spiritual emergencies, the effects of kundalini surges, the difficulties that can arise from managing this high level of  energy and all manner of wonderful Peter Mark Adams goodness!

Show Notes:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Healing-Field-Abilities-Ancestral/dp/1644113589
https://www.innertraditions.com/author/peter-mark-adams
https://petermarkadams.com/
https://www.mindconnectionhealing.com

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L. A. Marzulli is an author, lecturer, and filmmaker. He has penned twelve books including The Nephilim Trilogy which made the CBA best sellers list. His book series On the Trail of the Nephilim vols I & II reveal startling evidence of a massive cover-up of what he believes to be the remains of the Nephilim, the giants mentioned in the Bible.

L. A. teamed up with film producer Richard Shaw to create The Watchers series which grew to an eleven-episode catalogue. One of those instalments, Watchers 7: UFO Physical Evidence, won both the “UFO Best Film” and “People’s Choice Award” at the UFO Congress in 2014.
Marzulli created a “team” that legally extracted material for DNA testing from the enigmatic elongated skulls found in Peru. The results will be released in Episode #6 of the On the Trail series in late 2020.

In the show we discuss the 18 year lunar cycle in relation to the great mounds of America. We discuss the mysterious giant skeletons that L.A. theorises are the remains of the Nephilm. Towards the end of the show L.A. talks us through the incredible Paracas skulls from Peru.

The YouTube version is here, I recommend watching it for the skull discussion. 

Show Notes:
Streaming.lamarzulli.net
Nephilim  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim
Cahokia Earth works https://www.worldhistory.org/cahokia/
Catalina Island Skulls https://virginianreview.com/76617/
Largest human skeletons https://largest.org/people/human-skeletons/
Catalina and giants https://www.howandwhys.com/mystery-of-alleged-race-of-giants-found-in-catalina-island/
Paracas Skulls DNA https://www.howandwhys.com/dna-tests-reveal-3000-year-old-paracas-skulls-are-of-unknown-human-race/
LA times on the Catalina bones https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2013-may-12-la-me-catalina-bones-20130512-story.html
The giants that ruled America https://grahamhancock.com/dewhurstr1/

For episode #84 we are joined by Dr Megan Rose to discuss her new book ‘Spirit Marriage'.

Megan Rose, Ph.D., has a doctorate in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and a master’s degree in Religion in Society from the Graduate Theological Union. She is an initiated ceremonial magician, a Shakta Tantric practitioner, and a senior seer in the House of Brigh Faery Seership Institute. She serves as an ordained interfaith minister and psycho-spiritual counselor, and is the Executive Director of the Entheosis Institute.

Dr Rose proposes this book is for anyone who is experiencing exceptional spiritual phenomena and needs a grounded & expert perspective on how to navigate & translate such experience.

It is an in-depth exploration of the practice, relevance, and purpose of spirit marriage around the world,

In the Plus show we discuss Entheosis, or waking the divine within and how it relates to spirit marriage The intense  account in the book of being married to Kali. We also get into the effects of spirit connection on one's nervous system, the precognitive properties of the human heart and how being spirit filled is similar to orgasm. Finally we talk to being in relation with the land and how co-creation centred gardening facilitates this.

Show notes:
http://www.drmeganrose.com
https://www.instagram.com/drmeganrose/

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For episode number 84 we welcome the fascinating and erudite Sasha Ravitch!  

Sasha is an astrologer, practitioner of folkloric witchcraft, and a (psycho)spiritual counselor. In the this episode we talk about Sasha’s work at the intersection of astrology and folklore witchcraft and how she has noted the prevalence of repeating astrological patterns in relation to spirit and non-human issues and relationships. We also discuss the frequently, generational origin of these issues and to that end, Sasha gives us some tremendous insights.   

She describes the significant impact of having a mentor to guide her through her spirit experiences as young witch highlighting the importance of having community initiatory practises and practitioners to help those in spiritual crisis. We pose the question was shared trauma of C0v1d a significant factor in the upsurge in interest and practice in the occult.  In the Plus show we discuss Sasha’s pain wife lineage, a specific form of witchcraft related to fertility problems and death and her sojmanka heritage, or fairy seers. We also discuss the fairy swan maiden and the lore of the Cygnus constellation.   

The links to Sasha's Patreon and her readings booking portal are below and I highly recommend you click those links, urgently, with gusto and robust impatience!

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https://www.sasharavitch.com
https://www.patreon.com/sasharavitch
https://linktr.ee/sasha.ravitch

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For episode #83 we welcome Gabriel McCaughry to the Spirit Box. Gabriel is an author, a magical practitioner and the founder of Anathema Publishing.

In the show we get into Gabriel’s background, and the interesting crooked path that led him to found Anathema Publishing.

We discuss Pillars periodical and its recently released volume, A Wayfarer’s Hearth, of which I am a proud contributor. This is a collection of stories of holy pilgrimages, transformative journeys and revelatory voyages.

"A Wayfarer’s Hearth’ sets out to share the tales of those who have been deeply affected in esoteric ways by our travels to other lands, who have had our perceptions altered through cultural immersion, through being confronted with our own fears and prejudices. For those who have had our eyes pried open, our inner-selves irreversibly changed."

In the Plus show we discuss in further depth how the themes of the Pillars projects often become the theme of Gabriel’s year. We also go into the challenges presented by distracting social media; how we are living in ‘a meaning-saturated field’; how recognising this is important and how that recognition informed the Pillars project.

Show notes:
https://www.anathemapublishing.com/a-wayfarers-hearth
https://www.instagram.com/anathemapublishing/
https://www.anathemapublishing.com/haurorae

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For episode #82 we welcome Dr Mark Fitzpatrick. He is a teacher, writer, and independent scholar, specialising in the Weird and the Wonderful. He has a PhD in Literature from the Université de Paris – Sorbonne Nouvelle, and is currently an invited lecturer in several Paris universities.

Originally from Cork, he spent twenty years in Paris, living in garrets and trying to get his novels published. When this proved to no avail, he began publishing his work online on his website thehollowbehindthehearthstone.com, under a variety of aliases, and his first novel, Unreal City, is coming out in early 2022.

He has recently moved to Aquitaine, where he lives in a little house on the grounds of a Strange Crumbling Manor, with his wife, his two children, a Wicked Uncle, and two and half cats.

In the show we discuss the nature of belief and Mark details a remarkable experience he had with other in land around his home. We also discuss dual observance, being in right relation with place, the festival of Imbolc and bringing pagan festivals into ones circle.

In  the Plus show we discuss the relationship between pagan festivals and subsistence farming and dependence on being in good relation to the land and the intelligences therein. We also get into how the others may cultivate human beings for whatever their business may be. Towards the end of show we get into the differences between the Gaelic mind and Anglo mind through their respective languages and stories and the influence in how they see the world.

Show notes:
https://www.instagram.com/the_hedge_school/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA1F9UJHqKcIzNCIFpT071A
https://thehollowbehindthehearthstone.com
https://www.facebook.com/malachasivernus/
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/JlaRPA

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Today we will be exploring the work of explorer Kira Salak and her experiences in Libya regarding the ‘The Fortress of the Jinn' or Kaf Ajnoun.

Kaf Ajnoun is a jagged ridge with several peaks, the largest being The Qala'a (castle), along the Libya/Algeria border near the town of Ghat by the Akakus Massif. As it is in the Sahara, the native peoples are the nomads of the Tuareg and Tibu tribes.

Looking like a haunted  citadel crowned with a magical fortress-like summit, the mountain was thus assumed the abode of mythical beings. According to Berber Tuareg mythology the ‘The Fortress of the Jinn' was once a "Hall of Council", where genies met to discuss their affairs.

According to the explorer Hugh Clapperton, who visited the area in 1822, some of the inhabitants of the mountain, apparently with red hair, were heard to beat their drums at night and fire their muskets.

Adventurer and traveller Kira Salak who followed the trail of Hugh Clapperton climbed to the summit with her photographer friend Bobby Model. She reached the top and back safely without any encounters; but according to her around 18 months later, during an Ayahuasca session in Peru she discovered she had been  possessed by evil spirits that "entered her body when, against the warnings of the local tribesmen, she climbed a supposedly haunted mountain in Libya". The possession and subsequent exorcism will be detailed in the Plus show.

Show notes:
Libya: Land of cruel deaths by Kira Salak http://www.kirasalak.com/Libya.html
Peru: Hell and Back by Kira Salak. http://www.kirasalak.com/Peru.html
Bobby Model’s photos of the Libya trip http://www.kirasalak.com/PhotosLibya.html
Bobby Model’s website  https://m-11.com
National Geographic obituary for Bobby Model https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/adventure-friend-photographer-bobby-model-dies
Kaf Ajnoun https://www.temehu.com/Cities_sites/kaf-ajnoun.htm
Hugh Clapperton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Clapperton

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For episode 80 it is an honour and privilege to be joined by BAFTA award winning writer, Geoff Thompson. He is a highly regarded martial artist. He has a 7th Degree Black belt in Shotokan Karate along with a 1st Degree Black Belt in Judo. He worked as a night-club doorman for about 10 years in various clubs. He became a doorman to face and overcome his fear of violent confrontation.

He has written fifty books, several multi-award-winning films, three stage plays and hundreds of articles, many published in national magazines and broadsheets.

His work Romans 12:20, directed by the Shammasian Brothers has been adapted into a feature film, Romans, starring Orlando Bloom.

A remarkable resume, and yet Geoff will tell you none of it matters, that it all pales into significance against the goal of winning one's will which he defines in the show and he takes us through his understanding of the power and true nature of forgiveness.

In the Plus show we discuss how autonomy of will extends into what we consume in all forms and what we put out in terms of our behaviour. Geoff explains the importance of alignment of self, and the causal body in passionate detail. He asks us to confront the truth of our individual behaviour and take back our autonomy from the parasites that influence us.

Show notes:
https://www.instagram.com/geoff_thompson_official/

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For episode #79 it is my great pleasure to welcome the author, visionary CEO and shaman (although he denies it) someone I’m very proud to call a friend; the Reverend Danny Nemu.  

Danny’s background is in the history and philosophy of medicine from the University of Manchester. He first encountered ayahuasca when living in Japan. After six years drinking there with a Santo Daime group, he followed the trail back to its source in the Brazilian Amazon, where he was bitten by a sandfly, leading to a leishmaniasis infection. This highly aggressive bacterial parasite quickly colonised a few inches of his skin, with designs on much more, and proved to be a great teacher, providing ample opportunity to study firsthand the intricacies and potencies of ayahuasca as used as a medicine within the Daime worldview.  The process took eight months, involving diets and barks, many rituals, and daily consumption of the visionary brew. By the end of it he had lost 10 kilos and gained a deep respect for the complexity and intelligence of the natural world.  

He has released two of his three books on the apocalypse and is two drafts into the third... The first book ‘Science Revealed - The apocalypse in science: discovery’, covers the biographies of scientists including Tesla and Einstein, and reveals how our most groundbreaking ideas result not from rational thinking and tapping on calculators, but from visions, dreams, feverish delirium, and other non-rational revelations. The second: ‘Neuro-Apocalypse’ is about veils arising in the course of cognition, and revelations that cut them down. To that end, we discuss the presence of visionary drug use in the bible, most notably Frankincense and Myrrh  

He is the founder-CEO of Reforestation and Agroforestry charity RAIN: RAIN focuses the resources and intelligence of a distributed global network via local nodes into vitally important projects to regenerate degraded land.  In the Plus Show there is an extra hour, where we discuss apocalyptic waves, novelty, and what shamanism is and what it isn’t. A riveting and informed conversation thanks to Danny!

Show notes:
DONATE TO RAIN https://www.rainumbrella.org/support-rain
http://nemusend.co.uk
Neuro-Apocalypse https://www.amazon.co.uk/Neuro-Apocalypse-Danny-Nemu/dp/0992808820  
Science Revealed https://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Revealed-Danny-Nemu/dp/1916266703/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=science+revealed&qid=1591647026&s=books&sr=1-1
Getting High with the most high https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/3/Special-Issue/article-p117.xml https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgn_ddrdHKI  
Prejudice and Neo-colonialism in the Academic study of Ayahuasca https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhgdhz4W114  
We Three Kings of Orient are https://psypressuk.com/2016/12/22/three-kings-orient-drug-runners-not-kings/  
And then came the Virus https://medium.com/@RevNemu/and-then-came-the-virus-1-3-540bd4bc1159   

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For episode 78 we are joined once again by the great Aidan Wachter for a Spirit Box exclusive! This is his first interview on his new book, ‘Changeling: A book of Qualities’!

"Changeling considers the craft as a vessel, a container for ideas and approaches that help clarify the path to sovereignty and effective practical magic. It looks at the qualities and practices that when integrated into a life can lead to a more beneficial understanding of self and the world. Changeling helps us to deftly navigate the complexities of having a meaningful praxis and seamlessly weave magic into the whole fabric of our life."

In the show we go over his experience of writing the book, and how it affected Aidan more deeply than his previous outings. Aidan outlines how his previous books, 'Six Ways' and 'Weaving Fate' covered areas he had mastered, but this book has territories that he still is working on. We discuss how the process of transformation is constant, without end, and is not a linear journey... there are regressions and setbacks along the way.

In the Plus show we discuss how power can be gentle but still produce cataclysmic changes, and the elemental qualities Aidan attributes to his collection of work. We also get into being in the moment, being present and having discernment in where you spend your time.

Enjoy!

Show notes:
https://www.aidanwachter.com
https://www.instagram.com/aidan.wachter/  
Aidan's books on Amazon US
Aidan's books on Amazon UK

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For episode #77 we are joined by Peter Mark Adams, Peter is a Scarlet Imprint, Inner Traditions & Corbel Stone Press author, poet, and essayist specialising in ethnographies of spirit, sacred landscapes, esotericism, consciousness, and healing.  
Peter has a background in Philosophy and has undertaken advanced studies with the Warburg Institute, London. He is an Associate Member of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE) and a Member of the British Wittgenstein Society (BWS).  
In today's show we discuss his life-changing initiation into Reiki and how this led him to a spirit-informed and scholarly study of the enigmatic Renaissance masterwork known as the Sola-Busca tarot.  
In the Plus show, Peter recounts several of the entity and parasite attachment cases that he has dealt with in his career as an energy healer and gives his thoughts on the purpose of this type of event in one's life.

Show notes:
https://petermarkadams.com
https://liverpool.academia.edu/PeterAdams
https://www.paralibrum.com/reviews/mystai
https://scarletimprint.com/peter-mark-adams
https://www.youtube.com/user/thankgodsitsmonday

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Verónica Rivas (Melong Yeshe) is an Uruguayan author and researcher based in Brazil. Her cosmological and anthropological studies in magical practices among Eastern cultures led her to become interested in healing techniques.   

When she became a Reiki Master, she started to research the possibilities of integrating Reiki techniques with other forms of energy work, using her academic training in Philosophy as an epistemological background. Verónica is also an initiated practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism (Esoteric Buddhism), focusing her practical work in the deity known as Kurukulla.

Currently, her research is focused on female deities and spirits of the Vajrayana and Hindu traditions, and Maria de Padilla and her connection with Quimbanda.  In the Plus show we discuss spirit guidance in Veronica’s work and how that spirit communication manifests in her practice.

Show notes:
https://www.anathemapublishing.com/veronica-rivas
https://melongyeshe.academia.edu
https://occult-world.com/padilha-maria/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quimbanda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrayana

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What do a Karst landscape, the Kentucky anomaly, a meat shower, and a mysterious cult have in common? They are linked by the strange and unexplained activity originating from the Pennyroyal Plateau, Kentucky and the subject matter of the superb Penny Royal Podcast.  Today we are joined by the creator and host Nathan Isaac as he takes us through the remarkable story he and his colleague uncovered as they created the show.  In the Plus show the Spook element in the area and what's coming up in Season 2.  

Show Notes:
http://www.pennyroyalpodcast.com
https://www.instagram.com/pennyroyalpodcast/
https://www.patreon.com/PennyRoyal

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For episode 74 we are joined by Tommie Kelly and Spud Murphy, the hosts of the “Tommie and Spud Talk About” podcast amongst many other things.

In a very lighthearted show, we discuss, finding the divine in nature, and realities of foraging or growing your own food. We chat about folklore surrounding bloodletting on St Martin’s day, and the use of blood in magick.

In the Plus show we get into personal relationships with deities, concepts of the afterlife and we talk about vegetables a bit more.

Show notes:
https://www.spudmurphy.net
https://www.adventuresinwoowoo.com
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvhAf27ZdF9mGA1znaTQQEA

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For episode 73 we’re joined by Wren Collier. Wren is a ritual magician and an avid scholar of the paranormal, having been obsessed from an early age with the anomalous and the occult. He is a skilled creator and maker, crafting beautiful magickal tools. He is also a keen gardener and mushroom cultivator and has created an online calculator utilizing the New Aeon English Qabalah.

We talk creativity and magick and finding animism in one's garden and Wren’s remarkable Astral travel experiences and the importance of dreams.

In the Plus show we discuss dreaming further and get into crypto-wizardry and technology more broadly, as Wren takes us through the creation of his New Aeon English Qabalah Cipher tool and his initial thoughts on the Hellier.

Show notes:
https://twitter.com/liminalbird
https://www.naeq.io
https://liminalroom.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changing_Light_at_Sandover
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9781590208625

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Dr Maria Vivod is an Ethnologist and anthropologist from Serbia, with an interest in Visual Anthropology. Today we discuss the subject of one of her short documentary films and accompanying paper “The Fairy Seers of Eastern Serbia”

The fairy-seers of Southeastern Europe are usually women who fall into trance through dancing on special days in a year and are able to communicate with women-like creatures from the supernatural world. During the process of communication with the fairies the fairy-seers can prophesy future events. The fairy-seers also bring messages to the living from the behalf of their deceased relatives. Similarly, they can give advice about how to heal an ill individual or they can proceed to the treatment of the ill individual after consulting the fairies. These illnesses are usually a form of a fairy-illness – a disorder which has its origins in a curse or a spell of the human-offended fairies.

The subject of the film we discuss is Ivanka, she is a Vlach woman from eastern Serbia. She sees her ‘sisters’ since her early twenties and is able to communicate with them on three exact days of the Christian orthodox calendar: Epiphany, Palm Sunday, St.Peter's Day.  This trance was Ivanka's last. You can find a link to the film in the show notes.

In the Patreon Plus show we discuss Dr Vivod’s own remarkable consultation with the Fairy Seer and the funeral rites of the Vlach people and the views of the relationship with spirits of the dead. Dr Vivod explains the process of curse removal through a process called ‘melting fear’ and an extraordinary rite called a ‘Black Wedding’ wherein the young who have passed before their time are symbolically married so they can wed on the other side.

Show Notes:
https://independent.academia.edu/MariaVivod
https://www.academia.edu/video/lg4Vrk

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For episode 71 we welcome Jason Miller. He has written five books including the now classic Protection and Reversal Magick and he teaches  a number of courses online including the Strategic Sorcery Training Course, The Black School of St Cyprian, and The Sorcery of Hekate.

In his 20’s he was initiated into a Coven that worked Witchcraft along the lines of Mastering Witchcraft, joined the Ordo Templi Orientis, and the Chthonic Auranian Temple.

In his  mid 20’s he took his  first Tantric initiation into Vajra kila ya. He devoted the next several years to the study of Tantra and Himalayan Magic in general. Eventually he moved to Nepal in 1999. In Nepal he spent a lot of time at the Cremation grounds of Pashupatinath meditating and on one occasion he got a glimpse inside a normally closed structure and saw an extraordinary sight, he had the presence of mind to take a photograph. You can see that photo here.

In the Plus section we discuss the nature of the separation between the east and west thinking and whether it is actually that different. We also discuss the Phurba, the razor nail of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Bön, and Indian Vedic traditions and the remarkable origin of Jason’s relationship with Hekate.

Show Notes:
https://www.strategicsorcery.net
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My-w83GDNNw
https://www.darraghmason.com/index/G0000pGwmgJT8Tyc 

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For episode 70 we are joined by martial artist, researcher and mystic Michelle DeVrieze discussing her research paper into the hidden predator behind the missing 411 phenomena and its relationship with archetypes and initiation.  Are we dealing with a self-serving, predatory race using an advanced form of psychological warfare that’s terraforming our reality through the human mind? Or is this predatory intelligence an aspect of some elaborate alchemical process, which, on a macro scale, maintains our reality’s harmonious balance? Michelle uses a unique premise to test her hypothesis that being an Intrinsic Data Field analyser or IDF.  We wrap up the show discussing the benefits of getting punched in the face. I should add we mean in a controlled environment.

Now, it cuts out at the 23 minute mark so watch out for that and Michelle was quite ill at the time so forgive any croaky voices.  In the plus show we go through each of the question tables on the nature of the Predator via the IDF machine which is where the rubber meets the road so miss out.  

Enjoy!  

Show Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/michelle.devrieze/
https://www.phoenixaurelius.org/about-idf
https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/lightning/types/
http://www.missing-411.com/about/

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For episode 69 we welcome EFT practitioner, Reiki healer and Tarot reader, Hand of Nikara to the Spirit Box.  In this episode, she shares her experience with Ayahuasca and what she has learned over the years as a result of the trauma she went through during her 2014 Ayahuasca ceremony.  Her journey through the world of ceremonial magick has shown her the necessity of learning how to protect one's own energy, especially when it comes to plant medicines of this kind.

In the Plus show our guest describes her path through dissociation and healing, also the impact of the LBRP and meeting other people who have had similar experiences.   

Show Notes:
To hear more about her Ayahuasca experience and trauma recovery in depth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyf_dkfQrxo&list=PLjVNjJWvlaSEzu5j2oNtx9D2PmEtXPxiN
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hand.of.nikara/

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A few weeks back I was talking about the Puck Fair in Killorglin, Co Kerry, in the southwest of Ireland. For those of you not familiar with the fair, essentially is a Lughnasadh adjacent festival where a wild billy goat is caught on the mountainside the goat is brought back to the town, and the Queen of Puck, traditionally a schoolgirl from one of the local primary schools crowns him King Puck. They are then paraded around the town looking down on their subjects from a kind of mobile tower that looks a lot like a medieval siege tower without the protective cladding to the delight of a rapturous crowd. It reads a bit like the start of a folk horror screenplay, doesn’t it? And to be fair, it should because there is some pretty heavy pagan fertility symbolism laced through this event. There are some adult themes in the show as we also get into overlordship or Kingship depended upon male claimant making love to the territorial goddess and some of the wilder accounts of Kingship rites as laid out by Giraldus of Wales, that involve the consumption of the marriage to the land in its most literal sense. .

Show Notes: 

Puck
https://puckfair.ie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlq9z1hnH7I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zCRh78StwY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqD8MZHC5Lw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhmLF0r2nEw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Murray

Anu
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230841.Mythic_Ireland
https://exemplore.com/paganism/The-Magic-of-The-Morrigan-Alluring-Anu
https://thenewpagan.wordpress.com/2013/10/31/danu-great-mother/

Geraldus of Wales
https://twitter.com/erik_kaars/status/1243884746280747008?s=20
http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/topography_ireland.pdf

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For episode 67 it is my great pleasure to welcome author Peter Grey. Peter is also the co-founder of iconic occult publishers Scarlet Imprint and joins us today to discuss his new book ‘The Two Antichrists’.

“The Two Antichrists is a monograph by Peter Grey on the figure of Antichrist in a post-Christian and progressive Thelemic context.

Opening with considerations on the future of witchcraft and its relation to radical ecology, Grey returns to the Babalon Working of Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard, and considers a series of little examined texts from science fiction and the outer fringes of Scientology which form a ‘Babalon Apocrypha.’ By reading across these sources, the familiar story is revealed to have hidden depths and dimensions. Exploring the role of Antichrist in relation to Parsons and Hubbard, Grey provides insights into the initiatory drama of Thelema: of Satanic rites, Abyss and Angel. The Two Antichrists observes the long shadow cast by the monolith of Scientology, and Parsons’ eclipsed sodality The Witchcraft. Looking to the future, he envisions an emergent space witchcraft, infused with the spirit of Do What Thou Wilt.

The book concludes with a series of non-denominational rituals and revised Antichrist workings. The work is a fusion of inspiration, research and ritual, from which Grey draws the first lines of his vision of witchcraft in the dusk of our world.

The work stands as a companion to Lucifer: Praxis (forthcoming 2022), and continues the trajectory initiated with The Red Goddess and pursued through Apocalyptic Witchcraft. The work was completed on Winter solstice 2020.”

Enjoy

Show notes:
https://scarletimprint.com

For episode #66 we are joined by Jake Kobrin. Jake is a visionary artist and tattooist he is also the founder and designer of a jewelry and fashion brand called Medicine Dragon Designs, and is a DJ and musician, as well as a published writer, speaker, and podcaster.

Jake’s work is psychedelic, unusual, dark, beautiful, and elegant. His work seeks to illuminate experiences which Jake has had that are outside of the realm of normal waking consciousness, moving into numinous and visionary realms with natural ease. He considers himself an "interdimensional midwife and conduit" believing that the role of the artist is to be able to move outside of themselves and to act as a conduit for higher consciousness to move through them. In this way he says, "I do not claim authorship for any of the works of art I have painted. I am a channel for Great Spirit to create through me."

He is one of the few visionary artists with a formal classical art education, having studied classical realist drawing and painting in Florence, Italy at the Angel Academy of Art.

Besides painting and tattooing, he is also the founder and designer of a jewelry and fashion brand called Medicine Dragon Designs, and is a DJ and musician, as well as a published writer, speaker, and podcaster.

Enjoy

Show notes:
https://jakekobrin.com
https://medium.com/@jakekobrin/how-psychedelics-changed-my-life-41d800f1b5d8
https://twitter.com/JakeKobrin
https://jakekobrinartcourses.thinkific.com
https://www.instagram.com/_.kobrin._/  
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/quarantine-sessions-with-jake-kobrin/id1518751858

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Sponsorships: off for this episode

For episode #65 we are joined by author and esoteric researcher, Anthony Tyler.  

We discuss the dualistic nature of good and evil and how definitions fade from different perspectives. We discuss Jungian archetypes with regards to evil and whether evil is subjective or objective.  

Diving deeper we discuss what it is that ‘evil’ entities get from attacking human beings and the nature of possession.  

In the Plus show, we discuss perception of the relationship between environmental pressures and religious beliefs and Anthony goes into Memetics as the study of the mind virus.  

Enjoy,  

Show notes:
https://www.divemind.net   
https://twitter.com/divemind667

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To give you an idea of what the podcast Patreon is like I've compiled this show from some of last years bonus content from the community. Yes, I'm on the hard sell...

The 'Man in black' is a figure that has come up a few times in the podcast not least as an adversary in the guise of 'Old Nick' or in a more modern context the MIB phenomenon. In this bonus show, I'll talk about how this figure is represented in both Irish folklore and in Irish mythology as the 'Fear Dubh Dorcha'. The stories I have gathered are from Duchas.ie.  

"These stories feature the common themes of the 'Dark horseman' trickster that leads the protagonist awry and is quite unnecessarily cruel and spiteful on travellers he meets along the road. ... things take a darker turn and the human visitor gets an unpleasant supernatural brush with death.    

The stories propose that the reason for this unnecessary cruelty is a grudge the fairy folk has against humanity, much like the Djinn. I then briefly discuss the startlingly similar origin myths of the Fairies and Djinn."  

All these pieces have been gathered from the rural communities of Ireland via numerous folklorists and cataloged meticulously. I'm in their debt, it was a privilege to read through these handwritten stories and testimonies.   

Anyway, hurry along the road this dark night, lest you cross paths with the 'Man in black'.

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For episode #64 we are joined by occultist, poet and writer Celeste Mott.

Born in England and raised in Australia, Celeste has made New Orleans her home.

She was gifted her first tarot deck in the 90s, and at age 13 she began seriously studying the cards, along with every book  about spiritualism, magick, and the occult she could get her hands on. Her personal studies and practices led her to earn an  B.A. in Philosophy & Comparative Religion, with a special focus on New Religious Movements and magic & ritual in contemporary religiosity.

In the context of Celeste’s nomadic past we discuss Identity and place, and the importance of discernment with the Occult groups you reach out to and engage with. Celeste shares with us a formative spirit experience with what would become a familiar spirit. We also discuss recent events where Celeste was dealing with a particularly unpleasant spirit that has formed an attachment to her.

We recorded this against the backdrop of a very large thunderstorm and at the 104 min mark the Storm Gods decided it was time to intercede and cut my WiFi. Look out for the 'hold' music!

In Plus section Celeste and I nobly battle on in spite of the storm to delight and inspire you further!  We discuss the TikTok prevalence for humanising Spirits or Deities, poetry as an expression for her magical process. We wrap up talking about living in a hurricane alley and the healing qualities of practicing gardening and how we communicate with plants.

Enjoy!

Show notes:
https://www.celestemott.com
https://twitter.com/whodreamedit
https://www.patreon.com/tarotbyceleste
https://www.instagram.com/celestemott/

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Music by Obliqka

For episode #63 we are joined by clinical hypnotherapist and abduction researcher Laurie McDonald.  Laurie is a graduate of the Dale Carnegie Effective Speaking and Human Relations courses, is a member of the Sacramento Institute of Noetic Sciences and is on the mental health referral list for organizations such as Passages of Malibu addiction center, MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) and is the president of OPUS (Organization for Paranormal Understanding and Support).  

As a lifelong experiencer Laurie gives us her views of what is going on on a grand scale, what aliens want and how to prevent unwanted intrusion. Brace yourself, it gets pretty wild.  In the plus show we get into some accounts from Laurie's work as researcher and hypnotherapist and she recounts for us a mind bending story from the Vietnam War and the most frightening accounts from her regressed subjects and Laurie gives us her view on current disclosure coming out of the Pentagon.  

Show notes:
https://trueyouhypnotherapy.com/
https://www.opusnetwork.org

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For episode 62 we welcome back author, magican and talismanic jeweller, Aidan Wachter.

We discuss he last book Weaving Fate and Aidan’s writing process, including the importance of flow and how his work is made up of broken pieces which makes sense at a later point.

We talk magic as a tool for altering future probabilities and ones past through ritual and manipulation of the mind and the world. Magic and sorcery are ways of being in the world and Aidan's writing offers us his way without conditions or constraints.

Aidan’s work helps anchor us around the understanding that our lives are our own. That we can be our own real time biographers and we can write a better story. He also gives us a good toolkit for doing so in both of his books, Six Waysand Weaving Fate.

In the Plus show we discuss ‘naming’ and coming of age and the idea of  ‘the feral self’. I also manage to go down a rabbit hole around my confusion with billionaire's obsession with Super Yachts. I’m not even sure how my brain got there...

Show Notes:
http://www.aidanwachter.com
https://twitter.com/silfrsmith

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For episode 61 we welcome back to the Spirit Box the fabulous Mademoiselle Vendredi. Mme Vendredi is a black magician who in her previous appearance on the show took us through her work with Sigils, Servitors and her own brand of seduction magick.

Today she’ll be taking us through her journey working with spirits from Santa Muerte, St Expedite to the Demons of the Goetia and beyond. We also go over her servitor work and discuss her upcoming course in Servitor creation. In the show MME Vendredi describes how she built her relationship with various spirits and worked out their preferred offerings and exchanges.

In the Plus show we discuss working with the Goetic spirits and the Arbatel, Olympick spirits and Mme Vendredi gives us her views on cultural appropriation.

Cards on the table, we had a lot of microphone problems with this one so the audio is touch on the shite side in places but its momentary... these things too shall pass so stick with it.

Enjoy

Show Notes:
https://www.instagram.com/mme.vendredi/?hl=en

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For episode 60 we are joined by the charming Douglas Batchelor, a Magician and host of the wonderful ‘What Magic is This?’ podcast.

I hugely enjoyed this show, it was great to chat with Douglas and we really got into his journey into magick and what it has meant to him. We also dug into how the show came about and what the driving goal behind the it is about and the contribution Douglas’s ancestors have made to the direction of the podcast.

We discuss the healing and self development aspects of sorcery but most importantly what magic can give to people. In his own words...

"...my name is Douglas and I have been doing this whole sorcery and magic thing for 18 years. It’s something that I don’t normally share with people but when I do they become very interested. Either that or they stop talking to me. With luck, this podcast will help spread my enthusiasm for magic and these topics to others, because I think we could all use a bit of magic in our lives. Not only that, but what we call Magic might just be the underlying, unknown stuff that this reality runs on."

In the Plus show we talk about Douglas's personal relationships with Anubis and St Cyprian. And we discuss hearing spirit voices and mental health.

Enjoy!

Show Notes:
https://twitter.com/DouglasWMiT
https://whatmagicisthis.com
https://www.patreon.com/whatmagicisthis

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Ivo Domínguez Jr, is an author, teacher, and ritualist. In the show we discuss some of his foundational experiences that set him out on his journey. Before getting on to his new book, The four elements of the Wise, an in-depth exploration of the elements, their lore, history, correspondences, and use in spellwork and ritual.

The four elements are the pillars that uphold the manifest world and anchor spirit to matter. They are associated with a wide range of spiritual entities, from small elementals to divine beings.

This book explores the consciousness of the elements, which provides a system of understanding that supports most of the magic of the West and paganism.

In the Plus show we get into some of Ivo’s incredible experiences including a spontaneous possession by Ogun, a student's attempt to summon something a bit above their pay grade and the nature of Spirit communication and the ability of spirits to read the deeper levels of our consciousness.

Enjoy.

Show notes:
https://www.ivodominguezjr.com
https://twitter.com/IvoDominguezJr
https://www.instagram.com/ivodominguezjr

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To give you an idea of what extras you can enjoy in the Plus show and Patreon I've pulled together some Djinn Stories for you to enjoy. The first part is Patron bonus show, some the content the patrons on the higher tiers get and the second is a sample of the Plus show extras.

Enjoy
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For episode #58 we are joined by Sorita d’Este. An accomplished author she has penned the Circle for Hekate (V.1 & 2) as well as around 20 other titles. 

Aspects of Ancient Greek and Aegean religious and magical practices, as well as Ancient Egyptian, Hermetic and Celtic threads, can be found in her work that combines her experience gained in Initiatory Craft, as well as traditions preserved in other European traditions, Orphism and the Grimoires.  

Today we discuss Hekate, her revival in modern witchcraft and Sorita gives us a superb background to the history of the goddess and dispels some modern myths.

She has travelled extensively, visiting many ancient religious sites – including temples in Malta, Italy, Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Sri Lanka and India and in the Plus show we discuss travelling and in particular her journey to the Temple of Hekate in Lagina Turkey.

Show Notes:
www.avaloniabooks.com
www.hekatecovenant.com
twitter.com/theurgia
sorita.co.uk

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For episode #56 we are joined by author Paul Weston. In an idea laden show we cover the significance of one's own landing coordinates, 'what’s happening around you in your formative years' and Paul takes us through growing up in the sixties on into the seventies and to the concept of Hauntology, which he has many thoughts on.  
We segue into a lost UFO experience and unpublished book from a Glastonbury stalwart and his own book that resulted from that. We discuss how Glastonbury being a beacon connected with Extraterrestrial gnosis was actually a far bigger factor into how it developed into the New Age mecca it now is in the seventies.  

We then come back round to discuss patterns through time that manifest in culture and settle in the 90’s and how its importance in time is yet to fully come to fruition.  

In the Plus show we talk about the systems of control becoming more visible to the public and how this is tied to patterns through time, a very Terrence McKenna idea. We discuss Allen Greenfield version of Crowley's Liber Samekh with the names of classic UFO entities that he has associated with New Aeon English Qabalah inserted. So sign up to the patron for that excellent conversation.  We wrap up on the topic of the Diamon, creativity and building the information exchange with the HGA and ones sense of identity is not limited to time and space coordinates and there is a bigger wider thing going on circling back to the start of the show and one's own landing coordinates.

Show Notes:
http://www.paulwestonglastonbury.com
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paul-Weston/e/B0034PR0X8/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1
https://twitter.com/paulavalon?lang=en

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Music by Obliqka

For episode #55 we welcome back Witch and Tarot teacher, Elise Oursa to the Spirit Box to take us through how her work on the 'Blood and Ink' tarot has developed since she was first on the show back in episode #21.

"The Blood & Ink Tarot is a channelled deck, you could say a collaboration between myself and an Unseen who worked through me, fiercely and rapidly over the course of a single weekend just after Imbolc 2020. The wheel has now gone full circle. and it is time to release the deck into the world."

We get into an update on the 'Blood and Ink' deck  and some of the weird occurrences that have happened and continue to happen to both Elise and some of the people who’ve purchased the limited edition decks.
We talk about cunning woman Ellen Hayward, creativity and spirit contact and we get into Coffee and cards, Elise’s card group on facebook.

In the plus section of the show Elise does a card draw for me and we go into her book project updates and new art projects updates.
If you want to get a 'Blood and Ink' deck, you better get on it as there are a limited number remaining. So do check the show notes below for the appropriate links.
Enjoy

Show notes:
https://eliseoursa.com
https://eliseoursa.com/product/pre-order-the-blood-ink-tarot-a6-limited-edition/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cardsncoffee/

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Music by Obliqka

For episode 54 we welcome Dr Jack Hunter to the Spirit Box.

Dr. Hunter is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology and the paranormal. He is a tutor with the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and teaches on the MA in Ecology and Spirituality and the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology.

He has authored numerous books, most recently publishing  ‘Manifesting Spirits: An Anthropological Study of Mediumship and the Paranormal’ and he edited ‘Greening the paranormal Exploring the Ecology of Extraordinary Experience

We discuss the influence of the childhood and teenage experiences which formed the interest in his chosen field of expertise and Dr Hunter takes us on a journey through his field work in mediumship at the Bristol Spirit Lodge to his thoughts on how we develop a more harmonious relationship between the human and non-human worlds and how the development of communication with a spirit is a process.

In the plus section we go deeper into nature as an intelligence and upcoming projects including a project on High Strangeness and religious experiences. We also discuss how we interact with beings that may be outside of time.

Enjoy!

Show Notes:
https://jack-hunter.webstarts.com/index.html
https://www.facebook.com/DrJackHunter

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My next guest on the Spirit Box is multi talented, witch Chaweon Koo. An algorithm magick maestro Chaweon is a successful youtuber, tiktoker and make up artist with a huge following. If you’re a content creator, you’d do well to listen closely as Chaweon is dropping some knowledge.

We discuss Technomancy, Gen Z, WitchTok. The truly global power and reach of social media and the mindset needed to practice Algorithm magick successfully

Chaweon will also be speaking at AvalonCon this coming summer so do check the show notes for links to get tickets.

In the plus show we delve deeper into Algorithm magick and the future of technology in engagement. But also why there has been such a huge boom in the occult and esoteric world. Why getting paid for your time and expertise is good.

Before you hit play Chaweon recently released a very important video on the wave of hate crimes against asian people in numerous countries. It horrendous and I encourage you all to share it far and wide. It’s part of a wider campaign with the hashtag #stopasianhate.

Show Notes:
https://beacons.ai/hichaweon
https://www.tiktok.com/@hichaweon
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdv-aJ7fNmryRC8tD2e4qUA
https://twitter.com/hichaweon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TQYbGpWzrk
https://avaloncon.uk

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In January 1959, ten experienced young skiers set out for Mount Otorten in the far north of Russia. While one of the skiers fell ill and returned., the remaining nine lost their way and ended up on another mountain slope known as Kholat Syakhl (or ‘Mountain of the Dead’).   

On the night of 1 February 1959 something or someone caused the skiers to flee their tent in such terror that they used knives to slash their way out. Search parties were sent out and their bodies were found, some with massive internal injuries but with no external marks on them.   

The autopsy stated the violent injuries were caused by ‘an unknown compelling force’. The area was sealed off for years by the authorities and the full events of that night remained unexplained. Using original research carried out in Russia and photographs from the skier's cameras, author and researcher Keith McCloskey joins us today to explore  what happened to the nine young people who lost their lives in the mysterious ‘Dyatlov Pass Incident’.  

All of the known negatives taken from the group’s cameras were examined in great detail. What they show is that not only were the group present on Mountain of the Dead that last night, but they were also watching something that was going on in the night sky.  Keith also discusses the Mansi, the tribes people of the area, their spiritual beliefs and folklore and how they fit into the mystery.  

In the plus show Keith discusses the occurrences of lights in the sky in the area including meteors and how the bodies gave off traces of radiation and what he believes this to indicate. Theories of KGB involvement.

Show Notes:
http://www.dyatlov-pass-incident.com
https://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Dead-Dyatlov-Pass-Incident/dp/0752491482/
http://www.keithmccloskey.com
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9249247/Dyatlov-Pass-Eight-tourists-missing-Russia-nine-people-mysteriously-died-1959.html

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For episode 51 we welcome author, landscape punk and creator of Hookland and AvalonCon speaker David Southwell.   

As some of you know Spirit Box is the official podcast of AvalonCon and David is the first in the series of guests that will be appearing on the show in the run up to the event.  

This was a fascinating conversation and one I greatly enjoyed. David traced the creative origins of Hookland back to sharing a taxi with J G Ballard through to the developed concept providing a magical perspective on the landscape as an act of a re-enchantment.   

We also discuss Hookland’s function as a resistance to fascist claims on folklore. From there we go into David's childhood, growing up in Essex, being a 7 year old necromancer and the Southern TV interruption incident in 1977.  

In the Plus show we discuss the Usborne supernatural books that had a big influence on us both and the haunted hotel in Glastonbury where a lot of the AvalonCon attendees are no doubt staying. We touch on David’s time as an end of pier fortune teller, classism in the Occult and much more.  

Show Notes:
Hookland: https://twitter.com/HooklandGuide
David’s twitter: https://twitter.com/cultauthor  
AvalonCon: https://avaloncon.uk

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Mana Aelin is a shadowsinger, artist, intuitive reader, otherwordian traveler, witch, and cemetery walker. Hailing from the depths of the Underworld, Mana often finds themselves connecting with wolfish creatures of this plane and others, baneful plants, and those who live in constant liminality.

Mana hosts the brilliant “The Real Witches of the End Times,” a podcast where magick and paranormal folk share their stories for an audience of not-just-witches, living people, or humans.

A fun and interesting show we chat about the trials and tribulations of starting your own podcast, imaginary friends, spirit portraits and developing a relationship with a fae entity. We discuss the parallels in our own journeys and how travel thins the veil between worlds. There was also a very weird occurrence in that I seemed to know exactly what Mana was going to say on several occasions!

In the Plus show we get into more details around Mana's experience's with the Fae being and her travels in Ireland so sign up to the Spirit Box Patreon if you'd like to hear that.

Show notes:
Mana’s website: https://www.mothmana.com
Mana’s twitter: https://twitter.com/ManaAelin
Mana’s patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mothmana

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For episode 48 we are joined by astrologer Demian Allan to discuss the forecast for 2021. This was recorded on the 3rd of January and it’s interesting recording this intro on the 9th to see what has recently happened in the United States.

We discuss when things are going to get better, revolution, our relationship with food and the parts of the year that will be more challenging. We also go over when travel will open up again.

Demian has just started a YouTube channel so do check that out, the links are in the show notes.

In the Plus section we get into the challenges across Autumn and Winter.

Show notes:
Demian’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-oZaKXct07R8iVAUMgVq6Q
Demian’s website: https://www.demianallan.com

For episode #46 it’s my great pleasure to welcome Mr Devin Hunter.  Devin is the bestselling author of the Witch Power Series and is the creator of ModernWitch.com (Podcast, Blog, Magazine), as well as a professional psychic medium and occultist.  He is part owner of The Mystic Dream in Walnut Creek, CA, and an initiate of multiple occult orders, including his own, Sacred Fires and is the cofounder of the Black Rose Tradition of Witchcraft. He has been featured in multiple publications and is a frequent presenter and keynote at conferences, and festivals throughout the US.   

We talk about the formative psychic experiences that led him down his path. We discuss how his witchcraft is unique to him but how one's journey or ‘The lonely road’ as he calls it is something we all will undertake if we’re called to this territory.

He outlines how we must honour our individual experiences and not always try to rationalise things from a left brain perspective. That the goal should be to balance both the left and right sides of our brains  Devin gives his view of a crystal I picked up many years ago (check out the show art).

And in the Plus show we get into crystals in some depth and the forces found within the crystal types, the Devas and the Dragon a subject he goes into in his upcoming book.  

Show notes:
Devin’s twitter: https://twitter.com/MrDevinHunter
The Modern Witch: http://modernwitch.com  
Devin’s website: http://devinhunter.net

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For episode #45 we welcome Pierre Sabak. He is an expert on ancient symbolism and etymology and is widely recognized as a leading academic in the fields of religion, mythology, mysticism and the esoteric. New Ufology is the Study of Occult Symbolism to deconstruct the Ufological tradition, a restricted teaching equated with the Flying Saucer and its occupants (a Crewmember of a Vessel).

A completely new field of research, the focus of New Ufology is Skaphology (the Study of Angelic Boats within Religion and Mythology). Pierre Sabak's work on the Saucer Cults details a Secret Alien Code within Language which he calls the Artefact, one that is identified archaically with the ‘Angelic Sailor’ and its human and non-human Hosts.

Sabak contends that it is only through studying the occult tradition that we can truly comprehend the UFO phenomenon, its astrological origins and more importantly its intentions for mankind!  -  to that end, what are its intentions for  mankind?

Quite a bit to unpack there and some interesting twists and turns from the regular themes on this show. Which is good. No one and no system has all the answers so it is important to get off the map sometimes.

Enjoy

Show notes:
Pierre's website: https://pierresabakbooks.com
Pierre's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu_MHVgfRQoYuK1fMSHt0cQ

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For episode #44 we welcome my creative partner in the creation of the Sigil Engine, creative technologist and photographer David Tidman.

In the show we go through the how the project came about and unpack the creative and esoteric concepts behind the engine. We breakdown how the project was technically approached and the challenges that arose from attempting to create a magickal tool via digital methods.

We discuss what people are using it for, how the engine has a global user base and what's next for the project.

The fundamental question is 'does it work?'. The first ever sigil created on the live tool was for a successful launch and in roughly10 days there were 100k sigils created and we're currently closing in on 150k. It was so successful we had to upgrade the server.

So 'does it work?', time will tell for users, but it worked for us. Incidentally the project had a little write up on Boing Boing.

In the patrons plus show we discuss our photographic work and reflect on a few of our mountain adventures over the years.

Show Notes:
https://www.sigilengine.com
http://davidtidman.co.uk
http://davidtidmanphotography.co.uk
https://twitter.com/Tids__
https://avaloncon.uk
https://boingboing.net/2020/12/02/digital-sigil-generator.html

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YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/c/DarraghMasonField
Music by Obliqka

For episode 43 I have the great pleasure of welcoming back Dana Fox to discuss his new project ‘The Valley of the Four Houses’ Firstly, it’s the name of the book he’s writing. Secondly, it’s the name of an ongoing series of talks and lectures he’s giving on Patreon.  The talks encompass film reviews, but not in the usual way. Dana present’s theories about particular films. It’s experimental. It’s a type of magic. The magic for me is learning to discount nothing, to see tiny hints of something which might lead you in an unexpected direction.  Links as always in the show notes.  

In the show we cover all of the above and we talk about some of the paranormal subject matter, magick, philosophy and some rare and tragic cryptids.  There were some audio issues during the recording so there is some background noise in places but nothing too unbearable.  

Show Notes:
http://www.Patreon.com/valleyofthefourhouses
http://www.sigilengine.com

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Music by Obliqka

For episode #42 we are joined by author Moon Laramie who discusses his new publication Blavatsky Unveiled Vol I.  H. P. Blavatsky's original occult masterpiece, Isis Unveiled, covers a wide range of topics from ancient Egyptian Mystery schools and cosmogenesis to the conflict between science and spiritualism. But Blavatsky's elaborate Victorian prose presents a major stumbling block for the 21st-century reader.  In the book Moon Laramie addresses these linguistic challenges by rendering the original text, for the first time ever, into easily accessible modern English, with detailed notes and a comprehensive 'Who's Who' section. It’s a psychedelic ride through a world of seances, skeptical scientists, multiple earths, Atlantis, Lemuria, Giants and a vastly different view of human history. If you’re not familiar with Blavatsky, we have you covered and Moon gives an overview of her background and life story.   In the Plus section we get Perpetual lamps and Alkahest the universal solvent amongst lots interesting subjects.  

Show notes:
https://shop.theosophicalsociety.org.uk/
http:/shop.theosophicalsociety.org.uk/blavatsky-unveiled
https://www.treadwells-london.com/product-page/blavatsky-unveiled-moon-laramie
http://www.moonlaramie.com

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Music by Obliqka - https://soundcloud.com/obliqka

For episode 40 we welcome American artist and photographer Shannon Taggart and her documentary work with the spiritualist community culminating in the magnificent photo book SÉANCE.

Her project evolved into an eighteen-year journey that has taken her around the world in search of ‘ectoplasm’—the elusive substance that is said to be both spiritual and material. We discuss what inspired Shannon's journey as well as some of the strange experiences she had and how it changed her.

With SÉANCE, Taggart offers haunting images exploring Spiritualist practices in the US, England and Europe: 150 of her original photographs, many of which have never been published, as well as rare historical photographs. Supported with a commentary on her experiences, a foreword by Dan Aykroyd, creator of Ghostbusters (1984) and fourth-generation Spiritualist, and illustrated essays from curator Andreas Fischer and artist Tony Oursler, SÉANCE examines Spiritualism’s relationship with human celebrity, its connections to art, science, and technology, and its intrinsic bond with the medium of photography.

There were a few problems with the audio so apologies if its a bit up and down in places.

Show notes:
https://www.shannontaggart.com
https://twitter.com/seance_book
https://www.instagram.com/seance_book/

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Preston Dennett began investigating UFOs and the paranormal in 1986 when he discovered that his family, friends and co-workers were having dramatic unexplained encounters. Since then, he has interviewed hundreds of witnesses and investigated a wide variety of paranormal phenomena.

He is a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a ghost hunter, a paranormal researcher, and the author of twenty-six books and more than 100 articles about UFOs and the paranormal.

In the show we get into onboard encounters, UFO and alien sightings over mines, what   the aliens want, the healing experiences some experiencers have. We talk about gifts given by the aliens.

In the Plus show we talk the men in black and Bigfoot showing up directly after and during sightings. If that sounds like your bag head on over the podcast Patreon, for the extended show and month bonus content.

Show notes:
https://prestondennett.weebly.com
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOntTQrEbD94Gjfc0UXC46A

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In honour of Halloween here is a witness account of seeing the Banshee from Mary, aged 70 who is from Dublin, Ireland.  She recollects for us, hearing about how the Banshee followed a friends family and when another death occurs in the family there is a ghostly appearance of the recently departed and Mary herself witnesses the Banshee which she recounts for us here.

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For episode #38 we are joined by author and astrologer Demian Allan and look back over the predictions in his book The Astrological Dynamics of the Universe 1970-2020. We also look back over 2020, the pandemic and what celestial events were pulling the cosmic strings around us.  We discuss predictions for the remainder of the year and on into 2021 and beyond. It's rich stuff and there's further change coming, quite a lot of it actually...

Oh and as a footnote he called the 2016 US election correctly so naturally I asked… You have to listen through, no skipping!

The Witches Gathering 2020 have kindly sponsored this episode of the podcast and link to the event is below in the show notes.

Quick reminder, Spirit Box has been nominated for THREE Witchies 2020 awards:

• Best Podcast
• Best New Podcast
• Best Podcast Episode

If you feel like throwing me a vote please do!

Show notes:
https://www.demianallan.com
https://www.subscribepage.com/witchesvirtualgathering2020 
http://witchessabbat.com/witchies/

Well this was a lot of fun! The legend that is Joshua Cutchin is back on Spirit Box to talk Changelings and Fairy child abductions, the subject of his superb book 'Thieves in the Night'.

Get out your fairy, jinn, ultraterrestrial bingo cards because we get into a lot here.

We talk about the topic as a global phenomenon as Joshua presents in the book. We discuss the correlations with the Alien abduction experience and the reasons why these events were believed to take place. We discuss the reasons 'Iron' and 'Fire' are used as a defence against these beings and why calling on a higher power seems to work, irrespective of which higher power being invoked.

I get a chance to play Joshua the ' Fairy Witness accounts' I've recorded and in the Plus show we get into the 'Man in Black' of fairy folklore, black eyed children, Santa Claus, Jinn and the ubiquitous 'Men in Black' of ufo folklore.

UFO's, Fairy's, Men in Black, Jinn... why its a Fortean feast for your ears!

Show notes:

https://www.joshuacutchin.com

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For episode 35 we are joined by Mark Stavish to talk Egregores. Get your Spirit Box bingo cards out, we have all the good themes covered in this one.  "the egregore, an autonomous psychic entity created by a collective group mind. An egregore is sustained by belief, ritual, and sacrifice and relies upon the devotion of a group of people, from a small coven to an entire nation, for its existence. An egregore that receives enough sustenance can take on a life of its own, becoming an independent deity with powers its believers can use to further their own spiritual advancement and material desires. "  In the show we discuss Mark's book, Egregores The Occult Entities That Watch Over Human Destiny were he examines the history of egregores from ancient times to present day, with detailed and documented examples, and explores how they are created, sustained, directed, and destroyed.   We discuss Saturn and its relationship to egregores, how reality is constantly manipulated both in a material and immaterial sense and the dark magickal practices which facilitate this. In the Plus show we talk parasites, obsession and possession, well it wouldn't be a Spirit Box podcast if didn't...  Enjoy!  

Show notes: 

• Vox Hermes Blog: https://voxhermes.wordpress.com 
• Buy the book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Egregores-Occult-Entities-Watch-Destiny/dp/1620555778/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=egregores&qid=1600618029&sr=8-1 
• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IHSLibraryandResearchCenter     

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For Episode #32 show we welcome Wilmar Taal to discuss, The Gnome Manuscript and its creator, J.H.W. Eldermans.

The Gnome Manuscript is a part of a set of three books including, The Gnome Grimoire and The Gnome Compendium, the later two being due for publication with Troy Books.  All three are based on the works of J.H.W. Eldermans concerning gnomes.

The original source manuscript is lost but a copy is held in the Museum of witchcraft and magic at Boscastle. The artwork in the manuscript is remarkable, some of which you can see in the YouTube version of the podcast.  It’s worth having a look to get a sense of the complexity of this work.

We discuss the elusive and complicated figure that is Eldermans. We discuss the importance of stories, place and community in our lives.

In relation to Gnomes Wilmar proposes the areas most associated with Gnome mythology were previously lands of Celtic tribes and a residual belief of those people. Wilmar also reveals an unexpected possible origin myth of the Gnomes. Witte Wieven, also make an appearance. Translated the White woman who have almost identical mythology to the Banshee and Wilmar warns that if you see a Witte Wieven you have to run, they are not friendly.

In the Plus show we further discuss what was Eldermans trying to achieve with the book and the stories about his engagement with local people regarding the Gnomes and a secret grimoire Eldermans penned covering a remarkable range of occult subjects, hinting at an ambition of producing a larger body of work of which the Gnome manuscript was a part. Wilmar goes on to discuss the sexual component to Eldermans work and what his view of magick was and what was needed to practice it. We also go through a story around Eldermans connections with Occult groups. If that sounds like it floats your boat join the Patreon  and you'll get access to all previous Plus shows and much more.

Show notes:

www.troybooks.co.uk/the-silent-listener
www.troybooks.co.uk/the-gnome-manuscript
www.facebook.com/wilmarbjtaal

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For Episode 31 we welcome the awesome Aidan Wachter. Aidan is the author of the wonderful Six Ways, which is a collection of approaches and entries for practical magic. It is not a system, grimoire, or belief system. The focus is on the development of healthy spirit ecologies with a decidedly animist bent. His next book Weaving Fate: Hypersigils, Changing the Past, & Telling True Lies is available at the end of August 2020

We talk spirits, dirt sorcery and rural life. Aiden takes us through a moving experience he had through his work in deep trance states. We discuss the influence of society on the self and how solid praxis and discernment  can help insulate oneself against that which does not serve you.

In the Plus show we discuss Aidan’s encounters with the Man in Black, Luminous threads of attachment and practices to protect oneself from hungry spirits. We also chat about the occulture obsession with the lineage and authenticity of magical practices. To that end we discussed the consistent methods & tools that have allowed people to dip into the old currents throughout time. If you want to hear that bit, click the patreon link below and join the team!

Show notes:

• Amazon page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aidan-Wachter/e/B07B4LVRTC/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/swordakeereon 
• Website: http://www.aidanwachter.com
• Six Ways Podcast: http://www.aidanwachter.com/six-ways-podcast

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For Episode 28 we welcome back the legend that is Phil Hine. Phil is an Occultist of repute, an author and historian. Today we discuss T. Lobsang Rampa a polarizing yet compelling figure. This was a lot of fun to record and a bit lighter than recent shows.

Enjoy.

Show notes:

• Hine's Varieties -https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1935150766/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_vZdMEbEPK61GE
• Phil's blog - http://enfolding.org
• Phil's Twitter - https://twitter.com/PhilH86835657 
• Lobsang Rampa Audio: https://www.lobsangrampa.org/audio-books.html

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• Music by Obliqka

Joining us on the Spirit Box for episode 27 is Author and former paranormal investigator Al Tyas to discuss his book Project Rabbit Hole, New Insights Into the Supernatural

He has a B.A. in ancient history from Rhode Island College, and an M.A. in Military History from the American Military University.

As a paranormal investigator, he investigated over 100 public businesses, historical landmarks, and private homes.  After his experiences  interacting with the supernatural, and how it affected both himself and others, he retired from investigating hauntings in 2006.

We get into his cases, hauntings after murders, dolls and toys hosting spirits, the dangers of paranormal investigations, Nazi occultism and Maria Orsic, the voodoo practice of spirit marriage and the effects of iron and a little chat about whether iron in the body has any influence on our experiences particularly for people of Celtic decent.

We also discuss the technical problems you can have when working in this territory and ironically experienced them in the audio! There are a few gaps in there where the audio wasn’t usable.

In the extended patron version we talk about Sante Murete, Skinwalker ranch and Al’s methods of protection but that is for patron members only so join up if you want to hear that along with the witness accounts we are gathering over there.

SHOW NOTES:

• Book link Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07WQ3QPG8/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_QQ-fFbRGPMSDB
• Book link Lulu: https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/al-tyas/project-rabbit-hole/paperback/product-1e477ee7.html
• Al’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Project-Rabbit-Hole-1295583700596945/

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• MUSIC - Obliqka
  

Joining us on the Spirit Box for episode 26 is Michael Lichens. Michael holds an MA in Religion and Literature from the University of Chicago and spends much of his time studying overlooked spiritual experiences when he isn't busy revising and editing. He is the editor of The Catholic Exchange and resides in Colorado where you can often find him discussing preachers, ghosts, and churches of the Old West.

We will be discussing the book “The Devil is Afraid of Me: The Life and Works of the World’s Most Popular Exorcist.” by angelologist Father Marcello Stanzione.

The book narrates the true story of Father Gabriele Amorth, the former chief exorcist of the vatican who performed more than sixty thousand exorcisms over a thirty-year period in Rome.

The book details the experiences Fr Amorth had during his career like the windows icing over during an exorcism in summertime in Rome, dealing the results of magical attacks and some startling manifestations including a possessed young man producing nails from his mouth. We compare elements of the accounts and techniques detailed with the Islamic equivalent and look at the reasons while individuals can be open to obsessions and possession and discuss the fate of fallen angels from both the catholic and fairy lore perspectives.

SHOW NOTES:
https://www.sophiainstitute.com/products/item/devil-is-afraid-of-me

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In this episode we welcome Julian Vayne to discuss psychedelic entities, the purpose of ritual in relation to psychedelics and the significant case for psychedelics as medicines. 

Julian Vayne is an occultist and author of numerous books, essays, journals, 'zines and articles in both the academic and esoteric press.  A regular speaker at events, and facilitator of retreats and workshops, his work is informed by chaos magic and lineages within Wicca and Tantra. Julian is a co-organizer of the psychedelic conference Breaking Convention, and sits on the academic board of The Journal of Psychedelic Studies. Julian facilitates psychedelic ceremony, as well as providing one-to-one psychedelic integration sessions and support. He is the author of the celebrated Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony.  Since 2011 he has been sharing his work through The Blog of Baphomet and is the curator of the Youtube series My Magical Thing.

The thumbnail art is by the great visionary artist Alex Grey whose work we briefly touch on. Those of you of a certain age and with excellent music taste will recognise his work from the Tool album art for the album Lateralus.

If you like the show and want more Spirit Box in your life, join the Patreon and the podcast Discord.

SHOW NOTES:

• Julian’s Website: theblogofbaphomet.com/category/julian-vayne/
• Julian’s books: amzn.to/2BN8sQ7
• My Magical thing: www.youtube.com/channel/UC6TWW-5KTelMMe4xW77TpFQ
• Alex Grey: www.alexgrey.com
• Video samples from www.videvo.net/profile/joseph2/

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This week we are joined by Joshua Cutchin and Timothy Renner to discuss the book they co-authored, ‘Where the Footprints End’, an exploration into the high strangeness surrounding the bigfoot phenomena.

Joshua is an author and musician, and a well known figure in paranormal circles having appeared on some of the best known paranormal podcasts out there. Timothy is also a musician and author and on top of that he's a brilliant illustrator and host of the superb Strange familiars podcast. 

So, what’s the premise of the book? Despite their apparently physical nature, bigfoot and its hairy hominid kin consistently appear mired in High Strangeness—the peculiar, ineffable, and nonsensical absurdities so often encountered in paranormal phenomena. Some sightings seem more consistent with mythology than biology. Bigfoot often present supernatural attributes, like luminescent eyes or the ability to pass, ghostlike, through structures. Anomalous lights are regularly seen in areas of frequent sasquatch activity. Footprints persistently, if rarely, display odd numbered toes, and—most bafflingly—bigfoot trackways suddenly terminate in the middle of open, untouched terrain.

In Volume 1 of Where the Footprints End: High Strangeness and the Bigfoot Phenomenon, authors Joshua Cutchin and Timothy Renner carefully examine not only the intersection of hairy apemen with global folklore—of poltergeists, faeries, extraterrestrials, magic, witches, ghosts, and archetypal women-in-white—but also question the fundamental assumptions underlying contemporary cryptozoological beliefs surrounding bigfoot.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Book:  amzn.to/3isBp4h
• Joshua’s Website: www.joshuacutchin.com
• Strange Familiars podcast: www.strangefamiliars.com
• Strange Familiars facebook: www.facebook.com/strangefamiliars

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This episode we welcome back Lonnie Scott. He’s been an Occultist, Pagan, Strategic Sorcerer, Chaonimist, and Heathen for over two decades. He’s a Professional Hypnotist (seen on Hellier), Tarot Professional (Tarosophist of the Year 2014), experienced memberships and initiations in various Magic, Witchcraft, Pagan and Heathen organizations. Also, the founder of the Wayfinder Tradition. he’s been investigating the Paranormal and experimenting in the Occult for a long time and in all that somehow finds the time to create and host the Weird Web Radio podcast and I’m delighted to have him back on the Spirit Box.

We talk about his journey into magick, teenage curses and an intense vision that culminated into a norse figure of some significance coming into his life.

Just a quick bit of housing keeping. If you like the show and want more content Spirit Box in your life be sure to sign up to Patreon and join the podcast Discord. It’s the price of a cup of coffee for pre-releases to all the shows and a host of other perks.

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You can find Lonnie Scott here:

• https://www.patreon.com/weirdwebradio
  
• https://www.facebook.com/weirdwebradio/?fref=nf
  
• http://weirdwebradio.com
  
• https://twitter.com/lonnie_scott
  

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A great line up the first Spirit Box Trialogue, we welcome back Marco Visconti and welcome Lonnie Scott for a discussion on Hellier.   Marco has been on the show before explaining the Thelemic significance of Pan and The Star Sapphire ritual outlined at end of season 2 and professional hypnotist Lonnie appeared in the show in season 2 carrying out some exploratory hypnosis experiments with the Hellier team.  

Show notes: 

Marco Visconti's links: 

• “Hellier to Heliopolis” - Fri, 12 June 2020 19:00 – 21:00 BST https://marcovisconti.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eed45718599969d31bc1b4a0b&id=6ea2dad8d6&e=9e53821f4f 
• https://twitter.com/azrael2393 
• http://www.marcovisconti.org 
• https://www.patreon.com/marcovisconti  

You can find Lonnie Scott here: 

• https://www.patreon.com/weirdwebradio  
• https://www.facebook.com/weirdwebradio/?fref=nf 
• http://weirdwebradio.com 
• https://twitter.com/lonnie_scott  
  

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Dana Fox is a trainee Gestalt psychotherapist, a practicing Magickian most notably in visionary magic.  He’s been drawn to the subject of UFO’s and the paranormal for as long as he can remember.   In the this episode Dana talks about Non-terrestrial writing/communication. Things seen on the exterior and interior of witnessed alien craft; writing which has been the result of possession; and so-called automatic writing and channelled texts. Our use of written language sets humans apart from many of the other beings on earth. It is also apparent the we share this method of communication with the ultraterrestrial intelligences who come here still.    As if that’s not enough we talk phantom airships, Kenneth Arnold, Black Triangles and  Ghost rockets. Plus the incredible link he has made between Rendleshem forest and an incident in Utsuro Bune in 1830.   

• Show notes:  Scryptid: The Ultraterrestrial Word. https://www.facebook.com/events/2352899085019612/
• Utsuro Bune: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utsuro-bune
  

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In response to a subscriber comment this week we go back to the roots of the Spirit Box podcast for some good ol' Jinn Lore and list the 13 most common types of Jinn. I've pulled this together from a number of online sources so if you know of any I missed that would be make interesting reading by all means let me know by leaving a message for me here https://anchor.fm/spirit-box/message.  

Show notes:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinn 
• https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/List... 
• https://jinn.fandom.com
  

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For episode #16 we welcome Tommie Kelly to the show. Tommie is an Irish artist and writer who has had a lifelong interest in all things Occult and Spirituality. He makes comics, videos, podcasts and very occasional blog posts, and is probably best known for his oracle deck The Forty Servants.   We discuss, the effects of the Great famine and conservative Catholicism of the Irish psyche. We talk Hypersigils, Chaos Magick and art.  The creative process and its impact on mental health and the process of a success being rooted in letting go of the outcome.   

All artwork featured in this video is the copyright of Tommie Kelly.  

Show notes: 

• Tommie's website:  http://AdventuresInWooWoo.com 
• Tommie's twitter: https://twitter.com/TommieKelly 
• Tommie's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tommiekelly 
• The Forty Servants: https://www.adventuresinwoowoo.com/thefortyservants/  
  

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Jonah Locksley is a cultural historian. He runs The Thinker's Garden and Godfrey's Almanack, blogs that focus on the overlooked and outré aspects of literature, art, and history.  

He joins us today discussing Angels and spirits that rule over nations, organisations and ages. We discuss which comes first, the spirit or the organisation and the currency involved in relationships between the group and spirit.  

Show notes: 

Find Jonah on twitter:
https://twitter.com/IonasLoxias
https://twitter.com/ThinkersGarden
https://twitter.com/godfreyalmanack  

Jonah's blogs:
http://www.thethinkersgarden.com
https://godfreysalmanack.org  

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For Episode #14 we welcome a very special guest to the Spirit Box in the form of the brilliant Phil Hine. Phil is an Occultist of repute, an author and historian and most notably known for his contribution to Chaos Magick. Over the hour we cover ritual Possession and overshadowing, Phil's personal experiences with Kali and of being possessed by Baphomet.  We discuss channelling, spiritualism as subsets of possession and some interesting experiences with theatrical improv.   

#spiritbox #philhine #possession #occult  

Show notes: 

• Hine's Varieties -https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/193515076...
• Phil's blog - http://enfolding.org
• Phil's Twitter - https://twitter.com/PhilH86835657   

Image credits: 

• Portrait of Phil by Asa Medhurst 
• Sculpture photos by Maria Strutz 
• Skull cap photo by Darragh Mason Field  

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Episode #13 and Marco Visconti is back and sharing some mind bending esoteric knowledge in this video.  We discuss Ultraterrestrials, UFOnauts, Thelema, and how to unlock the secret at the end of #Hellier Season Two: the Star Sapphire.

Marco is a London-based antiques and rare book trader. He is also consultant, a lecturer, music producer, DJ and of course a Thelemite and Freemason. He has been a member of the international esoteric community for over two decades, receiving initiation into the A∴A∴, Choronzon Club, and Ordo Templi Orientis.  We discuss the entity Lam, Crowley, Kenneth Grant, Working with the spirits, the Goetia, Crossing the Abyss and Aeonics as well as looking at some of the core components of Thelema.

You can find out more about Marco on his website, his Patreon and his YouTube channel.

• http://www.marcovisconti.org 
• https://www.patreon.com/marcovisconti (highly recommend)
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwMJrmbYkOucAa2wKkHgRwA

#hellier #thelema #spiritbox #UFOnauts

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Episode #11 we are joined by the the Once & Future Black Prince of Kennington himself, Marco Visconti! 

Marco is a London-based antiques and rare book trader. He is also consultant, a lecturer, music producer, DJ and of course a Thelemite and Freemason. He has been a member of the international esoteric community for over two decades, receiving initiation into the A∴A∴, Choronzon Club, and Ordo Templi Orientis.  We discuss the entity Lam, Crowley, Kenneth Grant, Working with the spirits, the Goetia, Crossing the Abyss and Aeonics as well as looking at some of the core components of Thelema.  

You can find out more about Marco on his website, his Patreon and his YouTube channel.  

• http://www.marcovisconti.org 
• https://www.patreon.com/marcovisconti 
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwMJrmbYkOucAa2wKkHgRwA

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For Episode #10 we welcome Nathaniel Gillis back on Spirit Box with reflections on his recent research. 

Picking up on where we left off last time we discuss Eros and Evil, the physical marks left on Witches and possessed from their interactions with demonic through to Aleister Crowley's Aiwass and the connection to Isacc Luria.  

Nathaniel Gillis is a religious demonologist and author. After living in a haunted house, Nathaniel spent 20 years researching what it was he encountered. Nathaniel is the founder of Preternatural Epiphenomenal Philosophy.  

Show notes:

• Nathaniel Gillis instagram
• njgillis.com
  

Music by Obliqka - https://soundcloud.com/obliqka

Episode #9 . Spirit Box is joined by Nathaniel Gillis a religious demonologist and author. After living in a haunted house, Nathaniel spent 20 years researching what it was he encountered. Nathaniel is the founder of Preternatural Epiphenomenal Philosophy. 

Nathaniel has sought to redefine the nature of haunting phenomena, ghosts and high strangeness. He' often quoted for his concept of the demonic. 'The reason they are playing by different rules is because they are playing a different game'.  

A very enjoyable discussion in which we explored the very nature of what may be happening during possession and what the various motivations for such attacks and intrusions may be.

Show notes:

• Nathaniel Gillis instagram
• njgillis.com

Music by Obliqka - https://soundcloud.com/obliqka

Episode 8.
For the title of this lecture I’ve used the Islamic term ‘Waswas’ in place of Christian term ‘Obsession’ to describe the experience itself but used the Christian / Western term ‘Demons’ in place of Djinns to illustrate the universal aspect of this experience. Please note this is not to diminish either faith it’s simply that the parallels offer a good reference point for my listeners.  I would ask for the duration of this podcast to park your assumptions and keep an open mind as we explore this subject.  

There are some very obvious parallels between Waswas and mental health problems. I'm not suggesting that mental health problems are all Waswas, that is clearly not the case.  I do suggest the sources may not all be internal. Either way if you are experiencing some of the symptoms described in this podcast go and see both a mental health professional and seek spiritual guidance.   

Sources:
Original video: https://youtu.be/U79YMKWu_3w
'Miracles and the Miraculous in Medieval Germanic and Latin Literature' edited by K.E. Olsen, A. Harbus and T. Hofstra 'Il combattimento spirituale’ Lorenzo Scupoli  
'Spiritual Experiences', 'Secrets of Heaven', both by Emanuel Swedenborg,
'The Mirror Of Perfection' by Brother Leo of Assisi.  

Links:
https://www.islamicboard.com/manners-and-purification-of-the-soul/134304731-overcome-waswas-shaythans-whispers-worship.html https://thejosephplan.org/symptoms-of-demonic-influence-or-attack/  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg http://www.keyholejourney.com Jerry Marzinsky http://catholicharboroffaithandmorals.com/St.%20Francis%20of%20Assisi%20and%20the%20Devil.html   

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Episode 7. This podcast is made up of two recordings, the Dark horseman and the Fairy wind. 

The Dark horseman covers two stories from Lady Wilde's book 'Ancient legends of Ireland'. These stories feature the common themes of the 'Dark horseman' trickster that leads the protagonist awry and is quite unnecessarily cruel and spiteful on travellers he meets along the road. The stories include the visit to the fairy palace and all its beauty and joy and then things take a darker turn and the human visitor gets an unpleasant supernatural brush with death.  The stories propose that the reason for this unnecessary cruelty is a grudge the fairy folk have against humanity, much like the Djinn. I then breifly discuss the startlingly similar origin myths of the Fairies and Djinn.

The Fairy wind refers to a method of travel employed by the fairies and how if one is stuck by the wind, you are not long for this world. The interesting point here is the Jinn are famously associated with wind, being born of the scoring wind of the desert and travelling via it across great distances. Another remarkable similarity between  jinn and fairies.

The interviews with Marco Visconti are coming soon to the podcast but are already available on my YouTube channel:
Marco's first appearance https://youtu.be/zL5m1txHAAI
Marco's second appearance  https://youtu.be/aRUWszmh_GM 

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Episode 6. The idea that there must be a large mountain of lodestone called Rupes Nigra at the North Pole to account for the earth's magnetism goes back to at least the 13th century, not long after the invention of the compass. 

It was held to be surrounded by four islands with inward- flowing rivers, great mountains and inhabited by Pygmies. The source of this mythical polar geography is a lost work by an unknown author of the 14th century. The book was called the 'Inventio fortunata'. 

The book is said to be a travelogue written by a 14th century Franciscan friar from England who travelled the North Atlantic region in the early 1360s,  conducting business on behalf of the King Edward III. He described what he found on his first journey to the islands beyond 54 degrees north in a book, "Inventio Fortunata", which he presented to the King.

The geography attributed to it described bear remarkable resemblances to Hindu, Islamic and Buddhist cosmologies. The description dominated the depiction of the Polar regions on European maps with up to the 1700s, yet we know almost nothing about the contents of the book save a summary in a second text, the "Itinerarium," written by a Dutch traveller named Jacobus Cnoyen. By the late 16th century, even Cnoyen's text was missing, so most of what we know of the contents of the "Inventio Fortunata", other than its use on maps, is found in a letter from the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator to the Anglo-Welsh astrologer and occultist John Dee dated April 20, 1577. Dr John

Sources:  

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupes_N..., http://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/...  

Chet Van Duzer - https://stanford.academia.edu/ChetVan...  'The Mythic Geography of the Northern Polar Regions: Inventio fortunata and Buddhist Cosmology'

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Episode #5 is A reading from the book 'Living with Djinns - Understanding and Dealing with the Invisible in Cairo' by anthropologist Barbara Drieskens.  This book explores the importance of storytelling in Egyptian society and recounts first-hand experiences of djinns.   

A unique ethnographic study, it investigates possession, manifestations, and concepts of person and space.  The djinn is an invisible spirit with a will of its own that may lurk at the bottom of your teacup or seep through your pores to possess you; they  have long been an explanation for illness and misfortune or an excuse for unconventional behavior.  

Barbara Drieskens is an urban anthropologist and an assistant visiting professor at the American University of Beirut.

https://saqibooks.com/author/drieskens-barbara/

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Dr Robert Alcorn  is an Author, a Psychiatrist, a shamanic practitioner and energy healer.  Over this hour we spoke about his journey Psychiatrist Toward Spiritual Healer and Shamanism. The personal experiences that drove this development and the healing techniques from Shamanism that exposed Dr Alcorn to how the spirit world is interacting with the human world on an industrial level.   We discussed the nature of schizophrenia, waswas and the energy drain associated with spirit attachment.  

This of course brings us to the Djinn and in Dr Alcorn’s own words the ‘woowoo’ experiences he had with the Jinn during shamanic journeying. But also his clinical experiences of working with clients under attack from the Djinn.  We spoke about what they are? And interestingly how they are ‘not’ demons but in fact elemental beings.  

The previously mentioned show on the Catholic view on Spiritual Warfare and degrees of Demonic possession got bumped for this show but will be up soon.

Dr Alcorn’s work can be found at his website http://www.dralcorn.us

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I first gave this lecture at Treadwells Occult bookshop in London. It documents my experiences photographing the Aghori while working as a photographer travelling around India. The Aghori are a Shaivite sect who practice cannibalism and commit profane acts living in and around the spiritual capital of India - the ancient northern Indian city of Varanasi where I spent two weeks tracking them down to shoot the work referenced in this podcast.

The Aghori believe that nothing is blasphemous or independent from God. The Aghoris are distinct from other Hindu sects and Sadu’s (priests) by their alcoholic and cannibalistic ceremonies. Skulls and other human bones are obtained from the cremation grounds and used due to having life-force which they believe can be harnessed for ritual purposes. They are also alleged to pull bodies from the river Ganges, which are then eaten. 

They do things which a common man finds to be terrifying, so they overcome fears by facing them and acting out horrors, since they do it regularly it is a common thing for them. They have been known to consume human flesh and human waste and use alcohol and drugs as part of their religious practice. It is said that they are crazy or ‘God-possessed’. They call this transcending of boundaries; ‘Non-discrimination’.

It’s worth orientating westerner occultists. These Sadhu’s are Left hand path in their ritual practices but the outcome of these rituals is not necessarily designed to attain a dark outcome.

"Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people." — Aleister Crowley

The YouTube video  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_y2aC2Fqis

To see the photographic essay - https://www.darraghmasonfield.com/index/G0000qURq7lptH_8

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The Mirror -  https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/pictured-aghori-cannibals-who-drink-3223085

In 2002, an article appeared on an Arabic Internet web site that purported to be an interview with a female jinn who had possessed a human being. The article was written by a 'Mr. Abdalrazzak'.

The interview is set in Damascus, Syria, and includes discussion of jinn kingdoms and the phenomenon of jinn possession.

The article consists of various conversations between the author and his paternal grandmother, Husna Khanum, which took place, as he put it, 'when I was quite young'. The dialogues were not literally with his grandmother, he says, but rather with the jinn that had possessed her.

The spirit had taken possession of her many years before, during the French occupation of Syria in 1920, when the constantly exploding shells had caused her psychological trauma’s and opened her to jinn possession.

The manifestations of the female jinn would come and go, depending on circumstances, over the years.

At times, Husna Khanum would seem totally normal; at others, the personality of the jinn would take over. The writer's discussions with his possessed grandmother are recounted in this episode.

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https://paranormalis.com/threads/interview-with-a-syrian-jinn-legends-of-the-fire-spirits.7961/ 

Welcome to the Spirit Box podcast, a podcast exploring folklore, magick and the spirit world. Originally a video of a lecture I did at the world famous Treadwell's bookshop in London, covering my photo documentary work on belief in the Jinn or Djinn in Delhi India. This show explains the origin of the Jinn, their history and who the major figures are in Jinn mythos.  

Sources and further reading: 'Legends of the fire spirits' by Robert Lebling. 'One thousand and one nights' by Robert Irwin.

For the full video visit this link https://youtu.be/RUv6Mo3jqFI.

To see the photographic essay https://www.darraghmasonfield.com/index/G0000VFRBfQCfShI

Music by Obliqka https://soundcloud.com/obliqka