Talking Animism and the Anomalous | Dr Jack Hunter
This week, Dr Jack Hunter makes his return to the show. Jack is the author and/or editor of Talking With The Spirits, Strange Dimensions, Why People Believe in Spirits, Gods and Magic, Damned Facts and...
View ArticleUnder a Desert Sky | Solo Show
This month's solo show is my impressions and observations from spending last week out in the desert with a group of amazing people. It covers Aboriginal star lore, Songlines, the Dreaming and how we...
View ArticleTalking Permaculture and Retrosuburbia with David Holmgren
This week it is my extra special pleasure to be speaking with one of the co-originators of permaculture itself, David Holmgren. David is an author, educator, designer, activist and permaculturalist...
View ArticleChaeconomica: Devil’s Money Edition
Unless something zany happens in the next couple of days -always a possibility in 2018- this week's newsletter will inevitably be about the Eurozone. Also, this week's podcast is of a piece in terms of...
View ArticleTalking Dark Politics and the Imagination with Gary Lachman
This week, Gary Lachman returns to the show to discuss his two latest books, Lost Knowledge of the Imagination and Dark Star Rising. In this wide-ranging chat we cover the Socratic Turn, how the west...
View ArticleTalking Old English Medical Remedies with Sinéad Spearing
This week we welcome to the show Sinéad Spearing. Sinéad is the author of the recently released Old English Medical Remedies. She joins us to talk about extracting ravens' eyes, the myriad uses of...
View ArticleTalking Astrology in H2 2018 with Austin Coppock
This week sees the return of one of the show's most popular and only recurring episodes, our half-yearly catch-up with Austin Coppock. Yes, we are halfway through 2018 but is the dumpster halfway...
View ArticleTalking Jack Parsons with Paul Weston
In honour of a very special anniversary and in light of a new biographical series, Paul Weston returns to the show to regale us with his strange angelic blend of history, synchromystic analysis and...
View ArticleTalking Saints, Psi and UFOs with Dr Diana Walsh Pasulka
This week we have one of my favourite discussions of the entire year. Joining us is Dr Diana Walsh Pasulka. Diana is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington and...
View ArticleTalking Cosmic Activism with Conner Habib
This week, we welcome back to the show my good friend, Conner Habib. Writer, sex worker, activist, Anthroposophist and host of Against Everyone with Conner Habib. And the topics under discussion are...
View ArticleSolo Show: Hobbits and Space Programmes
Another solo show this week, inspired in part by Douglas Rushkoff's recent article on the grimness of the billionaire future. We play around with notions of technology and personhood and agency and...
View ArticleWinter of Content
Rattling along through the worst space weather of the year, the compulsion is to post in the opposite direction to dire warnings, complaints and apocalypses. The compulsion is to update you on the...
View ArticleMelbourne Retrograde
You're never really sure what form a retrograde is gonna take. Some of you may have noticed there was no podcast released yesterday. I'm in Melbourne at the moment and it was going to be a solo show on...
View ArticleTalking The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis with Richard Dolan
This week, we welcome the one and only Richard Dolan to the show. As you’re very likely aware, Richard is the author and publisher of many books in the UFO field, as well as a radio host, trained...
View ArticleEverything Retrograde | Solo Show
As promised, and just in time, here's the July solo show. It was gonna be too annoying to have dropped a week for mere illness after 136 episodes delivered rain, hail, or shine in five countries, on...
View ArticleTalking AI and Personhood with Kenric McDowell
This week, we are speaking with Kenric McDowell. Kenric is a musician, public speaker, and AI curator for Google Research. We discuss AI, inevitably, but not from either a lurid ‘the world is ending’...
View ArticleGordon on Lighting the Void
Just a quick post to point you at a recent interview. This one is refreshingly 'back to basics' in terms of topic areas. For the most part we just talk magic... chaos magic, 19th century understandings...
View ArticleGordon back on The Higherside Chats
Greg kindly invited me back on his show to celebrate the four year anniversary of THC Plus membership. It's a great, wide-ranging discussion covering some of the material we've been exploring in both...
View ArticleTalking Ursula K. Le Guin with James Sullivan
This week, we speak to James Sullivan. James is a fellow podcaster and -more importantly- a fellow fan of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series. So these books form the through-line for a wide ranging...
View ArticleTalking Permaculture and Design Thinking with Dan Palmer
This week we welcome to the show permaculture designer and theorist, Dan Palmer. Dan is the host of the podcast, Making Permaculture Stronger, where he facilitates fascinating discussions on what’s...
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