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Let the System Complicate Itself: Animism
I’m trying to remember the last time I let the salt of the Pacific Ocean dry on my skin. It has been years and was in another country all together (Fiji). Perhaps jet lag’s only benefit is that you are...
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Podcast Christmas Special – My Mother the Psychonaut
Christmas is a time for togetherness, for family, for asking your mother about ghosts and saints and pyramids. And so I did. You can download the episode from here or you can listen below: Whilst...
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Enjoy Your Intercalation
There is something faintly ‘ancient intercalendary’ about the time between Christmas and New Years. My sister and I refer to it as The Feast of St Bickany (between Christmas and New Years) or...
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It Belongs in a Museum! “So Do You!”
There is a joke in here somewhere. I know that your home town changes over time but I am looking at a shirt I used to wear in an actual exhibition. This is that shirt. Behold it’s 90s glory. Amazing,...
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Podcast Episode 4 – Talking Grimoires with Dr Al Cummins
It’s Thursday in Australia so that means podcast time. This was a good ‘un. Al and I typically catch up when I go to NYC and the conversation felt like something we would have covered in a dive bar...
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Trees, Do You Remember Me From Before?
Trees, oh Trees! Do you remember me? Trees, oh Trees! Do you remember me… from before? Birds, oh Birds! Can you still recall my songs? It was something I mentioned while talking to Sarah. The...
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Podcast Episode 5 – Talking Robert Anton Wilson with Cat Vincent
We talk to noted Fortean journalist, former professional combat magician and all around good egg, Cat Vincent about his life and adventures. Topics include urban magic, sci fi fandom, Forteana,...
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Blackstar 2016
How bad can a year be that opens with a new Bowie album? Probably still pretty bad. He has released a lot of albums. Nevertheless, today is both his birthday and album release day. Here’s the latest...
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Empires of Ambition Revisited
Einstein declared by fiat that the aether did not exist and so it did not. Now, a century or so later and we are struggling to fit consciousness, psi results, morphic fields, how the EmDrive works in...
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‘Shall Have No Dominion’
A little less star light here on earth today and from each day hence. One more star in the sky. How grim a thought there will be no new Bowie songs. How comforting a memory that there are a lot of...
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How to Get Signed Copies of Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
This is how close it is! A number of you have asked how to get signed copies of the book which is just… a lovely thing to hear. As you might expect, this is a logistically challenging thing for an...
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Podcast Episode 6 – Talking Alien Cargo Cults & Tarot with Christopher Knowles
In this bumper episode, we talk to The Secret Sun’s Christopher Knowles about the Nine, Esalen, elite belief systems, alien cargo cults, Star Trek, tarot, psychogeography and what may or may not be...
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Last of the Demon Kings
“So, you have solved many of the problems your science has been chasing. Disease, climate change. And as a consequence, much of your research is now redundant. Nevertheless you should be proud of what...
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Orders of Ambition
It’s good to have a life where you can take a cold January Tuesday off and get a Templar church to yourself. At least for most of your visit. I used to live on Templar land in Bristol so their...
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Podcast Episode 7 – Talking Astrology with Austin Coppock
In this episode, we talk to author and astrologer, Austin Coppock, about how astrology works, what to do during retrogrades and whether or not Donald Trump is the next President. It was really...
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John Dee: Scholar, Courtier, Magician [Video]
It was my very great pleasure to be shown around the Royal College of Physician’s exhibition, Scholar, Courtier, Magician: The Lost Library of John Dee, last week before the event opened to the...
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King Billy’s Bones
During the early colonial period, many Indigenous Tasmanians believed they would go to London when they died. You can understand the thinking in a way. Here were a group of ghostly looking humans with...
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Podcast Episode 8 – Talking Hermeticism with Gary Lachman
In this week’s episode we talk to esoteric author and Rock N Roll Hall of Fame musician, Gary Lachman about his excellent new book, Secret Teachers of the Western World. We also cover Hermeticism,...
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Chaeconomica: America Edition
That great bathtub gurgle sound you are hearing is the sound of all the remaining wealth on earth draining into the United States. Although the clue is in the name, what a lot of people don’t realise...
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Episode 9 – Talking Spirits with Chris Bradford
In this episode we talk to author, alchemist and Palero, Chris Bradford. We talk Hawaii, island spirits and ghost stories, chaos magic in the 90s, spirit kingship, palo, spirit medicine, the interplay...
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