Black Hoodie Alchemy

This week, we attempt to sift through the beliefs of demonic possession from the psychoanalytic perspectives of CG Jung and others. This will not be an episode based in religious orthodoxy, but that doesn't mean we aren't exploring some potentially unexplainable phenomena all the same. Building off of episode #39, what if calloused, inert phantom limbs of our psyche suddenly could become animated? How do you heal a traumatic reaction to something that isn't there? And why does it appear that our traumas seem to have a mind of their own?

Rather than cast psychology aside here, we use analytic psychology to help us understand the belief systems of demonic possession and consider the variety of mental illnesses involved, but we also take into account the research of Dr. Richard Gallagher, for example.

Gallagher is an esteemed psychiatrist that has maintained his credibility in his regular practice amidst helping the Catholic church vet out the differences between mental illness and something truly unexplainable. Beginning as a skeptic, the priests who first worked with Dr. Gallagher told him that his skepticism was part of what made them appreciate his insight. Over two decades into his work now with the exorcists, he is no longer a skeptic. 

Now, I'm not a Catholic, nor am I particularly advocating Catholicism. But as I understand it, belief is a tool that -- if used correctly -- can help us tap into a variety of different things that we can scarcely comprehend before experiencing them. We even discuss some serial killers here!

Overall, could it be that what some call possession is actually a very extreme psychosomatic response to a combination of traumas? And could it be that in these very extreme cases, some people actually do act inhuman, performing unexplainable feats?

Even if you're a skeptic, it's certainly worth considering -- and that's exactly what we'll be doing this week!

Dive Manual: Empirical Investigations of Mysticism

Hunt Manual: 21st Century Demonology & Forteana

the UFO doc I was recently featured can be found here

This week's featured music! Don't forget to support your favorite black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!

Solaris (2002) soundbyte

The Karma - Babylon Warchild

The First Warning - Babylon Warchild (feat. PSL & J Spine)

Sanguine - Ivory Sound x Abang Kay

The Broadcast - Babylon Warchild (feat. Primacy, Black, Elohem, LIFE Long & Syntax)

This week, we get back to our roots some more. Considering science, mysticism, and folklore all at once, we dive down the rabbit holes of dream phenomena and the entities people encounter during them, including the shadow people of sleep paralysis and even the classical Greek mythology of the siren. Little known today, the siren was considered a common dream entity thousands of years ago, said to be something like the total opposite of a sleep-paralysis shadow person -- instead of something ghastly and petrifying, the siren was something so sweet and full of promise that no one was to ever question the sentiments that would surely cast them overboard. And unfortunately, the siren song's function is always to lure overboard.

People encounter all sorts of different, even recurring and deeply archetypal characters in their dreams, and more often than not they find that they have no control over these characters to begin with. Traditions around the world have long since considered dreams to be extremely important in varying degrees, some groups stating that these characters are just as real as the people in your everyday life, and some even saying that these dreams are in ways more important than your everyday life! Well what would Carl Jung say about all this? As it turns out, he said quite a bit about these exact sentiments of dreams and sentience, and after all, questions like this are what drive Philip K. Dick's stories like "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" We'll take a look at Jung's thoughts on the subject more throughout the episode.

There is a great deal of science out there describing the structures and functions of sleeping, dreaming, and even things like sleep paralysis, yet despite all this, we still find that dream phenomena is a giant cornerstone in the mindset of modern mysticism, just as it ever was. Even with all our rationalizations and empirical studies that have helped us gain info, we're no closer to resolutely solving the mysteries of the dream world -- and this is what we are here to sift through in this episode! Let's consider the details that modern mainstream science has glossed over, do some empirical digging through the science and the history, and see how much we can get to the bottom of this.

Don't forget to check out the new documentary I'm featured in AS WITHIN SO WITHOUT: FROM UAP TO DMT, winner of the People's Choice Award at the Roswell UFOXPO 2023!

my book Dive Manual

my book Hunt Manual

my website

This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists.

Intro Spection - The Liberators

11:11 - Umang x Kickback

Way It Used to Be - Tribesmen x Arkeologists

The Gates of Babylon - Babylon Warchild

Welcome to the one-year anniversary of Black Hoodie Alchemy! This episode, I'm celebrating with a couple of my good friends: Justin Otto (host of Dharma Junkie) and the man, the myth, the legend himself: Tippy Patson - Redneck Mystic Extraordinaire! 

For those unaware, Tippy P is a mystical long-haul trucker from Defuniak Springs, FL, and he's all about the worship of Henry Ford and American trucker culture throughout time and space. He has sort of a mystical Christian perspective, he considers Mountain Dew and Bud Light to be the philosopher's elixirs, and he's committed to wrestling the gators of the everglades -- which he and his friends believe are illuminati reptilian-aliens that are hanging out in the everglades during their off-time.

Since Tippy's last time on the show, we've had all of his league members on to discuss how they found Tippy, what they were doing beforehand, and what their plans are for the future. You can listen to Martin Ferretti chat with cosmic ghost-pirate Apex Monsoon in #32, dolphin and LSD enthusiast Silverback Commando in #33, former Illuminati cloning lab manager Jefferson Tillamookslinger in #34, pro-wrestling scholar and numerologist Muscle Tornado in #35, and moonshiner mystic Bayou Jones in #35. You can also hear Tippy's other chats on this show in episodes #14 and #30!

Tippy gives us the updates with his special league and their plans, as well as his new Finnish friend that he's come in contact with: Juha Kourhonen. Former bassist for the death metal band Grim Reaper Diapers in Rovaniemi Finland, his wealth of knowledge is immense regarding the harvest of adrenachrome with links to the ancient Egyptian Deity Sobek, the God of Gators, and the primordial Lovecraftian titan that is known only as Santa Clause. Currently, Tippy and The League of Extordniary Gentlemen have built a GoFundMe page to help them get to Finland, in order to meet up with their friend Juha and defeat the Santa Clause.

Join us and have a laugh for this one-year celebration! And a sincere thank you to all the listeners for helping this program make it this far. We couldn't have done it without you.

This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists! 

La La Lala - Hex One x Snowgoons

Old Heroes Grave - The Liberators

Lukin - Doc Hammer

Way it Used to Be - Tribesmen x Arkeologists

Rhythm of the Planet (feat. Tek-Nition & D-Rev) - Hex One x BBZ Darney

Justin Otto's Dharma Junkie Podcast

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On the show this week, my good friend and fellow researcher Mike Mazzei joins me to discuss both UFOs and ancient history -- but not in the traditional "ancient alien" sense of the topic. Host of the podcast, Mind Escape, it is co-hosted by his cousin Maurice who is currently on hiatus, preparing their new documentary to soon release at the Roswell UFOXPO conference this month, March 10-12th! I will actually have a small guest spot in this documentary, explaining some of the strange things I've seen in the sky while living in Alaska, and there will be a whole roster of accredited scientists and philosophers, including the well-known Dr. Rick Strassman -- the first person to conduct clinical trials with DMT and popularize the monicker "spirit molecule". This documentary, instead of attempting to draw specific conclusions, will instead attempt to investigate and document the psychedelic, Carl-Jungian, dream-like qualities of the UFO experience that the nut-and-bolts mindsets tend to gloss over. 

This in mind, we take some time to go down the rabbithole of modern Ufology as we know it. We talk about some of the current news with spy-balloons and alleged craft shot down all over, we talk about some of the plot-holes in mainstream Ufology, some of the biases, and some of the underdeveloped angles of investigation -- like the psychedelic angle. That is to say: UFOs are not exclusively tied to the consumption of a psychedelic chemical, but rather, the experiences heavily mimic experiences of psychedelic chemicals. And as the cherry on top, there is of course a very long history of people specifically seeing UFOs on psychedelics in very impactful ways that go a bit beyond the notion of a mere fever dream. 

Lastly, we attempt to parse through some of the ancient history of psychedelic drugs and the sacramental, religious, mystical uses. What is "soma"? Why do so many people consider it a psychedelic, and could it have been cannabis, an ayahuasca analogue, a mushroom, or perhaps all of the above -- depending on the circumstances? We take a little bit of time to look through the uses of these chemicals and more in different cultures, and we consider what has become of all these traditions in the modern day.

Join us!

"As Within So Without: from UFOs to DMT" documentary, premiering at the Roswell UFOXPO March 10-12th 2023, including guest appearances from me -- Anthony Tyler, Martin Ferretti (as many of you will know from Black Hoodie Alchemy) and many impressive and accredited doctors and philosophers! 

⁠⁠As Within So Without: From UFOs to DMT full documentary free stream right here!⁠⁠ (this Mike's philosophical UFO doc I was featured in recently -- winner of the Roswell UFOXPO People's Choice Award 2023!)

Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists! 

This week's featured music:

The Return - Babylon Warchild (feat. Daddy Rose)

Syllable MUX-IP - Hex One

Spit the Claw - Doc Hammer

Way it Used to Be - Tribesmen x Arkeologists

Chances Are - The Liberators

This week the talented Mr. Brad Kelly, author and co-host of the Art of Darkness podcast joins me! After a month of insanity and parody, we're getting back to our roots a little bit and talking about metaphysics and artistic expression. No fluff, let's talk about some of the real historical landmarks on this subject, like Dante, Goethe, and Jung among others -- including checkered names like HP Lovecraft and downright infamous names like L Ron Hubbard. But beyond the lives and tales of some of great writers and thinkers, what really beckons the human to partake in any sort of art? Why create, why even consume? What are some of the innate, primordial mechanisms at play here? What is the adaptational value, and why are dreams such a critical piece of this subject? 

We also focus on some of the grimier aspects of the artist. How much does one have to sacrifice for their art, what should you be willing to give up, and what does any one of us stand to gain? If it's not a realistic monetary income in many cases, it doesn't particularly help you "peacock" for a mate, and you'll have to give some free time and resources up for it in the process... is it really worth it? Absolutely, but why it's worth it is a more complex question.

Certainly, even when considering the cave paintings of the hunt, these pictures weren't just meant to catalogue the past, they were meant to help visualize the future. Perhaps, in more cases than not, art is the propulsion in the old concept "god of the scientific gaps" -- meaning that gods and metaphysics provide the heuristic explanations for the scientific principles we cannot yet grasp, and art helps us slowly wrap our minds around that which is yet out of reach. After all isn't this what seemingly all of science fiction has done for modern science, time and time again?

For much of this conversation we focus on the classical artistic grind of the writer -- specifically, laboring over a manuscript -- but we do a great deal to keep the comparisons solid all the way through about the artistic process as a whole. And after all, there are very few artistic processes that do not require some vague form of writing in one way or another. 

As a longtime fictional author and cohost of a podcast that does deep, biographical dives on flawed and legendary historical artists, Brad Kelly has a quite a bit to say on this subject. He even takes us down some interesting tarot card rabbit holes to help elaborate the concept of the artistic process! It was a true pleasure to have him on, and I thoroughly recommend everyone check out his podcast ART OF DARKNESS, and his latest fictional book, HOUSE OF SLEEP. 

And don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists! This week's amazing featured artists: 

God's Image - Unknown Mizery x Arkeologists

String Theory - Hex One x BBZ Darney

Way it Used to Be - Tribesmen x Arkeologists

Talkin Durty to the Godz - Tainted Wisdom x Babylon Warchild

This week features the wrap-up of our introduction to "The League of Extordniary Gentlemen" with two special guests: Muscle Tornado and Bayou Jones. And once again, my colleague Martin Ferretti fills in for me while I'm off solving extraordinary Indiana-Jones-esque ancient mysteries! 

First we Tippy's Patson's recruit, Muscle Tornado -- a " spiritual warrior for Jesus" that loves DMT, numerology, and Hulk Hogan. Not only is pro wrestling a very real sport to him with real consequences, it is literally the war of God and the Devil incarnate. These wrestlers, he argues, are the mortal totems that represent a warfare throughout the ages.

Next we'll meet Bayou Jones -- an old moonshiner mystic, one of Tippy's oldest friends, and a man who was allegedly raised by some kindly alligators. This interview is a bit shorter, on account of Bayou's incoherence from all crack cocaine he smokes during the chat. And if you're not on the Tippy Patson train yet, understand that this is a for sure super duper real group of dummies hanging out in the Florida Everglades, wrestling what they're convinced are shapeshifting Illuminati gators! That's right -- they're too stupid to be a cult but too organized to just be regular swamp people, and they're always a fun time. 

Lastly, with the time to spare I tell a story of some of my elderly step-uncles landing on an episode of Alaska State Troopers. Season 3, Episode 6: Madman Manhunt! Fast forward to the final story of the episode and you'll find them trying to steal scrap metal from the dump after dark, and I give you the details that the state trooper couldn't figure out. It's this and more insanity this week. I hope you dig it!

And don't forget to listen to Black Hoodie Alchemy #14, 30, 32, 33, and 34 for the rest of The League of Extordniary Gentlemen's escapades!

a crappy but free youtube link to the Alaska State Troopers episode. Fastforward to 31:31 to see my uncles.

And this week's featured music is nearly all from my homies, Negative Blast. They're an amazing mash of the melodic and beatdown qualities that you find on both ends of the punk rock spectrum -- and they keep it old school. I really love what they're doing.

Listen to all of their latest EP, Echo Planet!

Carbon Copy - Negative Blast

Echo Planet - Negative Blast

Egghead - Negative Blast 

No Trust - Negative Blast

The Gates of Babylon - Babylon Warchild

Way it Used to Be - Tribesmen x Arkeologists

Welcome to a little bit of a listener appreciation edition of Black Hoodie Alchemy! We have a pre-recorded call-in from Chris F, a little bit of featured music from rapper and illustrator Alex Arck, and the rowdy banjo picking of listener Grant Mock under the name Stray Puzzle Piece, who also joins me as a guest in the second portion of the show to discuss the concept of CG Jung's synchronicity.

But before all that, Martin Ferretti of The Alchemical Mind joins me once again to interview yet another member of Redneck Mystic Tippy's Patson's crew of illuminati-gator hunters. This man goes by the codename: Jefferson T, although there are some discrepancies with what his last name actually is. He not only clears this up for us, but also goes into his fifteen-year career as a manager of a franchised Illuminati cloning facility in Newark, New Jersey. 

He as well elaborates on details of the life and operations of cloning lab employees, just who is running these labs, and why he's come to the Florida Everglades to gather with Tippy P and the rest of his crew. A brief interview with a member of Tippy's "League of Extordniary Gentlemen" will not be a part of every episode moving forward, but we are in the middle of a solid stint right now! You can expect one more next week before we move back into more traditional guests for now.

But don't forget: if you want to hear the full chronicles of Tippy's League, check out Black Hoodie Alchemy episodes #14, 30, 32, and 33!

As mentioned, the second half of the show will be a discussion of synchronicity, guided by quotes from Jung's work, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle. This conversation quickly becomes part psychology, part physics, and part mysticism as we try to hash out just what synchronicity is and what its building blocks are. When we see the external world convey "messages" to us in ways that are deeply intuitive and difficult to explain to others, is this purely psychological? How much of it is actual physical, like a manifestation? How much of this might we be able to consider as obsessive-compulsive, and how do we tell when analyzing something like synchronicity has become a detriment? As always on this show, we try to consider the phenomenal with an open-minded and skeptical point of view, and while so much of this stuff has become New Age bullshit, it's truly hard to discount the ultimately unexplainable implications synchronicity. 

This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!

The Gates of Babylon - Babylon Warchild

Old Heroes Grave - The Liberators

Gorefield - Alex Arck

Hill Country Promenade - Stray Puzzle Piece

Nashkill - Stray Puzzle Piece

This week we have a two-parter, with both parts revolving around total madness. 

For the first half hour, Martin Ferretti of The Alchemical Mind returns to guest-host for me, interviewing the second member of Redneck Mystic Tippy Patson's crew, "The League of Extordniary Gentlemen." Fighting for the freedom of humanity against the Illuminati alligators deep in the Florida Everglades, Codename: Silverback Commando tells Martin and the audience why he joined Tippy's league in the swamps, and he also tells us about what kind of "research" he is bringing to the table. He fancies himself the "next Dr. John Lilly" and seems to be obsessed with Lilly's NASA-funded studies that involved LSD, dolphins, theoretical telepathy, and eventually, even some dolphin sensuality. Hustler even wrote an article about it, and none of that is a lie. Google it. But Silverback Commando tells us a little bit about his attempts to recreate this "dolphin telepathy," and explains more about his other studies in the Everglades with Tippy. 

Secondly, in this 100% real story that you can google for yourself, Hollywood actor Terrence Howard (famous for Hustle & Flow and Iron Man, among others) sort of retired from acting in 2015. That's why you haven't heard from him much. But do you know why he retired? Explaining in an interview with Rolling Stone first, he explained to the world that he has invented a COMPLETELY NEW MATH, called Terryology, and it revolves around 1x1=2. He's also used this equation to invent a "New Geometry", which he labors over, filling his apartment with enormous pseudo-psychedelic models. Take this quote for example, "I was able to open up the flower of life properly and find the real wave conjugations we've been looking for for 10,000 years. Why would I continue walking on water for tips when I've got an entire generation to teach a whole new world?" And that, folks, is just the beginning. I read a whole lot of quotes here trying to understand the true Kanye-level madness of Terrence Howard. I'm not sure how this man hasn't tried to start a cult yet, but I'm all the more thankful of the fact!

Jump with me down the rabbit hole for a slightly more comedic and extremely preposterous episode!

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Gorefield - Alex Arck

Old Heroes Grave - The Liberators

Wet $$$ - Doc Hammer

Dali - Tribesmen x Arkeologists

Way it Used to Be - Tribesmen x Arkeologists

Thee Party Song - M.U.T.T.

Terrence Howard's Madness links:

Terrence's Own Website

Cracked

Some wild Terrence quotes

The Rolling Stone article, "Terrence Howard's Dangerous Mind"

For those of that have kept up with the Tippy Patson interviews, my colleague Martin Ferretti and I have a special treat for you! For those that are unaware, Tippy P is a completely and for sure "real" Florida Man that is convinced he has found evidence of American trucker culture throughout time and space, and that the reptilian Illuminati are actually all of the gators that live in the Florida Everglades. Because of this, he and his friend Bayou Jones have set up shop in the Everglades and begun recruiting people to help them save the world from these shapeshifting gators and along the way, Tippy has given us all sorts of strange rabbit holes of consideration. This conversation will be no different! It is the first interview with one of Tippy's recruits in what they are calling "The League of Extordinary Gentlemen," and this member's code-name is Apex Monsoon. This man actually claims to be a "cosmic ghost pirate" that Tippy has trapped within a ship-in-a-bottle. Like a genie. Not sure if this man is mentally ill, too high on drugs, a real cosmic pirate, or maybe all of the above -- but Martin fills in for me to try and get to the bottom of this.

As for the majority of the show, it is dedicated to an informal analysis of the Aum Shinrikyo Japanese death cult. Known for their somewhat successful terrorist attack of a Japanese subway in the late 90's, this MASSIVE cult started out with a man simply pretending he was enlightened, and promising the knowledge of extrasensory powers. By combining Buddhism, apocalyptic Christianity, off-brand Scientological models, leader Shoko Asahara convinced tens of thousands to follow him, and was known by most of Japan as a cheerfully enlightened New Age thinker. Meanwhile, he was literally building off-books chemical weapons factories, equipped with teams of scientists to help him achieve goals that are nothing short of absolute comic-book supervillainy. How did this man convince reasonable and clearly intelligent people to go en-masse down the rabbit hole with him? And how did it culminate in a terrorist attack that rocked the core of Japanese culture and homeland security?

Find out with me this week!

This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists:

The Gates of Babylon - Babylon Warchild 

Old Heroes Grave - The LIberators

Shards - Negative Blast

Chains (feat. Lay Low) - Legitimate x Rex Seshuns

Souled Out - Doc Hammer

Martin's The Alchemical Mind

my website

Welcome back! After a hiatus of over a month, Black Hoodie Alchemy resumes -- and I've got a bone to pick with the notion of enlightenment. While I don't discount that enlightenment is an attainable state of consciousness, and I don't discount that there are altruistic people alive today that claim enlightenment, I've got a real hard time with the idea of enlightenment for several reasons. 

Firstly, isn't it always more impressive when someone does something first? Buddha, Christ, and others might still be impressive, but even if someone is achieving enlightenment today, that doesn't make them Christly. The times have changed quite a bit, and "control methods" for enlightenment are few and far between. Even if steps once worked for some people, does that mean that they are always guaranteed to work for everyone? And why does everyone assume that if you are enlightened, you are automatically a good, altruistic person? Could it be that even terrible, evil people could be enlightened? If enlightenment is a thing, it seems to be something like a neurological hack of your habituated thought patterns (and yes I know this a reductionist view). And if all this is the case, then I don't think there is enough evidence to rule out the dark side of enlightenment.

To me, at this point, someone claiming enlightenment is guilty until proven innocent. I wish it wasn't the case, but the times have changed. In a word full of wannabe cult leaders, scheming politicians, tick tock celebrities and more, I don't trust the people that want to sell their answers. Sell food for thought, but don't sell so-called "fool-proof answers". Enlightenment to me is in the same category today as someone claiming to be specially chosen by God to change the world, or someone being specially chosen by aliens to change the world. Perhaps enlightenment is the most realistic options of those three, but claims of it so often seem to bring about the same results...

In any case, I prefer disillusionment, and my aim is therapy and catharsis, not enlightenment. It is entirely possible and even likely that all these things are on the same continuum of spiritual development, but suffice it to say, it is like Plato himself said: those fit to rule or lead generally do not do so, and those unfit to rule or lead generally tend to do so. I have yet to see this piece of philosophy disproven. 

This week's featured music! Support that black hoodie rap, heavy metal, and all your favorite independent artists!

Promoterman - Tribesmen x Arkeologists

The Way it Used to Be - Tribesmen x Arkeologists

The Hell's Satans - Doc Hammer

Spit the Claw - Doc Hammer

Vamparty Diaries - Doc Hammer

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