Black Hoodie Alchemy

For this episode of Black Hoodie Alchemy, I'm finally covering a topic I have teased here and there since the beginning of the whole show-run! At last, I am covering the sprawling, Charlie-Kelly-in-the-mailroom-style conspiracy theory that suggests that David Berkowitz did not act alone in the Son of Sam Murders of NYC.

But make no mistake, this frenzied mailroom vibe comes not from the incredulity of the research, but from the sheer state of mind that tackling all of this topic's many threads will put you into! And let's not forget the fact that Berkowitz was working in a mailroom at the time, and contributed to the whole "going postal" phrase that we have today.

Get ready to enter a story that surprisingly finds us diving into real-life theistic Satanism, Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard, Charles Manson, a strange Scientology doom-hippie offshoot called 'The Process Church of the Final Judgment', the dangers of hysterical Satanic Panic, brainwashing, and so much more! There is a lot of hype, hysteria, and leaping-conspiracy-theory conjecture that surrounds this case, but the actual case for the 'Sons of Sam' itself is quite compelling to me.

In any case, I work my way through not only the classic tome on the topic, Maury Terry's 'The Ultimate Evil', but I also dissect the docu-series done by award-winning filmmaker Josh Zeman on this same subject, entitled: Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness. Not only was Zeman friends with Maury Terry towards the end of his life, but Zeman was the man that Terry willed his entire life's work to -- every document, photo, scribble, phone number... everything.

And as an inside scoop, I was able to pick Josh Zeman's brain about this over a Skype call many years ago. While there isn't much he told me that his documentary didn't say, I did get some more direct and explicitly informative answers from him that I share here in the episode.

Happy trip down the rabbit hole!

Related BHA true crime episodes:

The Brazilian Punisher

Club Kids & Party Monsters

Richard Kuklinski

Malachi York's hiphop cult

Sante Muerte - the good and bad

Israel Keyes Alaskan serial killer

Cartel Black Magicians

SHOW NOTES:

NY Times Son of Sam Timeline

Josh Zeman filmography

Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness documentary

Actual old school Process Church propaganda

Love, Sex, Fear, Death - book about the Process Church

Maury Terry's 'The Ultimate Evil'

Declassified FBI investigation into Process Church

Son of Sam in prison

Ed Opperman talks to NYPD Mike Codella

Opperman talks to childhood friend of Carr family

Opperman on History of 'Yonkers Cult'

Opperman talks to Carl Denaro, Son of Sam victim

Long Island Serial Killings

This week's featured music -- a truly magnificent sonic assault coming from the strongest underground punk, hardcore, and experimental rock acts around!

Salt Style - Salt

Souled Out - Doc Hammer

Carbon Copy - Negative Blast

When You Force It (Demo) - Zig Mentality

Welcome back, folks! This week I'm doing an episode that I feel like I probably should've done a long time ago -- but everything comes in due time, and here it finally is! Two and a half hours hashing out outers-space through the lens of philosophy, alchemy, and metaphysics.

Diving into topics like the symbolism of outer-space from ancient to modern day; the possibilities and pros/cons of colonizing other planets; whether or not human survival for any deep length of time in space is possible; the history of Operation Paperclip and Warner Von Braun and the extremely dark legacy this paints on our space pursuits as a human culture; Jack Parsons and the history of NASA through Jet Propulsion Labs, including all his weird sex magick, his hang-outs with L. Ron Hubbard, and the absolute brilliance of his self-taught rocketry! And if that wasn't enough, I even take the time to dissect the Moon Landing a bit, discussing why people think that Stanley Kubrick faked the footage and what some of the key details of the hoax theory are. It's one wild fuckin ride this week, I hope you dig it!

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Jordan Bimm on Space

Stanley Kubrick & the Moon Landing Theory

Jack Parsons, Sex Magick & NASA

Jack Parsons & L. Ron Hubbard

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This week's featured music!

Aretha (feat. Grim Pesci, Coal Cash, Ixion Form, Coast LoCastro & Tone Spliff) - Dispatched to Hell

Gehennom Lullaby (feat. DJ TMB) - Dispatched to Hell

The Gates of Babylon (feat. Profit Pre & KDB) - Babylon Warchild

The Towers of Babylon (feat. Chief Kamachi & Wordsworth) - Babylon Warchild

Welcome back -- at long last! Ending another unexpected break, I bring you an unexpected episode just in time for a 4/20-Easter combo, and this should mark the beginning of regular weekly or (at least) bi-weekly episode releases. I've had a lot going in my life recently, most of which has been very trying. It's brought about a lot of change, mostly for the better in the long run, but not before manifesting as horrific chronic pain for a couple months. More updates in the episode!

But as for the central focus at hand, I take some time to address some of the insights I felt I gained as I gritted my teeth through intense waves of pain -- as always, I used philosophy to try and preoccupy myself and sometimes when you are pushed to your limits, you find some of your best insights.

So I decided that for my episode back, embracing all the suck that I have gone through since my last episode (and all year honestly), I would explain just why all these New Agers that won't embrace the suck are seriously in the grips of mental illness.

Using books like Robert Pirsig's legendary Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and others, I get into why exactly this is the case and why's it not even a controversial stance to take. Outside of these insulated and self-congratulatory New Age communities, none of the critical thinkers are fooled. But all the same, rest assured that these 'spiritual' people will keep high-fiving and congratulating each other for saving the world in a way all too similar to the Scientologist rah-rah mindset.

I'm just trying to do my part in this episode as a drop in the bucket. I hope you dig it!

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This week's featured music by talented homies of the show! Don't sleep on these underground titans, all their music is dope.

The Sun Upon the Face - ZIG MENTALITY

Get It Straight (feat. Purpose & Hashfinger) - Umang

Welcome back, folks! This time around on Black Hoodie Alchemy, after another small delay, is the investigation of the phenomenon known as Rainbow Body. I’m also joined once again by my friend and cohort, Justin Otto of⁠Dharma Junkie Podcast⁠ and⁠Gulf Coast Dharma⁠, who served as a great help not only in fleshing out the philosophies of Buddhism, but also helping me pronounce some of the terms!

Mostly found in Tibetan Buddhism, but with strong components also found in Hinduism and the lesser known traditions of Bonism and Jainism, Rainbow Body is an occurrence that is said to happen to enlightened spiritual masters in which, on their deathbeds, their bodies shrink and mummify to sometimes as small as an inch tall. Sometimes, these bodies even shrink out of existence, completely disappearing, and sometimes only hair and fingernails are left! It is usually reported that not only are rainbows found in the sky over the monk’s deathbed while the process is occurring, but that usually the shrinkage of the monk’s body comes with rainbows literally shooting out of it. Often there is also sweet-smelling scents surrounding the body as this happens, and not only has it been reported for thousands of years in different eastern traditions, but it continues to be reported to this day, with the most recent documented account I found being 2011!

 The more I researched this curious phenomenon the more I even came across many esoteric Christian comparisons as well. Most notably, Father Francis Tiso has spent decades studying the history of eastern Rainbow Body out of his deep-seated curiosity about what light it might shed on the Christian resurrection symbolism and even the reported experiences of stigmata—where holy men report bearing the wounds of Christ with no discernable reason. And while Justin and I didn’t have much prepared material of our own on this next subject, Father Tiso even brings up the highly debated Shroud of Turin in some of the excerpts we read—which is supposed to be the cloth soaked with the blood of Christ, wiped during his crucifixion.

What are some real accounts of rainbow body achieved in the modern day? If this is real, how can we incorporate this into our daily lives, even if just as an ideal? More importantly, how can science come to verify these claims without destroying the spiritual traditions, and if science can do this, what kind of light might this shed on all of comparative religion as we know it?

There are really no concrete answers here, but both Justin and I found the case for the reality of rainbow body extremely compelling, and we found the Christian comparisons as well as the other religious comparisons to not be without merit! We hope this episode gives you some solid food for thought on your pursuits – smoke weed and God bless!

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SHOW NOTES:

⁠Meditations - Marcus Aurelius⁠

⁠Understanding Rainbow Body⁠

⁠The Case of Khenpo A Cho⁠

⁠What is Rainbow Body?⁠

⁠Rainbow Body in 2011⁠

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This week's featured music is a whole lot from the underground rap heavyweight UMANG -- a friend of the show whose artistry ages like fine wine that slaps you in the face! At the end of the show, we also are excited to share a brand new song from a rock-band homies over at ZIG MENTALITY -- playing some of the very best, grimy experimental alt rock you can find!

⁠Spacesaver - Umang x Melvin Junko⁠

⁠Lizard Brain - Umang x Melvin Junko⁠

⁠Pain Angel - Umang x Melvin Junko⁠

⁠The Sun Upon the Face - ZIG MENTALITY

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! When it comes to the soul and modern science, a question often overlooked is: how could something help ensure our genetic survival after death? Well, we've got some considerations for you!

It's been almost long enough since the last episode to count as another mini-hiatus unfortunately, but hey cut me some slack. With the start of January, I had a weeklong trip in Georgia to see family and ended up nearly dying in the Emergency Room from a septic colon-response that emerged from norovirus. I'm all good now! But it mostly ruined the trip and gave me a solid week and a half of recovery before I could even get back into the swing of the basics. Not the best start to the New Year, but I'm thankful to be alive and running strong as ever!

That in mind, we're diving into all things to do with death this episode, and I'm joined by my longtime friend and collaborator Justin Otto -- host of Dharma Junkie Podcast and facilitator at Gulf Coast Dharma. Justin has been heavily steeped in Buddhist practice and study for years now, and while he prefers to call himself a 'Dharma Practitioner' instead of the pigeon-holed spiritual label, he is one of the best people to have around for a conversation like this.

With his help, I go through the seminal peer-reviewed scientific study done on reincarnation and natural selection, published in 2000, and titled: The Structure And Function Of Near-Death Experiences: An Algorithmic Reincarnation Hypothesis based on Natural Selection.  This study gets DEEP talking about modern Near-Death Experiences, ancient and modern accounts of Out-of-Body Experiences, chaos theory, anthropology, physics and the nature of algorithms -- and even more!

We also take the time to talk about Canadian psychiatrist Dr. Ian Stevenson and his dedication in the last half of his esteemed career to the diligent scientific investigation of reincarnation. Conducted out of the University of Virginia and continued in ways to this day, Stevenson absolutely pioneered the topic of reincarnation as a serious shadow of doubt even for the scientific materialist. Truly, even minds like Carl Sagan were fascinated with what Stevenson was doing and his work still leaves a tremendous amount for us all to digest today!

We hope you dig the chat, stay safe out there, and remember to enjoy the small things in life!

See you in a couple weeks.

PS: We've also got some fresh updates for you straight from Tippy Patson and Jeff Mamba themselves -- don't forget to check it out at the commercial break!

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This week's featured music is brought to you by the titanic hip-hop talents of Unknown Mizery aka KING MIZO, Hex One, and Umang! These dudes are always holding it down for the underground with real muscle -- keep an eye out for their current releases and show em some love!

Living Dead - Unknown Mizery x Soul 4 Hire

Back Home - Umang x Kickback

Pump Your Fist - Uknown Mizery x Dynamo

Bits of the Cosmos - Hex One x Devaloop x DJ FOXX

Welcome to the final Black Hoodie Alchemy episode of 2024 -- and we're all back in action! I'm joined by both my cohorts, Seedperson1 and Chris Fiato, and this time around we're getting deep into the analysis of the winter season itself.

Starting with the crucial role that cold temperatures play in studying chemistry, we move into the psychology of prolonged cold and darkness in the winter, considering what it does to the mind and body in a variety of different ways and bringing that with us into a symbolic analysis full of Jungian sentiment.

Considering the diurnal nature of the human being, we bring up the Kabbalist Trees of Life and Death and take some time to focus on where the winter season ultimately leads us: the Mother of the Mysteries. Kali and Isis being some of my favorite non-Abrahamic examples, we also take the time to talk about Lilith and others (and if you're interested in this angle, my book Dive Manual: Empirical Investigations of Mysticism gets into it heavily. Link below!)

But before all that cold winter talk, we take a good half hour or so to catch up with Seedperson about his fascinating updates with the practice of The Monroe Institute's Gateway Tapes. Some very interesting Out-of-Body food-for-thought! And as if that wasn't wild enough, we take some time to dive into the Hermetic nature of reality from a different angle by briefly talking about a Youtube video that blew my mind. Listen in for more info, but essentially, a cutting-edge gamer hooked the game SKYRIM up to VR and an AI model that runs through every single NPC in the game -- then he found an NPC and told it all about how it was in a simulation... Some really trippy shit that I couldn't help but bring up!

Overall, winter may sometimes be a harsh, dark, and dismal time of year -- but that's all the more reason to band together with your favorite people and your favorite simple pleasures. Bring some light into the dreary winter season and have a heartfelt holiday this year. We here in the Black Hoodie Alchemy fam wish you a pleasant holiday and New Year -- live it up!

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Cold Chemistry is Different

Ultracold

BrainFrog gives Skyrim AI the Matrix Pill Options

Brainfrog brings Skyrim AI to Fallout 4

⁠The Book of the Damned - Charles Fort⁠

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This week's music is a combo of some of the very best conscious hip-hop from the titans of Toronto: Legitimate, Rex Seshunz, Unknown Misery and the company of their rap crew Babylon Warchild. We also have the thrashing and brutal auditory assault of the band SALT from Colombus, Ohio!

Traveling North - Legitimate x Rex Seshunz

Spineless - SALT

Bitchmade - SALT

God's Image - Unknown Misery x Arkeologists

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy! This week we're blowing the dust off of an episode recorded in early October. Unfortunately, it was temporarily shelved when I got blindsided by 12 hour shifts, 7 days a week for over a month! If you'd like to hear all about that, just give last week's episode a listen. That in mind, I'm now happy to report that I'm rested, back in a normal routine and ready to hit the ground running with more BHA.

This episode, my cohort Chris Fiato and I get into another sprawling, bat-shit crazy and fascinating subject! My research and focus for this episode started with the Paris Catacombs (and this takes up a good half of the runtime or so), but then it quickly spiraled out into the overarching history and psychology of 'subterranea' -- ranging across global history with catacombs, forgotten mines, freedom-fighter tunnels, expansive urban sewer and subway tunnels, and so much more.

I even learned about Buddhist torture chambers, functioning city blocks in Scotland that were buried underground intact with businesses and homes still in operation, and an ancient Turkish city that housed up to 20,000 people with several stories underground.

And to top that all off, as if this episode wasn't sprawling and crazy enough, we take some time to brush shoulders with the fringe-history conspiracy theories of the ancient advanced civilization of Tartaria and the obfuscation of history through "mud-floods." While these topics in and of themselves could warrant an entire episode, we do our best to get into this a bit and make some sense out of it!

We had such an eerily fun time recording this episode, and it's a shame we weren't able to get it out in time for the Halloween season -- but hey, fuck it! It's always a Halloween vibe here at Black Hoodie Alchemy.

That in mind, if you're listening to this when it comes out -- happy holidays and thanks for listening! We hope you dig it.

Sources:

Mary King's Close

Mary King's Close Haunting

MKC II

A Skeptical Look at Tartaria & Mudfloods

People debating Pensacola Tunnels on Reddit

5+ Hr Out-There Look at Pensacola Tunnels and Tartaria

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Lost Tape in Paris Catacombs

Living in Vegas Tunnels

Vegas Tunnels

Paris Catacombs History

Paris Catacombs History II

Tunnels beneath San Francisco

Theater in the Paris Catacombs

Mysteries Beneath the Surface

Legend of Ashoka's Hell - Buddhist Torture Chamber

Conspiracy Theories & Subterranea

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This week's featured music -- full of absolute bangers!

Intro (4 All Y'all) - R DOTTA

Raising the Culture III - Legitimate x Rex Seshunz

Gang Rap - Babylon Warchild (Rumplestiltz Instrumental)

I Gave You Power - King Mizo aka Unknown Mizery

THE WAIT IS OVER! Black Hoodie Alchemy is back in action, baby!

This episode might not be the greatest start for new listeners, just as a heads up, but hey if you're new and already here then give it a shot anyway! You'll certainly get to know me better for your dive into the increasingly large back-catalogue of episodes.

To start with (especially since I've been settling back into my regular life lately ) I present you this episode as a bit of a kick-back and catch-up session. No heavy research, I'm just going to fill you in on where I've been lately, and what is was like.

Long story short, it was a work opportunity that had me working 80+ hours a week, and it was a brutal, rewarding, life-changing experience.

But now that job is over, I've digested it a bit more, and caught up on regular life. So aside from the necessary breaks for the holidays, Black Hoodie Alchemy is back in full effect!

I missed y'all, and I hope you real heads out there enjoy this more casual episode.

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This week's featured music comes from the overwhelmingly talented efforts of an underground hip-hop champion - R DOTTA.

Phases - R DOTTA

My Nigga Freestyle - R DOTTA

Intro (4 All Y'all) - R DOTTA

Killer - R DOTTA

For this episode on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we're celebrating the fall and Halloween aesthetic a bit more with our historical overview of the vampire!

As Carl Jung often said: whether or not God exists, the image of God certainly exists, and has propelled humanity thought throughout history in ways both enlightening and catastrophic. Certainly, one could say this to varying degrees about all symbolic aspects of the psyche, especially the particularly old and familiar ones -- and certainly, this mentality has a lot to do with Jung's overall viewpoint. All that in mind, we apply that the notion of the vampire!

Regardless of whether or not a vampire is real in a physical sense, the image of the vampire has been projected by the human imagination since nearly the beginning of human storytelling. Where did the word and belief come from? Why is it so compelling, and what can it tell us about our own psyches?

Join us as we dive into modern New Orleans vampire lore, the origins of the characters throughout comparative religion and folklore the world over, the modern human "vampire" culture that has sprouted up (especially in places like New Orleans and Buffalo, NY), and some of the many historical underpinnings to the vampire mythology that can be related to early medical misunderstandings.

We even get into pieces of American history like the New England Vampire panic -- something extremely similar to the Salem Witch Trials and just as terrifying! And we take a little bit of time to get into some of the key symbolic takeaways in our favorite works of vampire fiction, like the books I Am Legend and Interview with the Vampire.

Enjoy the start of this Halloween season! Embrace your shadow and enjoy the episode.

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This week's music is brought to you by the homies of the Babylon Warchild crew in the Toronto hiphop scene! With bars as enlightening as they are brutal and beats of equal measure, these guys are some of the life-blood of the underground that you're probably sleeping on -- so catch up!

Bloodsmoke Camoflage - LostArtofFactz

Hold the Crown - LostArtofFactz

Turn it Up - Legitimate x Rex Reshunz

Weapons of Mass Deception - Babylon Warchild

This episode of Black Hoodie Alchemy is a seriously wild ride! The un-canonized Latin American 'Saint of Death' aka 'Santa Muerte' is essentially the Grim Reaper or Angel of Death moved to the forefront of Catholic folk magick. Along with other folkloric figures like Jesus Malverde, Santa Muerte is considered a "Narco Saint" and is a spiritual figure that not only helps us process and contextualize the death around us in digestible ways, but they as well will never turn a blind eye to the criminal's plight.

The Narco Saint is not one that judges -- it is one that appeals to the humanity in us all, and in a large sense, the Narco Saints are the saints of impoverished people that, when pushed to the brink have resorted to crime, despite the great shame they might feel for it. In some ways, they are the saints of the second chance, but there's a whole lot more to it than that.

In this episode we take the time to consider the historical contexts that brought about Santa Muerte as the growing and de-centralized folk religion it is today. We analyze some of the practices, philosophies, neighborhoods, and local figures that have become commonplace in this discussion, but unfortunately, these somewhat inspiring and endearing folk religion roots are not where this story ends.

While it is important to remember the wholesome roots that Santa Muerte has come from, it has also branched out and been taken hold of by many, many competing criminal cartels in Mexico for intimidation tactics -- and these tactics are about as violent and horrifying as one could possibly imagine.

These various cartel have become roving gangs of Richard-Ramirez-style murders and drug smugglers that are willing to perform all levels of black magick curses, incantations, and hexes in order to protect their assets and destroy those out to end them. They're even willing to perform human sacrifices, and do so very regularly.

I told you this was going to be a wild ride with a lot of twists and turns! So buckle up.

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Chicago Santa Muerte Murders

Interview with Edgar Santa Muerte

NY Post on Santa Muerte

DEA Santa Muerte smuggling

Mexico News Daily Santa Muerte

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This week's featured music is brought to you some of the very greatest emcees of the underground! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!

The Karma - Babylon Warchild

Dreamz on Reset - Legitimate x Rex Seshunz

Red Hook - Umang x Kickback

The Towers of Babylon (feat. Chief Kamachi & Wordsworth) - Babylon Warchild