Black Hoodie Alchemy

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, I'm joined by special guest, Jessie Desmond! As former director of MUFON in Alaska, lifelong Alaskan resident, UFO historian, Sasquatch hunter, and overall Fortean investigator, Jessie has several books released, competes in bodybuilding in her spare time, and has several other projects and interest that we discuss.

It is highly encouraged that you check out episode 73 about some Alaskan weirdness that we get into more here!

Among the topics of high strangeness at hand, we get into all the UFO and Sasquatch action, but we also get into more investigations of the Dark Pyramid of Alaska, the Alaska Triangle (similar to the one in Bermuda), HAARP, paranormal activity, mysterious cattle mutilations, reports of Alaskan vampires, and even a discussion of the non-Alaskan alchemist, Count St. Germain!

Not only do we discuss reports of all these things, but we also get into the theories on why they might be happening, and why Jessie finds them so interesting. Heavy X-Files vibes in this episode!

We hope you dig it.

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BHA PATREON

BHA DISCORD (link expires in 7 days but you can find the chat easily)

Jessie Desmond's website

Saucers of the North: A History of UFOs in Alaska Airspace

Ultramodern Future

Jessie on Twitter

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

In the Paint - Towercity

No Pain No Gain - Towercity

Chancers Are - The Liberators

Inifinity - Epidemic x Jesse James

This week is another solo episode where I take the time for a deep dive into the work of Christian philosopher and fictional author, CS Lewis. Most popular for the renowned Chronicles of Narnia, it is lesser known that Lewis was a damn good non-fiction philosophy author, and his journey tracks one of an atheist to a believing Christian through the helps of people like the very JRR Tolkien himself!

This is not a "Christian show", so I must say as a disclaimer that we will be using a much more interpretive tone when approaching Lewis' philosophy, but his book The Problem of Pain is a fantastic example of why I would've bought him a drink to pick his brain, even if I didn't agree with everything he said.

Here I share my favorites quotes from his work as well as my interpretations and musings. Don't forget to check out the other BHA episodes about God, Goddess and Jungian psychology for more food for thought on the subject! This is the latest update in a long string of episodic musings.

Cheers.

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

Cold Days - Umang x BBZ

Autumn State of Mind - Umang x BBZ

Oragami Starlight - Umang x BBZ

Entropy (feat. D-Rev & Halfcut) - Umang x BBZ

Happy New Year and welcome black to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! This week, I'm briefly talking about my trip back home to Anchorage, and unfolding the lore behind the alleged underground "Dark Pyramid" of Alaska, near Denali, that is apparently underground and four-times the size of the pyramid of Giza. And on top of all that, we have an explicit government cover-up and an intrinsic tie to the history of the state. This story is wild!

I'm very skeptical, but as a longtime Alaska resident I love this story and think it's great weird food for thought! It is an old conspiracy theory by now, and with that it has an old school feel, harkening back to a time before things got soooo overtly bi-partisan.

This episode will serve as a bit of a part one to further investigation, trying to understand where this story came from and what, if anything, we should take seriously about it.

Supposed coordinates the mineshaft that leads to the underground pyramid, as reported by Linda Moulton Howe from her "sources": 63°17'51.4"N 152°31'24.5"W (blurred out on Google Maps last time I checked)

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my decade old article about the Alaska Pyramid

a search for the Dark Pyramid and a man's disappearance (not mentioned on the show)

Bruce Pearson interview

Doug Mutchler's story

Saucers of the North: A History of UFOs in Alaska Airspace - Jessie Desmond

Alaska Triangle

Linda Moulton Howe's Earthfiles website

HAARP and the Northern Lights

This week's featured music is from my talented childhood homies in Anchorage, Alaska! Don't forget to support your favorite indie artists of all types.

Workin - Black Barrel & the Bad Men

Evil Man - Black Barrel & the Bad Men

What Do You Need - Black Barrel & the Bad Men

The Sun is Shining Down - Black Barrel & the Bad Men

Yet again -- welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! Sort of. This episode is another bonus episode of sorts, and was technically my last guest spot on someone else's show before I started doing Black Hoodie Alchemy. Longtime listeners will be very familiar with Joe Rupe and Lighting the Void, and you're in for a treat as always.

We talk about cult mentality, my ambitions for Black Hoodie Alchemy, the Children of Thunder wannabe-cult, and much more!

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

Change the Channel - Legitimate x Rex Seshunz

Spare Me - Salt

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! Sort of. This is another bonus episode of sorts -- my most recent guest appearance on another show, this one being Mike Mazzei's Mind Escape. He's had a whole lot of impressive, heavy hitter guests over the years of doing his show, Mike is a truly wonderful guy, and I always have a blast talking to him!

Oh and I shouldn't forget to mention that he and his cousin Maurice were the ones to put together the award winning UFO-psychedelia documentary that I was featured in: As Within So Without: From UFOs to DMT.

If you liked this, you can check out the Black Hoodie Alchemy episode that featured Mike, and you can check out my other appearances on his show Mind Escape as well (there at least a couple.)

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

Leave it All Behind - Hex One

Fire in the Sky - Babylon Warchild

Welcome back, folks! This week will serve exactly what the title says: we're going back through some of the most popular episodes, the most shared, the most slept-on, and the craziest.

We're also going through some of the listeners that have reached out and supported the show, as well as some of the amazing musicians we've featured on the show.

And a special shout out to Grant Mock aka Stray Puzzle Piece -- Alex Arck -- and Blackbird the Blacksmith -- because they are the only ones (so far) that I forgot to mention in my shoutouts! My bad, gentlemen -- you're real gems!

Thank you so much to everyone for being a part of the Black Hoodie Alchemy crew so far, and here's to a whole lot more action to come!

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

Origami Starlight - Umang x BBZ Darney

Entropy (feat. Halfcut & D-REV) - Umang x BBZ Darney

Fragmented Pieces (feat. Hex One) - Umang x BBZ Darney

This week on the show, my good friend, colleague, and fellow alchemist Martin Ferretti comes back on to get real deep into the stages of alchemy throughout all processes of life. Despite his show The Alchemical Mind being on hiatus for some time, Martin has been a diligent alchemist in many capacities for years now, and he's one of my favorite people to talk to when it comes to this subject.

Calcination, Dissolution, Separation, Conjunction, Fermentation, Distillation, and Coagulation -- these are the seven stages of alchemy, whether it be mental, physical, or spiritual. In seven stages we even find the levels of heaven and hell, the seven chakras, concepts like the seven stages of grief, and so much more.

What does it mean to go through these processes on a psychological, existential level? To further elaborate this food for thought we bring up topics like Carl Jung, shadow work, the Kabbalah, Aristotle's distaste for the written word, Philip K Dick, Liu Cixin's The Three Body Problem, dark timelines and my recent conversation with Eric Millar, deciphering psychedelic revelations, and so much more.

We hope you dig it!

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

Rigor Mortis - Darkroom

Original Spirit - Negative Blast

Rats - Salt

Psychic Trash - Negative Blast

Starcrusher - Doc Hammer

For Black Hoodie Alchemy this week, I have recurring guest, friend, and innovative mystic, Eric Millar on the show to talk about his latest work, ⁠WOMBAT⁠ and all that existential fury that it holds! A collection of several visual and literary artworks, I found particular fascination with the first two pieces: Operator's Code and Flight Interpretations.

What does it mean to be spiritual as a person living at rock bottom? How do we find alchemy in the drudgery of dirty, underpaying jobs and lives that don't provide us with what we need, let alone what we want? Where do we go when time and time again, the reward it seems we get for trying is actually getting completely fucked? How does one find peace in a world that feels like a dark, upside-down timeline?

For more food for thought along these lines, we bring up impressively daunting works like David Halberstam's The Powers That Be, Douglas Rushkoff's Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How to Take it Back and Warren Ellis' Marvel Ruins.

We talk about magick, mysticism, chaos theory and many-worlds theory, comic books, spiritual anger and so much more!

We hope you dig it.

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

Souled Out - Doc Hammer

Violent Initiative - Darkroom

Salt - Salt

Everyone Higher Than Everyone Else - Glowing Brain

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, I give you another solo deep dive into the mystical philosophies and analytic psychology of Carl Jung.

Anima and animus, yin and yang, subconscious and conscious, negative and positive, night and day, qliphoth and sephiroth, soul and spirit, feminine and masculine -- the union of opposites is something that the alchemist has always been focused on, and the reconciliation of opposites within a human being can manifest itself in a variety of peculiar ways, depending on how that human interacts and identifies with the world around them.

This episode is going to be a hard one to try and summarize -- but suffice it to say that throughout Jung's final book, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, the psychoanalyst opened up a great deal about what it meant to reconcile the opposites within himself. Namely, like with most average men, Jung's spiritual alchemy came in the form of communications with his anima -- the feminine nature of his soul itself -- and his journey mirrors direct archetypal equivalents in the stories of alchemists and artists like Dante Alighieri, Philip K Dick, and Wolfgang Von Goethe.

These stories and artworks do not represent end-all-be-all processes of inner alchemy, but they do serve as quality examples as to how some of these extremely esoteric mechanics will play out -- whatever faces they choose to use as they manifest!

I hope you dig it.

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PDF of Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Jung

Goethe and Women

"A Dark Haired Girl & PKD"

The Dark Haired Girl

Beatrice and Dante

The Divine Comedy

La Vita Nuova

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

Brain Dust - Glowing Brain

Spare Me - Salt

Wet $$$ - Doc Hammer

Spirit Science - Negative Blast

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we finally have our first lady guest on the show! While this show does have a little bit of a male slant, we've always maintained a solid third of lady listeners and I apologize for this taking so long! It's been a combination of me enjoying the company of my best researcher homies, doing solo shows, and having tricky scheduling. I wasn't even sure who the first female guest would be for a while, but I'm pleased to announce that it's working scientist, biologist, and longtime listener of the show, codenamed: Momma Bear!

Having been a longtime practicing mystic, occultist, and biologist, Momma Bear is a BHA listener that's lived a full life with a great deal of insight to share! We talk about the Divine Feminine in esoteric philosophy in Jungian psychoanalysis, recommended lady philosophers and magicians, paranormal activity in children, Houdini and his colleague (perhaps even muse) Rose Mackenberg, and female pharaohs in Egyptian culture.

We also take the time to discuss aspects of Mother of the Mysteries to include the Egyptian goddess Isis, and the relationship she and other figures have to Mother Mary in Christian theology. In this vein, we also discuss what the Divine Feminine and comparative religion at large mean to the modern scientific method.

Science itself seems to have no soul, ethics, or morals, and many argue that this is how it should be. However, the evidence empirically suggests otherwise. Science compels us towards ethics and morality, if we use it properly -- and in today's society, we've lost the plot. One might say in many ways that modern science today is far too masculine, and would do well to have more of a nurturing touch, so Momma Bear helps me sift through all this and more!

We hope you dig it.

Related show on Goethean Science

Further show considerations of the Divine Feminine

Siren Song and the Anima (Divine Feminine)

Evolution of God & Goddess

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Momma Bear on Twitter

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

Cut Your Teeth - Salt

Whirl - MUTT

Way It Used to be - Tribesmen x Arkeologists

Another Saturday Night - MUTT