On this week’s episode we have guest Joshua Adam Sharp, better known as Algol from the New Orleans based Black Metal project Mehenet. Joshua is the founding master of Alombrados Oasis, OTO and currently serves on the Electoral College of O.TO. For the U.S.A. He is a crowned Olorisha and a Macumbeiro as well as being one of the 4 owners of Botanica Macumba, which happens to be the onsite location this interview took place. Joshua shares with us his own wisdoms on dual-faith practice and the challenges one faces as a magic practitioner in the era of modernity. We chat skepticism, some common misconceptions about Aleister Crowley, and discuss an ontological theory based in High Strangeness called, The Phenomena. How can we prove anything exists? Does it matter? In what ways does clinging to Westernized ideas of religion stop us from approaching more insight into cognition and the state of our reality? Do aliens exist? All this and more in today’s episode of SaturnVox.

To find out more about Joshua’s various projects, please check out their band Mehenet’s bandcamp and instagram, the Botanica Macumba facebook page, and Algol Aluvaia on instagram and twitter.

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Special thanks to Jules M. Dooley, multidisciplinary artist and traditional astrologer based in New Orleans, for creating the original music used on this podcast. You can find them on instagram @tornado_bedtime

SHOW NOTES

The Equinox by Aleister Crowley

Liber 777 by Aleister Crowley

Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna by China Galland

The Holy Guardian Angel Anthology (in the episode I attribute this book to Scarlet Imprint but it is actually a Nephilim Press publication)