Hitchhiking on the Hermetic Highway

The splitting of the trident, the union of opposites, the Alchemical Great Work, and achievement of unus mundus or “one world” are all wrapped up in the ‘mother’ of “symbolic events on a world scale.” Like history itself, our podcast has developed episode by episode from ancient Near East mystery religions and the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt to this, the political, spiritual, and psychological unification of the entire globe on the first day of the Egyptian calendar of the new millennium. We’ll present 9/11 like you’ve never heard before, focusing on perspectives from Jean Baudrillard, Carl Jung, alchemy, and the whole history of esotericism.

All jokes about Hermes and crossroads aside, come meet us and Hermes at the crossroads of the world as we analyze the current and historical significance of the World Trade Center site in Manhattan.

Tune in to channel 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 77, or 88 for a look into the totally random events surrounding the assassination of JFK like news of the event being sent to Japan on Sagittarius across the Pacific Ocean a la Pan Am but in an instant serving as the inaugural intercontinental television satellite broadcast in history. JFK is known as the first “television president”, and he remained true to the title both in life and in death. His trophy case includes: 1st televised presidential debate, 1st televised presidential press conference, first call by satellite between heads of state, and first transcontinental satellite television broadcast after the state had his head. Oh, and Beyonce. 

Chase and Eric meet Prometheus at the crossroads for a shady exchange under the Elm tree. Suddenly our dynamic duo realizes they’ve been transported to the the grassy knoll, Dallas Texas, 12:30pm, 11/22/63. Fuck. Prometheus is giving out divine light and knowledge in exchange for sacrificing the US’s first Roman Catholic king. “Of course!” they scream, just kidding, they would never do that, their global ruling elite would, however, and did.

In this episode our hosts provide the key to unlocking the ancient esoteric symbolism behind the assassination of JFK, from elm trees and tragedy in Ancient Greece to 88 and political and religious revolution in medieval and enlightenment Europe. Find out how the motif of killing of the king and the splitting of Poseidon’s trident spear are central to the most pivotal moment in the Cold War Era.

Your two favorite potheads take a detour to further digest last week’s episode on air flight and the unification of the Pacific Ocean over the International Date Line (IDL). Chase and Eric explore additional narratives involving zeppelins in alternate timelines and the age of industrial steel in film television and video games. Not surprisingly, things get a little extra terrestrial as our hosts refuse to bring this psycho blimp down to earth before next week’s coronation, er, killing of the king.

Come along on a trip in the air and around the world as we take lives and tank industries in our psycho-blimp from the future. We look at the advent of radio, lighter-than-air flight, time travel, splitting, and aliens in shaping global events and story telling before WWII and the advent of the atomic bomb.

Chase and Eric sell what’s left of their souls to Hermes Pan at the crossroads of the North and South, East and West, Old World and New World, past and future in exchange for that icon of 1950’s utopian visions of the future: a rusted out gas-guzzling piece of sh*t. It’s no DeLorean, but time flies in this tin can on wheels as our hosts explore the religion of imperial progress that underlies American culture as reflected in the Tennessee and Oklahoma Expositions of statehood and detail the dubbing of Michael J Fox as the new Atomic Kid.

Chase was sleepy. Eric did pod alone. 

Celebrate this 4th of July (last week) and take a trip down south to Oz at the crossroads with Chase and Eric and Nat Turner to be enlightened to the meaning of the number 77. 

Eric and Chase go on a musical history tour from the vantage point of the mythical crossroads and its significance as a symbol of transition and transformation. The “Crossroads” adorns everything from popular music to the electrification of rural America, military nuclear tests and the bikini. Join us at the Hermetic hermeneutic threshold between the hydroelectricity, popular music, and the Atomic Age.

Cross Road Blues by Robert Johnson
Rocket 88 by Ike Turner
Rock a While by Goree Carter

Buckaroo Banzai (1984)
Back to the Future (1985)
O’ Brother Where Art Thou (2000)

Chase and Eric hook it up with that extra pure DMT straight from the extraterrestrial source. They explore the endless connections between nuclear history and aliens and analyze the popular narrative pattern of time travel and alien/human intervention to secure future fortune.

Back to the Future (1985)

Doraemon (1970)

Man and His Symbols - C.G. Jung (1964)