My Alchemical Bromance

Join us in welcoming Sam Block to the podcast! Sam is the author of the Digital Ambler website. He's a brilliant magician and as intelligent as he is entertaining. We discuss geomancy, the Greek Magical Papyri (or PGM), and lots of other topics relevant to modern ceremonial magicians, including Kabbalah. This is a long episode and it's a lot of fun!

The Drinks

Erik drinks Vine Country Saison from Hopworks.

Sam drinks Barefoot Sweet Red Blend -- according to the website, it's smooth and sweet!

Show Notes

The Art and Practice of Geomancy by John Michael Greer

Dr. Alexander Cummins, geomancer

Geomantic Study-Group on Facebook

Geomantic Campus Yahoo! Group

Wynand Fockink proeflokaal in Amsterdam (tell them Erik sent you!)

You are now authorized to use the term "The Hermetic Blogosphere Tradition."

How to find Sam Block online:

The Digital Ambler

Facebook

@polyphanes on Twitter

And Polyphanes everywhere else!

Support My Alchemical Bromance on the Arnemancy Patreon!

"Baptize flour. Cool. I'm writing that down!"

"We're kind of debating, are we moving to the dad magic phase?"

Welcome back, Scott Gosnell! Scott was our guest way back in episode 18, where we mainly focused on his translations of Giordano Bruno's works. In this episode we touch on that material again, but we really get into a wide variety of topics revolving around free will, enlightenment, imagination, the default and executive networks, hallucinogens, Kabbalah, Buddhism, alchemy, and more. It is pretty dense.

Links

Scott Gosnell's Amazon author page, where you can find all of his translations of Giordano Bruno

Startup Geometry Podcast and Scott's blog

De Umbris Idearum website

Scott is @infinite_me on Twitter

Support My Alchemical Bromance by becoming an Arnemancy patron!

Also, don't forget to check out Nick Arneson Music, where you can download his new album, Midlife Crisis!

"I wonder, what's the deal with pancakes? Why are they flat and round?"

Erik was recently a guest on episode 300C of The Alexxcast. This is Alexx Bollen's podcast, and you will definitely remember him from episode 35! Be sure to check this out and then head over to The Alexxcast to listen to more!

Robert Bonomo recently released The 21 Faces of God, a documentary about the Major Arcana of the Tarot. In this episode, he joins Erik to talk about his new movie and the two of them majorly nerd out on Tarot, Gnosticism, the Grail legend, physics, psychology, and alchemy. This episode has it all!

https://youtu.be/_pyKyuwvkHU

Topics and Links

Robert Bonomo's Amazon author page

Robert Bonomo on YouTube (you can find the long version and playlist version of his documentary here)

The 21 Faces of God on Rotten Tomatoes

The Gnosis Archive - material by Stephan Hoeller

"Alchemy is Gnosticism for the modern mind."

Alexx Bollen joins Erik at Ruse Brewery for a discussion about microdosing hallucinogens to treat depression, podcasting in Portland, books, and chaos magic. Alexx is the host of the Alexxcast, the only Alexx-themed podcast in the universe. He is also the author of Periphery and several collections of short stories.

Location

This episode was recorded in two parts at Ruse Brewing, which was busy, so there's some crowd noise. Ruse Brewing is brand new and had only been open about a week at the time of recording.

The Beers

Erik and Alexx make their way through a whole taster tray full of beers! Here is a list so you can follow along.

Translator IPA

Keller Pils (collab. with Allegory Brewing)

Turquoise Mountain Sunrise pineapple farmhouse ale

Briar Run raspberry & blackberry farmhouse ale

Mechanical Mind west coast-style double IPA

Grizzly Menace Rum and Chocolate rum barrel-aged robust porter

Links

The Alexxcast podcast

Alexx's author page on Amazon.com

Periphery - Alexx's novel, which is really good and you should read it

Ruse Brewing

"BMO is the greatest character ever made."

There's a new podcast in Portland called Pragmagick, run by our friend Revel Rosz, and I was a guest on his show recently! We dive deep into some pretty esoteric topics, including Freemasonry and ceremonial magic -- the latter is a particularly good bit, with lots of talk about theory and practice. Listen to the original here or use the interface on this website.

This episode finds Matt, Joey, and Erik camping on the Hoh River in the Olympic Rainforest. As the sun goes down, join our hosts around the campfire and discuss backpacking, philosophy, materialism, meditation, the great outdoors, and other great subjects. We eat beef jerky, drink river water, and build chairs in the wilderness.

Location

This episode mostly takes place on the Hoh River

Links

Love's Travel Stops

Waking Up Podcast with Sam Harris

Four Sigmatic Mushroom Coffee

Beef jerky

Landjaeger wurst

Materialism

Eagle Creek Fire

The Feast of Saint John the Baptist

Proteus

Orphic hymns

"It's like you're eating tree bark, and somebody in a distant room screams, 'BEEF!'"

In this episode, Nathan Lee (AKA OccultFan) returns after his Master Mason degree to talk about all kinds of stuff, from shadow people to Freemasonry and beyond. There is a lot in this episode! I am writing these show notes really quickly, so you'll have to listen to the episode to get everything. You will not be disappointed.

This episode dives into the philosophy of Freemasonry, and what it intends to teach and how Freemasons are supposed to live their lives. We compare it to classical philosophy, the practice of virtue, and how the ancient teachings have influenced the modern world. We also discuss conspiracy theories that involve Freemasonry and how likely they are to be true -- this coming from actual Freemasons!

Follow Nathan Lee / OccultFan on Twitter!

Topics

Shadow people, night terrors, night hags

Nathan Lee the Fellowcraft

Nathan Lee the Entered Apprentice

In this episode, we are joined by Pope Joan II. Joan is a philosopher queen, artist, and musician. We talk about all of those things and dive into the methods behind her creative process. Her art and music is a celebration of being human and being alive, but she also deals with a lot of death imagery. Mythology and religious imagery are interwoven in her work. This is a great conversation with a very creative individual - be sure to check it out!

Links and Stuff

Pope Joan on Instagram

Pope Joan on Steemit

Pope Joan on Twitter

Temple ov Saturn -- buy some music!

The Whip Angels -- buy more music!!

Follow the breadcrumbs.

Please welcome Montana Jordan to the show! In this episode, Montana joins Nate and Erik at Oaks Bottom Pub for a long conversation about the paranormal, the occult, ghosts, séances, paranormal investigation and all sorts of great rambling. Montana Jordan has since been formally investigating with various psychic and paranormal organizations for over 20 years. She is a published freelance writer with areas of specialty in holistic healing, paganism, witchcraft and occultism.

The Beers

Links

Montana Jordan's website

Montana Jordan on Twitter as @KMontanaJordan

Portland Scottish Rite

Ghost hunting

McMenamin's Paranormal Pub lecture series

Spiritualism