My Alchemical Bromance

In this solo episode, Erik reviews "The Magician Longs to See" Twin Peaks Tarot deck. This is our first episode in quite a while but we will be back soon! In the meantime, enjoy these show notes and links and hang in there.

The Beer

Erik reviews Abominable Winter Ale from Hopworks Urban Brewery.

Links

The Magician Longs to See gallery

The Magician Longs to See on Indiegogo (I don't think the deck is for sale at the moment but I sure hope that changes!)

In this episode, Erik interviews Nate Lee, known on Twitter as @OccultFan. Nate was just recently initiated into Freemasonry, so we go deep into some of the hidden occult meaning of initiations, self improvement, and understanding reality.

There's also a brief moment with Victor, our "studio audience" who just had his petition accepted.

The Beers

pFriem Belgian style dark ale

Stone IPA

Evil Genius Purple Monkey Dishwasher

Weird Topics

Understanding Manhood in America by Robert Davis

Portland was almost named Boston.

Lo Scarabeo Masonic Tarot by Patrizio Diaz Silva

Jean Beauchard Masonic Tarot

Grimoires and Solomonic magic, including the Hygromanteia and the Picatrix

Frater Xavier

Gordon White's Rune Soup

"He's jonesin' for some reefer!"

"Your magic dick would need to be wicked hard."

In this episode, Matt and Erik return to Wayfinder Brewing, exactly one year after their last visit. Things have changed a lot! We discuss the beer, occultism in popular culture, and esoteric influences on brewing.

The Beers

From Wayfinder:

Polybius Pale Ale

Pils Project #2

Hidden Hand Black Lager

Mindstürm Hefeweizen

Oathbreaker Saison

Hats off to Kevin Davey, the brewmaster at Wayfinder. His beers are impressive! Guest taps we tried at Wayfinder:

Little Beast Field Folk Five Grain Saison

Piraat Special Reserve Rum Barrel-Aged Triple

From Ecliptic:

Zenith Grapefruit Goze

Callisto Blackcurrant Triple

Fourth Orbit Imperial Mango IPA

Filament Winter IPA

Links and Notes

We talked about some other breweries and beers.

Culmination Brewing

The Black Hand

Oklahoma Geography Championship

Galileo and his moons

Twitter #pdxbeer hashtag - use it!

Ex Novo Brewing Co.

Hopworks Abominable

Tool

Occulture Podcast

33 1/3 by Erik David (Led Zeppelin and the occult)

Drunvalo Melchizedek

How to reduce light pollution

"Don't give tacos to a wizard!"

In this MABcon episode, Matt and Erik brew a beer! If you're a homebrewer, you will enjoy getting some of Matt's tips and experience. He's been brewing for a long time and has experience as the brewmaster of a successful microbrewery. We do an all grain brew of a trippel.

This episode also features Erik and Matt's first glimpse of Soror Tzadkiel's Rota Tarot Internal Alchemy. We are really impressed! Go check it out.

The Beers

"In my experience, you cannot homebrew without drinking a beer."

2014 Anthem Festivus

Links and Topics

Hathor and Sekhmet

The Book of the Heavenly Cow

Therminator

Rota Tarot Internal Alchemy

Soror Tzadkiel

Druidical Order of the Golden Dawn

Nutter Butter Bites

In this MABcon episode, the gang takes a field trip to visit Twin Peaks locations. Then we talk about Twin Peaks! Then we talk about Oklahomans, the post-job economy, and more Twin Peaks! Please join us for MABcon 2017!

Location

The Twin Peaks locations we visited were in North Bend and Snoqualmie Falls, Washington. We recorded at Snoqualmie Falls Brewery, and on the ferry, and at our Secret Headquarters.

Links

Newtech PDX OctoBeer

Oklahoma guys are apparently part cow

Sex magic in Twin Peaks

Tanis

Aberdeen, Washington

Lincoln City, Oregon

Post-job Economy

Guardians of the Galaxy

Beyond Lemuria, a weird movie by Poke Runyon

Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference

"Holy crap! Donald Trump is Judy!"

YOU GUYS, I GOT TO INTERVIEW SCOTT GOSNELL! Okay, okay, I'm calming down. In this episode, Erik interviews Scott Gosnell, entrepreneur, scientist, writer, wizard, autodidact, and translator of the collected works of Giordano Bruno. We spend a lot of time diving into Bruno's life and works, but we also talk about other stuff. It is a really fascinating conversation that touches on the origins of psychology, the art of memory, Neoplatonism, and even Dzogchen Buddhism.

The Beers

No beer this episode! We recorded in the middle of the day so it seemed like a bad idea.

Links and Notes

Scott's blog, Bottle Rocket Science

Startup Geometry, Scott's podcast

The Collected Works of Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Yates

Deep Principles of Kabbalistic Alchemy by David Chaim Smith

John of Morigny

Rewriting Magic: An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk and The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching by Claire Fanger

Daniel Ingram, who claims to be an Arhat

"It seems like Giordano Bruno's superpower was pissing people off. And memorizing things."

Join us as Erik interviews Seyta Selter, ancestral healing practitioner and professor of consciousness studies and dreams at The Evergreen State College. Seyta was once the head lady at Duchess Clothier and now does incredible healing work with ancestral lineage work. It is pretty amazing stuff. Listen and see! Seyta has learned to listen to her intuition and dreams to guide her life in incredible directions.

The Beer

We were so busy talking that we only drank one beer, Ancestry Brewing's Oatmeal Stout.

Links, Books, Notes

Seyta's Ancestral Healing website

Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing by Daniel Foor

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Martin Luther's 95 Theses in 1517 (500 years of crap!)

Rudolf Steiner and Waldorf Schools

Weleda biodynamic products

Epigenetics

Yoruba people

By the way, Erik was wrong again this episode. Ancestry Brewing is located in Sellwood, which is a neighborhood in Portland, and not in Estacada, a city completely separate from Portland.

In this episode, Erik interviews Aaron David from Charm the Water. Join us for a lesson in beer tasting and a discussion about magical journals, the occult, and other crazy stuff.

The Beer

Ommegang Three Philosophers

Wildcraft Oak-Aged Kiwi Cider

New Belgium Voodoo Ranger IPA

We encourage you to visit Growler's Taproom in Portland, Oregon!

Topics and Links

Come and see us at the Conference on Esotericism on Freemasonry on October 21st!

Rufus Opus

Grimoires on Instagram

Erik's appearance on Charm the Water

Israel Regardie

Lon Milo Duquette

Pagan Occult Distribution System (AKA PODSnet)

By the way, Brewery Ommegang is actually in Cooperstown, New York. Erik is wrong again.

Join us as we interview Soror Tzadkiel, the creatrix of the Rota Tarot! Our conversation ranges from occult symbolism in cartoons to the history, philosophy and use of Tarot. Soror Tzadkiel has immense Tarot knowledge and she's eager to share it! If you want to follow along with our discussion, you should get out your deck of Tarot cards (preferably the Rota Tarot) and get the Major Arcana in order.

"You want your lobster to take the yellow brick road."

Check out the Rota Tarot!

The Beers

Erik drinks a Gigantic Oyster Mushroom Saison. Matt drinks "a foamy beer". Soror Tzadkiel drinks kombucha!

Topics

Soror Tzadkiel and Rota Tarot on Instagram

Paul Foster Case

Builders of the Adytum (BOTA)

Kabbalistic Cube of Space

The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Adventure Time (give it a chance!)

Rick and Morty

Pacific Northwest Wildfires

Vajrayana Buddhism

Remember to check out Soror Tzadkiel's Rota Tarot and explore the other stuff that she announced in this podcast!

In this episode, Matt and Erik go to Puckerfest at Belmont Station. Puckerfest is an annual celebration of wild and sour ales.

In this episode, we also reveal that the Esoteric Book Conference isn't happening in 2017. Sad face!

The Beers

This is just a list of all the beers, not necessarily who's in charge of tasting them.

pFriem Brett IPA

pFriem Gose

pFriem Bosbessen

pFriem Abrikoos

pFriem Peche

Double Mountain Ranier Kriek 2013

pFriem Flanders Red Ale

pFriem Oude Kriek

Bell's Mango Habanero Oberon

De Ranke XX Bitter

Santiam Pirate Stout

Nectar Creek Mango Sour Mead

Links and Topics

Erik's Article on the Eight of Wands

Pepsi Challenge

"The description is right on. It says blueberry lambic blah blah blah blah blah." -- Matt Anthony