Note: This episode was originally uploaded to my Patreon Tier 3 in August 2025. It's now available as 'open access' for all followers!

Speculative Frequencies: A Mixed Bag of Mysticism, Music & Mystery 
This ‘mixed bag’ episode dives into four rich and provocative topics:

*Occulture & Re-enchantment: A look at the Revenant Journal’s editorial on “The Occult,” exploring how mystical practices challenge dominant paradigms and foster cultural resistance through feminist, queer, and neurodiverse lenses. 

*Lux Interna’s Sonic Rituals: Reflections on a multimedia salon by the band Lux Interna, whose music and scholarship invoke desert mysticism, spiritual reckoning, and mythic storytelling. Includes themes of embodiment, wildness, and devotional resistance. 

*Feminist Witchcraft & Counter-Theology: A deep dive into Lolly Willowes and Satanic Feminism, examining how occult symbolism reclaims feminine autonomy and spiritual sovereignty. Plus, how rock music channels occult motifs for identity and transformation. 

*Forgotten Languages & Anomalous Cognition: A speculative exploration of the enigmatic website Forgotten Languages, its ties to CCRU theory-fiction, and psychological research on UAP witnesses. Themes include encrypted knowledge, post-human communication, and linguistic alienation. 

This episode has examined the intersections of sonic ritual, feminist resistance, and anomalous cognition through diverse cultural and theoretical lenses. From speculative philosophy to experiential narratives, these perspectives challenge dominant epistemologies and invite reconsideration of the boundaries between the real and the imagined. Future dialogues may benefit from interdisciplinary synthesis and critical engagement with the margins of knowledge. If you enjoyed this mixed bag, and would like to have more episodes like this, please let me know! I can certainly provide more content like this in the future. 

PROGRAM NOTES

Revenant
Introduction : Revenant

Lux Interna
news — Lux Interna
lux.interna | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree
"From My Body Alone Do I Know This": Sacrament & Scripture as Technologies of the Self in the Work of Jacob Böhme

Lolly Willowes | Project Gutenberg

Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture | Oxford Academic

Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll: Bebergal, Peter: 9780399174964: Amazon.com: Books

Forgotten Languages Full: Books 2022-2025

The Deepest Internet Mystery You've Never Heard Of (and Why It’s Now in the Congressional Record) - YouTube

Ccru- cybernetic culture research unit
Ccru - CCRU Wiki

Psychological aspects in unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) witnesses | International Journal of Astrobiology | Cambridge Core
 

 Interviews with Bob Cluness and David Metcalfe can be found in the Rejected Religion Patreon Library. www.patreon.com/RejectedReligion 

All Music by Daniel P. Shea 
Production by Stephanie Shea