Radical Elphame

Enjoy an unlocked Patreon preview of the sixth episode of The Imbas Transmissions. This time, we chat about Timothy Morton and Dominic Boyer's recent project, Hypostition!, and its implications for animistic ontologies. We consider the ancestor and the angel as potential hyperobjects. Chaise stumbles into a cartomantic feedback loop with his theologian Father-In-Law while discussing the fascism of the face of God. To quote Sophie Strand: "The opposite of God isn't Goddess, it's everything." You can receive full episodes of The Imbas Transmissions by joining the Radical Elphame or Chaise Levy Storyteller on Patreon, or by subscribing to Chaise's Inspiration, Move Me Brightly Substack.

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Theme Song: "Move it" by Dunham

Hypostition!

I'm excited to bring you my long-overdue chat with Frankie Castanea, aka Chaotic Witch Aunt. I recently finished their excellent book, Ancestral Magic, which really taps into a theme I feel runs through almost all of our episodes: the complex experience of living in diaspora and being called to engage meaningfully with the culture and spirituality of our ancestral homelands. Frankie tackles this complicated impulse with care and nuance and provides actionable approaches to not only venerate your ancestors, but actively work with them. We go into the ways in which practicing magic can help us embody our ancestry. The important role of diaspora as a doorway for the disconnected, and our own role in its evolution. We also chat about plants as living ancestors, and the religious impulse of heresy. Hopefully this will be the first of many chats we have with Frankie on the pod.

For those who haven't been following along, I also have a new series up on our Foliate Head Substack called "Acid Witchcraft" that considers the meaning of the Witch, and why many of us feel called to embody them. In it, I go deep into the porous and amoral nature of right-relation, the possible spirit-led inspiration propelling the modern Witchcraft current, and the holistic impulse of dual-faith practices to jailbreak dogmatic monotheism. I think anyone who likes the conversations we have on this show would really dig what we have going on over on the Substack. Parts one and two are out now, and part three will be coming shortly.

And if you appreciate what we're doing on this show, please consider checking out the Radical Elphame Patreon. We have exclusive essays, extended interviews for every episode, and an exclusive Patreon-only podcast that we do in tandem with Chaise Levy of the Hagstone Podcast called The Imbas Transmissions. Stay spooky, everybody.

SHOW NOTES:

Frankie's Site: chaoticwitchcaunt.com

Order Ancestral Magic

Frankie's Shop: Chaotic Witch Aunt

Frankie on IG: @chaoticwitchaunt

Check Out Acid Witchcraft

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Enjoy a Patreon preview of the fifth episode of The Imbas Transmissions. This time, we sit down with mad poet, Malachas Ivernus, to talk about the various forms of insanity (and which ones are most magically viable), recount some of our own experiences in chapel perilous, and hear about "Imbas" from the mouth of a bona fide Irishman. You can receive full episodes of The Imbas Transmissions by joining the Radical Elphame or Chaise Levy Storyteller on Patreon, or Chaise's Inspiration, Move Me Brightly Substack.

Malachas' Substack: The Hollow Behind the Hearthstone

Malachas' YouTube Channel: MalachasIvernus

Malachas' Occult Thriller: Unreal City

Malachas' Website: thehollowbehindthehearthstone.com

Malachas on IG: @the_hedge_school

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Chaise's Patreon

Chaise's Substack: Inspiration, Move Me Brightly

The Hagstone Podcast

Theme Song: "Move it" by Dunham

Artwork by Anthony Quinn

I'm excited to welcome Morgan Daimler back to the show. We settle into the Autumnal season with an appropriately spooky conversation about the globe-spanning phenomenon of "The Wild Hunt," and speak about their upcoming release on the Irish Goddess Macha. We explore the complex constellations of triplicities within the Irish Pantheon, and Morgan shares some of their UPG surrounding The Morrigan sisters and their complementary magical roles.

SHOW NOTES:

Morgan's Books: Author Page

The Fairy Courts: Moon Books

Feed the Fairies Podcast: Spotify Link

Morgan's Patheos Blog: Patheos Pagan

Morgan's Classes: Irish Pagan School

Morgan's Instagram: @morgandaimler

I'm excited to usher in the Fall season and share this fascinating conversation that I recently had with Amanda D. Paulson of Pretty Fn Spooky fame. We chat about her novel approaches to ghost hunting, born out of her mediumship abilities and Witchcraft practice, and when a ghost might actually be something more. We also go deep on her Paranormal Emotive Touchpoint theory, which explores the roles of nostalgia, déjà vu, liminality, and synchronicity in our encounters with the Other. SHOW NOTES: prettyfnspooky.com @prettyfnspooky on IG The Lady of the Lake Documentary

Enjoy a Patreon preview of the fourth episode of The Imbas Transmissions. This time, we chat about initiation as a translator of the ineffable, the perennial influence of Austin Osman Spare well beyond chaos magic, and ergodic literature as Imbas transmission. You can receive full episodes of The Imbas Transmissions by joining the Radical Elphame or Chaise Levy Storyteller on Patreon, or by subscribing to Chaise's Inspiration, Move Me Brightly Substack.

Radical Elphame Patreon

Chaise's Patreon

Chaise's Substack: Inspiration, Move Me Brightly

The Hagstone Podcast

Theme Song: "Move it" by Dunham

Further evidence of just how small a world it is: nestled here in my tiny rural valley, amongst the deer, the evergreen forests, and the bucolic mountain streams, is not just one Occult Podcaster, but two. Today I'm thrilled to sit down with that other Occult Podcaster in my yard with some tea, and share our chat with you. Robyn Valentine is a writer, teacher, "witchfluencer" (whether she likes it or not), and one of the hosts of the delightful Coffee & Cauldrons podcast. We talk about the moment witchcraft went from being a hobby to a practice for her, the trials and tribulations of giving tarot readings for a living, the role of the Witch in the dying process, and we discuss future plans to summon Bigfoot.

SHOW NOTES:

Robyn's upcoming Tarot course

Robyn's Website: tiredwitch.com

Coffee & Cauldrons Podcast

Order Robyn's Books

@atiredwitch on IG

I'm thrilled to share my recent chat with Malachas Ivernus. Malachas is an excellent Irish Poet, writer of magical fiction, and frequenter (if not an orphan) of the Otherworld. We explore the creativity inherent to operative magic, the spiritual gauntlet of initiation, and the dance of divine inspiration. If you haven't, you must check out Malachas' wonderful work over on Substack under: The Hollow Behind the Hearthstone.

SHOW NOTES:

Malachas' Substack: The Hollow Behind the Hearthstone

The Best thing Malachas has ever done: O Beautiful Ungovernable World

Malachas' YouTube Channel: MalachasIvernus

Malachas' Occult Thriller: Unreal City

Malachas' Website: thehollowbehindthehearthstone.com

Malachas on IG: @the_hedge_school

This episode is a little different in all the best kinds of ways. I'm so happy to welcome back the delightful Joshua Cutchin to the show to chat about his fantastic new book, The Inverted Path. We go deep into the bizarre pan-paranormal phenomena we more colloquially call being "pixie-led," and its surprising manifestations from faerie folklore, to cryptid encounters, and UAP experiences. I also couldn't resist bringing back a previous guest, Celeste Mott, to join me for the Patreon portion of the chat, since I know Josh's work on so-called "fictional incursions" has been living rent-free in her head for a while now. To hear the full bonus portion of that conversation, you can join our Radical Elphame Patreon or Celeste's The Moth-Ur House Patreon.

SHOW NOTES:

Josh's Website: joshuacutchin.com

Get Josh's new book: The Inverted Path

Josh's IG: w3eirdwayz

Celeste's Site: celestemott.com

Celeste's Substack: TheMothsMissives

Celeste's Patreon: TheMoth-UrHouse

Celeste on TikTok: @CelesteMoth

Celeste on IG: @celestemott

Celeste on YouTube: c/celestemott

Enjoy a Patreon preview of the second episode of The Imbas Transmissions. This time, we chat about the uncanny valley inherent to animistic encounter, the witch as an agent of right-relation, and working with dead writers and magicians à la the frameworks described in the works of Dr. Alexander Cummins and the book Learning from Legendary Practitioners by Kadmus. You can receive full episodes of The Imbas Transmissions by joining the Radical Elphame or Chaise Levy Storyteller on Patreon, or by subscribing to Chaise's Inspiration, Move Me Brightly Substack.

Radical Elphame Patreon

Chaise's Patreon

Chaise's Substack: Inspiration, Move Me Brightly

The Hagstone Podcast

Theme Song: "Move it" by Dunham