Join host Piers Kaniuka and author and scholar Michael Martin as they discuss his new book Sophia in Exile. Recorded on December 11, 2021.

Michael Martin, Ph.D. is a philosopher, poet, musician, songwriter, editor, and biodynamic farmer. He spent sixteen years as a Waldorf teacher and Master Teacher, and taught at the university and college level for over seventeen years. He began biodynamic farming in 1990 and currently raises dairy goats, bees, and other animals while managing a market garden with his wife and some of his nine children. His poetry and scholarship have appeared in many journals and he is the editor of Jesus the Imagination: A Journal of Spiritual Revolution. Learn more about Michael's work at https://www.thecenterforsophiologicalstudies.com. You can purchase a copy of the book and read reviews by visiting https://www.angelicopress.org/sophia-in-exile-michael-martin.

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Join Resistance Recovery host Piers Kaniuka and Are Thoresen as they discuss his book Transforming Demons: The True Story of how a Seeker Resolves his Karma From Ancient Atlantis to the Present-day.

Are Thoresen was born in Norway in 1952. A doctor of veterinary medicine, he has also studied anthroposophic medicine, homeopathy, acupuncture, osteopathy and agriculture. Since 1981 he has run a private holistic practise in Sandefjord, Norway, for the healing of small animals and horses, as well as people. He has lectured widely, specializing in veterinary acupuncture, and has published dozens of scholarly articles. In 1984 he started to treat cancer patients, both human and animals, and this work has been the focus of much of his recent research. He is the author of Demons and Healing (2018), Experiences from the Threshold and Beyond (2019), Spiritual Translocation (2020, all Temple Lodge), The Lucifer Deception (Clairview 2020) and several other books on complementary medicine published in various languages. 

About this book -

Having misused women, power and the life-energy of his followers, the Seeker must overcome his demons - not figuratively but literally - in the astral, etheric and physical dimensions of reality. But in order to face them, he must first cross the threshold to the spiritual world... 

Transforming Demons takes us on an astonishing journey - from contemporary Norway to Ancient Atlantis, to Ireland and India - where we encounter leprechauns, dragons, evil spirits, hallucinogenic drugs, and a mysterious golden cross with a red ruby at its heart. 

With hubris, arrogance and deceit, the Seeker has abused his magical powers in previous existences. If he is finally to resolve his knotted karma, he must first confront his misdeeds, and the demons that were created as a result. Then he must learn to transform those demons in order to free them - and him - from the weight of his past. 

This is a remarkable true memoir that crosses lifetimes, thousands of years and manifold dimensions. It is an authentic story of transformation and redemption on the path to self-knowledge, freedom and love.

You can purchase Are's book here.

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Join Resistance Recovery host Piers Kaniuka and Mark Vernon as they discuss his book A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus, the Last Inkling, and the Evolution of Consciousness. Recorded on November 21, 2021.

Mark Vernon is a writer, psychotherapist, and journalist who began his professional life as a priest in the Church of England. He has a PhD from Warwick University in philosophy, degrees in theology from Oxford University and Durham University, and a physics degree from Durham University.

He writes regularly for The Guardian, The Philosophers' Magazine, TLS, Financial Times and New Statesman, alongside a range of business titles, including Management Today. He also broadcasts, notably on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time. Vernon is also an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London. His most recent books include Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey and A Secret History of Christianity. You can learn more about his work by visiting https://markvernon.com.

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Join host Piers Kaniuka and researcher and author Dr. James Ryan as they discuss Mitch Horowitz's book Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation (Bantam, Sept 2009). This episode was recorded on September 23, 2020.

As the Washington Post wrote about author Mitch Horowitz he "treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness". He is the editor-in-chief of Tarcher/Penguin and is a PEN Award-winning historian that has been censored in China. Visit him online at www.MitchHorowitz.com and buy his book here.

About the book:

It touched lives as disparate as those of Frederick Douglass, Franklin Roosevelt, and Mary Todd Lincoln—who once convinced her husband, Abe, to host a séance in the White House. Americans all, they were among the famous figures whose paths intertwined with the mystical and esoteric movement broadly known as the occult. Brought over from the Old World and spread throughout the New by some of the most obscure but gifted men and women of early U.S. history, this “hidden wisdom” transformed the spiritual life of the still-young nation and, through it, much of the Western world.

Yet the story of the American occult has remained largely untold. Now a leading writer on the subject of alternative spirituality brings it out of the shadows. Here is a rich, fascinating, and colorful history of a religious revolution and an epic of offbeat history. 

From the meaning of the symbols on the one-dollar bill to the origins of the Ouija board, Occult America briskly sweeps from the nation’s earliest days to the birth of the New Age era and traces many people and episodes, including:

•The spirit medium who became America’s first female religious leader in 1776 

•The supernatural passions that marked the career of Mormon prophet Joseph Smith 

•The rural Sunday-school teacher whose clairvoyant visions instigated the dawn of the New Age 

•The prominence of mind-power mysticism in the black-nationalist politics of Marcus Garvey

•The Idaho druggist whose mail-order mystical religion ranked as the eighth-largest faith in the world during the Great Depression 

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Piers and author researcher Philip Fairbanks discuss his book Pedogate Primer: the politics of pedophilia in episode #54. Recorded on October 2, 2021

Philip Fairbanks is a writer with 20 years publishing experience covering entertainment media, news reporting. His work has appeared in the peer-reviewed journal of art Afterimage, CUNY's graduate newspaper The Advocate, UK's Morning Star newspaper, Australia's New Dawn magazine, Ghettoblaster magazine, New Noise magazine, Paranoia magazine, The Goldwater and several other print and online publications. He has spent years researching and covering online child grooming, the Jeffrey Epstein case, MK-Ultra, the Finders cult and several other topics that are discussed in the Pedogate Primer.

You can learn more about Philip and his work by visiting https://philfairbanks.com.

And you can purchase Philips book at https://www.amazon.com/Pedogate-Prime....

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Join host Piers Kaniuka and author and researcher Robert Sardello for the sixth and final installment of their Integral Spiritual Psychology series. Recorded on September 24, 2021.

One of the six founding Fellows of the Dallas Institute, Dr. Robert Sardello is co-founder and co-director of The School of Spiritual Psychology, which began in 1992, and co-editor of Goldenstone Press. He has written Money and the Soul of the World (with Randolf Severson), Facing the World with Soul, Love and the Soul (re-issued as Love and the World), Freeing the Soul from Fear, The Power of Soul: Living the Twelve Virtues, Silence, and A Few Steps on the Stone Path: Working with Crystals and Minerals as Spiritual Practice (in press). His main emphasis has been to develop theoretical and practical approaches to perceiving and being in right relation with the Soul of the World, showing that humans are pulled from the time stream from the future rather than pushed from the past, and developing the interior consciousness of the heart. He is an independent teacher and scholar.

Integral spiritual psychology represents the most recent version of spiritual psychology as developed over 35 years within the The School of Spiritual Psychology, under the co-direction of Roberts Sardello, Ph.D. and Cheryl Sanders-Sardello, Ph.D. You can learn more by visiting http://www.robertsardello.com.

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In episode #52 Piers and Rev. Andy Stinson discuss Stephen De Young's book The Religion of the Apostles: Orthodox Christianity in the First Century. Recorded on October 7, 2021.

Father Dr. Stephen De Young traces the lineage of Orthodox Christianity back to the faith and witness of the apostles, which was rooted in a first-century Jewish worldview. The Religion of the Apostles presents the Orthodox Christian Church of today as a continuation of the religious life of the apostles, which in turn was a continuation of the life of the people of God since the beginning of creation.

About the Author: Father Stephen De Young is the pastor of Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church (Antiochian) in Lafayette, Louisiana. He holds a PhD in Biblical Studies from Amridge University and is the host of The Whole Counsel of God podcast and co-host of the Lord of Spirits podcast on Ancient Faith Radio. He is also the author of The Whole Counsel Blog on the Ancient Faith Ministries website. For years Fr. Stephen has been teaching the Bible by taking ideas current in biblical scholarship and explaining them to laypeople to make both those ideas and the Scriptures more accessible.You can purchase the book by visiting https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

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In this episode (#51) Piers and JF Martel (of Weird Science) discuss Eric Voegelin. Recorded on October 27, 2021.

Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) was an Austrian political philosopher. Voegelin published scores of books, essays, and reviews in his lifetime. His work does not fit any standard classification, as it addresses issues ranging from politics to religion and ancient philosophy. Many believe he is the most significant political philosopher of the 20th century.

​Jean-François Martel is a writer on art, culture, religion, and philosophy.

His essays have appeared in online journals such as Canadian Notes & Queries, Reality Sandwich, The Finch, and Metapsychosis, as well as in print anthologies from Penguin-Tarcher, North Atlantic Books, and Intellect Books. He is the author of Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, published in 2015 by Evolver Editions. Ediciones Atalanta released a Spanish translation of the work in 2017. His long-form essay, “Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things,” is available in e-book format from Untimely Books. You can learn more about his work by visiting http://reclaimingart.com.

With Prof. Phil Ford of Indiana University Bloomington, J.F. co-hosts the Weird Studies podcast, a series of conversations on the intersections of philosophy, the arts, and the weird.

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Join host Piers Kaniuka and author and researcher Robert Sardello for the fifth installment of their Integral Spiritual Psychology series. Recorded on September 3, 2021.

One of the six founding Fellows of the Dallas Institute, Dr. Robert Sardello is co-founder and co-director of The School of Spiritual Psychology, which began in 1992, and co-editor of Goldenstone Press. He has written Money and the Soul of the World (with Randolf Severson), Facing the World with Soul, Love and the Soul (re-issued as Love and the World), Freeing the Soul from Fear, The Power of Soul: Living the Twelve Virtues, Silence, and A Few Steps on the Stone Path: Working with Crystals and Minerals as Spiritual Practice (in press). His main emphasis has been to develop theoretical and practical approaches to perceiving and being in right relation with the Soul of the World, showing that humans are pulled from the time stream from the future rather than pushed from the past, and developing the interior consciousness of the heart. He is an independent teacher and scholar.

Integral spiritual psychology represents the most recent version of spiritual psychology as developed over 35 years within the The School of Spiritual Psychology, under the co-direction of Roberts Sardello, Ph.D. and Cheryl Sanders-Sardello, Ph.D. You can learn more by visiting http://www.robertsardello.com.

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In this episode Piers and Dr. James Ryan discuss the origins of Resistance Recovery, its purpose, and direction. They explore the 12 Steps, the Dislocation Theory of Addiction, and the treatment industry. Recorded on September 3, 2021.

Dr. James Ryan is a writer and researcher who has just completed his dissertation in composition at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He is also a boardgame designer and the curator of the 12 Step blog, Step Study. You can learn more by visiting http://stepstudy.org.

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