This week we are speaking with Appalachian conjure doctor, Jake Richards. Jake is the author of the recently released Backwoods Witchcraft.

We talk family lineages, magical landscapes, tending family graveyards, witchcraft initiations and all things Appalachian folklore.

Great stuff.

Show Notes

• Backwoods Witchcraft: Conjure and Folk Magic from Appalachia.
• Jake's blog.
• Jake on Twitter.
• Jake on Instagram.
• Jake on Facebook.

This week, we welcome to the show, producer singer songwriter, Nika Danilova, aka Zola Jesus.

Nika has released five albums over the last decade or so and in 2017 moved back onto family land in Wisconsin and built a cabin in the woods. She also played Dark Mofo down here in Tasmania last year so we have some overlaps or similarities that led to a really fruitful discussion about creativity and place in a post-materialist context.

We also talk cities as habitats, structured and unstructured creation, and the role of visual presentation. Excellent stuff!

Show Notes

• Nika's website, zolajesus.com.
• Zola Jesus on Twitter.
• Zola Jesus on Patreon.
• Zola Jesus on Instagram.

The amazing Alkistis Dimech and Peter Grey return to the show on the occasion of their latest Scarlet Imprint release, Brazen Vessel.

This new book is a collection of both of their writings on witchcraft, Lucifer, the grimoires, embodiment and Babalon.

And those are the subjects of our discussion. Enjoy!

Show Notes

• Buy Brazen Vessel.
• Scarlet Imprint.
• Scarlet Imprint on Twitter.
• Scarlet Imprint on Instagram.
• Alkistis on Twitter.
• Alkistis on Instagram.
• Alkistis's website.
• Video from the book launch at Treadwell's in London.

This week we welcome back to the show the only and only Langston Kahn.

Langston is a shamanic practitioner based out of New York. He joins us to explore the overlapping subjects of desire, embodiment and the shadow.

An excellent chat!

Show Notes

• The Metaphysics of Desire - Langston and my 3-day workshop in New York in September.
• Langston's website and newsletter.

Is it the end of H1 already?

Why, yes. Yes it is.

And that can only mean one thing! Astrologer in residence, Austin Coppock, returns to talk us through what the sky has in store for us for the second half of 2019.

Essential listening.

Show Notes

• Austin's website.
• Austin's Patreon.
• Austin on Twitter.

Slight delay to this week's episode, for reasons that are explained in it.

But this week, we explore the potentially contentious statement that spirit contact is, in fact, easy.

These solo shows are in danger of becoming an accidental series.

Note: I'm travelling for the next month so new episodes and blog posts may be less reliable. Check me out on Twitter or check out the Rune Soup Facebook page for more details or last minute updates.

This week, we are speaking with my good friend, Kaitlin Coppock.

Kaitlin is the owner of Sphere and Sundry, an online-store-meets-ritual-art-project dedicated to expertly elected talismanic materia.

So of course, we talk talismans, as well as how or why they might work, in addition to astrology in general, while sharing a few thoughts on its current moment of cultural prominence.

Great stuff!

Show Notes

• Sphere and Sundry.
• Kaitlin on Twitter.
• Sphere and Sundry on Instagram.
• Sphere and Sundry on Facebook.

This week, we welcome to the show Brian Lord. Brian is a graduate student in psychology, a special collections archivist and Masters student at the University of West Georgia.

He joins us today to talk about the legendary Ingo Swann, as well as the complete, unpublished Ingo Swann manuscript he discovered in the archive and went on to publish.

Great stuff!

Show Notes

• Psychic Literacy and the Coming Psychic Renaissance - Ingo Swann.
• Ingo Swann Collection at the University of West Georgia.

This week, in what is probably one of my favourite ever episodes, we welcome to the show Elizabeth Krohn.

Elizabeth, along with Dr Jeff Kripal, is the author of Changed in a Flash, which is the story of her being struck by lightning, dying and returning from the afterlife very much changed.

A truly fascinating discussion. Enjoy.

Show Notes

• Elizabeth's book, Changed in a Flash.
• Elizabeth on Facebook.

This week we speak to anthropologist, writer, teacher and Maya shaman-priestess, Gabriela Jurosz-Landa.

Gabriela is the author of Transcendent Wisdom of the Maya and she joins us today to talk about Maya cosmology, ceremony and understanding of time.

Show Notes

• Gabriela's website.
• Transcendent Wisdom of the Maya.
• Gabriela's Facebook group.