Gregory Shaw, Professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College, joins the show to discuss, theurgy, the work of Iamblichus, and how we have probably got the Neoplatonists' attitude to the body quite wrong.

We discuss

• The DESCENT of rather than ASCENT TO the gods.
• The theurgic imagination and how it relates to the spirit world.
• The role of divination in the development of the soul.
• How Imablichus can teach us a better way to compare between cultures.
• The necessity for ceremony.

Professor Shaws joins us to discuss his latest book, Hellenic Tantra, which I am pretty sure is the best book I've read this year. Get it here.

Let's make the most of my jet lag and jump right back into regular live streams the morning after I arrive back on the farm!

In this episode, we discuss

• How and why Wade Davis is my hero.
• The definition of adventure and why that matters for magicians.
• How adventuring creates reality.
• Sacred travel, how it is and isn't different from adventure.
• Tips and advice for your own adventures.

Then I also share some stories from the High Andes, from Lake Titicaca, from the steamy cities of Paraguay and the mountains of Southern Brazil.

Note: As this was a live stream episode, and the Q&A starts around the 92 minute mark.

And it's May, so don't forget to contribute to the Missing Witches fundraising and reparations drive!

Hadean Press's Erzebet Barthold returns to the show this week, on the occasion of the release of Cyprian's Offices of the Spirits -the posthumously published final volume in Jake Stratton-Kent's Night School.

We talk about goetia, we talk about the sublunar, we talk about English Qaballa -all the Jake hits, really.

And, inevitably, we reminisce about the man himself:

• His main ideas and contributions.
• Who influenced him and who he influenced.
• What future generations will make of his work.
• Who he was as a friend and a person.

All in all, a lovely chat, and especially timely as the snappily-titled  premium member course Grimoires: Our Greek Inheritance (The Jake Edit) starts this weekend!

Show Notes

• Get the second volume of Night School, Cyprian's Offices of Spirits here.
• Join Rune Soup here.
• Gift a 3 month Rune Soup membership to someone here.

Coming to you from the shores of Lake Titicaca! Some lessons on how to get good at magic, specifically sigil magic, learned on the road in Bolivia.

The short answer is your first hundred sigils will teach you more about magic than any book ever will. The long answer is.... this podcast.

Here I share my notes and observations from spending time in mountaintop villages with lineaged shamans descending directly from the Incas, San Pedro ceremonies in the mountains and client encounters in the Witches Market in La Paz.

We talk about:

• Desire cross-currents
• Incorporating oracle cards into your enchantments
• How to REALLY 'forget' about your spells so they actually come off.

• How To Make Magical Sigils: A COMPETE Beginners Guide.
• The Missing Witches fundraiser is back this year!

Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio's Miguel Conner returns to the show this week for an in-depth unpacking of claims made by Jordan Peterson, James Lindsay and others in the online Right that Marxism is actually Gnosticism.

We look at

• The origins of these claims.
• Exactly WHERE and HOW they are wrong.
• The origins of Gnosticism.
• The 'true' origins of 'woke' thought.

We also explore some possible points of consent with the analysis Jordan Peterson presents regarding Lucifer and the archetypal significance of clowns, jesters and evil.

Many thanks to Miguel for coming back on the show again. I have actually tried several different ways of doing this topic as a solo show since catching the discussion between Jordan Peterson and James Lindsay back in June of 2023. But imagine trying to have a discussion on the history of Gnosticism without Miguel?

Turns out that was the very obvious unlock I needed all along. Enjoy!

• Catch Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio here.
• This is the video examining Jordan Peterson's shadow projection that I mention during the show.

This week's episode is an installment in the long-running World Without Sin series, examining how we respond to monolithic media and how not every outsider is a plucky freedom fighter.

We also look at how and why it might be that all forms of expression are collapsing into a meme singularity and what this might have to do with the jester archetype.

After that there is a life update and a travel magic story. And then -on the video version only- we have a Q&A where we speculate on the whereabouts of Kate Middleton, what's really going on with Boeing, healing from trauma patterns and G. K. Chesterton.

Also, I promised I'd share some of the memes that were hard to convey in audio format, but instead, I am just sharing a link to the presentation from the livestream. It's all here if you're interested.

The show notes are just some other things that are coming up or going on, because why not?

• Peter Grey's talk at Occulture Berlin 2023: Atomic Gods: Magick beyond the nuclear horizon.
• J. F. Martel of Weird Studies has a new course coming up this months on the films of Stanley Kubrick.
• This Missing Witches fundraiser that Rune Soup listeners contributed so generously is coming back around again. I probably mentioned this one a few weeks too early as I have no detail on prizes and such yet, lol. But the link is here!
• Hadean Press have just released the final Jake Stratton-Kent book we'll ever get, Cyprian's Offices of Spirits.
• My own fancy, pre-ordered copy is winging its way to the farm where it is useless to me for the Q2 member course will be Grimoires 2: Your Greek Inheritance (The Jake Edit) as I am currently back in South America. Lol. Anyway, more details on that closer to the date.

Hello from the road!

Just wanted to get out a little solo show of what I have been up to, which also morphed into how to deal with foreseen rather than unforeseen dramas.

We also cover some updates on the Sigil A Day project, and speculate on the development of media and podcasts in our post-Putin-interview World Without Sin.

Enjoy! Chat soon!

You may recall that Angie from Angie Speaks guested on the podcast last year. Well, she graciously invited me on a show she co-hosts, Mystic and the Machine, where we have a good ol' chat about UFOs, Jung, the looming apocalypse and how all of these things are interrelated.

It was such a good chat, I'm releasing it as a main podcast episode this week.

Should you wish to watch it instead, catch the interview at the Mystic and the Machine YouTube channel.

Here we are in 2024, eh?

And it’s off to a bang for people starting on the #SigilADay2024 Project and, to a lesser extent, Japan Airlines.

In this solo show, we cover:

• Locating your intentions and goals for 2024.
• Turning them into enchantment topic areas.
• How to create sigils from scratch.
• The initial sigil activation I am offering for those embarking on this project and why. (Hint: It needs to be quick but not as quick as some of you ejaculate. That’s right, I made a sigil joke.)

 NOTE: the audio version does not contain the Q&A which starts at the one hour mark of the livestream, should you wish to check that out.

As far as show notes go, I would recommend you also check out a video I shot over the Christmas break about setting and achieving powerful goals in 2024. It teams with the practical enchantment theme.

Enjoy! Let's do this!

You know the festive season has begun when Austinmas rolls around! Join Gordon White and Austin Coppock for a look into the first half of 2024 and how to navigate it.

We look at

• Risk of war.
• What we can and can't learn from 2024.
• The best time of year to GTD.
• The Year of the Dragon.
• Mars, Mars and also some Mars to go with your Mars.

Plus there's this whole subplot about fish.

Enjoy!