This week we talk to the wondrous Geraldine Beskin of the world famous Atlantis Bookshop.

Our freewheeling chat, conducted in the Gerald Gardner room of the shop, covers magical London, the Victorian occult revival, Austin Osman Spare and just a whole boatload of life advice for the magically inclined. Do not miss it.

This week we talk to the wondrous Geraldine Beskin of the world famous Atlantis Bookshop.

Our freewheeling chat, conducted in the Gerald Gardner room of the shop, covers magical London, the Victorian occult revival, Austin Osman Spare and just a whole boatload of life advice for the magically inclined. Do not miss it.

Oh, but I was looking forward to this one. I've read a lot of Dr Kripal's previous work and the Super Natural seems perfectly timed to coincide with Star.Ships... other hands on the same elephant and all that.

Anyway, it's a good ol' chat. We conducted it via the Skype/phone octoparrot, which you may notice in the audio. Topics included

• Animism
• Phenomenology
• Materialism in the academy
• Challenges in parapsychology
• The origin of the term numinous as well as how it is experienced

Show Notes

• Jeff's academic page
• The Super Natural (Amazon US)
• Authors of the Impossible (Amazon US)

Oh, but I was looking forward to this one. I've read a lot of Dr Kripal's previous work and the Super Natural seems perfectly timed to coincide with Star.Ships... other hands on the same elephant and all that.

Anyway, it's a good ol' chat. We conducted it via the Skype/phone octoparrot, which you may notice in the audio. Topics included 

• Animism
• Phenomenology
• Materialism in the academy
• Challenges in parapsychology
• The origin of the term numinous as well as how it is experienced

Show Notes

• Jeff's academic page
• The Super Natural (Amazon US)
• Authors of the Impossible (Amazon US)

Raj and I have a good ol' chat about narrative, psychology, spirit contact, London, the role of art and plenty move.

Plus I got to nerd out about the X-Files with someone far more knowledgeable than me.

Show Notes

• Raj's website
• Excerpts from the two X-files episodes we discuss
  • Paper Hearts
  • Jose Chung's From Outer Space
• The Rune Soup piece about consciousness and art we reference
• One of Raj's video mash-ups

Raj and I have a good ol' chat about narrative, psychology, spirit contact, London, the role of art and plenty move.

Plus I got to nerd out about the X-Files with someone far more knowledgeable than me.

Show Notes

• Raj's website
• Excerpts from the two X-files episodes we discuss
  • Paper Hearts
  • Jose Chung's From Outer Space
• The Rune Soup piece about consciousness and art we reference
• One of Raj's video mash-ups

In this week's episode we talk to the queen of encyclopedias herself, Judika Illes.

Naturally the conversation roams across spells, magical advice, writing careers and tarot... so very much tarot.

This is not one to miss!

Show Notes

• Judika's website
• Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells

In this week's episode we talk to the queen of encyclopedias herself, Judika Illes.

Naturally the conversation roams across spells, magical advice, writing careers and tarot... so very much tarot.

This is not one to miss!

Show Notes

• Judika's website
• Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells

We talk to the one and only Ramsey Dukes (Lionel Snell) about his magical career, publishing, Austin Spare, the British magical renaissance, the rise of chaos magic and just life in general.

Do not miss this one!

Show Notes

• Ramsey's Facebook page
• Ramsey's excellent YouTube channel. (Subscribe!)
• Ramsey's author page

We talk to the one and only Ramsey Dukes (Lionel Snell) about his magical career, publishing, Austin Spare, the British magical renaissance, the rise of chaos magic and just life in general.

Do not miss this one!

Show Notes

• Ramsey's Facebook page
• Ramsey's excellent YouTube channel. (Subscribe!)
• Ramsey's author page