Sacred Tension

In this episode of Sacred Tension, I speak with Minister James Payne about The Satanic Temple's Uniformed Coalition Campaign. We also discuss his activism for religious minorities within the military, his journey to Satanism, and the tensions within our religious community regarding military and police.

Find Uniformed Coalition here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/tstuniformedcoaltion

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In this episode of Sacred Tension, I speak with writer, hobbit, and kiwi Tony Wolf about nontheistic religion, mythmaking, and merging ritual and enchantment with skepticism. 

Find Tony's article about Oscar Wilde's materialist spirituality here: https://onlysky.media/twolf/oscar-wildes-confraternity-of-the-faithless/

Find Tony's work on death and ritual here: http://alt-death.com/

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In this episode of Sacred Tension, I am joined by my friend and Satanic Temple colleague Chalice Blythe to discuss the likely demise of Roe V Wade and bodily autonomy.

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In this episode of Sacred Tension, I am joined by Seth Moskowitz to discuss his recent article The Reactionary Trap in Persuasion Magazine, which describes how progressive people can fall down a reactionary, extremist rabbit hole.

Read the Reactionary Trap here: https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-reactionary-trap?s=r

Follow Seth Moskowitz on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/skmoskowitz?lang=en

Send your love letters and hate-mail to Seth Moskowitz at [email protected]

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In this episode of Sacred Tension, I am joined by philosopher Keith Frankish to discuss the ways in which our intuitions about consciousness might be completely wrong, the fundamental magic of the physical world, and how his philosophy and my Satanism might intersect.

Find Keith Frankish here: https://www.keithfrankish.com/

And follow Keith Frankish on Twitter: https://twitter.com/keithfrankish

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In this episode of Sacred Tension, I am joined by the hosts of Decoding the Gurus to take a critical look at the gurus of the internet age, including Jordan Peterson, the Weinstein Brothers, and Sam Harris. We do an in-depth run-through of their Gurometer and explore tools to critically analyze public intellectuals. 

Listen to Decoding the Gurus here: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/

And find their Gurometer here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19PKXFn3qrzWr6nx622g9cEzyNBow0svQs_dN4fP3hjY/edit?usp=sharing

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In this episode of Sacred Tension, I speak with Satanist and scholar of monasticism Sister Zither about how we might incorporate monastic practice into modern Satanism. 

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In this episode of Sacred Tension, I am joined once again by Lucien Greaves, founder and spokesperson of The Satanic Temple. We discuss the philosophical underpinnings of TST, the influence of The Process Church of the Final Judgement on the development of TST, his recent appearance on Tucker Carlson, and much more. 

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In this episode of Sacred Tension, I speak with Richard Lang about the Headless Way, a meditation method pioneered by Douglas Harding. We discuss the fundamental nature of consciousness, how the Headless Way expands empathy, how Headlessness might connect with Satanic practice, and much more. 

Find the Headless Way here: https://headless.org/

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In this episode of Sacred Tension, I speak with famed atheist activist and youtuber Aron Ra. We discuss the battle against encroaching theocracy in his home state of Texas, his coming out as a Satanist, whether Satanism qualifies as a religion, and much more. 

Find Aron here: http://www.aronra.com/

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