For episode 99 we are joined once again by Geoff Thompson. A prolific author and teacher. He is a BAFTA award winning writer. He is a world renowned martial artist and has taught seminars for Chuck Norris. He has a 7th Degree Black belt in Shotokan Karate along with a 1st Degree Black Belt in Judo. He worked as a night-club doorman for about 10 years in various clubs. He became a doorman to face and overcome his fear of violent confrontation.

He has written fifty books, several multi-award-winning films, three stage plays and hundreds of articles, many published in national magazines and broadsheets.

In the show we discuss the shadow and how irrespective of what’s going on in the outside world no matter how crazy it is, all change starts within and in facing our shadow and our individual behaviour.

In the Plus show Geoff explains, how in looking to grow we can find happiness. How the divine finds the optimum route for us, we just need to listen. Geoff explains how perceptions become reality in an absolute sense. In that we create, we maintain and we dissolve our reality. Fundamentally we need to work on ourselves and be distracted by the outside world via what he terms as Radical ownership. In doing so challenges will arise in the form of our shadows, We must catch these shadows at the level of there provocation. He asks the question of us - who are you when you’re in the dark at night?

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For episode 98 we are joined by author  Andrew Collins.

It’s a remarkable study taking us from Göbekli Tepe in Turkey to the Egyptian pyramids, from the stone circles of Europe to the mound complexes of the Americas, Andrew Collins and Gregory L. Little show how, our ancestors built permanent sites of ceremonial activity where geomagnetic and gravitational anomalies have been recorded.

Andrew discusses the science of quantum entanglement and David Bohm’s theory of Implicate order which support his own theories on what’s happening with these portals and the ultraterrestrial, possibly multidimensional intelligences that appear.

Dr Simon Young is a British folklore historian based in Italy. He has written extensively on the nineteenth-century supernatural. His book The Boggart (from Exeter University Press) and The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends (from Mississippi University Press) are both out in 2022. He is the editor of Exeter New Approaches to Legends, Folklore and Popular Legends .

We discuss the Wollaton Gnomes - a famous sighting that happened in 1979 in Nottingham, England. A  small group of children were wandering the park early one evening when much to their surprise they were chased by gnomes in motor cars!

Dr. Scott Taylor is the President of the Expanded Awareness Institute. EAI helps people curious about near-death experiences explore what that experience means to them and to our culture as a whole.

Dr Taylor has served as President and Executive Director of The Monroe Institute. He has been a trainer for The Monroe Institute since 1985. He is an expert in the use of binaural beat technology to achieve and hold expanded states of consciousness.

He is also the author and voice of six best-selling CDs of guided meditations on near-death experiences in his Into the Light series. He is a spiritual teacher, speaker and researcher on near-death experiences.

In the Plus show we get into dimension sliding, folklore analogs for the NDA entity experience. We also discuss the strangest story he ever heard in this territory and finally the importance of meditation in order to be focused when in an expanded state of consciousness.

For episode 95 we are joined by Psychic Medium Jim Hunt from the TV show "Knock Knock Ghost" (currently available on Amazon Prime). Jim is an acclaimed Psychic Medium who became aware of his sixth sense at the early age of five. Born in Montreal to a half Native Psychic mother, he was raised, nurtured and guided by both the living and the dead.

Over the years, Jim has helped thousands of people around the globe set and achieve goals both personally and professionally with his unconventional methods.

In the show we go through the experience of seeing spirits, what family spirits want, the nature of contracts, entities and attachments and a deeply interesting section on shapeshifters. In addition to that he starts to spontaneously read me!

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Charles Christian is an English barrister and Reuters correspondent turned writer, podcaster, award-winning tech journalist, and sometime werewolf hunter. He now writes, talks and makes videos mainly about folklore, urban myths, history, and the weird. He was born a ‘chime child’ with a caul so, according to legend, cannot drown at sea but can see and talk to ghosts and fairy folk without fear of coming to harm...

He is the author of "A travel guide to Yorkshire’s Weird Wolds: The Mysterious Wold Newton Triangle” and “Saints & Sinners in Dark Age England”. His latest book is “Shuckland: Weird tales, ghosts, folklore and legends from East Anglia’s Waveney valley” – volume one of a new haunted landscapes series – and he is currently writing an almanack of real witches and sorcerers, along with other practitioners of magic – black and white, from earliest times through until the modern era.

If you are fascinated by the weird, the unexplained and the bizarre, then you’ll enjoy this fascinating road trip around what he calls the Wold Newton Triangle, where rather odd events have occurred, unmatched anywhere else in Britain. We also talk about the aforementioned werewolf hunting, and a grisly discovery he made while investigating the Highgate vampire.

In the Plus show we discuss Charles’s upcoming book on Witchcraft and the legends of the Woodwose, England's analogue for the Bigfoot. And we wrap up discussing the nature of folklore.

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For episode 93 we are joined Meredith Herrenbruck, a Master NLP Practitioner and Kahuna.

For episode 92 we welcome McCalla Ann, founder, podcaster and creator behind SaturnVox, a multimedia occult education and divination platform based out of New Orleans, Louisiana.

McCalla was born in Atlanta, Georgia to a Catholic family on her mother's side and with Jewish heritage on her father's. Though she attended Catholic school until high school, she turned to the occult at an early age, beginning her studies on witchcraft and tarot at the early age of 15.

McCalla left Atlanta for New Orleans to attend college at Loyola University, where she graduated with honours in Philosophy and World Religions with a concentration in Buddhism and its implications on language. Studying Buddhist philosophy and Chinese linguistics gave McCalla a unique perspective into language use as depicted by pictorial symbols, as opposed to the phonetic style of the west. This perspective involves an understanding of each pictorial symbol as holding multiple layers of meanings, and the ability to be able to hold all those meanings in one’s mind, so as to map out a full four dimensional picture out of these two dimensional shapes.

During her Downtime in college McCalla began delving deeper into the more formal realms of occult studies, beginning her study of the Jewish kabbalah and mysticism with vigour. Upon graduation, she was more than happy to turn her attention to these studies, along with those of traditional witchcraft, full time. She currently practices a flavour  of witchcraft that flawlessly blends her studies on philosophy, folklore, and linguistic arts into a fusion of animism, theurgy, and kabbalistic as well as astrological study.

In the Plus show we discuss aesthetics and art is juxtaposed with magic and pull that thread into ideas around Tiphereth and explore the concept of living in joy. McCalla also discusses Saturn in further details. An illuminating and engaging conversation!

For episode 91 we are joined by patron Jessica Mitchell who will recount for us her amazing encounter with a ‘dark man’ on the top of Glastonbury tor after a nighttime ascent to watch the sunrise. It's remarkable story and one that will no doubt resonate with many listeners. We go through what it means for the individuals who witness such reality shattering events and Jessica describes the impact of the event on her life and worldview.

Now a point to note which we didn't discuss in the show is the Tor has an association with 'Gwyn ap Nudd'.

Gwyn ap Nudd is a Welsh mythological figure, the king of the Tylwyth Teg or "fair folk" and ruler of the Welsh Otherworld, Annwn, and whose name means “Gwyn, son of Nudd”. Described later on as a great warrior with a "blackened face", Gwyn is intimately associated with the otherworld in medieval Welsh literature, and is associated with the international tradition of the Wild Hunt.

For episode 90 we welcome Dr Alexander Cummins. Dr Al is a consultant, diviner, writer, magician, and historian. He approaches ritual, divination, and sorcery both as a long-term practitioner and a historian of early modern magic. Dr Cummins has worked as a professional diviner for over a decade, and published several works on astrological magic, grimoires, and folk necromancy. He also provides training, workshops, and coaching in many aspects of magical theory and practice. Originally from the Midlands of the UK, Al now makes his home in the US.

We discuss his new title "The Art of Cyprian's Mirror of Four Kings: An Early Modern Experiment of Cyprianic Conjuration". The Art of Cyprian, found in MS Sloane 3850, contains instructions for the construction and use of a magic mirror attributed to Saint Cyprian of Antioch. Along with the preparation of the mirror itself – which includes making and consecrating a particular ink for drafting certain figures of Solomon – come instructions detailing a conjuration of the ‘four worthy princes of the earth’, including a special appeal to the King of the East as their primus inter pares, and a dismissal of these same ‘four kings of the four parts of the world’. In this Guide to the Underworld, Alexander Cummins illuminates further Cyprianic dimensions of these directional courts of the various cardinal kings and their messenger-king attendants in the grimoiric corpus.

We also discuss his journey into magic which including the collaborative storytelling of  Dungeons and Dragons and the influence of Aikido and childhood paranormal experiences at national trust properties and the spectrum of ancestor work and working with the dead.

In the Plus show we talk to how the dead can step forward in a practical sense and our ‘family’ is bigger and stranger than we think it is. We also continue Dr Al’s journey into the occult as he started Chaos Magic as a young adult and discuss at point in his life things became ‘real’. Dr Al relays an intriguing story about using divination that returned life changing results for a sick friend whose condition had baffled doctors.

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