This week, we welcome back to the show good friend and one of our most popular returning guests, Langston Kahn. Langston is a shaman, educator and community leader. And now he can also add author to that list, because he joins us today on the occasion of the launch of his excellent first book, Deep Liberation: Shamanic Tools For Reclaiming Wholeness In A Culture Of Trauma.    Show Notes    Deep Liberation: Get the book. Langston's website.  Free online book launch party and on January 19th.  Langston's Energy Body Mastery Course.    

Talking Shamanism, Animism & Community Building | Langston Kahn

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Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos.

When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania.

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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.

Iamblichus, Theurgy and The Body | Professor Gregory Shaw

 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! 

Adventure As Epistemology | Solo Show

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. 

Jake Stratton-Kent's Night School | Erzebet Barthold

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

How To Get Good at Magic - Notes From Bolivia | Solo Show

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

Talking Shamanism, Animism & Community Building | Langston Kahn

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