The Higherside Chats

The great synchromystic sage, Chris Knowles, joins THC for another look at the culture, the symbols, and the troubled times we're in.

Brendon Marotta is a filmmaker who graduated from the University of the North Carolina School of the Arts in 2010 with a B.F.A. in film editing & sound, where he worked in every major role on a film set.  In 2014, a feature he edited was selected to premiere at the Austin Film Festival and won the Narrative Feature Audience Award there. In 2017, he completed his first feature-length documentary as director, which won Best Documentary at the Lone Star Film festival. Brendon currently lives in Austin, TX.

 

Michael Wann is the man behind Susquehanna Alchemy and he made quite a splash with his first THC appearance back in May, where he outlined all the esoteric elements of the river and its surrounding area.

Today, he returns to examine some other recent stories and themes in the zeitgeist, give us a broader idea of how he views these esoteric tools being used, and what we can learn about the nature of reality by giving them a closer look.

Robert Bonomo is a film maker, blogger, novelist and esotericist. All three of Robert's novels,  Twilight Breakout, Cactus Land and his latest release, Your Love Incomplete, are available as free downloads on Smashwords.

In July of 2018 Robert released his documentary on the major arcana of the tarot, The 21 Faces of God.  The film can be viewed here.

Peter Jenx is the author of The Thai Occult series. His third version has just been released, and he joins THC to talk about the rich occult traditions of Thailand and the Ajarns.

The Thai Occult Book covers the full range of the talismans produced as well as the rituals and blessings conducted by the Ajarns, all told through in-depth interviews with the best magicians in the country.

Patrick Harpur is a novelist from West Dorset who has also written some exceptional books on the nature of paranormal experiences, the imagination, alchemy, & the soul. Today we talk largely about the ideas in his books, Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld & The Philosophers' Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination.

View the rest of his work on his webiste, www.harpur.org/patrick.

John Michael Greer is a widely read author and blogger whose work focuses on the overlaps between ecology, spirituality, and the future of industrial society. He served twelve years as Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America, and currently heads the Druidical Order of the Golden Dawn. He's written over 50 books, with one of his most recent being, Dark Age America.

Clyde Lewis is the legendary conspiratorial radio host of Ground Zero. He's also just released a new book called Transhuman Substantiation: The Truth about AI and the Singularity.

Dr. Jack Hunter is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology and the paranormal. His doctoral research with the University of Bristol examined the experiences of spirit mediums and their influence on the development of self-concepts and models of consciousness, and is an effort towards a non-reductive anthropology of the paranormal. He is also a founding member of the Afterlife Research Centre. Jack completed a Permaculture Design Course at Chester Cathedral in 2017, and is currently working on the One School One Planet project to develop a mainstream permaculture curriculum for schools. He is also a musician and an ordained Dudeist Priest. He joins THC on the heels of his latest book: Engaging the Anomalous: Collected Essays on Anthropology, the Paranormal, Mediumship and Extraordinary Experience.

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Dr. Jack Hunter is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology and the paranormal. His doctoral research with the University of Bristol examined the experiences of spirit mediums and their influence on the development of self-concepts and models of consciousness, and is an effort towards a non-reductive anthropology of the paranormal. He is also a founding member of the Afterlife Research Centre. Jack completed a Permaculture Design Course at Chester Cathedral in 2017, and is currently working on the One School One Planet project to develop a mainstream permaculture curriculum for schools. He is also a musician and an ordained Dudeist Priest. He joins THC on the heels of his latest book: Engaging the Anomalous: Collected Essays on Anthropology, the Paranormal, Mediumship and Extraordinary Experience.

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