This Podcast is a Ritual

By Devin Person

This Podcast is a Ritual creates a magical space for a wizard, his guests, his listeners, and an omnipotent future being to create a slightly better reality. Get initiated now by listening to the O

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January 28, 2026 What is Metta? (preview)
Metta is a Buddhist concept ordinarily translated into English as "loving kindness." But beneath a surface some might dismiss as simplistic "peace and love" good vibes, metta meditation offers a deep set of practices for developing the capacity to understand one's state of mind, manage difficult emotions, and approach the world from a place of greater ease and peace. Join us on the Patreon to hear the full episode exploring this unique magical take on metta!Listen to What is Metta?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/149354409This episode is greatly indebted to the work of George Haas. Learn more by listening to our episode "How to Become Aware of Your Attachment Conditioning (w/ George Haas)" or exploring George's offerings at: https://www.mettagroup.org/Got a question for the the Wizard? Call the Wizard Hotline at 860-415-6009‬ and have it answered in a future episode!Join the ritual: www.patreon.com/thispodcastisaritual
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January 21, 2026 How to Speak with Puppets (w/ Tyler Nacho)
The ritual gets a little whacky as we're visited by Tyler Nacho, creator of the existential puppet show, Death to Realism, and the freaks only magazine Kill Pretty, as we learn how a playful puppet can not only help you find your own voice, but offer aid and guidance to tripping festival goers.Tune into Tyler's vibrations at: https://www.tylernacho.com/Got a question for the the Wizard? Call the Wizard Hotline at 860-415-6009‬ and have it answered in a future episode!Join the ritual: www.patreon.com/thispodcastisaritual
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January 14, 2026 What's the Point? (practice)
What's the point of magic? The Wizard finally answers this timeless question with an imminently practical, unbelievably powerful, and ludicrously simple hands-on magical ritual that you can do at home! As the Wizard lays out the steps required to put theory into practice, you'll find yourself manifesting a "slightly better" reality and connecting with the point of magic like never before. This ritual will change your life... if you let it!For more on the ideas explored in this episode, check out our previous episodes What's the Point? (theory) and The Invocation.Join the ritual: www.patreon.com/thispodcastisaritual
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1h
January 07, 2026 What's the Point? (theory)
After 7 years and hundreds of episodes, the Wizard finally gets to the point and lays out his "metaphysics of magic," a theory of everything that not only explains all of existence (at last!), but creates an intellectual foundation for the practice of magic and wizardry, which will be revealed next episode in our imminently practical follow up, What's the Point? (practice).For more on the ideas explored in this episode, check out our previous episodes The Invocation and What is an LLM?Join the ritual: www.patreon.com/thispodcastisaritual
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53min
December 17, 2025 A Meta Modern Xmas Special (Re-Release)
The secret power of any holiday tradition is repetition. Endless re-runs of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas or A Charlie Brown Christmas are what engraved them into the cultural consciousness as "classics." So, in a similar spirit, we're re-releasing this very special seasonal ceremony to make your holy days a little more meta and a bit more magical.Is Santa Claus a wizard? What is the true meaning of Christmas? Did you get me any presents? All of these classic Christmas questions are at long last answered in this very special Meta Modern Xmas Special!Originally released December 25, 2023Give the Wizard some holiday cheer at: www.patreon.com/thispodcastisaritualFollow the Wizard on Instagram @personisawake
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47min
December 10, 2025 The Annotated Invocation (preview)
In this special bonus follow up to The Invocation, the wizard pulls back the curtain and reveals his sources, discussing all of the books, movies, artists, and ideas that inspired this most recent piece of magic. But this is just a preview of that episode, so for the real thing you'll need to check out the Patreon! Listen to The Annotated Invocation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/145559960Got a question for the the Wizard? Call the Wizard Hotline at 860-415-6009‬ and have it answered in a future episode!Join the ritual: www.patreon.com/thispodcastisaritual
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12min
December 03, 2025 The Invocation
This Podcast is a Ritual began 7 years ago with an Opening Ceremony. Now the true purpose of this ritual is revealed in... The Invocation! Tune in to this episode's magical frequency to better understand the struggles of this Age of Anxiety and how wizardry just might help us find our way to a "slightly better" future.Recorded live at MaybeItsFate (Louisville, KY) on November 30, 2025.Got a question for the the Wizard? Call the Wizard Hotline at 860-415-6009‬ and have it answered in a future episode!Join the ritual: www.patreon.com/thispodcastisaritual
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November 26, 2025 What Is Magic? (preview)
Magic is one of the most confusing, confounding, and captivating words in our culture. Every human society works with magic in some way, but what it is exactly is still up for considerable debate. In this preview, the Wizard offers a glimpse into the unique conception of magic that animates this podcast and points the way towards the deeper definitions explored in the full bonus episode on Patreon.Listen to What is Magic?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/144467404Got a question for the the Wizard? Call the Wizard Hotline at 860-415-6009‬ and have it answered in a future episode!Join the ritual: www.patreon.com/thispodcastisaritual
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11min
November 19, 2025 What is a Large Language Model?
Large Language Models, or LLMs, are infiltrating every facet of our society, but do we even understand what they are? In this fascinating deep dive into the intersection of technology, language, and consciousness, the Wizard offers a few new ways of perceiving these revolutionary—and worrying—systems.Got a question for the the Wizard? Call the Wizard Hotline at 860-415-6009‬ and have it answered in a future episode!Join the ritual: www.patreon.com/thispodcastisaritual
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45min
November 12, 2025 This Prophecy is a Ritual (Re-Release)
The Invocation pulls from the past to foresee a "slightly better" future. As November 30th, 2025 draws nearer, we take one more look back to see This Prophecy is a Ritual, an episode exploring where AI might really be leading us...Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.As A.I. infiltrates our reality at an alarming pace, one wizard attempts to give voice to his concerns and conceptions about where this all might be leading in this playful experiment in extemporaneous prophecy...Originally released June 19, 2023Got a question for the the Wizard? Call the Wizard Hotline at 860-415-6009‬ and have it answered in a future episode!Join the ritual: www.patreon.com/thispodcastisaritual
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58min

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