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November 23, 2022 VYS0010 | Amazing Stories - Vayse to Face with Dr Allen H Greenfield Pt.1
VYS0010 - Show Notes
Occultist or UFOlogist? Teacher or trickster? Keeper of secrets or straight-talking raconteur? Dr Allen H Greenfield is all of these things and infinitely (or a finite very, very large number) more. In this first part of a two-part interview Allen talks about how he first uncovered the potential of the secret cipher, sets the record straight on Gray Barker and Jim Moseley, talks about the plasticity of reality and tells the story of how a single small hoax has the potential to instigate legitimate phenomena on a large scale... recorded 13 November 2022
The sound quality on this episode isn't quite where we usually like it to be - this is just due to the technical challenges of talking to the other side of the world on a shoe-string budget. Apologies but stick with it - Allen is his usual brilliant self, and we go deep.
Dr Allen H Greenfield's books
The Complete Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts

The Grail Within: The True Quest for the Holy Grail and the Western Sex Magick Tradition
Saucers and Saucerers
The Roots of Modern Magic: Glimpses of the Authentic Tradition from 1700 - 2000
Dr Allen H Greenfield links
Twitter - Stay on top of all things Allen Greenfield
Secret Cipher Calculator (Liber AL vel Legis) - Grab a copy of the book (above), try some Cipher calculations of your own and then get out into the field!
Hellier - I don't believe that anyone has found their way here without watching it, but if you haven't - do that now!
Other links
The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell - don't try this at home...
*The Absolute Elsewhere with an introduction by Andrew Stephens * - The transcriptions of the lost interviews between Kerry Thornely and Allen Greenfield were released as a limited run of 33 copies. Good luck finding one of those.
Olav Phillips on Twitter - Allen's publisher and friend
Communion by Whitley Strieber
Paradise Lost: West Memphis Three The documentary about Damien Echols and the West Memphis Three and their wrongful conviction for murder during the satanic panic of the 1980s/1990s
The X Files
Haunted Objects Podcast - The Newkirks' new podcast
Mind-reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities (Studies in Consciousness) by Russell Targ and Harold E. Puthoff
The Wanaque Reservoir Flap - there was a cool photograph taken and this weird artwork from an eye witness (which we assume is from the same flap but let us know if you know differently)
Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos by Michio Kaku
Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal by CG Jung
Ulysses by James Joyce
I Ching – The Wilhelm/Baynes 3rd edition
Special Guest: Allen H Greenfield.
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1 hr 11 min
October 31, 2022 VYS0009 | If There's Something Weird - Halloween 2022: Ghostbusters
VYS0009 - Show Notes
We got one! Before there was Hellier, before there was Twin Peaks there was Ghostbusters. In this special Halloween episode Hine and Buckley take a deep dive into this cherished classic - the movie that launched a thousand ghost hunting expeditions and at least one podcast about weird stuff. At the remove of 38 years and examined through the lens of Vayse, is Ghostbusters a beloved and harmless comedy blockbuster, a Lovecraftian cautionary tale, or a technicolour Reaganite super-dream? See you on the other side. Recorded 26 October 2022.
(Warning: Throughout this episode we operate on an all spoiler no explainer basis. But if you haven't seen Ghostbusters, perhaps it's time to carefully examine your life choices...?)
The Texts
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters II
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Music Discussed we talk a lot about the music in Ghostbusters in this episode - here are some choice cuts:
Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr (...?)
I want a New Drug by Huey Lewis and the News
Elmer Bernstein's fantastic score
Magic by Mick Smiley (and as a special treat the very 80s MTV Video)
Savin’ The Day by the Alessi Brothers
In The Name of Love by The Thompson Twins
Vayse Soundtrack by Polypores
Other References
Ghostbusters: The Ultimate Visual History by Daniel Wallace
Ghostbusters: The Inside Story by Matt McAllister
Spook Central
Ghostbusters Fandom Wiki
Ghostbusters.net
Ghostbusters.net on Twitter
Welsh Ghostbusters on Twitter - Seemingly random but a really great account
Necronomicon by Simon
Close up of the doors to the temple of Gozer
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - a fantastic Lovecraft "Greatest Hits".
The Exorcist
The Evil Dead
The Magical Revival by Kenneth Grant - probably the place to start with Grant. Discusses the idea that Lovecraft was, in fact, a psychic and that the Cthulhu mythos was a revelation.
The Real Ghostbusters – The Collect Call of Cthulhu
VYS0004 | The Uncanny Vallée and the Unreal Keel - The Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis Pt.1 and VYS0005 | UFOnauts and Inverted Crosses - The Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis Pt.2 - Our episodes on the Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis
Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret by Jacques Vallée and Paola Leopizzi Harris - Our neoliberal overlords at Amazon seem to be by far the cheapest place to get this book at present.
Speaking of Neoliberal overlords, the New Economic Foundation did a great series of podcasts about neoliberalism which Hine borrowed from heartily to fuel the frenzied final third of this episode.
Life After Death: Eighteen Years on Death Row by Damien Echols - eye opening account of his time on death row following his wrongful and how Magic and love saved his life.
Making Ghostbusters by Don Shay - unfortunately long out of print and now ridiculously expensive.
A Convenient Parallel Dimension: How Ghostbusters Slimed Us Forever by Jr. Greene James
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1 hr 32 min
October 12, 2022 VYS0008 | To Hellier and Back - Vayse to Face with Will Salmon
VYS0008 - Show Notes
If there is one common experience in the life of both Hine and Buckley that could be said to have jump-started Vayse into existence, it was watching the TV series Hellier. If there is one person alive right now who could be said to have been directly responsible for both Hine and Buckley watching Hellier, that person is writer and journalist Will Salmon. In this episode Hine and Buckley talk to Will Salmon about Hellier, Penny Royal and whether these and other 'media viruses' can be responsible, consciously or unconsciously, for re-enchanting the lives of their audience - "I think we’re at the beginning of a global awakening man..." Recorded 5 October 2022.
Download the Soundtrack to Vayse Here - We don't sell advertising, we don't do sponsorship and we don't ask for donations but all proceeds from this album go towards our running costs.
You can find more from Will Salmon here :
Twitter - https://twitter.com/evilrobotbill
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/evilrobotbill/
Modern Aviation - Will Salmon's record label
Essential Texts
Warning: This episode assumes that you have watched all of Hellier and listened to all of Penny Royal - it is heavy on spoilers and light on explainers.
Hellier - "One star, no Goblins."
Penny Royal – “I don’t really like to believe in all that paranormal shit but then again, this whole fucking reality that we live in could be made up as hell, so why not explore every range of it that you can”
Other References
SFX - The World's Number One, Science-fiction, Fantasy and Horror Magazine
Total Film - Excellent British movie magazine
Quietus - Rock music and pop culture website
Lost - Classic mystery series
Euphomet – Hellier Was Just a Symptom
Weird Studies – Goblins, Goat-Gods and Gates: On 'Hellier'
Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallee
Occult Experiments in the Home by Duncan Barford
The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel
The Matrix - Some obscure movie about sunglasses or something
Something in the Dirt - Upcoming movie made by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
The Endless - 2017 movie made by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
Resolution - 2012
Somewhere in the Skies #138
Bigfoot and Beyond #146
Valis by Philip K Dick
Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson
The Invisibles - Interesting article summarising the series
The Invisibles wank-a-thon
True Detective season 1
Twin Peaks
The Secret History of Twin Peaks
The X-Files
The Book of the Law
Unexplained - Excellent podcast by Richard MacLean Smith taking deep dives into classic and less well known paranormal encounters
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
The Leftovers
Bill and Ted - This is our second guest in a row to mention Bill and Ted of their own accord (100% of our guests) - is this a coincidence or a synchronicity...?
Special Guest: Will Salmon.
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1 hr 36 min
September 11, 2022 VYS0007 | Too Much to Dream Last Night
VYS0007 - Show Notes
It's been less than 2 months since Buckley and Hine recorded VYS0003 but things are quickly getting weirder. Buckley talks about his recent dreamwork, his experiments with hypnogogia and a series of synchronicities at a London gig kickstarted by sigil magic. Hine, unexpectedly grounded from practical magic by the I Ching, recounts his experiences with the Dark Man and the Goat God Pan (one and the same?) dating from all the way back in his childhood to present day. Recorded 4 August 2022.
Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep by Jennifer Dumpert
Itsju Itsu on Twitter
What Magic Is This? – Dreams, The I Ching with Dan Lowe and Spirits with Aidan Wachter
Pop Magic! by Grant Morrison
The Disinformation Book of Lies edited by Richard Metzger - we normally wouldn't link directly to Amazon but the book itself is really expensive now, but you can get a kindle copy for a few quid
Penny Royal
Hellier
The article written by E. Louis Lessieux that Hine read after his walk in the woods - a review of Pan: The Great God’s Modern Return by Paul Robichaud
The Transcendence Orchestra
Not if You Were the Last Junkie on Earth by the Dandy Warhols
Anemone by the Brian Jonestown Massacre
Gnod
Spirit Box podcast
Spirit Box - #62 / Aidan Wachter, on writing, the somnambulist self & the authentic self
Spirit Box - The 'Man in Black' in Irish folklore
Spirit Box - #91 / Jessica Mitchell; I saw the Dark Man on Glastonbury Tor
Spirit Box - #100 / Shullie H. Porter on working with the Dark Man
Communion by Whitley Strieber - the book and the* movie*
House of Gucci - Talk about weird stuff...
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1 hr 39 min
September 10, 2022 VYS0006 | Dreamtides - Vayse to Face with Field Lines Cartographer
VYS0006 - Show Notes
In this inaugural Vayse interview, Hine and Buckley talk to electronic musician, creative dreamer and fellow weirdo Mark Burford aka Field Lines Cartographer. The conversation ranges from how dreams can be part of the creative process to time loops, retrocausality and their implications on the concept of free will to Mark's very own haunted house. Recorded 28 June 2022.
Field lines Cartographer – Dreamtides , Bandcamp, Twitter, Instagram
Yesterday by the Beatles
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
Jimi Hendrix sacrifices a guitar at Monterey International Pop Festival - shamanic guitar genius
Paul Weston on the Consensus Unreality podcast
Nick Cave – The Red Hand Files - the wit and wisdom of the great Nicholas Edward Cave
Time Loops and Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self: Interpreting Messages from Your Future by Eric Wargo
The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility by Morgan Robinson
Uri Gellar - Fascinating article and video about a Stanford study and the subsequent CIA interest into his abilities
Donnie Darko
Benjamin Libet and the neuroscience of free will - yeah ok, they're Wikipedia links but they're really interesting ones...
A Glitch in the Matrix – a Rodney Asher documentary
Alister Crowley and the Aeon of Horus by Paul Weston
Left at East Gate: A First-Hand Account of the Bentwaters-Woodbridge Ufo Incident, Its Cover-Up, and Investigation by Larry Warren and Peter Robbins - excellent book about the Rendlesham Forest Incident
The Green Knight
Stalker - mind altering film by Andrei Tarkovsky
The Mirror - another mind altering film by Andrei Tarkovsky
Blade Runner
The Blade Runner soundtrack by Vangelis
MEN – Alex Garland's 2022 movie
The MEN Soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow
The X-Files
The X-Files Soundtrack by Mark Snow
Mandy
The Mandy Soundtrack by Jóhann Jóhannsson
Nicolas Cage - a fun article about his "Nouveau Shamanic" acting style
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure Soundtrack (I get excited just thinking about it! - Hine)
Special Guest: Field Lines Cartographer.
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1 hr 43 min
September 09, 2022 VYS0005 | UFOnauts and Inverted Crosses - The Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis Pt.2
VYS0005 - Show Notes
As if Magonia and the Mothman weren't weird enough, in the second part of this two-part exploration of the Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis, Hine and Buckley discuss the connections between the phenomena and ritual magic by way of Allen Greenfield's secret cipher, Aleister Crowley's book of the Law and Jack Parson and L. Ron Hubbard's Babalon Working, which may or may not have opened and left open a gateway to another world... Recorded 21 July 2022.
The Texts (We will be discussing these books in depth in VYS0004 and VYS0005)
Mothman Prophecies by John Keel
Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallée
The Complete Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts by Allen Greenfield
Other References
Penny Royal
Allen Greenfield appearance on Consensus Unreality podcast
Allen Greenfield appearance on The Farm podcast
Allen Greenfield on Twitter - Worth following, he posts a lot of links to weird news stories and his comments are hilarious
Yeezus by Kanye West – Not going to post a link because he can get litigious and we don't need that kind of heat. A truly awesome album and unlike anything else, he was definitely channelling something…
What Magic is This? - "Aleister Crowley – The Myth and the New Aeon with Richard T. Cole"
The Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley
Liber el Vel Bogus by Richard T Cole
Spirit Box – #11 Marco Visconti
The Philip Experiment - 1972 parapsychology experiment to summon a spirit whose history was entirely fictional
A drawing of Lam by Crowley this was the entity that contacted Crowley during the The Amalantrah Workings
Communion by Whitley Strieber
The English Qaballa - Wikipedia link (I know, but we're very busy and so are you...)
The Magickal Language of the Book of the Law: An English Qaballa Primer by Cath Thompson
The Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts online calculator - give it a go for yourself
Hellier – if we haven't said this enough yet just watch this show
Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons by John Carter (check)
Strange Angel – a TV series and book about Jack Parsons
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Sex Cults and Rocket Science: The Jack Parsons Story
The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost
VALIS by Philip K Dick
The Eighth Tower by John Keel
I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick by Emmanuel Carrère
Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson
Aleister Crowley and the Aeon of Horus by Paul Weston
X-Files – Jose Chung’s From Outer Space (Season 3, Episode 20)
Time Loops by Eric Wargo
Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep by Jennifer Dumpert
Oneohtrix Point Never
Agnes Obel
Field lines Cartographer – Dreamtides
Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know
What Magic is This?
Spirit Box
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1 hr 26 min
September 08, 2022VYS0004 | The Uncanny Vallée and the Unreal Keel - The Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis Pt.1
VYS0004 - Show Notes
What if UFO sightings and alien encounters aren't visitations by creatures from another planet but an experience of entities which surround us all the time but usually remain outside the perception of our five senses? What if the greys and flying saucers are a manifestation of a phenomena known in days gone by names such as fairies, elementals and angels? This is the Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis. In the first part of this two-part study Hine and Buckley explore these ideas by trying to wrap their heads around the work of Jacques Vallée and John Keel. Recorded 21 July 2022.
The Texts (We will be discussing these books in depth in VYS0054 and VYS0005)
Mothman Prophecies by John Keel
Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallée
The Complete Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts by Allen Greenfield
Other References
Flying Saucers: A modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky by Carl Jung
Gods, Spirits, Cosmic Guardians: A Comparative Study of the Encounter Experience by Hilary Evans
Visions, Apparitions, Alien Visitors: A Complete Study of the Entity Enigma by Hilary Evans - Currently out of print and harder to get hold of. ISBN-10: 0850305241 / ISBN-13: 978-0850305241
Communion by Whitley Strieber
The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained by Whitley Strieber and Jeffrey Kripal
A Trojan Feast by Joshua Cutchin (read it don’t eat it)
Where the footprints end: high strangeness and the bigfoot phenomenon: Volume 1 and Volume 2 by Joshua Cutchin
Chris Butler - The artists that painted the front cover to the newer editions of Passport to Magonia. His Instagram is also great.
Five Arguments Against the Extraterrestrial Origin of Unidentified Flying Objects - essay by Jacques Vallée
The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns, And Fairies by Robert Kirk
Weird Studies – Box of God(s): On 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
The Eighth Tower by John Keel
Operation Trojan Horse by John Keel
The Silver Bridge by Gray Barker
Gray Barker’s Book of Bunk – article by John C Sherwood
Corrections (The only way we learn is by making mistakes...)
Hine refers to Meade Layne as "she", he was, of course, a he.
Buckley's timeline for Keel's pope prediction was slightly off - the actual timeline was: In 1967 Keel became convinced that Pope Paul VI would be knifed to death at Istanbul Airport - this did not occur. On November 27 1970 Pope Paul VI was attacked by a knife wielding man at Manila International Airport.
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1 hr 31 min
September 07, 2022VYS0003 | Welcome to Vayse, Population 2
VYS0003 - Show Notes
Welcome to Vayse: A podcast about weird stuff... but what is Vayse? In this introductory episode Hine and Buckley discuss how the weirdness crept in, how they are feeding it and why they feel the need to talk about it to strangers... topics include: first experiments with sigil magic, basic dreamwork and corvid visitations. Recorded 16 June 2022.
Weird Studies – Incredible podcast and an inspiration
Pentagon UFO releases 2020 – Guardian 26 April 2020
Penny Royal – another of the finest podcasts available to humanity
Hellier – The most important occult TV show of the last decade? Don’t ask questions, just watch it. All of it. Start here
The Pendle Witches - History of the Pendle Witches.
These are the symbols on the summit of Pendle Hill
Grant Morrison at DisinfoCon 2000 – The talk that launched a thousand sigils.
Pop Magic! by Grant Morrison - The essay that launched a million sigils
The Disinformation Book of Lies edited by Richard Metzger - we normally wouldn't link directly to Amazon but the book itself is really expensive now, but you can get a kindle copy for a few quid.
Wim Hoff Method this is the video that Hine has used to charge sigils.
Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine (no relation) - essential primer for Chaos Magic.
I Ching – The Wilhelm/Baynes 3rd edition
What Magic is This? – the most informative magic podcast out there
Weird Studies – On Graham Harman's "The Third Table"
The Eighth Tower by John Keel - Essential text for the Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis
Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallée - Another essential text (and prescribed reading for VYS0004 and VYS0005)
Occult Experiments in the Home by Duncan Barford - a fascinating collection of essays. Also check out Barford's podcast of the same name here
Understanding Chaos Magic by Jaq D Hawkins - ISBN-13: 978-1898307938 - currently out of print
Aleister Crowley and the Aeon of Horus by Paul Weston - Inspirational thinking from one of the best minds in British occultism
Time Loops by Eric Wargo - Paradigm shifting research and theories
Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep by Jennifer Dumpert - exploration of Hypnogogia, sleep and dreams
The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel - An essential text for anyone with even a vague interest in the paranormal (and prescribed reading for VYS0004 and VYS0005)
Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact by Jacques Vallée
What Magic Is This? - How to Start Doing Magic - A great place to start if you're interested in magic
Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self: Interpreting Messages from Your Future by Eric Wargo - learn to harness the precognitive power of your dreams
Six Ways by Aidan Wachter - Probably the best place that you can start if you want to begin your magical practice today
Expanding Mind – Erik Davis' podcast
Consensus Unreality - Excellent and funny podcast about conspiracies and high strangeness. Currently on hiatus after the hosts found themselves in chapel perilous.
Ultraculture with Jason Louv
The Farm Jan 17th 2020 – Allen Greenfield, Paul Weston and Frank Zero talking to Steven Snyder about Hellier
Where Did the Road Go? - Seriah Azkath's podcast exploring the unknown
Euphamet - Jim Perry's podcast on the esoteric and paranormal
Pefkin
Coil
Field lines Cartographer – Dreamtides (prescribed listening for VYS0006)
Earth – The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
Twin Peaks - No single link could do this show justice. Do your own research.
True Detective - Watch season 1.
The Outer Range - science fiction neo-Western
Brand New Cherry Flavour - Netflix Horror Drama
Dark - German science fiction thriller series
The Leftovers - Beautiful, melancholic, indescribable television.
MEN – Alex Garland's 2022 movie.
Last Tuesday Society
Corrections (The only way we learn is by making mistakes...)
Hine keeps mispronouncing Crowley (it's Crow-ley - like the bird)
When discussing the I Ching, Hine says that a Hexagram is made up of three lines, it's six (the clue is in the name...)
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1 hr 42 min

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Welcome to Vayse, a podcast about weird stuff. Join Peter C Hine and Stephen James Buckley as they wander, stumble and fall through a disorientating trash stratum stitched together out of art, magick,…