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The Occult History of Halloween: Separating Ritual From Legend
This episode investigates the occult history of Halloween by following the evidence behind Samhain, All Hallows’ Eve, and the modern holiday. It begi…
16 hours ago
Twin Flames Universe: The Online Love Cult That Promised a Perfect Match
Twin Flames Universe began as an online spiritual and relationship community built around one powerful promise: that each person has a destined roman…
6 days, 20 hours ago
The Source Family: The Hollywood Cult Built Around a Charismatic Guru
In late nineteen-sixties and early nineteen-seventies Los Angeles, Jim Baker opened The Source, a health-food restaurant on Sunset Boulevard that bec…
2 weeks ago
The Ku Klux Klan’s Secret Rituals: How a Terror Group Built a Hidden Fraternal System
This episode examines the first Ku Klux Klan of Reconstruction, not the later organization revived in nineteen fifteen. In Pulaski, Tennessee, around…
3 weeks ago
The Thule Society: The Occult Circle at the Edge of Early Nazism
In Munich after the First World War, the Thule Society presented itself as a selective association for Germanic antiquity while promoting völkisch ra…
4 weeks ago
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: The Occult Society That Shaped Modern Magic
In Victorian Britain, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn offered a private path into occult study through graded initiation, ritual, symbolism, an…
1 month ago
The OTO: The Occult Order Behind Aleister Crowley
Ordo Templi Orientis, or OTO, is often remembered through Aleister Crowley, but it began before him in the early twentieth-century world of European …
1 month, 1 week ago
The Knights Templar: The Secret Order That Became Too Powerful
In France, on Friday the thirteenth of October, thirteen hundred and seven, King Philip the Fourth ordered the mass arrest of the Knights Templar, on…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Solar Lodge: The LSD Cult Linked to a Child Locked in a Box
In nineteen sixty-nine, deputies entered a remote desert property near Vidal and Blythe, California, connected to Solar Lodge, a small occult initiat…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Unification Church: How the Moonies Built a Global Religious and Political Network
On July eighth, twenty twenty-two, former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated during a campaign speech in Nara. The accused killer sa…
2 months ago