Episode Details

Slap on your big shoes and silly noses because on this week's show we discuss the sacred and spooky power of clowns. Hailing from nearly every culture there exists a thread of synchronicity accross all, woven by the archetypal trickster whos duty is to make holiness with the profane and the stone of the alchemist from the abyssal darkness of existence itself. 

Join us as we discuss:
-Do animals laugh?
-Clowning as a primal mode of communication.
-The Jungian psychological method of madness and play.
-The magickal qualities of laughter
-John Wayne Gacy
-Esoteric symbolism of The Fool
-Alchemy
-Jesus Christ was a clown?
-The Archetypal Trickster
-Native American Pueblo Clowns
-The spooky connection between Kek, Honkler and the goetic demon Baal.

Sources:

The Clown: An Archetypal Self-Journey by Michael Bala: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jung.2010.4.1.50?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Pueblo Clowns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3IPH0r-0JQ

Coco the Gorilla and Robin Williams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GorgFtCqPEs

Kek: http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/kek.htm

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