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12.3: The Founders of Chaos Magic(k)
Season 12 Episode 3
Ray Sherwin and Peter Carroll are the founders of the Illuminates of Thanateros and the international occult practice of chaos magic(k). In this epis…
5 years, 2 months ago
12.2: Discordians and SubGeniuses
Season 12 Episode 2
In the 1960s and 1970s, Gregory Hill and Kerry Thornley founded a religion around the principle of chaos in which everyone was the Pope and anyone co…
5 years, 3 months ago
12.1: Austin Osman Spare
Season 12 Episode 1
Austin Osman Spare is widely regarded as the spiritual progenitor of chaos magic. He was a modernist artist from the first decades of the twentieth c…
5 years, 3 months ago
11.6: Night-mares and other nocturnal terrors
Season 11 Episode 6
A visit from the mare is, by all accounts, terrifying. Shortly after falling asleep, you're suddenly stirred awake again except that your body is par…
5 years, 4 months ago
11.5: Wendigos
Season 11 Episode 5
The wendigo is a creature of Canadian First Nation Algonquian folklore; a resident of the forests of Nova Scotia. Like vampires or werewolves, the we…
5 years, 4 months ago
11.4: Djinn
Season 11 Episode 4
In the West, our most common association for the djinn is Aladdin and his wonderful lamp. But this famous djinn is but one of a whole race of fire sp…
5 years, 4 months ago
11.3: Satan's Vaccine Conspiracy (Pandemic Special)
Season 11 Episode 3
Why does anyone believe that Bill Gates is an anti-Christ attempting to "mark" the population with a CoVID vaccine? In the special episode, Rob invit…
5 years, 5 months ago
11.2: Vampires
Season 11 Episode 2
Our modern vampire is most directly descended from Bram Stoker's Dracula, but where did Stoker get his vampire from? The answer is not as easy as Vla…
5 years, 5 months ago
11.1: Sex Demons or Succubi and Incubi
Season 11 Episode 1
The Malleus Maleficarum, King James's Demonology, and Ludovico Sinistrari's Demoniality were all central texts for establishing how demons might have…
5 years, 5 months ago
10.7: Chinese Alchemy
Season 10 Episode 7
Chinese alchemy is focused on the discovery of an elixir of life. Masters sought to become corpse-free, physically spiritualized, or to ascend bodily…
5 years, 6 months ago