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4.6: Nazi Occultism
Season 4 Episode 6
The swastika, Heinrich Himmler's personal magician, and Adolf Hitler's favorite occult magazine provide our window into the Nazi Party's occult inspi…
7 years, 3 months ago
4.5: Aleister Crowley vs. the Abyss
Season 4 Episode 5
In 1909, Aleister Crowley wandered into the desert to complete a thirty-one-part ritual originally designed by Renaissance mage John Dee. While there…
7 years, 4 months ago
4.4: Aleister Crowley Reveals the Law
Season 4 Episode 4
From his first introduction to occult practice to the conjuring of the twelve kings of hell on Loch Ness to the invocation of Egyptian gods in Cairo,…
7 years, 4 months ago
4.3: Gilles de Rais
Season 4 Episode 3
Gilles de Rais was the marshal of France, companion-at-arms to the medieval saint Joan of Arc, and responsible for staging a billion-dollar pageant i…
7 years, 5 months ago
A Very Poe Halloween
Season 4 Episode 3
In our first Halloween special, Rob explores Edgar Allan Poe's ideas about the unconscious and the Alchemical Actors perform two Poe classics: "The F…
7 years, 5 months ago
4.2: Human Sacrifice
Season 4 Episode 2
Human sacrifice has been practiced across cultures among the ancient pagans, tribal Africans, Aztecs, and in the Old Testament. What are the magical …
7 years, 5 months ago
4.1: The Evil Eye or Hex Death
Season 4 Episode 1
We open our series on black magic by asking how curses like the evil eye can cause the medically-proven phenomenon of hex death. How can our beliefs …
7 years, 5 months ago
3.6: Quantum Consciousness
Season 3 Episode 6
We use quantum physics to describe how a secret conscious observer outside of our physical brains is the best way to explain our free will. Along the…
7 years, 6 months ago
3.5: The Subliminal Soul
Season 3 Episode 5
Apparitions of the living, mystical encounters with God, and genius accounting prodigies all have something in common. According to nineteenth-centur…
7 years, 6 months ago
3.4: Multiple Personalities
Season 3 Episode 4
We uncover history's earliest cases of multiple personality or dissociative identity disorder: the medieval nun Jeanne Fery, Mary Reynolds, and Louis…
7 years, 7 months ago