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20.11: The Philosophy of the Left Hand Path (Interview Special)
Season 20 Episode 11
Shea Bile talks about his experience creating occult groups in San Francisco and Belgium and discusses his new book about the intersection between Ne…
2 years, 8 months ago
20.10: Take a Strange Ride
Season 20 Episode 10
Please allow us to introduce to you the newest podcast from the Alchemical Actors. This is our first full episode and one of two parts about Walt Dis…
2 years, 9 months ago
20.9: The Poughkeepsie Seer
Season 20 Episode 9
A few years before the middle of the nineteenth century in Poughkeepsie, New York, a seventeen-year-old boy sat down, closed his eyes, and dictated a…
2 years, 9 months ago
20.8: Elpihas Levi
Season 20 Episode 8
Eliphas Levi, who left the priesthood to pursue a life in magic, is a seminal figure in the development of nineteenth-century occultism. He carried f…
2 years, 9 months ago
20.7: Sex, Marriage, and Ida Craddock
Season 20 Episode 7
Ida Craddock was an occult sex reformer who wrote about how married couples could spiritualize their unions, giving them control over pregnancy and t…
2 years, 10 months ago
20.6: Grigori Rasputin (Part Two)
Season 20 Episode 6
In the second half of our conversation about Rasputin, the infamous magician meets his end. How did Rasputin become such a controversial figure in Ru…
2 years, 10 months ago
20.5: Grigori Rasputin (Part One)
Season 20 Episode 5
The biography of Grigori Rasputin is hotly contested and frequently disputed. Did he perform supernatural feats? How much influence did he have over …
2 years, 10 months ago
20.4: The Brotherhood of Saturn
Season 20 Episode 4
In the first half of the twentieth century, a Luciferian order of German occultists formed to cross the threshold, practice sex magic, and achieve a …
2 years, 11 months ago
20.2: Jack Parsons (Part Two)
Season 20 Episode 2
Parsons’ occult experimentation became an enormous financial and emotional liability when L. Ron Hubbard ran off with Parsons’ paramour, Betty, and a…
2 years, 11 months ago
20.2: The Eleventh Seal or the Rabbit and the Rooster
Season 20 Episode 2
Are the Alchemical Actors a “cult that couldn’t cut it” or was Rob’s May 2023 retreat merely a creative exercise in occult hijinks? Judge for yoursel…
3 years ago