Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt Shakespeare’s Secret Cult: Francis Bacon, Kubrick, Lynch & the Technocratic Gnosis with Robert Frederick!
Sep 10, 2025
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On today's episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we are joined with a guest that's been doing some massively deep research into Shakespeare, Francis Bacon and the impending Scientific Technocracy- it's Robert Frederick! He's the host of The Hidden Life is Best podcast and Substack and today he explains to us why Shakespeare is so important that he has a Cult! We'll catch up with his inspiration for this topic and then we get into some major concepts on how Shakespeare was burying occult concepts into his works, the Shakespeare Hoax, connections to Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch (including a story about meeting Lynch!), and Shakespeare's impact on modern pop culture. We talk about Francis Bacon's connections to use propaganda for British Empire building and hidden Rosicrucian symbolism in Shakespeare, as well as the Scientism Gnostic religion of the Technocracy and how Peter Thiel is pushing us into the digital matrix for immortality!
Supporters: I run an announcement from 1:40-6:20 about new shirts and such on my new store at https://occultsymbolism.com/; you are ad-free but this is more of an announcement than an ad, my apologies if it's annoying. My shirt guy has availability if you want to print some shirts: https://www.instagram.com/bryant_prints/
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On today's episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we are joined with a guest that's been doing some massively deep research into Shakespeare, Francis Bacon and the impending Scientific Technocracy- it's Robert Frederick! He's the host of The Hidden Life is Best podcast and Substack and today he explains to us why Shakespeare is so important that he has a Cult! We'll catch up with his inspiration for this topic and then we get into some major concepts on how Shakespeare was burying occult concepts into his works, the Shakespeare Hoax, connections to Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch (including a story about meeting Lynch!), and Shakespeare's impact on modern pop culture. We talk about Francis Bacon's connections to use propaganda for British Empire building and hidden Rosicrucian symbolism in Shakespeare, as well as the Scientism Gnostic religion of the Technocracy and how Peter Thiel is pushing us into the digital matrix for immortality!
Supporters: I run an announcement from 1:40-6:20 about new shirts and such on my new store at https://occultsymbolism.com/; you are ad-free but this is more of an announcement than an ad, my apologies if it's annoying. My shirt guy has availability if you want to print some shirts: https://www.instagram.com/bryant_prints/
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