Zach Budd, consent and polyamory educator and Golf Coast advocate for the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom https://ncsfreedom.org/, joins Luxa and Deep, co-host of the Smut’s Up podcast, to speak about a system Zach’s developed to help people understand consent, called the 5 Pillars of Consent, as well as discussing the problems with the “no means no” model. Zach also shares about his personal journey into the work which he is now doing and why understanding consent is in everyone’s best interest. Luxa is also joined by Lonnie Scott, host of Weird Web Radio https://weirdwebradio.com/ to talk about Odin, Inclusive Heathenry, and welcoming everyone to your halls to party with you and the Gods! In addition, there is an update about the Green Mushroom Project, some sound magic tracks, as well as rants and an attempted ragegasm. Much Love. Full Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQAbq5VWqdxKDjfd_xXxHO-FWP5DaU7oLIPyks0GPnIimkndM8I6atShcuQnVJzHf--0Vv2_8CAjk27/pub To reach Zach Budd: zinvictuz@gmail.com National Coalition for Sexual Freedom’s Consent Counts: https://ncsfreedom.org/key-programs-2/consent-counts/ National Sexual Assault Hotline: Confidential 24/7 Support: 1-800-656-4673 https://www.rainn.org/resources National center for domestic abuse https://www.thehotline.org/ Global resources for domestic shelters https://www.domesticshelters.org/resources/national-global-organizations/international-organizations Out of the Fog: Helping family members & loved-ones of people who suffer from personality disorders https://outofthefog.website/ Submission Guidelines for The Green Mushroom Zine (due by 9/9/22): https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQA5WAdJnNLW8r3kTDrNrGnKdhRbLH6t1aiQm96Sshr_b054OPY21Uc_-2pbDS5K59wBheTUyGrtWRI/pub Thank you for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, as well as taking a bibliomancy break, consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult . Or for a one time donation: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/luxoccultpod We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ Check out the Lux Occult YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlB

This short meditation was written, read and produced by Luxa Stata  (https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata) and features graphic design by T. Grady  (https://www.instagram.com/mirthandwoe/). It was made for the purposes  of guiding participants to The Green Mushroom Astral Space during Fungal  Friday voice chats. Now, you too can join us in the Astral Tavern  associated with The Green Mushroom Astral Temple on Friday night (or  whenever) and take part in the fun and camaraderie, astrally!   Much Love and Mush Love to everyone participating in the project,  regardless of what that looks like for you in your practice.   Resist. Resist by maintaining Sovereignty of the Self. Resist by maintaining Love of the Self. Resist by maintaining fierce Loyalty to Love and Pleasure. Resist with acts of Radical Kindness. Focus on the Path to Better Times. Fvck Yeah! Thank you for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, as well as taking a bibliomancy break, consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult Or: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/luxoccultpod We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/

Josh, aka Jr. C https://www.instagram.com/juniorc_is_people/ joins Luxa for a conversation about Future Optimism and the Solar Punk aesthetic, and how it ties into Chaos Magick and concepts like Hypersigils. There is also a discussion about approaching one’s magical practice from the context of a scientific point of view and why sustainability is important to preserving potential knowledge about the world. Joy https://www.instagram.com/occulture_jammer/ stops by for a quick conversation about the upcoming The Green Mushroom Zine, and the episode concludes with a guided meditation which will take you into The Green Mushroom Astral Tavern. Much Love. Submission Guidelines for The Green Mushroom Zine (due by 9/9/22): https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQA5WAdJnNLW8r3kTDrNrGnKdhRbLH6t1aiQm96Sshr_b054OPY21Uc_-2pbDS5K59wBheTUyGrtWRI/pub Thank you for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, as well as taking a bibliomancy break, consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult . Or for a one time donation: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/luxoccultpod We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ For Full Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRmH0K6BmV5BARugE5v9ae_V-tpZcP_4ZQguH2wKmiWNI47EFs2nB791qPZhFPO7G48gxSyNUzy0uYT/pub Check out the Lux Occult YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlB Check out Adam Matlock aka An Historic’s new project, the Winnet Food Forest: https://www.instagram.com/winnettfoodforest/

Alley Faint Wurds  https://linktr.ee/elephantwords, author of GPT-3 TECHGNOSIS; A CHAOS MAGICK BUTOH GRIMOIRE, and Sub/Urban Body Butoh Fu: A CYOA Chaos Magick Grimoire and Oracle and more joins Luxa for a conversation about their many interesting projects related to using artificial intelligence and butoh in an occult context. Topics include 8D chess, rituals generated and performed by computers and much more! There is also a special episode within the episode featuring Taylor Ellwood https://www.magicalexperiments.com/ for a conversation about his new book, Walking with Elemental Spirits, and thinking about the Elements in a more modern context. Also included is an update about The Green Mushroom Project's 23:Bibliomancy ritual, thoughts about sentience and Philosophical Zombies, and a horrifying dance remix of a track created by Alley Wurds. Much Love. Thank you for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, as well as taking a bibliomancy break, consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult . Or for a one time donation, buy me a beverage: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/luxoccultpod We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ Check out the Lux Occult YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlB The remix Luxa made of Alley’s track: https://soundcloud.com/j-street-390/a-single-rose-garden-a-single-rose-90s-hip-hop-remix/s-uhHRseSS15a?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Dave Neal returns to join Luxa for conversation about power, social change, conformity, and control viewed through the lens of Sociology. It’s meta-context galore!  But wait, there’s more: Shane Thomas stops in for an episode within the episode about implementing one’s personal code of ethics which includes a side of pokemancy. Also for your enjoyment are salty poetry snacks including an ode to the void written by Joy https://www.instagram.com/occulture_jammer/. There are also updates about The Green Mushroom Project, and an existentialist cuddle puddle ft. Nietzsche and Camus. To celebrate this day of 5’s, there will be a special musical interlude and some rhetoric related to facing one’s personal battles. Much Love. Thank you for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, as well as taking a bibliomancy break, consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult Or: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/luxoccultpod We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ For full show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQQmlvhjHcG9IZiSCMGw1NlO2UV2TorfW-1KYE4uBYKZJOMW_EGONGHUtodyF8M1QX0LLv1aIcOiKXf/pub Check out the Lux Occult YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlB Shane’s blog can be found at https://buildingthephilosophersstone.wordpress.com/. Follow the link off the homepage to the blog's Discord server to continue this conversation!

This The Green Mushroom project guided meditation was written by Green Mushroom Council members Shane Thomas, who blogs about discovering and learning magic at https://buildingthephilosophersstone.wordpress.com with help from Joy the Sporeceress https://www.instagram.com/occulture_jammer/ and Luxa Strata https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata. It is read by EK Menw, host of The Woodlands Show https://www.intothewoodlands.net/ and features music composed and performed by Kue Varo https://kuevaro.bandcamp.com/ as well as Adam Matlock aka An Historic https://anhistoricmusic.bandcamp.com/. It begins with a guided journey into TGM Astral space, where you will be given a mission to carry out, should you choose to accept it! The guided portion ends there as you are free to explore further on your own and carry out the task you were given. Please share your experiences with this experimental offering! Thank you for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, as well as taking a bibliomancy break, consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ For Full Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTRtfgEZ9SbxXvezxdxUAUq2wADTJLpv1ATJJu1FsS_ZSAAodRcgZiNKyqS7AeYB6BNCDIOJMBeqjmb/pub

This special bonus episode features an introduction by Luxa and a new The Green Mushroom guided meditation written by Green Mushroom Council members Shane Thomas, who blogs about discovering and learning magic at https://buildingthephilosophersstone.wordpress.com with help from Joy the Sporeceress https://www.instagram.com/occulture_jammer/ and Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata. It is read by EK Menw, host of The Woodlands Show https://www.intothewoodlands.net/ and features music composed and performed by Kue Varo https://kuevaro.bandcamp.com/ as well as Adam Matlock aka An Historic https://anhistoricmusic.bandcamp.com/. It begins with a guided journey into TGM Astral space, where you will be given a mission to carry out, should you choose to accept it! The guided portion ends there as you are free to explore further on your own and carry out the task you were given. Please share your experiences with this experimental offering! Thank you for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, as well as taking a bibliomancy break, consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ For Full show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTRtfgEZ9SbxXvezxdxUAUq2wADTJLpv1ATJJu1FsS_ZSAAodRcgZiNKyqS7AeYB6BNCDIOJMBeqjmb/pub

This guided meditation written by Green Mushroom Council members Shane Thomas, who blogs about discovering and learning magic at https://buildingthephilosophersstone.wordpress.com with help from Joy the Sporeceress https://www.instagram.com/occulture_jammer/ and Luxa Strata https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata. It is read by EK Menw, host of The Woodlands Show https://www.intothewoodlands.net/ and features music composed and performed by Kue Varo https://kuevaro.bandcamp.com/ as well as Adam Matlock aka An Historic https://anhistoricmusic.bandcamp.com/. It begins with a guided journey into TGM Astral space, where you will be given a mission to carry out, should you choose to accept it! The guided portion ends there as you are free to explore further on your own and carry out the task you were given. Please share your experiences with this experimental offering! Thank you for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, as well as taking a bibliomancy break, consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ For Full show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTRtfgEZ9SbxXvezxdxUAUq2wADTJLpv1ATJJu1FsS_ZSAAodRcgZiNKyqS7AeYB6BNCDIOJMBeqjmb/pub

Esoteric Eddie, author of The Lucifer Mystery Revealed, joins Luxa to talk about the history of the name of the Lightbringer as well as how it might have ended up in the bible, and how the context surrounding its conceptualization has shifted over time. Rachael from Fourth Dimension Fitness stops by for an episode within the episode to talk about how she’s incorporating her work with Chaos Magick and The Green Mushroom project into her fitness practice. Also discussed is Robert Nozick’s  “Experience Machine” thought experiment, functionalism, and learning from failure. This episode also features a musical surprise, thematically appropriate poetry and lots more! Much Love. Thank you for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, as well as taking a bibliomancy break, consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ Check out the Lux Occult YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlB Esoteric Eddie’s stuff:  https://youtube.com/channel/UCrJ3NWs-P2O2_52K1okDA8w https://www.instagram.com/esotericeddie/ Rachael’s stuff: https://www.instagram.com/_.rachael.elizabeth._/ https://www.fourthdimensionfitness.com/ For Full Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSt0ZAX_BANPUfDpRIS3ksQVEX0WmcP8Mf6KyyBRyP5SdQQhA4yMjFeJCMD8iJ6zbfEhy9VEMN1mFx_/pub

For this second in an ongoing series about working with The Green Mushroom Hyphosigil project, Luxa is joined by Flood from Ex V Planis, Yaramarud from Faith Blind Council and Administrism, Miguel, The Rabbit, Josh (aka Junior C), and Shane for a lively panel discussion about working with the Green Mushroom Astral Temple. There is also a very special episode within the episode ft. author, magicacin and all-purpose badass Aidan Wachter to talk about working with the project as well as his new book, Changeling. Also included is a special musical interlude in which Adam Matlock, aka An Historic plays The Green Mushroom theme, written by Kue Varo.  Come for the Astral Temple, stay for the Tentacles! Mush Love. For full show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQ-k7aao6qVQiJyF4QsQQr7WBHnjYvYHonf3muZq0NrP9pJbyUeXMtyx6DXDMPQlJI9HHi68WiDfNzo/pub Thank you for listening to the Lux Occult Podcast! If you’d like to support the show by helping Luxa buy books and curtail other costs, as well as taking a bibliomancy break, consider giving on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/luxoccult We would love to hear from you! Please send your thoughts, questions, suggestions or arcane revelations to luxoccultpod@gmail.com or message on Instagram @luxoccultpod https://www.instagram.com/luxoccultpod/ Check out the Lux Occult YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn8n4oQIH1uo08NhMvjjlB Stuff from people featured on today’s episode: Check out Aidan’s Wachter’s work at: http://www.aidanwachter.com/ Adam Matlock aka An Historic’s bandcamp: https://adammatlock.bandcamp.com/ Winnett Food Forset: https://www.instagram.com/winnettfoodforest/ Kue Varo’s bandcamp https://kuevaro.bandcamp.com/ The Rabbit recommends checking this movement out: https://www.sunrisemovement.org/ Josh urges folks to plug into solarpunk and help make a greener future <intentional dad joke> Don’t miss awesome content available from The Green Mushroom Podcast Network collaborators! Ad Hoc History: https://anchor.fm/adhochistory Administrism :https://www.welcometotarotdise.com/administrism/ Ex V Planis podcast: linktr.ee/Exvplanis Faith Blind Council Podcast https://www.faithblindpodcast.com/ Grognostics: https://grognostics.com/rss Primordia: https://campsite.bio/pr1mordia Smut’s Up: https://anchor.fm/smutsup Unearling Paranormalcy Podcast https://www.unpnormalcy.com/