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For episode 80 it is an honour and privilege to be joined by BAFTA award winning writer, Geoff Thompson. He is a highly regarded martial artist. He has a 7th Degree Black belt in Shotokan Karate along with a 1st Degree Black Belt in Judo. He worked as a night-club doorman for about 10 years in various clubs. He became a doorman to face and overcome his fear of violent confrontation. He has written fifty books, several multi-award-winning films, three stage plays and hundreds of articles, many published in national magazines and broadsheets. His work Romans 12:20, directed by the Shammasian Brothers has been adapted into a feature film, Romans, starring Orlando Bloom. A remarkable resume, and yet Geoff will tell you none of it matters, that it all pales into significance against the goal of winning one's will which he defines in the show and he takes us through his understanding of the power and true nature of forgiveness. In the Plus show we discuss how autonomy of will extends into what we consume in all forms and what we put out in terms of our behaviour. Geoff explains the importance of alignment of self, and the causal body in passionate detail. He asks us to confront the truth of our individual behaviour and take back our autonomy from the parasites that influence us. Show notes: https://www.instagram.com/geoff_thompson_official/ Keep in touch? https://linktr.ee/darraghmason Music by Obliqka https://soundcloud.com/obliqka

For episode #79 it is my great pleasure to welcome the author, visionary CEO and shaman (although he denies it) someone I’m very proud to call a friend; the Reverend Danny Nemu.   Danny’s background is in the history and philosophy of medicine from the University of Manchester. He first encountered ayahuasca when living in Japan. After six years drinking there with a Santo Daime group, he followed the trail back to its source in the Brazilian Amazon, where he was bitten by a sandfly, leading to a leishmaniasis infection. This highly aggressive bacterial parasite quickly colonised a few inches of his skin, with designs on much more, and proved to be a great teacher, providing ample opportunity to study firsthand the intricacies and potencies of ayahuasca as used as a medicine within the Daime worldview.  The process took eight months, involving diets and barks, many rituals, and daily consumption of the visionary brew. By the end of it he had lost 10 kilos and gained a deep respect for the complexity and intelligence of the natural world.   He has released two of his three books on the apocalypse and is two drafts into the third... The first book ‘Science Revealed - The apocalypse in science: discovery’, covers the biographies of scientists including Tesla and Einstein, and reveals how our most groundbreaking ideas result not from rational thinking and tapping on calculators, but from visions, dreams, feverish delirium, and other non-rational revelations. The second: ‘Neuro-Apocalypse’ is about veils arising in the course of cognition, and revelations that cut them down. To that end, we discuss the presence of visionary drug use in the bible, most notably Frankincense and Myrrh   He is the founder-CEO of Reforestation and Agroforestry charity RAIN: RAIN focuses the resources and intelligence of a distributed global network via local nodes into vitally important projects to regenerate degraded land.  In the Plus Show there is an extra hour, where we discuss apocalyptic waves, novelty, and what shamanism is and what it isn’t. A riveting and informed conversation thanks to Danny! Show notes: DONATE TO RAIN https://www.rainumbrella.org/support-rain http://nemusend.co.uk Neuro-Apocalypse https://www.amazon.co.uk/Neuro-Apocalypse-Danny-Nemu/dp/0992808820   Science Revealed https://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Revealed-Danny-Nemu/dp/1916266703/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=science+revealed&qid=1591647026&s=books&sr=1-1 Getting High with the most high https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/3/Special-Issue/article-p117.xml https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgn_ddrdHKI   Prejudice and Neo-colonialism in the Academic study of Ayahuasca https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhgdhz4W114   We Three Kings of Orient are https://psypressuk.com/2016/12/22/three-kings-orient-drug-runners-not-kings/   And then came the Virus https://medium.com/@RevNemu/and-then-came-the-virus-1-3-540bd4bc1159    Keep in touch? https://linktr.ee/darraghmason Music by Obliqka https://soundcloud.com/obliqka

For episode 78 we are joined once again by the great Aidan Wachter for a Spirit Box exclusive! This is his first interview on his new book, ‘Changeling: A book of Qualities’! "Changeling considers the craft as a vessel, a container for ideas and approaches that help clarify the path to sovereignty and effective practical magic. It looks at the qualities and practices that when integrated into a life can lead to a more beneficial understanding of self and the world. Changeling helps us to deftly navigate the complexities of having a meaningful praxis and seamlessly weave magic into the whole fabric of our life." In the show we go over his experience of writing the book, and how it affected Aidan more deeply than his previous outings. Aidan outlines how his previous books, 'Six Ways' and 'Weaving Fate' covered areas he had mastered, but this book has territories that he still is working on. We discuss how the process of transformation is constant, without end, and is not a linear journey... there are regressions and setbacks along the way. In the Plus show we discuss how power can be gentle but still produce cataclysmic changes, and the elemental qualities Aidan attributes to his collection of work. We also get into being in the moment, being present and having discernment in where you spend your time. Enjoy! Show notes: https://www.aidanwachter.com https://www.instagram.com/aidan.wachter/   Aidan's books on Amazon US Aidan's books on Amazon UK Keep in touch? https://linktr.ee/darraghmason Music by Obliqka https://soundcloud.com/obliqka

For episode #77 we are joined by Peter Mark Adams, Peter is a Scarlet Imprint, Inner Traditions & Corbel Stone Press author, poet, and essayist specialising in ethnographies of spirit, sacred landscapes, esotericism, consciousness, and healing.   Peter has a background in Philosophy and has undertaken advanced studies with the Warburg Institute, London. He is an Associate Member of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE) and a Member of the British Wittgenstein Society (BWS).   In today's show we discuss his life-changing initiation into Reiki and how this led him to a spirit-informed and scholarly study of the enigmatic Renaissance masterwork known as the Sola-Busca tarot.   In the Plus show, Peter recounts several of the entity and parasite attachment cases that he has dealt with in his career as an energy healer and gives his thoughts on the purpose of this type of event in one's life. Show notes: https://petermarkadams.com https://liverpool.academia.edu/PeterAdams https://www.paralibrum.com/reviews/mystai https://scarletimprint.com/peter-mark-adams https://www.youtube.com/user/thankgodsitsmonday Keep in touch? https://linktr.ee/darraghmason Music by Obliqka https://soundcloud.com/obliqka

Verónica Rivas (Melong Yeshe) is an Uruguayan author and researcher based in Brazil. Her cosmological and anthropological studies in magical practices among Eastern cultures led her to become interested in healing techniques.    When she became a Reiki Master, she started to research the possibilities of integrating Reiki techniques with other forms of energy work, using her academic training in Philosophy as an epistemological background. Verónica is also an initiated practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism (Esoteric Buddhism), focusing her practical work in the deity known as Kurukulla. Currently, her research is focused on female deities and spirits of the Vajrayana and Hindu traditions, and Maria de Padilla and her connection with Quimbanda.  In the Plus show we discuss spirit guidance in Veronica’s work and how that spirit communication manifests in her practice. Show notes: https://www.anathemapublishing.com/veronica-rivas https://melongyeshe.academia.edu https://occult-world.com/padilha-maria/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quimbanda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrayana Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spiritbox TWITTER - https://twitter.com/spiritbox3 SUPPORT - https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox PODCAST - https://anchor.fm/spirit-box Music by Obliqka

What do a Karst landscape, the Kentucky anomaly, a meat shower, and a mysterious cult have in common? They are linked by the strange and unexplained activity originating from the Pennyroyal Plateau, Kentucky and the subject matter of the superb Penny Royal Podcast.  Today we are joined by the creator and host Nathan Isaac as he takes us through the remarkable story he and his colleague uncovered as they created the show.  In the Plus show the Spook element in the area and what's coming up in Season 2.   Show Notes: http://www.pennyroyalpodcast.com https://www.instagram.com/pennyroyalpodcast/ https://www.patreon.com/PennyRoyal Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spiritbox TWITTER - https://twitter.com/spiritbox3 SUPPORT - https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox PODCAST - https://anchor.fm/spirit-box Music by Obliqka

For episode 74 we are joined by Tommie Kelly and Spud Murphy, the hosts of the “Tommie and Spud Talk About” podcast amongst many other things. In a very lighthearted show, we discuss, finding the divine in nature, and realities of foraging or growing your own food. We chat about folklore surrounding bloodletting on St Martin’s day, and the use of blood in magick. In the Plus show we get into personal relationships with deities, concepts of the afterlife and we talk about vegetables a bit more. Show notes: https://www.spudmurphy.net https://www.adventuresinwoowoo.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvhAf27ZdF9mGA1znaTQQEA Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spiritbox TWITTER - https://twitter.com/spiritbox3 SUPPORT - https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox PODCAST - https://anchor.fm/spirit-box Music by Obliqka

For episode 73 we’re joined by Wren Collier. Wren is a ritual magician and an avid scholar of the paranormal, having been obsessed from an early age with the anomalous and the occult. He is a skilled creator and maker, crafting beautiful magickal tools. He is also a keen gardener and mushroom cultivator and has created an online calculator utilizing the New Aeon English Qabalah. We talk creativity and magick and finding animism in one's garden and Wren’s remarkable Astral travel experiences and the importance of dreams. In the Plus show we discuss dreaming further and get into crypto-wizardry and technology more broadly, as Wren takes us through the creation of his New Aeon English Qabalah Cipher tool and his initial thoughts on the Hellier. Show notes: https://twitter.com/liminalbird https://www.naeq.io https://liminalroom.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changing_Light_at_Sandover https://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9781590208625 Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spiritbox TWITTER - https://twitter.com/spiritbox3 SUPPORT - https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox PODCAST - https://anchor.fm/spirit-box Music by Obliqka

Dr Maria Vivod is an Ethnologist and anthropologist from Serbia, with an interest in Visual Anthropology. Today we discuss the subject of one of her short documentary films and accompanying paper “The Fairy Seers of Eastern Serbia” The fairy-seers of Southeastern Europe are usually women who fall into trance through dancing on special days in a year and are able to communicate with women-like creatures from the supernatural world. During the process of communication with the fairies the fairy-seers can prophesy future events. The fairy-seers also bring messages to the living from the behalf of their deceased relatives. Similarly, they can give advice about how to heal an ill individual or they can proceed to the treatment of the ill individual after consulting the fairies. These illnesses are usually a form of a fairy-illness – a disorder which has its origins in a curse or a spell of the human-offended fairies. The subject of the film we discuss is Ivanka, she is a Vlach woman from eastern Serbia. She sees her ‘sisters’ since her early twenties and is able to communicate with them on three exact days of the Christian orthodox calendar: Epiphany, Palm Sunday, St.Peter's Day.  This trance was Ivanka's last. You can find a link to the film in the show notes. In the Patreon Plus show we discuss Dr Vivod’s own remarkable consultation with the Fairy Seer and the funeral rites of the Vlach people and the views of the relationship with spirits of the dead. Dr Vivod explains the process of curse removal through a process called ‘melting fear’ and an extraordinary rite called a ‘Black Wedding’ wherein the young who have passed before their time are symbolically married so they can wed on the other side. Show Notes: https://independent.academia.edu/MariaVivod https://www.academia.edu/video/lg4Vrk Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spiritbox TWITTER - https://twitter.com/spiritbox3 SUPPORT - https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox PODCAST - https://anchor.fm/spirit-box Music by Obliqka

For episode 71 we welcome Jason Miller. He has written five books including the now classic Protection and Reversal Magick and he teaches  a number of courses online including the Strategic Sorcery Training Course, The Black School of St Cyprian, and The Sorcery of Hekate. In his 20’s he was initiated into a Coven that worked Witchcraft along the lines of Mastering Witchcraft, joined the Ordo Templi Orientis, and the Chthonic Auranian Temple. In his  mid 20’s he took his  first Tantric initiation into Vajra kila ya. He devoted the next several years to the study of Tantra and Himalayan Magic in general. Eventually he moved to Nepal in 1999. In Nepal he spent a lot of time at the Cremation grounds of Pashupatinath meditating and on one occasion he got a glimpse inside a normally closed structure and saw an extraordinary sight, he had the presence of mind to take a photograph. You can see that photo here. In the Plus section we discuss the nature of the separation between the east and west thinking and whether it is actually that different. We also discuss the Phurba, the razor nail of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Bön, and Indian Vedic traditions and the remarkable origin of Jason’s relationship with Hekate. Show Notes: https://www.strategicsorcery.net https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My-w83GDNNw https://www.darraghmason.com/index/G0000pGwmgJT8Tyc  Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spiritbox TWITTER - https://twitter.com/spiritbox3 SUPPORT - https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox PODCAST - https://anchor.fm/spirit-box Music by Obliqka