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The one and only Gary Lachman returns to the show this week. And the topics of the hour are dreams and time: precognition, sacred time, time slips, machine time and what even am dreams in the first place? Definite food for thought here. Always a pleasure! Show Notes Gary's latest book, Dreaming Ahead of Time. Gary's website.

Wait a minute. Gordon of all people is giving advice about what now? Relax. I truly would never dream of it. Think of it more like Advice To A Young Wife From An Old Mistress. It's a dramatic frame that allows us to explore ways of being with this moment that -oh, just a thought- don't contribute to a field of war that brings everyone closer to nuclear annihilation while somehow assuming doing so gives you the moral high ground. So it's not actually (just?) for professional astrologers and other fortune tellers. It's for any of you looking around at the entire planet losing its mind and working out what role -in your profession, in your family, in your friendship group, in your communities- you are being called to step into. It's my offering to you, delivered in the form of a presentation given to a strictly hypothetical group of professional astrologers. Yeah, it's long. I mention at the beginning that the personal reason for sharing this is a healing one, around finding transformative ways of being with anger and defence. It may be challenging to watch or listen to for some of you. Healthy anger is a useful warning that situations or people are approaching important boundaries (physical or otherwise). And it is not that it means these boundaries must never be crossed or must always be defended. Anger simply calls you to an urgent awareness that boundary business is afoot. For instance, being wrong about something or some position you have taken in which you have invested a lot of emotional energy. When someone points this out or when you begin to realise it yourself, the anger signal is there. But this is probably one instance where you allow that signal to draw your attention to the boundary and, rather than defending it, allow that pent up energy to dissipate across it. I sincerely hope you come to your own understanding of the sentiment in which this presentation is offered, why it is offered at this time, as well as my intention that you find whatever medicine is meant for you in it. Note: This is a video presentation with slides and such. It is only available on Rumble. Though it will still work fine as an audio offering if that is what you prefer. Show Notes War and the Hyperreal. Rhyd Wildermuth. Tears for Ukraine, Sanctions for Russia, Yawns for Yemen, Arms for Saudis: The West’s Grotesque Double Standard. The Overton Window Is Being Shoved Toward Warmongering Extremism. Caitlin Johnstone. Defending Freedom And Democracy Sure Requires An Awful Lot of Censorship. Caitlin Johnstone. The Field of Peace. Charles Eisenstein. Bunny Rabbits and the Big Bad Wolf: Ukraine and Russia through the lens of Western reporting. Gilbert Doctorow. The Tom Woods Show episode I truly hope you watch. Ukraine Neo-Nazis Infiltrate EVERY LEVEL Of Military & Government. Jimmy Dore. Ukraine War Driving Rampant Censorship At Home. Jimmy Dore. There's More To This. Russell Brand.

Everyone's favourite expat druid and substacker, Rhyd Wildermuth, returns to the show this week. His latest book, Being Pagan: A Guide To Re-Enchant Your Life, forms the through-line of a wide ranging discussion on beingness, paganism, embodiment and the general state of the world. Electrifying stuff, as ever. Enjoy! Show Notes Rhyd's latest book. Rhyd's substack. Rhyd's website.

Everyone's favourite Swedish polymath returns to the show for a discussion about the Black Pope, Anton LaVey, himself. This is on the occasion of the release of Carl's latest book, Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan. It's the biography LaVey boths needs and deserves. So we talk a little bit about his life but mostly we examine his legacy, what he might think of today's cancel culture and whether or not the ol' devil has got his dues yet. It's a great chat and had both Carl and I reminiscing about our own wayward youths. Enjoy! Show Notes Get the book here. (It's also available as an audiobook.) Follow Carl's work here. Trapart Publishing.

Here is the next of the free or publicly available modules of the latest premium member course, Protection and Malefica. It is a discussion on morality frameworks and how, when and we we might magically intervene. The one and only Peter Grey of Scarlet Imprint joins us for a deep dive on one of Jack Parsons's most important texts, We Are The Witchcraft. This is a video discussion with slides and such, but if you would prefer to listen to it like a normal podcast, this audio version is eminently followable. Extra Material Download a PDF of We Are The Witchcraft. Peter Grey reading We Are The Witchcraft.  

The one(s) and only(s) Miguel Conner of Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio and Chris Knowles of The Secret Sun join the show this week for a discussion of all things astro-gnostic. We discuss the true antiquity and use of star lore, stars in the Bible, gnostics in history as well as a gnostic study of history as well as which components of gnosticism may or may not be universal. This chat was arranged in honour of a conference that Miguel is arranging that Chris and I will both be speaking at next month (March 20 - 22) in Playa del Carmen called the Astro Gnostic Conference. We discuss the event during the show and you can find out more, including details on tickets, accommodation and excursions in the show notes. Show Notes The Astro Gnosis Conference website. The Secret Sun. Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio.

This week, we welcome to the show astrologer, philosopher and shamanic practitioner, Michael Ofek. Michael and I have a great chat about topics very near and dear to our hearts: star lore, star magic, and the true antiquity of what we can broadly call astrology, or perhaps coming into relation with Sky Country. Along the way, we also talk about the metaphysics of light, the shamanic origins of Greek and European civilisation, hag attacks and spontaneous OBEs. Good times! (Note: This is a repost as there was an error with the file. This is another live video episode so if you would prefer to watch it rather than listen, jump over to YouTube or Odysee.) Show Notes Michael's website and upcoming course. Book a reading with Michael. Michael's Facebook page.

This week we complete our revisitation of classic blog post series from back in the day. And we have saved my favourite for last: Apocalypse Pharmaka. It’s my favourite for a bunch of reasons that I explain in the episode. But, basically, the contested landscape of medicine and power and the body is where the witch and the cunning person has always lived. (Not that you’d know it from looking around in the past couple of years, although the shrillness is mercifully receding.) So if you want to say you are a participant in the ‘western’ understanding of magic or witchcraft in any capacity and have the people around you keep a straight face, one way or the other you need to ‘come to terms’ -in the animist sense- with this contested landscape that is our homeland. It really is as simple as that. Of course -and this is pretty much the whole point- we have all been pushed off these homelands over the past two years and into both literal and metaphoric quarantine camps. Which is to say these discussions are even more fraught than at the time I wrote the series. So you won’t find this episode on YouTube. You can listen to the audio version as per usual, or you can watch along on Odysee or Rumble. Enjoy! Show Notes The Apocalypse Pharmaka series.

Researcher, energy healer and fellow Scarlet Imprint author, Peter Mark Adams, returns to the show this week. We discuss his book, The Power of the Healing Field. We also have a fantastic chat about what the field even am, and why it is an idea and framework whose time has come. We explore various energy-based healing modalities and pause to consider that we should not even be using the word 'alternative' for such disciplines, as the majority of the population of the planet incorporates them into standard medical practice. It is us in the west who are the 'alternative'. Excellent stuff, and a great discussion to for the first month of the year! (Note: This episode was first livestreamed on YouTube, should you wish to watch it instead.) Show Notes Get The Power of the Healing Field. Peter's website. Mind Connection Healing.

We begin the new year with the traditional podcast catch-up with Conner Habib. This time around we explore the full cosmic significance of the heart, the metaphysics of blood and blood sacrifice and then spend a lot of time with the notion of prophecy: What it is, what it isn’t, which medicines it holds, what it says about time and what it can say about our moment. Then we turn to 2022 and thrash out some frameworks for sin, trauma and forgiveness. A splendid start to the year! Show Notes Conner on Patreon. Conner on Twitter.