Rune Soup

This week, Gary Lachman returns to the show to discuss his two latest books, Lost Knowledge of the Imagination and Dark Star Rising. In this wide-ranging chat we cover the Socratic Turn, how the west abandoned the imagination, how we might recover it and what happens in world politics if we pretend it isn't there. Very good stuff. Show Notes Lost Knowledge of the Imagination Dark Star Rising Gary's website Gary on Twitter Gary on Facebook

This week it is my extra special pleasure to be speaking with one of the co-originators of permaculture itself, David Holmgren. David is an author, educator, designer, activist and permaculturalist (obviously) with many decades experience. He joins us today to talk about his fantastic new project and accompanying book, Retrosuburbia, the details for which you will find in the show notes. Extremely good times. Show Notes Retrosuburbia website. Buy the Book: US, UK, AU Retrosuburbia on Facebook: Page, Group. Holmgren Design on Twitter. Note: There is extra material for this episode at the post page on runesoup.com

This month's solo show is my impressions and observations from spending last week out in the desert with a group of amazing people. It covers Aboriginal star lore, Songlines, the Dreaming and how we can think with and derive inspiration from indigenous lifeways. There are a bunch of photos from the trip on the post page at runesoup.com. Enjoy! Show Notes Photo Gallery of APY Lands The Tale of the Seven Sisters

This week, Dr Jack Hunter makes his return to the show. Jack is the author and/or editor of Talking With The Spirits, Strange Dimensions, Why People Believe in Spirits, Gods and Magic, Damned Facts and the recently published Engaging The Anomalous. He joins us for a fascinating chat about spirits, anthropology, ecology, animism, the limits of our modern frames in coming to terms with all these notions and a surprising detour into the state of permaculture. Enjoy. Show Notes Jack's latest book, Engaging the Anomalous. US. UK. Jack's website. One School, One Planet. Paranthropology Journal.

Something of a special episode this week. Julio Ody returns to the show for a vigorous discussion of the best depictions of spirits and the spirit world from a practitioner perspective on film and television. We spent the past week throwing titles back and forth to each other, compiling the list, striking some names and adding others. I had to break out my old DVD collection from storage and then find some way to actually play them. (There is at least one good thing about the modern world: the demise of DVDs with their auto-playing trailers, copyright warnings and animated menus.) Some of the category winners may surprise you almost as much as the exclusions. Great fun. Enjoy. Show Notes Announcement for Julio's new book, Magister Officiorum. Julio's Blog, Crossing Sun. Julio on Twitter.

This week we welcome Jason Louv to the show. Jason is an occultist, author and journalist. He joins us today to talk about his latest book, John Dee and the Empire of Angels. Along the way we cover the prevalence of magic in Elizabethan England, the influence of Enochian on the story of western ritual magic and the role of the extradimensional in world politics. Great stuff.  Show Notes John Dee and the Empire of Angels Jason's website Jason on Twitter Magick.me

Another solo show this week, and -fair warning- an intense one. But we need to talk about antiwar strategies as the war cycle continues its uptrend. Open up those liquor cabinets.

Dr Dean Radin joins us once again this week to talk about a topic near and dear to all our hearts, which also happens to be the title of his latest book: Real Magic. We cover NDE evidence, how one might conduct experiments to demonstrate the reality of spirits, strengths and shortcomings of scientific epistemology, tea, chocolate and goats. Great stuff. Do yourself a favour and check out the book. Show Notes Real Magic (US) (UK) (Au) Dr Radin's website Dr Radin on Twitter

The X-Files is, once again, over for good probably. Who better to unpack -and possibly redeem- the significance of the final series and stitch the whole corpus together than the syncosphere's x-iest polymath, Chris Knowles of The Secret Sun? Note: If you've not finished season 11, this show is pretty much 90 minutes of spoilers. If you have, it is 90 minutes of redeemers. Adjust accordingly.

This week we are speaking with Corinne Boyer. Based in the particularly green Pacific Northwest, Corinne is an writer, teacher and all around expert in folk herbalism and traditional plant lore. She joins us today to talk about her latest book, Plants of the Devil. We also chat poisons, edibles, science, naturopathy and the long term impact of fairy tales on kids. Nice one! Show Notes Corinne's website, Maple Mist Wood Plants of the Devil (US) (UK)