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Oct 31, 2025

Lucifer: Praxis! 

 

Peter Grey joins the show once again to talk about his explosive new book. We explore who the being of Lucifer is, his relationship to western magic, western magicians' relationships to him and how the current of liberty, individualism and legitimate rebellion have shaped centuries of culture.

 

An...


Oct 6, 2025

Synchromystic raconteur, author, and pattern seeker Christopher Knowles returns to the show, as well as the wheelhouse, for this one.

Not that we would ever need one, but the flimsy excuse for Chris coming back this time is so that we can discuss his amazing new book, XF-ULTRA: The X-Files, Conspiracy Culture, and the...


Sep 24, 2025

In this episode, Dr Radin returns to the show to talk to us about his amazing new book, The Science of Magic.

We look at

  • Meta-analyses with trillion-to-one odds.

  • Hotel poltergeists that target specific researchers.

  • Spoons that bend without force.

  • Sigils. Always, always sigils.

Radin explains why materialist...


Sep 16, 2025

Filmmaker Richard Stanley joins us to unpack his incredible book "Otto Rahn: Grail Hunter" - the true story of a gay Jewish medievalist who became the SS's chief grail hunter in Nazi Germany.

We explore Stanley's own supernatural experiences on Montségur (getting trapped by lightning), the brutal genocide of the...


Sep 4, 2025

Vanese McNeill, co-producer of the Magical Egypt series, returns to the show. In this episode, we explore the hows and possible whys of spirit involvement in history, from the super-elite level down to the everyday. And also across to some of the sillier claims about AI floating in the air like so many plasma...