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This week, my Fortune's Fools cohost and Lenormand deck artist, Colin Alexander joins the show. Inevitably, we discuss fortune telling, and Madame Lenormand herself, as well as creativity, growing up weird in the 90s, comics and that other magical comic creator from the Glasgow area you may or may not have heard of. And, naturally, because we are launching a live video show in a couple of days, this one is best consumed on YouTube, but you can certainly download it here instead. One thing I keep forgetting to mention is that the Telegram group for Fortune's Fools is already up and kicking and you should definitely join us there. (Also in the Rune Soup one for main blog banter.) Show Notes Fortune's Fools Telegram group. Fortune's Fools Episode 0. Hit the bell icon so you know when we're live! Fortune's Fools main site. Colin's main site. Colin on Instagram.

Life coach, author, teacher, athlete and host of the Inspire Nation show, Michael Sandler is our guest this week. Michael joins us to discuss his latest book, AWE: The Automatic Writing Experience. Along the way, we also explore different forms of spirit contact, what it's like to have had two Near Death Experiences, the importance of ceremony, sweat lodges and -topic du jour for the premium members- angels and how to contact them. Quick note if you're listening to the audio version, this was in fact recorded as a video discussion. So if you like looking at people while they talk, this is one to watch on YouTube. Enjoy! Show Notes Get AWE: The Automatic Writing Experience, along with bonus material. Michael's podcast, Inspire Nation. Inspire Nation on YouTube. Michael's training programmes; Inspire Nation University.

Author, teacher, and Vedic Astrologer Freedom Cole joins us this week for a deep dive into the astrology of India and the Indian experience of what we call magic. Along the way we discuss yoga, Ayurveda, the chakras and how to save a farm from bushfires by summoning a dragon. Super fun chat. Show Notes Science of Light vol 1 and vol 2. Freedom's teaching site, Science of Light. Freedom's consultation site. Freedom's YouTube channel.

Artist, researcher and author Veda Austin joins us this week. She talks us through her healing journey with water, as well as some of the amazing artwork she creates from and with water. Along the way, we discuss what water actually is, that it is far stranger than we typically realise and the implications of living in a world which responds to our thoughts and emotions. Please note: This is a very visual episode, as Veda takes us through some of the art that informs her upcoming book, The Secret Intelligence of Water. You can certainly follow the discussion on the audio version but it is highly recommended you watch the show on YouTube. Show Notes Get The Secret Intelligence of Water. Veda's website. Veda on Instagram.

Artist, performer, musician, magician and teacher Bint Al-Shalabiya joins us this week. We talk about growing up Muslim in America in the 9/11 years, the importance of travel as a teacher, art, astrological and image magic, shared ayahuasca jungle encounters and the world of Islamic folk magic. Really great chat. Enjoy! Show Notes Bint's website. Bint's Patreon. Bint on Instagram. Upcoming Intro to Islamic Magic course.

This week, we welcome to the show Dr Paul Koudounaris, art historian, photographer, explorer and member of the order of good death. Paul is the author of multiple books including Empire of Death, Heavenly Bodies and, most recently, A Cat's Tale: A Journey Through Feline History, which he co-authored with his cat, Baba. Paul joins us today to talk about catacomb saints, death rites, the impact of cats on the development of civilisation and people who mine jade under the instruction of UFOs. Great stuff. Show Notes Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs. The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses. A Cat's Tale: A Journey Through Feline History. Live event with Paul and Baba hosted by Glen Eira libraries. Smithsonian article on A Cat's Tale. Paul on Instagram.

This week, we welcome back to the show good friend and one of our most popular returning guests, Langston Kahn. Langston is a shaman, educator and community leader. And now he can also add author to that list, because he joins us today on the occasion of the launch of his excellent first book, Deep Liberation: Shamanic Tools For Reclaiming Wholeness In A Culture Of Trauma. Show Notes Deep Liberation: Get the book. Langston's website. Free online book launch party and on January 19th. Langston's Energy Body Mastery Course.

This week, we welcome to the show Tania de Jong. Tania is a soprano, social entrepreneur, business woman, professional speaker and member of the Order of Australia among many other things. She has also founded several highly successful charities that have brought thousands of people together to heal through music and singing. Tania's most recent charity is Mind Medicine Australia, which is helping to bring psychedelics into the fields of mental health and social well being. A great chat for the first month of the year, and especially this first month of this specific year. Be sure to check out the show notes for a reminder that good things happen in the world, and good people live in it. This week's outro music is Angel Song by Tania de Jong AM. Show Notes Tania's website. Tania de Jong AM on Soundcloud. Tania's article, My Magic Medicine Journey. Mind Medicine Australia. List of webinars and events coming up from Mind Medicine Australia. Creativity Australia's With One Voice programme. Tania's TedX talk: How Singing Together Changes The Brain. Video highlights of the With One Voice programme.

Cometh the hour, cometh the traditional new year special guest! Conner Habib joins us once again for a 2020 retrospective and a deep and thoughtful engagement with 2021: Politics, health, agency, meaning, desire. All that great stuff. This was a livestreamed discussion so you can download the audio version here or watch along over on the YouTube channel. Enjoy! Show Notes Patreon for Conner's podcast, Against Everyone with Conner Habib. Conner on Twitter.

A brief solo show this month to finish up our accidental series on time with a practical technique you can use to move forward into 2021 with greater coherence and optimism. Have a wonderful Christmas and I will see you on January 2nd at 3pm New York time when we return with a live recording of Conner Habib and my traditional new year's episode. Click through to YouTube and hit the bell icon. (Members and patrons can join the call live.)

Cometh the hour, cometh the astrologer! This week, we welcome back Austin Coppock for a super-sized discussion of the first half of 2021, followed by a spirited Q&A session with the members and patrons who joined us. We also kick the show off with Rev. Danny Nemu who explains this year's decolonising Christmas fundraiser, which is for a Brazilian reforestation project with at least one twist. Enjoy! (Note: This is a video discussion. The replay is available at YouTube or runesoup.com) Show Notes Austin's website. Donate to RAIN. Buy amazing art from RAIN.

Another swapcast for you this week! With the amazing Kathryn Fink -coach, healer, magical practitioner and host of The Heart is a Cauldron. We talk about mythic time, breaking time, how time tries to break you, decolonisation and a return to right relation. Great stuff. Super fun conversation. Show Notes The Heart is a Cauldron podcast page. The Heart is a Cauldron on Patreon. Kathryn's coaching page. Kathryn on Instagram.

This week we welcome to the show Ryan Edward. Ryan is an artist, designer and deck creator. In fact he is responsible for one of my favourite Lenormand decks, the Maybe Lenormand. He joins us today to talk us through the process of deck creation, how design informs fortune telling function, the story of the Lenormand cards through time, the difference between divination and fortune telling and what it was like growing up in a funeral home. Super fun chat. Show Notes Get the Maybe Lenormand. Ryan's newsletter. Ryan on instagram.

This week, we are joined by artist and adventurer, Lucy Delics. Originally from England, Lucy has lived all over the world and currently lives in the Cusco area of the Peruvian Andes where she created The Visionary Path Tarot. Lucy joins us today to talk about finding one's creative voice, making art with plant medicines, healing personal and ancestral traumas and living in Peru. Great stuff! Show Notes Get The Visionary Path Tarot. Lucy and her husband's website and blog. Lucy on Instagram.

This week, adding to our growing number of triple-header interviews, we welcome back to the show Mitch Horowitz and welcome to the show for the first time Richard Smoley. Mitch, as regular listeners would be aware, is a public intellectual and occult historian with an expertise in New Thought. Richard is a writer, editor and public speaker specialising in esoteric thought. He is the author of numerous books including the classic (and one of my personal favourites) The Dice Game of Shiva. Mitch and Richard join us in this episode to explore the antecedents to New Thought, differing theories of mind and what is and isn't genuine skepticism. (Note that this is a video discussion on YouTube as well.) Show Notes Mitch's article for Boing Boing on James Randi. Mitch's website. Mitch on Twitter. Richard's website.

This week we are joined by philosopher, professor and speaker, Matt Segall. We discuss Platonism vs Neoplatonism, theories of mind and the natural world, and how it is we can or might know anything at all. A really rich and thought-provoking conversation. Show Notes Matt's website, Footnotes to Plato. Matt's YouTube channel. Matt on Twitter.

This week, we welcome to the show Dr Bayo Akomolafe. Bayo is a psychologist, educator and philosopher working and playing principally in the fields of decoloniality and ecology. He joins us today for a very special episode to celebrate the culmination of the premium member course on Custodianship, to talk about making sanctuary, fugitive spaces and post activism. "What if the way we respond to crisis is part of the crisis?" Show Notes Bayo Akomolafe's website. Bayo's essay, The Allegory of the Pit or The Irony of Victory. The Emergence Network. Interview with Bayo: Let Us Make Sanctuary. Interview with Bayo: Unlearning Mastery.

Another swapcast this week, with the lovely Joanna Farrer of Coffee and Divination. We talk to each other about our shared love of tarot: where it began, when it began, best approaches, that sort of thing. And we also talk about homesteading and navigating right relation with both land and home spirits. Two of my very favourite things. Oh, and if you're reading this in your podcatcher, I should tell you we did this as a video recording. Show Notes Coffee and Divination. Joanna Farrer's personal and music site. Joanna on Twitter.

The one and only Khi Armand returns to the show this week with some medicine for our extremely challenging times. What lessons are we being invited to learn? What sort of healing might be available in this moment and no other? What kinds of Ceremony are best for now? Really good stuff. Also some travel stories and 30 Rock. Because that totally counts as being with this moment. Show Notes Chiron's blog and website, Impact Shamanism. Chiron on Twitter. Chiron on Instagram. Chiron's Amazon author page.

An unusual solo show this week. We have an introduction from me and then it's a recording of a classic Michael Parenti lecture, Conspiracy and Class Power, which you can also find in the show notes. Speaking of show notes, they're rather extensive everywhere but YouTube, and best found at the actual post page. Show Notes Firstly, the rest of the 'series' in which this show would reside, were it a post. How you play is what you win. Hypostasis of the farmers. The nightingale of eternal meaning. Alien invasion as self care. Medicine songs. Talking The Invisibles. Secondly, the Parenti lecture, its inspiring TMBS clip, and a bit from Ben Burgis on populism and liberal scolds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsua0m6GreY&feature=emb_title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8OeVaydBJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EEP7hsrC58 Next is a quotation from the blog draft that won't see the light of day, followed by links to what I consider three very useful posts from the rebooted archonology series a few years back: Jupiter is still in Capricorn. One way of being with this is to see him as a teacher of hard truths. The other side of that is that you are or should be learning just what it takes to run the world. To administer the physical plane. To see how the sausages are made and what they are made of. The great teacher has shined a light and I worry that some of you shut your eyes. Open them, please. This is very serious now. If you would like to understand who is 'behind' this in large part. Call them the Anglo-Americans, the Atlanticists, the dollar syndicate, Mr Global. Who cares? It is the interlocked shelob's web of supranational organisations and think tanks that evolved out of the Round Table model. Call them the Davos class. Then you need to understand both how and why they run the world the way they do. And that's here with Miles Copeland. And finally -doing triple duty as a Rune Soup recommendation by also being a limited hangout, and written by a shaman- you need to see how the syndicate uses economics to have entire countries do what they say. (This is the system Russia and China are doing their best to extricate themselves from for obvious reasons.) Next is Charles Eisenstein, and an excerpt from his conspiracy essay. "Conspiracy theory" has become a term of political invective, used to disparage any view that diverges from mainstream beliefs. Basically, any critique of dominant institutions can be smeared as conspiracy theory. There is actually a perverse truth in this smear. For example, if you believe that glyphosate is actually dangerous to human and ecological health, then you also must, if you are logical, believe that Bayer/Monsanto is suppressing or ignoring that information, and you must also believe that the government, media, and scientific establishment are to some extent complicit in that suppression. Otherwise, why are we not seeing NYT headlines like, "Monsanto whistleblower reveals dangers of glyphosate"? Information suppression can happen without deliberate orchestration. Throughout history, hysterias, intellectual fads, and mass delusions have come and gone spontaneously. This is more mysterious than the easy conspiracy explanation admits. An unconscious coordination of action can look very much like a conspiracy, and the boundary between the two is blurry. Consider the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) fraud that served as a pretext for the invasion of Iraq. Maybe there were people in the Bush administration who knowingly used the phony "yellowcake" document to call for war; maybe they just wanted very much to believe the documents were genuine, or maybe they thought, "Well, this is questionable but Saddam must have WMD, and even if he doesn't, he wants them, so the document is basically true…" People easily believe what serves their interests or fits their existing worldview. In a similar vein, the media needed little encouragement to start beating the war drums. They knew what to do already, without having to receive instructions. I don't think very many journalists actually believed the WMD lie. They pretended to believe, because subconsciously, they knew that was the establishment narrative. That was what would get them recognized as serious journalists. That's what would give them access to power. That is what would allow them to keep their jobs and advance their careers. But most of all, they pretended to believe because everyone else was pretending to believe. It is hard to go against the zeitgeist. The British scientist Rupert Sheldrake told me about a talk he gave to a group of scientists who were working on animal behaviour at a prestigious British University. He was talking about his research on dogs that know when their owners are coming home, and other telepathic phenomena in domestic animals. The talk was received with a kind of polite silence. But in the following tea break all six of the senior scientists who were present at the seminar came to him one by one, and when

This week, we continue to play with some novel show formats. I am joined by three of the conveners of the upcoming Nura Learning course, Cohering the Radical Present: Integral Consciousness in Daily Life. We have two first time guests: Dr Barbara Karlsen, a practising somatic psychotherapist and continuum movement instructor. Jeremy Johnson, founder of Nura Learning, author and president of the International Jean Gebser Society. And one returning guest: Brandt Stickley, practitioner and professor of Classical Chinese medicine at multiple academic institutions and senior instructor and board member of Dragon Rises seminars. The subjects under discussion today fall entirely under staying with the trouble: how to, why to, and who best to show us. Really good, important stuff. Show Notes Cohering the Radical Present: Integral Consciousness in Daily Life. Barbara Karlsen. Jeremy Johnson Jeremy on Patreon. Jeremy on Twitter. Jeremy's book, Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness. Brandt Stickley Brandt's website and blog. Brandt on Twitter.

Keeping the swapcast train rolling this week, we are joined by author and fellow podcaster (obviously), J. David Osborne. David is the author of multiple novels and is a fellow superfan of Grant Morrison's The Invisibles. Who better, then, to talk about the series' heightened value in These Capitalised Times, as well as the role of creativity in responding to and thriving in eras of unrest? A super enjoyable conversation! Show Notes Listen to The JDO Show and No Country here. Follow J. David Osborne on Twitter here. J. David Osborne's novels: By The Time We Leave Here, We'll Be Friends. Black Gum. A Minor Storm.

Something a little different this week. I am both the guest and the host in today on today's episode. And fellow podcaster, James from Hermitix, is himself both guest and host. We talk about and through accelerationism, the state of various discourses, what to do when doing anything makes everything worse, where (and how?) to find meaning in These Capitalised Times and whether or not an exit is even possible. Show Notes Hermitix Podcast. Hermitix on Patreon. James on Twitter. James's course, taught in conjunction with Matt Colquhoun, The Philosophy and Politics of Accelerationism.

Trying something a little different with this month's solo show. We're putting a couple of 20th century American thinkers in dialogue around the topic of stories, meaning and what makes a life significant. Show Notes The Myth of Redemptive Violence. Walter Wink. What Makes A Life Significant. William James.

Thought leader, speaker and innovator, Carol Sanford, joins the show this week. We discuss indigenous thinking, metaphor, and her latest book, The Regenerative Life: Transform Any Organization, Our Society, and Your Destiny. A fascinating and eye-opening discussion. Show Notes The Regenerative Life: Transform Any Organization, Our Society, and Your Destiny. Carol's website. Carol's articles on Medium. Carol's first appearance on Making Permaculture Stronger. Carol's second appearance on Making Permaculture Stronger.

One of our most popular guests returns to the show this week. Mitch is an historian, speaker, public intellectual, editor and author. He joins us today to talk about his latest book, The Miracle Habits: The Secret of Turning Your Moments Into Miracles. We talk about focus, vitality, how best to use money and the destructive power of gossip among many other topics. There's even a bit about Tucker Carlson. Enjoy. Show Notes The Miracle Habits: The Secret of Turning Your Moments Into Miracles. Mitch's website. Mitch on Twitter. Mitch on Instagram.

Time Magazine's Hero of the Environment and Green Book Award winner, Michael Shellenberger, joins the show this week. Michael has been an environmental activist since his teens. He founded an Amnesty International chapter at his high school, he travelled to Nicaragua to support the Sandinistas in the 80s, he ran for governor of California, he has published multiple books and founded and runs Environmental Progress. Michael is one of the world's leading public intellectuals when it comes to clean energy and he joins us today to talk about his latest book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All. Show Notes Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All. Michael's open letter, On Behalf of Environmentalists, I Apologize for the Climate Scare. Accompanying slides for Apocalypse Never.

Talking about talking is less Seinfeldian than it might initially appear. Everyone's favourite Canadian scamps join the show to talk about their journey with Grimerica and what's it like to be broadcasting now, versus at the outset. Obviously we get into the speculative weeds of what's going on and what we can do about it on a group but also individual level. We literally discuss discussing. We also talk about chickens, UFOs, guns and dinosaurs being shot at with lasers from flying saucers. There's a lot going on here, put it that way. Enjoy. Show Notes Grimerica. Grimerica on Twitter. (This is Darren, specifically.)

The one and only Dr Joseph P. Farrell joins us this week! Dr Farrell publishes and speaks in a wide variety of topics, from ufology to alternate history to politics to theology. On the occasion of the publication of his latest book, The Tower of Babel Moment, we have a wide ranging chat on some of the subjects that underpin his many interests: Music, linguistics, magic as harmonics, and what our relationship to culture is and our role within it. Enjoy! Show Notes The Tower of Babel Moment. Dr Farrell's blog and website. Dr Farrell's YouTube channel.

It's that time of year again! The one and only Austin Coppock joins us to talk about the astrology of the second half of all *this*. We discuss the most important configurations to be aware of, and situate them in some of the longer trends and cycles that are playing out, then we have a lively Q&A with members and patrons.

The one and only Alex Tzakiris joins us this week for an extended and challenging discussion on the nature of evil. Alex is in the process of writing a book on the subject, pulling together the testimony and opinions of multiple guests on his excellent podcast, Skeptiko. What does psi data tell us about the possible existence of evil? What about cross-cultural comparisons? We have a frank and challenging discussion. This is a firecracker of an episode. Or maybe I just smell brimstone? Show Notes Preorder Alex's book, Why Evil Matters: How Science and Religion Fumbled a Big One. Alex's site and podcast, Skeptiko.

This week, we welcome to the show Brandt Stickley. Brandt is, among other things, Assistant Professor in the College of Classical Chinese Medicine, Visiting Professor at Dragon rises College of Oriental Medicine, acupuncturist, herbalist and a Classical Chinese Medical practitioner working in the Portland area. He joins us today to talk about Classical Chinese medicine, of course, but in the particular context of what insights it might provide for more holistic, spirit-inclusive healing modalities in general. A fascinating and timely discussion. Enjoy! Show Notes Brandt's website and blog. Brandt on Twitter. The Medicine Songs discussion mentioned in the episode.

Writer, musician and researcher Joshua Cutchin returns to the show along with first-time guest and host of the excellent Strange Familiars podcast, Timothy Renner. Joshua and Timothy are co-authors of the recently released Where The Footprints End: High Strangeness and the Bigfoot Phenomenon volume 1. And so they join us today to talk about the book's elusive and enigmatic subject, Bigfoot. Enjoy. Show Notes Where The Footprints End: High Strangeness and the Bigfoot Phenomenon volume 1. Joshua's website. Strange Familiars, Timothy's podcast and website.

Glastonbury's best bard and psychogeographer, Paul Weston, returns to the show to update us on his synchromystic adventures. This episode is a bit of a special one as it serves as the isolation-era launch of his latest book, History and Myth: Boris Johnson, Henry VIIIth, Extinction Rebellion, Plague & The Return of the Middle Ages. And even more special than that, the book owes its existence in many respects to his last appearance on the podcast and the feedback it generated among the listenership. So if people ask you what you did with your lockdown you can tell them you actually did co-author a book. Albeit accidentally. Enjoy! Show Notes Paul's latest book, History and Myth: Boris Johnson, Henry VIIIth, Extinction Rebellion, Plague & The Return of the Middle Ages. Paul's website. Paul's blog. Paul's YouTube channel. Paul on Twitter.

Artist, ritualist and clothing designer, Katie Martin joins us this week for a bumper episode. Katie accompanied me on an ayahuasca dieta in the jungle last year, so the story weaves in and around spirit-based healing methods; the difference between costume and ritual garments; the function and power of performance, how you can use ritual thinking with your own clothing; as a thorough look at how magically operant people can respond to serious health diagnoses. Super, super fun. Show Notes Katie's site, Lo Monte. Lo Monte on Instagram. Lo Monte Vintage on Instagram. Lo Monte Vintage on Etsy. Information on Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder.

Super fun video chat with the legendary Miguel Conner of Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio. We discuss what constitutes cyberpunk, it's origins, influences and many gnostic parallels. Then we run through a top 10 cyberpunk films -carefully selected for our current apocalypse- and then we field some questions from the premium members and patrons who followed along live. This is the audio of a video conversation you can find on YouTube or at Rune Soup, should you wish for some visual. Enjoy! Show Notes Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio. Miguel on Twitter. Miguel on Patreon.

Professional photographer and author, Darragh Mason Field, joins us this week to talk about travel, adventure and creativity. Along the way we discussion Göbekli Tepe, the Djinn, Harran and seeing your own familiar places with new eyes. Visit runesoup.com for further examples of Darragh's work discussed in this episode. Show Notes Darragh's website. Darragh on Twitter. Darragh on Instagram. Spirit Box Podcast. City of Djinn presentation. The Aghori presentation.

This week we are speaking to the co-host of one of my very favourite podcasts, Bad Gays. Author, Huw Lemmey, joins us to talk about the importance of history, what it tells us, what it doesn't tell us, and how notions such as homosexuality change over time. Very cool stuff. Check it out. Show Notes Bad Gays Podcast. Bad Gays Podcast Patreon. Huw on Substack. Huw on Twitter.

In the last of the in-person London recordings, we welcome the one and only Gary Lachman back to the show. This time, we deep dive on Jung as a person and then attempt to parse his most important ideas. In many respects, today's show turned out to be extra-timely. Now, more than ever, we require an urgent inward turn. Enjoy! (You will also find just the video discussion at runesoup.com.) Show Notes Gary's website. Gary on Twitter.

The one and only Peter Jenkins returns to the show on the occasion of the release of the third and final book in his Thai occultism saga, The Thai Occult Appendix. In this episode we talk more about spirit houses and why you should think twice about installing them, angels in Thai occultism, Thai astrology, cave spirits and the Thai animist version of the story of a wacky billionaire and some trapped school boys. Very good stuff. Enjoy! Show Notes The Thai Occult website. The Thai Occult Books on Facebook. Note: There are images from the book available at the post page at runesoup.com

This week, we sit down in-person with medieval historian, author and public speaker, Christina Oakley Harrington. Christina is the proprietor of the world-famous Treadwell's Books in London so, of course, we talk about magic books and the role of the bookstore in the twenty first century. We also talk about growing up amongst African and Southeast Asian spirit customs, mystic medieval women, Gardnerian witchcraft and a lot more. Enjoy! Show Notes Treadwell's Books. Treadwell's on Twitter. Treadwell's on Instagram. Video introduction to Treadwell's.

A very special solo show this week, talking about pattern logic and cycle models. Not much to share in terms of show notes, but the post page at Rune Soup has some additional images.

This week, we welcome to the show philosopher and public intellectual, Charles Eisenstein. Charles is the author of a number of important books including Sacred Economics and The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible. He joins us today to talk about his most recent book, Climate: A New Story. Along the way we tackle many challenging and thorny topics, such as solutionism, polarisation, despair and how to best think with our ecological crisis so that we may return to flourishing. Excellent stuff. Show Notes Charles's book, Climate: A New Story. Charles's website. What If We Survive?

This week we welcome to the show speaker, educator, lawyer, anthropologist, activist and Bardi woman, Munya Andrews. Munya joins us for an exploration of the concepts in her book, Journey into Dreamtime, as well as related notions in ecology, politics and philosophy. Excellent stuff! Show Notes Munya's website, Evolve Communities. Munya's book, Journey into Dreamtime. Munya's webinar on The Dreamtime.

Dr Al Cummins returns to the show to talk about his upcoming publication, An Excellent Booke of the Arte of Magick -a 16th century English grimoire written by colonial explorers and navigators, Sir Humphrey Gilbert and John Davis. Along the way we talk necromancy, spirits and Empire, and scrying. A superb chat. Show Notes Preorder page for An Excellent Booke. Al's website. Al's Instagram.

Cognitive science researcher, Vince Polito, joins us this week to speak about microdosing, psychedelics in a clinical setting, and the direction and implications of this sort of work for our understanding of the human mind. School is in! Except this time I am paying attention. Show Notes Vince's website. Vince on Twitter. Vince's microdosing study. Classic psychedelics: An integrative review of epidemiology, therapeutics, mystical experience, and brain network function. And finally, Gordon's upcoming London events: Avenging Angels, with Peter and Alkistis from Scarlet Imprint. March 15th. Tamesis Retrograde: An all-day animism, journeying and decolonisation workshop. March 16th.

The one and only Conner Habib returns for our traditional New Years discussion. Necromancy, witchcraft and whiteness, manufactured outrage, dialectical materialism and how to free yourself from the clutches of neoliberalism. Just what the time of year called for! Show Notes Conner on Patreon. Conner on Twitter. Lynn Margulis episode of Against Everyone.

For our Christmastide special, José Leitão returns to the show. He joins us to talk about the imminent release of his latest book, Opuscula Cypriani, folk magic and witchcraft in Portugal, and all things St Cyprian. Splendid stuff. Show Notes Preorder Opuscula Cypriani. José on Patreon. José on Academia. José's presentation in Kiev.

This week, we have a very special (emergency?) edition of Storytime with Paul. Glastonbury psychogeographer extraordinaire, Paul Weston, returns to the show to talk through some of the mythic, archetypal and historic resonances to the recent British election and the looming inevitability of Brexit. Great stuff, as ever. Show Notes Paul's website and tours. Paul's YouTube channel. Paul on Twitter.

It's that time of half-year again! This is the audio-only version of the H1 2020 live video forecast. You can also watch the replay and/or donate to the Christmas fundraiser here. Enjoy!