Rune Soup

This week we talk to the wondrous Geraldine Beskin of the world famous Atlantis Bookshop.

Our freewheeling chat, conducted in the Gerald Gardner room of the shop, covers magical London, the Victorian…

Oh, but I was looking forward to this one. I've read a lot of Dr Kripal's previous work and the Super Natural seems perfectly timed to coincide with Star.Ships... other hands on the same elephant and…

Raj and I have a good ol' chat about narrative, psychology, spirit contact, London, the role of art and plenty move.

Plus I got to nerd out about the X-Files with someone far more knowledgeable than …

In this week's episode we talk to the queen of encyclopedias herself, Judika Illes.

Naturally the conversation roams across spells, magical advice, writing careers and tarot... so very much tarot.

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We talk to the one and only Ramsey Dukes (Lionel Snell) about his magical career, publishing, Austin Spare, the British magical renaissance, the rise of chaos magic and just life in general.

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On this episode we are joined by author, speaker and researcher, Chris Aubeck, to talk about his new book 'Return to Magonia', as well as Ufology and mythology in general. Good times.

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This week I speak to the one and only Alex Tsakiris from the powerhouse podcast, Skeptiko. The show has been regularly namechecked at Rune Soup for years so it was a real personal pleasure to get som…

In this episode we talk to author, alchemist and Palero, Chris Bradford. We cover Hawaii, island spirits and ghost stories, chaos magic in the 90s, spirit kingship, palo, spirit medicine, the interp…

In this week’s episode we talk to esoteric author and Rock N Roll Hall of Fame musician, Gary Lachman about his excellent new book, Secret Teachers of the Western World. We also cover Hermeticism, Ne…

In this bumper episode, we talk to The Secret Sun’s Christopher Knowles about the Nine, Esalen, elite belief systems, alien cargo cults, Star Trek, tarot, psychogeography and what may or may not be c…

We talk to noted Fortean journalist and former professional combat magician, Cat Vincent about his life and adventures.

Topics include urban magic, sci fi fandom, Forteana, comics, Neil Gaiman, Sle…

Dr Cummins, occult historian extraordinaire, talks grimoires and the story of the western magical tradition.

We also discuss living in New York, studying under Professor Hutton and magic's relationsh…

On this episode we talk to Sarah Lawless about witchcraft, herbalism, animism, working with your ancestors, working with plant spirits and a whole lot more.... including when and how to drop the C bo…