Rune Soup

We're trialling a new format this week, as I am in the Bay of Fires for work. A visit to a beer-drinking pig inspired some ruminations on how and why we connect as this idiotic, digital hellscape bui…

This week, we welcome to the show Mexican-Bolivian-Chilean healer, Red Path shaman and teacher Julián Katari.

Fun fact about Julián: He was my translator for my recent trip up to stay with the Kallaw…

Witch, author, biochemist and oriental medicine specialist, Maja D'Aoust, joins us to discuss Time Magic and the I Ching.

We explore:

• The impact childhood illness can have on the practice of magic.
• …

The dynamic duo behind Weird Studies, Phil Ford and J F Martel, join the show to explore the ways in which art is a form of evocation.

We look at:

• Orson Welles as divine shamanic faker.
• Hollywood's …

Media theorist and internet legend Douglas Rushkoff joins the show this week.

We explore:

• Is there even such a thing as 'media' anymore?
• The promises and (many) failings of the tech world.
• UBIs, dig…

Two contemporary deck creators, Balthazar Blacke and Natalia Lee, join the show this week for a round table on fortune telling and the role oracle cards specifically should have in your cartomantic p…

Legendary cultural curator, media theorist and provocateur Richard Metzger joins the show this week.

Richard, of course, co-founded The Disinformation Company, founded Dangerous Minds and has spent d…

This week's solo show forms part of a collection of observations lining us up for the beginning of the five-month, gargantuan Time Magic course we're starting in August.

Here, we explore the quiet po…

Chance Gardner and Vanese McNeil, producers of the legendary documentary series Magical Egypt, join the show this week.

We discuss

• Getting history right and wrong.
• The legacy of John Anthony West …

Six moons have passed and so the Council of the Wise was summoned once again. Also I was there.

Austin Coppock returns to the show for the traditional half-yearly forecast. Join us as we talk about…

The legendary Christopher Knowles of the Secret Sun joins us this week to explain how to be a synchromystic. We learn

✅ What is synchronicity? ✅ What role synchronicity plays in modern mysticism. ✅ T…

Gregory Shaw, Professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College, joins the show to discuss, theurgy, the work of Iamblichus, and how we have probably got the Neoplatonists' attitude to the body qui…

Let's make the most of my jet lag and jump right back into regular live streams the morning after I arrive back on the farm!

In this episode, we discuss

• How and why Wade Davis is my hero.
• The …

Hadean Press's Erzebet Barthold returns to the show this week, on the occasion of the release of Cyprian's Offices of the Spirits -the posthumously published final volume in Jake Stratton-Kent's Nigh…

Coming to you from the shores of Lake Titicaca! Some lessons on how to get good at magic, specifically sigil magic, learned on the road in Bolivia.

The short answer is your first hundred sigils will …

Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio's Miguel Conner returns to the show this week for an in-depth unpacking of claims made by Jordan Peterson, James Lindsay and others in the online Right that Marxism is actuall…

This week's episode is an installment in the long-running World Without Sin series, examining how we respond to monolithic media and how not every outsider is a plucky freedom fighter.

We also loo…

Hello from the road!

Just wanted to get out a little solo show of what I have been up to, which also morphed into how to deal with foreseen rather than unforeseen dramas.

We also cover some updates o…

You may recall that Angie from Angie Speaks guested on the podcast last year. Well, she graciously invited me on a show she co-hosts, Mystic and the Machine, where we have a good ol' chat about UFOs…

Here we are in 2024, eh?

And it’s off to a bang for people starting on the #SigilADay2024 Project and, to a lesser extent, Japan Airlines.

In this solo show, we cover:

• Locating your intentions and g…