The Esoteric Book Club

This conversation starts with the question of whether a person can haunt themselves and then wanders off-track a bit!

How do you attract the attention of a creativity inspiring muse to fuel your artistic endeavors?

Background people, backdrop people, NPCs. These terms are used by groups to describe ’lesser’ people and it’s more insidious than you think.

This is a very slippery slope that leads to a whole lot of nastiness.

My apologies

Tonight I am joined by the author of the book “Lemuria: a True Story of a Fake Place”, Justin McHenry!

Recently I was joined by Karly the Village Tarot Witch and Jordan from Campfire Tales of the Strange and Unsettling to talk about tabletop roleplaying games, writing, and how these two things can help manifest changes in ourselves.

What started out as a theory to explain the presence of lemurs on Madagascar quickly went down a very dark path.

Irene is the author of the Blackfeather Mystery School: the Magpie Training, a minister for the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans, and head of Glasse Witch Cottage.

We’re doing something a little different this month. I’m bringing your two books and a zine!

* NSFW * - seriously, don’t listen to this at work, around children, or really....in public at all.

When we think of Christmas Cookies we generally think of sugar cookies, butter tarts, or the most popular, gingerbread!

Audio track for the Mind Altar meditation

How do you perform magic or practice paganism without tools or resources at hand? Find out how to construct your own Mind Altar in this guided meditation.

What magical herbs can assist you in your craft when the veil is most thin? How can you appease the spirits of the dead, the spirits of the land, and the fey?

What better way to learn about high strangeness in Sweden than to ask a local weirdo!

When we think of High Strangeness most of us don’t think about Sweden, but maybe we should...

I was fortunate enough to spend an hour talking to the author of Ancestral Whispers, Ben Stimpson. We talk about his background, veneration practices, and even about LARPing and Role-Playing and how they can serve as a form of therapy and ancestral work!

Many cultures around the world have practices and traditions in place for honoring and remembering the dead. This cultural phenomena allows living members to feel a close kinship to those who came before. Learn how we can reintegrate these ideas into modern, Western society with Ancestral Whispers by Ben Stimpson.

https://www.anomacon.com/

This was a fun round table discussion with three new friends: Barbara Fisher, Todd Purse, and Dasos Crowsong! Just to give you a heads up *TRIGGER WARNING* there is discussion of mental abuse, physical abuse, religious abuse, suicide, and addiction in this episode.

Find out about my favorite esoteric podcasts, websites, and books!

I sat down to have a chat with Vuk from Tracing Owls.

What if I told you that in the story or America the Puritans were the villains and that the real heroes were the mystics, the alchemists, and the scoundrels?

Mankind is largely removed from nature thanks to our modern, industrialized society. How can we reclaim a closer connection to the world around us?