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Mark Stavish is Director of Studies at the Institute for Hermetic Studies and author with Inner Traditions. His 2018 book "Egregores" has led to a great deal of discussion in the esoteric studies community. It has influenced me, as well, and inspired me to contact Mark to ask about his feelings regarding the very bizarre fact that the Son of Sam killings of 1976 to 1977 were occurring at the very...

Mark Stavish is Director of Studies at the Institute for Hermetic Studies and author with Inner Traditions. His 2018 book "Egregores" has led to a great deal of discussion in the esoteric studies community. It has influenced me, as well, and inspired me to contact Mark to ask about his feelings regarding the very bizarre fact that the Son of Sam killings of 1976 to 1977 were occurring at the very...

You can't stop the human spirit. Life is good. Maybe demoralization IS the PSYOP.

Something I learned in a leadership seminar has me thinking about McGowan, Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon, and weirdness.

It annoys me that it's not called Simulation Hypothesis, but that's not my real issue with the way it's used.

This is the audio file stripped from a video, so please disregard and forgive the early mention about lighting.

After spending an inordinate amount of time researching Fred Crisman, and following my interview with artist Bryan Shickley, I want to quickly share my own estimation of Fred Crisman and Crisman's wild, weird legacy.

"Tell America to be on his nice list, Crisman comes early this year!" ---Bryan Shickley Shickley's Crisman film will go public in May, but he's putting out a minute long clip from the film on January 2nd. Check out Shickley's art at https://bryanshickley.portfoliobox.net/ Check out Shickley's wild world of Fred Crisman: https://www.fredcrisman.com/

In which I talk with Manny Grossman and Craig Fitzgerald about the connection between the Son of Sam and the Necronomicon, the Warlock magick shop, and the occult scene of New York City in the 1970s.

Friends, the Oxford commas are dying. If we don’t act, they’ll become extinct forever. They’ve been declining for decades. We all saw the signs, yet we turned our backs and said, “Someone else will save the commas.” Someone else never showed up. Someone else never shows up. Morally deformed writers have abused the Oxford comma for ages, even asking for the extermination of this essential grammatic...

Kenny Becker of Ladies' Man provides one of the truest (which in this case means most convoluted) insights into the confused, lost mind of modern man ever written.

The title sounds like clickbait. It isn't. I'm sincerely wondering as I dive deeper into good communication, hypnosis, and mind control. I think they're all basically the same thing.

The 1955 song "A Satisfied Mind" may be the only UFO-inspired country music hit ever recorded. The original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-nf5GW4tTY I came across this info while researching for the mighty Songfacts at https://www.songfacts.com/facts/porter-wagoner/a-satisfied-mind Bear Family's 1955 Dim Lights, Thick Smoke and Hillbilly Music: https://www.bear-family.com/various-country-...

Moby Dick is a work of genius that embodies the quest for Truth. It gets a bad rap, particularly some of its more incscrutible chapters. Those chapters, however, are among the most brilliant in the book once we understand what Moby Dick really is. Check out my books at https://www.amazon.com/Jeff-Suwak/e/B00FB3KQF0 ? Check out my website at https://www.beyondthetempestgate.com

In 1967, Mark Litchman, representing Washington State's 45th District, proposed House Bills 45, 467, and 536, all of which dealt with LSD. Litchman, having been counselled by acid guru Timothy Leary, wanted to keep LSD legal to some degree (not as a street drug). I stumbled upon these news articles and found it to be a fascinating piece of Pacific Northwest history, as respectable members of socie...

After discussing politics and history with Russian language teacher Anastasia Redkina, I asked Russian yetis. This led to an introduction to some fascinating Russian cryptids and monsters.

Russia has been in American news a great deal over the last few years, and always for negative reasons. We hear a lot about it, but we only ever hear about and from Russian officials as told through the filters of American media. I wanted to know what an actual Russian thought about recent events. Fortunately, I know one that I could call upon. Anastasia Redkina is a Russian language tutor (and MY...

As anybody who has been within shouting distance of me over the past 2 years know, I consider Tom O'Neill's CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, the Secret History of the Sixties to be one of the most important books written in the past several years and also one of the very best. Fascinating, dark, impeccably researched, it's an amazing achievement. Tom O'Neill's CHAOS: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07S8...

Cormac McCarthy's writing voice has always proven very divisive. I believe the detractors are missing out big time. McCarthy's voice makes the human condition something mythic.

Today I talk to author Tom Janssen about his personal explorations of consciousness, shamanism, nature, and life. He's one of the most interesting people I know and one of the most sincere spiritual seekers I know--and all around fascinating guy that I first crossed paths years ago in an online writing group. Tom is the author of Red and Rogue Adept. He also works as a senior lab tech and holds a...

After discovering some research by writer Peter Levenda, I posit the idea that Dylan's great "Man in the Long Black Coat" is about Tituba and the Salem Witch Trials.

Scavenger interview with artist Fullmetal Magdalene. We talk about cryptoart, crypto culture (which is a term I overuse egregiously in the interview for reasons that I can't account for in hindsight), Joseph Smith and Mormonism, Jordan Peterson, and other fascinating subjects. I had to make a last-minute computer change before this interview, which I blame for the low quality of my voice. Luckily...