Black Hoodie Alchemy

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, I'm joined by special guest, Jessie Desmond! As former director of MUFON in Alaska, lifelong Alaskan resident, UFO historian, Sasquatch hunter, and overall Fortean investigator, Jessie has several books released, competes in bodybuilding in her spare time, and has several other projects and interest that we discuss. It is highly encouraged that you check out...

This week is another solo episode where I take the time for a deep dive into the work of Christian philosopher and fictional author, CS Lewis. Most popular for the renowned Chronicles of Narnia, it is lesser known that Lewis was a damn good non-fiction philosophy author, and his journey tracks one of an atheist to a believing Christian through the helps of people like the very JRR Tolkien himself!...

Happy New Year and welcome black to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! This week, I'm briefly talking about my trip back home to Anchorage, and unfolding the lore behind the alleged underground "Dark Pyramid" of Alaska, near Denali, that is apparently underground and four-times the size of the pyramid of Giza. And on top of all that, we have an explicit government cover-up and an intrinsic...

Yet again -- welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! Sort of. This episode is another bonus episode of sorts, and was technically my last guest spot on someone else's show before I started doing Black Hoodie Alchemy. Longtime listeners will be very familiar with Joe Rupe and Lighting the Void , and you're in for a treat as always. We talk about cult mentality, my ambitions for Black H...

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! Sort of. This is another bonus episode of sorts -- my most recent guest appearance on another show, this one being Mike Mazzei's Mind Escape . He's had a whole lot of impressive, heavy hitter guests over the years of doing his show, Mike is a truly wonderful guy, and I always have a blast talking to him! Oh and I shouldn't forget to mention...

Welcome back, folks! This week will serve exactly what the title says: we're going back through some of the most popular episodes, the most shared, the most slept-on, and the craziest. We're also going through some of the listeners that have reached out and supported the show, as well as some of the amazing musicians we've featured on the show. And a special shout out to Grant Mock aka...

This week on the show, my good friend, colleague, and fellow alchemist Martin Ferretti comes back on to get real deep into the stages of alchemy throughout all processes of life. Despite his show The Alchemical Mind being on hiatus for some time, Martin has been a diligent alchemist in many capacities for years now, and he's one of my favorite people to talk to when it comes to this subject. C...

For Black Hoodie Alchemy this week, I have recurring guest, friend, and innovative mystic, Eric Millar on the show to talk about his latest work, ⁠ WOMBAT ⁠ and all that existential fury that it holds! A collection of several visual and literary artworks, I found particular fascination with the first two pieces: Operator's Code and Flight Interpretations. What does it mean to be spiritual as a...

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, I give you another solo deep dive into the mystical philosophies and analytic psychology of Carl Jung. Anima and animus, yin and yang, subconscious and conscious, negative and positive, night and day, qliphoth and sephiroth, soul and spirit, feminine and masculine -- the union of opposites is something that the alchemist has always been focused on, and the reconc...

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we finally have our first lady guest on the show! While this show does have a little bit of a male slant, we've always maintained a solid third of lady listeners and I apologize for this taking so long! It's been a combination of me enjoying the company of my best researcher homies, doing solo shows, and having tricky scheduling. I wasn't even sure wh...

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! This week we have another special guest, Chris Fiato, here to talk about addiction, trauma, philosophy, metaphysics, and spirituality. Heavily referenced in the discussion is Dr. Gabor Mate, the sentiments found in his book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts , and his clinical work in Canada with the psychedelic rehabilitation of heroin addicts. Chris and I...

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy! This week is a bye-week bonus episode of my guest appearance on the popular podcast (and fellow Fringe. FM broadcast) ' Juan on Juan ' with host Juan Ayala. His show consists of esoterica, conspiracy, alternative history, and a bit of comedy to keep it all just a little less serious. Juan is a great, down-to-earth guy that has plenty to say about all t...

This week on the show I'm pleased to have the return of a true veteran in the game, Miguel Conner of Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio ! If you don't know who he is, Miguel is a Gnostic student and researcher, author and artist, and he just so happens to be working on a new book that is really going to bust some heads open when it comes out next year. For a solid two-thirds of the show, I pick Migue...

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy! This week I have another special returning guest: good ol' Douglas Batchelor of the ' What Magic is This? ' podcast, and we're following up our chat in BHA #54 , where we discussed Magick in History & Modern Day . For those unfamiliar, Douglas is a researcher and magician that is as talented as he is cheerful and humble, and his podcast has...

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy -- this week is a bit of a twist! Longtime listeners of Black Hoodie Alchemy will be very familiar with the strange character that is Tippy Patson -- the Redneck Mystic Extraordinaire -- and his appearances in episodes 14, 30, 38, and 59. Well somehow this idiot decided to record his very own BHA episode without me! Yes, he found my upload login and my Zoom pas...

Happy Halloween season to you all and thanks for tuning into Black Hoodie Alchemy! This week it's all things horror, even more than usual. We're diving into everything that constitutes horror -- particularly the movies, but to include literature, artwork, and music like heavy metal. Why do people enjoy horror while others don't? If horror is such a primal emotion based on survival, why...

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy! This week is a re-release of a conversation I had with Martin Ferretti -- friend of mine, fellow alchemist, and host of the podcast ' The Alchemical Mind ', currently on hiatus but with a lot of great content you can go check out! Originally released in December of 2020, Martin and I get into the esoteric history of gods, particularly in the west, and...

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! This week we're going down a vast rabbit-hole of cult mentality, hip hop, new age metaphysics, heavy racism, classical conspiracy theories, and ancient alien pseudo-history! This is the story of cult leader and "inspirational" hip-hop figurehead "Dr. Malachi Z. York" AKA just Dwight York, who is not a real doctor. This man, throu...

Buckle the hell up this week, because you're in for a wild ride! Former "Illuminati cloning lab manager" and "actor", codename: Jefferson Tilamookslinger AKA Steve Buschemi AKA Shnelius Maximus AKA Clone-Lab Supreme graces us with his presence! Most listeners of Black Hoodie Alchemy will by now be familiar with redneck mystic Tippy Patson and The League of Extordniary Gents...

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, where we're getting into the juxtaposition of concepts like "God" and "evolution". This episode is a little bit of a follow-up to episodes 58, 48, 24, 16, 15, and 4 among others. You certainly don't have to listen to those episodes to enjoy this one, but it will help provide additional context -- especially if you're looking for...

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we’re talking all things Christianity and Paganism from a comparative religious point of view. Along with Buddhist meditation instructor and my colleague Justin Otto (host of the Dharma Junkie podcast and Gulf Coast Dharma ) we are finally blessed with the return of Redneck Mystic Extraordinaire Tippy Patson ! A man known for leading The League of Extordniary Gen...

For this week's food for thought, we are tackling psychoanalyst Carl Jung's work, 'Answer to Job'. Not only is it Jung's most controversial work, but it was also one of his personal favorites despite all the Christian spite it brought upon him. This infamous book of the Bible sees Yahweh wager a bet with Satan over the life of one of Yahweh's most faithful followers. Job is...

This week we've got a little bit of a variety hour for you! The first half consists of punching up and having a good laugh at some of the celebrities who have recently tried to become cult leaders -- some more successful than others, and all extremely sick and demented. I go through the strange circumstances of horror-shows like Ezra Miller and R. Kelly, the simply-just-annoying Jared Leto, an...

Would you believe me if I told that in 1998, a real Japanese man would be tricked into a survival-horror version of the 'Truman Show' in real life? Would you then believe me that this broadcast got upwards of 17 million viewers at a time, and that it was all broadcast and sold under the genre of "comedy"? Well believe it or not, it happened, and this week on Black Hoodie Alchemy...

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, comedic actor Steve Berg (of Drunk History, Bob's Burgers, New Girl, Adventure Time, and movies like Tag and Don't Worry, Darling) joins us once more! Well... sort of. He actually "put me in touch" with an estranged "friend" of his named Jason Tortilla. As Jason explains throughout the podcast, he was a "professorial-type" th...