Garden of Thought

Mark Olly has a new book out dealing with the UK's Roswell. We discuss that but spend most of the show on the Mythology of Star Wars. May the Force be with us.

Kurt Stein has over 25 years experience in business and technology issues. His company, DCT, specializes in finding businesses technology experts in IT, cybersecurity, AI and related items. We have a robust conversation regarding AI, it's status. growth, the fears, and yes, of course I raise the Ultron option.

The Garden welcomes back award winning poet and author of a new published book, Jennifer Sutherland, and we discuss Edgar Allen Poe. Poe's life, his world, his writings, and his mysterious death. Jennifer takes us through the written "Fall of the House of Usher" and we both compare and contrast the latest installment of the Flanaverse; Netflix's "The Fall of the House of Usher". The series does bo...

Meet Bloody Mary. Mambo Queen and paranormal investigator are but two of her titles. She's an author, the proprietor of the Haunted Museum and Paranormal Center of New Orleans, medium, tour leader, and has been featured on hundred of television shows. We explore some of the rich tapestry of NOLA paranormal ranging from spirits and cryptids, to ghostly spirits straight out of history like Marie Lav...

Nicki Ojeda is also known as Tatiara. She's psychic, a tarot reader, healer. counselor, and can help you identofy and meet your past lives to improve your current iteration. From Jung to Campbell to Apollo and Medusa, we discuss the ideas and archetypes, along with the Arcana and healing aides (like essential oils), that figure into her unique approach to helping people. Also, sinec she's married...

Adrian Lopez didn't write professional until he suffered a personal tragedy, and his wife encouraged him to put his pain into his writing. He writes poetry, children's books, and now werewolves. We discuss his newest, forthcoming work, as well as his research into werewolves. From a curse made by Zeus to silver bullets, we cover the lykanthrope universe. Pop media and metaphysical topics are not o...

Brandon Schexnayder is a storyteller and the host of the Southern Gothic podcast. His topics typically cover the post Colonial Southern United States. He mostly focuses on ghost stories and similar macabre. He shares stories from New Orleans, Charleston, Mississippi, Apalachia, Virginia and parts in between. We'll hear about women buried alive. We'll discuss the Vampire of New Orleans. He tells us...

Mike Yari had two near death experiences before he was out of grade school. This may or may not have been related to a gift he has of both seeing and attracting the dead. Yes, he sees dead people. He converses with some of them too. He's been questioned and given photo arrays. He's always passed the inquiry. He also attracts dead people. He can't always see them. Some, he cannot even feel. But oth...

George Mitrovic re-enters the Garden and brings us his 129 books worth of knowledge as we navigate the waterways of North America (and occasionally beyond), where we encounter giants, vikings, Judean and Roman coins, legends, Welsh kings. pyramids, thunderbirds, and more. Mitrovic discovered and placed Planet 9 in the 70's. Japanese scientists confirmed it's existence and placement in 2023. He als...

Mam'zelle Kamille returns to the Garden to introduce us to hers. New Orleans. Our October tour of terrors in the South continues. From the origins and geography of the City, we learn why there is such a creole of restless spirits. From ghost to true crime, and when they overlap, we're covering more of the spooky spirit of a City with a vibrant sense of life, built on generations of deaths.

One doesn't often have the chance to ask a Professor of comparative mythology to do an assignment. Well, the Gardener of Doom does! I asked Prof. Michael York if the angels of the Bible were cognates, or shared attributes, with the gods of the polytheistic panteons. It turns out maybe not the angels, but perhaps the Fallen Angels. The Watchers. The Nephilim? Or the fathers of the Nephlim. During t...

Dr. Lauren Pitts specializes in the holistic mental health care of athletes. Her story is one of overcoming and survival. Her mission is to help people feel and get better. From an early age, she knew what her purpose would be. She is an author, podcast host, life coach and therapist. These platofrms help her serve her clients in a step by step path to mental health and positive productivity.

Rabbi Joe Kolakowski joins us again to explore monsters in the Bible and the war of the Angels. Were there werewolves? Was Leviathan kosher? What's a Behemoth? How do our friends, the Nephilim, fit in? There are other "ims" too. Including Seraphim and are they dragons? We discuss Satan, demon and job title. There's a lot in this episode and chapters and verses are mentioned.

The Garden re-enters the space related arena and explores how one goes about getting and launching a satellite. This is an A to Z. We cover law, regulations, choice of flags, science, contracts. licenses, prices, etc. Really. If you ever wondered how to buy and launch a satellite, here's your episode. Our guest is attorney and consultant, as well as co-founder of The Space Court Foundation, Chris...

Constance Victoria Briggs is a researcher and author focusing on celestial body anamolies, space mysteries and galactic stories. The moon is artificial. It might be occupied. We know this. The astronuats know it. Aside from the many mathematical impossibilities, there are pyramids and other structures. We discuss these and then discuss high strangeness involving Mars and it's moons, as well as oth...

Abbie Martin is a Wiccan Witch, she's studied Shamanism, she's expert in Tarot and Oracle. She's also a healer, a psychic, a face and eye reader. She tells her story. We discuss the universal story of ceremony. We converse about magic and magick. Yes, and at the end of the show, she gives the reading of my face. This episode is dedicated to Windham Rotunda AKA Bray Wyatt. He knew a witch named Abb...

Jim Marshall is a polymathic scholar and autodidact who has has devoted over 50,000 hours to the study and practice of multiple dimensions of human development. He received a classical education as an honor student at a Jesuit Military Prep School, was accepted into engineering school while still a junior in prep school, and attended college on academic scholarship. He graduated college with a Bac...

Evan and Steven Strong are "white fellas" who have a relationship fostered over decades with the original peoples of Australia. Known popularly as "aboriginal". They have been through Ceremony and studied with elders. They are also authors, researchers, historians, and independent archeologists. They shared with the Garden some amalgam of the Aboriginal creation story through end of days. So much...

Darius Kamali has been in the Garden several times. He hosts "The Persian Version", runs a Facebook Group devoted to the Iranic peoples and history. He's also worked for Non Governmental Organizations including International Tribunals. Much of this work involved the Kurds and their diaspora. Most notably, in the borders of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. So we explore who are the Kurds, why is their...

This show was originally going to cover primarily myths and legends of a survey of the First Nations. But when one of the most thoughtful voices on spirituality is on a roll, you ride shotgun. Rev. Jim Willis returns to the Garden and we discuss the difference between religion and spirituality, and where the two can diverge. We focus on American spiritualism and this does get to several First Nati...

Ambassador Philbert Aaron is the current Ambassador to the United Nations for the Commonwealth of Dominica. He is also the former Ambassador to Venezuela and is a long time Diplomat and leadership expert. He holds a Doctorate as well. We discuss his nation and it's concerns and priorities. We discuss the geopolitics of the Eastern Caribbean and a host of related issues. From agriculture to economi...

What is a cult? Do I know one when I see one? Do you see the same thing I do? In a Nation born out of what it's persecutors considered a Cult, America seems to be Cult Central. Is this because our bedrock principle of religious freedom allows some cults to more easily attain religion status? Is it something else? Weren't there always cults? These are some of questions and discussions we have with...

The premier geopolitical podcaster, Mike Hilliard, from The Red Line re-enters the Garden to discuss warfare in space. Has there been any? What are the laws, if any? What are the norms, if any? Who are the players? We discuss the past, present, and near future possibilites. We discuss the economics. We explore individual bad actors. We discuss Jewish space lasers. We discuss the recent UAP disclos...

Lauren Jane Barnett is a horror writer, horror film fan, podcast host, and occasional horror walking guide living in London. She's been watching horror movies most of her life, and while doing her Ph. D. she hunted around London for a walking tour of the city’s horror movies, but couldn’t find one. In the end, she did it herself. These walks – and a ride through the Underground – turned into her b...

Ethan Brown is the founder and host of "The Sweaty Penguin", an award winning podcast regarding climate change and it's associated issues. The show uses humor to attempt to smooth the doomsaying and partisanship surrounding this issue. We discuss the show, the arguments about science, and learn whether or not penguins do sweat.