Garden of Thought

Belfazaar Ashantison was a sickly child who generally got pushed around. During a particularly vicious incident where he protected his sister, he tasted human blood for the first time. This situationled to a family friend recognizing her in him and she became his mentor into Vampirism. Vampires are not what literature or media would have us believe. Often referred to as Papa Zaar (a title relating...

Dr. Rev. David Parry holds three degrees in Theology and is a Reverend in the Gnostic tradition. He's also a poet, actor, author, speaker, and the founder of the Nephilim Anthropology Conference. I booked him for what I thought would be a simple show: what are the "ranks" between between types of angels, demons and giants. As I learned, that's not simple at all. So many religions and denominations...

Madame X is many things. She's a poet, actress, performance artist, mother, teacher, student, artist and philanthropist. She's also an occultist. She is trained in forms of witchcraft and she's a vampire. She is involved with many orgarnizations - several where she is a founder, executive or otherwise a leader, that helps provide education, understanding and safe spaces for all the "children of th...

Gary Wayne re-enters the Garden to lend his vast knowledge, while the Garden welcomes first time guest, but long time doomcaster, Tom Ashwell, to explore Nazis and the Occult. Gary takes us through a number of philosophies and the historic twists, turns and interconnections, to provide a master class on how a number of doctrines morphed into Nazism. Which explains the Nazi obsession with the Occul...

Theshira Pather is the host of Legendary Africa, a family friendly podcast which tells African folklore and legands. She comes to the Garden to unload her soul of the burdens of the darker side of folklore. We're discussing myths, monsters, and things that go bump in the night. Some in the light too. From the Horn of Africa to the Cape of Good Hope to islands off the Northwestern coast and all poi...

Leland Reibling descends from a mystic and was visited by the "Light Beings" at a young age. He also gained possession of the Canadian Anubis Amulet. These items were among those that influenced his life of indepedent research and exploration. He describes his story and his findings regarding the often red headed giants of the upper Great Lakes area, throughout Canada and the Americas. He's spoken...

Theshira Pather is the host of the Asian Tapestry podcast, where she tells lovely tales regarding folklore, myths and legends in a family friendly way. Today, she's talking about some darker and scarier myths and legends in the Garden of Doom. We focused mostly on what is known as Asia Minor and the Indian subcontinent, but we visit other areas as well. The Gardens famous meanderings and conversti...

Mambo Brandi is a Priestess in both Haitian and New Orleans Voodoo. She is a practitioner and proprietor of Voodoo Authentica, in New Orleans' famed French Quarter. She patiently explains the origins and precepts of Voodoo and answers frequently asked questions like what are Voodoo dolls, is Tarot unique to Voodoo, are zombies related to Voodoo. She explores items such as altars and magic and cere...

We've encountered astrology in so many contexts during the course of our journeys in the Garden. We've heard is as related to mythology, magic, theology, and philosopy. I thought this was a good time to step back and go over the basics and get a true introduction as it's own episode. Other guests have provided us with pieces. Enter Karla Thompson. Through mutual friends, I was introduced to her an...

Thiago Ticchetti is the son of a Brazillian air force pilot. He saw a UFO as a child and that prompted a life long mission to study the UFO phenomena. He's the author of over a dozen books and his latest covers UFOs in Brazil. We discuss his research, sightings throughout South America, the Nazca Lines, among other items. His investigations have documented 72 distinct types of visitors, as well as...

Derek Jones from the Midnight Myth and Wheel of Ka podcasts, re-enters the Garden to discuss proto-mythology and the important interrelationship between ancient mythology and poetry. We're talking pre-Socratic and post-Socratic. We're talking about Homer and The Epic of Gilgamesh. We get meta, macro and micro. This is what your liberal arts classes should have been.

It's one of those words that pops up frequently, associated with magic, the occult, Egyptology, and multiple religions. Like the Rosicrusions, it's associated with everything from end of days to Masonry. So, what is Hermeticism? Luckily, we found our returning guest, Luke Michael Ironside, in Kenya this time, to educate us on who's the mythical man behind the term, and he goes through the majorcon...

Veteran war journalist and host of the Red Line podcast re-enters the Garden to answer a few questions. Who are the Kurds? What's Kurdestan? That brings us into Syria, Turkey, Iran and Irag. Speaking of Iraq, what's the state of that State? About 2 decades later, how does Afghanistan compare and contrast with Iraq? Also, what are some things in the world that you really should be paying attention...

Jason Read is the author of 3 books and a veteran of the Royal Navy. He also traveled to Singapore then China for years to study Chinese Magic. Chinese magic goes hand and hand with religion, spirituality and healing. He explains creation, the basic concepts, gods and items we've all heard of like I-Ching, Hexagrams, Zodiacs, Fen Shui. We address Daosim, dragons, warrior monks, and the Monkey King...

We continue our conversation with Farzad Panjshiri, Esquire, about intellectual property law. We discuss DMCA take downs and address commonly held beliefs regarding copyright infringement defenses. Farzad also tells his story of how he became a lawyer in Germany then the United States. We do some compare and contrasting.

Robert Phoenix is a self described astromythicist and a synchro mystic. He's expert in astrology and employs a kind of practical astrology. He tells his story and defines some concepts in astrology. We discuss the 13th zodiacal sign and concepts of retrograde and direct. Ages, like age of Pisces versus Aquarius, is also explored. 9/11 and Tyson Fury are among the items used as examples.

Bruce Fenton returns into the Garden. He's been studying ufo's and other science developments. He's a major proponent of the panspermia theory. And we ask him about his thoughta on first contact protocols; the issues surrounding UFOs, UAPs, and related phenomena and technology. We also go over some developments in science and anthropology. Who's Dragon Man? Come find out.

Space journalist and author, Matt Williams, joins us again to discuss the moon. The facts, the environment, myths, de-bunking. What is the Artemis Mission? Can you live on the Moon? What's different about the dark side of the Moon? If there are lava tubes, where's the lava? All this and more.

Gary Wayne is one of the foremost researchers of theology, mythology and their ties to world events. We start in pre-history with a multicultural review of The Great Flood into the giants and gods versus demigods, and giants versus giants. The ten nations are discussed as well as the 13 families. From flood to end of days, we've addressed it all. We promise no happy ending as this is the Garden of...

Farzad Panjshiri is an attorney who focuses on Intellectual Property law. We explore the main forms of IP law with some attention to entertainment law aspects. But so much is "it depends". We lawyers don't always love this phrase, but it is a mantra. We discuss Trademarks and Service Marks, composite, design and word marks; Copyrights and their forms; Fair Use and other exceptions; the frequent di...

As we travel ever Easterly, we are joined by Ajit Padmanabh, who discusses the Vedic history of India. This includes the pantheon of Gods like Indra, Vishnu and Ganesha. We discuss the great war between factions of brothers. In this, we touch on numerology, astrology, Hyperborea, Lemuria, and countless other items that you've come to encounter in the Garden. The outro music is also the work of our...

From Oxford to Sedonia and beyond, Maria Wheatley has studied the past. She;s a second generation dowser, a druid, and has a background in archeolgy and anthropology. She's written several boos, has an upcoming film based on her forthcoming boo, and she's an educator and conference speaker. We discuss the likely Fae Folk and elongated skulls; gianst and femurs; distinctive burial mounds; Merlin, S...

Philip Mantle always remembered his mother's description of an encounter with one of the Fae Folk. This fed his long fascination in the study of UFO's. From the Yorkshire UFO Society to MUFON, he's worked with and around the best. He advanced this expertise into publishing and has approximately 30 titles in circulation, many printedin multiple languages. His latest book is called "UFOs In The UK",...

We're joined by two attorneys this week to discuss the law surrounding Cannabis, and the strange and cumbersome patchwork that exists in the United States regarding Marijuana.

Luke Michael Ironside rejoins us to discuss Lilith. Adam's first wife. The mother of monsters? Mother of Cain? Consort of Samael? Scapegoat? Pre-Adamite? By how much? We discuss Lemuria, Atlantis, Hypoborea,and other items. How did Adam have a first wife? Find out.