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The good Doctor Knowles makes a welcome return to the show this week. We talk about the presence of nineteenth century occultism in the pulps, how those pulps influenced the superheroes of the twentieth century, Watcher cults, imperial worldviews and the synchromysticism of the apocalypse. A freewheeling romp for all! Show Notes The Secret Sun . The Secret Sun on Patreon .

This week we have the first triple-header of the energy healing dialogues. Brian Wilkins returns to the show with first-time guest, Jess Waters. Jess and Brian are principally responsible for creating and maintaining a weekly intention group based on the principles outlined in Lynne McTaggart's Power of Eight . So we discuss their respective paths through various healing modalities, how they came...

This week, returning guest Brandt Stickley joins us for another instalment of our energy healing dialogues series. We discuss how Chinese medicine sees the human energy body/ies, the antiquity of the system, how it works, what it works best with and the attitude or ways of thinking that characterise TCM. In particular, we look at what even am meridians, how TCM understands human organs, polarity a...

One of my favourite books of the year is Jerry Kantor's Sane Asylums . He joins us this week for an equally-scintillating episode. We explore how homeopathy works, the 19th century heyday of homeopathic psychiatry -including the successful treatment of Abraham Lincoln's widow's 'incurable madness' with three months of homeopathy. And we find out just how it was homeopathy was erased from history a...

The legendary Eileen McKusick joins us this week for the next Rune Soup Energy Healing Dialogue. We discuss the origins of biofield tuning, how it and other forms of sound healing work, what it's best for and what other modalities it best supports. A fantastic discussion with a true healing pioneer. Enjoy! Show Notes Biofield Tuning Store . Biofield Tuning Website .

Jenx returns to the show with his latest and best book,  The Thai Occult 2 . We catch up with what's been going on with Jenx's ongoing cultural survey and research on and with various Ajarns, we talk about global candle magic, Thai astrology, talisman, doll magic and why you might want to live in a graveyard for a month. He also explains that this latest book is a 'living' book. Get the PDF once a...

Continuing the energy healing dialogues this week, we welcome to the show Kenzie Q. Adams. Kenzie is a Reiki master and teacher, professional healer, industrial engineer and the creator of Mind Connection Healing. She also happens to be the better half of Scarlet Imprint author, Peter Mark Adams. MCH is a healing and trauma release system incorporating meridian therapy, Reiki and several other mod...

This is one of my favourite shows of the year so far! Continuing our dialogues with energy healers as part of the Rune Soup Premium Member course on energy healing, this week we welcome to the show Stella Osorojos. Stella is a mother, a writer, an acupuncturist and multi-disciplinary healer, and the creator of a powerful healing modality called Resonant Attention. We discuss the origins of Resonan...

Continuing our dialogues with and about different energy healing frameworks, this week we welcome to the show Pranic Healer, Trisha White -who also happens to be my mother. We chat about the origins of Pranic Healer, Trisha's career as a professional healer, how the system works and what it works best for. And if you would like to participate in the energy healing course, join the Rune Soup Premiu...

Poet, author, taiji instructor and intentionist (this will make sense shortly), Brian Wilkins joins the show this week, on the occasion of the publication of his book, A Wheel of Small Gods . We discuss how poetry can be a container or place for spirits, different methods of experiencing and understanding energy, healing magic, magic-as-time-travel as well as the how's and why's of coming into rel...

The Q3 premium member course beginning shortly is on energy healing and -to go alongside it- we'll be doing a series of dialogues with practitioners from various energy modalities. First cab off the rank is fellow Newcastle boy, Lance Baker, to talk about certainly the most well-known (and perhaps the least understood?) modality, Reiki. Lance is a Reiki Master, hypnotherapist, author and teacher....

The one and only Matawhero Lloyd returns to the show this week. More specifically, while I am in New Zealand, I returned to Whetu Ariki to spend some time with Matawhero and to see what's been happening with his pā project over the past couple of years. This is a project many of you will be familiar with from Ani. Mystic , where it gets a whole chapter of its own. I'm releasing this one as an audi...

It's that time of half-year again! Forecastapalooza. With returning champ, Austin Coppock. You know you want it. Get in. Note: This was a video show so you can watch along on YouTube if you prefer. Enjoy!

An Amazonian solo show this week, exploring the one-year anniversary of providing shamanic energy healings. One of the things I mention during the episode is how I consider some of the seemingly bolder claims of shamanic healing from a different perspective having been in the jungle a number of times now. There's certainly a shared underlying metaphysics there. Note: As mentioned at the top of the...

Something different -and personally very exciting- this week. In the few days in between my Ecuadorian ayahuasca retreat and a return to my Peruvian jungle dieta, I got to visit the art school founded by my favourite artist, Pablo Amargino. Even better… I got given the tour by Pablo's son, Juan! Juan is himself an artist, so I also got to see some of his work, and some of the work of Pablo's stude...

The one and only Jenx returns to the show to discuss his latest book, Supernatural Thailand. And so of course we discuss graveyards, Naga caves, boy spirits, dying for one's city and a whole bunch more. Then we end the show looking at some of Adjarn Apichai's forecasts for the next few years and where they precisely align with our own. Great stuff, as always! Please note I'm still in the Andes so...

A solo show this week, in which I explore  Ani. Mystic  now that it's about two months out from launch, and how it has been immensely helpful in coming to terms with Mexican and explicitly Mayan sense making. As I have basically been travelling since the thing came out, I've been remiss in sharing some of the shows that have kindly had me on to discuss the book. So let that be your show notes for...

I joke at the beginning of the episode that James wrote the best book I read this year that I didn't write. But actually, it's true. Ways of Being is an excellent book that toils in many of the same vineyards as Ani. Mystic . So James and I discuss our notions of technology, artificial intelligence, publishing, language and how these all interrelate and are interdependent. We also have an excellen...

The one and only Gary Lachman returns to the show this week. And the topics of the hour are dreams and time: precognition, sacred time, time slips, machine time and what even am dreams in the first place? Definite food for thought here. Always a pleasure! Show Notes Gary's latest book, Dreaming Ahead of Time . Gary's website .

Wait a minute. Gordon of all people is giving advice about what now ? Relax. I truly would never dream of it. Think of it more like Advice To A Young Wife From An Old Mistress . It's a dramatic frame that allows us to explore ways of being with this moment that -oh, just a thought- don't contribute to a field of war that brings everyone closer to nuclear annihilation while somehow assuming doing s...

Everyone's favourite expat druid and substacker, Rhyd Wildermuth, returns to the show this week. His latest book, Being Pagan: A Guide To Re-Enchant Your Life , forms the through-line of a wide ranging discussion on beingness, paganism, embodiment and the general state of the world. Electrifying stuff, as ever. Enjoy! Show Notes Rhyd's latest book . Rhyd's substack . Rhyd's website .

Everyone's favourite Swedish polymath returns to the show for a discussion about the Black Pope, Anton LaVey, himself. This is on the occasion of the release of Carl's latest book, Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan . It's the biography LaVey boths needs and deserves. So we talk a little bit about his life but mostly we examine his legacy, what he might think of today's cancel culture and whether...

Here is the next of the free or publicly available modules of the latest premium member course, Protection and Malefica . It is a discussion on morality frameworks and how, when and we we might magically intervene. The one and only Peter Grey of Scarlet Imprint joins us for a deep dive on one of Jack Parsons's most important texts, We Are The Witchcraft . This is a video discussion with slides and...

The one(s) and only(s) Miguel Conner of Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio and Chris Knowles of The Secret Sun join the show this week for a discussion of all things astro-gnostic. We discuss the true antiquity and use of star lore, stars in the Bible, gnostics in history as well as a gnostic study of history as well as which components of gnosticism may or may not be universal. This chat was arranged in hon...

This week, we welcome to the show astrologer, philosopher and shamanic practitioner, Michael Ofek. Michael and I have a great chat about topics very near and dear to our hearts: star lore, star magic, and the true antiquity of what we can broadly call astrology, or perhaps coming into relation with Sky Country. Along the way, we also talk about the metaphysics of light, the shamanic origins of Gre...