HEINRICH KRAMER AND THE MALLEUS MALEFICARUM (HAMMER OF THE WITCHES)
10.21.2024 // Video Link
Creepy weirdo causes the death of thousands.
SATANIC PANIC
9.13.2024 // Video Link
Blood libel, possessed nerds, and Tom Hanks. 2000 years of hysteria.
Links:
Sample interviews from McMartin Preschool trial
More than suggestion: the effect of interviewing techniques from the McMartin Preschool case -Applied Psychology paper
Tales of Teramir - D&D Campaign website
Why the Barcode Will Always Be the Mark of the Beast - Wired article
Procter & Gamble wins $19 million in Satanism suit
DIMENSIONALITY
9.03.2024 // Video Link
Interdimensional slices, featuring Sagan, McKenna and a surprise non-human guest
ROY G BIV
8.14.2024 // Video Link
An alchemist, an ancient Greek geometry cult, and the birth of Roy G Biv.
Book:
Opticks by Sir Isaac Newton (full PDF)
Discourse on Method by René Descartes (full PDF)
Liber Indigo: The Affordances of Magic by Justin C Kirkwood
Video:
Terence McKenna - Language Makes Reality
Bachelorette
7.3.2024 // Video Link
Video:
Bachelorette by Björk, directed by Michel Gondry
Smirnoff-Smarienberg commercial (featuring the first use of bullet-time effect)
Sugar Water by Cibo Matto, directed by Michel Gondry
Book:
Simulacra & Simulation, by Jean Baudrillard
Other:
2010 Article on Bachelorette from my old website (via the Wayback Machine)
How a whimsical 90s music video echoes the secret architecture of the universe.
User Interface
6.11.2024 // Video Link
Gizmos, recycle bins, and the funda-mentality of consciousness
Video:
Do we see reality As it is? - TED Talk by Donald Hoffman
Book:
Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
The Vyne Ring / Ring of Silvianus
4.29.2024 // Video Link
An early adopter Christian messes with the wrong Nodens-worshipping pagan.
Books:
Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items by J.W. Ocker
Art of the Grimoire: An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells by Owen Davis
The Spirit of Sophia
4.10.2024 // Video Link
A possible origin of the fifth element.
Animation:
My rendering of an emanationist cosmos, inspired by the Gnostic creation myths. The colored wheel is The Annulus, a concept I’ll be outlining in the future, primarily on my new YouTube channel.
The Muses
3.30.2024 // Video Link
The Muses, the Genii, and Ned Ryerson.
Opening Song:
Invocation of the Muse by Mesomedes of Crete (2nd century CE), arranged and performed by Stef Conner
Referenced Videos:
Modern Invocation:
Lifeboats
3.29.2024 //
In the rare event that TikTok should perish from the earth, I’ve staked out the following accounts as lifeboats.
Regardless of what happens, there will eventually be unique content on these, so go ahead and follow to see what I get up to between walks.
Eye of Providence
3.6.2024 // Video Link
Peanuts, Blavatsky, and the Theosophist VP behind that spooky eye on the dollar bill
Info Packet:
Book:
Occult America by Mitch Horowitz
Reenchantment is Resistance
2.18.2024 // Video Link
Fish eyeballs, burning witches, Pizzagate, and the re-enchantment of the universe through a dynamic mythic body
Book:
The Occult by Colin Wilson
Film Clip:
Videos:
Articles:
Castaway's sea savvy could have helped him survive year adrift, says expert, The Guardian (Feb 2014)
Stargate
2.15.2024 // Video Link
Hippies inspire a memorable slogan. The US Army writes some interesting contracts. Bonus Chuck Norris cameo.
FOIA RECORDS:
BOOK:
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
FILM:
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) directed by Grant Heslov
VIDEO:
Urantia
2.3.2024 // Video Link
Bear pajamas, Midwayers, and spiritual middlemen. And some bonus alchemy content.
BOOKS:
PAPER:
Fact Sheet: Eugenics and Scientific Racism by National Human Genome Research Institute
VIDEO:
The Urantia Book - What is Revelation on YouTube
Telekinesis
1.29.2024 // Video Link
Mind over matter in and out of the laboratory.
PAPER:
BOOKS:
Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality by Dean Radin
Real Magic: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, and a Guide to the Secret Power of the Universe by Dean Radin
Eureka
1.18.2024 // Video Link
An alcoholic goth stumbles across the secrets of the universe.
BOOKS:
Eureka by Edgar Allen Poe
Science and the Reenchantment of the Cosmos: The Rise of the Integral Vision of Reality by Ervin Laszlo
Roger Bacon
1.4.2024 // Video Link
The Pope commissions a medieval genius to fight the Antichrist, paving the way for modern technomancy.
BOOKS:
Real Magic by Dean Radin
The Science Delusion
by Rupert SheldrakeWizards and Witches by Brenan Lehane
Numinosity
12.20.2023 // Video Link
Terrifying angels, spooky religion - the uncanny mix of holiness and dread known as numinosity.
BOOKS:
The Idea of the Holy by Rudolf Otto
The Sacred and the Profane
by Mircea Eliade
The Doors of Perception
12.12.2023 // Video Link
A history of psychedelics and an impeccably bespectacled author.
BOOKS:
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
NON-LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS:
Non-local Consciousness, a Concept Based on Scientific Research
The Near-death experience: implications for neuroscience and non-local consciousness
PSYCHEDELIC PIONEER:
Humphrey Osmond
MOVIE CLIP:
Jacob’s Ladder
Order of the Occult Hand
12.03.2023 // Video Link
The bizarre tragedy behind the longest running meme in journalism.
The Horns
11.23.2023 // Video Link
Finger gestures toward a spirit of defiance against demiurge energy.
TRADEMARK APPLICATION:
Gene Simmons’ hand gesture - abandoned trademark application
Mental Radio
11.18.2023 // Video Link
An influential author conducts parapsychological experiments endorsed by Albert Einstein. The field of parapsychology is born.
BOOKS:
Mental Radio by Upton Sinclair
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
FURTHER READING:
Jehova’s Witnesses
10.26.2023 // Video Link
A history of the world’s most successful and enduring apocalyptic cults. Also, pyramids.
7th Day Adventists
10.05.2023 // Video Link
How channeling led to one of the most ubiquitous staples of kitchen pantries.
Joseph Smith
10.03.2023 // Video Link
A folk magician turned cult leader, and his wild legacy.
The Imagination
9.21.2023 // Video Link
Terence McKenna reading The Imagination, a passage from the Corpus Hermeticum.
TAROT DECK:
Jack Parsons
9.05.2023 // Video Link
A sex magician and rocket scientist crosses paths with a future cult leader. Also, Aleister Crowley.
Alchemy
8.11.2023 // Video Link
The modern legacy of one of the oldest spiritual technologies in the world.
Baphomet
8.11.2023 // Video Link
The Devil. But not the devil. Also, bonus Twin Peaks location footage.
