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Joseph Matheny, David Metcalfe, and Ken Eakins send you transmissions from the Mauve Zone.
It's a Drone-O-Rama in the US and UK, The Orange Man is back in power, and Ken's Mantoid encounter.
Music by Simon Smerdon
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Egyptian deities, Thelemic Cabals and New Orleans Voodoo is our destination this week. Our shamanic spirit guide is the lovely Louie Martinié of Black Moon Publishing.
This week: Who is Nema and what was the Bate Cabal?, what’s Ma’at (got to do) got to do with it?, Letters to Kenneth Grant, New Orleans Voodoo and much more.
Main theme by Simon Smerdon
Music bed by chriszabriskie.com
Show notes:The Horus Ma’at Lodge – Bate Cabal related
Black Moon Publishing – Louis and Co’s publishing company
Black Moon Publishing Facebook
Voodoo Spiritual Temple – Louie’s Temple
Starfire Publishing – Kenneth Grant’s books
Ma’at Magick – Amazon Links UK/US/EU
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Louis Martinié Bio:Louis Martinié is an author, “internationally known” percussionist, practitioner of a multitude of religions among them being New Orleans style Voodoo, and co-author of the book New Orleans VooDoo Tarot (1992), with Sallie Ann Glassman. He is a priest and drummer with the New Orleans Voodoo Spiritual Temple, and a primary drummer for the rituals of Priestess Miriam Chamani He is a leader of the band of drummers known as the Krewe of Nutria, who have drummed for the ritual shows of the New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum. He is also the editor and a founder of Black Moon Publishing.
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Travel with us down the 26th path to encounter the Crawling Chaos of the Faceless God Nyarlathotep. This week, our shamanic guide is scholar and author Tomas Vincente.
This week: Kenneth Grant and the dream lore of H.P. Lovecraft, the connection between Nyarlathotep and Anubis, Why occultists need to loosen up their frameworks, the ordeal of the Abyss, and much more.
Main theme by Simon Smerdon (Mothboy)
Music bed by chriszabriskie.com
Tomas Vincente Bio:Dr. Tomas Vincente is a scholar of ancient religion, magic and esotericism. His past work explores the emergence of Christian monotheism and the resulting decline of the chthonic cults of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. He is dedicated to recovering the integrity of this archaic spirituality of blood and fire, which has been demonized by the Abrahamic religions for two millennia.
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Ken and Brian get front-row tickets to the Magick Show, our master magician is the legendary countercultural master Therion, Richard Metzger.
This week: How did the right-wing utilise magick, the sneaky occult tricks of Steve Bannon, Richard’s new show The Magick Show, and much more.
Go help fund The Magick Show at http://magickshow.net
Main theme by Simon Smerdon (Mothboy)
Music bed by chriszabriskie.com
Richard Metzger Bio:Richard Metzger is an American writer, journalist, and media personality best known for his work on Disinformation, a television show that aired on the Independent Film Channel in the early 2000s. The show explored unconventional topics like conspiracy theories, secret societies, and the paranormal, earning Metzger a reputation as a charismatic and thoughtful figure in alternative media.
In addition to his TV career, Metzger is an influential writer and editor, contributing to publications and anthologies that challenge mainstream narratives. He is a key figure behind the Disinformation publishing company, which released books on countercultural and conspiracy topics, including The Disinformation Guide to Conspiracies.
Metzger also runs Dangerous Minds, a website that continues to explore fringe culture, mysticism, and hidden histories. With his blend of curiosity, humor, and skepticism, Metzger has shaped the conversation around alternative thought and remains a prominent figure in the world of independent media.
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Joseph Matheny, Viking Brian, and Ken Eakins send you transmissions from the Mauve Zone.
Did the Internet ruin the Backrooms? The Conspirituality grift, The Christian New Age, and The Black Lodge
For the youth new to the scene, Brian was part of a podcast that inspired SittingNow called 'The Viking Youth Power Hour', so give him some love.
Check out Brian's Brewery here - https://www.ibw-chicago.com/6-6-6/
Music by Simon Smerdon
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We travel through the hidden mythologies of Eurasia to discover Daemons lurking in the shadows, capturing children, and seeing off evil sorcerers. Our Daemonolgist this week is the author of ‘Daemons are Forever’ David Gordon White.
This week: Daemons made from faeces, Tantra’s place in India, Dangerous Pools, Changelings, and much more.
Main theme by Simon Smerdon (Mothboy)
Music bed by chriszabriskie.com
Get David’s book here:UK – https://amzn.to/4brXJFL
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David Gordon White Bio:Since being named the J. F. Rowny Professor of Comparative Religion in 2011, I have returned to the focus of my PhD dissertation and first book, Myths of the Dog-Man (Chicago: 1991). While that project focused on the spread of the mytheme of a particular monstrous race across ancient and medieval Asia and Europe, my current interest concerns contacts and exchanges in matters of demonology. Unbound as they are by exclusivist doctrinal and institutional strictures,, demons have traveled more lightly than gods, and so it is that one finds the names of Buddhist demons in medieval Manichean spell texts, charms against Iranian demons in Lithuanian and Chinese sources, an amulet of an Indian demoness at an archeological site in Turkmenistan, and so on. Elsewhere, the yoginis and dakinis of South and East Asian Hinduism and Buddhism are found to be related to the striga of ancient Rome and the vampires of early modern eastern Europe; the tenth-century BCE Homeric myth of Odysseus and Circe reappears, only slightly altered, in the Mahavamsa, a fifth-century CE chronicle of the island of Ceylon; and the nightmares of European lore find their homologues in the maras of South Asia and the Chinese “devil-kings” called mo-wang. It is the “connected histories” of these beings and the humans who trafficked in them that have become my area of focus. Both the Silk Road and ancient and medieval maritime trade routes were information superhighways, and a portion of that information was demonological. It is easy to imagine soldiers, sailors, merchants, diviners, monks, and priests swapping amulets and spells at Silk Road halting points and ports. Demons and the techniques to control them were as much a commodity in the ancient and medieval world as germs, guns, and steel.
Source – https://www.religion.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/david-white/
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Ken and Marck drill into the cavernous tunnels of Mount Shasta searching for Lermurian secrets. Our flying submarine captain this week is Justin McHenry author of ‘Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place’.
This week: The great Lemur mystery, Blavatsky and root races, The I AM Movement and the Minutemen, The Shaver Mysteries, and much more.
Get Justin’s book:https://amzn.to/3vAafEa (UK)
https://amzn.to/3VMsOzx (US)
Justin McHenry Bio:I love a good story. And history holds an infinite number of stories just waiting to be rediscovered and brought back out into the present. History is a part of who I am. For over half my life, I have been studying and researching and writing and working with history. Working as an archivist and researcher and getting to physically interact with and study centuries old historical documents has created this very personal relationship with history for me. Discovering those stories held within, the lives of the people mentioned, the events coming to life is as exciting as anything can be. Being a part of the process of researching that history, finding those stories, and bringing them to life is what drives me as a writer and a historian. My interests are varied and my writing has matched my curiosity. Being from West Virginia and studying West Virginia history, I have written much about the state’s history from telling the story of the first person to die in the state from Spanish flu, who was an incarcerated black man, to how the first woman in the state to establish her own law practice sued the male hierarchy of her town for their sexist harassment of herself and her career. But I have also written about feuding Revolutionary War doctors, 19th century ghost hunting, and much more.
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Joseph Matheny, David B Metcalfe, and Ken Eakins send you transmissions from the Mauve Zone.
Ken rages against the Hyper Reality, How the Hyper Reality is killing people, Roger Corman of the death of the 20th Century, The Catholic Church’s paranormal division, Project Blue beam, Starseed and Indigo children, Praterhuman Intelligences, and the story is everything
Check out David's course with Diana Pasulka here https://dwpasulka-courses.teachable.c...
Music by Simon Smerdon http://patreon.com/burnthouse_lane
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Ken and Marck scale the Externsteine to discover the secret chapel, wonder at alchemical delights, and search for hidden Rosicrucian adepts of Germany. Our Reiseführer this week is returning guest, author, and adept of the highest standing Christopher McIntosh.
This week: Is Germany the true cradle of the Western Esoteric Tradition, Is the Golden Dawn origin story a lie, Just how Rosicrucian is Germany, and much more.
Joining me in Exernsteine Chapel this week is Marck Satyr
Main theme by Simon Smerdon (Mothboy)
Music bed by chriszabriskie.com
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Christopher McIntosh Bio:Dr. Christopher McIntosh was born in England in 1943 and grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland. He studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford and German at London University, later returning to Oxford to take a doctorate in history with a dissertation on the Rosicrucian revival in the context of the German Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment. After working in London in journalism and publishing he spent four years in New York as an information officer with the United Nations Development Programme, then moved to Germany to work for UNESCO. In parallel he has pursued a career as a writer and researcher specialising in the esoteric traditions as well as nature-oriented belief systems. He has lectured widely and was on the faculty of the distance M.A. programme in Western Esotericism at the University of Exeter, England, now sadly discontinued. He is married to the scholar of religion Dr. Donate Pahnke-McIntosh. Their home is in Lower Saxony, North Germany. Contact via Facebook Messenger.
Source – https://ozgard.net/
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Joseph Matheny, David B Metcalfe, and Ken Eakins send you transmissions from the Mauve Zone.
Are the Royal family from Dimension B? How can we disrupt The Satanic Panic 2.0?, Did Conspiracy Theorists popularise Kenneth Grant? Jiddu Krishnamurti the coolest of gurus, Reality is What You Can Get Away With book release, Ye Olde New Age and the death of Patronage, Sherman Oaks New Age District, Accelerationism and the meal replacement cults.
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This week we dig through the volcanic ruins of Pompeii and uncover the activities of the Dionysian mystery schools. Our initiatic guide through the villa of mysteries is wonderful Peter Mark Adams author of ‘Mystai: Dancing out the Mysteries of Dionysos’.
This week: What does initiation into the mystery schools look like, Just who is Dionysos, The ecstatic rush of possession, where can we get those sweet Dionysian cult rings?, and much more
Get Peter’s book direct from Scarlet Imprint here – https://scarletimprint.com/publicatio…Peter’s author page at Scarlet Imprint – https://scarletimprint.com/peter-mark…Peter’s own site – https://petermarkadams.com/Peter Mark Adams Bio:Peter Mark Adams is an author, poet, and essayist specialising in the ethnography and visuality of ritual, sacred landscape, esotericism, consciousness and healing. Peter has over twenty years experience with energy-based healing modalities including rebirthing breathwork, meridian therapies, and Reiki. As a professional author, Peter’s non-fiction is published by Scarlet Imprint and Inner Traditions; literary prose and poetry largely in Corbel Stone Press’ literary journal ‘Reliquiae: Journal of Nature, Landscape & Mythology’ and a range of essays examining other than human encounters in the peer-reviewed journals ‘Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal’ and ‘The Journal of Exceptional Experiences and Psychology’. With a background in Philosophy from the University of Liverpool; Peter pursues advanced studies with the Warburg Institute’s School of Advanced Studies in London covering iconology and iconographic theory; Renaissance art and material culture.
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Ken and Marck explore the mysterious and esoteric kingdoms of Earth this week like tourists of the occulture. Our astral travel guide is returning guest Andy Sharp author of ‘Astral Geographic: The Watkins Guide to the Occult World’.
This week: The Lasting Legend of the Hellfire Club, Mysterious Monuments and towers, Aleister Crowley’s desert adventures, and much more.
Main theme by Simon Smerdon (Mothboy)
Music bed by chriszabriskie.com
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Andy Sharp Bio:Andy Sharp is a writer and multimedia artist. Since 2003, he has worked on English Heretic, an autonomous creative research project. Pioneering the form of literary and aural aesthetics, he has released over a dozen albums and booklets. He has talked at academic conferences and counter-cultural events on a wide range of subjects drawn from his research. He has an MSc in Neuroscience from Kings College and lives in London.
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Ken explores the complex topic of Traditionalism, it’s esoteric roots, and why it’s having such an impact on Right-Wing politics. Our Illuminator this week is the excellent Professor Mark Sedgwick, author of ‘Traditionalism: The Radical Project for Restoring Sacred Order’.
This week: Rene Guenon despises modernity, Julius Evola and the Nazis, Steve Bannon and Alexander Dugin’s Traditionalist influence, and much more.
Main theme by Simon Smerdon (Mothboy)
Music bed by chriszabriskie.com
Get Mark’s book in the UK at https://amzn.to/425OoAe
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Get Mark’s book in the EU at https://amzn.to/490HmiC
Mark’s Traditionalists Blog
Mark Sedgwick BioMark J. Sedgwick is an academic and historian. Dr. Sedgwick is currently an associate professor of Arab history, culture and society in the Department of the Study of Religion, and program manager for Arab and Islamic Studies, at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. He previously worked at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Mark Sedgwick is the author of the controversial book Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century, published by Oxford University Press in 2004. The book purports to be a survey of “traditionalism,” with particular emphasis on the role René Guénon played in this school of thought. A number of careful reviewers, however, have found that Against the Modern World contains serious errors and faults in both premises and facts.
Dr. Mark Sedgwick maintains an active presence on the internet, including his blog, some of which strikes various readers as rather biased and self-promotional while other readers perceive his efforts as the result of academic inquisitiveness. It is undeniable that he is a source of information about Tradition and Perennialism. However, the controversial nature of Mark Sedgwick’s work on Traditionalism and Perennialism causes many readers to ask whether his influence is disproportionate to his credentials and possibly even to his motives. Readers must judge for themselves whether Sedgwick is a dispassionate student of Traditionalism or someone with an internet connection and a “personal and undisclosed bias against Traditionalism.” In the interest of a more balanced and well-researched view of Traditionalism, we present on this website three rather detailed and, we hope, incisive reviews of Mark Sedgwick’s Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century.
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Ken travels across the Iron Curtain to collect valuable data concerning paranormal and occult goings on in the Soviet Union. Our astral projector this week is academic and Mauve Zone co-host David B Metcalfe.
This week: What are Russian Cosmists, Who the hell is Kozyrev and why does he like mirrors so much, The Gateway Experience, and much more.
Main theme by Simon Smerdon (Mothboy)
Music bed by chriszabriskie.com
David Metcalfe Bio:David Metcalfe is an independent researcher, writer, and multimedia artist focusing on the interstices of art, culture, and consciousness. He is a contributing editor for Reality Sandwich, The Revealer, the online journal of NYU’s Center for Religion and Media, and The Daily Grail. He writes regularly for Evolutionary Landscapes, Alarm Magazine, Modern Mythology, Disinfo.com, The Teeming Brain, and his own blog The Eyeless Owl. His writing has been featured in The Immanence of Myth (Weaponized 2011), Chromatic: The Crossroads of Color & Music (Alarm Press, 2011), and Exploring the Edge Realms of Consciousness (North Atlantic/Evolver Editions 2012). Metcalfe is an Associate with Phoenix Rising Digital Academy and is currently co-hosting The Art of Transformations study group with support from the International Alchemy Guild.
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Journey with us into the dark and mystical caves and landscape of Kentucky to uncover strange phenomena and hidden secrets. Our local trail guide this week is the wonderful Nathan Isaac of the Penny Royal podcast.
This week: Feedback loops and the mystery of place, How to contact prater-human intelligences, James Shelby Downard in Kentucky, The Cincinnati Vortex, and much more.
Main theme by Simon Smerdon (Mothboy)
Music bed by chriszabriskie.com
Check out Nathan’s Penny Royal podcast and Liminal Lodge Patreon at the links below:
Penny Royal podcast homepageLiminal Lodge patreon pagePenny Royal Twitter page
Nathan Paul Isaac bio:Nathan Paul Isaac is a writer, researcher, and producer, best known as the host and creator of the Penny Royal podcast. He has spent over two decades diving deep into the folklore, mystery, and high strangeness that envelops his native Kentucky. Nathan has been a featured speaker at paranormal conventions, including Strange Realities and Phenomenacon, appeared on a wide array of podcasts and radio shows, including Jim Perry’s Nite Drift and Coast to Coast AM, and as a guest on paranormal documentary films and television series.
In addition to producing the Penny Royal podcast (and the upcoming podcasts Hidden In the Herd and Valley of the Unreel), he has worked as an associate television producer for History Channel’s Dark Marvels. Alongside his work in the paranormal field, Nathan has worked for more than a decade in the music recording industry and as executive producer for the SomerSessions series, shooting and directing video sessions with Tyler Childers, Morgan Wade, and many other award-winning musicians and artists.
source: https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/nathan-isaac/
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***Begin transmissionJoseph Matheny, David B Metcalfe, and Ken Eakins send you transmissions from the Mauve Zone.
Aleister Crowley the misunderstood, Lockdown conspiracies, The 2012 grift, failed raptures, Getting back to nature maaan, Rene Guenon’s Traditionalism, Tabloid UAPs, Traditionalists v Accelerationists and the CIA Secret office of Global Access.
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Ken and Mark return to their laboratory to combine base metals to discover the once-murky roots of Alchemy. Keeper of the Sanctum this week is the amazing Tobias Churton author of the new book ‘The First Alchemists: The Spiritual and Practical Origins of the Noble and Holy Art’. Join us as we return to the roots of Alchemy.
This week: Zosimos and the early Egyptian Alchemists, the female roots of the art, Was Jung wrong about Alchemy, and much more.
Joining me from his misty lab is Frater Marck Satyr
Main theme by Simon Smerdon (Mothboy)
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Check out our previous two interviews with Tobias Churton on Aleister Crowley here and here.
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Tobias Churton BioTobias Churton is Britain’s leading scholar of Western Esotericism, a world authority on Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and Rosicrucianism. He is a filmmaker and the founding editor of the magazine Freemasonry Today. An Honorary Fellow of Exeter University, where he is faculty lecturer in Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, he holds a master’s degree in Theology from Brasenose College, Oxford, and created the award-winning documentary series and accompanying book The Gnostics, as well as several other films on Christian doctrine, mysticism, and magical folklore. The author of many books, including Gnostic Philosophy, The Invisible History of the Rosicrucians, and Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin, he lives in England.
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This week Ken and Mark receive an Enochian invocation broadcast from an old numbers station, the Old Ones are calling. Our guide into the dream world this week is director and writer of The Lovecraft Investigations, Julian Simpson.
This week we discuss: How to modernise the tales of Lovecraft, the genius of Sapphire and Steel, why Numbers Stations are scary, Did Aleister Crowley meet Picasso, and much more.
Joining me, dead but still dreaming is Mar(c)k Satyr
Main theme by Simon Smerdon (Mothboy)
Music bed by chriszabriskie.com
Show Notes:
Check out The Lovecraft Investigation on Apple here, and Spotify here.
Check out Julian’s Pleasant Green Universe shows via his site Fragments, Bad Memories, Fugue State, and Mythos 1, 2 and 3
Julian’s other currently active show that features some characters from The Lovecraft Investigations ‘Aldrich Kemp’ can be found via the BBC Limelight Series on Apple here, and Spotify here
Julian Simpson Bio:
I was recently emailed by someone complaining about how hard it is to find information about me and my work. I get this. It’s not deliberate, but it’s not deliberate either.
There are probably ways to create a more accessible web presence, and to bring the various things I’ve worked on or been associated with into some kind of useful order. But that seems like quite a lot of work and I’m not wildly into doing lots of extra work. I really enjoy being a bit hidden and just getting on with my work. (For reference see Themis House in the upcoming “Who Is Aldrich Kemp?”, coming to your radios on February 18th, 2022.)
That people have to do a bit of digging to find me suits me just fine. It’s like a hazing process; the people who get through seem to be more interesting.
So now you are here, this is what you might want to know:
I am a London-based writer and director working in film, TV, and audio. In the past, I have worked, either as a writer or director or both, on Spooks (MI-5 if you’re in the US), Hustle, Hotel Babylon, New Tricks, and Doctor Who.
My TV work in the UK pretty much stopped dead in about 2016. This wasn’t by design, but I wrote a TV pilot script that got a lot of attention in America and that has been where the majority of my work has been coming from since then. That work has been mostly writing and, because nothing has yet been produced (watch this space), the credits do not yet show up on my IMDb page and I am legally not allowed to talk about any of them.
My official “work” website is at juliansimpson.uk. Many people have said they find this unhelpful. Those people might be missing the point.
In or around 2019 I co-founded a storytelling/world-building company called Storypunk. That does not yet have a website but it will, soon, and in the meantime, we have made a sci-fi podcast series called TEMPORAL which is out to distributors as I type this (Feb 2022).
I have also made a number of audio dramas, including the “Lovecraft Investigations” podcast series, details of most of which are on the Radio and Podcasts page and can be investigated in-depth on the Pleasant Green Universe wiki on TV Tropes and on my Wikipedia page.
There isn’t a veil of secrecy around what I do, but there is a veil of laziness draped over the promotion of it. If you want to find me, I’m on Twitter (@CartoonGravity), on Instagram (somewhat reluctantly) as @cartoon_gravity, and on e-mail at [email protected]. I also have a portfolio of photographs on Format.
I’m repped in the UK by Sean Gascoine at United Agents, and in the US by Jeff Barry at Range Media Partners and Andrew Murphy at Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment.
I live in London with my wife and daughter and two quite annoying cats. This site is a kind of public scrapbook of thoughts, ideas, and random nonsense.
Now you know as much about me as I do.
Source: http://cartoongravity.com
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This week we delve into the Eldritch world of HP Lovecraft and try and decode hidden magickal lessons. Mario Garza from Symbolic Studies from joins me to grill ‘Polaria’ author WH Müller on his book ‘Polaria’.
This week we discuss: Did Lovecraft encode a secret magickal lesson into each of his stories, what is ‘The Mystic Polar Tradition’, Why was the Polar tradition hidden, and much more.
Check out Mario’s site here, and his YouTube channel here
Main theme by Simon Smerdon (Mothboy)
Music bed by chriszabriskie.com
Good luck finding this book for less than £1500, check it on Amazon here
WH Müller Bio:Born in 1964, I gained access to Kabbalah and various occult doctrines related to it through my interest in the American author HP Lovecraft. My first book was published in 1992 bearing the title “Lovecraft – Treasurer of the Forbidden”. In 1994 I published the first occult exegesis and translation of the Babylonian Epic of Creation in “Primordial Light” which was substantially enlarged in its second edition “Fiat Nox” in 1994. In the 1990s I was also a patron member of the British Museum Society. Besides, I always worked as a translator and was for example responsible for the first Nicholas-Roerich-biography by Jacqueline Decter. Further translations in the 1990s included works by WB Yeats and EA Wallis Budge. In 1996 I authored “Polaria – The Gift of the White Stone” on Lovecraft and Western Occultism which was published in the US. In 2001 I founded my own publishing company with two books on esoteric Traditionalism (Guénon) and related subjects of Alchemy as well as the first German translations of some of Suhrawardi’s most eminent Sufi writings. After having positively identified Einstein’s famous equation of Special Relativity in Kabbalah, I published “NecroYoga” in 2011 containing the Kabbalistic “threshold-equation” later termed “Moshe-Formula”, and partly based on a so-called “Babylon-Workout” on Kabbalah, Special Relativity and Black Hole ‘Physics which had appeared previously in Germany. My most recent translations include Nevill Drury’s biography on the life and work of the Australian artist and occultist Rosaleen Norton and Stephen Flower’s “Lords of the Left-Hand Path”. “Antarktos: Understanding the Age of Rebellion” in which I write comprehensively on the “real” secrets of Antarctica in connection with the ongoing conflict of the Old Ones vs. the Elder Ones, E.A. Poe’s secret messages in “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” and further revelations from Lovecraft’s occult heritage, is due for publication soon.
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This week, Ken and Marck pull up their chairs at the dining table and feast upon the banquet of American cults and their delicious offerings. Our head chef this week is the lovely Christina Ward of the legendary Feral House Publishing.
This week: The history of Feral House Publishing and Adam Parfry’s legacy, How foods are influenced by religious movements, UFO cults in America and much more.
Joining me at the dinner table is Marck Satyr
Main theme by Simon Smerdon (Mothboy)
Music bed by chriszabriskie.com
Get Christina’s book in the UK here – https://amzn.to/40714Wz
Get Christina’s book in the US here – https://amzn.to/490XAca
Christina Ward Bio:Christina Ward is an author, editor, and seeker. She is also the Vice President and Editor of Feral House, a publisher noted for their books on outré topics. She had the distinct pleasure of riding around town in the Wienermobile with Padma Lakshmi on the hottest day in July of 2019 for “Taste the Nation.” Her current book, Holy Food: Recipes and Foodways from Cults, Communes, and New Religious Movements (September 26, 2023).
Her previous book, American Advertising Cookbooks-How Corporations Taught Us To Love, Spam, Bananas, and Jell-O, earned positive notice from Florence Fabricant in the New York Times, Christopher Kimball of Milk Street Radio, and numerous other journalists and readers.
Her 2017 book, Preservation-The Art and Science of Canning, Fermentation, and Dehydration, explores the history and science of food preservation while sharing 100 fool-proof recipes that make the science real. She is a contributor to Serious Eats, Edible Milwaukee, The Wall Street Journal, The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, Remedy Quarterly, and Runcible Spoon magazines. Christina makes regular guest expert on Milwaukee television programs and public radio stations across the United States, delighting in ‘working blue’ before 8 am.
She contributed to and edited the 2021 book Bawdy Tales & Trifles of Devilries for Ladies and Gentlemen of Experience under her nom d’amour, Lady Fanny Woodcock. She has guided, edited, contributed to, and in a few (unnamed) instances, rewritten, over fifty books. She has an interest in the lives of forgotten “difficult women” and bringing their stories to readers. Christina regularly contributes to academic and educational conferences on the topic of transgressive art. In her spare time, she is the certified Master Food Preserver for Southeast Wisconsin and always picks up the phone to answer pressing questions about jelly that won’t set and soft pickles.Christina can trace her Milwaukee and Wisconsin roots to the early 1800s. Her love of history comes from her father, who instilled the idea that we are all manifestations of our ancestors. Her interest in cooking began out of childhood necessity to feed herself and her siblings while her father worked in a factory. She prides herself on having a hungry mind interested in learning about people, the foods they eat, and the stories that arise from that convergence.
If you asked 8-year-old me what I wanted to be when I grew up—my answer was always the same—a writer.
- Visa fler
