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Discussing Platonism w/ Eric Claussen

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2026 96:08 Transcription Available

If you enjoy this episode, we're sure you will enjoy more content like this on The Occult Rejects. In fact, we have curated playlists on occult topics like grimoires, esoteric concepts and phenomena, occult history, analyzing true crime and cults with an occult lens, Para politics, and occultism in music. Whether you enjoy consuming your content visually or via audio, we've got you covered - and it will always be provided free of charge. So, if you enjoy what we do and want to support our work of providing accessible, free content on various platforms, please consider making a donation to the links provided below. Thank you and enjoy the episode!Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Cash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsBuy Me A Coffeebuymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsAlso want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

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The Mechanics of Magick: The Spell of Repetition Episode Three: The Programmed Self

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2026 57:49 Transcription Available

Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsBuy Me A Coffeebuymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsBibliographyCurses, Blessings, and Ritual HarmCannon, Walter B. “‘Voodoo' Death.” American Anthropologist 44, no. 2 (1942): 169–181.Faraone, Christopher A. Ancient Greek Love Magic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.Gager, John G., ed. Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.Graf, Fritz. Magic in the Ancient World. Translated by Franklin Philip. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.Ogden, Daniel. Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.Stratton, Kimberly B., and Dayna S. Kalleres, eds. Daughters of Hecate: Women and Magic in the Ancient World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja. “The Magical Power of Words.” Man 3, no. 2 (1968): 175–208.Placebo, Nocebo, and Medical CommunicationBarsky, Arthur J., Ralph Saintfort, Malcolm P. Rogers, and Jonathan F. Borus. “Nonspecific Medication Side Effects and the Nocebo Phenomenon.” JAMA 287, no. 5 (2002): 622–627.Benedetti, Fabrizio. Placebo Effects: Understanding the Mechanisms in Health and Disease. 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Miller. “The Nocebo Effect and Its Relevance for Clinical Practice.” Psychosomatic Medicine 73, no. 7 (2011): 598–603.Enck, Paul, Fabrizio Benedetti, and Manfred Schedlowski. “New Insights into the Placebo and Nocebo Responses.” Neuron 59, no. 2 (2008): 195–206.Häuser, Winfried, Ernil Hansen, and Paul Enck. “Nocebo Phenomena in Medicine: Their Relevance in Everyday Clinical Practice.” Deutsches Ärzteblatt International 109, no. 26 (2012): 459–465.Inner Speech and DevelopmentFernyhough, Charles. The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves. New York: Basic Books, 2016.Vygotsky, Lev S. Thought and Language. Revised and expanded ed. Edited and translated by Alex Kozulin. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986.Winsler, Adam, Charles Fernyhough, and Ignacio Montero, eds. Private Speech, Executive Functioning, and the Development of Verbal Self-Regulation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.Rumination and Repetitive Negative ThinkingBrosschot, Jos F., Bart Verkuil, and Julian F. Thayer. “Conscious and Unconscious Perseverative Cognition: Is a Large Part of Prolonged Physiological Activity Due to Unconscious Stress?” Journal of Psychosomatic Research 69, no. 4 (2010): 407–416.Ehring, Thomas, and Edward R. Watkins. “Repetitive Negative Thinking as a Transdiagnostic Process.” International Journal of Cognitive Therapy 1, no. 3 (2008): 192–205.Nolen-Hoeksema, Susan. “Responses to Depression and Their Effects on the Duration of Depressive Episodes.” Journal of Abnormal Psychology 100, no. 4 (1991): 569–582.Nolen-Hoeksema, Susan, Blair E. Wisco, and Sonja Lyubomirsky. “Rethinking Rumination.” Perspectives on Psychological Science 3, no. 5 (2008): 400–424.Smith, Jeannette M., and Lauren B. 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New York: Guilford Press, 2016.Self-Talk and PerformanceHardy, James. “Speaking Clearly: A Critical Review of the Self-Talk Literature.” Psychology of Sport and Exercise 7, no. 1 (2006): 81–97.Hatzigeorgiadis, Antonis, Nikos Zourbanos, Evangelos Galanis, and Yiannis Theodorakis. “Self-Talk and Sports Performance: A Meta-Analysis.” Perspectives on Psychological Science 6, no. 4 (2011): 348–356.Theodorakis, Yiannis, Antonis Hatzigeorgiadis, and Nikos Zourbanos. “Cognition: Self-Talk and Performance.” In The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Performance Psychology, edited by Shane M. Murphy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.Affect Labeling, Emotion, and LanguageBarrett, Lisa Feldman. “Solving the Emotion Paradox: Categorization and the Experience of Emotion.” Personality and Social Psychology Review 10, no. 1 (2006): 20–46.Lieberman, Matthew D., Naomi I. Eisenberger, Molly J. Crockett, Sabrina M. Tom, Jennifer H. Pfeifer, and Baldwin M. Way. “Putting Feelings into Words: Affect Labeling Disrupts Amygdala Activity in Response to Affective Stimuli.” Psychological Science 18, no. 5 (2007): 421–428.Lindquist, Kristen A., Lisa Feldman Barrett, Eliza Bliss-Moreau, and James A. Russell. “Language and the Perception of Emotion.” Emotion 6, no. 1 (2006): 125–138.Torre, Jared B., and Matthew D. Lieberman. “Putting Feelings into Words: Affect Labeling as Implicit Emotion Regulation.” Emotion Review 10, no. 2 (2018): 116–124.Self-Distancing and Reflective ProcessingAyduk, Özlem, and Ethan Kross. “From a Distance: Implications of Spontaneous Self-Distancing for Adaptive Self-Reflection.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 98, no. 5 (2010): 809–829.Kross, Ethan, and Özlem Ayduk. “Making Meaning out of Negative Experiences by Self-Distancing.” Current Directions in Psychological Science 20, no. 3 (2011): 187–191.Kross, Ethan, Özlem Ayduk, and Walter Mischel. “When Asking ‘Why' Does Not Hurt: Distinguishing Rumination from Reflective Processing of Negative Emotions.” Psychological Science 16, no. 9 (2005): 709–715.Kross, Ethan, Emma Bruehlman-Senecal, Jiyoung Park, Aleah Burson, Adrienne Dougherty, Holly Shablack, Ryan Bremner, Jason Moser, and Özlem Ayduk. “Self-Talk as a Regulatory Mechanism: How You Do It Matters.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 106, no. 2 (2014): 304–324.Moser, Jason S., Adrienne Dougherty, Whitney I. Mattson, Benjamin Katz, Tim P. Moran, Darwin Guevarra, Hannah Shablack, et al. “Third-Person Self-Talk Facilitates Emotion Regulation Without Engaging Cognitive Control: Converging Evidence from ERP and fMRI.” Scientific Reports 7 (2017): 4519.Affirmation and Counter-IncantationCascio, Christopher N., Matthew B. O'Donnell, Francis J. Tinney Jr., Matthew D. Lieberman, Shelley E. Taylor, Victor J. Strecher, and Emily B. Falk. “Self-Affirmation Activates Brain Systems Associated with Self-Related Processing and Reward and Is Reinforced by Future Orientation.” Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 11, no. 4 (2016): 621–629.Cohen, Geoffrey L., and David K. Sherman. “The Psychology of Change: Self-Affirmation and Social Psychological Intervention.” Annual Review of Psychology 65 (2014): 333–371.Wood, Joanne V., W. Q. Elaine Perunovic, and John W. Lee. “Positive Self-Statements: Power for Some, Peril for Others.” Psychological Science 20, no. 7 (2009): 860–866.Implementation Intentions and ActionGollwitzer, Peter M. “Implementation Intentions: Strong Effects of Simple Plans.” American Psychologist 54, no. 7 (1999): 493–503.Gollwitzer, Peter M., and Veronika Brandstätter. “Implementation Intentions and Effective Goal Pursuit.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 73, no. 1 (1997): 186–199.Gollwitzer, Peter M., and Paschal Sheeran. “Implementation Intentions and Goal Achievement: A Meta-Analysis of Effects and Processes.” Advances in Experimental Social Psychology 38 (2006): 69–119.Schweiger Gallo, Inge, Andreas Keil, Kathleen C. McCulloch, Brigitte Rockstroh, and Peter M. Gollwitzer. “Strategic Automation of Emotion Regulation.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 96, no. 1 (2009): 11–31.Ritual, Identity, and Psychological FormationBell, Catherine. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.Hobson, Nicholas M., Juliana Schroeder, Jane L. Risen, Dimitris Xygalatas, and Michael Inzlicht. “The Psychology of Rituals: An Integrative Review and Process-Based Framework.” Personality and Social Psychology Review 22, no. 3 (2018): 260–284.Rappaport, Roy A. Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.Xygalatas, Dimitris. Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living. New York: Little, Brown Spark, 2022.Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

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Inside the Temple of Astarte — Maximilian Raphael Paul on the OTA, Initiation, and Ceremonial Magick

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2026 108:02 Transcription Available

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The Biography Of The Pentagram Episode 3- Plato, Euclid, and the Philosophical Pentagram

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2026 57:15 Transcription Available

BIBLIOGRAPHYPRIMARY AND CLASSICAL SOURCESAristotle. Metaphysics. Translated by Hugh Tredennick. Harvard University Press.Aristotle. On the Heavens. Translated by W. K. C. Guthrie. Harvard University Press.Diogenes Laërtius. Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VIII. Translated by R. D. Hicks. Harvard University Press.Euclid. The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements. Translated and edited by Thomas L. Heath. Cambridge University Press.Iamblichus. On the Pythagorean Way of Life. Translated by John Dillon and Jackson Hershbell. Society of Biblical Literature.Philolaus. Fragments and Testimonia, collected and discussed in Carl A. Huffman's Philolaus of Croton.Plato. Phaedo. In Plato: Complete Works, edited by John M. Cooper. Hackett Publishing.Plato. Republic. Translated by C. D. C. Reeve. Hackett Publishing.Plato. Theaetetus. Translated by M. J. Levett and revised by Myles Burnyeat. Hackett Publishing.Plato. Timaeus. Translated by Donald J. Zeyl. Hackett Publishing.Plotinus. The Enneads. Translated by A. H. Armstrong. Harvard University Press.Porphyry. Life of Pythagoras. In The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library, translated by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie and edited by David R. Fideler. Phanes Press.Proclus. A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements. Translated by Glenn R. Morrow. Princeton University Press.PYTHAGORAS AND THE PYTHAGOREAN TRADITIONBurkert, Walter. Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism. Translated by Edwin L. Minar Jr. Harvard University Press, 1972.Huffman, Carl A. A History of Pythagoreanism. Cambridge University Press, 2014.Huffman, Carl A. Archytas of Tarentum: Pythagorean, Philosopher and Mathematician King. Cambridge University Press, 2005.Huffman, Carl A. Philolaus of Croton: Pythagorean and Presocratic. Cambridge University Press, 1993.Kahn, Charles H. Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: A Brief History. Hackett Publishing, 2001.Riedweg, Christoph. Pythagoras: His Life, Teaching, and Influence. Cornell University Press, 2005.Waterfield, Robin. The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists. Oxford University Press, 2000.Zhmud, Leonid. Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans. Oxford University Press, 2012.PLATO, PLATONISM, AND ANCIENT COSMOLOGYAnnas, Julia. An Introduction to Plato's Republic. Oxford University Press, 1981.Cornford, Francis Macdonald. Plato's Cosmology: The Timaeus of Plato. Hackett Publishing, 1997.Dillon, John. The Middle Platonists: 80 B.C. to A.D. 220. Cornell University Press, 1996.Fowler, David. The Mathematics of Plato's Academy: A New Reconstruction. Oxford University Press, 1999.Guthrie, W. K. C. A History of Greek Philosophy, Volumes I–V. Cambridge University Press.Johansen, Thomas Kjeller. Plato's Natural Philosophy: A Study of the Timaeus-Critias. Cambridge University Press, 2004.O'Meara, Dominic J. Pythagoras Revived: Mathematics and Philosophy in Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press, 1989.Sedley, David. Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity. University of California Press, 2007.Wallis, Richard T. Neoplatonism. Hackett Publishing, 1995.EUCLID, THE PENTAGON, AND GREEK MATHEMATICSHeath, Thomas L. A History of Greek Mathematics. Dover Publications.Heath, Thomas L. The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements. Cambridge University Press.Knorr, Wilbur Richard. The Evolution of the Euclidean Elements. D. Reidel Publishing, 1975.Mueller, Ian. Philosophy of Mathematics and Deductive Structure in Euclid's Elements. MIT Press, 1981.Netz, Reviel. The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History. Cambridge University Press, 1999.Pappas, Theoni. The Joy of Mathematics. Wide World Publishing, for accessible visual discussion of pentagonal proportion and recursive geometry.Van der Waerden, B. L. Science Awakening. Noordhoff International Publishing.LATE ANTIQUITY, NEOPLATONISM, AND THEURGYChlup, Radek. Proclus: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2012.Dillon, John. The Middle Platonists. Cornell University Press.Finamore, John F., and Sarah Iles Johnston. The Chaldean Oracles: A New Translation and Commentary. Society of Biblical Literature, 2011.Gregory, John. The Neoplatonists: A Reader. Routledge, 1999.Shaw, Gregory. Theurgy and the Soul: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus. Angelico Press, revised edition, 2014.Smith, Andrew. Porphyry's Place in the Neoplatonic Tradition. Springer, 1974.Wallis, Richard T. Neoplatonism. Hackett Publishing.Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

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Inside Ritual Botanica: The Art & Science of Sacred Plants

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2026 97:29 Transcription Available

If you enjoy this episode, we're sure you will enjoy more content like this on The Occult Rejects. In fact, we have curated playlists on occult topics like grimoires, esoteric concepts and phenomena, occult history, analyzing true crime and cults with an occult lens, Para politics, and occultism in music. Whether you enjoy consuming your content visually or via audio, we've got you covered - and it will always be provided free of charge. So, if you enjoy what we do and want to support our work of providing accessible, free content on various platforms, please consider making a donation to the links provided below. Thank you and enjoy the episode!Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsBuy Me A Coffeebuymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsAlso want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

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The Mechanics of Magick: The Spell of Repetition Episode Two- The Repeated Mind

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2026 64:50 Transcription Available

Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsBuy Me A Coffeebuymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsBibliographyRepetition, Fluency, and BeliefBacon, Frederick T. “Credibility of Repeated Statements: Memory for Trivia.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory 5, no. 3 (1979): 241–252.Begg, Ian Maynard, Ann Anas, and Suzanne Farinacci. “Dissociation of Processes in Belief: Source Recollection, Statement Familiarity, and the Illusion of Truth.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 121, no. 4 (1992): 446–458.Dechêne, Alice, Christoph Stahl, Jochim Hansen, and Michaela Wänke. “The Truth About the Truth: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Truth Effect.” Personality and Social Psychology Review 14, no. 2 (2010): 238–257.Fazio, Lisa K., Nadia M. Brashier, B. Keith Payne, and Elizabeth J. Marsh. “Knowledge Does Not Protect Against Illusory Truth.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 144, no. 5 (2015): 993–1002.Hasher, Lynn, David Goldstein, and Thomas Toppino. “Frequency and the Conference of Referential Validity.” Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 16, no. 1 (1977): 107–112.Reber, Rolf, and Norbert Schwarz. “Effects of Perceptual Fluency on Judgments of Truth.” Consciousness and Cognition 8, no. 3 (1999): 338–342.Unkelbach, Christian. “Reversing the Truth Effect: Learning the Interpretation of Processing Fluency in Judgments of Truth.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 33, no. 1 (2007): 219–230.Zajonc, Robert B. “Attitudinal Effects of Mere Exposure.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 9, no. 2, part 2 (1968): 1–27.Memory, Spacing, and RetrievalCepeda, Nicholas J., Harold Pashler, Edward Vul, John T. Wixted, and Doug Rohrer. “Distributed Practice in Verbal Recall Tasks: A Review and Quantitative Synthesis.” Psychological Bulletin 132, no. 3 (2006): 354–380.Ebbinghaus, Hermann. Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology. Translated by Henry A. Ruger and Clara E. Bussenius. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1913. Originally published 1885.Karpicke, Jeffrey D., and Henry L. Roediger III. “Repeated Retrieval During Learning Is the Key to Long-Term Retention.” Journal of Memory and Language 57, no. 2 (2007): 151–162.Roediger, Henry L. III, and Jeffrey D. Karpicke. “Test-Enhanced Learning: Taking Memory Tests Improves Long-Term Retention.” Psychological Science 17, no. 3 (2006): 249–255.Tulving, Endel, and Donald M. Thomson. “Encoding Specificity and Retrieval Processes in Episodic Memory.” Psychological Review 80, no. 5 (1973): 352–373.Whitehouse, Harvey. Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2004.Semantic Satiation and Verbal TransformationBalota, David A., and Sarah Black. “Semantic Satiation in Healthy Young and Older Adults.” Memory & Cognition 25, no. 2 (1997): 190–202.Jakobovits, Leon A. Effects of Repeated Stimulation on Cognitive Aspects of Behavior: Some Experiments on the Phenomenon of Semantic Satiation. PhD diss., McGill University, 1962.Kounios, John, et al. “On the Locus of the Semantic Satiation Effect: Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials.” Memory & Cognition 28, no. 8 (2000): 1366–1377.Pilotti, Maura, John S. Antrobus, and Monica Duff. “The Effect of Presemantic Acoustic Adaptation on Semantic ‘Satiation.'” Memory & Cognition 25, no. 3 (1997): 305–312.Ströberg, Kim, Lau M. Andersen, and Stefan Wiens. “Electrocortical N400 Effects of Semantic Satiation.” Frontiers in Psychology 8 (2017): 2117.Warren, Richard M. “Illusory Changes of Distinct Speech upon Repetition—The Verbal Transformation Effect.” British Journal of Psychology 52, no. 3 (1961): 249–258.Warren, Richard M. “Illusory Changes in Repeated Words: Differences between Young Adults and the Aged.” American Journal of Psychology 74, no. 4 (1961): 506–516.Speech, Song, and Musical RepetitionDeutsch, Diana. “The Speech-to-Song Illusion.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134, no. 5 (2013): 4241.Deutsch, Diana, Trevor Henthorn, and Rachael Lapidis. “Illusory Transformation from Speech to Song.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 129, no. 4 (2011): 2245–2252.Jakubowski, Kelly, Sebastian Finkel, Lauren Stewart, and Daniel Müllensiefen. “Dissecting an Earworm: Melodic Features and Song Popularity Predict Involuntary Musical Imagery.” Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 11, no. 2 (2017): 122–135.Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth. On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.Marjieh, Raja, Pol van Rijn, Ilia Sucholutsky, Harin Lee, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Nori Jacoby. “A Rational Analysis of the Speech-to-Song Illusion.” Preprint, 2024.Vickhoff, Björn, Helge Malmgren, Rickard Åström, Gunnar Nyberg, Seth-Reino Ekström, Mathias Engwall, Johan Snygg, Michael Nilsson, and Rebecka Jörnsten. “Music Structure Determines Heart Rate Variability of Singers.” Frontiers in Psychology 4 (2013): 334.Breath, Vocalization, and Autonomic PhysiologyBernardi, Luciano, Peter Sleight, Gianfranco Bandinelli, Simone Cencetti, Lino Fattorini, Jacek Wdowczyc-Szulc, and Andrea Lagi. “Effect of Rosary Prayer and Yoga Mantras on Autonomic Cardiovascular Rhythms: Comparative Study.” BMJ 323, no. 7327 (2001): 1446–1449.Lehrer, Paul M., and Richard Gevirtz. “Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback: How and Why Does It Work?” Frontiers in Psychology 5 (2014): 756.Shaffer, Fred, and J. P. Ginsberg. “An Overview of Heart Rate Variability Metrics and Norms.” Frontiers in Public Health 5 (2017): 258.Zaccaro, Andrea, Andrea Piarulli, Marco Laurino, Erika Garbella, Danilo Menicucci, Bruno Neri, and Angelo Gemignani. “How Breath-Control Can Change Your Life: A Systematic Review on Psycho-Physiological Correlates of Slow Breathing.” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 12 (2018): 353.Meditation, Chanting, and NeuroscienceFox, Kieran C. R., Matthew L. Dixon, Savannah Nijeboer, Manesh Girn, James L. Floman, Michael Lifshitz, Melissa Ellamil, Peter Sedlmeier, and Kalina Christoff. “Functional Neuroanatomy of Meditation: A Review and Meta-Analysis of 78 Functional Neuroimaging Investigations.” Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 65 (2016): 208–228.Kalyani, B. G., G. Venkatasubramanian, R. Arasappa, N. P. Rao, S. V. Kalmady, R. Behere, H. Rao, M. Vasudev, and B. N. Gangadhar. “Neurohemodynamic Correlates of ‘OM' Chanting: A Pilot Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.” International Journal of Yoga 4, no. 1 (2011): 3–6.Travis, Fred, and Jonathan Shear. “Focused Attention, Open Monitoring and Automatic Self-Transcending: Categories to Organize Meditations from Vedic, Buddhist and Chinese Traditions.” Consciousness and Cognition 19, no. 4 (2010): 1110–1118.Ritual, Attention, and Embodied PracticeBell, Catherine. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.Hobson, Nicholas M., Juliana Schroeder, Jane L. Risen, Dimitris Xygalatas, and Michael Inzlicht. “The Psychology of Rituals: An Integrative Review and Process-Based Framework.” Personality and Social Psychology Review 22, no. 3 (2018): 260–284.McCauley, Robert N., and E. Thomas Lawson. Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.Rappaport, Roy A. Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.Xygalatas, Dimitris. Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living. New York: Little, Brown Spark, 2022.Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

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The Rare Element: Lucy Von on Occultism, Contact, and the Search for What's Real

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2026 66:22 Transcription Available

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The Biography Of The Pentagram Episode 2- The Philosopher's Star

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2026 34:13 Transcription Available

If you enjoy this episode, we're sure you will enjoy more content like this on The Occult Rejects. In fact, we have curated playlists on occult topics like grimoires, esoteric concepts and phenomena, occult history, analyzing true crime and cults with an occult lens, Para politics, and occultism in music. Whether you enjoy consuming your content visually or via audio, we've got you covered - and it will always be provided free of charge. So, if you enjoy what we do and want to support our work of providing accessible, free content on various platforms, please consider making a donation to the links provided below. Thank you and enjoy the episode!Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsBuy Me A Coffeebuymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsBibliographyAncient SourcesAristotle. Metaphysics.Aristotle. On the Heavens.Diogenes Laërtius. Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VIII.Iamblichus. Life of Pythagoras.Iamblichus. On the Pythagorean Way of Life.Nicomachus of Gerasa. Introduction to Arithmetic.Philolaus. Fragments and testimonia.Porphyry. Life of Pythagoras.Proclus. A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements.Modern ScholarshipBurkert, Walter. Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism. Harvard University Press, 1972.Fowler, David. The Mathematics of Plato's Academy: A New Reconstruction. Oxford University Press, 1999.Guthrie, W. K. C. A History of Greek Philosophy, Volume 1: The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans. Cambridge University Press, 1962.Heath, Thomas L. A History of Greek Mathematics. Oxford University Press, 1921.Heath, Thomas L. The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements. Cambridge University Press, 1908.Huffman, Carl A. Philolaus of Croton: Pythagorean and Presocratic. Cambridge University Press, 1993.Huffman, Carl A., ed. A History of Pythagoreanism. Cambridge University Press, 2014.Kahn, Charles H. Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: A Brief History. Hackett, 2001.Knorr, Wilbur Richard. The Evolution of the Euclidean Elements. D. Reidel, 1975.Netz, Reviel. The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics. Cambridge University Press, 1999.Waterfield, Robin. The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists. Oxford University Press, 2000.Waterfield, Robin. Pythagoras: His Lives and the Legacy of a Rational Universe. Oxford University Press, 2010.Zhmud, Leonid. Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans. Oxford University Press, 2012.Useful Context on Music, Number, and Greek ThoughtBarker, Andrew. Greek Musical Writings, Volume II: Harmonic and Acoustic Theory. Cambridge University Press, 1989.Godwin, Joscelyn. The Harmony of the Spheres: A Sourcebook of the Pythagorean Tradition in Music. Inner Traditions, 1993.McClain, Ernest G. The Pythagorean Plato: Prelude to the Song Itself. Nicolas-Hays, 1978.Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

The Biography Of The Pentagram Episode 1: Before Philosophy

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2026 42:51 Transcription Available

If you enjoy this episode, we're sure you will enjoy more content like this on The Occult Rejects. In fact, we have curated playlists on occult topics like grimoires, esoteric concepts and phenomena, occult history, analyzing true crime and cults with an occult lens, Para politics, and occultism in music. Whether you enjoy consuming your content visually or via audio, we've got you covered - and it will always be provided free of charge. So, if you enjoy what we do and want to support our work of providing accessible, free content on various platforms, please consider making a donation to the links provided below. Thank you and enjoy the episode!Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsBuy Me A Coffeebuymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsBibliographyPrimary SourcesMUL.APINEnūma Anu EnlilVenus Tablet of AmmisaduqaThe Descent of InannaPyramid TextsCoffin TextsBook of the DeadAncient Near Eastern HistoryJeremy Black. The Literature of Ancient Sumer.Francesca Rochberg. Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science.Wayne Horowitz. Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography.Piotr Michalowski. Selected works on Sumerian literature and early Mesopotamian civilization.EgyptologyJan Assmann. Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt.Erik Hornung. Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt and The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife.Richard H. Wilkinson. The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt.General Archaeology and Ancient ReligionBarry Cunliffe. By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean.Miranda Aldhouse-Green. Selected works on ancient religion and symbolism.Chris Scarre, ed. The Human Past.Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn. Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice.Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

Against the False Self: Mitch Horowitz on Esoterika, Magick, and the Occult Path

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2026 79:13 Transcription Available

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The Mechanics of Magick: The Spell of Repetition Episode 1- The Operative Word

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2026 53:27 Transcription Available

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The Hidden Story of Humanity: Becket Fusik on Ancient Mysteries, Consciousness & Lost Civilizations

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2026 64:55 Transcription Available

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Pharmaceutical Damage with Nurse Nicole

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2026 74:05 Transcription Available

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The Encratites The Christians Who Rejected Marriage, Meat, and Wine

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2026 69:35 Transcription Available

If you enjoy this episode, we're sure you will enjoy more content like this on The Occult Rejects. In fact, we have curated playlists on occult topics like grimoires, esoteric concepts and phenomena, occult history, analyzing true crime and cults with an occult lens, Para politics, and occultism in music. Whether you enjoy consuming your content visually or via audio, we've got you covered - and it will always be provided free of charge. So, if you enjoy what we do and want to support our work of providing accessible, free content on various platforms, please consider making a donation to the links provided below. Thank you and enjoy the episode!Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Cash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsBuy Me A Coffeebuymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsPrimary sourcesIrenaeus. Against Heresies 1.28. Best early witness for the Encratites' rejection of marriage and animal food. Accessible English text online.Eusebius of Caesarea. Ecclesiastical History 4.28–29. Key source for Tatian, Musanus, and the Severians. Accessible English text online.Clement of Alexandria. Stromata 3. Essential for anti-Encratite argument, marriage/continence debates, Cassianus, and use of the Gospel according to the Egyptians. Accessible English text online.Hippolytus. Refutation of All Heresies 8. Useful for Tatian's reputation, abstinence, and sectarian framing. Accessible English text online.Basil of Caesarea. Letter 188. Important later witness showing Encratites still mattered canonically in the fourth century. Accessible English text online.Synod of Gangra (especially Canons 1–2). Important for the later church's rejection of condemning marriage and condemning meat-eating Christians. Accessible English text online.Tatian. Address to the Greeks. Useful for Tatian's tone, worldview, and severity, even if it is not itself the main Encratite text. Modern Cambridge edition available.Acts of Thomas. Important for the wider encratite ascetic imagination and later patristic memory of the text's Encratite character.Gospel according to the Egyptians (fragments preserved in Clement, Stromata 3). Important for Salome sayings, celibacy discourse, and the wider anti-marriage textual world.Modern scholarshipGuffey, Andrew R. “Motivations for Encratite Practices in Early Christian Literature.” Journal of Theological Studies 65, no. 2 (2014): 515–549. Probably the single best focused article for your episode. It is especially useful on motives, mixed origins, and why Encratite practice cannot be reduced to one simple cause.Litwa, M. David. Early Christianity in Alexandria: From its Beginnings to the Late Second Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Use especially Chapter 8, “Julius Cassianus and Alexandrian Ascetic Culture.” Very useful for Cassianus and Alexandrian radical continence.Crawford, Matthew R. “The Diatessaron, Canonical or Non-canonical? Rereading the Dura Fragment.” New Testament Studies (2016). Strong on Tatian's Gospel harmony, its reception, and the Syriac afterlife of the Diatessaron.McCarthy, Carmel, trans. Saint Ephrem's Commentary on Tatian's Diatessaron: An English Translation of Chester Beatty Syriac MS 709. Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Useful if you want to lean harder into the Syriac legacy of Tatian.Petersen, William L. Tatian's Diatessaron: Its Creation, Dissemination, Significance, and History in Scholarship. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 25. Leiden: Brill, 1994. Still an important specialist study for Tatian and the Diatessaron.“The Syriac Versions.” In an Oxford Academic volume on the Syriac New Testament tradition. Useful for concise background on Tatian's Diatessaron in Syriac Christianity.“The Earliest Syriac Literature.” In The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature. Helpful for placing Tatian inside the broader Syriac literary and ascetic world.Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

The Grimoire Tradition: David Rankine on Spirits, Circles, Seals, and Sacred Names

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2026 106:46 Transcription Available

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The Mechanics of Magick: The Pupil, Light, and the Nervous System Part Two- Darkness, Flame, and the Ritual Technology of Seeing

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2026 77:28 Transcription Available

If you enjoy this episode, we're sure you will enjoy more content like this on The Occult Rejects. In fact, we have curated playlists on occult topics like grimoires, esoteric concepts and phenomena, occult history, analyzing true crime and cults with an occult lens, Para politics, and occultism in music. Whether you enjoy consuming your content visually or via audio, we've got you covered - and it will always be provided free of charge. So, if you enjoy what we do and want to support our work of providing accessible, free content on various platforms, please consider making a donation to the links provided below. Thank you and enjoy the episode!Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsBuy Me A Coffeebuymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsDarkness, Sensory Deprivation, Caves, and Visionary ConditionsUstinova, Yulia. Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind: Descending Underground in the Search for Ultimate Truth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.Use for: caves, descent, darkness, ancient Greek revelation, incubation, inspired prophecy, and altered states in underground sacred settings.Lewis-Williams, David. The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 2002.Use for: caves, prehistoric imagery, altered consciousness, visual phenomena, and symbolic environments. Use carefully because some interpretations of prehistoric religion remain debated.Eliade, Mircea. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion. New York: Harcourt, 1959.Use for: sacred space, threshold, the difference between sacred and profane space, and the way religious environments reorganize orientation and meaning.Zuckerman, Marvin, and Nathan Cohen. “Sources of Reports of Visual and Auditory Sensations in Perceptual-Isolation Experiments.” Psychological Bulletin 61, no. 1, 1964: 1–20.Use for: sensory deprivation, perceptual isolation, visual/auditory sensations, and internally generated experiences under reduced stimulation.Wackermann, Jiří, Peter Pütz, and Carsten Allefeld. “Ganzfeld-Induced Hallucinatory Experience, Its Phenomenology and Cerebral Electrophysiology.” Cortex 44, no. 10, 2008: 1364–1378.Use for: Ganzfeld states, reduced/uniform sensory fields, pseudo-hallucinatory imagery, altered perception, and EEG findings.Metzger, Wolfgang. “Optische Untersuchungen am Ganzfeld.” Psychologische Forschung 13, 1930: 6–29.Use for: early Ganzfeld research and the effect of homogeneous visual fields on perception.Shenyan, O., et al. “Visual Hallucinations Induced by Ganzflicker and Ganzfeld Differ in Frequency, Complexity, and Content.” Scientific Reports 14, 2024.Use for: modern comparison between Ganzfeld and flicker-induced visual phenomena. Useful if connecting this episode back to the earlier flicker-light show.Candlelight, Firelight, Sacred Atmosphere, and the Agency of LightBille, Mikkel, and Tim Flohr Sørensen. “An Anthropology of Luminosity: The Agency of Light.” Journal of Material Culture 12, no. 3, 2007: 263–284.Use for: light as a social, material, emotional, and cultural agent; how light shapes atmosphere, social meaning, and movement.Bille, Mikkel, and Tim Flohr Sørensen, eds. Elements of Architecture: Assembling Archaeology, Atmosphere and the Performance of Building Spaces. London: Routledge, 2016.Use for: architecture, atmosphere, materiality, embodied space, and how built environments shape experience.Pallasmaa, Juhani. The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses. Chichester: Wiley, 1996; later editions.Use for: architecture as multisensory experience, not just visual design; helpful for sacred architecture, embodied space, and sensory atmosphere.Barrie, Thomas. “Sacred Space and the Mediating Roles of Architecture.” European Review 20, no. 4, 2012: 505–514.Use for: sacred architecture as a mediating threshold between ordinary and sacred worlds.Kieckhefer, Richard. Theology in Stone: Church Architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.Use for: Christian sacred architecture, spatial theology, light, ritual orientation, and the way buildings teach belief through space.Do, Michael T. H. “Melanopsin and the Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells: Biophysics to Behavior.” Neuron 104, no. 2, 2019: 205–226.Use for: melanopsin, intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells, non-image-forming vision, and the biological effects of light beyond ordinary sight.Hattar, Samer, H. W. Liao, Motoharu Takao, David M. Berson, and King-Wai Yau. “Melanopsin-Containing Retinal Ganglion Cells: Architecture, Projections, and Intrinsic Photosensitivity.” Science 295, no. 5557, 2002: 1065–1070.Use for: retinal ganglion cells that detect light for non-image-forming functions, including circadian-related pathways.Blume, Christine, Corrado Garbazza, and Manuel Spitschan. “Effects of Light on Human Circadian Rhythms, Sleep and Mood.” Somnologie 23, 2019: 147–156.Use for: light, circadian rhythms, sleep, mood, and why sunlight, darkness, dawn, and dusk matter biologically.Cajochen, Christian. “Alerting Effects of Light.” Sleep Medicine Reviews 11, no. 6, 2007: 453–464.Use for: light's alerting effects beyond image-forming vision.Stained Glass, Religious Light, and Visual TheologyBinski, Paul. Gothic Wonder: Art, Artifice, and the Decorated Style, 1290–1350. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.Use for: Gothic visual culture, sacred display, ornament, and the emotional force of medieval religious space.Camille, Michael. Gothic Art: Glorious Visions. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996.Use for: Gothic imagery, religious seeing, visual devotion, and sacred art as visionary environment.Kessler, Herbert L. Seeing Medieval Art. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2004.Use for: medieval Christian theories of seeing, devotional image use, sacred art, and vision as religious practice.Hamburger, Jeffrey F. The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany. New York: Zone Books, 1998.Use for: visionary art, devotional seeing, mystical imagery, and the relationship between images and religious experience.Freedberg, David. The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.Use for: why images provoke emotion, devotion, fear, desire, reverence, and acts of ritual engagement.Scrying, Black Mirrors, Crystal Gazing, and Reflective VisionCaputo, Giovanni B. “Strange-Face-in-the-Mirror Illusion.” Perception 39, no. 7, 2010: 1007–1008.Use for: mirror-gazing under low light, face distortion, visual instability, and apparitional perception.Caputo, Giovanni B. “Apparitional Experiences of New Faces and Dissociation of Self-Identity During Mirror Gazing.” Perceptual and Motor Skills 110, no. 3, 2010: 1125–1138.Use for: mirror-gazing, dissociation, altered self-recognition, and strange-face experiences.Caputo, Giovanni B. “Strange-Face Illusions During Inter-Subjective Gazing.” Consciousness and Cognition 22, no. 1, 2013: 324–329.Use for: prolonged eye-to-eye gazing, face alteration, dissociative effects, and interpersonal gaze phenomena.Caputo, Giovanni B. “Visual Perception During Mirror-Gazing at One's Own Face in Patients with Depression.” The Scientific World Journal, 2014.Use for: mirror-gazing research and altered self-perception. Useful for grounding black mirror and psychomanteum discussion, but do not overgeneralize.Moody, Raymond A., with Paul Perry. Reunions: Visionary Encounters with Departed Loved Ones. New York: Villard, 1993.Use for: modern psychomanteum practice, mirror-gazing, grief, and visionary encounters. Use cautiously; this is experiential/parapsychological material, not mainstream neuroscience.Roll, William G. “Psychomanteum Research: A Pilot Study.” Journal of Near-Death Studies 22, no. 4, 2004: 251–270.Use for: psychomanteum research, bereavement visions, mirror-gazing, and altered perception. Use cautiously.Northcote, Thomas. “Scrying.” In The Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, edited by J. Gordon Melton. Detroit: Gale, various editions.Use for: general historical overview of scrying traditions, crystal gazing, mirror gazing, and divinatory seeing.Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius. Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Translated by James Freake; edited and annotated by Donald Tyson. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1993.Use for: Renaissance magical imagination, correspondences, planetary symbols, spirits, and visual/ritual operations.Barrett, Francis. The Magus. London, 1801.Use for: later ceremonial magic, mirrors, spirits, correspondences, and visual ritual imagination. Use historically, not as scientific evidence.Magical Gaze, Concentration, Visualization, and Ceremonial PracticeCrowley, Aleister. Liber E vel Exercitiorum. In The Equinox.Use for: concentration, posture, breath, mental discipline, and the training of attention as a magical foundation.Crowley, Aleister. Magick: Liber ABA, Book 4. York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, various editions.Use for: ceremonial magic, concentration, visualization, ritual method, symbols, and disciplined magical practice.Regardie, Israel. The Golden Dawn. 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William Henry on Sacred Symbols, Ancient Mysteries, and Secret Knowledge

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2026 87:04 Transcription Available

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Talking Crystals with Ashleigh from Big Crystal Energy

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Delphi Part 2: Sacred Wars, Sacred Stones, & The Silence Of Apollo

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2026 71:23 Transcription Available

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The History of Freemasonry with Angel Millar

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2026 104:19 Transcription Available

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The Mechanics of Magick: The Pupil, Light, and the Nervous System- The Eye That Reveals the Body

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2026 59:50 Transcription Available

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McGaugh. “Mechanisms of Emotional Arousal and Lasting Declarative Memory.” Trends in Neurosciences 21, no. 7, 1998: 294–299.McGaugh, James L. “Memory—A Century of Consolidation.” Science 287, no. 5451, 2000: 248–251.McGaugh, James L. “The Amygdala Modulates the Consolidation of Memories of Emotionally Arousing Experiences.” Annual Review of Neuroscience 27, 2004: 1–28.Seligman, Rebecca, and Laurence J. Kirmayer. “Dissociative Experience and Cultural Neuroscience: Narrative, Metaphor and Mechanism.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 32, 2008: 31–64.Seligman, Rebecca, Ryan A. Brown, and Laurence J. Kirmayer. “Theory and Method at the Intersection of Anthropology and Cultural Neuroscience.” Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 5, no. 2–3, 2010: 130–139.Whitehouse, Harvey. Arguments and Icons: Divergent Modes of Religiosity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.Whitehouse, Harvey. Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2004.Ritual, Synchrony, Social Bonding, and Embodied MeaningHobson, Nicholas M., Juliana Schroeder, Jane L. Risen, Dimitris Xygalatas, and Michael I. Norton. “The Psychology of Rituals: An Integrative Review and Process-Based Framework.” Personality and Social Psychology Review 22, no. 3, 2018: 260–284.Jackson, Joshua Conrad, Brock Bastian, and others. “Synchrony and Physiological Arousal Increase Cohesion and Cooperation in Large Naturalistic Groups.” Scientific Reports 8, 2018.McCauley, Robert N., and E. Thomas Lawson. Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.Rappaport, Roy A. Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.Turner, Victor. The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Chicago: Aldine, 1969.Xygalatas, Dimitris. Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living. 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Silbersweig. “Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, and Self-Transcendence: A Framework for Understanding the Neurobiological Mechanisms of Mindfulness.” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 6, 2012.Darkness, Sensory Deprivation, Ganzfeld, and Visual InstabilityCaputo, Giovanni B. “Strange-Face-in-the-Mirror Illusion.” Perception 39, no. 7, 2010: 1007–1008.Caputo, Giovanni B. “Visual Perception During Mirror-Gazing at One's Own Face in Patients with Depression.” The Scientific World Journal, 2014.Caputo, Giovanni B. “Strange-Face Illusions During Eye-to-Eye Gazing in Dyads.” Imagination, Cognition and Personality 38, no. 1, 2018: 51–77.Metzger, Wolfgang. “Optische Untersuchungen am Ganzfeld.” Psychologische Forschung 13, 1930: 6–29.Shenyan, O., et al. “Visual Hallucinations Induced by Ganzflicker and Ganzfeld Differ in Frequency, Complexity, and Content.” Scientific Reports 14, 2024.Wackermann, Jiří, Peter Pütz, and Carsten Allefeld. “Ganzfeld-Induced Hallucinatory Experience, Its Phenomenology and Cerebral Electrophysiology.” Cortex 44, no. 10, 2008: 1364–1378.Zuckerman, Marvin, and Nathan Cohen. “Sources of Reports of Visual and Auditory Sensations in Perceptual-Isolation Experiments.” Psychological Bulletin 61, no. 1, 19Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. 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Modern Occultist Magazine with Chad Kushins

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2026 85:08 Transcription Available

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Luna Mysterium: The Moon Matrix, Memory & the Fate of the Soul w/ Library Of The Untold

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2026 123:20 Transcription Available

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Delphi Part 1: The Oracle, the Serpent, and the Voice of Apollo

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2026 76:49 Transcription Available

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Used for Apollo's Delphic foundation myth, the serpent, the movement from sacred landscape to Apollonian institution, and the Cretan priests connected with Apollo's dolphin form.Pausanias. Description of Greece, Book 10. Used for later ancient traditions concerning Delphi, foundation myths, Gaia, Themis, Python, Apollo, sacred monuments, and the Delphic landscape.Pindar. Pythian Odes. Used for the Pythian Games, victory poetry, Apollo, prestige, and the transformation of athletic victory into sacred memory.Plutarch. Life of Lycurgus. Used for Lycurgus, the Great Rhetra, and the tradition of Spartan law receiving Delphic sanction.Plutarch. Moralia: “On the E at Delphi.” Used for the mysterious letter E at Apollo's temple and ancient philosophical interpretations of its meaning.Plutarch. Moralia: “The Oracles at Delphi No Longer Given in Verse.” Used for Delphic verse, the change in oracular style, and ancient reflection on why the Pythia no longer gave responses in meter.Plutarch. Moralia: “The Obsolescence of Oracles.” Used for Delphi in the Roman period, the decline of oracular centers, Plutarch's reflections on divine inspiration, and the tradition that Delphi once had multiple priestesses.Strabo. Geography. Used for ancient geographical description of Delphi and the tradition of the oracle's inspiration being connected with a breath or vapor rising from below.Official and Reference SourcesArchaeological Site of Delphi / Hellenic Ministry of Culture. “History of Delphi.” Used for Delphi's geography, Mycenaean background, Apollo's cult, Python, Cretan priests, the Amphictyony, sacred administration, Sacred Wars, Roman history, decline, and excavation.Archaeological Site of Delphi / Hellenic Ministry of Culture. “Mythological Versions of the Foundation of the Oracle.” Used for Gaia, Themis, Phoebe, Apollo, Python, Poseidon, the tripod, Athena Pronaia, the Thriae, and the dolphin/Cretan priest tradition.Archaeological Site of Delphi / Hellenic Ministry of Culture. “The Temple of Apollo.” Used for the sacred center of the sanctuary, the adyton, the temple's rebuilding history, and the architectural setting of the oracle.Archaeological Site of Delphi / Hellenic Ministry of Culture. “The Sphinx of the Naxians.” Used for the Naxian dedication, apotropaic symbolism, civic prestige, and the monument's role in the Sacred Way.Archaeological Site of Delphi / Hellenic Ministry of Culture. “The Treasury of the Siphnians.” Used for the Siphnian Treasury, its sculptural program, caryatids, wealth, painted decoration, and sacred display.Archaeological Site of Delphi / Hellenic Ministry of Culture. “Excavations.” Used for the Great Excavation, the village of Kastri, French archaeological work, and the modern recovery of Delphi.Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Delphic Oracle.” Used for the Pythia, Apollo's oracle, Delphi's high prestige, and the use of Apollo's sanction by lawmakers, colonists, and political leaders.Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Delphi.” Used for the general history and significance of Delphi as a sanctuary, oracle, and pan-Hellenic religious center.Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Python.” Used for Python as the serpent or dragon killed by Apollo at Delphi.Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Pythian Games.” Used for the games at Delphi, their musical and athletic character, their relationship to Apollo, and the laurel wreath.Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Hieromnemon.” Used for the Amphictyony, pylagorai, hieromnemones, treasury supervision, and administration of sacred affairs.UNESCO World Heritage Centre. “Archaeological Site of Delphi.” Used for Delphi's world heritage description, pan-Hellenic importance, sacred landscape, and historical significance.Modern ScholarshipChappell, Mike. “Delphi and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo.” The Classical Quarterly 56, no. 2, 2006. Used for the Homeric Hymn's Delphic foundation narrative and Apollo's Pythian identity.Fontenrose, Joseph. The Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and Operations with a Catalogue of Responses. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. Used as a major scholarly backbone for Delphic responses, authenticity problems, categories of consultation, and the operation of the oracle.Forrest, W. G. “The First Sacred War.” Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 80, 1956. Used for the First Sacred War, Krisa/Crisa, sacred access, and the political framing of Delphi's early pan-Hellenic importance.Fragkaki, Maria. “The Great Rhetra.” Rosetta 17, 2015. Used for the Great Rhetra as a Delphic oracle and the divine validation of Spartan political order.McInerney, Jeremy. “Parnassus, Delphi, and the Thyiades.” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 38, no. 3, 1997. Used for Dionysus, the Thyiades, Parnassus, mountain ecstasy, and the fact that Delphi's sacred landscape was not purely Apollonian.Piccardi, Luigi. “Active Faulting at Delphi, Greece: Seismotectonic Remarks and a Hypothesis for the Geological Environment of a Myth.” Geology 28, no. 7, 2000. Used for Delphi's faulted landscape and the modern geological debate around the oracle.de Boer, Jelle Z., John R. Hale, and Henry A. Spiller. “The Delphic Oracle: A Multidisciplinary Defense of the Gaseous Vent Theory.” Clinical Toxicology 40, no. 2, 2002. Used for the modern argument that gases, possibly including ethylene, may have contributed to the Pythia's altered state.Etiope, Giuseppe, et al. “The Geological Links of the Ancient Delphic Oracle.” Used for critique and reassessment of the geological and gaseous explanations of Delphic inspiration.Scott, Michael. Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Used for the broader historical arc of Delphi as sacred center, political institution, cultural symbol, and archaeological site.Strolonga, Polyxeni. “The Foundation of the Oracle at Delphi in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo.” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 51, 2011. Used for Apollo's foundation myth and the literary shaping of Delphi's origin story.Music, Inscriptions, and ArchaeologyFouilles de Delphes. École française d'Athènes. Used for the archaeological publication tradition connected with Delphi's excavation, architecture, inscriptions, sculpture, and sanctuary remains.The Delphic Hymns to Apollo. Used for Apollo's musical cult, sacred song, and the role of hymn, inscription, and performance at Delphi.Archaeological Museum of Delphi materials. 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Magic, Madness, and Meaning: Dr. Ian Edwards on Occult Experience

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2026 98:35 Transcription Available

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TRINITY OF TRUTH ep 14 w/ Nick from The Occult Rejects

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2026 88:54 Transcription Available

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The Mechanics of Magick: Hypnosis Part Four- Memory, Mind Control, and MKULTRA

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2026 59:01 Transcription Available

If you enjoy this episode, we're sure you will enjoy more content like this on The Occult Rejects. In fact, we have curated playlists on occult topics like grimoires, esoteric concepts and phenomena, occult history, analyzing true crime and cults with an occult lens, Para politics, and occultism in music. Whether you enjoy consuming your content visually or via audio, we've got you covered - and it will always be provided free of charge. So, if you enjoy what we do and want to support our work of providing accessible, free content on various platforms, please consider making a donation to the links provided below. Thank you and enjoy the episode!Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsBuy Me A Coffeebuymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsCondensed Bibliography for Part FourJohn F. Kihlstrom. Writings on hypnosis, memory, hypnotic hypermnesia, and confidence.Elizabeth F. Loftus. Eyewitness Testimony.Elizabeth F. Loftus and Katherine Ketcham. The Myth of Repressed Memory.Daniel L. Schacter. The Seven Sins of Memory.Richard J. McNally. Remembering Trauma.Nicholas P. Spanos. Multiple Identities and False Memories.Frederick Crews. The Memory Wars.Ian Hacking. Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory.Steven Jay Lynn, Irving Kirsch, and Judith W. Rhue. Research on hypnosis, suggestion, and memory.Martin T. Orne. Writings on forensic hypnosis, demand characteristics, and memory.Bernard L. Diamond. Writings on hypnosis and witness testimony.U.S. Department of Justice materials on hypnotically refreshed testimony.U.S. Senate. Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification, 1977 joint hearing.U.S. Senate Church Committee materials on intelligence activities and behavioral research.National Security Archive. CIA behavior-control experiments, BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, and MKULTRA document collections.Central Intelligence Agency declassified MKULTRA, ARTICHOKE, and BLUEBIRD materials.John Marks. The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control.Alfred W. McCoy. A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror.Stephen Kinzer. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.H. P. Albarelli Jr. A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments.Shane O'Mara. Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation.Darius Rejali. Torture and Democracy.Robert Jay Lifton. Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism.Edgar H. Schein. Coercive Persuasion.Alexandra Stein. Terror, Love and Brainwashing.Stanley Milgram. Obedience to Authority.Jacques Ellul. Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes.Robert Cialdini. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.Dion Fortune. Psychic Self-Defense.Dion Fortune. The Machinery of the Mind.William Walker Atkinson. Mind-Power: The Secret of Mental Magic.Émile Coué. Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion.Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

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Forgotten Worlds: George Howard on Catastrophe, Civilization & the New Evidence

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2026 94:03 Transcription Available

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Pythian Priestess: Ghosts, Hermeticism & the Unseen

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2026 94:40 Transcription Available

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The Demon On Your Chest- The Science Of Sleep Paralysis

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2026 68:12 Transcription Available

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Thank you and enjoy the episode!Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsBuy Me A Coffeebuymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsCore Sleep Paralysis ScienceSharpless, Brian A., and Jacques P. Barber. “Lifetime Prevalence Rates of Sleep Paralysis: A Systematic Review.” Sleep Medicine Reviews 15, no. 5 (2011): 311–315.Sharpless, Brian A. “A Clinician's Guide to Recurrent Isolated Sleep Paralysis.” Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment 12 (2016): 1761–1767.Cheyne, J. Allan, Steve D. Rueffer, and Ian R. Newby-Clark. “Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Hallucinations during Sleep Paralysis: Neurological and Cultural Construction of the Night-Mare.” Consciousness and Cognition 8, no. 3 (1999): 319–337.Cheyne, J. Allan. “Sleep Paralysis and the Structure of Waking-Nightmare Hallucinations.” Dreaming 13, no. 3 (2003): 163–179.Cheyne, J. Allan. “Situational Factors Affecting Sleep Paralysis and Associated Hallucinations: Position and Timing Effects.” Journal of Sleep Research 11, no. 2 (2002): 169–177.Solomonova, Elizaveta. “Sleep Paralysis: Phenomenology, Neurophysiology and Treatment.” In The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought: Mind-Wandering, Creativity, and Dreaming, edited by Kieran C. R. Fox and Kalina Christoff. Oxford University Press, 2018.Baland Jalal / Panic-Hallucination / TreatmentJalal, Baland. “How to Make the Ghosts in My Bedroom Disappear? Focused-Attention Meditation Combined with Muscle Relaxation (MR Therapy): A Direct Treatment Intervention for Sleep Paralysis.” Frontiers in Psychology 7 (2016): 28. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00028.Jalal, Baland, and V. S. Ramachandran. “Sleep Paralysis and ‘The Bedroom Intruder': The Role of the Right Superior Parietal, Phantom Pain and Body Image Projection.” Medical Hypotheses 83, no. 6 (2014): 755–757.Jalal, Baland. “The Neuropharmacology of Sleep Paralysis Hallucinations: Serotonin 2A Activation and a Novel Therapeutic Drug.” Psychopharmacology 235, no. 11 (2018): 3083–3091.Jalal, Baland, Lucia Moruzzi, Andrea Zangrandi, Matteo Filardi, Claudio Franceschini, Fabio Pizza, et al. “Meditation-Relaxation (MR Therapy) for Sleep Paralysis: A Pilot Study in Patients with Narcolepsy.” Frontiers in Neurology 11 (2020): 922. doi:10.3389/fneur.2020.00922.Folklore, Myth, and the Old HagHufford, David J. The Terror That Comes in the Night: An Experience-Centered Study of Supernatural Assault Traditions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.Hufford, David J. “Sleep Paralysis as Spiritual Experience.” Transcultural Psychiatry 42, no. 1 (2005): 11–45.Adler, Shelley R. Sleep Paralysis: Night-mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Connection. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2011.Davies, Owen. “The Nightmare Experience, Sleep Paralysis, and Witchcraft Accusations.” Folklore 114, no. 2 (2003): 181–203.Bond, John. An Essay on the Incubus, or Nightmare. London: Printed for D. Wilson and T. Durham, 1753.Golzari, Samad E. J., et al. “Sleep Paralysis in Medieval Persia — The Hidayat of Akhawayni (?–983 AD).” Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment 8 (2012): 229–234.Cross-Cultural Sleep ParalysisHinton, Devon E., Vuth Pich, Dara Chhean, and Mark H. Pollack. “‘The Ghost Pushes You Down': Sleep Paralysis-Type Panic Attacks in a Khmer Refugee Population.” Transcultural Psychiatry 42, no. 1 (2005): 46–77.Hinton, Devon E., Vuth Pich, Dara Chhean, Mark H. Pollack, and Richard J. McNally. “Sleep Paralysis among Cambodian Refugees: Association with PTSD Diagnosis and Severity.” Depression and Anxiety 22, no. 2 (2005): 47–51.Jalal, Baland, and Devon E. Hinton. “Rates and Characteristics of Sleep Paralysis in the General Population of Denmark and Egypt.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 37, no. 3 (2013): 534–548.Jalal, Baland, Joseph Simons-Rudolph, Bamo Jalal, and Devon E. Hinton. “Explanations of Sleep Paralysis among Egyptian College Students and the General Population in Egypt and Denmark.” Transcultural Psychiatry 51, no. 2 (2014): 158–175.Jalal, Baland, Andrea Romanelli, and Devon E. Hinton. “Cultural Explanations of Sleep Paralysis in Italy: The Pandafeche Attack and Associated Supernatural Beliefs.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 39, no. 4 (2015): 651–664.Olunu, Esther, Ruth Kimo, Esther Olufunmbi Onigbinde, Mary-Amadeus Uduak Akpanobong, and Inyene Ezekiel Enang. “Sleep Paralysis, a Medical Condition with a Diverse Cultural Interpretation.” International Journal of Applied and Basic Medical Research 8, no. 3 (2018): 137–142.Sensed Presence / Body Map / Shadow Person NeuroscienceArzy, Shahar, Margitta Seeck, Stephanie Ortigue, Laurent Spinelli, and Olaf Blanke. “Induction of an Illusory Shadow Person.” Nature 443 (2006): 287.Blanke, Olaf, Stephanie Ortigue, Theodor Landis, and Margitta Seeck. “Stimulating Illusory Own-Body Perceptions.” Nature 419 (2002): 269–270.Blanke, Olaf, Theodor Landis, Laurent Spinelli, and Margitta Seeck. “Out-of-Body Experience and Autoscopy of Neurological Origin.” Brain 127, no. 2 (2004): 243–258.Ionta, Silvio, Lukas Heydrich, Bigna Lenggenhager, Michael Mouthon, Eleonora Fornari, Dominique Chapuis, Roger Gassert, and Olaf Blanke. “Multisensory Mechanisms in Temporo-Parietal Cortex Support Self-Location and First-Person Perspective.” Neuron 70, no. 2 (2011): 363–374.Blanke, Olaf, Polona Pozeg, Masayuki Hara, Lukas Heydrich, Andrea Serino, Akio Yamamoto, Toshiro Higuchi, et al. “Neurological and Robot-Controlled Induction of an Apparition.” Current Biology 24, no. 22 (2014): 2681–2686.Alien Abduction / Modern Mythic MaskMcNally, Richard J., and Susan A. Clancy. “Sleep Paralysis, Sexual Abuse, and Space Alien Abduction.” Transcultural Psychiatry 42, no. 1 (2005): 113–122.Clancy, Susan A. Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.Blackmore, Susan. “Abduction by Aliens or Sleep Paralysis?” Skeptical Inquirer 22, no. 3 (1998): 23–28.Clinical Sleep / Narcolepsy / REM BackgroundAmerican Academy of Sleep Medicine. International Classification of Sleep Disorders. 3rd ed., text revision. Darien, IL: American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 2023.Scammell, Thomas E. “Narcolepsy.” New England Journal of Medicine 373, no. 27 (2015): 2654–2662.Saper, Clifford B., Patrick M. Fuller, Nigel P. Pedersen, Jun Lu, and Thomas E. Scammell. “Sleep State Switching.” Neuron 68, no. 6 (2010): 1023–1042.Brooks, Patricia L., and John H. Peever. “Identification of the Transmitter and Receptor Mechanisms Responsible for REM Sleep Paralysis.” Journal of Neuroscience 32, no. 29 (2012): 9785–9795.Avidan, Alon Y., and Phyllis C. Zee, eds. Handbook of Sleep Medicine. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2011.Visual / Art HistoryFuseli, Henry. The Nightmare. 1781. Oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts.Myrone, Martin. Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination. London: Tate Publishing, 2006.Powell, Nicolas. Fuseli: The Nightmare. London: Allen Lane, 1973.Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

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Cunning Folk and Practical Magic with Dr. Stanmore

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2026 91:09 Transcription Available

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MKUltra Hearings Part 2: The 21st Century Version | The Occult Rejects

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2026 91:25 Transcription Available

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The Mechanics of Magick: Hypnosis Part Three- From Clinical Trance to the Interpretive Body

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2026 62:50 Transcription Available

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Dirt Sorcery and the Living Field with Aidan Wachter

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2026 123:24 Transcription Available

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The Zodiac Garden Guide with Isaac Hill

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2026 95:28 Transcription Available

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The Virgin Before Mary: Sacred Maidens, Parthenoi, and the Cult of the Untouched

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2026 62:43 Transcription Available

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Metaphor of Math with Ethan Indigo

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2026 134:08 Transcription Available

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MKUltra Hearings Part 1: What They Revealed & Where the Research Went | The Occult Rejects

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The Mechanics of Magick: Hypnosis — Part Two: From Suggestion to the Unconscious

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2026 93:44 Transcription Available

Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsBuy Me A Coffeebuymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsFull Bibliography for Part TwoCharcot, Hysteria, and the Medical TheaterJean-Martin Charcot. Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System.Jean-Martin Charcot. Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System.Jean-Martin Charcot. Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux faites à la Salpêtrière.Georges Didi-Huberman. Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière.Asti Hustvedt. Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris.Jan Goldstein. Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century.Mark S. Micale. Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations.Elaine Showalter. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830–1980.Henri F. Ellenberger. The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry.Alan Gauld. A History of Hypnotism.The Nancy School and SuggestionAmbroise-Auguste Liébeault. Du sommeil et des états analogues, considérés surtout au point de vue de l'action du moral sur le physique.Hippolyte Bernheim. De la suggestion et de ses applications à la thérapeutique.Hippolyte Bernheim. Suggestive Therapeutics: A Treatise on the Nature and Uses of Hypnotism.Henri F. Ellenberger. The Discovery of the Unconscious.Alan Gauld. A History of Hypnotism.Adam Crabtree. From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic Sleep and the Roots of Psychological Healing.Alison Winter. Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain.Pierre Janet, Automatism, Dissociation, and TraumaPierre Janet. L'Automatisme psychologique.Pierre Janet. The Major Symptoms of Hysteria.Pierre Janet. The Mental State of Hystericals.Pierre Janet. Psychological Healing: A Historical and Clinical Study.Pierre Janet. Writings on fixed ideas, dissociation, hysteria, narrowed consciousness, and subconscious action.Henri F. Ellenberger. The Discovery of the Unconscious.Onno van der Hart, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis, and Kathy Steele. The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization.Adam Crabtree. From Mesmer to Freud.Alan Gauld. A History of Hypnotism.Ideomotor Effect, Table-Turning, and Automatic ActionMichel Eugène Chevreul. De la baguette divinatoire, du pendule explorateur et des tables tournantes.Michael Faraday. Writings and experimental reports on table-turning, unconscious muscular pressure, and involuntary movement.William Benjamin Carpenter. Principles of Mental Physiology.William Benjamin Carpenter. Essays and writings on unconscious cerebration and ideomotor action.Daniel M. Wegner. The Illusion of Conscious Will.Richard Wiseman. Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There.Ray Hyman. Writings on ideomotor action, dowsing, psychical research, and anomalous experience.Spiritualism, Mediumship, Psychical Research, and Automatic WritingAlex Owen. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England.Janet Oppenheim. The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914.Ann Braude. Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America.Sofie Lachapelle. Investigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism to Psychical Research and Metapsychics in France, 1853–1931.Frederic W. H. Myers. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death.The Society for Psychical Research. Early proceedings and reports on automatic writing, trance, mediumship, apparitions, and psychical phenomena.William James. Essays in Psychical Research.William James. The Varieties of Religious Experience.William James. The Principles of Psychology.Henri F. Ellenberger. The Discovery of the Unconscious.Adam Crabtree. From Mesmer to Freud.Freud, Breuer, Hypnosis, and the UnconsciousJosef Breuer and Sigmund Freud. Studies on Hysteria.Sigmund Freud. The Interpretation of Dreams.Sigmund Freud. Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis.Sigmund Freud. “A Note on the Unconscious in Psycho-Analysis.”Sigmund Freud. “The Unconscious.”Sigmund Freud. “Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through.”Sigmund Freud. “The Dynamics of Transference.”Sigmund Freud. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.Henri F. Ellenberger. The Discovery of the Unconscious.Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen. The Freudian Subject.Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen and Sonu Shamdasani. The Freud Files: An Inquiry into the History of Psychoanalysis.Frederick Crews. Freud: The Making of an Illusion.Élisabeth Roudinesco. Freud: In His Time and Ours.Frank J. Sulloway. Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Beyond the Psychoanalytic Legend.Occult Revival, Will, Imagination, and Esoteric PsychologyÉliphas Lévi. Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie.Éliphas Lévi. Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual.Éliphas Lévi. The Great Secret.Papus, Gérard Encausse. Traité méthodique de science occulte.Papus, Gérard Encausse. Elementary Treatise of Occult Science.Papus, Gérard Encausse. The Tarot of the Bohemians.Joscelyn Godwin. The Theosophical Enlightenment.Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction.Wouter J. Hanegraaff. Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture.Alex Owen. The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern.Christopher McIntosh. Eliphas Lévi and the French Occult Revival.Crowley, Fortune, Spare, and Modern Magical PsychologyAleister Crowley. Magick: Liber ABA, Book 4.Aleister Crowley. Magick in Theory and Practice.Aleister Crowley. Liber O vel Manus et Sagittae.Aleister Crowley. The Equinox.Aleister Crowley. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley.Marco Pasi. Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics.Dion Fortune, writing as Violet Firth. The Machinery of the Mind.Dion Fortune. Psychic Self-Defense.Dion Fortune. The Training and Work of an Initiate.Dion Fortune. Applied Magic.Dion Fortune. The Mystical Qabalah.Austin Osman Spare. The Book of Pleasure.Austin Osman Spare. The Focus of Life.Austin Osman Spare. A Book of Satyrs.Phil Baker. Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist.Kenneth Grant. Images and Oracles of Austin Osman Spare.New Thought, Mind-Cure, Autosuggestion, and Personal MagnetismPhineas Parkhurst Quimby. The Quimby Manuscripts.Horatio W. Dresser. A History of the New Thought Movement.Catherine L. Albanese. A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion.Beryl Satter. Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875–1920.Robert C. Fuller. Mesmerism and the American Cure of Souls.Émile Coué. Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion.Émile Coué. How to Practice Suggestion and Autosuggestion.William Walker Atkinson. Thought Vibration; or, The Law of Attraction in the Thought World.William Walker Atkinson. Mind-Power: The Secret of Mental Magic.William Walker Atkinson. Practical Mental Influence.William Walker Atkinson. The Psychology of Salesmanship.William Walker Atkinson. Memory: How to Develop, Train and Use It.William Walker Atkinson. The Power of Concentration.William Walker Atkinson, under related New Thought and occult pseudonymous currents. Works on personal magnetism, suggestion, concentration, mental science, and occult psychology.Theosophy, Hypnotism, and Occult Warnings About InfluenceHelena Petrovna Blavatsky. The Key to Theosophy.Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Collected Writings.Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Writings and discussions touching mesmerism, hypnotism, psychic influence, occult dangers, and spiritual development.Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater. Thought-Forms.C. W. Leadbeater. The Astral Plane.C. W. Leadbeater. The Chakras.Joscelyn Godwin. The Theosophical Enlightenment.Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. The Western Esoteric Traditions.Wouter J. Hanegraaff. Esotericism and the Academy.General Histories Useful Across Part TwoHenri F. Ellenberger. The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry.Adam Crabtree. From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic Sleep and the Roots of Psychological Healing.Adam Crabtree. Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism, and Psychical Research, 1766–1925: An Annotated Bibliography.Alan Gauld. A History of Hypnotism.Alison Winter. Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain.Robert Darnton. Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France.Frank A. Pattie. Mesmer and Animal Magnetism: A Chapter in the History of Medicine.Peter Lamont. Extraordinary Beliefs: A Historical Approach to a Psychological Problem.Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. The Western Esoteric Traditions.Wouter J. Hanegraaff. Esotericism and the Academy.Alex Owen. The Place of Enchantment.Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

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JK ULTRA: Mind Control, Magick, and the New Spiritual Internet

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When Music Becomes Magick: Sound, Spirit, and the Occult Body with Aerik Arkadian

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2026 64:45 Transcription Available

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Life After Death? Religion, Occultism, Near-Death Experiences, and the Science of the Dying Mind

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2026 84:05 Transcription Available

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MKUltra Hearings: The 21st Century Version | The Occult Rejects

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2026 91:25 Transcription Available

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The Pisgah Shrine with Vince Barrows Part 2

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2026 70:26 Transcription Available

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The Pisgah Shrine with Vince Barrows Part 1

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MKUltra Hearings: Manson, Ruby & the Hidden Testimony | The Occult Rejects

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If you enjoy this episode, we're sure you will enjoy more content like this on The Occult Rejects. In fact, we have curated playlists on occult topics like grimoires, esoteric concepts and phenomena, occult history, analyzing true crime and cults with an occult lens, Para politics, and occultism in music. Whether you enjoy consuming your content visually or via audio, we've got you covered - and it will always be provided free of charge. So, if you enjoy what we do and want to support our work of providing accessible, free content on various platforms, please consider making a donation to the links provided below. Thank you and enjoy the episode!Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsBuy Me A Coffeebuymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsAlso want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

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Eclipses Part 2: Occult Power & Hidden Life Of The Shadow(Audio Fixed)

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If you enjoy this episode, we're sure you will enjoy more content like this on The Occult Rejects. In fact, we have curated playlists on occult topics like grimoires, esoteric concepts and phenomena, occult history, analyzing true crime and cults with an occult lens, Para politics, and occultism in music. Whether you enjoy consuming your content visually or via audio, we've got you covered - and it will always be provided free of charge. So, if you enjoy what we do and want to support our work of providing accessible, free content on various platforms, please consider making a donation to the links provided below. Thank you and enjoy the episode!Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsBuy Me A Coffeebuymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsAlso want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

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The Mechanics of Magick: Hypnosis — The Occult Science That Became Psychology Part 1

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2026 64:07 Transcription Available

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Universe Unveiled with The Occult Rejects

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The Occult Rejects & The Divine Feminine

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Project Ch4rcoal with M Allan Wagner

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2026 134:42 Transcription Available

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