Podcasts about pagan studies

Ronald Hutton is a professor of history at Bristol University. He is a leading authority on ancient and medieval paganism and magic, the British Isles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and on global context of witchcraft beliefs. He is the author of seventeen books, including The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft, The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present, and his recent book, Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation.Ronald frequently appears as an expert on Paganism and witchcraft on British television and radio programs too numerous to name (though one of Pam's personal favorites is when he pops up in the hilarious docu-parody series, Cunk on Britain). His work has been trailblazing in the realms of academia and religion, as well as in shaping a more humane geo-political response to the very real witch hunting that still happens across the globe. Ronald was recently awarded the title Commander of the British Empire, an honor bestowed to those who have made a highly distinguished contribution in their field – as he certainly has.On this episode, Ronald discusses his pioneering work that helped establish the field of Pagan Studies, the boons and banes of his academic view of magical history, and the ever-evolving figure of the witch.Pam also talks about spiritual lineages, and answers a listener question about what the cards are saying regarding these tumultuous times.Check out the video of this episode over on YouTube (and please like and subscribe to the channel while you're at it!)Our sponsors for this episode are The Stormcloud Oracle, BetterHelp, Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, and TU·ET·AL soapWe also have print-on-demand merch like Witch Wave shirts, sweatshirts, totes, stickers, and mugs available now here, and all sorts of other bewitching goodies available in the Witch Wave shop.And if you want more Witch Wave, please consider supporting us on Patreon to get access to detailed show notes, bonus Witch Wave Plus episodes, Pam's monthly online rituals, and more! That's patreon.com/witchwave

This month's guest is Dr. Phil Legard. Phil is senior lecturer in music production at Leeds Beckett University. His research interests lie at the intersection of esotericism, music, and politics. His doctoral work explored autoethnography as a research method for esotericism studies, from which he developed a theory of ‘creative seekership'. With Dr. Alexander Cummins, he is co-author of An Excellent Booke of the Arte of Magicke (Scarlet Imprint 2020), which transcribes and analyses the 16th-century grimoire and magical record of Sir Humphrey Gilbert. He is also the author of various popular and academic articles on esotericism, magick, and creativity. He is one-half of the musical duo Hawthonn, who currently have two LP releases on Brooklyn's Ba Da Bing records.In this interview, Phil talks about the tricky area of methodology when it comes to scholars who are also magickal practitioners, and the reasons why he chose autoethnography as his primary research method. He also explains the background of the term and how the method has developed from a narrative-only approach to one where analysis is also utilized. Phil then talks about some important points and insights that arose while he was doing field recordings, and more about his developmental process as a magickal practitioner throughout the years as a “creative seeker”, which relates to how paths of practice develop as a consequence of experience and appraisals of those experiences. This also includes identity construction and performance, and how experiences shape one's sense of identity.Note: The full interview with Phil is available on Patreon, with a 7-day free trial, should you be interested. If you enjoy my content and would like to support my work, please consider checking out my Patreon page (as there is much more content to come over there) and consider subscribing. Rejected Religion | Illuminating the Obscure | PatreonPROGRAM NOTESDr. Phil LegardThe Occultural Orpheus: Exploring Creative Seekership through Analytic Autoethnography (leedsbeckett.ac.uk)(99+) Phil Legard | Leeds Beckett University - Academia.edu(99+) Imaginative Listening and Porous Practices: Expanding the Boundaries of Esoteric Musicology | Phil Legard - Academia.edu(99+) Inner-Sense and Experience: Drone Music, Esotericism and the Hieroeidetic Field | Phil Legard - Academia.edu(99+) The Bright Sound Behind the Sound: Real-World Music, Symbolic Discourse and the Foregrounding of Imagination | Phil Legard - Academia.eduMusic | Hawthonn (bandcamp.com)

Christian Giudice is an academic researcher, focusing, among other subjects, on fin de siècle occultism in France and Italy, the development of post-Crowley Thelema, and the link between cinema and occultism. A Ph.D. scholar at Gothenburg University, he holds a BA in Literae Humaniores from Oxford University and an MA in Western Esotericism from Exeter University. He has published academic articles and reviews in journals such as Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism and The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies. In this episode we discuss the work of Kenneth Grant. Starfire Publishing: http://www.starfirepublishing.co.uk/ Inaccuracies in the discussion (courtesy of Michael Staley): 14:00 – Kenneth first came across Magick in Theory and Practice not in Watkins, but on a stall outside Schwemmers, a surrealist bookshop in the Charing Cross Road, just a few yards away from Watkins. 15:16 – Kenneth's father was not a clergyman, but a banker. Kenneth's mother's maiden name was Wyard, and many of the family male ancestors on that side had been clergymen. 31:17 – Achad believed not that the Aeon of Horus had ended, but that it continued but was augmented by that of Maat. A bit later in the interview, Chris does reflect this view. 39:50 – The transplutonic planet was called Isis, not Nuit. I think though that the confusion comes from Kenneth's naming of the Lodge as Nu-Isis, and he talks somewhere of Nuit-Isis. 44:25 – reference to Mike Magee's allegation that the first three volumes of the Typhonian Trilogies were fiction, Staley states he never heard anything like this. 59:55 – David Curwen, not Joseph Curwen, the latter being a character in Lovecraft's novel The Case of Charles Dexter Ward Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum  Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74

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Rainbow Soul will include what inclusive Wicca looks like and explore how Wicca got a very binary reputation. We will step into what is inclusive, discuss Wicca and Witchcraft with Nonbinary and Queers in mind! We will welcome author: Yvonne Aburrow has been a Pagan since 1985 and a Wiccan since 1991. They have an MA in Contemporary Religions and Spiritualities from Bath Spa University (UK). They were born in England, and now live in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. They have written four books on the mythology and folklore of trees, birds, and animals, and two anthologies of poetry. Their most recent books are All Acts of Love and Pleasure: inclusive Wicca (published by Avalonia Books), Dark Mirror: the inner work of witchcraft, and The Night Journey: witchcraft as transformation (both published by the Doreen Valiente Foundation in association with the Centre for Pagan Studies). They co-edited Pagan Consent Culture with Christine Hoff-Kramer. They blog at Dowsing for Divinity. https://dowsingfordivinity.com/ https://www.instagram.com/yvonne_aburrow/ https://twitter.com/vogelbeere https://www.shop.doreenvaliente.org/books/DarkMirror https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/376175.Yvonne_Aburrow https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKSb364RP4H16lXpBHGiSmQ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rainbowsoul/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rainbowsoul/support

What it's All About:This one is for all you Pagan Healers out there. Despite this, I would rather focus my attention on nurses, doctors, and other health professionals who have spent years studying before they begin working in their field. There is nothing wrong with herbalists, energy workers, and others working in alternative health. There's just been a lot of stress, Covid patients, and misinformation in traditional health care for the past two years. It's just that there are people in the health care profession who are also pagan. I believe traditional and alternative medicine can also work together. The spirit guide of the week is Chiron and the dream symbols are undress, zipper, and eagle.Songs Featured:1. Health of the Company by Blackmore's Night2. Medicine Wheel by Brian Henke3. Horses of Poseidon by Magicfolk4. Healing Chant by Heather Alexander5. The Eagle and the Owl by Mama Gina6. Loving Kindness Meditation by Mitra Somerville7. Love is the Law by Pagan Rap Gang8. Healing by CastaliaLinks Mentioned:- Call for Abstracts: "Pagan Responses to Health, Disease, and Healing," Special Issue of The Pomegranate International Journal of Pagan Studies - networks.h-net.org/node/114427/dis…healing-special- Healthcare providers share how their Pagan practices nurture them through the pandemic - wildhunt.org/2020/05/healthcare…-the-pandemic.html- Pagan Health Survey: The worldviews and health care choices of Wiccans, Druids, and Witches - www.researchgate.net/publication/26…ds_and_Witches- Chiron - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiron- Swap your inhaler, skip the laughing gas: How patients can help curb health-care emissions - www.cbc.ca/news/science/health…emissions-1.6234268

This week Mathias and Daniel are sitting down with Barbara Jane Davy, author of Introduction to Pagan Studies, Paganism: Critical Concepts in Religion, to talk about her latest work which examines gift giving rituals and their links to ecology. Together with the boys she'll be delving into gift giving rituals in the Viking and modern age and their effect on the communities who take part in them. Barbara was a last minute guest who hopped on to help us out with a last minute cancelation so be prepared for things to be a bit more complicated than usual...If you would like to read Barbara's paper titled, "Wyrd Ecology," you can find it here!You can also find us on Instagram at: www.instagram.com/nordicmythologypodcastAnd if you like what we do, and would like to be in the audience for live streams of new episodes to ask questions please consider supporting us on Patreon:www.patreon.com/NordicMythologyPodcastIf you would like to join our bi-weekly watch-alongs where Mathias and Daniel watch and commentate along with the popular series Vikings, or get access to our special Storytime episodes covering the saga literature, then all you have to do is join our Patron. Seriously, we would love to have you, the more the merrier!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/NordicMythologyPodcast)

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and provide analysis of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 43 - "Haman's Victory" (ハマーンの嘲笑), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the Qubeley (キュベレイ). - How to pronounce Kybele in Greek (plus help from patron Serperoth).- Wikipedia pages for Cybele/Kybele and Phrygia. - Listings from other online encyclopedias and reference websites (page on theoi.com includes text of associated myths and legends):https://www.theoi.com/Phrygios/Kybele.htmlhttps://www.britannica.com/topic/Great-Mother-of-the-Godshttps://www.livius.org/articles/religion/cybele/https://www.ancient.eu/Cybele/- Reference pages about Attis from Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica.- Books and articles:Roller, Lynn E. In Search of God the Mother: the Cult of Anatolian Cybele. University of California Press, 1999. Accessed via Google Scholar.Borgeaud, Philippe. Mother of the Gods: from Cybele to the Virgin Mary. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Accessed via Google Scholar.Kramer-Rolls, Dana. “The Emergence of the Goddess Mary: from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages.” Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 2007, doi:10.1558/pome.v6i1.34. Abstract accessed here.Fear, A. T. “Cybele and Christ.” Cybele, Attis and Related Cults: Essays in Memory of Maarten J. Vermaseren, by Maarten J. Vermaseren and Eugene N. Lane, Brill, 1996, pp. 37–50. Preview here.- The TNN this week includes two pieces of music:Mistake the Getaway by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4060-mistake-the-getaway License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/and For the Fallen by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3772-for-the-fallen License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ You can subscribe to Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, follow us on twitter @gundampodcast, check us out at gundampodcast.com, email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photo and video, MSB gear, and much more!The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it. Copyrighted content used in Mobile Suit Breakdown is used in accordance with the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Any queries should be directed to gundampodcast@gmail.comFind out more at http://gundampodcast.com

On this episode, I have a discussion with Dr. Tom Berendt. Dr. Berendt is a Professor of Religion at Temple University whose work focuses primarily on the veneration, or worship, of animals and nature in different religious traditions throughout history. I first met Dr. Berendt when I took his "Earth Ethics" class at Temple, and continued to have discussions with him in this field when I joined his Pagan Studies club, where we looked deeply into nature-based religious traditions. In this episode, we explore the broad question of how religion mediates humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Dr. Berendt is not currently active on social media, but within the next year he will be upon his release of his new book, “The Animality Manifesto”. So stay tuned and I will be posting about that when it is released. You can stay up to date on any new podcasts at liftingtheiceberg.com or by following Lifting the Iceberg on Facebook and Instagram. Podcast available on Spotify and Itunes, and Youtube. Thank you to Alexa Spaddy for designing the graphics for this podcast. You can find her at Alexaspaddy.com Thank you to Kerusu for the soundtrack Stay with me. You can find Kerusu on Spotify, Youtube and Soundcloud.

In this brief, strange trip, Amanda and Jacob sit down with the enigmatic "Shamama," for a little look into the history and use of entheogens and psychedelics in modern Paganism. Are drug culture and Pagan culture somehow inseparable? What connects us to sacred experience? And what made "Neo-Paganism" so "neo," anyways? Mentions: - Timothy Leary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary - Ram Dass (Richard Albert): https://www.ramdass.org/bio/ - Terrence McKenna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna - Peter Max: https://petermax.com/pages/peter-max-biography - Legal history of cannabis in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_history_of_cannabis_in_the_United_States - Marijuana Timeline: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dope/etc/cron.html - A Social History Of America's Most Popular Drugs: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/buyers/socialhistory.html - The Grateful Dead: http://www.dead.net/ - Don Henley - The Boys of Summer: http://americansongwriter.com/2012/06/the-boys-of-summer-don-henley/ - Green Egg: A Journal of the Awakening Earth (Vol 28, #110, Autumn 1995) - My Long Strange Trip to Find the Goddess, by Grateful Geb - Green Egg (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Egg - The Incredible String Band: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-39304909 Sharing Space: - Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies: https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/POM - The Wild Hunt: https://wildhunt.org/ - New Age (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age - Caffeina: http://www.goddessgift.com/goddess-myths/Roman-goddess-caffeina.htm - Cheese: https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/scicurious/no-cheese-not-just-crack - More Cheese: https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2018/feb/13/crack-and-cheese-do-pleasurable-things-really-affect-your-brain-like-drugs Brad Warner on drugs (some selections): - Mountain of Drugs: http://hardcorezen.info/mountain-of-drugs/227 - The Enlightenment Drug: http://hardcorezen.info/the-enlightenment-drug/2781 - Why I Don't Do Psychedelic Drugs: http://hardcorezen.info/why-i-dont-do-psychedelic-drugs/3759 - Drugs, Meditation, and Mountain Climbing: http://hardcorezen.info/drugs-meditation-and-mountain-climbing/5388 - Spiritual Teachers, Stop Enabling Addicts!: http://hardcorezen.info/spiritual-teachers-stop-enabling-addicts/5497 - Clinical and Indigenous Culture Use of Psychedelics: http://hardcorezen.info/clinical-and-indigenous-culture-use-of-psychedelics/5505 Links: - Website: http://www.thepriestesses.com - Email: thepriestesses@gmail.com - Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepriestesses - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thepriestesses/ - Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepriestesses - Ko-fi: https://www.ko-fi.com/thepriestesses - Music by Rebecca E. Tripp: http://www.crystalechosound.com

Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research and document women's history from an international perspective. She built a collection of 15,000 slides and 20,000 digital images, and has created 150 slideshows on female cultural heritages across human history. (For titles and descriptions, see the online catalog.) Read some of the enthusiastic responses to these dynamic presentations here. Her work bridges the gap between academia and grassroots education. It foregrounds indigenous women passed over by standard histories and highlights female spheres of power retained even in some patriarchal societies. For over 40 years, Max Dashu has presented hundreds of slide talks at universities, community centers, bookstores, schools, libraries, prisons, galleries, festivals and conferences around North America and in Mexico, Germany, Ireland, Britain, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Australia, Belgium, and Austria. She has keynoted at conferences (Feminism in London, 2015;Women's Voices for a Change at Skidmore, 2013; Association for Women and Mythology, 2010; Pagan Studies at Claremont University, 2008, and Domestic Violence Conference at Rutgers, 2005). Dashu is known for her expertise on ancient female iconography in world archaeology, women shamans, witches and the witch hunts, mother-right cultures, patriarchies and the origins of domination.

Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 105Flutterby Set - Omnia - http://www.worldofomnia.comAutumn’s Crown - Fairytale - http://fairytale-folkmusic.dePhilip Heselton - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_HeseltonCentre for Pagan Studies - http://www.centre-for-pagan-studies.comWhere Witchcraft Lives Exhibition - http://www.wherewitchcraftlives.orgForest Child - Malcolm Brown - https://soundcloud.com/lyle-music/sets/forest-child-my-2015-cdYule (Praise the Mabon Child) - Cernunnos Rising - http://cernunnosrising.co.ukThe Peddler of Ballaghdereen - Celia Farran - http://www.celiaonline.comDruidCast Theme - Hills they are Hollow - Damh the Bard - www.paganmusic.co.ukFor further information on the Druid tradition - www.druidry.org

In this episode we dissect and learn about the contemporary pagan religion known of as Wicca. We speculate about some of its primary roots and influences and go into more depth than most books on subject ever seem to go. Find out what makes Wicca what it is and what makes a Wiccan a Wiccan in this break down of the religion of Wicca. We learn about Doreen Valiente in this episode's edition of A Corner in the Occult. The famed Mother of Modern Witchcraft played a crucial role in the existence and development of Wicca throughout the entirety of the twentieth century. Doreen was one of Gerald Gardner's early High Priestesses and later authored of several well respected texts on witchcraft and became the Patron of the Center for Pagan Studies in 1995. In the Essence of Magick we look into the idea, practice, and significance of ritual initiation and the role it plays in groups and in religions such as Wicca. We even discuss the idea behind the popular modern Wiccan practice of self-initiation and looking into the reality and practicality of such a ceremony. I also read some listener messages and to close we discuss advanced Wicca and ways in which one can enrich their religious experience.   Links: Doreen Valiente, Pagan Federation, Pantheon Blog: Wicca Series, Title Goes Here:, Misanthrope Press, Proud Pagan Podcasters, Music: George Wood, Juliana Hatfield, Lindie Lila, Alexandre Falcao, Linda Holzer, Persian Paladin, Promos: New World Witchery, The Scotchcast, Media Astra Ac Terra, Pagan FM!, The Wigglian Way, Pagan Centered Podcast Credits: PodsafeAudio, Podsafe Music Network, Show Script (pdf)  

Opening the show: Jin In was born in the East, raised in the West, and goes where ever she is called to empower the world's poorest girls. She is the Founding Director of 4Girls GLocal Leadership (4ggl.org) -- Inspiring Girls, Transforming the World. Her organization combines global thinking with local action resulting in "glocal" innovation - developing the leadership potential of girls and young women in poor communities around the world. Crossing the threshold into the second part of the show, Selena Fox, beloved Foremother & Wayshower of Circle Sanctuary will discuss Pagan Studies and Yuletide Goddesses.