Podcast appearances and mentions of ramsey dukes

One of the great rewards of "weirding" the world is learning that boredom may be a kind of ethical transgression—the world is simply too strange to allow for it, and if you're bored, you're at least partly to blame. Few have put this notion to the test as rigorously as Lionel Snell, whose work as a magician celebrates the wonders of everyday events, from a walk in the park to a moment of car trouble. Unlike the pursuit of the extraordinary that often defines occult practice, Snell's approach reminds us of the magic in the mundane. In this episode, Snell, also known as Ramsey Dukes, shares the insights he's gained over his decades-long career as one of the leading figures in contemporary magical theory and practice. For an exclusive Vimeo link to Aaron Poole's film Dada mentioned in the intro, go to Instagram and send @aaronsghost the direct message "movie link please". REFERENCES Ramsey Dukes, Thundersqueak (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780904311129) Weird Studies, Episode 141 on “SSOTBME (https://www.weirdstudies.com/141) Weird Studies, Episode 24 with Lionel Snell (https://www.weirdstudies.com/24) John Crowley, Little, Big (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780061120053) Arthur Machen, “A Fragment of Life” (https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700361h.html) David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780316074223) Max Picard, The Flight from God (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780316074223) Lionel Snell, My Years of Magical Thinking (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780904311242) Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780692710609) Henry Bergson, Matter and Memory (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781420937800) Russell's Paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox) Special Guest: Lionel Snell [Ramsey Dukes].

Comics, like cinema, is an eminently modern medium. And as with cinema, looking closely at it can swiftly acquaint us with the profound weirdness of modernity. Do that in the context of a discussion on Charles Burns' comic masterpiece Black Hole, and you're guaranteed a memorable Weird Studies episode. Black Hole was serialized over ten years beginning in 1995, and first released as a single volume by Pantheon Books in 2005. Like all masterpieces, it shines both inside and out: it tells a captivating story, a "weirding" of the teenage romance genre, while also revealing something of the inner workings of comics as such. In this episode, Phil and JF explore the singular wonders of a medium that, thanks to artists like Burns, has rightfully ascended from the trash stratum (https://www.weirdstudies.com/20) to the coveted empyrean of artistic respectability—without losing its edge. BIG NEWS: • If you're planning to be in Bloomington, Indiana on October 9th, 2024, click here (https://cinema.indiana.edu/upcoming-films/screening/2024-fall-wednesday-october-9-700pm) to purchase tickets to IU Cinema's screening of John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness, featuring a live Weird Studies recording with JF and Phil. • Go to Weirdosphere (http://www.weirdosphere.org) to sign up for Matt Cardin's upcoming course, MC101: Writing at the Wellspring, starting on 22 October 2024. • Visit https://www.shannontaggart.com/events and follow the links to learn more about Shannon's (online) Fall Symposium at the Last Tuesday Society. Featured speakers include Steven Intermill & Toni Rotonda, Shannon Taggart, JF Martel, Charles and Penelope Emmons, Doug Skinner, Michael W. Homer, Maria Molteni, and Emily Hauver. Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies). Buy the Weird Studies soundtrack, volumes 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2), on Pierre-Yves Martel's Bandcamp (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com) page. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia (https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/). Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! REFERENCES Charles Burns, Black Hole (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780375714726) Clement Greenberg's concept of “medium specificity” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_specificity#cite_note-2) Terry Gilliam (dir.), The Fisher King (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101889/) Seth (https://drawnandquarterly.com/author/seth/), comic artist Chris Ware, Building Stories (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780375424335) “Graphic Novel Forms Today” (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/677339) in Critical Inquiry Raymond Knapp, The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780691141053) Vilhelm Hammershoi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhelm_Hammersh%C3%B8i), Danish painter Ramsey Dukes, Words Made Flesh (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780904311112) G. Spencer-Brown, [Laws of Form](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LawsofForm) Dave Hickey, “Formalism” (https://approachestopainting.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/19135319-hickey-7-formalism-036.pdf) Nelson Goodman, [Languages of Art](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LanguagesofArt) Chrysippus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysippus), Stoic philosopher Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780060976255)

Join us for an enlightening conversation with the practitioner Frater U∴D∴, a master magician and author whose work has reshaped the landscape of contemporary occult practice. Frater U∴D∴ is a writer, poet and magician. A German diplomat's child, he grew up in Africa and Asia. He holds a master's degree from the University of Bonn in Comparative Literature, English Literature and Portuguese Studies. Co-founder of the Bonn Workshop for Experimental Magic. As founder of Pragmatic Magic, Cyber Magic, Ice Magic and co-founder of the Magical Pact of the Illuminati of Thanateros (IOT), he is one of Europe's most renowned practical magicians and contemporary occult authors. He studied with yoga and tantra masters and has been involved with the practical aspects of occultism in general and magic in particular for more than half a century. Many years of experience as a translator and interpreter, author of more than 40 books, many of which have become modern day classics, including High Magic and Practical Sigil Magic. His works have been translated into multiple languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Czech, Estonian, Japanese etc.). He is known for his undogmatic approach to the black arts. Translated works by Peter Carroll, Ramsey Dukes and Aleister Crowley's Book of Lies, among others. Select bibliography Frater U∴D∴, High Magic. Theory & Practice. St. Paul, Minn.: Llewellyn, 2005-2008. Frater U∴D∴, Money Magic. Mastering Prosperity in Its True Element. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2011. Frater U∴D∴, Practical Sigil Magic. Creating Personal Symbols For Success. Rev. and enl. special ed. for the Americas. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2012. Frater U∴D∴, Sex Magic. Release & Control the Power of Your Erotic Potential. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2018. Frater U∴D∴, The Magical Shield.: Protection Magic to Ward Off Negative Forces. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2016. Frater U∴D∴, Where Do Demons Live? Everything You Want to Know About Magic. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2010. CONNECT & SUPPORT

We truly live in a golden age for Magic, the Occult and all the high strangeness that comes with it. There are many of the greatest thinkers to ever tackle these strange and weird concepts alive right now; at this very moment. Every paradigm needs its heroes and villains, but more importantly- those who broaden and illuminate the ideas which are its very lifeblood. For Magic, one person has been the greatest promulgator of thinking magically for the last 50 years- And that is Ramsey Dukes.

"The Devil's finest ruse," Baudelaire wrote, "is to persuade you that he doesn't exist." In this episode, JF and Phil peer through a buzzing haze of lies, illusions, and mirages, in hopes of catching a glimpse, however brief, of the figure standing at its center. With a focus on the fifteenth major arcanum of the tarot, they try to make sense of this archetype which feels, at once, remotely distant and uncomfortably close to us, all while heeding the warning from the anonymous author of Meditations on the Tarot that one ought not look too deeply into the nature of evil, which is "unknowable in its essence." Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies). Buy the Weird Studies soundtrack, volumes 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2), on Pierre-Yves Martel's Bandcamp (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com) page. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia (https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/). Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! REFERENCES Our Known Friend, Meditations on the Tarot (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781585421619) The Gnostic Tarot (https://chrisleech.wixsite.com/mysite) Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Faust, Part 1 (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781017359060) Ramsey Dukes, SSOTBME (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780904311082) Edgar Allan Poe, The Imp of the Perverse (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781516834662) Aleister Crowley, Magic, Book 4 (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780877289197) Leigh McCloskey, Tarot Re-Visioned (https://www.leighmccloskey.com/TarotRev.html) Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780877282686) The Library of Esoterica, Tarot (https://www.taschen.com/en/books/esoterica/08003/tarot-the-library-of-esoterica) Federico Campagna, Technic and Magic (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781350044029)

In this episode of Weird Studies, we delve into the mysterious depths of Plato's Timaeus, one of the foundational texts of our civilization. In his characteristic brilliance, Plato blends cosmology and metaphysics, anatomy and politics to tell a creation story that rivals the most fantastical mythologies, yet he does it while remaining grounded in a philosophical rigor that announces a radically new way of thinking the world. Here, Phil and JF try unravel the layers of the dialogue, revealing how Plato's vision of a divinely ordered cosmos echoes through the corridors of esoteric thought from antiquity to modern times. Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies). Buy the Weird Studies sountrack, volumes 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2), on Pierre-Yves Martel's Bandcamp (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com) page. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia (https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/). Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! REFERENCES Plato, [Timaeus](https://hackettpublishing.com/history/history-of-science/timaeus](Donald Zeyl Edition) Earl Fontenelle, The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (https://shwep.net/podcast/platos-timaeus/) The Book of Thoth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Thoth) Graham Hancock, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Hancock) British journalist Hesiod, Theogony (https://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodTheogony.html) Hermes Trismegistus, {Emerald Tablet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmeraldTablet) Pierre Hadot, (https://iep.utm.edu/hadot/), scholar of classical philosophy Eugene Wigner, “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences” (https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/wigner.pdf) Jean-Pierre Vernant, _The Origins of Greek Thought (https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-origins-of-greek-thought-jean-pierre-vernant/7729742?ean=9780801492938) Lionel Snell, SSOTBME (https://www.amazon.com/SSOTBME-Revised-essay-Ramsey-Dukes/dp/0904311082)

Ken and Mark return to Saturn's gaze and press further into the German magickal milieu. Once again Frater U∴D∴ lights his lantern of experience and guides us into the temple. This week: Electrical Magick and the Tepaphone, The Saturnian archetype, The Gnosis of Saturn, Yoga and Dark Light, and much more. Jumping into the Saturnian cohost seat this week is Marck Satyr Main theme by Simon Smerdon (Mothboy) Music bed by chriszabriskie.com Stephen Flowers' book is the best resource on the order in English. Buy the book in the UK here Buy the book in the US here Frater U∴D∴ Bio Frater U∴D∴ is a writer, poet and magician. A German diplomat's child, he grew up in Africa and Asia. He holds a master's degree from the University of Bonn in Comparative Literature, English Literature and Portuguese Studies. Co-founder of the Bonn Workshop for Experimental Magic. As founder of Pragmatic Magic, Cyber Magic, Ice Magic and co-founder of the Magical Pact of the Illuminati of Thanateros (IOT), he is one of Europe's most renowned practical magicians and contemporary occult authors. He studied with yoga and tantra masters and has been involved with the practical aspects of occultism in general and magic in particular for more than half a century. Many years of experience as a translator and interpreter, author of more than 40 books, many of which have become modern day classics, including High Magic and Practical Sigil Magic. His works have been translated into multiple languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Czech, Estonian, Japanese etc.). He is known for his undogmatic approach to the black arts. Translated works by Peter Carroll, Ramsey Dukes and Aleister Crowley's Book of Lies, among others.

This week we orbit the rings of Saturn and explore one of Germany's most long-lasting and secretive Magickal orders, the Fraternitas Saturni. Our Magistar Gnosticus this week is legendary occultist Frater U∴D∴, a longtime member of the F.S., and well-known author of occult texts. This week we discuss: Who are the Fraternitas Saturni, what is the link between the F.S. and Aleister Crowley, What is Saturnian Magick, and much more. Orbiting the rings of Saturn with me this week is Marck Satyr Main theme by Simon Smerdon (Mothboy) Music bed by chriszabriskie.com Stephen Flowers' book is the best resource on the order in English. Buy the book in the UK here Buy the book in the US here Frater U.D. Bio Frater U∴D∴ (Belgium), founder of Pragmatic and Ice Magic, is Europe's best known practical magician and contemporary occult author. He has written more than twenty-five books. Among his translations are the books of Peter Carroll and Ramsey Dukes, and Aleister Crowley's Book of Lies.

In this episode I am once again joined by Lionel Snell, a contemporary English magician, publisher, and, under various pen names such as Ramsey Dukes, a renowned author on magic and philosophy. Lionel explores the idea that people, societies, and even cultures cycle through 4 distinct phases with profound affects. Lionel traces the history of the last hundreds and even thousands of years and identifies the emergence of these phases with periods of religious fervour, scientific progress, magickal revivals, and artistic eruption. Lionel explains the similarities and differences between magick and art, the archetypes of the feminine, and the fear of the free woman. Lionel also provides analysis of our current time, reveals how finding the Trickster can unravel polarised and dualistic thinking, and how a deep understanding of the occult can be noted in leading political and cultural figures. … Video version: https://www.guruviking.com/podcast/ep219-cycles-of-the-occult-ramsey-dukes-2 Also available on Youtube, iTunes, & Spotify – search ‘Guru Viking Podcast'. … Topics Include: 00:00 - Intro 01:08 - Cycles and modes of thought and culture 03:52 - Cycles vs linear time 05:38 - Suspicion of thinking in cycles 07:01 - Time of magickal revival 08:47 - The art movements of the 1920s and the 1980s 11:31 - Cycles of Ramsey's life 12:40 - Why magick emerges from science and religion 14:55 - Magick vs art 16:52 - The miracle of the axial age 18:29 - Magickal revival in the early ADs and the rise of alchemy 20:34 - The silent art of Greek medicine (ἰατρική) 22:40 - Ramsey on astrology 23:41 - Process of Pluto into Capricorn 26:01- Pluto into Aquarius and corrosion of democracy 27:24 - Danger of the free female 29:01 - Shadow projection onto the individual 31:50 - Social media, war, and the shadows of Aquarius 36:42 - Egregores and the power of othering 41:50 - God, Devil, Trickster 43:14 - Archetypes of the feminine 46:04 - Transcending duality 47:00 - The rich-poor cycle 51:49 - Political polarisation and spotting the trick 56:38 - Using polarity to act on the world 01:00:08 - The terror of the linear view 01:06:44 - Do politicians use magick to influence world events? 01:11:44 - Did Trump study the occult? 01:12:36 - Ramsey on the Illuminati 01:14:41 - Rosicrucianism, fact of fiction? 01:18:23 - Interactions between personal and societal cycles 01:27:09 - The skeptical movement and chaos magick 01:30:08 - Using cycles to inspire and infuriate 01:38:18 - How to work with cycles as an individual 01:44:00 - Addendum: What might the future hold? … Previous episode with Ramsey Dukes: - https://www.guruviking.com/podcast/ep209-the-english-magician-ramsay-dukes To find out more about Ramsey Dukes, visit: - https://ramseydukes.co.uk/ - https://www.youtube.com/@RamseyDukes ... For more interviews, videos, and more visit: - https://www.guruviking.com Music ‘Deva Dasi' by Steve James

In this episode I am joined by Lionel Snell, a contemporary English magician, publisher, and, under various pen names such as Ramsey Dukes, a renowned author on magic and philosophy. Lionel shares his life's journey with magick, explores his years reading mathematics at Cambridge University, immersing in the work of British occultists Aleister Crowley and Austin Spare, and how an experimental group ritual had unexpected and tragic implications. Lionel discusses the true meaning of initiation, the serious dangers of becoming involved in magick, and his time in the OTO alongside figures such as Gerald Suster. Lionel also considers subjects such as the importance of magical thinking, the tension between structure and freedom, the role of banishing rituals, and the cycles of a person's life. … Video version: www.guruviking.com/podcast/ep209-the-english-magician-ramsay-dukes 
Also available on Youtube, iTunes, & Spotify – search ‘Guru Viking Podcast'. … Topics Include: 00:00 - Intro 00:59 - Childhood interest in magick 04:12 - The mystery of alchemy 06:04 - Exploring Aleister Crowley's writings while at Cambridge University 07:26 - Meeting Gerald York and discovering Austin Spare 08:37 - The Zen of Western Magick 10:39 - Writing books about magick 13:00 - Joining the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) 14:38 - The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift 19:31 - From maths to magick 25:11 - Education as a ritual of initial 29:24 -The true meaning of initiation 32:25 - Initiation in British and American culture 36:38 - Experiments in practicing the occult 40:52 - The role of psychedelics in the 60s occult revival 42:06 - Lionel's life changing experience with psychedelics 50:37 - Meditation and practicing the occult 55:06 - The Yang form of Tai Chi 56:17 - Gerald Suster and transforming experience through magick 01:02:24 - Lionel's talent for ritual magick 01:05:04 - Crowley on ritual 01:06:19 - Lionel's occult ritual at Emmanuel College with unexpected results 01:13:21 - The dangers of practicing magick 01:17:47 - Beyond occult power 01:20:48 - Strength vs power 01:24:37 - Structure and freedom - a secret to magick 01:29:25 - Banishing rituals and self protection 01:31:54 - A profound dream and making one's magickal implements 01:35:43 - About cycles 01:40:44 - Magical thinking and the cyclical phases of life … To find out more about Ramsey Dukes, visit: - https://ramseydukes.co.uk/ - https://www.youtube.com/@RamseyDukes For more interviews, videos, and more visit: - https://www.guruviking.com Music ‘Deva Dasi' by Steve James

Ramsey Dukes, also known by his real name of Lionel Snell, may be one of the most important thinkers on magic since Aleister Crowley. In the impishly-titled Sex Secrets of the Black Magicians Exposed (or SSOTBME for short), Dukes accomplishes something few writers on the topic have been able to do: he gives us magic without asking us to sacrifice anything that makes us sensible modern people. He makes magic seem like the most obvious thing in the world, and he does it without taking away any of its, well, magic. How he does it and what it means are questions that would take several episodes to unpack. In this one, Phil and JF begin the work by discussing how Dukes situates magic in an epistemic compass that also includes science, art, and religion. This set of tools is as essential to a holistic view of reality as the four suits in a deck of cards are essential to a proper poker game. In other words, when we lose magic, we lose a way of dealing with reality. Sign up for JF's upcoming course on Macbeth (https://www.nuralearning.com/weird-macbeth) Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's ongoing podcast on Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle. Listen to volume 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and volume 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2) of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel (https://www.pymartel.com) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (https://www.redbubble.com/people/Weird-Studies/shop?asc=u) (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) REFERENCES David Lynch (dir.), Mulholland Drive (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/) Ramsey Dukes, SSOTBME (https://bookshop.org/p/books/ssotbme-revised-an-essay-on-magic-ramsey-dukes/8438809) Slavoj Žižek, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0828154/) C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781107606142) Weird Studies, Episode 139 on Art Power (https://www.weirdstudies.com/139) Marshall McLuhan, Gutenberg Galaxy (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781442612693) “Virtual” and “Actual” (https://epochemagazine.org/36/on-virtuality-deleuze-bergson-simondon/#:~:text=To%20Deleuze%2C%20the%20virtual%20and,virtual%20which%20coexists%20alongside%20it.), as developed by Bergson and Deleuze Pragmatism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism), philosophical school Jack Parsons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons), American rocket scientist Mircea Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/97806The Myth of the Eternal Return91182971) William Shakespeare, Macbeth (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780743477109)

In this episode, we chat with magician, author, and youtuber Lionell Snell, aka Ramsey Dukes, about magical thinking. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-NwOu0WV5Qd_U4zOP33sw https://www.amazon.com/Ramsey-Dukes/e/B001JP7UKI http://ramseydukes.co.uk/    Hilaritas Press Podcast:  http://www.hilaritaspress.com/podcasts/ Host/Producer Mike Gathers:  https://linktr.ee/mgathers23 Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves:  https://ryan4reeves.wixsite.com/ryanreeves

In this episode, the legendary Ramsey Dukes returns to talk about chaos magick, the Aeon of Horus, his Guru alter-ego "Baba Rebok," and lots more! From his Thelemapedia bio: Lionel Snell was born in England in 1945 and brought up in the ‘arts and crafts' milieu of the Gloucestershire countryside but won scholarships and County financial backing for formal education at Clifton College, Bristol, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1964-68), where he officially studied pure mathematics but also studied the works of Aleister Crowley in the university library and held his first “ritual happening” in the mid 1960s. Being brought up in a culture of alternative lifestyles and radical thought formed a contrast with his subsequent traditional education with its later emphasis on science. This lead to a lifelong interest in building bridges between the scientific/materialist worldview and alternative spirituality/paranormal—an approach very different from those New Age philosophies that seek to reconcile or equate science and spirit. This is strongly reflected in Ramsey Dukes' writings where he addresses Science, Magic, Art and Religion as four ‘cultures' as an extension of CP Snow's popular ‘two culture' concept. For more, check out Magick.Me, my online school for magick, meditation, and mysticism—see more at www.magick.me...!

In this episode, I'm ultra excited to talk to Lionel Snell, aka Ramsey Dukes, one the prime movers of chaos magick, and an absolutely lovely individual. From his Thelemapedia bio: Lionel Snell was born in England in 1945 and brought up in the ‘arts and crafts' milieu of the Gloucestershire countryside but won scholarships and County financial backing for formal education at Clifton College, Bristol, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1964-68), where he officially studied pure mathematics but also studied the works of Aleister Crowley in the university library and held his first “ritual happening” in the mid 1960s. Being brought up in a culture of alternative lifestyles and radical thought formed a contrast with his subsequent traditional education with its later emphasis on science. This lead to a lifelong interest in building bridges between the scientific/materialist worldview and alternative spirituality/paranormal—an approach very different from those New Age philosophies that seek to reconcile or equate science and spirit. This is strongly reflected in Ramsey Dukes' writings where he addresses Science, Magic, Art and Religion as four ‘cultures' as an extension of CP Snow's popular ‘two culture' concept. .. For more, check out Magick.Me, my online school for magick, meditation, and mysticism—see more at www.magick.me...!


This is the very special Anniversary episode for the 5th Anniversary of the first launch of an episode on our show. Back on April 20th 2017 it was Alan Richardson who was my guest.Without evening mentioning that in the interview, you will see that Lionel Snell, also known under his pen name Ramsey Dukes, is a very special person, brilliant, with a lot of humour, always ahead of this time. The way how he explains the four levels in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, comparing that to the computer world, is unique and only one example of the great things you will find in this interview.At my side is Carl Abrahamsson; for this is the second so-called "TRIO-episode", where I invite a former guest to be my co-host for once, and Carl made the wonderful suggestion to invite Lionel. And Carl was a perfect co-host in all ways. 
All of this makes this a worthy Anniversary celebration.
Thank you to all listeners, guests and musicians who have contributed to wonderful five years!

We approach the Middle Pillar on the Tree of Life as a possible guide to the dilemma of having a human identity, exploring: the contrast between identity and being; the advantages and drawbacks of emphasising one of these above the other; a parallel between the Pillar of Severity and identity, and the Pillar of Mercy and being; how these distinctions transcend politics; neurodiversity as a new and possibly radical category of human difference; neurodiversity as a possible recognition that the human being is not synonymous with the human mind; lack of mental imagery as a marker of neurodiversity; mental imagery in magick; Lionel Snell on seeing fairies; how the imagination does not depend upon mental imagery, because the imagination is universal; some ancient myths and other accounts of human nature; the changeability of human nature; David Abram on the separation of the human from nature; putting the blame on language and Plato; the primacy of forgetting in human nature; forgetting and remembering in Plato; remembering as resurrection; parallels between identity and remembering, being and forgetting, and the dilemmas of both; the Middle Pillar as an alternative to these; Kether as that which is beyond the human mind; Israel Regardie on the resolution of psychological conflict as a preliminary practice to magick; acceptance as the solution to conflict; Tiphereth as the model of acceptance and balance; the Middle Pillar as a combination of remembering and forgetting; Yesod as the unconscious and the storehouse of memory and images; the abyss and the enigma of Da'ath; the nature of Da'ath and a personal experience of it; Da'ath and the Holy Guardian Angel as useful fictions; the arrival at a useful fiction as a preliminary to the experience of Kether; the Middle Pillar as a pulsation of different kinds of remembering and forgetting. Support the podcast and access additional content at: https://patreon.com/oeith. Buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/oeith or https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dbarfordG. Or you could send me a lovely book from https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/1IQ3BVWY3L5L5?ref_=wl_share. David Abram (1996). The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World. New York: Pantheon. Anonymous (2002). Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism. New York: Tarcher. Ramsey Dukes (2011). How to See Fairies: Discover Your Psychic Powers in Six Weeks. London: Aeon. Israel Regardie (1945). The Middle Pillar. Chicago: Aries.

Over the last several centuries, there has been one thing on which science and religion have generally agreed, and that is the fixity of the laws under which the universe came to be. At the moment of the Big Bang or the dawn of the First Day, the underlying principles that govern reality were already set, and they have never changed. But what if the laws of nature were not as chiseled in stone as Western intellectuals on both sides of the magisterial divide have assumed them to be? What if creation was an ongoing process, such that our universe in its beginning might have behaved very differently from how it does at present? This is the central conceit of Stanislaw Lem's story "The New Cosmogony," the capstone of his metafictional collection A Perfect Vacuum, originally published in 1971. In this episode, Meredith Michael joins JF and Phil to discuss the metaphysical implications of the idea that nature is an eternal work-in-progress. Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the new T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (https://www.redbubble.com/people/Weird-Studies/shop?asc=u) (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Buy the Weird Studies soundtrack (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) REFERENCES For more information JF's new course, Groundwork for a Philosophy of Magic, visit Nura Learning (https://www.nuralearning.com/groundwork-philosophy-magic). Stanislaw Lem, “A New Cosmogony” in A Perfect Vacuum (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780156716864) Weird Studies, Episode 118 The Unseen and Unnamed (https://www.weirdstudies.com/118) Ramsey Dukes, SSOTBME (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780904311082) Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781441173836) M. John Harrison, The Course of the Heart Michael Harner, The Way of the Shaman (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780062503732) Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780198788607) Stanislaw Lem, Solaris (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780156027601) Stanislaw Lem, His Master's Voice (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780262538459) David Pruett, Reason and Wonder (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780692568743) Andrei Tarkovsky (dir.), Solaris (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/) Philip K. Dick, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780345404473) Andrew W.K., “No One to Know” Special Guest: Meredith Michael.

Seriah welcomes Taylor Bell, Wren Collier, and Chris Ernst for wide-ranging discussion. Topics include "the Skinwalker Ranch of the South", a magickal ritual performed at night, spirit boxes, "living geometry", glow worms, synchronicities, vampire and Fae folklore surrounding counting, Nathan Issacs and "Penny Royal", co-creation of paranormal phenomena, guidance from the higher self, the human body as a portal, death and the paranormal, ghost hunting paraphernalia, reincarnation and other realms, Nag Hammadi scrolls and Gnostic apocryphal texts, a possible 5 dimensional universe, new age vibration theory, the subtle body and subtle organs, the reality of the imaginal, multi-dimensional sigils, inner monologue and intuition and language, the Tower of Babel, Ramsey Dukes, communication without verbal language, telepathy, "Amazon Beaming" by Petru Popescu, an encounter with the spirit of a dead friend, Terence McKenna, untranslatable/inexpressible ideas, oral vs. written language, "The Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes, the multiple minds within our personalities, ancient ways of thinking, dreams, visualization in sports, and much more!

Seriah welcomes Taylor Bell, Wren Collier, and Chris Ernst for wide-ranging discussion. Topics include "the Skinwalker Ranch of the South", a magickal ritual performed at night, spirit boxes, "living geometry", glow worms, synchronicities, vampire and Fae folklore surrounding counting, Nathan Issacs and "Penny Royal", co-creation of paranormal phenomena, guidance from the higher self, the human body as a portal, death and the paranormal, ghost hunting paraphernalia, reincarnation and other realms, Nag Hammadi scrolls and Gnostic appocryphal texts, a possible 5 dimensional universe, new age vibration theory, the subtle body and subtle organs, the reality of the imaginal, multi-dimensional sigils, inner monologue and intuition and language, the Tower of Babel, Ramsey Dukes, communication without verbal language, telepathy, "Amazon Beaming" by Petru Popescu, an encounter with the spirit of a dead friend, Terence McKenna, untranslatable/inexpressible ideas, oral vs. written language, "The Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes, the multiple minds within our personalities, ancient ways of thinking, dreams, visualization in sports, and much more! - Recap by Vincent Treewell Outro Music is Lee Lee the Wondergirl from Psyche Corporation Download

Seriah welcomes Taylor Bell, Wren Collier, and Chris Ernst for wide-ranging discussion. Topics include "the Skinwalker Ranch of the South", a magickal ritual performed at night, spirit boxes, "living geometry", glow worms, synchronicities, vampire and Fae folklore surrounding counting, Nathan Issacs and "Penny Royal", co-creation of paranormal phenomena, guidance from the higher self, the human body as a portal, death and the paranormal, ghost hunting paraphernalia, reincarnation and other realms, Nag Hammadi scrolls and Gnostic appocryphal texts, a possible 5 dimensional universe, new age vibration theory, the subtle body and subtle organs, the reality of the imaginal, multi-dimensional sigils, inner monologue and intuition and language, the Tower of Babel, Ramsey Dukes, communication without verbal language, telepathy, "Amazon Beaming" by Petru Popescu, an encounter with the spirit of a dead friend, Terence McKenna, untranslatable/inexpressible ideas, oral vs. written language, "The Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes, the multiple minds within our personalities, ancient ways of thinking, dreams, visualization in sports, and much more! - Recap by Vincent Treewell Outro Music is Lee Lee the Wondergirl from Psyche Corporation Download

Renew for 2022. Cast out old curses. Shrug off outmoded adaptations. Fall madly in love with yourself. Honor the Satanic Budda within. Seek your payload of sensory pleasure. If someone wants to put you down, and you're not into it, say "get the hell out of my year." Hear all this and more on this month's episode of Emerson Dameron's Medicated Minutes.Emerson Dameron's Medicated Minutes is a production of KCHUNG, with support from the SlickWorks corporation and the First Church of the Satanic Buddha.Music by Chris Rogers. Inspiration from Erving Goffman, Ramsey Dukes, Mitch Horowitz, and many others. Written, performed, produced, and created by Emerson Dameron, who is solely responsible for its content.Levity saves lives.

We plummet deep into the fundamental nature of reality in this episode, examining the necessary association of magick with evil: the premise of John Milton's Paradise Lost; Satan and the possible origin of evil; Satan as the archetype of the rebel; our relationship as magicians to this archetype; the absence of a moral framework from magick; the suggestion that magick needs to be kept "evil"; understanding evil in contrast to the good; Neoplatonist approaches to the good; the good as the aspiration of all beings; the misidentification of the good; the Platonic ideals as a guide to goodness; beauty, truth, goodness, and the One (wholeness); Proclus on the separation of being and goodness; wholeness as better than goodness; wholeness as the mystical state, as union with goodness; evil as a consequence of the separation of being from the good; evil as a characteristic of wholeness; evil as a consequence of the actions of beings versus evil as transcendent; Satan as the origin of evil versus Satan as a participant in evil; evil as an attribute of the Divine; the relationship of the Divine to goodness; a Divine wholly good as necessarily imperfect; evil as a bug versus evil as a feature; Nishida Kitaro on the self-negation of the Divine; how the Divine by its nature contradicts itself; Satan as the pawn of God; how Milton glosses over the evil in God; the perfect as perfect only if it includes the imperfect; Nishida's ideas as observations, not theories; the experience of emptiness as the experience of the self-negation of the Divine; how emptiness gives rise to form by standing in a relationship of self-negation to itself; how we have no relationship to the Divine; Creation proceeding not from any relationship to the Divine but by the Divine negating itself; the Heart Sutra and the nature of the Divine; (summary and an emergence from the metaphysical deep-end); Lionel Snell on art, science, religion and magick, and their corresponding principles of beauty, truth, goodness, and wholeness; magick as the aspiration to wholeness rather than to goodness; how magick rejects only the principle of rejection itself; how and why magick rejects neither untruth nor evil; how magick necessarily has a relationship to evil, yet not necessarily an answer to it; the mystery and elusiveness of evil; evil as unfixable, as the universe operating as designed; Jung on Job: humanity as morally superior to the Divine; Christ (God in human form) as the epitome of morality; accepting our moral superiority to God as a magician's response to evil; how there is no escape from evil or morality. Ramsey Dukes (2000). SSOTBME Revised: An Essay on Magic. El-Cheapo. Carl Gustav Jung (2002). Answer to Job. New York: Routledge. Nishida Kitaro (1987). Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview. Honolulu: University of Hawaii. John Milton (2008). Paradise Lost. New York: Modern Library. Proclus (2017). The Elements of Theology, translated by Juan and Maria Balboa, https://tinyurl.com/73bxtxsd (archive.org).

Gabrielle and Tom K are enchanted by magic. The discussion begins with a reading of S.S.O.T.B.M.E. by Ramsey Dukes. Through the alchemical power of conversation, the topic spawns a multifaceted hydra of detours and blind alleys. The theory of star seeds, magic vs. science vs. art, the internet police state, the magic of NFTs and Bitcoin. Comics are in there too… and so much more! Gabrielle Bell's Patreon | Gabrielle's Books Tom's blog TransAtlantis I Tom's Books | Beta Testing the Ongoing Apocalypse Uncivilized Books.

Please enjoy the second lecture/podcast in the Fenris Wolf series. This one is called “Onwards to the Source!” Shamanism & Magico-anthropology to the People, forever and in all dimensions! If you enjoyed this recording, you will very likely enjoy the rest of The Fenris Wolf 10: 422 pages of inspiring occulture and pure delightenment. This jubilee volume contains material by Ludwig Klages, David Beth, Henrik Dahl, Peter Sjöstedt-H, Jesse Bransford, Max Razdow, Christopher Webster, Kendell Geers, Kadmus, Billie Steigerwald, Fred Andersson, Zaheer Gulamhusein, Charlotte Rodgers, Craig Slee, Damien Patrick Williams, Philip H. Farber, Thomas Bey William Bailey, Mitch Horowitz, Ramsey Dukes, Anders Lundgren, Peggy Nadramia, Nina Antonia, Jack Stevenson, Andrea Kundry, Joan Pope, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Vanessa Sinclair, Claire-Madeline Corso, and Carl Abrahamsson... ... On topics as diverse as magico-anthropology, sexual magic, eroto-psychedelic art, Friedrich Nietzsche’s use of psychoactive drugs, the occult meaning of the Fenris Wolf in Scandinavian Asatro, joint dreaming, mytho-historical traces within Völkish photography, the magic and influence of African art, disease as magical incentive, Cripkult, daoism, buddhism and machine consciousness, memetic entities, memetic magick, the transformative power of causative thinking, an interview with author Gary Lachman about Colin Wilson and his magical writings, dark Hollywood, Mike “Hellboy” Mignola and the Lovecraft connection, the full story of Benjamin Christensen’s cinematic masterpiece “Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922), the full story of Anton LaVey’s Satanic Bible, the gnostic-alchemical eroticism in the art of Joan Pope, Genesis P-Orridge’s memories of a life of occultural experimentation, and much more… Trapart Books 2020. Cover art by Val Denham. 6 x 9” paperback. 422 pages. For more information, please visit: https://store.trapart.net/ Please sign up for the Fenris Wolf newsletter: https://thefenriswolf.substack.com/ Please support this and our other endeavours by joining our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Thank you for your interest and support. Keep on howling! Carl Abrahamsson, Stockholm, December 12th, 2020 Photograph by Vanessa Sinclair

Ishmael Reed's 1972 novel Mumbo Jumbo is a conspiracy thriller, a postmodern experiment, a revolutionary tract, a celebration, and a magical working. It is a novel that, over and above prophetically describing the world we live in, creates a whole new world and invites us to move in. For Phil and JF, Mumbo Jumbo exemplifies art's creative power to generate new possibilities for life. It is also the perfect occasion for pinpointing the difference between the kind of magical thinking that fuels virulent conspiricism, and the more profound magical thinking which alone can save us from it. *Image: *Albrecht Dürer, Two Pairs of Hands with Book REFERENCES Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo (https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/aug/01/mumbo-jumbo-a-penguin-classic-2017-ishmael-reed) Harold Bloom, The Western Canon (https://www.openculture.com/2014/01/harold-bloom-creates-a-massive-list-of-works-in-the-western-canon.html) For more on Colin Wilson's concept of lunar religion, see The Occult (https://www.amazon.com/Occult-Colin-Wilson/dp/1842931075) Weird Studies, episode 36: "On Hyperstition" (https://www.weirdstudies.com/36) William S. Burroughs, [Naked Lunch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NakedLunch)_ Carl Van Vechten (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Van_Vechten), American writer Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, Illuminatus! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy) MC5, "Kick Out the Jams" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XhQRFO4M7A) Karl Pfeiffer (dir.), Hellier (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9640354/), webseries Jasun Horsley, 16 Maps of Hell (https://auticulture.com/liminalist/16-maps-of-hell-campaign/) Ramsey Dukes (Lionel Snell), SSOTBME (https://www.amazon.com/SSOTBME-Revised-essay-Ramsey-Dukes/dp/0904311082) Anonymous, [Meditations on the Tarot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeditationsontheTarot)_ Fats Waller (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fats_Waller), American jazz musician Owen Barfield, [Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SavingtheAppearances) Weird Studies, episode 57 - "Box of Gods: On Raiders of the Lost Ark (https://www.weirdstudies.com/57)" Hans Jonas, The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity (https://www.amazon.com/Gnostic-Religion-Message-Beginnings-Christianity/dp/0807058017) Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, [Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature](https://www.amazon.com/Kafka-Toward-Literature-Theory-History/dp/0816615152/ref=sr13?dchild=1&keywords=Kafka+minor+literature&qid=1609947211&s=books&sr=1-3)

I talk with Euphomet podcaster Jim Perry about the experience of opening yourself to the unreal. Topics include: the crossovers between paganism & Christianity, Robert Anton Wilson's concept of "the Chapel Perilous," the risk of losing yourself, forming loose opinions, the necessity of our participation, John Keel, truth?, the flexibility of strange phenomena, Gray Barker, tricksters, synchronicities, non-consensus reality, Whitley Strieber, Aleister Crowley, Lam, and the Greys. Originally recorded in early 2020 before the world imploded, and Back when I thought I was doing a podcast about the paranormal. Operation Trojan Horse - John Keel https://amzn.to/38VS6kz ([Amazon]) https://bookshop.org/a/19179/9781938398032 ([Bookshop]) https://www.amazon.com/On-the-Trail-of-UFOs/dp/B085WKHHMP (On the Trail of UFOs) The Silver Bridge - Gray Barker https://amzn.to/38WOOhd ([Amazon]) http://the-philosophers-stone.com/articles/charlatn/magus.htm ("The Charlatan & the Magus" - Ramsey Dukes) https://www.euphomet.com/ (Euphomet) @euphomet on twitter & instagram @itsjimperry on twitter & instagram --- Head over to https://www.itmattersbutitdoesnt.com (itmattersbutitdoesnt.com) where you can http://patreon.com/chadhall (become a patron) https://www.itmattersbutitdoesnt.com/support/ (find other ways to support the show) https://chadhall.ck.page/d2ec2d5cfc (sign up for my book recommendation newsletter) leave a voice mail by clicking the blue button https://www.itmattersbutitdoesnt.com/episodes/ (browse the full episodes archive) and more FYI I use affiliate links whenever linking to books as a way to help support the podcast. I offer both Amazon links & Bookshop.org links. Bookshop.org costs a bit more but every purchase supports local, independent bookstores. Consider using their links if you can afford to. https://bookshop.org/pages/about (learn more here.) Support this podcast

As the tenth issue of The Fenris Wolf is now out there and howling so beautifully, let’s zoom in a bit closer by listening to the “podcast” reading of the text on Fenris proper: Carl Abrahamsson: “Lux Per Nox – The Fenris Wolf as Libidinal Liberator.” If you enjoyed this recording, you will very likely enjoy the rest of The Fenris Wolf 10: 422 pages of inspiring occulture and pure delightenment. This jubilee volume contains material by Ludwig Klages, David Beth, Henrik Dahl, Peter Sjöstedt-H, Jesse Bransford, Max Razdow, Christopher Webster, Kendell Geers, Kadmus, Billie Steigerwald, Fred Andersson, Zaheer Gulamhusein, Charlotte Rodgers, Craig Slee, Damien Patrick Williams, Philip H. Farber, Thomas Bey William Bailey, Mitch Horowitz, Ramsey Dukes, Anders Lundgren, Peggy Nadramia, Nina Antonia, Jack Stevenson, Andrea Kundry, Joan Pope, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Vanessa Sinclair, Claire-Madeline Corso, and Carl Abrahamsson... ... On topics as diverse as magico-anthropology, sexual magic, eroto-psychedelic art, Friedrich Nietzsche’s use of psychoactive drugs, the occult meaning of the Fenris Wolf in Scandinavian Asatro, joint dreaming, mytho-historical traces within Völkish photography, the magic and influence of African art, disease as magical incentive, Cripkult, daoism, buddhism and machine consciousness, memetic entities, memetic magick, the transformative power of causative thinking, an interview with author Gary Lachman about Colin Wilson and his magical writings, dark Hollywood, Mike “Hellboy” Mignola and the Lovecraft connection, the full story of Benjamin Christensen’s cinematic masterpiece “Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922), the full story of Anton LaVey’s Satanic Bible, the gnostic-alchemical eroticism in the art of Joan Pope, Genesis P-Orridge’s memories of a life of occultural experimentation, and much more… Trapart Books 2020. Cover art by Val Denham. 6 x 9” paperback. 422 pages. For more information, please visit: https://store.trapart.net/ Please support this and our other endeavours: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Please subscribe to the Fenris Wolf newsletter at: https://thefenriswolf.substack.com/

Magic is the topic that fascinates us all on The CON; this interview is an instant classic, featuring one of the most important writers in the field of Chaos Magic, Ramsey Dukes (Lionel Snell). "Lionel Snell is, in my opinion, the most lucid, coherent and insightful intellect to emerge from British occultism for some several decades..." - Alan Moore. Tune in for a real treat of magical conversation and theory. Find out more about our guest's work here: SSOTBME The Little Book of Demons My Years of Magical Thinking The Good The Bad The Funny Ramsey Dukes's You Tube Channel With thanks to Complexi-Tales who allowed the podcast to enjoy their music once again this week... find them here: https://complexi-tales.bandcamp.com/album/tings-in-the-wall I tweet here: www.twitter.com/nickmargerrison We have a Facebook page, go follow the page: https://www.facebook.com/CultOfNick "How do I pay for the podcast?" - share it, share it far and wise. We're doing pretty well in terms of audience size, that's down to your support. Find us on: Spotify Stitcher Playerfm YouTube Once you've found us, like it, give it a good review, share it and spread it around. There you go, you paid for the podcast, thank you!

The Book of Changes, or I Ching, is more than an ancient text. It's a metaphysical guide, a fun game, and -- to your hosts at least -- a lifelong, steadfast friend. The I Ching has come up more than once on the show, and now is the time for JF and Phil to face it head on, discussing the role it has played in their lives while delving into some of its mysteries. REFERENCES I Ching, (https://www.amazon.com/I-Ching-Book-Changes/dp/B000J4GE6Q) Wilhelm-Baynes translation I Ching, (https://www.amazon.com/Total-I-Ching-Stephen-Karcher/dp/074993980X) Stephen Karcher translation Game of Thrones, (https://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones) HBO series George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire (https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire) George R. R. Martin, “Sandkings” in: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (https://www.amazon.com/Weird-Compendium-Strange-Dark-Stories/dp/0765333627) H. P. Lovecraft, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft) American writer Graham Harman, Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy (https://www.amazon.com/Weird-Realism-Philosophy-Graham-Harman/dp/1780992521) Aleister Crowley, “777” (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123658.777_and_Other_Qabalistic_Writings_of_Aleister_Crowley) Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Cannibal Metaphysics (https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/cannibal-metaphysics) Joel Biroco, Calling Crane in the Shade (https://www.biroco.com) (website) Philip K. Dick, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick) American novelist Lionel Snell, a.k.a. Ramsey Dukes (http://ramseydukes.co.uk/), British occultist Richard Rutt, _Zhouyi: A New Translation with Commentary _ (https://www.amazon.com/Zhouyi-Translation-Commentary-Changes-Durham/dp/070071491X) Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gormenghast_(series)) Redmond and Hon, Teaching the I Ching (https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Ching-Changes-Religious-Studies/dp/0199766819) Weird Studies, episode 72 (https://www.weirdstudies.com/72), On the castrati Weird Studies, episode 77 (https://www.weirdstudies.com/77), On the fool tarot card Anonymous, Meditations on the Tarot (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/408555.Meditations_on_the_Tarot) The Usual Suspects (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114814/) (movie) Colin Wilson, The Occult (https://www.amazon.com/Occult-History-Colin-Wilson/dp/0394465555)

On our second voyage into the azure waters, we dive into conversations and currents of Chaos. Firstly we talk about the Philosopher King of Magic, one Ramsey Dukes. From here we sail about on the winds of a few Chaos Magic orders and groups, ever pondering if there ever really was a Chaos Magic movement. My guest for this episode Saul sheds some light on an online Magical current that for a time burned bright but now only seems to flicker. Of course, WMiT? cannot merely have only a two-parter on Chaos magic, but for a time we will drop anchor.

https://www.lightingthevoid.comLive Weeknights Mon-Fri 9 pm, PacificOn The Fringe FMhttps://thefringe.fmRamsey Dukes is the current and most well-known pen name of Lionel Snell, a contemporary English magician, publisher, and author on magic and philosophy.DJ Steezy Stevie https://www.steezymusic.com/Music by Chronox at https://www.chronoxofficial.com

https://www.lightingthevoid.comLive Weeknights Mon-Fri 9 pm, PacificOn The Fringe FMhttps://thefringe.fmTonight we reschedule Ramsey Dukes and let off some steam about the virus and being quarantined.http://www.thesecretteachings.infohttp://www.spiritualwarriortoday.comMusic By Chronox at https://www.chronoxofficial.comDy Steezy Stevie https://www.steezymusic.com/

FRATER U∴D∴ is a writer, poet and magician. A German diplomat's child, he grew up in Africa and Asia. He holds a master's degree from the University of Bonn in Comparative Literature, English Literature and Portuguese Studies. Co-founder of the Bonn Workshop for Experimental Magic. As founder of Pragmatic Magic, Cyber Magic, Ice Magic and co-founder of the Magical Pact of the Illuminati of Thanateros (IOT), he is one of Europe's most renowned practical magicians and contemporary occult authors. He studied with yoga and tantra masters and has been involved with the practical aspects of occultism in general and magic in particular for more than half a century. Many years of experience as a translator and interpreter, author of more than 40 books, many of which have become modern day classics, including High Magic and Practical Sigil Magic. His works have been translated into multiple languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Czech, Estonian, Japanese etc.). He is known for his undogmatic approach to the black arts. Translated works by Peter Carroll, Ramsey Dukes and Aleister Crowley's Book of Lies, among others.   Select bibliography High Magic. Theory & Practice. St. Paul, Minn.: Llewellyn, 2005-2008. Money Magic. Mastering Prosperity in Its True Element.  Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2011. Practical Sigil Magic. Creating Personal Symbols For Success. Rev. and enl. special ed. for the Americas. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2012. Sex Magic. Release & Control the Power of Your Erotic Potential. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2018. The Magical Shield.: Protection Magic to Ward Off Negative Forces. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2016. Where Do Demons Live? Everything You Want to Know About Magic. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2010. Forthcoming in Fall 2020: Living Magic. Contemporary Insights and Experiences from Practicing Magicians,Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 202 ](together with Harry Eilenstein, Josef Knecht and Axel Büdenbender) Forthcoming in 2021: A Fall Like No Other. Gnostic Meditations(together with Hagen von Tulien)   This is a very special episode - by its content, but also by its duration: Therefore we did not only split the interview in three parts instead of the usual two, but also play one additional piece of music. In order to help you navigate more easily through the episode, do not forget that all Thoth Hermes episodes starting with Season 4 use Chapter marks. If your podcast player allows the use of Chapters (most of them do nowadays) you can easily jump back and forth between chapters!   Music played in this episode 1) IN PRINCIPIO (INCANTATIONS) - by Heather Dale The world podcast premiere of Heather Dale's brand new song "In Principio", the first fruit of her new Incantations project. Learn more here 2) PHARAOH RAMSES II, by Derek Fiechter Music in the Ancient Egyptian Style about the most powerful of all pharaohs 3) BUILDING THE CIRCLE, by Master Wilburn Burchette The enigmatic WILBURN BURCHETTE burned most of his musical artifacts, but his impartiality to his own music didn’t deter its success. Creating music that resonated a cross between horror scores and Californian New Age, Burchette self-distributed on the Burchette Brothers label in collaboration with his brother, Kenneth, from 1971 to 1977. 4) THE WOLF'S SONG, by Jonna Jinton A Lullaby from Swedish children's book author Astrid Lindgren in "Ronya the Robber's Daughter" inspired young Swedish Singer and Photographer Jonna Jinton to this beautifully dreamy song.     Intro and Outro Music especially written and recorded for the Thoth-Hermes Podcast by Chris Roberts

"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around a lake." This line from Wallace Stevens' "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction" captures something of the mysteries of walking. It points to the undeniable yet baffling relationship between walking and thinking, between putting one foot in front of the other and uncovering the secret of the soul and world. In this episode, JF and Phil exchange ideas about the weirdness of this thing most humans did on most days for most of world history. The conversation ranges over a vast territory, with zen monks, novelists, Jesuits and more joining your hosts on what turns out to be a journey to wondrous places. Header image by Beatrice, Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucca_labirinto.jpg) REFERENCES Dogen, The Mountains and Waters Sutra (https://tricycle.org/magazine/mountains-and-waters-sutra/) Weird Studies listener Stephanie Quick (https://stephaniequick.home.blog) on the Conspirinormal podcast (http://conspirinormal.com/blog-1/2019/9/23/conspirinormal-episode-281-ste[phanie-quick-sex-magick-101) Weird Studies episode 51, Blind Seers: On Flannery O'Connor's 'Wise Blood' (https://www.weirdstudies.com/51) Lionel Snell, SSOTBME (https://www.amazon.com/SSOTBME-Revised-essay-Ramsey-Dukes/dp/0904311082) Henry David Thoreau, "Walking" (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1862/06/walking/304674/) Arthur Machen, "The White People" (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_White_People_(Machen)) Herman Melville, Moby Dick (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick) Vladimir Horowitz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Horowitz), Russian panist Gregory Bateson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Bateson), cybernetic theorist The myth of the Giant Antaeus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antaeus) Wallce Stevens, "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction" (https://genius.com/Wallace-stevens-notes-toward-a-supreme-fiction-annotated) Deleuze, [Difference and Repetition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DifferenceandRepetition) Michel de Certeau, [The Practice of Everyday Life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThePracticeofEverydayLife) John Cowper Powys, English novelist Will Self (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Self), English writer Guy Debord, [The Society of the Spectacle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheSocietyoftheSpectacle) Arcade Fire, “We Used to Wait” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nTjn1yJp0w) Paul Thomas Anderson (director), Punch Drunk Love (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272338/) Viktor Shklovsky (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Viktor-Shklovsky), Russian formalist Patreon blog post on Phil’s dream (https://www.patreon.com/posts/virus-30409580) David Lynch (director), [Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TwinPeaks:FireWalkwithMe)_

La Bruja Lola, Sandro Rey, Octavio Acebes... con una banda como esta no es de extrañar que el ocultismo, el hermetismo o el esoterismo tengan tan mala prensa. Pero más allá de ser motivo de inspiración de una serie de personajes que no brillan precisamente por sus luces, estos movimientos que surgen al mismo tiempo que la ilustración, son una parte del pensamiento contemporáneo (a veces un poco tróspido, por qué negarlo) fundamental para entender movimientos como la contracultura o el auge de las conspiranoias. De eso sabe mucho el editora valenciano Carlos Pla, que acaba de presentar los dos primeros libros de Aurora Dorada, una editorial dedicada a estos temas: Magkia sin lágrimas, de Aleister Crowley (traducida por primera vez al castellano) y la versión definitiva clásico S.S.O.T.B.M.E Revisado. Un ensayo sobre magia, de Ramsey Dukes.El podcast Ocultismo: mucho más que túnicas e incienso ha sido publicado en Plaza Radio

Ramsey Dukes is the current and most well-known pen name of Lionel Snell, a contemporary English magician, publisher, and author on magic and philosophy. Lionel Snell is among the founding names in chaos magic - though better known as Ramsey Dukes. In 1970 Gerald Yorke (keeper of the Crowley archive) introduced him to the writings of Austin Osman Spare and he wrote "Spare Parts" - an an introductory article about Spare's system of magic - which was published in Agape 4 in 1973 together with a facsimile of Snell's copy of "The Anathema of Zos"for Ramsey, the word “magic” includes not just ceremonial magic, the occult, Thelema, Chaos magick, witchcraft, etc, but also astrology, tarot and all forms of divination, most alternative healing systems and self-development processes such as individuation, NLP, Scientology, etc. I also think that marketing and advertising and most forms of psychological therapy are basically practical magic, even when pretending to be scientific. Conjurors and mentalists call themselves “magicians” and I think they are right – even when they merely claim to be exposing fake magic.https://ramseydukes.co.uk/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-NwOu0WV5Qd_U4zOP33sw/videoshttps://www.amazon.com/Ramsey-Dukes/e/B001JP7UKI?ref_=dbs_p_pbk_r00_abau_000000Main Music By ChronoxGuitar By BundyIntermission By Space StationCloser By Professor Bones Song Dead Lullaby

The great American thinker William James knew well that no intellectual pursuit is purely intellectual. His interest in the "supernormal," whether it take the form of spiritual apparition or extrasensory perception, was rooted in a personal desire to uncover the miraculous in the mundane. Indeed, the early members of the British Society for Psychical Research and its American counterpart (which James co-founded in 1884) were united in this conviction that certain phenomena which most scientists of their day considered unworthy of their attention were in fact the frontier of a new world, an avenue for humanity's deepest aspirations. In this episode, JF and Phil discuss two papers that James wrote about the first phase in the history of these research societies. James lays bare his conclusions about the reality of psychical phenomena and its scientific significance. The bizarre fact that psychical research has made little progress since its inception lays the ground for an engaging discussion on the limits of the knowable. REFERENCES Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Frederic W. H. Myers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_W._H._Myers), theorist of the "subliminal self" Weird Studies, Episode 37: Entities (https://www.weirdstudies.com/37) Thomas Henry Huxley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Henry_Huxley), aka "Darwin's Bulldog" Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld (https://www.amazon.com/Daimonic-Reality-Field-Guide-Otherworld/dp/0937663093) Mervyn Peake, The Gormenghast Trilogy (https://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Gormenghast-Trilogy-Mervyn-Peake-ebook/dp/B0056GJI5Q/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+_Gormenghast_+Trilogy&qid=1554906043&s=books&sr=1-1) Thomas Kuhn, [The Structure of Scientific Revolutions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheStructureofScientificRevolutions) James Randi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Randi), professional skeptic Dean Radin, Real Magic (https://www.amazon.com/Real-Magic-Ancient-Science-Universe/dp/1524758825) Eric Wargo, Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious (https://www.amazon.com/Time-Loops-Precognition-Retrocausation-Unconscious/dp/1938398920) Lionel Snell a.k.a. Ramsey Dukes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Snell), British magician [Changeling: The Lost](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeling:TheLost) tabletop roleplaying game Rupert Sheldrake's morphic resonance (https://www.sheldrake.org/research/morphic-resonance) Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingenc (https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/after-finitude-9781441173836/)y Joshua Ramey, "Contingency Without Unreason: Speculation After Meillassoux ("Contingency Without Unreason: Speculation After Meillassoux")" C.G. Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (https://www.amazon.com/Synchronicity-Connecting-Principle-Collected-Extracts/dp/0691150508)

Several years ago, on New Year’s Eve, a tall, purple-robed praying mantis appeared to multidisciplinary artist Stuart Evan Davis as he meditated while running a fever. “Remember who you work for,” the entity said after beaming a zettabyte of information into Stuart’s febrile mind. Though it lasted less than a minute, the encounter sparked a series of life-changing -- and hair-raising -- events worthy of a Philip K. Dick novel. JF and Phil talk to Stuart Davis to get his thoughts on nonhuman intelligences, the artistic cosmos, a movie trilogy the Mantis commissioned, and Stuart’s brilliant audio documentary, [Man Meets Mantis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8W0qCUH0)_. Header image by OLJA, Wikimedia Commons Stuart Davis Official Website (http://www.stuartdavis.com/) Stuart Davis, [Man Meets Mantis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8W0qCUH0)_ Stuart Davis, “Something from Nothing (https://www.consciouslife.com/something-from-nothing-6-month-course/)” course Jasmine Karimova (https://www.jasminekarimova.com/), singer-songwriter Ramsey Dukes, [The Good, The Bad, and the Funny](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2064416.TheGoodtheBadtheFunny)_ John Mack (http://johnemackinstitute.org/), psychiatrist and abduction phenomenon researcher Jacques Vallee (http://www.jacquesvallee.net/research.html), ufologist John Keel (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18452.John_A_Keel), paranormal researcher Weird Studies episode 2, “Garmonbozia (https://www.weirdstudies.com/2)” Norman McLaren, Spheres (https://www.nfb.ca/film/spheres/) Remedios Varo (https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-surrealists-paintings-inspire-witches-academics-alike), artist Leonora Carrington (https://www.artsy.net/artist/leonora-carrington), artist JF Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice (http://www.reclaimingart.com/) Special Guest: Stuart Evan Davis.

As Lionel Snell, also known as Ramsey Dukes, observes in his seminal esoteric essay, "The Charlatan and the Magus" (1984), the series of trumps in a tarot deck doesn't begin with the noble Emperor or august Hierophant, but with the lowly Fool, followed by the Juggler. Trickery or illusion, Snell suggests, may not be the dealbreaker we've thought it to be in parapsychological investigation. It may even be a feature, not a bug, of the magical process. In this episode of Weird Studies, JF and Phil talk to Lionel Snell about trickster magic, and all we miss out on when we make rational truth the only measure by which we know reality. Ramsey Dukes [Lionel Snell], "The Charlatan and the Magus" (http://the-philosophers-stone.com/articles/charlatn/magus.htm) Darren Brown, Tricks of the Mind (https://www.amazon.com/Tricks-Mind-Paperback-DERREN-BROWN/dp/1905026358) Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316117/) Phil Ford, “Birth of the Weird" (http://www.weirdstudies.com/articles/birth-of-the-weird) Ramsey Dukes [Lionel Snell], How to See Fairies: Discover Your Psychic Powers in Six Weeks (https://www.amazon.com/How-See-Fairies-Discover-Psychic/dp/1904658377) Ramsey Dukes [Lionel Snell], S.S.O.T..B.M.E. (https://www.amazon.com/SSOTBME-Revised-essay-Ramsey-Dukes/dp/0904311082) John Keats, Negative Capability (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_capability) Weird Studies, Episode 9: "On Aleister Crowley and the Idea of Magick" (http://www.weirdstudies.com/9) Special Guest: Lionel Snell [Ramsey Dukes].

Interview Starts 34:55   Lionel Snell aka Ramsey Dukes joins us to chat about this magical paradigm we live in and why he is starting up a youtube channel. We chat about trading soul, the state of depression, divination, looking for an augury, and talking to your imaginary butler….   We also touch on many things magical, needing something bigger, the big bang, the great spiritual resurgence, expanding awareness and sense experiences, and how mechanical causation is much smaller than social interaction, matter -energy and info, and Lionel talks about Virtual Reality decades ago.   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33931870-my-years-of-magical-thinking    https://www.facebook.com/Ramsey-Dukes-129478357116554/    http://www.abouttheauthor.co.uk/lionel-snell/    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-NwOu0WV5Qd_U4zOP33sw/videos   In the intro Felix - the king of the jingles joins us, to chat about his "A Grimerica Christmas" special video. We chat about playing music and making jingles and being able to throw yourself out there. Grhaam reads the UFO quote of the week and some listener emails.   See links below for stuff we chatted about during the show and the intro:   sirfelix.bandcamp.com   https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cruzin-with-steak/id1260419020?mt=2   http://www.iotevolutionworld.com/newsroom/articles/433809-industry-experts-invited-speak-iot-evolution-expo-the.htm    http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1976-27189-001 Johnsons Paradox    Please help support the show…. Grimerica’s DoBeDoBeDo List: Grimerica is fully and solely listener supported. We adhere to the Value for Value model.  0 ads, 0 sponsorships, 0 breaks, 0 portals and links to corporate websites… just many hours of unlimited content for free. Thanks for listening!!   Join the chat / hangout with a bunch of fellow Grimerican’s  www.grimerica.ca/chats   Support the show directly http://www.grimerica.ca/support   Leave a Voicemail http://speakpipe.com/grimerica Leave a review on iTunes and/or Stitcher https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-grimerica-show/id653314424?mt=2# http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-grimerica-show    Sign up for our newsletter http://www.grimerica.ca/news Leave a comment, ideas and guest/topic suggestions under any episode or blog http://www.grimerica.ca/   SPAM Graham = and send him your synchronicities, feedback, strange experiences and psychedelic trip reports!! graham@grimerica.com InstaGRAM  https://www.instagram.com/the_grimerica_show_podcast/    Tweet Darren https://twitter.com/Grimerica   Connect through other platforms: https://www.reddit.com/r/grimerica/  https://gab.ai/Grimerica    Purchase swag, with partial proceeds donated to the show www.grimerica.ca/swag Send us a postcard or letter http://www.grimerica.ca/contact/ Thanks to Wayne Darnell for help with the website. http://www.darnelldigitalink.com/ http://www.lostbreadcomic.com/ link to Napolean Duheme's site  Felix’s Site sirfelix.bandcamp.com   Christmas Carol Video     MUSIC Grimerica Theme - Lock & Key   Beyond Dazed - Broke for Free A Grimerica Christmas Carol - Sir Felix Ortega II

This week sees the return of one of the show's most popular guests, Lionel Snell aka Ramsey Dukes. Lionel joins us to discuss his most recent book, My Year of Magical Thinking, as well as various magical ways of being in the world and their benefits. Amazing stuff. Show Notes My Year of Magical Thinking Lionel's Website Lionel's YouTube Channel

We talk to the one and only Ramsey Dukes (Lionel Snell) about his magical career, publishing, Austin Spare, the British magical renaissance, the rise of chaos magic and just life in general. Do not miss this one!   Show Notes Ramsey's Facebook page Ramsey's excellent YouTube channel. (Subscribe!) Ramsey's author page