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Glitch Bottle Podcast

Glitch Bottle (Alexander Eth)

The Glitch Bottle Podcast is a Western magic and grimoire-focused show that uncorks the uncommon with magic, mysticism and the generally misunderstood.

Episodes

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📚#179 - The Canterbury Pentacles with David Rankine | Glitch Bottle

What is the oldest known grimoire pentacle manuscript from 800-years-ago? How do these Christian-infused protective devices blossom our unde...

77:01Aug 14, 2026

🧙‍♀️#178 - Sealing Cracks as Priest-Magician with Josephine McCarthy | Glitch Bottle

How can magicians embrace the destructive tides of change? What is true magical service to others? How can we seal the cracks, the fissures...

186:39Jul 19, 2026

#177 - Astrological Nigromancy of Cecco d’Ascoli with Mat Hadfield & Brian Johnson

What is astrological fatalism? Why did the Inquisition burn alive a university lecturer in Italy in 1327? What was the role of the four King...

106:06Jul 8, 2026

#176 - Retribution Magic, Art & Boundaries with Calla Marie Rowan | Glitch Bottle

How are art and magic deeply entwined? What’s the relationship between Retribution Magic and Setting Boundaries? Why is the Lemegeton’s Goet...

157:56Jun 29, 2026

#175 - What Is Esoteric Cartography with David Chaim Smith | Glitch Bottle

What is esoteric cartography? How can this path empower us to change directly with reality? Contemplative mystic, esoteric cartographer and...

157:43Jun 24, 2026

#174 - Venetian Inquisition & Books of Magic with Dr. Federico Barbierato and Joseph H. Peterson

What was the relationship between the Inquisition, the Clavicula Salomonis, booksellers, and magical texts in early modern Venice? How did m...

75:22Mar 15, 2026

#173 - Protecting Your Power & Spiritual Discernment with Frater Ashen Chassan | Glitch Bottle

How can you interrogate a spirit? Should A.I. be used in Solomonic conjure? How can we avoid ‘group-think’ and cults of personality? Frater...

148:25Mar 8, 2026

#172 - Magic Older Than The Gods & Egyptian Coffin Texts with Jack Grayle | Glitch Bottle

What are the ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts from 4,000 years ago? How do they interweave with the Graeco-Egyptian Magical Papyri (or PGM) spe...

61:22Feb 27, 2026

The Best (Anonymous) Poem in English, Ever.

400 years ago, a brazenly braggadocious begging ‘bedlamite’ possibly penned a poem so incantatorily-poignant, so wonder-woundedly-written, s...

29:56Jan 30, 2026

#171 - The Ordo Templi Astartes & American Magick with Poke Runyon, Max Paul, & Johnny Royal

Carroll "Poke" Runyon founded the Ordo Templi Astartes in 1970, which is now America’s oldest continually operating ritual magick lodge. Pok...

166:20Jan 21, 2026

#170 - Shattering Fossils & Humanizing Agrippa with Dr. Justin Sledge

How is Kabbalah dynamic and fluid? Why should we STOP treating Agrippa’s writings like a pick-and-choose-magical-buffet, and instead as a sy...

124:11Nov 16, 2025

#169 - Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras with Peter Mark Adams

Who is Mithras, and what were the Mythraic Mysteries practiced thousands of years ago? How was the cult organized? What role did Orphic meta...

97:02Oct 28, 2025

#168 - Hygromanteia, Liber Bileth, & Solomonic Networks with Dr. Gal Sofer

Why should we challenge the assumption that the Greek magical text, the Hygromanteia, is really the source of the Key of Solomon? Why is Fra...

187:54Sep 28, 2025

[Part 2] #167 - Grimoires, Demons & Catholic Theology with Jimmy Akin

What *actually* makes exorcisms effective? What are demons? What is the Catholic teaching on magic, grimoires and spirit summoning? Jimmy Ak...

128:49Aug 25, 2025

[Part 1] #167 - Grimoires, Demons & Catholic Theology with Jimmy Akin

What *actually* makes exorcisms effective? What are demons? What is the Catholic teaching on magic, grimoires and spirit summoning? Jimmy Ak...

120:27Aug 25, 2025

#166 - Shekinah, Winds & Claves Spirituum with David Rankine | Glitch Bottle

Why is invoking directional winds vital in ceremonial magic? Who is the Shekinah, and why is calling this powerful feminine presence actuall...

205:55Jun 26, 2025

#165 - Occultism, Astrology & Shi‘i Hadiths with Dr. Amina Inloes | Glitch Bottle

What does the Twelver Shi‘i Hadith tradition say about jinn, astrology, angels and necromancy? Dr. Amina Inloes - scholar, researcher, educa...

126:14May 18, 2025

#164 - Tarot, Art & Reverse Divination with Amelia Passer | Glitch Bottle

What is reverse divination? How do minerals, oils, and pigments reflect the deep alchemical process encrypted in painting? Amelia Passer - m...

87:30Apr 23, 2025

#163 - Song of the Dark Man with Darragh Mason | Glitch Bottle

What is the Dark Man, known by many names throughout the centuries like The Devil, Old Scratch, The Dark Rider, The Old One, The Master, the...

151:36Apr 1, 2025

Step-By-Step Ritual Process & Full Heptameron in Latin | Glitch Bottle

What is the six-step ‘Solomonic Method’? How can understanding these ritual steps help us navigate almost any grimoire? We go step-by-step a...

85:03Mar 14, 2025