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Rob C. Thompson, doctor of occult history and ritual, hosts an in-depth exploration of supernatural mysteries, beliefs, and practices. He’s joined by the Alchemical Actors, a ragtag crew of...
Shinto is the name assigned to Japan's native religion before the arrival of Buddhism. In this episode, Rob explores the legends of the kami...
William Burke and William Hare murdered sixteen people in the space of about a year in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. Burke was thirty-six...
Heather Lynn joins us to discuss the widely misunderstood ancient Sumerian gods, the Annunaki. The connections made between the Annunaki and...
A year after she completed the Secret Doctrine, Helena Blavatsky published the Voice of the Silence, one of the last to be completed in her...
Strange Ride is back and it's a Stranger Ride. Savannah reveals the conspiracy theory spawned by people who hated the ending to Stranger Thi...
Rob is podcasting alone today in his attempt to tell the twisting and winding story of John King, the pirate spirit who led the materializat...
Rob and Savannah go back to the Secret Doctrine.
Gary Lachman, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with Blondie, discusses how he went from rock and roll to Colin Wilson's...
What drew Howard Hughes to surround himself with what our guest Heidi Luv calls “Mormon Mafia,” and how did their influence shape his decisi...
While the full series remains exclusive to patrons, we are pulling our episode on musical deaths on stage to the main channel for the holida...
Richard Rolle was a hermit and a mystic who was probably more widely read than Chaucer during the medieval period. Rolle sets forth the prop...
Rob and Luke sit down with Sheer Zed to talk about his experience traveling to Thailand to receive sacred tattoos, captured in his book Thai...
Margery Kempe cried so much and so loudly that she became one of the most annoying women in her hometown of Lynn as well as neighboring Linc...
Rob's strange experiment in subconscious exploration and creation comes to an exciting conclusion in this final installment of our Dark Pool...
The story continues. The actors blend subconscious exploration, devised theater, and occult theory in this experimental storytelling experie...
After four years, we have taken down the website for our experiment in audio storytelling created during the pandemic lockdown and so we're...
Where did the medieval via negative come from? In large part, it was inspired by Plato and those who followed him an innovated on his way of...
Blind love is the only way to experience God according to the anonymous medieval mystic who authored the Cloud of Unknowing. In the first of...
Kabbalah has its roots in early rabbinic Judaism and became a distinct school of thought in the medieval period with the work of Isaac the B...
Magnolia Strange returns to complete her account of the life and significance of Hildegard. Included is some of Hildegard's music performed...
Hildegard von Bingen was a medieval polymath—writer, philosopher, musician, physician, artist, mystic, and in the twenty-first century she’s...
Chidabaram Ramalingam was one of the most famous Tamil poets of his day. He taught a new form of religion that recognized all gods as one, e...
After promising to publish a full account of the rites and practices of the Freemasons, William Morgan disappeared. A group of Masons were a...
Dr. Rob is flying solo for this exploration of the spiritual, ethical, and educational ramifications of the rise of consumer artificial inte...
Tobias Churton, author of The Book of Enoch Revealed, talks about how the texts ascribed to Enoch, most famously the story of the Watchers,...
John Mandeville, who may or may not be a real person, claimed to travel the lands of Prester John where he saw chameleons the size of goats...
In the twelfth century, Pope Alexander III received a letter from Prester John, a legendary Africa priest king rumored to be as powerful as...
Alice Kyteler was the first woman to be tried for witchcraft in Ireland and her servant, Petronilla of Meath, was the first to be burned for...
Renowned Renaissance Festival performers Judas and Magnolia return to discuss the sacred and spiritual components of performance. In a conve...
Rob and Luke sit down with Tahverlee, founder of the Moon Temple Mystery School, to discuss the archetype of the witch, healing generational...
Miguel Conner discusses his new book on Elvis's interest and involvement with occultism. From charismatic Christianity to theosophy, Conner...
James Jesse Strang presents a parallel prophet’s career to that of Joseph Smith. In some ways, a copycat of the Mormon prophet who literally...
After the death of Joseph Smith, the Mormons relocated to the basin beside the Great Salt Lake, led by Brigham Young. The journey of the pio...
Fleeing persecution from the government of Missouri, Joseph Smith and the Mormons found themselves in Nauvoo, Illinois. There, Smith establi...
The Book of Mormon is full of intrigue and adventure. It also repeats the phrase "and it came to pass" over 1400 times. It tells the story o...
Joseph Smith's discovery of a set of buried golden plates was the beginning of the Mormons or Church of Latter Day Saints. This was also mom...
Hollywood makeup artist, Pati Dubroff, became a preservationist after moving into the original dome of the Theosophists' Krotona Institute....
Paul Wyld visits to talk about his book "Jim Morrison: Secret Teacher of the Occult." Wyld discusses Morrison's reading of esoteric texts an...
Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception was a book ahead of its time and related the famous British novelist and intellectual's experimental eng...
There is so much Star Wars content out in the wide world. Some of it is loved, some of it hated, but there is one piece of Star Wars media t...
We sit down with Dr. Justin Sledge of the Esoterica Youtube channel to talk about his work with medieval and ancient esoteric texts and alch...
Krishnamurti's philosophy was about getting free from thought and time, releasing memory and belief, and becoming fully present. He taught t...
In this final installment of our biography of Jiddu Krishnamurti, the teacher disbands the Order of the Star and is banished from Theosophic...
The second part of our series on the teacher and philosopher Krishnamurti begins with his spiritual awakening beneath a pepper tree in Ojai,...
As a child, Jiddu Krishnamurti was named the vessel for the World Teacher by leading figures in the Theosophical Society, namely Charles Lea...
In the second part of our conversation about Annie Besant, she leaves the secularists and joins the Theosophical Society. We consider how th...
We open our story on the child messiah, Jiddu Krishnamurti, with a two-part episode on Annie Besant, a woman he came to regard as his adopte...
For parents like me who chose to share 2010’s revival of My Little Pony with my children, the animated series’ emphasis on social-emotional...
We're joined by Alyce Spencer of the Witch Way Youtube channel, an expert on all things witchy in popular media. We talk about how the witch...
Americans are largely responsible for discovering how to make exercising a cult. The link between exercise and the spiritual life of the exe...