30.6: Sex, Snakes, and Japanese Demons
Over a thousand Japanese legends were collected into thirty-one volumes around the turn of the first millennium. Rob selects three stories t...
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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...
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30.5: Anime and Evangelion
Neon Genesis Evangelion (as it's known in the US) drew on Western religious themes including the story of Adam and Lilith, the imagery of th...
30.4: The Pure Land (Part Two)
Pure Land Buddhism made its way from India to China and then Japan where it has become the country's most popular religion, specifically the...
30.3: The Pure Land (Part One)
Pure Land Buddhism is the most popular religion in Japan and is often regarded as parallel to Christianity in many wyays. In this episode, w...
30.2: Shingon or Japanese Esoteric Buddhism
The goal of estoteric Buddhism is to achieve a sudden spiritual awakening through the use of secret rituals which might include mantras, ges...
30.1: Shinto or Japan's Ancient Spirits
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...
29.8: Murder for Resurrection
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...
29.7: Annunaki Revelation (Interview Special)
Heather Lynn joins us to discuss the widely misunderstood ancient Sumerian gods, the Annunaki. The connections made between the Annunaki and...
29.6: Blavatsky's Voice of the Silence
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...
29.5: The Stranger Things Conformity Gate Conspiracy Theory (Strange Ride Crossover Episode)
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...
29.4: The Pirate King of the Spirit Realms
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...
29.3: Blavatsky Revisited
Rob and Savannah go back to the Secret Doctrine.
29.2: From Rock Star to Occultist
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...
29.1: Heidi Luv and the Mormon Mafia
What drew Howard Hughes to surround himself with what our guest Heidi Luv calls “Mormon Mafia,” and how did their influence shape his decisi...
28.12: Death on Stage (Holiday Special)
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...
28.11: Hermit on Fire
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...
28.10: Thai Tattoo Magic
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...
28.9: Margery Wept
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...
28.8: The Dark Pool Project Part 3 of 3
Rob's strange experiment in subconscious exploration and creation comes to an exciting conclusion in this final installment of our Dark Pool...
28.7: The Dark Pool Project Part 2 of 3
The story continues. The actors blend subconscious exploration, devised theater, and occult theory in this experimental storytelling experie...