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No. 705Episode 705: A Real Science That Can Do Magic
Finally the Consulting Occultist profiles Chicago-based mail order woo-purveyor Sydney Flowers.
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No. 699Episode 699: Double Deepfake
Finally the Consulting Occultist fulfills a previous promise to cover Arabic geomancy.
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No. 695Episode 695: You’ve Clearly Never Dealt with Balloon People
Finally the Consulting Occultist gives us the lowdown on frequently arrested Elizabethan magician Simon Forman.
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No. 691Episode 691 – From Such Triangles As
Finally the Consulting Occultist regales you with miracles attributed to Pythagoras.
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No. 687Episode 687: Speaking of Magical Tools
Finally at the behest of beloved Patreon backer Bart Mallio the Consulting Occultist reveals all about the magic of chess.
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No. 679Episode 679: His Frequency is Powerful
Finally the Consulting Occultist fills us in on Douglas MacArthur’s role in Korean shamanism.
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No. 674Episode 674: As I Used to Pronounce It
Finally the Consulting Occultist, at the behest of beloved Patreon backer Jason Thompson, looks at the esoteric side of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky. CW: sexual assault.
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No. 668Episode 668: Skating and Painting
Finally the Consulting Occultist answers a request from estimable backer Michael Maneval for a profile of cosmically illuminated sculptor and painter Walter Russell.
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No. 661Episode 661: Dismiss All the Butlers
Finally the Consulting Occultist fulfills beloved Patreon backer Christopher Hatty’s request for a profile of Theosophist turned Buddhist, opera singer turned suspected anarchist spy, Alexandra David-Néel.
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No. 658Episode 658: Personality Temu
Finally the Consulting Occultist suggests traditions of immortality estimable backer Bob Grider might include in his Yellow King game.
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No. 655Episode 655: You Think Too Much About Pole Arms
Finally backer and sponsor John Kovalic asks the Consulting Occultist about 1960s blues rock musician Graham Bond, who considered himself the son of Aleister Crowley and feuded with rival magicians.
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No. 652Episode 652: Break a Window and Wait for Film Night
Finally the Consulting Occultist obeys the command of estimable backer Justin Mohareb, who wants to know about Kabbalists who used their powers against fascism.
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No. 648Episode 648: Hey Isn’t That Ezra Pound?
Finally the Consulting Occultist tells the tale of Florence Farr, an actor and Golden Dawn member whose artistic life intertwined with those of Shaw, Yeats, and Pound.
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No. 643Episode 643: Not Even Enough Gnomes
Finally the Consulting Occultist reveals the career of Albin Grau, ritual magician and production designer for the 1922 Nosferatu.
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No. 639Episode 639: This Appendix Should Not Have Been Printed
Finally, at the behest of estimable Patreon backer Steve Dempsey, the Consulting Occultist fulfills its Canadian content requirements with a look at William Lyon Mackenzie King, who served for a total of 21 years as Prime Minister while secretly engaged in spiritualist inquiry.
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No. 635Episode 635: His Cousin Latte Dick
Finally the Consulting Occultist looks at collector and art historian Aby Warburg.
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No. 630Episode 630: Live at Dragonmeet 2024
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No. 629Episode 629: Laugh With You Near Them
Finally the Consulting Occultist raps tables and psychically excites the zither for a look at Victorian spiritualist William Stainton Moses.
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No. 626Episode 626: She Did Say Independent
And finally the Consulting Occultist profiles influential 19th century proto-feminist spiritualist Anna Kingsford.
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No. 622Episode 622: In the Interest of Asking a Question
Finally the Consulting Occultist surveys the works of early astrologer Gan De, who catalogued the stars during China’s Warring States period.
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No. 619Episode 619: The Zeppo of the Golden Dawn
Finally the Consulting Occultist delves into the career of coroner and Golden Dawn co-founder William Wynn Westcott.
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No. 615Episode 615: Ranger Problems
Finally the Consulting Occultist cracks the code on pioneering steganographer Johannes Trithemius.
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No. 611Episode 611: Terrible Ideas Deflation
Finally the Consulting Occultist lays out everything you need to know to placate a Mesopotamian ghost.
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No. 608Episode 608: The Power is in the Booties
Finally at the behest of silver-stringed backer Jon Biscoe, the Consulting Occultist looks at two magical tomes mentioned in Manly Wade Wellman’s Silver John Stories, the Grand Albert and the Long-Lost Friend.
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No. 604Episode 604: It Takes a While to Work
Finally the Consulting Occultist looks at 1920s celebrity astrologer Evangeline Adams, who doled out stock market tips, gave readings to moguls, movie stars and a monarch, and predicted her own death.
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No. 601Episode 601: Hydrate and Fix Your Boot
Finally, the Consulting Occultist, surprised to find that he has yet to cover Nostradamus after more than a decade of episodes, proceeds to do just that.
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No. 596Episode 596: Also a No Show Job
Finally the Consulting Occultist looks at the career of Icelandic medium Indriði Indriðason.
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No. 594Episode 594: Bishop of the Drowned Land
And finally the Consulting Occultist profiles Maria de Naglowska, occult lecturer and sex magician of 20s and 30s Paris.
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No. 591Episode 591: Good Fun That Barbarians Have
The Consulting Occultist wraps up the episode with the rundown on the 17th century English physician and mystic Robert Fludd.
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No. 583Episode 583: Marge the Druid is Feeling Rejected
Finally the Consulting Occultist meets us in the Food Hut at the behest of distinguished patron Elias Helfer, seconded by Jamie Twine, who seek the esoteric secrets of the pavlova.
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No. 580Episode 580: The Most Fun Word in the History of Metallurgy
Finally the Consulting Occultist tells the wry tale of the early Georgian era astrologer Isaac Bickerstaff, who predicted the death of rival John Partridge and might not have been entirely who he seemed.
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No. 575Episode 575: Your Starter Past Life
Finally the Consulting Occultist tells us about turn of the century Swiss medium, automatic writer and vicarious Mars visitor Hélène Smith.
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No. 572Episode 572: Rains of Peas and Gravel
Finally stellar backer Scott Wachter asks the Consulting Occultist why the so-called 13th astrological sign, Ophiuchus, remains unrecognized.
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No. 568Episode 568: Dream Ghosts
Finally the Consulting Occultist fills intrepid backer Jacob Boersma in on the alchemists, demonologists and kabbalists of his native Netherlands.
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No. 564Episode 564: Speciation Event
Finally the Consulting Occultist looks at self-styled shaman Durek Verrett, provider of woo-woo to the stars and fiancée of Norwegian princess Martha Louise.
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No. 562Episode 562: Never Refer to Peoples’ Necks
Finally the Consulting Occultist looks at the alchemical side of pioneering scientist and mathematician Isaac Newton.
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No. 558Episode 558: Any Other Stupid Cave Lake
And finally the Consulting Occultist regales us with tales true and folkloric concerning Ursula Southill, remembered by history as the witch and prophetess Mother Shipton.
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No. 555Episode 555: Do We Get a Deal for Seven?
Finally the Consulting Occultist tells the tale of a magical assassination plot aimed at Edward II.
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No. 552Episode 552: Worse Hats
Finally beloved Patreon backer Gerald Sears wants the Consulting Occultist to tell him what happened to occultism in America in the 40s and 50s.
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No. 547Episode 547: Such Things as No
Finally the Consulting Occultist meets us in the Architecture Hut for a look at the so-called Devil’s Architect, Nicholas Hawksmoor, whose reputation for the arcane might just have been burnished by some of our finest living nerdtropers.
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No. 542Episode 542: Classic Snake Swap-Out
Finally, the Consulting Occultist profiles 1st century prophet Alexander of Abonoteichus, begetter of the Glykon snake cult.
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No. 539Episode 539: Players and/or Humans
Then the Consulting Occultist enters the Culture Hut at the behest of sophisticated backer Jake Maas, who seeks enlightenment on the Theosophical roots of avant garde artist Yves Klein.
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No. 535Episode 535: NASA is Not in the Neck Adjustment Business
Finally, at the behest of inquiring backer Sam Rutzick, the Consulting Occultist warily goes undercover for some questionable spinal adjustment, in search of the ghostly weirdness behind chiropractic treatment.
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No. 534Episode 534: Manimal Utopia
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No. 531Episode 531: The Copts Still Have His Head
Finally the Consulting Occultist meets erudite backer Jamie Twine in a gondola for a survey of the weird and magical in Venice.
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No. 526Episode 526: From What Steve Did
Finally, at the behest of insightful backer Benjamin Rawls, the Consulting Occultist turns his gaze to Japan and its Happy Science cult.
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No. 523Episode 523: Never Seen With a Windsock
Finally the Consulting Occultist reaches into his tarot collection for HEXEN 2.0, making this also a Culture Hut installment about its creator, contemporary artist Suzanne Treister.
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No. 518Episode 518: A Big Fan of Heliocentrism
Finally at the request of beloved Patreon backer Louis Sylvester, the Consulting Occultist profiles Cotton Mather.
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No. 514Episode 514: Joseph Campbell in a Jar
Finally forward-thinking backer Tennant Reed visits the Consulting Occultist for the esoteric motivation behind repeated thefts of the preserved head of reformer and utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham.
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No. 511Episode 511: I Just Wanted to Say Astrosome
Finally the Consulting Occultist lets love into his heart for a profile of songwriter, polemicist and free love priestess Edith Maida Lessing.
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No. 506Episode 506: His Bonaparte Eyes
Finally estimable backer John Kingdon asks the Consulting Occultist to profile Gerald Gardner, fashioner of modern Wicca.
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No. 502Episode 502: Aramaic Mutterer Whisperer
Finally at the behest of tart and tannic backers Fridrik Bjarnason and Tim Vert, the Consulting Occultist joins us in the Food Hut to survey the esoteric side of wine.
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No. 494Episode 494: Sidekicks to the Bear
And back to the recreation, the Consulting Occultist provides a profile of 13th century magician Roger Bacon.
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No. 490Episode 490: They Left the Irony Bridge Intact
Finally the Consulting Occultist examines the esoteric influence on, and of, Swami Vivekananda, founder of yoga as we know it.
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No. 487Episode 487: Nothing More Organic Than a Moon
Finally sagacious backer Jeff Greenlee visits the Consulting Occultist for the lowdown on the surprisingly steamy story of the Jesus’ Wife hoax.
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No. 482Episode 482: I Never Really Got Rid of Her
Finally estimable Patreon backer Robert Wolfe asks the Consulting Occultist about Mary Poppins creator P. L. Travers and her association with mystical philosopher George Gurdjieff.
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No. 478Episode 478: His Pursevant Had Dropsy
Finally estimable backer Michael David Jr. enjoins the Consulting Occultist to profile English writer and Catholic decadent Montague Summers.
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No. 473Episode 473: The Special Ability is It’s a Gun
Continuing with the Western theme, estimable backer Ian Carlsen visits the Consulting Occultist to learn the esoteric significance of Wild Bill Hickok’s Dead Man’s Hand.
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No. 468Episode 468: Weird Mushroom Things and a Swirl Over There
Finally estimable Patreon backer P. O’Neil seeks the Consulting Occultist’s files on a Theosophist retirement community in Ojai, California.
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No. 463Episode 463: The Bubble Wrap of Roleplaying Games
Finally the Consulting Occultist profiles the mystical psychologist Claudio Naranjo.
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No. 458Episode 458: Slacker Infant
Finally the Consulting Occultist confronts a head-scratcher only one of his particular esoteric set of skills can solve: why is there a floating baby in a clamshell in the Chicago seal?
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No. 455Episode 455: Ambush Us With Ghosts
Then numerology takes on a TikTok twist as the Consulting Occultist examines Grabovoi numbers.
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No. 449Episode 449: Quietly Judging You
Finally the Consulting Occultist profiles a genuine arch-villain of the occult, the Rasputin or Argentina, José López Rega.
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No. 446Episode 446: Well Also H. R. Giger
Finally, shadowy Patreon backer Dave from Washington enters the parlor of the Consulting Occultist hoping he may shed light on the appearance of Theosophical symbols on the control console in Ridley Scott’s Alien.
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No. 442Episode 442: Mad at Unicorns
Finally the Consulting Occultist again shows you his picture collection as an erudite but anonymous Patreon backer asks for the lowdown on Art Nouveau illustrator and occult theorist Austin Osman Spare.
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No. 438Episode 438: Anyone Can Bilocate
Finally estimable Patreon backer Ed Sizemore checks in with the Consulting Occultist for the story of Baird Spalding and Douglas DeVorss, which starts with an ancient book of desert secrets.
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No. 435Episode 435: Unreliable Satanists
Finally enigmatic Patreon backer Bt taps on the door of the Consulting Occultist for the supernatural secrets of automaton maker John Joseph Merlin.
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No. 431Episode 431: Working for Bigfoot
Finally the Holy Roman Empire once again rears its head as perceptive Patreon backer Paul Douglas visits the Consulting Occultist to learn about Michael Scot, court magician to Frederick II.
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No. 428Episode 428: Only a Modernist Horse
Finally the Consulting Occultist dons his paisley smoking jacket for an inquiry into the occultism of LSD advocate Timothy Leary.
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No. 425Episode 425: Pork Chop of the Truth
Finally the Consulting Occultist reviews the case files from the 1968 robbery of Israel Regardie’s Los Angeles library.
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No. 422Episode 422: Sumerian GM Screens
Finally, the Consulting Occultist for the first time trains his eye on a subject who is both a paranormalist and an RPG designer, James “Herbie” Brennan.
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No. 419Episode 419: Five Hour Haste
Finally the Consulting Occultist goes literary as Thomas Casey seeks info on the supernatural leanings of Portuguese modernist writer Fernando Pessoa.
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No. 416Episode 416: They’re Gonna Have Their Lifeforms Fight
Finally Elias Helfer trudges with us up the cobwebbed stairs to the parlor of the Consulting Occultist for a look at iconic Tarot deck illustrator Pamela Colman Smith.
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No. 411Episode 411: Chief Plant Health Officer
Finally the Consulting Occultist brandishes his planchette to explain the Ouija board and its inventor, Elijah Bond.
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No. 408Episode 408: Not That My Players Would Do Anything Like That
Reflective Patreon backer Corey Pierno seeks the Consulting Occultist’s wisdom on crystals and their history as supernatural objects.
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No. 404Episode 404: Toss In Your Werecows
Finally, admirable Patreon backer John W S Marvin calls on the untapped military knowledge of the Consulting Occultist for a look at the esoteric secrets behind the Battle of Kursk.
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No. 398Episode 398: Dragons Love Merch
Finally estimable Patreon backer Fred Kiesche heads into the Edwardian parlor of the Consulting Occultist for a profile of Russian painter, archaeologist and theosophist Nicolas Roerich.
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No. 394Episode 394: Fruit Cutting Policies
Finally the Consulting Occultist elucidates the effort to market famously ill-reviewed 50s fantasy novel Kinsmen of the Dragon as an esoteric tome.
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No. 390Episode 390: Open a Can Hut
Finally esteemed Patreon backer Peter Williamson visits the Consulting Occultist to learn about economist, mystic, poet and painter George Russell.
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No. 385Episode 385: Shill for the Macedonians
Then we conclude our Consulting Occultist series on key figures of the magical Belle Epoque with dynamic duo Oswald Wirth and Stanislas de Guaita.
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No. 384Episode 384: Number One Nightmare
The Consulting Occultist continues our series of arcane profiles from Belle Epoque Paris with a look at Ely Star, a protege of Robert Houdin who infused his astrology with kabbalism.
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No. 383Episode 383: Not Quite Doctor Cowboy
The Consulting Occultist continues to wear suspiciously Robin-like facial hair as we enter the penultimate edition of Belle Epoque magicians series, as inspired by The Yellow King Roleplaying Game, with the scene’s fun couple, Moina and Samuel Liddell Mathers, of Golden Dawn fame.
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No. 382Episode 382: Health and Safety
Then the Consulting Occultist continues our series on the magicians of the Parisian Belle Epoque, as we drop into the shop of bookseller, composer and occult publisher Edmond Bailly.
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No. 381Episode 381: Anthropodermic Wallet
Finally the Consulting Occultist resumes our interrupted look at the 1890s Parisian supernatural scene with a profile of the Martinist writer and salon organizer Papus.
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No. 380Episode 380: He Said, Foreshadowingly
Finally the Consulting Occultist returns to matters Rosicrucian as beloved backer, the Monster Talk podcast, asks for secrets of Christian Rosenkreuz’s legendary tomb.
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No. 373Episode 373: Nutty Crab Soup [Corrected]
Finally the Consulting Occultist answers a request from beloved Patreon backers Tim Maness and Jean Bauer for the lowdown on the 1911 Ark of the Covenant expedition.
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No. 369Episode 369: Lotta Garlic There Though
Then the Consulting Occultist acquaints us with a central figure in the field of magical speculation, Cornelius Agrippa.
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No. 367Episode 367: Ungrateful Mopes
Finally the Consulting Occultist heads to balmy British Columbia to tell the tale of yellow-robed cultist Brother XII.
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No. 360Episode 360: Sir Gawain “the Rock” Johnson
Finally the Consulting Occultist takes a day trip to the Tower of London to inspect the arcane sigils of imprisoned sorcerer Hew Draper. Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon!
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No. 355Episode 355: If Abstract Expressionism Doesn’t Do the Trick
The Consulting Occultist doesn’t usually muss his smoking jacket in the realm of politics, but with Marianne Williamson running for President he has little choice but to roll up his sleeves.
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No. 352Episode 352: We’ve Still Got that Other Folder
Then the Consulting Occultist calls for order in the court as we hear the confession of a Livonian werewolf.
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No. 349Episode 349: Bad Odds in a Balloon
Finally backer Chris Kalley, seconded by Jay Tea, asks the Consulting Occultist to blow the lid off magical Buenos Aires.
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No. 341Episode 341: Trouser Leg of the Mythos
Finally, at the behest of backer Andrea Colletta, we pop into the parlor of the Consulting Occultist to whip up the new sorcerous discipline of etymomancy.
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No. 335Episode 335: Any Smart Gundamologist
Finally backer Chris Kalley visits the Consulting Occultist to learn about military theorist, Thelemite and fascist J. F. C. Fuller.
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No. 332Episode 332: Unencumbered By Space Cats
Then backer Gerald Sears asks the Consulting Occultist to fill a game set in late 20s New York City with historical esoteric weirdness.
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No. 329Episode 329: The Looming Party
Finally, at the behest of backer Wayne Rossi, we turn to the Consulting Occultist for the mystical skinny on Carlos Castaneda.
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No. 326Episode 326: Credulous Ghost-Hunting Dupe
Finally the Consulting Occultist unwinds the deeply complicated tale of the Cock Lane Ghost, as first penetrated by intrepid occult investigator Samuel Johnson.
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No. 321Episode 321: Red Dawn Times
The other Consulting Occultist continues our Yellow King-inspired series on occultists of the Belle Epoque with a look at the original neo-Gnostic, Jules Doinel.
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No. 320Episode 320: Ghost Rationing Policy
Our survey of Belle Epoque weirdness ducks into the Eliptony Hut with a profile of early parapsychologist Albert de Rochas.
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No. 319Episode 319: Eventually You Run Out of Zigs
Finally the Consulting Occultist changes identities to embark on a series on the wizards and paranormalists you might encounter in 1890s Paris. First up: pioneering trickster Leo Taxil.
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No. 315Episode 315: Eloi au Vin
Finally it’s time to stay positive as backer Dan Kassiday asks the Consulting Occultist to discuss the nocebo effect explanation for curses.
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No. 310Episode 310: The Social Media Impact of Ulthar
Finally backer Derek Upham visits the Consulting Occultist for a look at artist James Bridle, who has constructed a magic circle to trap self-driving cars.
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No. 307Episode 307: Nobody Wants to Be a Gate
Finally backer Hal Mangold asks the Consulting Occultist to review the career of Australian artist and Pagan sex magician Rosaleen Norton.
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No. 304Episode 304: We’re Not Running a Party of Death Here
Finally the Consulting Occultist profiles Alexander Dugin, a Russian philosopher who combines fascism, synarchy, nationalism and chaos magick under the banner of an oddly familiar eight-pointed arrow star.
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No. 301Episode 301: Thanks For Knowing We Were Right
If someone tells you their favorite esoteric writer is Julius Evola, you just heard your cue to back away slowly. The Consulting Occultist is here to tell you why.
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No. 298Episode 298: Now We’re Just Gygaxing
Finally the Consulting Occultist opens a perilous tome to tell us about Reginald Scot and The Discoverie of Witchcraft.
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No. 295Episode 295: That’s Why They Call It Ichor
And Ash Jackson is the Scrollbard meets us in the parlor of the Consulting Occultist to get each of us to circumscribe a sacred alphabet.
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No. 291Episode 291: Where Magic Goes to Die
Then the Consulting Occultist goes West Coast as we examine the ley line implications of the L.A. Times leaving its iconic art deco headquarters.
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No. 290Episode 290: Leaves Don’t Work on PayPal
Finally, hold onto your library cards as, thanks to a query from backer Michael Parker, the Consulting Occultist investigates the theft of an Isaac Newton manuscript from the Carnegie Rare Books room.
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No. 284Episode 284: There’s Always a Worse Writer Death
Finally the Consulting Occultist finds another Nazi mystic to talk about, as Patreon backer Bret Kramer asks for a profile on Savitri Devi.
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No. 282Episode 282: Haunted Anarchist Texts
Recovering from the red carpet, we visit the Consulting Occultist, who has been checking out the initial offerings placed online by the Ritman Library of occult texts.
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No. 279Episode 279: Logical Analogy Shock
Then the Consulting Occultist admits backer Hoyle Anderson to his Edwardian snuggery for a cuppa and discussion of zodiac cup tasseography.
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No. 274Episode 274: What Would Thagdar Do?
Finally, backer Tim Vert checks in with the Consulting Occultist on the status of a possible eclipse child.
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No. 270Episode 270: Nobody Wants to be a Waistcoat
And finally the Consulting Occultist fulfills the request of Patreon backer Paul by filling us in on the witches of Chiloe.
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No. 267Episode 267: The First Two Things are Metaphors For the Third
We end on a Gallic switcheroo as Robin dons the mantle of Consulting Occultist to fulfill a request from Patreon backer Paul to talk about the Rosicrucian magician Josephin Peladan. Watch for his appearance in The Yellow King Roleplaying Game.
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No. 263Episode 263: All Seven Spleens
Then, following a prophecy laid down to us by Patreon backer Rafael Pabst, the Consulting Occultist looks at the career of poet and illustrator William Blake, with a special focus on the visionary, angel-seeing part.
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No. 259Episode 259: All the Cute Girls are Capulets
Finally the Consulting Occultist serves up a reply to Patreon backer David Shaw, who seeks the secret truth on occult Kashmir.
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No. 255Episode 255: The Devil’s Condiment
Finally the Consulting Occultist goes inside, uh Posadism, as backer Stewart Robertson asks about Posadism.
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No. 253Episode 253: That’s More of a Gloss on Aristotle
And the Consulting Occultist gets all semiotic to reply to a query from Patreon backer Polydamas on what the Secret Masters were up to when they invented post-modernism.
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No. 247Episode 247: So Fair It Shines as a Marketing Quote
Finally Patreon backer Tim Vert knows who he’s gonna call. He asks the Consulting Occultist to tell us all about Harry Houdini’s ghostbusters.
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No. 244Episode 244: You Have to Sit in the Jar
Finally the Consulting Occultist looks at the arcane geography of 1930s Los Angeles times as manipulated by L.A. Times publisher Harry Chandler and revealed in the pages of Cthulhu Confidential.
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No. 243Episode 243: I Do Not Wish to Be a Moth Hat
And when Ken was in Berlin getting his fangs fitted, he took time out to visit a museum. Hence, the Consulting Occultist recounts the wonders of the alchemy exhibit at the Kulturforum.
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No. 240Episode 240: Bush Bachelor
Then get ready to grab your picket signs as our Tell Me More segment enlists the Consulting Occultist for a look at the secret occult history of the epic battle between urban planner Robert Moses and the writer Jane Jacobs over the fate of Greenwich Village.
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No. 238Episode 238: The Titular Goat in This Reenactment
Finally we check in on the Consulting Occultist as backer Wayne Rossi demands the occult truth behind the Elvis-Nixon meeting.
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No. 235Episode 235: He-Man’s Woman Hating Civilization
And in a switcheroo, Robin dons the smoking jacket of the Consulting Occultist as we look at the cultists and gurus of 1930s L.A., as seen in Cthulhu Confidential.
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No. 231Episode 231: Please Compensate For Our Brutal Incompetence
Then backer Jacob Ansari meets the Consulting Occultist at the baggage carousel to ask about the sorcerous significance of the Denver International Airport.
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No. 227Episode 227: Other Buopoths Do
Then the Consulting Occultist unfurls some alchemical wisdom on a Paul Tevis request for the skinny on the Ripley Scrolls.
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No. 225Episode 225: Just Make Up a Bunch of Dwarves
Finally we enlist the Consulting Occultist to reveal the esoteric weirdness lurking in your bowl of Chex cereal, as he tells all about Ralstonism.
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No. 223Episode 223: There’s No Blood in a JPEG
Finally the Consulting Occultist, somewhat to his surprise, realizes he has yet to tell us about Eliphas Levi, and so tells us about Eliphas Levi.
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No. 219Episode 219: Argue With Ceramics
Keep a careful watch as the Consulting Occultist whispers of Les Veilleurs, an Parisian occult group founded in the final days of WWI.
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No. 213Episode 213: I Would Have Been On the Other Side of That
We conclude with the Consulting Occultist talking about Jakob Böhme, trying to convince Robin that there is something of interest to be gleaned from yet another Christian mystic.
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No. 203Episode 203: Pull the Damn Trigger You Coward!
Thanks to Patreon backer Morgan Ellis, we have a Consulting Occultist topic Ken can field in his sleep and/or the day before a big show: ley lines.
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No. 202Episode 202: While We’re On the Surface of the Freezing Sun
Karl Schmidt wants the Consulting Occultist to spill the astrological and alchemical beans on Rudolf II of the Holy Roman Empire.
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No. 199Episode 199: Not That That’s What Time Travelers Say
Then we’re back in the parlor of the Consulting Occultist to hear the tale of reputed 16th century sorcerer Rinaldo des Trois-Echelles du Mayne.
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No. 195Episode 195: All Its Guns in Norman Rockwell
And hey, it’s another all request episode, as backer James Griffin quizes the Consulting Occultist on past life regression. Why isn’t it a thing any more?
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No. 192Episode 192: Emulating a Genre That Doesn’t Exist
Finally the Consulting Occultist satisfies Patreon backer Allen Wilkins’ desire to hear about writer Alan Moore’s occult thought.
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No. 189Episode 189: It Won’t Fix Me But It Will Fix That
Finally backer Joshua Hillerup climbs the creaky stairs that lead to the Consulting Occultist to learn about the occult symbolism of flowers.
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No. 186Episode 186: You Need Canapes To Have a Secret Society
Finally the Consulting Occultist slakes the hankering of Patreon backer Stewart Robertson for info on the Black Dragon Society.
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No. 181Episode 181: Taking Latitudes with Longitude
Then the Consulting Occultist tours us through the colorful career of privateer, courtier, cookbook author and magic powder maker Kenelm Digby. The connection? The rejected magical dog injury method of longitude measurement.
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No. 177Episode 177: You’ve Got Your Chainsaw Working
Finally, the Consulting Occultist fills us in on Paracelsus, a literal Renaissance man whose achievements in medicine, psychology and toxicology also included influential works of a Hermetic bent.
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No. 175Episode 175: And Then Everyone Gets Indicted
Then in the most momentous crossover team up event since Superman faced off against Ali, the Consulting Occulist enters the Tradecraft Hut to recount the fascinating career of outsiders’ insider Tom Driberg. Only a certain percentage of the legends surrounding him turn out to be too good to check.
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No. 172Episode 172: #notAllAstrologers
While in London in December, the Consulting Occultist got a sneak peek at key items of John Dee’s book collection. Join us in previewing the upcoming exhibit Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee, which runs Jan 18-July 29 at the Royal College of Physicians.
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No. 168Episode 168: Real Made-Up History
Finally the Consulting Occultist gets architectural to discuss the occult tendencies of Le Corbusier.
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No. 164Episode 164: Another Excuse To Drink In the Street
Finally the Consulting Occultist delves into the North Berwick witch trials, in which opponents of King James VI / I found themselves on the wrong end of a Halloween-related accusation.
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No. 157Episode 157: I Have Points in Both, Simon
Oft-mentioned but not until now explicated, the Priory of Sion finally gets the full treatment from the Consulting Occultist.
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No. 154Episode 154: Orange and Tufty From the Primordial Swamp
Then the Consulting Occultist risks possible heckling from a brazen head as he looks at the life and legend of Roger Bacon.
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No. 149Episode 149: Contemptible People Tavern
Finally we bathe ourselves in light as the Consulting Occultist profiles the preeminent practitioner of nice magic, Dion Fortune.
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No. 147Episode 147: The Worst Doppelganger
Impose your will on reality through whatever lens you want as the Consulting Occultist casts a gimlet eye on chaos magick.
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No. 144Episode 144: Chaotic Prolix
Then the Consulting Occultist gives us the lowdown on alchemist, mystic and eponymous library founder Elias Ashmole.
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No. 137Episode 137: Clown Moistening Skills
Finally the Consulting Occultist answers a request from Bryant Durrell for the 101 on spiritualist polymath Rudolf Steiner.
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No. 135Episode 135: So Bad the Quakers Riot
Then the Consulting Occultist builds electric Jesus in its barn as we look at the career of John Murray Spear.
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No. 133Episode 133: Wielding Fennel Without Proper Church Authority
Finally the Consulting Occultist introduces us to the Italian benandanti, who as late as the 16th century were entering dreams to battle witches and pirates.
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No. 131Episode 131: Helping People Steal Concrete
Finally the Consulting Occultist crosses over with Among My Many Hats as Ken tells us about his Goetia instalment of Ken Writes About Stuff.
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No. 126Episode 126: Rhode Island Jones
Finally, in response to a Nick Eden request, the Consulting Occultist introduces us to that seeming contradiction in terms, the Soviet Occult.
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No. 119Episode 119: Sex Argentina
Our Dreamhounds of Paris-inspired visits to the Consulting Occultist continue with a consideration of mystical seeker George Gurdjieff.
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No. 118Episode 118: There’s Nothing In It For Owls
The Consulting Occultist continues his Parisian sojourn with an examination of uxurious bookseller Nicolas Flamel, to whom later rumor and Harry Potter imputed alchemical mastery.
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No. 117Episode 117: Covered in Cats and Croissant Crumbs
Back to matters Gallic, the Consulting Occultist details the life, thought, and possible Dreamlands influence of fin de siècle writer, ritualist and schmoozer Gerard Encausse.
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No. 116Episode 116: Okay, I’ll Go Get Your Leg
Blasting his trumpet for Dreamhounds of Paris, the Consulting Occultist begins a mini-arc delving into the French occult, starting with scientist, spiritualist and polymath Charles Richet.
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No. 115Episode 115: Anopheles Mosquito, Stagnant Pond
Finally the Consulting Occultist makes an appearance in the Tradecraft Hut to discuss revelations that British psy-ops thought it would calm the Northern Irish conflict if they staged evidence of black masses.
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No. 112Episode 112: Someone Will Break Out Into Recipes
Finally, the Consulting Occultist looks at the witch-related thoughts of once-influential scholar Margaret Murray.
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No. 109Episode 109: Put a Pointy Wizard Hat On It
Finally the Consulting Occultist gives us the real lowdown on synarchy.
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No. 105Episode 105: Does This Look Like a Railroad to You?
Finally, Sarah Helen Whitman, spiritualist and jilted fiancee of Edgar Allen Poe, summons herself into a particularly gossipy installment of Consulting Occultist.
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No. 102Episode 102: Nonsense is on the March
Thanks to a reminder from listener Joe Taylor, we finally let the Consulting Occultist loose on the Cathars, as we’ve been planning to do all along.
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No. 99Episode 99: Methane Planet of the Rakshasas
Then the Consulting Occultist goes psychedelic with a look at the Source Family and its karate-chopping, bank robbing New Age guru, Father Yod.
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No. 97Episode 97: Hamsterface
We close with the Consulting Occultist, who tells us of the London stone and the magical significance of its current ignominious location.
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No. 94Episode 94: The Simpering Bridegroom
Finally the Consulting Occultist looks at husband and wife demon-busters Ed and Lorraine Warren.
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No. 92Episode 92: The Werepig Demographic
Finally, Ken, having tackled the topic in a two-part Ken Writes About Stuff entry, dons the Consulting Occultist hat to introduce us to the basics of voodoo.
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No. 89Episode 89: The Elvis of the European Occult Underground
The Consulting Occultist finishes his major figures of the French enlightenment trilogy with the immortal Comte de Saint Germain.
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No. 87Episode 87: The Whacking Shovel
Finally the Consulting Occultist pulls a long con and at least half of a badger game as we consider the grifting career of Cagliostro, alchemist and influential Freemason.
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No. 84Episode 84: Those Punk Magicians Killed My Elephant
Get sleepy, very sleepy, letting go of cares and worries as the Consulting Occultist casts your mind toward the tale of Franz Anton Mesmer.
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No. 81Episode 81: If I Were an Otter
Consulting Occultist meets Tradecraft Hut as, at the request of listener Johnstone Metzger, we examine the work and shocking demise of mythological studies scholar and Romanian dissident Ioan Culianu.
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No. 79Episode 79: Take That, Entertainment
Responding to popular demand, the Consulting Occultist assesses competing new claims of having cracked the cryptobotanical mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript.
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No. 76Episode 76: Hunker in the Bunker
Then Ken dons his Consulting Occultist regalia to tear the lid off the djinn menace.
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No. 73Episode 73: Guff About Other Planets
The Consulting Occultist returns to the spiritualist movement of the 19th century to contemplate the Swedenborg-cribbing visions of Andrew Jackson Davis, the Poughkeepsie Seer.
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No. 68Episode 68: Why You Shouldn’t Ask Us to Destroy Civilization
Then Ask Ken and Robin visits the Consulting Occultist on behalf of Steven W. King, who wants to know what to put on his beginning occult bookshelf.
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No. 65Episode 65: Cherubs Who Have Aged Out
Finally Ken uses his high-level Consulting Occultist borrowing privileges to scrutinize the legendary Voynich Manuscript.
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No. 62Episode 62: Watch Out, Boys, He Has the Power of Transcendentalism
Finally, with a sigh of palpable reluctance, the Consulting Occultist educates us on the Transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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No. 60Episode 60: Problems With Sabertooth Tigers
Finally the Consulting Occultist goes back to basics to study the surprisingly young history of the Tarot.
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No. 56Episode 56: Oh, My Pancreas
Finally we give the weary Consulting Occultist a topic he should be able to do while standing on his head—those diffusely mystical purveyors of alchemical imagery, the Rosicrucians.
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No. 52Episode 52: The Delightful Burning Sensation You Alluded To Earlier
Then look up to the strangest sight in the skyline of Bandung, Indonesia as, at the request of Tom McGrenery, the Consulting Occultist tries to infuse its Octopus House with more weirdness than it already contains.
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No. 48Episode 48: Except for All the Cannibalism
Then the Consulting Occultist completes his obligations as a guide to the Nazi occult with a look at the scholarship-distorting, expedition launching academic department of the SS, the Ahnenerbe.
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No. 47Episode 47: An Occasional Underused Wendigo
Then our epic Consulting Occultist series on the Nazi Occult explores the Thule Society, wealthy right-wing imaginers of lost continents who built an anti-Communist goon squad only to see it morph into the Nazi party.
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No. 46Episode 46: An Indictment of Your Pudding
Then we head over to chat with the Consulting Occultist, as part four of our series on Nazi occultism leads us to metaphorically heft the Spear of Destiny.
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No. 45Episode 45: A Blatant Vowel Swap
We wrap with part 3 of our Consulting Occultist series on the Nazi occult, this time focusing in on Irminist prophet and Himmler advisor Karl-Maria Wiligut.
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No. 44Episode 44: The Marshy Aunt
Finally, part two of our epic Consulting Occultist series on the Nazi occult sets the stage with Volkisch movements, Guido von List, and the cast of variously psychopathic characters who bring occult thought with them into Hitler’s high command.
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No. 39Episode 39: The Book of Not At All Sinister Church Names
We close with a visit to the Consulting Occultist, who recounts the Theosophy-meets-Evangelical-meets-New Age tale of Elizabeth Clare Prophet.
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No. 37Episode 37: Ghost-Kissed Pilsner
Then we move on to more entertaining and distant history, as, at the request of Ask Lovecraft, the Consulting Occultist tells us tales of Paschal Beverly Randolph, 19th century exponent of Mesmerism, pre-Adamism, and wholesome sex magic.
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No. 32Episode 32: Cash in Your Magic Swords
Finally we meet the Consulting Occultist in the non-standard confines of the Tradecraft Hut, where we open an Elizabethan dossier on spy and playwright Christopher Marlowe.
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No. 30Episode 30: Ring-Tailed and Fructivorous
And finally, with such matters back in the news, we tap the Consulting Occultist for a 101 class on lost continents, from Atlantis to Hyperborea and beyond.
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No. 27Episode 27: League of Extraordinary Skeletons
Finally, in Consulting Occultist, we review the stream-crossing career of African-American magician, escape artist and hoodoo worker Black Herman.
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No. 25Episode 25: Finally, the Woodrow Wilson Throwdown
Finally the Consulting Occultist considers the silver-shirted biography of American screenwriter, vision-haver and fascist William Dudley Pelley.
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No. 22Episode 22: Her Agile, Ventriloquistic Foot
We wrap with an ironic tale for the Consulting Occultist—the sad story of Margaret Fox, who accidentally founded 19th century spiritualism through a teenage prank.
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No. 20Episode 20: Twentieth Century Eccentrics
We close with another visit to the Consulting Occultist, who this time around delves into the murky facts behind a reputed 17th century French Satanism outbreak, better known as the Affair of the Poisons.
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No. 15Episode 15: A Mere Frustum
Then Ken in his guise as the Consulting Occultist finds the standards-loving organist behind media-seeking Satanist Anton LaVey.
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No. 13Episode 13: That Time We Burned Down the White House
Finally we drop in again on the Consulting Occultist for an introduction to Kenneth Grant, whose role as Derleth to Aleister Crowley’s Lovecraft went as far as incorporating Shub-Niggurath into his ritual practices.
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No. 11Episode 11: When Angels Tell You To Wife-Swap
We close with the ever-popular Consulting Occult as Ken gives us the 101 on Elizabethan magician, mathematician and cartographer (sense a theme here?) John Dee.
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No. 8Episode 8: Cruller-Infested Demi-Paradise
Finally, we call again upon the Consulting Occultist for a primer on Aleister Crowley.
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No. 6Episode 6: The Mystic Power of Indexing
Finally we call upon Ken in his capacity as Consulting Occultist to introduce us to H. P. Blavatsky and the Theosophists.
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No. 3Episode 3: The Audacity of Cupcakes
Lastly but not leastly, Ken again dons the mantle of Consulting Occultist to examine the difference between a mystic and an occultist, as seen through the examples of Johnny Appleseed and Emannuel Swedenborg. Also referenced: Daniel Burnham, and Mitch Horowitz’s book Occult America.
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No. 1Episode 1: Vampires are A-holes
To round out the episode, Ken dons the mantle of Consulting Occultist to give us the 101 on The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, with a cast of characters including William Butler Yeats, Bram Stoker, and Aleister Crowley.
Hermetic Order of the Golden DawnW. B. YeatsBram StokerAleister Crowley
Nothing in the ledger matches that.