Rune Soup

This week, novelist, non-ficition author and professor of art and film, Stephe Barber, joins us to talk about about Heliogabalus or The Crowned Anarchist.  Fully translated into English for the first time, this remarkable little book was written by avant garde theatre visionary, Antonin Artaud, and is ostensibly based on the two year reign of a teenage emperor that history records as little more than an orgy of sex and violence. However it is also Artaud exploring power, and magic, and spectacle, and mythology, and how one tells history and why. Really good stuff. Really good, indeed. Show Notes Get Heliogabalus or The Crowned Anarchist. Video primer on Artaud's impact on theatre.

In the July solo show, we look at the possibly bright future of the novel and what thriving independent expression might look like in an era of endless reboots and comic book films. The only show notes this week is a short film from the featured musician at the end.

This week we are speaking with Appalachian conjure doctor, Jake Richards. Jake is the author of the recently released Backwoods Witchcraft. We talk family lineages, magical landscapes, tending family graveyards, witchcraft initiations and all things Appalachian folklore. Great stuff. Show Notes Backwoods Witchcraft: Conjure and Folk Magic from Appalachia. Jake's blog. Jake on Twitter. Jake on Instagram. Jake on Facebook.

This week, we welcome to the show, producer singer songwriter, Nika Danilova, aka Zola Jesus. Nika has released five albums over the last decade or so and in 2017 moved back onto family land in Wisconsin and built a cabin in the woods. She also played Dark Mofo down here in Tasmania last year so we have some overlaps or similarities that led to a really fruitful discussion about creativity and place in a post-materialist context. We also talk cities as habitats, structured and unstructured creation, and the role of visual presentation. Excellent stuff! Show Notes Nika's website, zolajesus.com. Zola Jesus on Twitter. Zola Jesus on Patreon. Zola Jesus on Instagram.  

The amazing Alkistis Dimech and Peter Grey return to the show on the occasion of their latest Scarlet Imprint release, Brazen Vessel. This new book is a collection of both of their writings on witchcraft, Lucifer, the grimoires, embodiment and Babalon.  And those are the subjects of our discussion. Enjoy! Show Notes Buy Brazen Vessel. Scarlet Imprint. Scarlet Imprint on Twitter. Scarlet Imprint on Instagram. Alkistis on Twitter. Alkistis on Instagram. Alkistis's website. Video from the book launch at Treadwell's in London.

This week we welcome back to the show the only and only Langston Kahn. Langston is a shamanic practitioner based out of New York. He joins us to explore the overlapping subjects of desire, embodiment and the shadow. An excellent chat! Show Notes The Metaphysics of Desire - Langston and my 3-day workshop in New York in September. Langston's website and newsletter.

Is it the end of H1 already? Why, yes. Yes it is. And that can only mean one thing! Astrologer in residence, Austin Coppock, returns to talk us through what the sky has in store for us for the second half of 2019. Essential listening. Show Notes Austin's website. Austin's Patreon. Austin on Twitter.

Slight delay to this week's episode, for reasons that are explained in it. But this week, we explore the potentially contentious statement that spirit contact is, in fact, easy. These solo shows are in danger of becoming an accidental series. Note: I'm travelling for the next month so new episodes and blog posts may be less reliable. Check me out on Twitter or check out the Rune Soup Facebook page for more details or last minute updates.  

This week, we are speaking with my good friend, Kaitlin Coppock. Kaitlin is the owner of Sphere and Sundry, an online-store-meets-ritual-art-project dedicated to expertly elected talismanic materia. So of course, we talk talismans, as well as how or why they might work, in addition to astrology in general, while sharing a few thoughts on its current moment of cultural prominence. Great stuff! Show Notes Sphere and Sundry. Kaitlin on Twitter. Sphere and Sundry on Instagram. Sphere and Sundry on Facebook.

This week, we welcome to the show Brian Lord. Brian is a graduate student in psychology, a special collections archivist and Masters student at the University of West Georgia. He joins us today to talk about the legendary Ingo Swann, as well as the complete, unpublished Ingo Swann manuscript he discovered in the archive and went on to publish. Great stuff! Show Notes Psychic Literacy and the Coming Psychic Renaissance - Ingo Swann. Ingo Swann Collection at the University of West Georgia.

This week, in what is probably one of my favourite ever episodes, we welcome to the show Elizabeth Krohn. Elizabeth, along with Dr Jeff Kripal, is the author of Changed in a Flash, which is the story of her being struck by lightning, dying and returning from the afterlife very much changed. A truly fascinating discussion. Enjoy. Show Notes Elizabeth's book, Changed in a Flash. Elizabeth on Facebook.

This week we speak to anthropologist, writer, teacher and Maya shaman-priestess, Gabriela Jurosz-Landa. Gabriela is the author of Transcendent Wisdom of the Maya and she joins us today to talk about Maya cosmology, ceremony and understanding of time. Show Notes Gabriela's website. Transcendent Wisdom of the Maya. Gabriela's Facebook group.

This week, we welcome back to the show one of my favourite guests from last year, Dr Diana Walsh Pasulka. Diana is chair of the Philosophy and Religion Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and joins us today to discuss her recent book, American Cosmic. We explore interacting with off-planet intelligences and what such practices might actually do to you; as well as meaning and synchronicity; and how contact events become religious over time. Fascinating stuff! Show Notes American Cosmic website. Buy American Cosmic. Diana's previous appearance on the show.

This week, we welcome back to the show Dr Jeffrey Kripal to talk about his latest book, The Flip. Dr Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University and is the associate director of the Center for Theory and Research at Esalen. The Flip is a fascinating exploration of what happens when hard scientists or medical professionals encounter something anomalous or out of place within their materialist framework and then... flip. Along the way we talk models of mind, science's impact on mysticism, what the Humanities can do better, and feeling our way toward a much better understanding of the imagination. Show Notes The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge.

This week, we are joined by author, traditional witch and fellow southern Tasmanian, Lee Morgan. In this free-ranging, in-person discussion, we explore the elusive challenge of definitions, restoring the imaginal to prominence, responding to and with place, self-censorship and UPG, and a whole lot more. Good times. Show Notes Lee's author page. Lee's website. Lee on Facebook.

This month's solo show is fairly self-explanatory, to be honest.

This week we welcome to the show Dr Monica Gagliano. Dr Gagliano is an evolutionary ecologist and the author of the fantastic book, Thus Spoke The Plant. We chat about her experiences running experiments on plant communication and cognition, as well as her experiences learning from and with both indigenous plant teachers and plant spirits themselves around the world. Very much my jam. Show Notes Thus Spoke The Plant. Monica's Website. Monica on Twitter. Monica giving the keynote at Bioneers 2018.  

This week we welcome to the show fellow podcaster, Laura London. Laura has a background in neuroscience, astrology, kundalini yoga and Transcendental Meditation. She is the host of one of my favourite podcasts, Speaking of Jung and joins us today to have a wide-ranging chat about -what else?- but Carl Jung himself. Enjoy. Show Notes Laura's website and podcast, Speaking of Jung. Laura on Twitter. Laura on YouTube. Laura on Facebook. NYT Piece: The Holy Grail of the Unconscious.

Joining us this week for a chat about both one of my very favourite things and very favourite people is filmmaker Lance Mungia. Lance is the director of the recently released feature documentary, Third Eye Spies. So in this extended discussion, we explore remote viewing, the amazing Russell Targ, the experience of actually making the film and also speculate on the cosmic implications of the efficacy of remote viewing in general. Splendid stuff. Show Notes Third Eye Spies -both the film and the mailing list. Third Eye Spies on Amazon. Third Eye Spies on Google Play. Third Eye Spies on Vimeo. Lance's YouTube Channel, Waking Universe TV. Waking Universe Films Facebook Page.  

This week we welcome to the show author, teacher and animist, Daniel Foor. In addition to being an initiate in several global traditions, Daniel is also a doctor of psychology and licensed psychotherapist. He joins us to talk about ancestral healing, the positive and negative impact the dead can have in our lives, the difference between an ancestor and a dead person and what the ongoing opportunities and responsibilities we among the living have to those in the spirit world. Excellent stuff. Show Notes Daniel's book, Ancestral Medicine. Daniel's website and course calendar. The upcoming lineage healing workshop in Mullumbimby, NSW. Daniel on Facebook. Daniel on Twitter.