Rune Soup

This week, we welcome to the show artists, musicians, authors and fellow podcasters, Risa Dickens and Amy Torok. Amy and Risa join us for a deep dive on the archetype of the witch: - What is it? - What changes does it portend? - What does it mean when it is so close to the surface? - What are our obligations to it? We also talk ancestors, reclaiming history, art-as-magic and a whole lot more. Super great chat. 🔼🔼SHOW NOTES🔼🔼 Missing Witches: Podcast and Website https://www.missingwitches.com/ Missing Witches: The Book https://www.amazon.com/Missing-Witches-Recovering-Histories-Feminist/dp/1623175720/ Missing Witches Fundraiser for the Montreal Native Women's Shelter https://www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2023/ 🔼🔼 WHAT NEXT?🔼🔼 ✅ Sign up to the newsletter so you never miss a podcast or blog post: https://runesoup.com/emails/ ✅ Join the Rune Soup Premium Membership for hundreds of hours of magical training: https://runesoup.com/join-rune-soup/ ✅ Join the Rune Soup Telegram Group: https://t.me/runesoupchat ✅ Book a shamanic healing session with Gordon: https://runesoup.com/shamanic-energy-healing/ 🔼🔼ABOUT RUNE SOUP🔼🔼 Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work. Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos. When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania.

Author and (post)activist Dougald Hine joins us this week for a powerful discussion about our moment and what if anything we should 'do' with and about it. The springboard for our chat is Dougald's recently-released book, At Work in the Ruins. We unpack the title what do we mean by 'work' as well as what we mean by 'ruins'. Physical? Cultural? Social? We talk about what it means to hospice modernity and we unpack why one of the founders of the Dark Mountain project is no longer talking about climate change. Really good stuff. Good, timely stuff. Enjoy! 🔼🔼SHOW NOTES🔼🔼 At Work in The Ruins https://www.amazon.com/At-Work-Ruins-Pandemics-Emergencies/dp/164502184X Dougald's Website https://dougald.nu/ A School Called Home https://aschoolcalledhome.org/ 🔼🔼 WHAT NEXT?🔼🔼 ✅ Sign up to the newsletter so you never miss a podcast or blog post: https://runesoup.com/emails/ ✅ Join the Rune Soup Premium Membership for hundreds of hours of magical training: https://runesoup.com/join-rune-soup/ ✅ Join the Rune Soup Telegram Group: https://t.me/runesoupchat ✅ Book a shamanic healing session with Gordon: https://runesoup.com/shamanic-energy-healing/ 🔼🔼ABOUT RUNE SOUP🔼🔼 Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work. Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos. When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania.

Legendary ethnobotanist, Mark J. Plotkin, joins the show this week for a fascinating chat about traditional medicine, Indigenous knowledge, plant healing and modern medicine. Dr Plotkin studied under the great Richard Evans Schultes himself and has been exploring the Amazon as a friend and researcher for five decades. He is the co-founder of the Amazon Conservation Team -a nonprofit that partners with Indigenous communities to conserve biodiversity, protect traditional lifeways and support sustainable Amazonian livelihoods. During the lockdown era, Mark started an excellent and highly recommended podcast, Plants of the Gods. We discuss - The origination of the podcast project - The role of psychedelics in contemporary medicine - The safeguarding of Indigenous intellectual property in the 'modern' world - 'Active molecules' versus whole plants in contemporary medicine - The changes good and bad in the field of ethnobotany over the course of his career A fantastic discussion with a personal hero. Dive in. And if this is the first time you've heard about Plants of the Gods, well, I'm pleased to be able to share it with you! 🔼🔼SHOW NOTES🔼🔼 Mark's website https://markplotkin.com/ Plants of the Gods podcast https://markplotkin.com/podcast/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkyPyzT4C1k&list=PLzB7k6l38WzoOXq6lMaeiyviqWVn7Cswj&index=2&ab_channel=Dr.MarkJ.Plotkin Amazon Conservation Team https://www.amazonteam.org/ 🔼🔼 WHAT NEXT?🔼🔼 ✅ Sign up for the newsletter so you never miss a podcast or blog post: https://runesoup.com/emails/ ✅ Join the Rune Soup Premium Membership for hundreds of hours of magical training: https://runesoup.com/join-rune-soup/ ✅ Join the Rune Soup Telegram Group: https://t.me/runesoupchat ✅ Book a shamanic healing session with Gordon: https://runesoup.com/shamanic-energy-healing/ 🔼🔼ABOUT RUNE SOUP🔼🔼 Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work. Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos. When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania.

Alkistis Dimech and Peter Grey of Scarlet Imprint return to the show for an exploration and celebration of Jake Stratton-Kent: In particular his thought, his research and his impact on the western magical world. We discuss: ➡️His generosity as a thought leader. ➡️His attitude to academia and academics. ➡️His role in the return of spirit-centric approaches to the grimoires. ➡️His revitalisation of blue grimoires. ➡️His understanding and love of the Ancient and Archaic Greek world. ➡️"I don't do angels." ➡️His championing of practice over theorising. ➡️His role as a key participant in the return of the Dead to contemporary western magical practice. I'm very grateful to Peter and Alkistis for sharing their thoughts about their friend and colleague, Jake. 🔼🔼 WHAT NEXT?🔼🔼 ✅ Sign up to the newsletter so you never miss a podcast or blog post: https://runesoup.com/emails/ ✅ Join the Rune Soup Premium Membership for hundreds of hours of magical training: https://runesoup.com/join-rune-soup/ ✅ Join the Rune Soup Telegram Group: https://t.me/runesoupchat ✅ Book a shamanic healing session with Gordon: https://runesoup.com/shamanic-energy-healing/ 🔼🔼ABOUT RUNE SOUP🔼🔼 Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work. Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos. When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania.

In the middle of the Philippines archipelago is the mysterious Siquijor -known variously as the Island of the Witches, the Island of Sorcerers or the Island of Healers. This remarkable place is home to several thriving magical and healing lineages. Here is my story of visiting and encountering these traditions during the time of year where the healers travel up sacred Mount Bandilaan in order to collect the healing herbs their work requires for the whole year. These visits only happen on the seven Fridays between Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. I was fortunate enough to come along on one of these harvests. It's a fascinating place that is illuminating in comparison with cunning traditions, curanderismo and other cosmovisions around the world: Saints, sacred timing, herb lore, energy work. And if you are looking to visit Siquijor, check out the show notes: 🔼🔼SHOW NOTES🔼🔼 I have added the three healers I discuss to Google maps. So search for the following names on Siquijor: - Annie Ponce (Nearest town is San Antonio) - Batong Hakut (the name of Noel Torremocha's healing practice. Nearest town is Cantabon.) - Loreto Quimno (In the town of San Juan.) If you are visiting, I recommend the guide I used, Chelsey, whom you can contact via Facebook or Instagram. He came with me to each of the healers and accompanied me gathering herbs so he knows everyone and all the places. He's also a great guide just if you are visiting Siquijor: https://www.facebook.com/chelsymend https://www.instagram.com/chelseymendoza07/ 🔼🔼ABOUT RUNE SOUP🔼🔼 Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work. Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos. When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania. Newsletter: https://runesoup.com/emails/ Telegram: https://t.me/runesoupchat Join Rune Soup: https://runesoup.com/join-rune-soup/ Book a Shamanic Healing Session: https://runesoup.com/shamanic-energy-healing/

Legendary storyteller and mythologist, Dr Martin Shaw joins the show this week. On the occasion of the release of his remarkable and uncharacterisable (although I try) new book, Bardskull. We talk about the weakness of the word archetype, we talk about place and story and transformation, we talk about myth and landscape,we talk about Tolkien, Gandalf and Merlin, we talk about defending indefensible books, and… in the end and ultimately, we talk about spiritual transformation. A fantastic chat. One of the best of the year, for sure. Enjoy! 🔼🔼SHOW NOTES🔼🔼 Get Bardksull https://unbound.com/books/bardskull/ School of Myth https://schoolofmyth.com/ 🔼🔼ABOUT RUNE SOUP🔼🔼 Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work. Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos. When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania. Newsletter: https://runesoup.com/emails/ Telegram: https://t.me/runesoupchat Join Rune Soup: https://runesoup.com/join-rune-soup/ Book a Shamanic Healing Session: https://runesoup.com/shamanic-energy-healing/

The legendary Rosita Arvigo joins us today to discuss Mayan healing and shamanism, what it entails, the state it is in today and what we can learn from it. Rosita is the author of ten books, she is a naprapathic physician, a herbalist and a specialist in traditional Mayan healing. For decades she has lived in western Belize, operating a healing practice and maintaining an organic farm. During this time she studied under Don Elijio Panti -a powerful and famous shaman then in his nineties. (He lived to 103.) This story is described in her book, Sastún. This is a fascinating discussion that we managed to record from regional Belize all the way to Wellington New Zealand -during a cyclone. Enjoy! 🔼🔼SHOW NOTES🔼🔼 Rosita’s website and books. https://rositaarvigo.com/ Rosita on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/drrositaarvigo/ The Abdominal Therapy Collective. https://abdominaltherapycollective.com/ Rosita presenting at the New York Botanical Garden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOxqRyv1Z5U 🔼🔼ABOUT RUNE SOUP🔼🔼 Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work. Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos. When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania. Newsletter: https://runesoup.com/emails/ Telegram: https://t.me/runesoupchat Join Rune Soup: https://runesoup.com/join-rune-soup/ Book a Shamanic Healing Session: https://runesoup.com/shamanic-energy-healing/

A more casual solo show this time, where we talk about The Fall of Numenór and how it might be the Middle Earth story for our time, we unbox the frankly strange but kinda neat Lord of The Rings Tarot, and then get to some questions that have been sent in over the past month from members and non-members about Spiritism, healing traditions, the future of Solarpunk, daily practice and a whole lot more. 2:57 Fall of Numenór review 36:43 Lord of the Rings Tarot Unboxing 1:02:08 Live Q&A begins 🔼🔼ABOUT RUNE SOUP🔼🔼 Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work. Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos. When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania. Newsletter: https://runesoup.com/emails/ Telegram: https://t.me/runesoupchat Join Rune Soup: https://runesoup.com/join-rune-soup/ Book a Shamanic Healing Session: https://runesoup.com/shamanic-energy-healing/

Peter Mark Adams joins us today on the occasion of the imminent release of his new book, Hagia Sophia: Sanctuary of Kronos. Like The Game of Saturn before it, this is an exploration of curious survivals of pagan cosmologies hidden in seemingly plain sight -in this case Hagia Sophia in his home of Istanbul. Check out the show notes at runesoup.com for some companion images. Along the way, we also discuss what happened to the Mysteries when Eleusis was closed, the School of Athens and whether any such thing as Neoplatonism even existed. Enjoy! 🔼🔼SHOW NOTES🔼🔼 Get Hagia Sophia: Sanctuary of Kronos https://scarletimprint.com/publications/p/hagia-sophia-sanctum-of-kronos Peter Mark Adams's website https://petermarkadams.com/ 🔼🔼ABOUT RUNE SOUP🔼🔼 Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work. Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos. When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania. Newsletter: https://runesoup.com/emails/ Telegram: https://t.me/runesoupchat Join Rune Soup: https://runesoup.com/join-rune-soup/ Book a Shamanic Healing Session: https://runesoup.com/shamanic-energy-healing/

This week, we discuss morality, where to intervene in the world, in your life and why. Then there's a random Q&A at the end with discussions of very gay tarot card decks and other cool things. And once again for no reason other than it's a good way for me to organise my talking points so I don't forget them, I used Tome. If you want to try it out, here's the invite link. https://tome.app/invite/gordon-white-clcdt0jco3t043a9n6uus1os5 🔼🔼ABOUT RUNE SOUP🔼🔼 Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work. Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos. When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania. Newsletter: https://runesoup.com/emails/ Telegram: https://t.me/runesoupchat Join Rune Soup: https://runesoup.com/join-rune-soup/ Book a Shamanic Healing Session: https://runesoup.com/shamanic-energy-healing/

After last year's Astro-Gnostic conference and some extended jungle experience, I want to revisit some comparisons between 'gnosticism' and 'animism' -whatever they happen to be. 🔼🔼SHOW NOTES🔼🔼 There is a Higher Soup meetup in Wellington NZ on Saturday Feb 11th. It's open to all but please RSVP below so we have an idea of numbers. https://highersidemeetups.com/events/higher-soup-meetup-in-wellington-nz/ And once again for no reason other than it's a good way for me to organise my talking points so I don't forget them, I used Tome again. If you want to try it out, here's the invite link. https://tome.app/invite/gordon-white-clcdt0jco3t043a9n6uus1os5 🔼🔼ABOUT RUNE SOUP🔼🔼 Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work. Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos. When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania. Newsletter: https://runesoup.com/emails/ Telegram: https://t.me/runesoupchat Join Rune Soup: https://runesoup.com/join-rune-soup/ Book a Shamanic Healing Session: https://runesoup.com/shamanic-energy-healing/

Parapsychologist Dr Brian Laythe joins the show for a discussion on ghosts and haunted places. We explore definitions: what IS a ghost? That's a slippery question right there. We look at what makes a place 'haunted'. Are they haunted because they have ghosts or do they have ghosts because they are haunted? And we investigate how ghost encounters fit into the wider ecosystem of High Strangeness. Can anyone really be 'just' a witness or are we at least co-creating these contact events? A great chat. Enjoy! 🔼🔼SHOW NOTES🔼🔼 Get Brian's book, Ghosted!: Exploring the Haunting Reality of Paranormal Encounters https://www.amazon.com/Ghosted-Exploring-Haunting-Paranormal-Encounters/dp/1476685770 Visit the Institute For The Study of Religious And Anomalous Experience https://www.israenet.org/ 🔼🔼ABOUT RUNE SOUP🔼🔼 Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work. Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos. When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania. Newsletter: https://runesoup.com/emails/ Telegram: https://t.me/runesoupchat Join Rune Soup: https://runesoup.com/join-rune-soup/ Book a Shamanic Healing Session: https://runesoup.com/shamanic-energy-healing/

This time we welcome to the show hunter, leather maker, tracker, artist and educator Harmony Cronin. Over the course of her career, Harmony has been a big game skinner, she has convened and continues to convene women’s hunting groups, she provides support for Indigenous buffalo hunts and has lived in a tent she built herself beside Yellowstone, where her neighbours were a wolf pack she fed with roadkill. Harmony joins the show for a powerful conversation about the roles and obligations of being a human in a living cosmos. 🔼🔼SHOW NOTES🔼🔼 Find out about Harmony’s classes and everything else she has going on at Gathering Ways. https://www.gatheringways.com/ Find out about the Buffalo Bridge project here. https://www.gatheringways.com/buffalobridge 🔼🔼ABOUT RUNE SOUP🔼🔼 Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work. Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos. When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania. Newsletter: https://runesoup.com/emails/ Telegram: https://t.me/runesoupchat Join Rune Soup: https://runesoup.com/join-rune-soup/ Book a Shamanic Healing Session: https://runesoup.com/shamanic-energy-healing/

Join me for the first solo show of the year! We talk through a presentation that can help best situate you to achieve and transform in 2023. - Extreme ownership - Correctly setting priorities - How to build a map of both official reality and reality - Stepping into an attitude that thrives in chaos - Using time magic to shift from 'goals' to 'sites of magical transformation'. Oh, and if you want to have a play around with the fun little AI presentation creator I used, here's an invite link: https://tome.app/invite/gordon-white-clcdt0jco3t043a9n6uus1os5 🔼🔼ABOUT RUNE SOUP🔼🔼 Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work. Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos. When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania. Newsletter: https://runesoup.com/emails/ Telegram: https://t.me/runesoupchat Join Rune Soup: https://runesoup.com/join-rune-soup/ Book a Shamanic Healing Session: https://runesoup.com/shamanic-energy-healing/

A livestreamed look back at a highly eventful year: Books published, globes trotted, farms farmed and so on. 🔼🔼ABOUT RUNE SOUP🔼🔼 Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work. Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos. When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania. Newsletter: https://runesoup.com/emails/ Telegram: https://t.me/runesoupchat Join Rune Soup: https://runesoup.com/join-rune-soup/ Book a Shamanic Healing Session: https://runesoup.com/shamanic-energy-healing/

Tis the season once more for our annual chat with the one and only Conner Habib. We started with Christmas and then ended up having quite a detailed discussion on ceremony, place and context that set the theme for the rest of the chat. So this one is a little different from our usual new year chats. Enjoy! 🔼🔼SHOW NOTES🔼🔼 Conner's debut novel: https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Hawk-Mountain-A-Novel/dp/B09Y69D8PZ/ Conner on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ConnerHabib 🔼🔼ABOUT RUNE SOUP🔼🔼 Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work. Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos. When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania. Newsletter: https://runesoup.com/emails/ Telegram: https://t.me/runesoupchat Join Rune Soup: https://runesoup.com/join-rune-soup/ Book a Shamanic Healing Session: https://runesoup.com/shamanic-energy-healing/

The legendary Lynne McTaggart returns to the show to talk about working with The Field and the Power of Intention for healing, manifestation and transformation. 🔼🔼SHOW NOTES🔼🔼 Lynne's website https://lynnemctaggart.com/ 2023 Power of Eight Masterclass (waitlist) https://lynnemctaggart.com/courses/ 🔼🔼ABOUT RUNE SOUP🔼🔼 Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work. Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos. When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania. Newsletter: https://runesoup.com/emails/ Telegram: https://t.me/runesoupchat Join Rune Soup: https://runesoup.com/join-rune-soup/ Book a Shamanic Healing Session: https://runesoup.com/shamanic-energy-healing/

Welcome to the 300th episode of Rune Soup! They grow up so fast, eh? To celebrate the occasion, I had two options: The first was to hold a big party and then slip on a magic ring mid-speech, vanishing before your very eyes. The second was to invite onto the show perhaps the most-requested guest, John Michael Greer. And really this timed very well because John has a new book out called The Occult Philosophy Workbook: A One Year Course In The Secret Wisdom. Plus we're looking at a whole new year a few days away. Plus we're doing a very special six month premium member course at the beginning of next year called The Foundations which as the name suggests is a comprehensive course on all the foundational magical practices from setting up altars to casting circles to scrying and all of that. I'll be taking you through exactly how I do All The Things. So with all this going on, John and I have a conversation at the Venn overlap of all these territories: What are the essential skills of a (broadly speaking 'Western') magician and have they changed over time? 🔼🔼SHOW NOTES🔼🔼 Get The Occult Philosophy Workbook here. https://health.aeonbooks.co.uk//product/the-occult-philosophy-workbook/95089 AND ALSO... the good people at Aeon Books have offered Rune Soup listeners a discount of 20% off any book purchased from their website until December 31, 2022. Use the code OP20 at checkout. https://www.aeonbooks.co.uk/ John's blog and website, Ecosophia. https://www.ecosophia.net/ 🔼🔼ABOUT RUNE SOUP🔼🔼 Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work. Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos. When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania. Newsletter: https://runesoup.com/emails/ Telegram: https://t.me/runesoupchat Join Rune Soup: https://runesoup.com/join-rune-soup/ Book a Shamanic Healing Session: https://runesoup.com/shamanic-energy-healing/

Greg Carlwood from The Higherside Chats joins the show for a countdown of the 10 best conspiracy books of all time. UFOs, technocracy, CIA coups, predatory capitalism, ancient aliens, Big Pharma, elite networks... here's the list! Some you might expect. Others you most definitely will not. Enjoy! **SHOW NOTES** The Higherside Chats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPhEsoSAhvY Join Rune Soup Premium Membership https://runesoup.com/join-rune-soup/ Book a Shamanic Healing Session with Gordon https://runesoup.com/shamanic-energy-healing/

It's that time of year again! Join Austin and Gordon for a bracing look at your terrifying, beautiful future. Or at least the next six months of it. And also low key the next decade. 🔼🔼SHOW NOTES🔼🔼 For everything Austin Coppock astrological readings, classes, books head to Austin's website: https://austincoppock.com/ 🔼🔼ABOUT RUNE SOUP🔼🔼 Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work. Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos. When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania. Newsletter: https://runesoup.com/emails/ Telegram: https://t.me/runesoupchat Join Rune Soup: https://runesoup.com/join-rune-soup/ Book a Shamanic Healing Session: https://runesoup.com/shamanic-energy-healing/

Spiritism, Umbanda, Quimbanda, Candomblé. The impact of Diaspora African frameworks, Amazonian plant spirits, ayahuasca. The impact of Catholicism and the role of the saints. The disastrous impact of modern, evangelical Christianity. Brazil's magical landscape is perhaps the most fascinating in the world. Sorcerer and Scarlet Imprint author, Julio Cesar Ody, returns to the show as our special Halloween episode guest to walk us through the whole thing. Enjoy! **SHOW NOTES** Julio’s book, Magister Officiorum. https://scarletimprint.com/publications/p/magister-officiorum Julio’s website, Figueira Mágica. https://figueiramagica.com.br/ Figueira Mágica on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/@figueiramagica The thesis/article Julio mentions: Umbanda, Uma Religião Sincréta e Brasileira. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/runesoup/HULDA_SILVA_CEDRO_DA_COSTA.pdf

Jenx returns to the show with his latest and best book, The Thai Occult 2. We catch up with what’s been going on with Jenx’s ongoing cultural survey and research on and with various Ajarns, we talk about global candle magic, Thai astrology, talisman, doll magic and why you might want to live in a graveyard for a month. He also explains that this latest book is a 'living' book. Get the PDF once and you will automatically receive all ongoing updates, additional material and interviews. Great stuff. **SHOW NOTES** Get The Thai Occult 2: https://www.thethaioccult.com/product-page/the-thai-occult-book-2-pdf

The good Doctor Knowles makes a welcome return to the show this week. We talk about the presence of nineteenth century occultism in the pulps, how those pulps influenced the superheroes of the twentieth century, Watcher cults, imperial worldviews and the synchromysticism of the apocalypse. A freewheeling romp for all! **SHOW NOTES** The Secret Sun https://secretsun.blogspot.com/ The Secret Sun on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9779701

This week, returning guest Brandt Stickley joins us for another instalment of our energy healing dialogues series. We discuss how Chinese medicine sees the human energy body/ies, the antiquity of the system, how it works, what it works best with and the attitude or ways of thinking that characterise TCM. In particular, we look at what even am meridians, how TCM understands human organs, polarity and all that good stuff. Enjoy! **SHOW NOTES** Brandt's website https://www.brandtstickley.com/ Brandt's Patreon https://www.patreon.com/brandtstickley Join Rune Soup: https://runesoup.com/join-rune-soup/