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.
Episodes
Coming to you from the shores of Lake Titicaca! Some lessons on how to get good at magic, specifically sigil magic, learned on the road in Bolivia.
The short answer is your first hundred sigils will teach you more about magic than any book ever will. The long answer is.... this podcast.
Here I share my notes and observations from spending time in mountaintop villages with lineaged shamans descending directly from the Incas, San Ped...
Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio's Miguel Conner returns to the show this week for an in-depth unpacking of claims made by Jordan Peterson, James Lindsay and others in the online Right that Marxism is actually Gnosticism.
We look at
- The origins of these claims.
- Exactly WHERE and HOW they are wrong.
This week's episode is an installment in the long-running World Without Sin series, examining how we respond to monolithic media and how not every outsider is a plucky freedom fighter.
We also look at how and why it might be that all forms of expression are collapsing into a meme singularity and what this might have to do with the jester archetype.
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Hello from the road!
Just wanted to get out a little solo show of what I have been up to, which also morphed into how to deal with foreseen rather than unforeseen dramas.
We also cover some updates on the Sigil A Day project, and speculate on the development of media and podcasts in our post-Putin-interview World Without Sin.
Enjoy! Chat soon!
You may recall that Angie from Angie Speaks guested on the podcast last year. Well, she graciously invited me on a show she co-hosts, Mystic and the Machine, where we have a good ol' chat about UFOs, Jung, the looming apocalypse and how all of these things are interrelated.
It was such a good chat, I'm releasing it as a main podcast episode this week.
Here we are in 2024, eh?
And it’s off to a bang for people starting on the #SigilADay2024 Project and, to a lesser extent, Japan Airlines.
In this solo show, we cover:
- Locating your intentions and goals for 2024.
- Turning them into enchantment topic areas.
- How to create sigils from scratch.
- The initial sigil activation I am offering for those embarking on this project and why. (Hint: It needs to be quick but not as quick as som...
You know the festive season has begun when Austinmas rolls around! Join Gordon White and Austin Coppock for a look into the first half of 2024 and how to navigate it.
We look at
- Risk of war.
- What we can and can't learn from 2024.
- The best time of year to GTD.
- The Year of the Dragon.
- Mars, Mars and also some Mars to go with your Mars.
Plus there's this whole subplot about fish.
Enjoy!
After tabling the possibility in the last live stream and thrashing out some of the details with the Rune Soup Premium Member brain trust, we'll be moving forward with the goal of launching one sigil a day for every day of next year.
The audio version of the announcement -ie this one- is a bit more involved than the video one. That's because 58% of YouTube watchers ...
We come at last to the final in the AI For Magicians series of solo shows.
This time we explore how we co-create with non-human beings and what that AI co-creation looks like for magicians.
As is traditional, there is a video slide presentation that goes along with this episode, which you absolutely do not need to watch if you're vibing more with the audio.
Show Notes
This weekend was the livestream of my year in review, as well as a suggested shape for
- How to conduct your own.
- Why you should do it now as a separate act to your new year intention setting.
As is now traditional, we did a Q&A on ...
Who says you can’t teach an old (27) dog new tricks?
For something a bit different, I’m sharing the audio version of, not my podcast, but I podcast I was on. Specifically The Coffee and Divination Podcast with JoAnna Farrer.
One of my goals for next year is to push the boat a bit more with the format of the podcast. This year we brought in more regular solo shows, more livestreams, and so on. I want to start throwing in some shorte...
This week's episode is the audio version of a live stream discussion with Samuel Urban of the Illegitimate Scholar podcast. We talk about
- The educational industrial complex.
- So-called 'alternative' history.
- Find the good in the total failure of academia over ...
Legendary co-originator of permaculture, David Holmgren, returns to the show this week on the ery special occasion of the launch of the feature-length documentary, Reading Landscape.
In the show notes below, you will find the link and the password to watch the full documentary for free.
Please share it widely with anyone who may be interested, with the blessing of the producers.
David and I discuss
Read moreAstrologer and YouTuber Cam White joins the show this week to bring some helpful reframings to the space weather we'll all be enduring over the next few years.
We discuss
- How astrology works
- The role of a fortune teller in troubled times
- What sort of conflicts and wars are likely t...
Author, activist and educator, Dougald Hine returns to the show this week for a discussion that is simultaneously timely and timeless.
If you've been following along on the blog, you'll know that I have been wrestling with how to say things, with whom and to what end, given how the world is going.
One of the topics I had been meaning to record on for months now was the resurgence of Christianity: whether it is surprising or not, wh...
Rhyd Wildermuth returns to the show on the occasion of his latest book launch, Here Be Monsters.
So we have a freewheeling chat about the mutation and fall of leftism, the what and where of activism accordingly, whether things are getting 'worse' or 'better', updated definitions of capitalism and fascism, Russell Brand, all kinds of incendiary stuff.
Oh, and gay werewolves.
Show N...
This week I had been meaning to do a World Without Sin solo show on the censorship laws rolling out around the world and their implications.
Then, as we all know by now, whatever is going on with Russel Brand started happening, so we begin our story there. (It's worth noting I recorded this about 24 hours ago, before YouTube demonetised his channel.)
Today's episode is a bit of a read-along so you may wish to watch the video versio...
Greg Carlwood returns to the show for another instalment of the book club nobody asked for! We explore the best alternative medicine -perhaps 'true healing' or 'actually effective' is better- books that we know of.
Nutrition, breathwork, light therapy, terrain theory, energy healing. It's all here, baby. Greg has spent years interviewing some of the leading lights in what allopathy absurdly calls 'alternative' healing on The Higher...
It's been one of the highlights of my year to start getting messages and images of the Fortune's Fools Lenormand oracle out in the world. And, as you might expect, it's got me thinking about fortune-telling.
One of my personal creative goals for the project was the queer (lol) the Little White Book concept, and so the companion book IS my fortune-telling book, in the sense that it is a book-length exploration of the techniques and ...
One of my favourite guests returns to the show this week for a scintillating and freewheeling dive into the perennial question of whether there are aliens in the Bible. Author, researcher, psychonaut and hypnotist Danny Nemu.
The impetus for this discussion is a book and a thesis that’s been translated out of Italian and into English relatively recently: Mauro Biglino’s Gods of The Bible. Speaking of translation, for years, Mauro w...
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