Bizarre States: Resurrected

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I've taken a hard left content-wise today and shifted gears into something that captured my imagination - and that is my absolute fascination with fortune telling and pre-cognition.

Since I was little and read about Lincoln's Ghost Train from a Time Life Book: Mysteries of the Unknown volume, I've been obsessed with people being able to foretell the future.

Today, on the Occulture Shock Podcast, I've cobbled together...

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This episode is the first in our latest themed podcast, Music & Magick, and is part of a larger installment of a randomly on-going series that I'm currently referring to as, All Your Favorite Artists Are Occultists.

First up: The Glam Rock (and heavily drugged) Days of David Bowie.

He was positive that a demon lived under his LA swimming pool and that Jimmy Paige put a curse on him (I would not be sockeed to learn th...

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Thank you for beung patient whike I was away on vacation. We are back on track this week with our first ever official interview with special guest: Marco Visconti.

Marco is incredibly well informed and well spoken and I think you will all find his interview not only entertaining but incredibly interesting and informative no matter where you are within your own personal esoteric journey.

For the video version of this ...

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This week on Occulture Shock, we're digging into one of the most...awkward...fight in modern occult history. It wasn't in the form of a public blow-up but it was a stealthy and corrosive power struggle between two of the most recognizable women in occult history.

When Dion Fortune clashed with Moina Mathers inside the Alpha et Omega, questions of authority, publishing, control, as well as gossip regardig the legitima...

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This week on OSP, we dive headfirst into one of the most infamous occult brawls (physically AND spiritually) of the mmodern era: Aleister Crowley v/s The Heremtic Order of the Golden Dawn.

This episode is all about ego, secrecy, power and what happens when everyone and their mom want to control the access to "ancient hidden knowledge."

Specifically, we will be unpacking the Blythe Road incident and how Crowley may ha...

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We are still going strong with our Wiccan Wars theme this month - Today it's Gerald Gardner V/S Robert Cochrane!

Gardner? He is all ceremony, degrees of intitiation and formality.

Cochrane? Witchcraft is part of nature. It's wild. It's in your blood...you either have it or you don't.

Both men were incredibly formative within modern day witchcraft/Wicca, both were also SUPER gate-keepy in their own particular ways and...

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The week on Occulture Shock - Wizard Wars I'm digging into the fracture between Gerald Gardner and Doreen Valiente: the founder who went public to protect witchcraft and the woman who helped to write it....

....only to then walk away when Gardner's mythology making started outweighing honesty and power plays were rife within the coven.

This is not an episode of blind hero worship. This is a sharp (but hopefully, fair...

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Welcome to a new year, a new podcast "season" and out new theme to start of uss: WIZARD WARS!

This month I'm focusing on the hurt egos, sullied reputation and downright bitch-fests between the big names within the occult scene - both past, present & future.

Consider today's episode a bit of an hors d'ouver. little teaser of sorts - A quick overview of some of the most famous fights amongst the self-proclaimed spiritu...

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I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break and a Happy New Year's celebration and...speaking of that.....

Huzzah! Here is the latest episode of the OccultureShock Podcast for 2005! And what better way to close out the year than to talk about a prophet and his accurate predictions for an upcoming disaster in the new year (that "new year" being 1666...so, no worries for us).

As always, thank you for getting weird wi...

BE WARNED - This episode is VERY true crime heavy and thus, involves a lot of dark and distrubing material - CONSIDER YOURSELF WARNED.

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We are in the "between times" right now - the Rauhnächt - where the veil is thinnest between the world and the dead & The Wild Hunt walk the Earth.

Which makes this the PERFECT time to discuss some infamous true crimes that occured on, and around, Christm...

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You've heard the Christmas carol, "The Twelve Days of Christmas," but have you ever asked yourself...

Why? Why twelve days? And what was it about those days that make them such a big deal in the first place?

On today's podcast episode, we look into that VERY thing (and it's both super weird and kinda' MEH (all at the same time).

I break down what is: 

• Historicaly documented
• Folklore
• Theory
• Why the number twelve ...

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It's a new month, so a new mini-season of topics!

Since it's December and the holidays are right around the corner, I'\m going to stick with "weird holiday histories and traditions."

First on our list comes straight out of the Alpine regions of Northern Europe - Krampus and Grýla.

In the mountains of Austria and the lava fields of Iceland, the gifts the winter spirits came with were horns, claws and a very clear mess...

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Today we are pulling the curtain back on one of the holiday's most traditional and beloved drinks, Eggnog and its filthu cousin, the Tom & Jerry.

Rife with bacteria, potentially poisoned by disgruntled family members and the cause of one of the largest (and most hilarious) riots in U.S. military history, I present to you, the final installment of our mini-series, Nightcap Noire: The Hidden Crimes Behind Holiday Cockt...

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This week, in our podcast mini-series, Nightcap Noire - The Dark History Behind Your Favorite Cocktails, we are taking a gander at the infamous Ward 8. A drink that somehow managed to survive longer than the political system that created it.

Old-guard Bostonians liked to hole themselves up in Locke-Ober; a formal, male-only dine and drinks establishment that has a reputation for haughty exclusivity. The fact that a d...

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I thought I'd try out a new series theme for the rest of November (and maybe a little into Dec. if it feels right) and that is: Nightcap Noire - A series that explores famous cocktails based on gruesome true crimes and the histories behind them.

Los Angeles, 1947.

A body in a vacant lot. A dark legend in the making. Elizabeth Short, soon to be known as The Black Dahlia, wanted to be seen...

And Hollywood promi...

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Here's a true crime story that I've been sitting on for a while: The Mysterious death of Josslyn Hay, the 22nd Earl of Erroll and the scandalous lifestyles of the "Happy Valley Set," a group of British elites in Kenya during the early 20th century.

In 1941, a car was found idiling on a desolate road just outside of Nairobi.

Inside? A British aristocrat with a bullet in his brain.

This week's episode dives into one of the m...

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Well, I'm still rockin' that Shirley Jackson podcast angle this week!

After last week's podcast, I ended up falling into quite a deep Shirley Jackson internet history hole and discovered that Mrs. Jackson is connected (however tenuously) to an infamous and unsolved murder case of one of the most important American heiresses within the U.S.'s Gilded Age "royalty."

Jane Stanford was the wife of prominent robber baron/ ...

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This week, we take a look at the author who inspired modern day horror writers such as Stephen King and Guillermo Del Toro by turning her ordinary suburban American life into quiet horror.

Shirley Jackson lived in a house full of noise - four children, a controlling and flandering husband and a typerwrite on a kitchen table within the middle of it all.

From that chaos she wrote fantastic short stories and novels revo...

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Last week we went into the connections between the top 3 Romantic writers of their era: Mary (Godwin) Shelley, Percy Shelley and Lord Byron.

But that just SCRATCHES at the surface of these lunatics (and their friends).

This week's episode goes more "behind-the-scenes" of what famously went down at that villa in Switzerland (hint: It wasn't all writing. There was also a fair bit of sex, drugs and rock n' roll), as wel...