Bizarre States: Resurrected

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First off, two things:

1.) I am so so sorry for the quality of my voice in this episode. I got hit with a MASSIVE cold that wiped me out for about two weeks (including during the entierty of my vacation), and I'm just not bubbling back up to the surface. My apologies that I sound all snotty and sniffly.

2.) What do Virginia Woolf, Aleister Crowley, W.B. Yeats, Peter Warlock, a mysterious death on a Cornish hillside a...

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We've got a compilation podcast today which I think does a pretty decent job of covering some intriguing occult, esoteric and borderline paranormal topics, as well as, talking about some occultists/mystics and scientists that you may not have even known were occultists/ mystics and scientists.

(sometimes you just have to go beyond the steretypical, and well-beaten path of the SEO and algorithim loving top of the pop ...

For this OSP episode we have a special guest joining us for an interview this week - Alfie Prendergast, the owner of Fool's Journey Books!

Alfie is joining us to talk about the struggles of how to part with your favorite books when you're trying to run a business but are also a collector yourself, the secret treasures he's come across while hunting for occult titles and personal esoteric philosophies he's ...

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IMPORTANT - DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST IF YOU DON'T WANT WIDOW'S BAY, SEASON 1 - Ep. 1-4 SPOILED!!!!!!!

If you are anything like me, you have been obsessed with Apple TV's latest show, Widow's Bay (it's so damn good. Total early X-files vibes kinda' sorta')

Combination 1980s horror flick + every IP Stephen King has ever come up with + The Office? = my eyeball entertainment loyalty....

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Today's topic is in honor of the recent U.S. UFO document(s) release which, once again, says everything without saying ANYTHING.

Considering it is one of the largest UFO/UAP cases in history - and involved the U.S. military personnel - why haven't all of these disclosed UFO docs never really seem to touch. this particular case? Also, nwhat else is going on in that section of England, eh? Why is it just so dang .....w...

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Oh man, I'm pretty fired up about this one (mostly because I feel I actually was there for a little bit of these Gardnerian, mysterious England vibes while I was visiting the King Arthur hot spots throughout the english countryside. Don't worry 0 I ramble on about all of it in today's intro - which you are free to skip if you can't deal with my double dose of word salad this week).

So, back to buisness, not only is...

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I have been inspired a lot lately by the 1960 & 70 occult paperback books that are finding their way into my collection. So I thought I would dedicate an episode to them :)

Before WitchTok or Occult Tok or paranormal YoutTube, there was the "paperback occult boom."

In the 60s & 70s cheap, mass- market books on witchcraft, Satanisim, psychic powers, UFOs, hautings and ceremoial magic flooded bus stations, dru...

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I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break!

So, I feel into a pretty deep archeological internet hole the other day around 2 am and this is what I came up with:

Today's episode of Occulture Shock goes deep into one of the strangest gaps in ancient Egyptian history: the disappearance of the Benben stone.

This artifact was once the most sacred physical object in ancient Egypt

And then it vanishes. Just POOF! There on...

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Today we have a special guest!

My co-host from the Discovery Channel special, Bigfoot Took Her, Robert Collier. Aside from his work regarding Bigfoot on TV, Robert is also an avid member of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) and guides expeditions into the woods of California for others looking to investigate Bigfoot for themselves.

For those that are interested - I have Robert's EVP recording of the...

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In the 1970s and 80s, spiritual leader (and talking head on In Search Of w/ Leonard Nimoy - one of the best TV shows of all time), Elizabeth Clare Prophet built a movement around the idea that sge was receiving messages from enlightened beings known as Ascended Masters.

At the center of those teachings was one of the most mysterious figures in occult history - The Count of Saint Germain.

Her grassroots organization (...

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Tonight's episode covers one of my favorite topics - Government espionage and conspiracy! WOO-HOO!

Specifically, one of the strangerst relics of Cold War Intelligence: Numbers Stations.

For decades, shortwave radio listeners around the world have reported hearing anonymous broadcasts where a voice calmly reads  strings of numbers into the airwaves. There's no station identification. Just a string or groups of se...

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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...

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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...