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A show about witchcraft, sexuality & creativity.
The weekly occult podcast diving into the deep end of mythology, high-strangeness and religion. A show for seekers upon the path and wanderers of the outer abyss. Where others stay surface level, we go deep into the rabbit holes of demonolatry, chaos magick, gnosticism Thelema, Aleister Crowley, fallen angels, the ars goetia, MKULTRA, the black cross of Saturn and of course Ancient Egypt.
Welcome to the Temple of Babalon Podcast. Oliver St. John is a founder member of Ordo Astri, an Independent Thelemic magical Order based in the UK. Our audio podcasts are for those with a serious interest in Thelema, Hermetic and magical philosophy, practical magick, mysticism, and the occult.
Welcome to Lux Occult, a podcast where we gleefully taunt the mundane, butcher the Latin and most other languages, and also discuss a variety of occult topics! Exploring the intersections of Magic, Art, Science and Philosophy- it's Occultism For Everyone!
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Sleep Over with Carolyn Elliott & Laila Bernhardt
Dr. Carolyn Elliott
What happens when two modern ladies wake up to their immortal Magickal nature?
This a podcast between my wife and myself on our experiences with occult related issues.
“LA Made” is a new series exploring stories of bold Californian innovators and how they forever changed the lives of millions all over the world. Each season will unpack the untold and surprising stories behind some of the most exciting innovations that continue to influence our lives today. Season 1, “LA Made: Blood, Sweat & Rockets,” tells the hidden story of the fearless, groundbreaking and ambitious crew who shaped our quest to outer space and ushered in the early days of space explorati ...
Conversations with scholars, writers, and artists whose work subverts the dominant paradigm. Discover people who are interested in disrupting conventional norms and ideologies and creating new ways of thinking about, being in, and understanding the world. Hosted by Dan Glenn. Opening and closing theme music by Podington Bear http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/ Cover art graphic design by Jeff Wolfe http://www.ciis.edu CIIS Center for Writing and Scholarship: http://academicwrit ...
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59. The Rise of Babalon: The Red Goddess and The Return of the Babalon Rising Pan-Thelemic Festival, 2023 ft. Lon Milo DuQuette, Laurelei Black, & Yaramarud
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Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata speaks with Lon Milo DuQuettehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Milo_DuQuette, Laurelei Black https://www.laureleiblack.com/, & Yaramarud https://twitter.com/yaramarud about the Return of the Babalon Rising Pan-Thelemic Festival this year, 2023. A few different conceptualizations of the Red Goddess are explored. Lon…
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The Spiritual Fool: Secrets of the Clowns!
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Pressurize the seltzer, polish up your big red nose and prepare your face for pie because on this week’s episode we’re discussing not just the exceedingly ancient history of clowns but their strangely coherent set of symbols and mythology spanning multiple time periods and cultures concluding with the Heyoka of the Native American Sioux tribes. In …
Get your scuba gear on because we're going down into the unexpected occult symbolism of Pixar’s 2003 classic, Finding Nemo. While we explore some popular fan theories you may be familiar with, we go beneath the surface and discover a treasure trove of occult symbolism that not only relates to Alchemy, The Tarot, Jungian archetypes and the philosoph…
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Blood, Sweat & Rockets: Flights of Fancy in Southern California (Bonus Episode)
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What is it about gazing at the stars that inspires humans — including our very own Suicide Squad — to attempt the impossible? And what is it about sunny Southern California that inspires them to do it here? In this episode we find out. Support LA Made: Blood, Sweat & Rockets by donating now at LAist.com/join This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.…
On this week’s episode we journey down the Rio Putumayo to catch a glimpse at the Cosmic Other being channeled into our timestream by the mighty master of mushroom munching, Terrance McKenna and his brother Dennis. Join us as we tease out the delirious details of McKenna’s TimeWave Zero theory, UFO sightings, globe-trotting adventures smuggling dru…
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58. The Green Mushroom Project Audio Grimoire Ch. 3: Astral Temple Experiments
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The Green Mushroom Project Audio Grimoire series returns! Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata is joined by fellow Fungi, Miguel, Menw, Shane https://buildingthephilosophersstone.wordpress.com/, and Joy https://www.instagram.com/occulture_jammer for a foray into a new astral environment. During this group experiment, participants were led in a guided …
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Blood, Sweat & Rockets: Inside JPL (Bonus Episode)
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We go inside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and get a tour that’s not available to the public: watching technicians build spacecraft with Kobie Boykins, hanging out with Nagin Cox at the Mars Yard, and demystifying a campus famous for its secrecy. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Save 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/ROCKETS…
On this week’s show we discuss the hidden power of names and what makes them such a powerful tool in the hands of sorcerers past and present. We explore how various cultures across time thought of names and see what classical Jewish, Christian, and Occult texts have to say on the matter. In the extended episode we discuss having a bad name, properl…
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Blood, Sweat & Rockets: The Legacy of Frank Malina
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Frank Malina’s legacy has often been eclipsed by flashier figures in American aerospace (like Jack Parsons and Werner Von Braun). But in this episode, we’ll show how Malina’s work paved the way for modern spaceflight — and the future missions of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Save 10% off your first month at…
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Blood, Sweat & Rockets: The Explosive Demise of Jack Parsons
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When Jack Parsons dies in an explosion, conspiracy theories foment. Was it murder by a disgruntled ex-cop? Assassination by the US government? In this episode we wrestle to make sense of both the circumstances surrounding Parsons' death and the legacy he left behind. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Save 10% off your first month at BetterHe…
Carolyn and Laila talk about the deep self-reflective psychedelic medicine of ritual initiation, and how the universe is constantly fulfilling our wildest dreams and nightmares us to wake us up to our creative, magickal agency
In this episode, Carolyn & Laila talk with their friends and coconspirators Lucy and Elyna about what it really takes to run a Mystery School and to pursue your vocation, and the gifts that are given in return.
In this week’s episode we invoke the Muses to discuss their origin and how we might find ourselves on the receiving end of their blessings. We ask Hesiod and Diodores what they know about the Mousai and explore how their description lines up with the Qabalistic Tree of Life. We also discuss the role creativity plays in science, music and even how t…
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57. Love and Other Dangerous Magics w/ Mme. Vendredi & The Ancestral Now w/ Ramon Castellanos
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Mme. Vendredi https://www.instagram.com/mmvndri/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to talk about the topics of Perception, working with the Djinn, Demon Bowls, and the practice of Black Magick; as well as for a discussion about Love Magic and Ethics. In an episode within the episode, Ramon Castellanos https://www.theancestralnow.com/ speaks a…
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Blood, Sweat & Rockets: Operation Paperclip
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After WWII, the U.S. hired and promoted Nazi aerospace engineers in a program called Operation Paperclip — yet it drove away its own rocketeers, Malina and Tsien, for alleged communist activity. In this episode, we unpack that paradox. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Save 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/ROCKETS…
Where is the Spear of Destiny and what is the true origin of its power? We focus our attention on the fabled Holy Lance and the pre-Christian symbolism which was borrowed to embellish the legend of the spear, its corollaries in other cultures and the occult tradition. We take a few minutes to discuss the swastika and the Roman fasces. In the extend…
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Blood, Sweat & Rockets: The Curse of Tsien
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While Frank Malina escaped the worst of the FBI's treatment, Suicide Squad member Tsien Hsue-Shen was not so lucky. This episode chronicles the shocking story of how the United States wound up losing one of its most brilliant minds in rocketry to China. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Save 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/ROCKETS…
We glance up briefly from the seemingly endless toil of daily life to re-examine the conditions we were promised in the afterlife. We discuss the history and origin of various religious beliefs concerning heaven, explore the evolution of what Abrahamic faiths promise their most devout followers developing alongside Greek culture and its reminiscenc…
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56. Entering Hekate's Garden & The Poison That Heals: Keeping Her Keys Hybrid Special w/ Dr. Cyndi Brannen
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Dr. Cyndi Brannen https://keepingherkeys.com/ joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata for a very special hybrid edition of the Lux Occult and Keeping Her Keys podcasts. In exploring Dr. Brannen’s book, Entering Hekate’s Garden, the topics of Pharmakeia and The Poison that Heals are discussed. Dr. Brannen shares about her contextualization of Hekate…
Malina leaves behind military work and brings his idealism to a new life and a new organization: UNESCO, in Paris. Back in the US, the FBI fumes, arrests Sidney Weinbaum, and makes every attempt to extradite Frank Malina… This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Save 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/ROCKETS…
On this week’s show we discuss the Son of Morning himself, Lucifer. While exploring the popular mythology of Lucifer we investigate his role in the Bible and the origins of the words used to arrive at the translation of his name giving us a number of solid clues to clarify the much intuited and controversial relationship between Lucifer, Jesus Chri…
Horrified that his new rocket design will become the vehicle for a nuclear warhead, Malina leaves JPL… just in time for the Red Scare to ramp up. Malina flees to France, but the FBI is hot on his trail. And one of Malina’s former Aerojet colleagues seems more than happy to tell them about Malina’s communist past. This episode is sponsored by Better…
The year of the lucky rabbit is upon us! On this week’s episode we discuss the secret mechanism behind the mysterious function of the universe we call “luck,” what it has to do with fate and how we can bend it to our will. We discuss classical Greek and Norse mythology, time honored superstitions, randomness in computing and if it's even possible t…
Jack Parsons’s involvement in sexmagick threatens his position at Aerojet. And his troubles at home reach a breaking point when a red-haired, thirtysomething science fiction writer named L. Ron Hubbard walks into his world… and catches the eye of Jack’s girlfriend. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Save 10% off your first month at BetterHelp…
On a lazy Saturday morning with the kids at their grandpappy’s, Carolyn talks with her inspiring & brilliant husband David to get his insights about the nature of the Great Work and the simplest way to create a dense mycelial network of loving benevolence that fruits into a mushroom 🍄 body of trans-Saturnian, trans-temporal consciousness.…
Slithering just below the surface is the Biblical Leviathan, a monstrous sea-serpent and primordial dragon of Chaos with more than enough heads for each culture's cosmogonic myth cycle. Join us as we journey to the bottom of the bright blue sea with Jonah in his Whale, battle Jormangander with thunderbolts and worship the dreaded Cthulhu with a sem…
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55. Sex, Glamour, and Witchcraft w/ Sophie Saint Thomas & Manly Glamour w/ Menw from Woodlands Show
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Sophie Saint Thomas, author of Sex Witch, Glamour Witch, and other titles, joins Luxa to discuss the topic of Glamour Magick and how it might be thought of in a much more broad context than what might immediately spring to mind. Sophie speaks on how the concepts of glamour and magick have always been intertwined, and how the idea of going back to t…
Carolyn & Laila talk about their delight in the new book by Eric Wargo, Precognitive Dreaming & the Long Self.
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Blood, Sweat & Rockets: Women in Aerospace
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Women trailblazers in aerospace often weren’t credited — including one woman who accomplished critical work with the Suicide Squad: Barbara Canright. This episode explores her contributions, as well as those of two other women pioneers in the field. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Save 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/ROCKETS…
Have you ever been down the crossroads? This week we approach the boundary between the living and the dead to visit Hekate, The Night Queen of Magick and Guardian of Lost Souls. While her association with darkness, magick and the dead is well known, we explore her ancient Phrygian origin, important overlaps with the Goddess Artemis and the mytholog…
On this week’s show we celebrate surviving another year by gathering around the fire and sharing listener submitted ghost stories of the non-fiction variety. So, get comfy and prepare yourself to enjoy tales of evil ghosts, cryptids, cracks in time and mischievous garden gnomes. Stories this week include: The Wisp of the Pagoda Dingus’ Corpse Remov…
Carolyn & Laila talk about their enthusiasm for Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory and discuss what it takes to inhabit integral consciousness & eventually grow beyond into transpersonal consciousness.
**SPOILERS** A second look at Eyes Wide Shut. As more than two decades have passed, Eyes Wide Shut has continued to captivate and seduce audiences the way its source material, “Dream-Story” enchanted Stanley Kubrick and became his final masterpiece. Journey with us as we tail the Harford family down the rabbit hole and explore the bouquet of occult…
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54. Cryptology, Ciphers, and Other Mathmagicks w/ Rev. Erik & Embracing the Others w/ Alinal
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Rev. Erik, https://arnemancy.com/ host of Arnemancy and co-host of Wiz Biz, joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata for this special spooky holiday episode to talk about ways math(s) shows up in an occult practice and how it can be used for all types of magical operations like sigil creation, meditation, etc. Topics include cryptology, prime number…
Carolyn makes a special announcement! Then Carolyn & Laila talk about 1) how we’re literally all made up of rainbow crystals 2) how we’re growing in the love of Christ / Dionysus during this advent season 3) finding self-compassion by accepting that exactly everyone is rather miserable and clueless.
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Savior Messiah: Occult Jesus, Horus and Aldebaran
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On this week’s show we journey through the snowy streets of Palestine, Egypt and the Alex Jones’ recording studio to reveal a rich tapestry of mythology concerning the rise and fall of the archetypal “Savior Messiah” who, depending on who you ask might be a warrior, a healer or a world dictator. In the free show we focus our discussion on Jesus Chr…
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53. Nothing Rhymes with Rats w/ Ramsey Janini & Cryptids and Conspiracies w/ Chad from Unearthing Paranormalcy
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Ramsey Janini https://www.instagram.com/ramostotle/ author of the existential comic, Nothing Rhymes with Rats https://www.instagram.com/nrwr_comic/, (Illustrated by Angela Guyton https://www.instagram.com/angieastronaut/ ) joins Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata to talk about gallows humor, finding joy in meaninglesness, and the fascinating journey…
What exactly happened at Balenciaga? On this week’s episode we explain the details surrounding the problematic Gift Collection and Garde Robe ad campaigns which contain a startling amount of coherent dog-whistles and hidden messages to the predatory class which, through a network of blackmail, mutual incrimination and systemic corruption leverage t…
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Blood, Sweat & Rockets: Sexmagick in the Desert
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While Frank Malina struggles with the militarization of his work, Jack Parsons is not so bothered. Instead, he's having the time of his life enjoying the Squad’s success and giving in entirely to hedonism and Sexmagick. It's all fun and games until the FBI starts investigating. Episode 5 will launch January 10th. This episode is sponsored by Better…
In this week’s episode we conclude our series on Zodiacal Magick and finally discuss the secrets contained within one of the most important books of magick ever written, “The Picatrix.” While its English translation is only a few years old, the contents of The Picatrix has served as the definitive source for information about zodiacal magick and cr…
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Blood, Sweat & Rockets: The Other Side of Frank Malina
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Frank Malina is wracked with inner conflict over working for the military. His calls for scientific advancement for the purpose of bettering humanity fall on deaf ears, which leads him to embrace a political philosophy that the US government is increasingly hostile towards.By LAist Studios
Luxa expresses Gratitude, shares a poetry snack, and announces that Fuck Around and Find Out: Offerings of Magical Sovergnty from The Green Mushroom Project Zine is now available digitally! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cKu6-PNAZl8qpafAw_C-wTdsveVaUydu/view?usp=sharing Many thanks to Joy the Sporeceress https://www.instagram.com/occulture_jammer…
The semi-successful Halloween test earns the squad some legitimacy and some money. Without consistent funding, though, the Suicide Squad breaks up before they've really gotten started. Until the U.S. government is caught off guard by the Nazis’ technological advancements and decides it needs to accelerate its own rocketry production — fast. This ep…
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Astrological Magick: The Wheel of the Zodiac
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If you’re someone who is interested in learning about Astrology, then you will find that there are many intriguing facets to this practice. When it comes to Zodiacal Magick, the focus is on harnessing the powers of each of the twelve zodiac signs as well as other elements and ruling planets associated with them. In this episode we will be exploring…
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52. Consorting with Spirits and Self Sovereignty w/ Jason Miller & Kleidoukos and Creating Haunted Objects w/ Luxa
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Jason Miller https://www.strategicsorcery.net/, author of the new book, Consorting with Spirits, joins Luxa to talk about working with non-corporeal entities in one’s practice. Some of the topics explored are how we should frame our thinking when it comes to issues like consent in dealing with spiritual entities, and ways of contextualizing the inf…
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Blood, Sweat & Rockets: The Suicide Squad
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Meet the Suicide Squad: Jack Parsons, Frank Malina, and their crew. They're a band of young engineers, chemists, and mathematicians who saw the limitless potential of aerospace before the field was even a field. In an effort to earn credibility, the squad plans a dramatic experiment — a critical proof of concept — to showcase a technology they beli…
In the world of astrology and magick, the planets are considered powerful forces that impact human life. Even in today’s fast-paced world, people still ascribe meaning to the movements of stars and planets. In fact, even non-believers can’t deny the prevalence of planetary symbols in popular culture. Whether you consider it a sign of our ancestor’s…
After a truly heavenly weekend of training in holding ritual, Carolyn & Laila chill with friends/initiates/Members of the Order and listen to them tell the stories of how making the irrational decision to join a Mystery School was the best thing they ever did for themselves.
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Introducing LA Made: Blood, Sweat & Rockets, from LAist Studios
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From NASA sending astronauts to the moon to billionaires launching themselves into space, there’s something about the cosmos that inspires people to attempt the impossible. But none of those things might have happened if it weren’t for a group of unsung engineers in Pasadena back in the 1930s. They risked it all for the sake of blowing stuff up and…
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Astrological Magick: The Five Elements Of The Pentagram
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Everyone knows the classical elements: earth, water, air, and fire.However, these are rarely understood as they are usually presented – as generalities. In truth, each of these elements has its own character and principles that can be used in magick. Astrological magick is an excellent example of how the classical elements should be viewed for thei…
