Rune Soup

The legendary Eileen McKusick joins us this week for the next Rune Soup Energy Healing Dialogue. We discuss the origins of biofield tuning, how it and other forms of sound healing work, what it's best for and what other modalities it best supports. A fantastic discussion with a true healing pioneer. Enjoy! Show Notes Biofield Tuning Store. Biofield Tuning Website.

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.

Continuing the energy healing dialogues this week, we welcome to the show Kenzie Q. Adams. Kenzie is a Reiki master and teacher, professional healer, industrial engineer and the creator of Mind Connection Healing. She also happens to be the better half of Scarlet Imprint author, Peter Mark Adams. MCH is a healing and trauma release system incorporating meridian therapy, Reiki and several other modalities into an holistic synthesis. Kenzie and I discuss her own journey as a healer, the road to developing MCH and what it can be used for. Note: Kenzie is giving a training webinar this weekend (Sunday Sept 4th) as part of the Rune Soup Premium Member energy healing course. So if you like what you hear, there's still time to join us! Show Notes Mind Connection Healing.

This is one of my favourite shows of the year so far! Continuing our dialogues with energy healers as part of the Rune Soup Premium Member course on energy healing, this week we welcome to the show Stella Osorojos. Stella is a mother, a writer, an acupuncturist and multi-disciplinary healer, and the creator of a powerful healing modality called Resonant Attention. We discuss the origins of Resonant Attention in her own miraculous health journey, working with and learning from 'non-western' systems, the importance of understanding trauma, how healing systems 'work' and what health even 'is'. Splendid stuff! Show Notes Stella's Substack, Resonant Attention. Part 1 of Stella's serialised healing memoir, The Universe Is Generous. Stella's website. A guided resonant attention exercise.

Continuing our dialogues with and about different energy healing frameworks, this week we welcome to the show Pranic Healer, Trisha White -who also happens to be my mother. We chat about the origins of Pranic Healer, Trisha’s career as a professional healer, how the system works and what it works best for. And if you would like to participate in the energy healing course, join the Rune Soup Premium Membership here. Enjoy!

Poet, author, taiji instructor and intentionist (this will make sense shortly), Brian Wilkins joins the show this week, on the occasion of the publication of his book, A Wheel of Small Gods. We discuss how poetry can be a container or place for spirits, different methods of experiencing and understanding energy, healing magic, magic-as-time-travel as well as the how's and why's of coming into relation with star spirits. Super fun discussion. Enjoy! Show Notes Get A Wheel of Small Gods. Brian's website.

The Q3 premium member course beginning shortly is on energy healing and -to go alongside it- we'll be doing a series of dialogues with practitioners from various energy modalities. First cab off the rank is fellow Newcastle boy, Lance Baker, to talk about certainly the most well-known (and perhaps the least understood?) modality, Reiki. Lance is a Reiki Master, hypnotherapist, author and teacher. Definitely the right person to talk me through it! Show Notes Lance's website and business, Branches of Healing. Lance's YouTube channel.

The one and only Matawhero Lloyd returns to the show this week. More specifically, while I am in New Zealand, I returned to Whetu Ariki to spend some time with Matawhero and to see what’s been happening with his pā project over the past couple of years. This is a project many of you will be familiar with from Ani.Mystic, where it gets a whole chapter of its own. I’m releasing this one as an audio version as well as the video tour because -while I definitely think you should actually watch it so you can put images to the words- Matawhero goes really deep on Maori metaphysics, indigenous philosophy and all kinds of powerful topics. So there’s still a lot to pick up just in the conversation. But if you do want to watch it, jump over to YouTube and watch it there. Enjoy! Show Notes Get Ani.Mystic.

It's that time of half-year again! Forecastapalooza. With returning champ, Austin Coppock. You know you want it. Get in. Note: This was a video show so you can watch along on YouTube if you prefer. Enjoy!

An Amazonian solo show this week, exploring the one-year anniversary of providing shamanic energy healings. One of the things I mention during the episode is how I consider some of the seemingly bolder claims of shamanic healing from a different perspective having been in the jungle a number of times now. There’s certainly a shared underlying metaphysics there. Note: As mentioned at the top of the episode, this is a video one. So you may want to jump over to YouTube instead. Show Notes Register to be notified for the next availabilities for healing sessions here.

Something different -and personally very exciting- this week. In the few days in between my Ecuadorian ayahuasca retreat and a return to my Peruvian jungle dieta, I got to visit the art school founded by my favourite artist, Pablo Amargino. Even better… I got given the tour by Pablo’s son, Juan! Juan is himself an artist, so I also got to see some of his work, and some of the work of Pablo’s students. Plus I got the opportunity to ask some questions about Peruvian shamanism and curanderismo, and have some of the amazing concepts depicted in the painting spelled out. This is very much a video episode, rather than an audio on, so be sure to head over to YouTube and check it out.  Enjoy!

The one and only Jenx returns to the show to discuss his latest book, Supernatural Thailand. And so of course we discuss graveyards, Naga caves, boy spirits, dying for one’s city and a whole bunch more. Then we end the show looking at some of Adjarn Apichai’s forecasts for the next few years and where they precisely align with our own. Great stuff, as always! Please note I’m still in the Andes so there are a few audio dropouts. Also this was recorded as a live video discussion if you would prefer to watch rather than listen. Enjoy! Show Notes The Thai Occult. Get Supernatural Thailand.

A solo show this week, in which I explore Ani.Mystic now that it's about two months out from launch, and how it has been immensely helpful in coming to terms with Mexican and explicitly Mayan sense making. As I have basically been travelling since the thing came out, I've been remiss in sharing some of the shows that have kindly had me on to discuss the book. So let that be your show notes for this week. Each episode is remarkably, remarkably different in a way that shows I've done for Star.Ships or The Chaos Protocols or Pieces of Eight weren't. And I genuinely think that's down to the material in the book. Which means, if you are so inclined, you have hours of material to enjoy! (And hopefully that makes up for the travel-based radio silence.) This week's solo show is the audio of my presentation and discussion with the guys from Watkins -the most recent discussion of the book- for reasons spelled out in the opening of the episode. Show Notes Gordon talking Ani.Mystic on The Higherside Chats. Gordon talk

I joke at the beginning of the episode that James wrote the best book I read this year that I didn’t write. But actually, it’s true. Ways of Being is an excellent book that toils in many of the same vineyards as Ani.Mystic. So James and I discuss our notions of technology, artificial intelligence, publishing, language and how these all interrelate and are interdependent. We also have an excellent discussion on the true significance of randomness as well as speculating on political and technological futures. Enjoy! Show Notes Get Ways of Being. Get Ways of Being on audiobook. James's website.

The one and only Gary Lachman returns to the show this week. And the topics of the hour are dreams and time: precognition, sacred time, time slips, machine time and what even am dreams in the first place? Definite food for thought here. Always a pleasure! Show Notes Gary's latest book, Dreaming Ahead of Time. Gary's website.

Wait a minute. Gordon of all people is giving advice about what now? Relax. I truly would never dream of it. Think of it more like Advice To A Young Wife From An Old Mistress. It's a dramatic frame that allows us to explore ways of being with this moment that -oh, just a thought- don't contribute to a field of war that brings everyone closer to nuclear annihilation while somehow assuming doing so gives you the moral high ground. So it's not actually (just?) for professional astrologers and other fortune tellers. It's for any of you looking around at the entire planet losing its mind and working out what role -in your profession, in your family, in your friendship group, in your communities- you are being called to step into. It's my offering to you, delivered in the form of a presentation given to a strictly hypothetical group of professional astrologers. Yeah, it's long. I mention at the beginning that the personal reason for sharing this is a healing one, around finding transformative ways of being with ang

Everyone's favourite expat druid and substacker, Rhyd Wildermuth, returns to the show this week. His latest book, Being Pagan: A Guide To Re-Enchant Your Life, forms the through-line of a wide ranging discussion on beingness, paganism, embodiment and the general state of the world. Electrifying stuff, as ever. Enjoy! Show Notes Rhyd's latest book. Rhyd's substack. Rhyd's website.

Everyone's favourite Swedish polymath returns to the show for a discussion about the Black Pope, Anton LaVey, himself. This is on the occasion of the release of Carl's latest book, Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan. It's the biography LaVey boths needs and deserves. So we talk a little bit about his life but mostly we examine his legacy, what he might think of today's cancel culture and whether or not the ol' devil has got his dues yet. It's a great chat and had both Carl and I reminiscing about our own wayward youths. Enjoy! Show Notes Get the book here. (It's also available as an audiobook.) Follow Carl's work here. Trapart Publishing.

Here is the next of the free or publicly available modules of the latest premium member course, Protection and Malefica. It is a discussion on morality frameworks and how, when and we we might magically intervene. The one and only Peter Grey of Scarlet Imprint joins us for a deep dive on one of Jack Parsons's most important texts, We Are The Witchcraft. This is a video discussion with slides and such, but if you would prefer to listen to it like a normal podcast, this audio version is eminently followable. Extra Material Download a PDF of We Are The Witchcraft. Peter Grey reading We Are The Witchcraft.  

The one(s) and only(s) Miguel Conner of Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio and Chris Knowles of The Secret Sun join the show this week for a discussion of all things astro-gnostic. We discuss the true antiquity and use of star lore, stars in the Bible, gnostics in history as well as a gnostic study of history as well as which components of gnosticism may or may not be universal. This chat was arranged in honour of a conference that Miguel is arranging that Chris and I will both be speaking at next month (March 20 - 22) in Playa del Carmen called the Astro Gnostic Conference. We discuss the event during the show and you can find out more, including details on tickets, accommodation and excursions in the show notes. Show Notes The Astro Gnosis Conference website. The Secret Sun. Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio.