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SP001: The PPP Beltaine Roundtable
For a little change of pace, we got together with some of our peers from the Proud Pagan Podcasters and had a little discussion about Beltaine, spring, and then, unsurprisingly, we wandered a bit. After the discussion, we hear a little appropriate music…a song called First of May by Jonathan Coulton.
On the Round Table:
Chris […]
Read More..>>004.5: Surprise Altars, Common Sense Magic, Instant Magick, and Uncle Seth
It’s another off-week variety show, and this one has a bit more than usual. Siege gives us an essay called “Surprise Altars,” Michelle reads her “Common Sense Magic,” I have a review of Christopher Penczak’s Instant Magick, and we finish things off with Double-Double by Uncle Seth.
Show links:
Instant Magick by Christopher Penczak
Uncle Seth’s Double-double: A […]
004: Fantasy and Reality, part II
Pop Culture, Myth, and Godforms Mythologist Joseph Campbell put out a challenge toward the end of the Twentieth century. He observed that all our myths had grown out-dated so that they no longer spoke directly to our experiences as modern people. In order to re-mythologize our culture, we needed powerful storytellers, using powerful mediums, to […]
Read More..>>003.5: Bottle Imps and Braaainnzz
Something a little different this week: a short story titled The Arrangement by Michelle, and Jonathan Coulton sings one of his new songs, RE: Your Brains.
Heya Tom, it’s Bob from the office down the hall
Good to see you buddy, how’ve you been?
Thing have been OK for me except that I’m a zombie now…
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Read More..>>003: Fantasy and Reality, part 1
We know that many people in the magickal subcultures are inspired by fictional works. In the past, it was sort of gauche to admit that you’d gotten into magick because you read Lord of the Rings, but those on the cutting edge of magick have taken a different stance, approaching fantasy, science fiction, and graphic […]
Read More..>>002.5: Magick in Religion/Creating Gods
In this show, Michelle and Chris discuss the place of Magick in Religion, and the place of Religion in Magick. Where does Self stop and Divinity begin? Additionally, Michelle reads her essay, Creating Gods.
Promos played:
· Seventh Son: Descent
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Read More..>>002: Tolerance
Ep 2: Tolerance: The Boundaries of Belief. Interview with Kerr Cuhulain. As we grow into a global village, different ideologies and different religious traditions are increasingly coming into conflict. In the West, new religious movements continue to diversify and grow, and the level of misunderstanding and misinformation between different systems can easily grow into violence […]
Read More..>>001.5: Ritual as Oasis (and other Stuff)
This is the first of our off-week shows. We’re going to do the heavy topics wiith interviews every other week, but on the off week, we’ll be bringing you short essays, book reviews, and other things. Chris will go over all of that in this show, and he has some thoughts on ritual as […]
Read More..>>001: Generation X and Magick: Breaking Down the Walls
Magickal workers born into Generation X are just beginning to take the stage in the publishing industry and on the teaching circuit. Frequently typified as bitter and disenfranchised youth, GenX is a generation that is not content with easy answers and prefers to define its own rules. So what does this boundary-pushing generation bring to […]
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