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In this episode, I offer a complete guide to the grimoire tradition: what grimoires are, where the term comes from, how these books of magic developed...

Can Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy offer a new way of understanding how magic works? Join me live on Saturday, 1 August 2026, at 12 pm E...

Was Lughnasadh really an ancient Celtic fire festival, and is it actually the same celebration as Lammas? In this video, I separate historical eviden...

In this video, I explore one of the strangest and most fascinating questions emerging in contemporary occultism: what happens when witches, tarot read...

Was ritual magic ever taken seriously by philosophers? In this episode, I explore Neoplatonism and theurgy, the ancient ritual philosophy that challe...

What assumptions are hidden beneath your magical practice? In The Philosophy of Magic, I explore the ideas that make magic possible in the first plac...

Are scholars of magic trying to tell practitioners what to believe, or is this a misunderstanding of what academic research actually does? In this vi...

Is Litha really an ancient Pagan festival, or is its history far more fascinating? In this episode, Dr Angela Puca explores the true history of Litha...

I keep being accused of using AI. I've even been accused, more than once, of being AI-generated. So I owe you something better than irritation: an act...

What does it mean to practise Wicca as an initiatory tradition today, and how does the legacy of figures such as Doreen Valiente continue to shape mod...

Lucid dreaming is often presented as a modern discovery, but traditions across the world have explored conscious dreaming for centuries. In this episo...

What is an Esbat, and is it really an ancient full moon ritual? In this video, I trace the surprising history of the word Esbat, from its Old French ...

What if everything you think you know about the Witches' Sabbath is wrong? The broomsticks, the Devil, the midnight orgies on remote mountaintops: th...

Join me for a livestream interview with Cherry Parra, author of The Left Hand Path of Tarot, as we explore shadow, divination, witchcraft, and the tra...

Join me for a livestream interview with Dr Gal Sofer on the complex histories of Solomonic magic, learned magical literature, and the transmission of ...

The Green Man was invented in 1939. Not the carvings. Those are real, they are medieval, and they have a fascinating Christian history. But the god, ...

Alchemy is far more than the myth of turning lead into gold. In this video, I explore how alchemy developed across Hellenistic Egypt, China, India, th...

What happens when magic moves through podcasts, digital media, and contemporary American culture? In this livestream, I’ll be joined by Heather Freema...

What if everything you thought you knew about Solomonic magic was wrong? In this video, I explore Gal Sofer’s groundbreaking study of Solomonic magic ...

What happens when you discover that the spiritual tradition you trusted may not be as ancient, authentic, or historically grounded as you were led to ...

Join me for a live conversation with Professor Wouter J. Hanegraaff on his recent book Esotericism in Western Culture: Counter-Normativity and Rejecte...

This lecture explores what religious cults are, how scholars study them, and the techniques high-control groups use to shape belief and behaviour. Dra...

What if the world you experience is not reality itself, but a biologically constructed interface designed for survival rather than truth? In this epis...

What is shadow work, really? Is it therapy, initiation, political reclamation, or a commodified self-help trend? In this video, we trace the concept ...

Join us live for a conversation with Dr Shira Chess on the hidden entanglements between digital culture and the occult, inspired by her new book The U...

This episode offers a critical examination of the question of “the most ancient forms of magic” by interrogating the category of magic itself as a his...

Do Gods exist? Why is magic more effective when Gods and spirits are involved? What makes magic effective? How to influence people and political event...

It's my Birthday! Join the celebration, ask your questions in the chat and watch me perform a Tantric Ritual! Surprise, surprise! What is it going to ...

In this episode, I critically examine the widespread claim that quantum physics provides scientific proof for magic, esotericism, and spiritual practi...

We examine the critical exchange between Ben Whitmore’s Trials of the Moon and Ronald Hutton’s responses to it, using the debate as a lens through whi...