Introduction to Islamicate Occult Sciences

In this episode we explore one of the most fascinating texts in the history of Western esotericism: Porphyry's Commentary on the Cave of the Nymphs. Written in the 3rd century, this short but remarkable work interprets a mysterious passage from Homer's Odyssey as a profound alleg ...  Show more

The Hare Krishna movement didn't start with chanting monks in airports, it began over 500 years ago with a Bengali mystic named Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. This video traces the full history of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, from its roots in 16th-century devotional Hinduism to its transformatio ...  Show more

Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice (Brill, 2020) brings together the latest research on Islamic occult sciences from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, namely intellectual history, manuscript studies, and material culture. Its aim is not only to showcase the r ...  Show more

We open up Archive 81! Join along as we go through the entire first season of Netflix’s Archive 81! We’ll talk about all the symbolism and connections to the occult of this show- every element of the story appears to have been inspired by real occult ideas, symbols and key figure ...  Show more

We go DEEP into the foundational belief of ALL Occult beliefs: SEX MAGICK! Mark Booth called sex the most closely guarded secret of the secret societies and today we’ll find out why! We’ll cover ancient symbols of the sun and moon as male and female before getting into real world ...  Show more

We'll hit the first half of our journey into the occult ideas behind Netflix's Midnight Gospel show with Duncan Trussell! We'll get to the first few episodes of the show- Dr Drew Pinsky (*and some hot goss about him being a naughty boy) and Damien Echols (from the West Memphis 3 ...  Show more