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Black Hoodie Alchemy

Black Hoodie Alchemy

By Anthony Tyler

The study of equal and opposite reaction is in effect the simplest definition of alchemy, and this is a show that aims at the grit and grime of the alchemical process. Proof of the horrific and unholy will show equal proof of things transcendental and divine if we study closely, so here we put at the forefront the things that keep us up at night, the skeletons in our closets, and the monsters under the bed, so that we may take our power back. Here we are cynics with enough faith to still try. Welcome to Black Hoodie Alchemy -- every Monday evening!
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25: Killers, Cult Leaders & Jungian Perspective I

Black Hoodie AlchemyNov 08, 2022

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83.666: Frankenstein, The Elephant Man & Logotherapy in Practice on 'Lighting the Void'

83.666: Frankenstein, The Elephant Man & Logotherapy in Practice on 'Lighting the Void'

This week, I share with you my most recent guest appearance on my longtime friend Joe Rupe's show, Lighting the Void.


By telling the traditional story of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (which is far more alchemical and esoteric than the Universal rendition), the heartbreaking and triumphant story of Joseph 'Elephant Man' Merrick, and discussing some of Viktor Frankl's survival of the Auschwitz concentration camp (and development of logotherapy), we try to understand the struggles in our own personal lives a bit more. Relativizing one's own suffering can be problematic, surely, and should be done with caution -- but looking into the stories of people with struggles far greater than your own can give great perspective and inspiration.


We hope you dig the listen!


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Mar 24, 202401:56:43
83: Divergent Magick & Anarchic Mysticism (feat. Keats Ross of 'PragMagick' & 'We the Hallowed')

83: Divergent Magick & Anarchic Mysticism (feat. Keats Ross of 'PragMagick' & 'We the Hallowed')

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, our outlaw wizard friend Keats Ross returns from his last appearance on the show to talk about his latest work: Divergent Magick - An Anarchic Grimoire, which is far less destructive than it sounds.

Or, perhaps a better way to put it is: it is destruction with strong alchemical purpose. But beyond that, the true nature of the anarchy and divergence here lies in the difference between orthodoxy and heterodoxy; the tried-and-true versus the path less traveled.

With study, practice, and structure, so much of Keats' work is centered around flipping his study on its head and finding new meaning in the abstract, the mundane, and the intuitive rather than specific rules from books.

However, with discussion of anarchy and metaphysics we as well get into the more socio-cultural implications, dealing with wealth and poverty, struggle and resilience, and how the hunger that poverty can give us is truly something even the most pampered people are envious of.

We hope you dig it!


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This week's featured music -- brought to you by this week's special guest Keats AKA Dakota Slim! Don't forget to support your favorite independent artists.


Yosotros - Dakota Slim

Cactus Crown - Dakota Slim

Knell - Dakota Slim

And Lo! - Dakota Slim

Wasted Bones - Dakota Slim

Mar 17, 202402:09:28
82: Navigating Conspiracy Theories & Occult Rabbit-Holes (feat. Jess Rogge of 'Escape the Simulation')

82: Navigating Conspiracy Theories & Occult Rabbit-Holes (feat. Jess Rogge of 'Escape the Simulation')

Mar 11, 202401:39:25
81: Cancer, Remission & Alchemy in an Honest Discussion (feat. Leticia Martinez of 'Journal Chaotika')

81: Cancer, Remission & Alchemy in an Honest Discussion (feat. Leticia Martinez of 'Journal Chaotika')

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, I'm joined by another special guest Leticia Martinez -- an alchemist, journalist, and holistic health counselor that utilizes herbal remedies, massage therapy, and much more in her practice with clients. Not only has she taken her studies seriously throughout the years, she has also put her money where her mouth is being a terminal cancer survivor!


In this episode, we talk about Leticia's come-up into alchemy, her cancer diagnosis and also the path that lead her into a full remission that baffled doctors. With a combination of nearly all the doctor-offered treatments ASIDE from chemotherapy, Leticia as well used a wide varying combination of mushrooms, cannabis, and other medicinal herbs and extracts that we get into during our chat.


In addition to all this we also talk about mortality, life and death and survivor's guilt, Big Pharma's looming shadow, the suppression of cancer research and researchers, the philosophy of animism, and navigating one's personal health in a very flawed western medical system.


As a final disclaimer, it should be heavily noted that I am not a medical professional in any degree, and while Leticia is far more qualified to talk about these things than I am, she also freely admits that while her story should be taken into consideration -- it SHOULD NOT be taken as some sort of medical gospel.


We hope you dig it!


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This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!

Put Ya Lights Out - School of Thought

High With You - M.U.T.T.

Dali - Tribesemen x Arkeologists

Night Moves - M.U.T.T.

Mar 03, 202401:27:39
80: Health, Disease & Eastern Mysticism (feat. Max Komes of 'Clarity Wellness Collective' & Justin Otto of 'Dharma Junkie')

80: Health, Disease & Eastern Mysticism (feat. Max Komes of 'Clarity Wellness Collective' & Justin Otto of 'Dharma Junkie')

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, I got the chance to be in-studio here in Pensacola, Florida with my two guests and local Floridians: Justin Otto, host of the Dharma Junkie podcast, founder and instructor of Gulf Coast Dharma, childhood cancer survivor, former addict, and current wonderful human being; and Max Komes, licensed yoga instructor, operator of Clarity Wellness Collective, student wrapping up his Masters in Psychology, and also a current wonderful human being!


In this conversation, we peel back the layers of psychology and physical health a bit, discussing the mind-body connection in a way that seeks to dispel some of the New Age half truths that are really ancient wisdom taken out of context. We get into yoga, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and also discuss the psychologies of Carl Jung and Victor Frankl in the context of the mind-body connection. Among the ailments of this physical spirituality, we bring up debilitating bodily pains and even conditions like cancer (no, not astrological conditions!)


And, as a final cherry on top, we take the time to get into the potential religious "superpowers" that esoteric circles of Buddhist monks are said to gain as byproducts of their enlightenment process, with certain a caveat: you must never use them to placate your ego, which basically means that you can't use them intentionally or they are said to disappear. Very curious, and definitely some black hoodie shit! Justin helps us navigate this more.


All this and more this week! We hope you dig it.



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This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!

WaxWaner - Dakota Slim AKA Keats Ross

You Never Meant Much - Salt

Psychic Trash - Negative Blast

Yosotros - Dakota Slim AKA Keats Ross

Feb 25, 202401:28:01
79: Artistry & the Shadow Complex in History (feat. Brad Kelly & Kevin Kautzman of 'Art of Darkness')

79: Artistry & the Shadow Complex in History (feat. Brad Kelly & Kevin Kautzman of 'Art of Darkness')

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy I have a double-whammy for you! I'm joined by special guests and fellow writers, Brad Kelly and Kevin Kautzman of the popular biography-philosophy podcast 'Art of Darkness', which focuses on lengthy deep dives into the full lives and dark psychologies of history's greatest artists, whether they be painters, authors, filmmakers, et cetera.


With Brad as a published working fiction author and Kevin as a working playwright and director, armed with their encyclopedic brains about the plights of the artist, we get into more Jung and the shadow complex, the catharsis of art and the similarities to religion and mysticism. We also get into demonology and memetics, exploring our inner mythologies through our art, and the dichotomy of the "sell-out" vs the "real artist."


As for specific artists that we bring up throughout the chat, we discuss John Lennon, the director of the cult classic 'Solaris' Andrei Tarkovsky, Stanley Kubrick, Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling, Lucille Ball, Dante Alighieri and many more!


We hope you dig it.


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This week's featured music -- don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!

In the Paint - Towercity

Stay Golden - Epidemic x Jesse James

The TV Programs You - D REV x BBZ Darney

Promoterman - Tribesemen x Arkeologists

Feb 18, 202402:07:32
78: 21st Century Hermeticism & Manly P. Hall (feat. Ashley Ryan AKA 'Pythian Priestess' of 'The Occult Unveiled')

78: 21st Century Hermeticism & Manly P. Hall (feat. Ashley Ryan AKA 'Pythian Priestess' of 'The Occult Unveiled')

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, I'm joined by the wonderful and well-studied Hermeticist, Ashley Ryan AKA Pythian Priestess of tiktok (witchtok to be specific) and her investigative occult podcast, The Occult Unveiled, which you can find on all platforms. While tiktok is not usually on this podcast's radar, it's worth noting a bit since our guest has nearly half a million followers, and she is a refreshing example of a genuine person, putting out authentic content on tiktok (among other places), and it goes to show that you should never judge a book by its social media platform!⁠


As for more serious matters, Ashley is an intriguing esoteric student, living in Los Angeles, doing consistent volunteer work at Manly P. Halls' Philosophical Research Society and working with a disciplined unnamed Hermetic Order in LA -- all with her tiktok virality and her detailed podcast on top.


Of particular note from her own show -- and a topic I bring up in our discussion here -- she's interviewed Manly P. Hall's last living personal student, Ronnie Pontiac, a name I hope to get in contact with in the future. Coming from the LA punk rock scene as a teenager, Ronnie's story about his time with Hall is touching, informative, and we just barely scratch the surface of the entire story.


So along with the life and times of the esoteric philosopher Manly P. Hall, we discuss some of Ashley's personal esoteric story, hermeticism in the modern day, the dangers of New Age cults, navigating the vapidness of the social media grind for positive reasons, magical philosophy, and of course we get into some Jung and shadow work!


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This week's featured music - don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!


City of Dreams - Babylon Warchild

Divide - Salt

Original Spirit - Negative Blast

Gutted - Sat

Feb 11, 202401:12:38
77.777: Hip-Hop Cults & Malachi York REDUX on 'Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio'

77.777: Hip-Hop Cults & Malachi York REDUX on 'Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio'

This week is a revisit of the topic from BHA #62, but if you've heard that episode before I urge you to stick around for a listen! Not only is the true crime narrative polished and expanded, there is A LOT OF ADDITIONAL RESEARCH THAT WAS NOT INCLUDED IN EPISODE 62.


More research was done into the events and songs that put several big names artists (one way or another) in association with the cult leader Malachi Z York, to include: Jay Z, Nas, Andre 3000, MF DOOM, Prodigy of Mobb Deep, Army of the Pharaohs, A Tribe Called Quest, and a whole lot more.


From humble beginnings as a petty conman in Brooklyn, to an aspiring Islamic black rights activist and R&B musician, to child abusing cult leader with pyramids at his compound, Malachi Z York is one of the strangest cult stories that you've likely never heard before!


And on top of that, I join for the occasion Miguel Conner and his co-host Moondog on their flagship program Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio.


Miguel and Moondog have had longstanding fascinations with the dark and esoteric side of entertainment, to include Miguel's upcoming release on Elvis Presley's fascination with the occult!


Lastly, anyone that is familiar with this show knows that I am a big fan on authentic hip hop culture and music, so this not at all an indictment of hip-hop as a whole. Rather, it is a rabbit-hole-of-a-story that shows how we can find cult leaders anywhere that there is enough cultural traction for them to sink their teeth into.


Watch the video version of this conversation here!



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This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists.

The System - Babylon Warchild

In the Paint - Towercity

Talkin Durty to the Godz - Unknown Mizery x Tainted Wisdom

Feb 04, 202401:46:37
77: 'The Screwtape Letters' - Inside the Mind of a Demon
Jan 29, 202459:39
76: Sex, Death & Rebirth on DMT (feat. Adam Butler of 'Butler's DMT Field Guide')

76: Sex, Death & Rebirth on DMT (feat. Adam Butler of 'Butler's DMT Field Guide')

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, I'm joined by another special guest: Adam Butler -- philosopher, psychonaut, alchemist, and author of the book, Butler's DMT Field Guide.


This book is a dense collection of DMT extraction recipes, the various ways to consume DMT, the best precautions and intentions to shape when trying it -- as well as some of Adam's personal experiences with it, his rigorous study and experimentation, and his overall analysis of the biological and psychological potential. And yes, some of these studies include sexual activity of the tantric variety while under the influence of DMT!


So naturally we get into all this and more -- to include more hermetic philosophy, Carl Jung, shadow work, the strong case of John Dee and Edward Kelley using to DMT to create Enochian magic, gods and devils, the nature of consciousness, and trying to navigate the balance between the spiritual and the mundane grind of life.


We hope you dig it!


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This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!

God's Image - Unknown Mizery x Arkeologists

Fire in the Sky (feat. Fresco P) - Babylon Warchild

Travelling North - Legitimate x Rex Seshuns

Model Citizen (feat. Black da Plague & Fresco P) - Babylon Warchild

Jan 21, 202401:58:05
75: Alaskan High Strangeness to Every Degree (feat. Jessie Desmond of 'Saucers of the North' & MUFON)

75: Alaskan High Strangeness to Every Degree (feat. Jessie Desmond of 'Saucers of the North' & MUFON)

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, I'm joined by special guest, Jessie Desmond! As former director of MUFON in Alaska, lifelong Alaskan resident, UFO historian, Sasquatch hunter, and overall Fortean investigator, Jessie has several books released, competes in bodybuilding in her spare time, and has several other projects and interest that we discuss.


It is highly encouraged that you check out episode 73 about some Alaskan weirdness that we get into more here!


Among the topics of high strangeness at hand, we get into all the UFO and Sasquatch action, but we also get into more investigations of the Dark Pyramid of Alaska, the Alaska Triangle (similar to the one in Bermuda), HAARP, paranormal activity, mysterious cattle mutilations, reports of Alaskan vampires, and even a discussion of the non-Alaskan alchemist, Count St. Germain!


Not only do we discuss reports of all these things, but we also get into the theories on why they might be happening, and why Jessie finds them so interesting. Heavy X-Files vibes in this episode!


We hope you dig it.


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This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists.

In the Paint - Towercity

No Pain No Gain - Towercity

Chancers Are - The Liberators

Inifinity - Epidemic x Jesse James

Jan 14, 202402:00:39
74: CS Lewis, God & 'The Problem of Pain'
Jan 07, 202401:15:20
73: The Dark Pyramid of Alaska - Fact or Fiction?

73: The Dark Pyramid of Alaska - Fact or Fiction?

Happy New Year and welcome black to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! This week, I'm briefly talking about my trip back home to Anchorage, and unfolding the lore behind the alleged underground "Dark Pyramid" of Alaska, near Denali, that is apparently underground and four-times the size of the pyramid of Giza. And on top of all that, we have an explicit government cover-up and an intrinsic tie to the history of the state. This story is wild!


I'm very skeptical, but as a longtime Alaska resident I love this story and think it's great weird food for thought! It is an old conspiracy theory by now, and with that it has an old school feel, harkening back to a time before things got soooo overtly bi-partisan.


This episode will serve as a bit of a part one to further investigation, trying to understand where this story came from and what, if anything, we should take seriously about it.


Supposed coordinates the mineshaft that leads to the underground pyramid, as reported by Linda Moulton Howe from her "sources": 63°17'51.4"N 152°31'24.5"W (blurred out on Google Maps last time I checked)


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my decade old article about the Alaska Pyramid

a search for the Dark Pyramid and a man's disappearance (not mentioned on the show)

Bruce Pearson interview

Doug Mutchler's story

Saucers of the North: A History of UFOs in Alaska Airspace - Jessie Desmond

Alaska Triangle

Linda Moulton Howe's Earthfiles website

HAARP and the Northern Lights



This week's featured music is from my talented childhood homies in Anchorage, Alaska! Don't forget to support your favorite indie artists of all types.

Workin - Black Barrel & the Bad Men

Evil Man - Black Barrel & the Bad Men

What Do You Need - Black Barrel & the Bad Men

The Sun is Shining Down - Black Barrel & the Bad Men

Dec 31, 202301:10:09
72.999: Deconstructing Cult Mentality on 'Lighting the Void'

72.999: Deconstructing Cult Mentality on 'Lighting the Void'

Yet again -- welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! Sort of. This episode is another bonus episode of sorts, and was technically my last guest spot on someone else's show before I started doing Black Hoodie Alchemy. Longtime listeners will be very familiar with Joe Rupe and Lighting the Void, and you're in for a treat as always.


We talk about cult mentality, my ambitions for Black Hoodie Alchemy, the Children of Thunder wannabe-cult, and much more!


Here's this week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!

Change the Channel - Legitimate x Rex Seshunz

Spare Me - Salt

Dec 18, 202301:50:26
72.666: Psychederelicts & Esoterica on 'Mind Escape'

72.666: Psychederelicts & Esoterica on 'Mind Escape'

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! Sort of. This is another bonus episode of sorts -- my most recent guest appearance on another show, this one being Mike Mazzei's Mind Escape. He's had a whole lot of impressive, heavy hitter guests over the years of doing his show, Mike is a truly wonderful guy, and I always have a blast talking to him!


Oh and I shouldn't forget to mention that he and his cousin Maurice were the ones to put together the award winning UFO-psychedelia documentary that I was featured in: As Within So Without: From UFOs to DMT.


If you liked this, you can check out the Black Hoodie Alchemy episode that featured Mike, and you can check out my other appearances on his show Mind Escape as well (there at least a couple.)


This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!

Leave it All Behind - Hex One

Fire in the Sky - Babylon Warchild

Dec 11, 202302:24:14
72: Yearly Wrap & Gratitude
Dec 03, 202352:47
71: The Seven Stages of Existential Alchemy (feat. Martin Ferretti of 'The Alchemical Mind')

71: The Seven Stages of Existential Alchemy (feat. Martin Ferretti of 'The Alchemical Mind')

This week on the show, my good friend, colleague, and fellow alchemist Martin Ferretti comes back on to get real deep into the stages of alchemy throughout all processes of life. Despite his show The Alchemical Mind being on hiatus for some time, Martin has been a diligent alchemist in many capacities for years now, and he's one of my favorite people to talk to when it comes to this subject.


Calcination, Dissolution, Separation, Conjunction, Fermentation, Distillation, and Coagulation -- these are the seven stages of alchemy, whether it be mental, physical, or spiritual. In seven stages we even find the levels of heaven and hell, the seven chakras, concepts like the seven stages of grief, and so much more.


What does it mean to go through these processes on a psychological, existential level? To further elaborate this food for thought we bring up topics like Carl Jung, shadow work, the Kabbalah, Aristotle's distaste for the written word, Philip K Dick, Liu Cixin's The Three Body Problem, dark timelines and my recent conversation with Eric Millar, deciphering psychedelic revelations, and so much more.


We hope you dig it!


This week's featured music! Don't forget to support your favorite artists and all that black hoodie metal and hardcore!

Rigor Mortis - Darkroom

Original Spirit - Negative Blast

Rats - Salt

Psychic Trash - Negative Blast

Starcrusher - Doc Hammer

Nov 26, 202302:07:11
70: Existential Fury, the Butterfly Effect & Dark Timelines (feat. Eric Millar of 'Outlet Press')

70: Existential Fury, the Butterfly Effect & Dark Timelines (feat. Eric Millar of 'Outlet Press')

For Black Hoodie Alchemy this week, I have recurring guest, friend, and innovative mystic, Eric Millar on the show to talk about his latest work, WOMBAT and all that existential fury that it holds! A collection of several visual and literary artworks, I found particular fascination with the first two pieces: Operator's Code and Flight Interpretations.


What does it mean to be spiritual as a person living at rock bottom? How do we find alchemy in the drudgery of dirty, underpaying jobs and lives that don't provide us with what we need, let alone what we want? Where do we go when time and time again, the reward it seems we get for trying is actually getting completely fucked? How does one find peace in a world that feels like a dark, upside-down timeline?


For more food for thought along these lines, we bring up impressively daunting works like David Halberstam's The Powers That Be, Douglas Rushkoff's Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How to Take it Back and Warren Ellis' Marvel Ruins.


We talk about magick, mysticism, chaos theory and many-worlds theory, comic books, spiritual anger and so much more!


We hope you dig it.




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This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and hardcore and all your favorite independent artists!

Souled Out - Doc Hammer

Violent Initiative - Darkroom

Salt - Salt

Everyone Higher Than Everyone Else - Glowing Brain

Nov 19, 202301:29:49
69: Anima & Animus - CG Jung's Alchemy of the Soul

69: Anima & Animus - CG Jung's Alchemy of the Soul

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, I give you another solo deep dive into the mystical philosophies and analytic psychology of Carl Jung.


Anima and animus, yin and yang, subconscious and conscious, negative and positive, night and day, qliphoth and sephiroth, soul and spirit, feminine and masculine -- the union of opposites is something that the alchemist has always been focused on, and the reconciliation of opposites within a human being can manifest itself in a variety of peculiar ways, depending on how that human interacts and identifies with the world around them.


This episode is going to be a hard one to try and summarize -- but suffice it to say that throughout Jung's final book, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, the psychoanalyst opened up a great deal about what it meant to reconcile the opposites within himself. Namely, like with most average men, Jung's spiritual alchemy came in the form of communications with his anima -- the feminine nature of his soul itself -- and his journey mirrors direct archetypal equivalents in the stories of alchemists and artists like Dante Alighieri, Philip K Dick, and Wolfgang Von Goethe.


These stories and artworks do not represent end-all-be-all processes of inner alchemy, but they do serve as quality examples as to how some of these extremely esoteric mechanics will play out -- whatever faces they choose to use as they manifest!


I hope you dig it.


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Goethe and Women

"A Dark Haired Girl & PKD"

The Dark Haired Girl

Beatrice and Dante

The Divine Comedy

La Vita Nuova



This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie hardcore and all your favorite independent artists!

Brain Dust - Glowing Brain

Spare Me - Salt

Wet $$$ - Doc Hammer

Spirit Science - Negative Blast

Nov 12, 202301:08:34
68: The Divine Feminine & the Scientific Method (feat. Momma Bear)

68: The Divine Feminine & the Scientific Method (feat. Momma Bear)

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we finally have our first lady guest on the show! While this show does have a little bit of a male slant, we've always maintained a solid third of lady listeners and I apologize for this taking so long! It's been a combination of me enjoying the company of my best researcher homies, doing solo shows, and having tricky scheduling. I wasn't even sure who the first female guest would be for a while, but I'm pleased to announce that it's working scientist, biologist, and longtime listener of the show, codenamed: Momma Bear!


Having been a longtime practicing mystic, occultist, and biologist, Momma Bear is a BHA listener that's lived a full life with a great deal of insight to share! We talk about the Divine Feminine in esoteric philosophy in Jungian psychoanalysis, recommended lady philosophers and magicians, paranormal activity in children, Houdini and his colleague (perhaps even muse) Rose Mackenberg, and female pharaohs in Egyptian culture.


We also take the time to discuss aspects of Mother of the Mysteries to include the Egyptian goddess Isis, and the relationship she and other figures have to Mother Mary in Christian theology. In this vein, we also discuss what the Divine Feminine and comparative religion at large mean to the modern scientific method.


Science itself seems to have no soul, ethics, or morals, and many argue that this is how it should be. However, the evidence empirically suggests otherwise. Science compels us towards ethics and morality, if we use it properly -- and in today's society, we've lost the plot. One might say in many ways that modern science today is far too masculine, and would do well to have more of a nurturing touch, so Momma Bear helps me sift through all this and more!


We hope you dig it.


Related show on Goethean Science

Further show considerations of the Divine Feminine

Siren Song and the Anima (Divine Feminine)

Evolution of God & Goddess


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This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!

Cut Your Teeth - Salt

Whirl - MUTT

Way It Used to be - Tribesmen x Arkeologists

Another Saturday Night - MUTT


Nov 05, 202301:37:04
67: Addiction, Trauma & Spirituality (feat. Chris Fiato)

67: Addiction, Trauma & Spirituality (feat. Chris Fiato)

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! This week we have another special guest -- researcher, musician, and longtime listener of the show -- Chris Fiato, here to talk about addiction, trauma, philosophy, metaphysics, and spirituality. Heavily referenced in the discussion is Dr. Gabor Mate, the sentiments found in his book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, and his clinical work in Canada with the psychedelic rehabilitation of heroin addicts.


Chris and I talk about some of the science of addiction and what the scientific literature has to say about effectively processing trauma while recovering from addiction, showing how this all quite naturally folds into analytic psychology and the notion of integrating the Jungian shadow.


We also discuss -- after disclaimers that we are not doctors and we are not romanticizing anything, but we are simply sharing our experiences -- various psychedelic therapies like mushrooms, DMT, salvia, LSD, and ketamine (technically a not a psychedelic but still). We get into the double-edged nature of these things, and even the potential metaphysics of chemicals being psychological gateways for unexplainable phenomena.


Along the way, we even get into human trafficking in conspiracy theories and proven fact, life on the streets in Massachusetts, and even the epidemic of the well-known fentanyl and its lesser known cohort XYLAZINE. Help spread awareness about this horrifying and quickly lethal combo that combats the effects of Narcan!


It's all this and so much more this week on Black Hoodie Alchemy! We hope you dig it.


Related BHA's on addiction and recovery:

23: Ghostbusting the Psyche

12: Mysticism, Magick & Skepticism


the interview with Dr. Gabor Mate that I read from


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And here's this week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!

Hunger Pains - Babylon Warchild

Aquarium - Deca

Strange Times- Deca

China White - Deca

Oct 29, 202301:52:59
66.666: Phantom Dream Syndrome on 'Juan on Juan'

66.666: Phantom Dream Syndrome on 'Juan on Juan'

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy! This week is a bye-week bonus episode of my guest appearance on the popular podcast (and fellow Fringe.FM broadcast) 'Juan on Juan' with host Juan Ayala. His show consists of esoterica, conspiracy, alternative history, and a bit of comedy to keep it all just a little less serious. Juan is a great, down-to-earth guy that has plenty to say about all the subjects his show covers, and he made for a very easy conversation!


We talk about comparative religion and brain sciences, the principles of alchemy and how they translate to the modern-day, the evolution of society and culture through collective consciousness and thought-forms, Freemasonry, mysticism in theory and practice, serial killers and cult leaders, psychedelic compounds, and even some conspiracy theory.


I hope you dig it.


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From Bits to the Cosmos - Hex One

La La Lala - Hex One

Syllable Mux Ip - Hex One


Oct 23, 202301:47:50
66: Philip K Dick's Sci-Fi Mysticism / Elvis the King of Occultism (feat. Miguel Conner of 'Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio')

66: Philip K Dick's Sci-Fi Mysticism / Elvis the King of Occultism (feat. Miguel Conner of 'Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio')

This week on the show I'm pleased to have the return of a true veteran in the game, Miguel Conner of Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio! If you don't know who he is, Miguel is a Gnostic student and researcher, author and artist, and he just so happens to be working on a new book that is really going to bust some heads open when it comes out next year.


For a solid two-thirds of the show, I pick Miguel's brain about the legendary sci-fi author and philosopher, Philip K Dick. With his work fueling iconic movies like Blade Runner, Dick was not only a prolific author, but a deeply mystical person with a great deal of sorrow that he was trying to work through. Dick was very much a man that seemed to be consistently overcome with turmoil, some of that stemming from the very beginning of his life. But the true beauty and alchemy of Dick's work is that he never let the turmoil overtake him; rather, it sent him on a trajectory to the top of science fiction, even predicting a great deal of the technological and societal trends that have fully taken hold of our world today. And beyond that even still, he spoke of tutelary spirits, existential crises, predictions of family illnesses, the channeling of some of his science fiction works, and so so so much more -- all while maintaining an astonishingly healthy ego and skepticism throughout. PKD is a reigning champion of modern philosophy and art for many reasons, and while he was a bit crazy in the traditional sense, he tends to remind us why a label like 'crazy in the traditional sense' can lead us to throw the baby out with the bathwater.


For the last third of the show, Miguel tells us about his upcoming book, an expose' about Elvis Presley's documented interest in and practice of occultism in a variety of ways! That's right -- the 'King of Rock' was known to have UFO experiences, practice yoga and reiki, meditation, ceremonial magick, and was known to be fascinated with esoteric philosophers like Manly P. Hall and Helena Blavatsky! Despite describing himself as more of a Johnny Cash guy than an Elvis guy, Miguel found the story of the 'King of Rock' extremely interesting and it's a bit of a shocker that this isn't more well known! Because let me reiterate the fact that it's all surprisingly well documented.


Lots to learn about this week! We hope you dig it.


the Philip K Dick interview I reference several times

The Guardian on Dick

NY Times on Dick

Summary of Exegesis

PKD encyclopedia entry


This week's featured music -- don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!

The Countown - Babylon Warchild

Realities - String Theory (Hex One x BBZ Darney)

Way It Used to Be - Tribesmen x Arkeologists

Hunger Pains - Babylon Warchild

Oct 19, 202301:29:49
65: Magick in Practice & Application (feat. Douglas Batchelor of 'What Magic is This?')

65: Magick in Practice & Application (feat. Douglas Batchelor of 'What Magic is This?')

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy! This week I have another special returning guest: good ol' Douglas Batchelor of the 'What Magic is This?' podcast, and we're following up our chat in BHA #54, where we discussed Magick in History & Modern Day. For those unfamiliar, Douglas is a researcher and magician that is as talented as he is cheerful and humble, and his podcast has many impressive, insightful guests that are well worth your listen! But this time around on BHA, we are hacking through the weeds of the less traveled trails of esoterica!

What does it mean to actually practice magick? Is the 'k' in the word really necessary? What are differences between white and black magick? What are the commonalities or archetypes that we can find in comparative religion, and what are the dangers in over-simplifying these concepts? How does someone choose what works for them? Why is magick still relevant in the modern day, and what kinds of purposes can it serve practically in a world full of more existential terror than ever?

We also discuss what exactly Douglas practices, what he recommends, what doesn't recommend, and why he does what he does. Furthermore, we get into different kinds of magick, to include everything from the transcendental and esoteric, to the darkest and blackest of all the lurid magick and curse work -- and even the more mundane like money and love! As a final cherry on top, I even manage to get my guest's opinions on Philip K Dick's Exegesis in follow-up to last week.

We hope you dig it!


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my book Dive Manual: Empirical Investigations of Mysticism

my book Hunt Manual: 21st Century Demonology & Forteana


WMIT episode on How to Start Practicing Magick

This week's featured music -- don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!

The Return - Babylon Warchild

The Gates of Babylon - Babylon Warchild

Way it Used to Be - Arkeologists x Tribesemen

A Second to Wreck it - Epidemic


Oct 19, 202301:52:18
64: Cryptids Around the Globe (feat. Tippy P the Redneck Mystic)

64: Cryptids Around the Globe (feat. Tippy P the Redneck Mystic)

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy -- this week is a bit of a twist! Longtime listeners of Black Hoodie Alchemy will be very familiar with the strange character that is Tippy Patson -- the Redneck Mystic Extraordinaire -- and his appearances in episodes 14, 30, 38, and 59. Well somehow this idiot decided to record his very own BHA episode without me! Yes, he found my upload login and my Zoom password, and also didn't bother to let me know we were recording when I gave him a call in the middle of it! It's all a bit ridiculous, but I decided I might as well let the upload pass as is. After all, he did edit the whole thing with a commercial break and music, so hey whatever.

Oh and what is this episode actually about? Well, lo and behold, when he isn't hunting Illuminati gators or scrying with cow shit, Tippy Patson is apparently a cryptozoologist and hunter! He reports to have a lot of experience hunting these various creatures throughout Florida and beyond, and also seems to have gotten ahold of an internet database full of cryptids that helped fuel his research for this week's episode. As you can see by the list below, he goes through quite a few!

It's all these cryptids, the Dark Pyramid of Alaska, and appearances from nearly all members of The League of Extorndiary Gents this week! That's right, it's Jefferson Tilamookslinger the former Illuminati cloning lab manager, resident numerologist Muscle Tornado, cosmic ghost pirate Apex Monsoon this week, while Silverback Commando is in the middle of an existential crisis, Randy Stemp is off on his paranormal investigations, and Bayou Jones is MIA.


I hope you dig it!


Tippy's list of discussed cryptids

[I'm not hot linking them all but you can find all their entries through the search-bar on Cryptid Wiki]

- Wildman of Aberdeen - Barnacle Tree - Bassigator - Dogigator - Fiji Mermaid - Yukon Beaver Eater - Bobo & Colossal Claude (sea creatures) - Ghost Camel - Wunk - Matlox the Giant - Miracle Mike the Headless Chicken - Geoff the Talking Mongoose - Terror Beast - NotDeer - Dingbat & Dingbelle - Drake the rapper - Elephant Bird - Cockatrice - Sand Squink & Squonk - Skunk Ape - Sam Harris - Philamaloo - Man Eating & Cow Eating Tree - Pepie Monster - Phantom Kangaroo - India - Shug Monkey - Sky Serpents - Bunnyman - Deerman - Dogman - Wolfman - Frogman - Owlman - Mothman - Mudman - Gatorman & Jake the Gator - Lizardman - Catman - Grassman - Hatman - Metalman - Hogman - Squidman - Merman - Pigman - Iceman - Donkeyman - Floridaman - Mantisman - Manman


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This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!

Hill Country Promenade - Stray Puzzle Piece

Firewalker - Doc Hammer

Way It Used to Be - Arkeologists x Tribesmen

Lukin - Doc Hammer

Oct 19, 202344:39
63: The Science & Philosophy of Horror

63: The Science & Philosophy of Horror

Happy Halloween season to you all and thanks for tuning into Black Hoodie Alchemy!


This week it's all things horror, even more than usual. We're diving into everything that constitutes horror -- particularly the movies, but to include literature, artwork, and music like heavy metal. Why do people enjoy horror while others don't? If horror is such a primal emotion based on survival, why do people seek it out in artistic experiences, and what might there be to gain from these experiences? Are these people sadistic, masochistic, or both? Are they thrill seekers or grief-tourists?


While all of these less-than-desirable traits may be present in the rare horror enthusiast, the vast majority of horror fans are seeking to experience a catharsis that is something similar to a very small slice of the shamanic vision quest, where the initiate takes a whopping dose of psychedelics, heads into the wilderness at night with no plan, and seeks to find his way home come dawn. After all, Christ wandered in the desert for forty days and nights in confrontation with his shadow, and the Buddha himself sat under the bodhi as he was tempted my Mara the devil on his pursuit of enlightenment.


That is the philosophical angle, which we will explore at more length! But there is also the scientific side. What is there to be said about the evolutionary responses? How does horror play a role in psychological therapies like "exposure" and "desensitization" therapy? How does early viewing of horror movies disturb childhood development and what kinds of people are more likely to enjoy horror?


It's all this and much more this week! I hope you dig it.


my linktree

merch!

A Review of the Empirical Research on Psychological Responses to Horror Films - G. Neil Martin



This week's featured music -- don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!

The Most Violent - School of Thought

Red Hook - Umang x Kickback

Moonrays - Umang x BBZ Darney

Round n Round - Epidemic

Oct 16, 202301:02:19
62.666: Good & Evil Gods on 'The Alchemical Mind'

62.666: Good & Evil Gods on 'The Alchemical Mind'

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy! This week is a re-release of a conversation I had with Martin Ferretti -- friend of mine, fellow alchemist, and host of the podcast 'The Alchemical Mind', currently on hiatus but with a lot of great content you can go check out! Originally released in December of 2020, Martin and I get into the esoteric history of gods, particularly in the west, and how the concepts of good and evil have evolved over time, and I felt that this was a great episode to draw some attention to because of the material we've gone through on the show recently.


Particularly with episodes like Answer to Job and The Evolution of God & Goddess, all these concepts have been at the forefront of discussion around these parts! I also hope to get Martin back on the show for a new conversation here soon -- so in the meantime, I hope you enjoy this chat of ours!


Often times throughout comparative religious study, the ideas of a god as good and a devil as bad are not only over-simplifications, but they can even be entirely incorrect when looking at these archetypal histories. It may come across as unconventional to the modern mindset, but the ideas of evil, flawed, and confused gods are essential for not only understanding the history of human consciousness, but also how our religious and spiritual mindsets have become what they are today. And not only that, but -- like it or not -- sympathy for a devil is at least a concept you'll need to wrap your head around if you want this full archetypal, comparative religious picture. Yes, we talk about Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, and much more!


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This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists! Magneto (feat. Pacewon) - Babylon Warchild

Way It Used to Be - Arkeologists x Tribesmen

The Sequel (feat. Reef the Lost Cauze & Teknition) - Hex One

Dinner Time ( feat. Ruste Juxx & Halfcut - Hex One


Sep 17, 202301:13:38
62: Black Supremacy Hip-Hop Cults & Dr. Malachi Z. York

62: Black Supremacy Hip-Hop Cults & Dr. Malachi Z. York

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! This week we're going down a vast rabbit-hole of cult mentality, hip hop, new age metaphysics, heavy racism, classical conspiracy theories, and ancient alien pseudo-history! This is the story of cult leader and "inspirational" hip-hop figurehead "Dr. Malachi Z. York" AKA just Dwight York, who is not a real doctor. This man, through his own psychopathic charisma, started a cult offshoot of the Nation of Islam in the early 70s in Brooklyn, NY. But this steadily began to infuse all of the many ancient alien, white-devil-Illuminati, half-baked metaphysics of an un-learned wannabe scholar, and at a time where minorities were blatantly second-class citizens, Dwight York found his own culture to be easy predatory pickings.


And as luck would have it for him, he happened to be forming his cult right at the daw of hiphop, in the very place that it was beginning. Because of this, he remained a lowkey figurehead in hiphop for some time, and in some cases continues to be to this day. Whether through direct affiliation or direct acknowledgements, York has brushed shoulders with people like Jay Z, Stevie Wonder, Andre 3000, Erica Badu, Nas, and many many more, including all the way into the features on Jedi Mind Tricks albums in the early Philly underground scene. York was also friends with Afrika Bambaata, an alleged sexual abuser and founder of the hiphop awareness movement called Universal Zulu Nation, which was known to heavily inspire groups like A Tribe Called Quest and others more.


Now, does this mean that all these artists and musicians are terrible people directly affiliated with Bambaata and York? Not at all. Their allegations came out long after these psychopaths had staked their claim in their cultures, and they existed in a time before the internet, when information was much easier to compartmentalize. But all that being said, it is highly likely that at least some of these artists -- like Jay Z -- might have had connections that they have since tried to bury in order to save their public image.


This is a complex web of African American culture, hip hop history, disturbing cult leader tactics, and so much more -- but it is not an indictment of hip hop or African American culture as a whole! Rather, this is an attempt to separate the wheat from the chaff, and remind us all that cult leaders and cult mentality can be found in all aspects of life, and that no one is immune.


I hope you dig the episode this week!


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Show Notes:

Cult of Middle GA

NY Times Malachi York

Jay Z and Jazz O

Cult details

SPLC on York

Philly Rap and York

Cult TImeline Info

Malachi York Achievements



This week's featured music -- don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!

La La Lala - Hex One x Snowgoons

God's Image - Unknown Mizery x Arkeologists

Dali - Arkeologists x Tribesmen

Underworld Politics - School of Thought

Sep 10, 202301:12:59
61: 'Lighting the Void' Radio is Crashed by a 'Former Cloning Lab Manager' (feat. Joe Rupe & Jefferson T)

61: 'Lighting the Void' Radio is Crashed by a 'Former Cloning Lab Manager' (feat. Joe Rupe & Jefferson T)

Buckle the hell up this week, because you're in for a wild ride! Former "Illuminati cloning lab manager" and "actor", codename: Jefferson Tilamookslinger AKA Steve Buschemi AKA Shnelius Maximus AKA Clone-Lab Supreme graces us with his presence!


Most listeners of Black Hoodie Alchemy will by now be familiar with redneck mystic Tippy Patson and The League of Extordniary Gents including ol Jefferson T, and most listeners will also be familiar with Joe Rupe, host of Lighting the Void Radio here on the Fringe.FM. (Check out my chat with him in episodes #20 and #13 for more!) This episode includes a nice hour long chat where Jefferson recently and unexpectedly called into a live broadcast of Lighting the Void, only to have some very strange questions and considerations for Joe.


Topics this week include Bama-Henge and the dinosaurs that surround it, managing a cloning lab for the Illuminati, the clones of Kanye West and Jamie Fox, traveling the world in storage crates, drugs and also running out of them, Plato's Republic, Bill Hicks being Alex Jones and so much more!


Brief Videos:

1-800-SPACELAWYER.COM

TIPPY PATSON'S RAINBOW BODY WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM

JEFFERSON T EXPOSES AMINAL PLANET MER-PEOPLE COVER-UP


my link tree


This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists:

Bollywood Blvd - Unknown Mizery x Arkeologists

Chains (feat. Lay Low) - Rex Seshuns x Legitimate


Sep 04, 202354:37
60: The Evolution of God & Goddess

60: The Evolution of God & Goddess

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, where we're getting into the juxtaposition of concepts like "God" and "evolution". This episode is a little bit of a follow-up to episodes 58, 48, 24, 16, 15, and 4 among others. You certainly don't have to listen to those episodes to enjoy this one, but it will help provide additional context -- especially if you're looking for more food for thought along these lines!


Considering a variety of concepts such as archetypes, memetics, chaos theory, adaptation, and the mystical experience, we consider the idea of "the image of god and goddess" evolving alongside humankind. While psychology can't explain everything, it truly helps us lay insightful framework in the psyche and therefore the unconscious mind. By its nature, the unconscious mind not only holds the information about ourselves that we are not readily accessing, it also holds the information about the environment that we are sensing but not readily accessing. Intuition, the strange systems we find in our dreams, and our propulsion and repulsion towards certain symbols are all aspects of this unconscious mind finding chances to wink at us from behind the veil.


But here is where so many open-minded people divide themselves: is it all in the unconscious mind, or is the unconscious mind a reservoir for or coalescence with cosmic forces of nature beyond our understanding?


Well no one is going to be able to answer that for you, but there is good news. Both of these avenues can at least be investigated through the same use of "occam's razor"; that is to say, by following the way that humans have interacted with their "images of divinity" throughout history, we will always gain the greatest insight.


It would appear that comparative religion is a collected memetic network of archetypes that humanity has used to climb its way up the evolutionary ladder. Many scientists have clearly stated the fact that through our psychological adaptations, we were able to bypass untold thousands of years of evolution through mere exchanges of symbols.


With all that said, what is your relationship to "the image of god and goddess"? The thing is: whether you believe in any of it or not, most humans throughout history did and do believe in them -- and that not only affects you psychologically, but it has affected you genetically. It is imbedded in the very nature of our human evolution, and the sooner we all understand this, the sooner we will begin to understand our genuine relationships to the divine.


It's easier said than done, of course. But it's all part of the Work.


Brief Videos:

1-800-SPACELAWYER.COM

TIPPY PATSON'S RAINBOW BODY WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM

JEFFERSON T EXPOSES AMINAL PLANET MER-PEOPLE COVER-UP


my link tree


This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists:

History Lesson - Epidemic x Tantu

Problem - Epidemic

Way It Used to be - Arkeologists x Tribesemen

Hunger Pains - Babylon Warchild


Aug 28, 202354:50
59: Paganism & Christianity in Analysis (feat. Tippy Patson & Justin Otto of 'Dharma Junkie')

59: Paganism & Christianity in Analysis (feat. Tippy Patson & Justin Otto of 'Dharma Junkie')

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we’re talking all things Christianity and Paganism from a comparative religious point of view. Along with Buddhist meditation instructor and my colleague Justin Otto (host of the Dharma Junkie podcast and Gulf Coast Dharma) we are finally blessed with the return of Redneck Mystic Extraordinaire Tippy Patson! A man known for leading The League of Extordniary Gents in the Everglades, bathing in his own urine to speak to angels, wrestling Illuminati shape-shifting gators, and so much more – Tippy Patson has some very unique, drug-inspired views and beliefs about Christianity.

 

A self-proclaimed “true Christian” himself (inspired by his mystical father and grandfather, Tippothy and Tippothia) Tippy is here to explicitly map out the comparative religious motifs that are shared by Paganism and Christianity, with Justin Otto doing his very best to keep Tippy on track in spite of his redneck drug-haze. Unfortunately, if you haven’t picked up on it yet, I was unable to be a part of this conversation on account of some pressing Indiana-Jones-esque cryptozoological adventures that I had to tend to.

Interestingly, Tippy gets into many things like: the fertility symbolism of the evergreen tree in Druid spirituality, also the birth, crucifixion and resurrection of Christ, St. Nicholas and the dawn of Christmas, creationist theme-parks, Curious George, adrenochrome, and most importantly: Kirk Cameron’s movie “Kirk Cameron Saves Christmas”. Yes, that Kirk Cameron from Growing Pains.

 

Lastly, if you’re confused as to why there is so much Christmas discussion in this episode – so was Justin. Aside from Christianity and Paganism tying together through Christmas sort of, and aside from Tippy’s fixation on “Santa the Clause”, there seems to be a lot of general misplaced Christmas spirit in this episode that we didn’t know what to do with. But rest assured, Tippy was sure ready to bring it!

 

I hope you find this conversation as informative as I did.


This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists:


Hevy Drugz - Doc Hammer

The King of Vancouver - Negative Blast

Way it Used to Be - Tribesmen x Arkeologists

Whirl - M.U.T.T.

Aug 21, 202358:10
58: CG Jung's Answer to Job - A Study of Existential Suffering

58: CG Jung's Answer to Job - A Study of Existential Suffering

For this week's food for thought, we are tackling psychoanalyst Carl Jung's work, 'Answer to Job'. Not only is it Jung's most controversial work, but it was also one of his personal favorites despite all the Christian spite it brought upon him.


This infamous book of the Bible sees Yahweh wager a bet with Satan over the life of one of Yahweh's most faithful followers. Job is not only pious and faithful but also very successful, seemingly without a reason to doubt God. But Satan poses: what if Job hadn't been so fortuitous? What if he had been given a great many more reasons to doubt God's love or even existence? Would he still be a faithful follower? Going against most of general Christian teachings would lead one to assume, Yahweh does something morally dubious and accepts this wager with Satan, allowing Job to suffer a tremendous amount. And all the while, throughout the book, we see Yahweh take an outright petulant jealousy out upon Job, as his faithful follower suffers without any notion as to why it's happened or how it may end.


The interpretation of the Book of Job's many archetypal, metaphysical, and ethical quandaries indeed helps set the context for the rest of the Bible in many cases. For if we cannot understand what kind of God would do such an extreme thing as engaging in a jealous bet, then how can we really understand the foundations of this God's love?


CG Jung tackles this massive topic in a way that holds the inspiration of a theologian, while still holding the practical and skeptical analysis of a psychoanalyst. Let it be remembered that one need not believe in God in order to understand the psychological significance of gods, goddesses, and so many other archetypes. Whether or not we believe in these things, they have inspired and fascinated humankind all throughout our historical existence -- and they have played a critical role in our adaptation process as a whole. Regardless of whether they exist "physically" or not, they exist in the psyche, and this isn't even saying anything about the archetypal forces of nature that they represent to begin with.


This is a behemoth of a topic -- one that will leave you mulling it over well after you've listened.


It's this, Christ being crucified on the cross, the Book of Revelation and more this week on Black Hoodie Alchemy!



My Link Tree - with links to my books, website, and everything else!


CG Jung's Answer to Job (the exact copy I'm reading from)


This week's featured music -- don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!


Deceiver - Salt

Spare Me - Salt

I Don't Wanna - MUTT

Fire in the Sky - Babylon Warchild

Aug 14, 202301:30:10
57: Astrology as the Philosophy of Astronomy (Also Some Celebrity Wannabe Cult Leaders)

57: Astrology as the Philosophy of Astronomy (Also Some Celebrity Wannabe Cult Leaders)

This week we've got a little bit of a variety hour for you! The first half consists of punching up and having a good laugh at some of the celebrities who have recently tried to become cult leaders -- some more successful than others, and all extremely sick and demented. I go through the strange circumstances of horror-shows like Ezra Miller and R. Kelly, the simply-just-annoying Jared Leto, and manipulative shut-in Athene -- one of the internet's first popular game-streamers who is now running his own sad cult to replace his internet fame.


After that, I take the time to read through a chapter of my book, DIVE MANUAL, and dissect astrology as the philosophy of astronomy. This is a reasonable middle ground that I feel the believer and the skeptic can both settle on as a starting point. We know that astrology was the foundation of astronomy, and that humans attempted to wrap their heads around some of the many implications that they found in the stars. Furthermore, many concepts like the earth's axial tilt (discovered through astrology) are scientific facts that we hold today. But this of course doesn't mean that astrology in and of itself is actually a science. To say so would be categorically incorrect -- but so say that astrology has no value whatsoever is equally incorrect.


Astrology and its symbols, because of their sheer historical constancy, help us shed light on many archetypal, mythology stories, and help us as well understand the psychological history of our ancestors. And in many ways, concepts like the astrological natal chart were meant to serve as something akin to a symbolic "brain scan" of sorts. Or an attempt at one. By studying the beliefs of our ancestors, even if they are not "factually true", we are studying components of our human existence and its biography that are full of indispensable wisdom. After all, those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it. All this in mind, there are still questions like: what about all the different kinds of astrology, all the forgotten history we have no record of, and what about today's New Age bullshit?


It's all this and even more on this week's episode!


I hope you dig it.


My Link Tree

DIVE MANUAL: Empirical Investigations of Mysticism (which I read from this week)

As Within So Without: From UFOs to DMT


Jared Leto's "ironic" cult

Ezra Miller's grooming

World of Warcraft gamer's cult

R Kelly's sex cult


This week's featured music -- don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!

Linen - Rothstein

Granite - Rothstein

Way it Used to Be - Arkeologists x Tribesmen

Buyer Beware - Rothstein x Deca


the AI song memes at the end

Plankton sings The Rooster by Alice in Chains

Peter Griffin raps In the End by Linkin Park

Patrick Star sings Thriller by Michael Jackson

Aug 07, 202301:13:53
56: The Horrific Japanese 'Truman Show' of 1998

56: The Horrific Japanese 'Truman Show' of 1998

Would you believe me if I told that in 1998, a real Japanese man would be tricked into a survival-horror version of the 'Truman Show' in real life? Would you then believe me that this broadcast got upwards of 17 million viewers at a time, and that it was all broadcast and sold under the genre of "comedy"?


Well believe it or not, it happened, and this week on Black Hoodie Alchemy I'm explaining the entire harrowing experience of Tomoaki Hamatsu on this gameshow -- the man forever dubbed now as "Nasubi" (which means "eggplant" in Japanese).


Through gameshow producers dangling the carrots of fame, glory, and honor in the name a burgeoning comedy career for Nasubi, this man became a contestant of a show that saw him locked naked in a room with nothing but a pillow, a radio, pencils, and index cards to write on in order to enter in as many sweepstakes as he wanted. Nasubi would have to do this -- surviving off of only what he won through the sweepstakes and with no other contact with the outside world -- until he won $10,000 worth of sweepstakes prizes.


Nasubi would have to endure these conditions for over a year, with more twists and turns than you could imagine! How was all of this legal, how did this man survive this full-on existential nightmare, and what is he doing now? All this and more on this week's Black Hoodie Alchemy!


I hope you dig it.


As Within So Without: From UFOs to DMT (the doc I was featured in recently that you can watch here for free!)


my LINKTREE -- with Youtube, Instagram, and that shit!



Show Notes:

NY Post - Real Life Truman Show

The Eggplant and Everest

Interview with Nasubi

Months of Isolation in Horrifying Reality Show

Web Archive Play-by-Play article

Dystopian Nightmare of Nasubi

Interview with Nasubi & the Gameshow Creator (separately)


This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!


Brain Dust - Glowing Brain

The Human Curse - Babylon Warchild (feat. Fresh Kils)

Promoterman - Tribesmen x Arkeologists

It'll Just Be a Couple of Weeks - Doc Hammer

Jul 31, 202301:16:13
55: Real-Life Man Claims to be Trapped in Tolkien's Middle Earth (feat. Steve Berg of 'Drunk History' & 'Hi, Strangeness')

55: Real-Life Man Claims to be Trapped in Tolkien's Middle Earth (feat. Steve Berg of 'Drunk History' & 'Hi, Strangeness')

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, comedic actor Steve Berg (of Drunk History, Bob's Burgers, New Girl, Adventure Time, and movies like Tag and Don't Worry, Darling) joins us once more! Well... sort of. He actually "put me in touch" with an estranged "friend" of his named Jason Tortilla. As Jason explains throughout the podcast, he was a "professorial-type" that was unable to make tenure while at the Bristol Academy in the UK.


(If you'd like to see a small video clip of me speaking with Jason, you can watch it right here!)

And don't forget to check out Steve's new podcast Hi, Strangeness anywhere you stream your podcast action!


Somehow, through ways that may or may not involve hash, a schizophrenic break, or perhaps a truly chaos-magickal multiverse adventure of epic proportions -- Jason found himself stumbling through a hole in the wall that served to be a gateway to what can only be described as JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth. Yes, the setting of the Lord of the Rings books among many others. To make matters worse, it would appear that the hole from whence Jason emerged is now gone, and he has spent several months trapped in the strange and tumultuous forests of Middle Earth!


How exactly did he end up there? What was his life like before all this, and how has life been since this tragic desolation? How might we be able to get Jason the hell out of there? And also, why hasn't Steve Berg tried to raise awareness for his so-called-friend's tragic predicament? Way to drop the ball, Steve...


Anyways, after the conversation with Jason, we do feature a very small bit with Steve himself at the end, talking about his time working on the beloved show, 'Drunk History'. And after that we reminisce on some of the greatest bits of Black Hoodie Alchemy 30, when Joe Rupe of Lighting the Void interviewed the legend himself -- Redneck Mystic Tippy Patson! Tippy talks about his upbringing, his current divination practices, his version of the Book of Revelation, and then we hear some more from our beloved League-of-Extordinary-Gentlemen show sponsors!


Lastly, if you'd like to see Tippy P read Revelations in video-form, check this link here!

Or click this link if you'd like to see Tippy describe how Ufologist David Wilcock taught him how to bathe in his own urine to gain telepathic powers!


I hope you dig it.


As Within So Without: From UFOs to DMT full documentary free stream right here! (this is the philosophical UFO doc I was featured in recently -- winner of the Roswell UFOXPO People's Choice Award 2023!)


This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists.

Boredom - Glowing Brain

Bleed Into - Glowing Brain

Spit the Claw - Doc Hammer

Way it Used to Be - Tribesmen x Arkeologists

New Old School - Cowboy Matt Hopwell

Jul 24, 202301:12:11
54: Magick in History & Modern Day (feat. Douglas Batchelor of 'What Magic is This?')

54: Magick in History & Modern Day (feat. Douglas Batchelor of 'What Magic is This?')

This week on the show, we have special guest Douglas Batchelor joining us! Host of the popular 'What Magic is This?' podcast, Doug is a uniquely exciting person for the program because he is so fully immersed in the study and practice of what we know as "magick." While our conversation spans information that whole careers are spent on, we discuss overviews of magick in history into the modern day, investigating certain historical touchstones along the way -- Carl Jung, Goethe, Austin Osman Spare, Eliphas Levi, Manly P. Hall's "The Secret Teachings of All Ages", Hermeticism and the Order of the Golden Dawn, the New Age, secret societies and "lodge magick", chaos magick, Atlantis and more -- all with equal parts of skepticism to open-mindedness. However, to understand what exactly is meant by these "equal parts", you'll have to tune in to find out!


The 'k' of "magick" generally distinguishing a timeless esoteric tradition from the simple stage act, this study and practice from a scientific perspective represents a trial-and-error grasp towards aspects of physics and psychology that we do not yet understand. Or at least -- that is the core idea. While many are skeptical as ever, more are coming to understand that a true historical magick is something much closer to a calculated butterfly-effect than it is to wands and medieval-fantasy. It is a way of using a combination of physical cues and gestures in order to prime the psyche into a calculated trance state. That much we can fully digest from a scientific perspective today; however, what happens from that point on is still highly debatable.


We've discussed the concept of magick quite a bit on the show, worked to break down some of the core components within the context of practical psychoanalysis, and had magickally-minded guests on the show (see Keats Ross and Eric Millar in episodes 23 and 28 among others) but we haven't been able to sit down with a full-on magician and pick their brain about the full ins and outs of what they feel like they're doing.


"What they feel like they're doing" might sound subjective and skeptical, but let us not forget that there are many different kinds of magick, with feeling and intent being major catalysts from which everything else stems from. There are so many motivations for magick, so many different traditions, and tools and techniques for purifying the self, contacting higher entities, banishing lower ones, or finding any variety of mundane physical comforts, that it comes across both dizzying and wrought with superstitious inaccuracies. But as Doug explains to us, separating the wheat from the chaff in esoterica is all part of the journey and should be embraced!


This is a complex episode that is has a promise of a part two! There is so much to get into, even from a surface-level perspective, that this episode largely covers historical and philosophical context, while the next time Doug joins the show we will be dissecting the practice and application of magick primarily!


I hope you dig it!


As Within So Without: From UFOs to DMT full documentary free stream right here! (this is the philosophical UFO doc I was featured in recently -- winner of the Roswell UFOXPO People's Choice Award 2023!)



This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and your favorite independent artists!

The System - Babylon Warchild

Talkin Durty to the Godz - Tainted Wisdom x Babylon Warchild

Egghead - Negative Blast

Everyone Higher than Everyone Else - Glowing Brain


Jul 17, 202301:31:44
53: Investigating Your Personal Mythology

53: Investigating Your Personal Mythology

This week on the show, I am tying up some loose threads that can be found recurring all throughout the Black Hoodie Alchemy program: the idea of inner mythology. As above, so below; as within, so without -- the practice of alchemy through art and science helps to investigate and further define the inner realms of our psyche so hungry for transmutation. Through a web of dreams, art, intuition, and esoteric magick guided with rigor and discipline, the simple ideals and anxieties of our imagination can prove to be a long-running thread ready to be pulled, unraveling the shadowed mechanisms of our psyches so we may understand them with greater transparency. This is a topic that in many ways is the basis of this entire BHA program, so naturally there will be many familiar topics brought up here as we assemble them within the overarching context of investigating the mythology of the psyche.

Why were you so drawn to certain characters and themes as a child? Why are you so drawn to certain themes now? Why do your dreams lack certain aspects, and why might your life lack certain aspects? Many mystically-minded people are wont to interpret every piece of a dream to be a part of the greater whole, yet much fewer people take this approach in their daily lives. Does everything have meaning? Are there such things are coincidences or is everything meant to be? Perhaps, or perhaps not, but one thing is for certain: the more one pays attention to the details of their lives, the more information there is to be gained. Like a detective hot on the trail, an archeologist uncovering a buried monolith, or an artist bending over backward to paint a chapel ceiling, we grind and sweat over the mythologies of our own lives. For it is either we do this -- or perhaps our mythologies might grind and sweat us out first.

Considering books like Personal Mythology by Dr. David Feinstein and Stanley Krippner (which is very much a work of analytic psychology, the study fostered by Carl Jung and furthered by people like Joseph Campbell among many others) the work of Carl Jung, The Goblin Universe by Ted Holiday (last episode's subject), and my books Dive Manual and Hunt Manual, I attempt to not only lay out the imperative need to investigate your personal mythology, but also the practical scientific merit as well as the merit of the mystical and transcendental. I don't seek to give all the answers here -- nor could I -- but I do shed some light with some source material to look into further!

I hope you dig it.


As Within So Without: From UFOs to DMT full documentary free stream right here! (this is the philosophical UFO doc I was featured in recently -- winner of the Roswell UFOXPO People's Choice Award 2023!)


This week's featured music -- don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!

Talkin Durty to the Godz - Babylon Warchild x Tainted Wisdom

Why Not - Epidemic x Jesse James

Piano Keys - Babylon Warchild (feat. Punchline & Wordsworth)

I Am - Babylon Warchild (feat. Reef the Lost Cauze)

Jul 10, 202301:01:47
52: 'The Goblin Universe' in Overview (feat. AP Strange & Seriah Azkath of 'Where Did the Road Go?')

52: 'The Goblin Universe' in Overview (feat. AP Strange & Seriah Azkath of 'Where Did the Road Go?')

This week we have another very special cross-over episode for you! Not only is it the longest Black Hoodie Alchemy episode so far, but also the densest. Joined with Seriah Azkath (veteran radio host of Where Did the Road Go? in New York) and AP Strange (veteran researcher of the unexplainable and a historian of Fortean culture), we tackle the classic and unsung Fortean research book The Goblin Universe, by F.W. 'Ted' Holiday.

And if you listened to this conversation on Where Did the Road Go already -- I have another hour of our recorded talk that was only released on the WDRG Patreon, and you can listen to it right here! This extra portion of the conversation starts at 1:49:00 in the run-time.

Those familiar with researchers like John Keel of The Mothman Prophecies and Jacques Vallee of Passport to Magonia will be right at home in the contents of this strange book. The Goblin Universe is an ambitious attempt to analyze the relationship between Jungian analytic psychology and true genuinely unexplainable phenomena, to include cases like the Loch Ness Monster itself.

Yes, this book analyzes the possibility of reincarnating serial killers, a Catholic priest's attempt to give Loch Ness an exorcism, phantom jungle cats, poltergeists and classic ghosts stories, Men in Black encounters, ley lines, UFOs, Nostradamus, a lot of cryptids and so much more!

The Goblin Universe was released in 1990 -- after Holiday's death -- by his late friend Colin Wilson, who is another classic researcher in his own right. With a very lengthy introduction given by Wilson, along with proof-reads and basic edits, the book is released as is and boasts as many insightful ideas as it does half-baked ones. It's a sure bet that, should Holiday have survived long enough to publish it himself, not all of the contents would have made it into the final draft as they did in Wilson's hands, but this is part of the magic and mystique of this delightful treasure of a read!

For years, the book remained in obscurity, with print copies costing literal hundreds of dollars to acquire and digital copies being nowhere in sight. However, the tables have recently turned, and today you can find reprints and even official Kindle versions of the book! For the three of us having this recorded conversation, this was actually quite a surprise -- it seems that the Goblin Universe famine has ended quite recently, and our conversation couldn't have been timed better.

Tune in for this bat-shit crazy and detailed conversation about Ted Holiday's almost-fully-baked book that was still so far ahead of its time! Then, after that, read The Goblin Universe for yourself and ponder the legacy of the genuine and insightful man that Ted Holiday was.


Ted Holiday's The Goblin Universe on Amazon

AP Strange's Website

Seriah's Where Did the Road Go?

my website

As Within So Without: From UFOs to DMT full documentary free stream right here! (this is the philosophical UFO doc I was featured in recently -- winner of the Roswell UFOXPO People's Choice Award 2023!)


Check out this week's featured music -- and don't forget to support your favorite independent artists!

Drum and Space - I am a UFO

Down Here - Glowing Brain

Echo Planet - Negative Blast

Salt - Salt

Souled Out - Doc Hammer

Jul 03, 202302:50:51
51: Steve Berg of 'Drunk History' Meets 'Former Illuminati Cloning-Lab Manager' Jefferson T

51: Steve Berg of 'Drunk History' Meets 'Former Illuminati Cloning-Lab Manager' Jefferson T

For a very special episode, comedic actor and writer Steve Berg joins the program! For those that aren't familiar with Steve's name, you're very likely to recognize his face, as he's guested on many popular shows like New Girl, The Goldbergs, Drunk History, Adventure Time, Bob's Burgers and more! He's also played supporting comedic roles in popular movies like TAG, and even a small part in Olivia Wilde's movie, Don't Worry Darling.

All that, and Steve is as warm and genuine as a good friend that you've grown up with! And not only was he easy to get along with, but he was also far more insightful than some people might give a comedian credit for. Alas, I actually spent so much time talking to Steve before hitting record that I was unable to remain for the actual podcast... Luckily, I was able to get my strange acquaintance, codename: Jefferson Tillamookslinger (a "former Illuminati cloning lab manager") on the call with Steve.

Their conversation includes things like: whether or not Steve is in the CIA and/or Illuminati, the humble beginnings of Steve's acting career in Aunt Maybelle Productions, Hollywood Cloning-Couches, Bob's Burgers, Henry Rollins, unexplainable phenomena like UFOs and raining sky-meat, Steve's new show Hi Strangeness and so much more.

And to catch everyone up briefly, Jefferson is indeed a man that claims to be a former Illuminati cloning lab manager that has since defected, so that he could join a redneck named Tippy Patson in the Everglades. He and several other dudes have been sweating it out in the Everglades for several months now, taking heavy doses of all kinds of drugs and attempting to save the world from the alligators around them that they perceive to be the Illuminati shape-shifting reptiles of conspiracy-lore. This is the basic gist -- they are too dumb to be a cult or militia, but too organized to just be average swamp people.

Some of their beliefs and schemes include but are not limited to: deciphering the Book of Revelations through animal scat; bathing in urine to talk to angels; attempting to telepathically communicate with dolphins, gators, and other animals; making poorly-crafted alcohols, tarot decks, instructional VHS tapes, and so much more.

With Tippy Patson as their leader, the codenames of the men in this group are: Jefferson Tillamookslinger, Apex Monsoon, Silverback Commando, Muscle Tornado, and Bayou Jones.

Thanks again to Steve for coming on the show! It was an absolute blast, and I'm glad we could make it happen.


Check out Steve's action right here:

Instagram

Twitter

Hi Strangeness

Steve's Linktree


Check out my action right here:

divemind.net

Dive Manual: Empirical Investigations of Mysticism

Hunt Manual: 21st Century Demonology & Forteana

Instagram

Twitter


This week's featured music! Don't forget support your favorite independent artists!

Suffer Fools - Glowing Brain

Carbon Coby - Negative Blast

Wet $$$ - Doc Hammer

Everyone Higher Than Everyone Else - Glowing Brain

Jun 26, 202301:01:52
50: Joseph 'Elephant Man' Merrick - Dignity in Existential Horror

50: Joseph 'Elephant Man' Merrick - Dignity in Existential Horror

This week, we take a break from the dense alchemy to consider how these concepts are applied in human life, namely in the life of one of history's most peculiar and tragic characters: Joseph Merrick aka The Elephant Man. Many are aware of the man's namesake and the rumor that Michael Jackson purchased his bones (Jackson was interested but never actually got them), but lesser known are the truly heartbreaking and inspiring bits and pieces that made up Merrick's life before he died at 27.

Born with a disease that no scientist can seem to completely agree upon (and likely a combination of a few of them to make this once-in-history character) the Elephant Man couldn't smile, couldn't whistle, couldn't sleep laying down, wasn't smiled at by a woman until his late 20's, and couldn't show his face without being absolutely terrified and/or disgusted by literally everyone who saw him. Yet he never let it break him -- he was always a gentle soul, looking to love and be loved.

His parents had abandoned him to a worker's camp, and even the doctor who proved to be his salvation was initially baffled to find that he wasn't mentally-handicapped. As Dr. Treves came to learn, Merrick actually had a vibrant intellectual imagination, he could read and write, and had a passion for the Bible, often contemplating his own existence and the existence of others. So often the Elephant Man lived in his own mystical imagination, like a warlock incapable of human contact, and yet somehow knowing so much more about it than we could ever grasp.

Before the saving grace of the kindly doctor, Merrick had been touted around Europe as a PT-Barnum-style "sideshow freak", being shown to cultures so horrified that his public display was quickly outlawed anywhere he went. All of this, and yet some-fucking-how, Joseph Merrick was able to turn it all around and even be quoted at the end of his life saying that he was happy every moment of the day.

How did all this happen? Learn the true story of Joseph 'Elephant Man' Merrick with me this week!


The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences - Sir Frederick Treves


divemind.net


Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!

And check out this week's featured music:


God's Image - Unknown Mizery x Arkeologists

Metempsychosis - Epidemic

Model Citizen - Babylon Warchild


Jun 19, 202301:30:11
49: History's Craziest Alchemists (feat. Alex of 'Natural Born Alchemist')

49: History's Craziest Alchemists (feat. Alex of 'Natural Born Alchemist')

This week, we're talking about history's wildest alchemists, and we have ourselves a real-life wild alchemist to help navigate! The friendly curmudgeon Alex (host of Natural Born Alchemist) joins the program as guest once again, and this is a man that has immersed himself in the practice and study of traditional alchemy for many years.

We bring up names like Count of St. Germain, Zosimos of Panopolis, Goethe, John Dee and Edward Kelley, and the great Paracelsus, as well as alchemy-adjacent names such as Aleister Crowley, Helena Blavatsky, voodoo priestess Marie Laveau, and even the infamous Gille de Raise - a nobleman who once protected Joan of Arc, only to pursue alchemy, black magick, and human sacrifice after her death. We even bring into the conversation names like Rasputin and da Vinci (although either are not technically considered alchemists in any degree).

Join us as we weave our way through the histories of these characters, their stories, and their philosophies! This episode has no shortage of the miraculous, unexplainable, horrific and folkloric.


Check out my website divemind.net for more.


This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists:

Advice - Bobby Balkan x Arkeologists

Rats - Salt

Hevy Drugz - Doc Hammer

Human Curse - Babylon Warchild x Fresh Kils

Jun 12, 202301:43:37
48: Goethean Science - An Alchemical Overview

48: Goethean Science - An Alchemical Overview

This week on the show, we discuss the philosophical perspective of the poet and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. His outlook will represent a dive deep into a different approach towards scientific empirical study -- an existentialist, humanistic approach to science that makes use of the self as a tool without tainting the study through biases. Furthered through existing concepts like Waldorf Education and Biodynamic Agriculture, Goethean Science continues to make an impact to this day, and it is all intrinsically tied to the alchemical mindset.

Ranked among the great alchemical poets and playwrights like Shakespeare, Milton and Dante', Goethe's rendition of the age-old tale of Dr. Faust selling his soul has maintained itself as one of the single greatest alchemical texts that we have in the modern era, and he spent decades of his life perfecting it. But when he wasn't writing his version of Faust, he was a scientist that was making great strides in botany, color theory and much more, his name in science coming up along names like Isaac Newton (another alchemist) and Renee Descartes. And as if those associations weren't impressive already, Goethe even served to heavily inspire some legendary esoteric names such as Carl Jung and Manly P Hall (names that come up often on this show) as well as Rudolph Steiner.


Join me this week as we immerse ourselves fully in the alchemical process!


This week's featured music -- don't forget to support all your favorite independent artists!

Cut Your Teeth - Salt

Four Your Wounds - Salt (FULL EP)


This week's show sources:

Steiner on Goethean Science

Dana Pauly's Paper on Goethean Science

Goethe's Biography

Dante's Divine Comedy

Skepticism for Rupert Sheldrake

Steiner and Biodynamics

Steiner and the 'Jewish Question'

Jun 05, 202301:11:00
47: Cannabis, Tobacco & Freemasonry in Alchemy (feat. PD Newman of 'Angels in Vermillion: From Dee to DMT')

47: Cannabis, Tobacco & Freemasonry in Alchemy (feat. PD Newman of 'Angels in Vermillion: From Dee to DMT')

This week, we return to our alchemical roots and discuss some of the sacramental plants involved in the both the alchemical process and the alchemical historical timeline. Author, philosopher, and full-blooded alchemist PD Newman joins the show to help us sift through the weeds of esoterica here, and he's one of the best men for the job. Not only is he an accredited scholar and researcher, but also an alchemist in practice when it comes to philosophy and experimentation. He makes his own tinctures and medicines, he's worked as a cannabis master grower for medical facilities in Oklahoma, forages for his own fruits and various mushrooms, and even sifts through Native American texts, learning the ingredients of their old smoking blends to try for himself. He as well began growing the traditional Nicotiana Rustica tobacco plant, which is what the Natives Americans were known to use, and varies from the mass market Nicotiana Tabacum nearly all smokers enjoy today.

All this and you might think he's a hipster with a fedora and a handle-bar mustache, but PD Newman is an old hippie alchemist that lives and breathes what he talks about, and is humble enough to not flaunt his pursuits. Instead he truly seems to relish a conversation that might bring light to topics he loves so very much, and I very much relished the conversation I got to have with him. We not only talk about some of the alchemical histories of cannabis and tobacco, but we also discuss psilocybin, mescaline, and more.

Beyond this, I also got the chance to pick Newman's brain about Freemasonry in the modern day. Not only is he a 32nd degree Freemason of the Scottish Rite, but so was my late great grandfather, and we talk about masonry's history both in the context of alchemy and in the larger social perspectives. Given that any organization can veer into aspects of corruption, and that individual masonic lodges are run almost entirely independent from one another (just like a church), it can still be plainly seen that at the heart of any potential deviation is actually a rich, altruistic heritage of philosophical thinkers and actual brick masons building cathedrals. Either that or we're both just another couple of idiot or bought-out Masonic Shills!

It's all this and more this week! We hope you dig it.

PD Newman on Twitter

Angels in Vermillion: From John Dee to DMT

Alchemically Stoned: The Psychedelic Secret of Freemasonry


This week's featured hip-hop and drum-n-bass are all courtesy of our guest, PD Newman himself! With his good friend, they once formed the production duo I AM A UFO, and even worked with names that some underground hip-hop heads might know well, like Moka Only.


Quit Stallin - I AM A UFO (feat. Moka Only)

Drum and Space (Joe Meek Shall Inherit the Earth) - I AM A UFO

May 29, 202301:52:20
46: Iceman & Softee - The Mafia Career of Richard Kuklinski

46: Iceman & Softee - The Mafia Career of Richard Kuklinski

This week we tackle one of the most horrifying real-life supervillain duos of all-time: Richard Kuklinski and Robert Prongay AKA The Iceman and Mr. Softee! A real true-crime epic, this story is one of the most hotly debated mafia-adjacent tales that we have today.

The premise is insane from the start: one of the most prolific mafia hitmen of all time teamed up with a former military demolitions expert-turned hitman/ice-cream truck driver. These men helped each other kill, and together learned new ways of murder and body disposal, all while somehow maintaining a low profile for years.

There is also the theme that these men existed on the outskirts of the one the grisliest eras in New York mafia history, rubbing shoulders with people like Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, Roy Demeo of The Gemini Lounge, and other big name made-men.

Kuklinski was said to have killed somewhere between 100 and 200 people, and it's said that cyanide was his favorite way to kill. He liked staying "creative", using weapons like guns, knives, road flares, ice picks, poisoned food, cyanide spray and injections, explosives, crossbows, and even a cave of wild man-eating rats in the forest.

It's commonly known that Kuklinksi did all this while maintaining a life that one could outwardly consider as an achievement of the "American dream", with healthy children and a seemingly happy wife, in a nice suburban home.

Robert Prongay appears to have done the same thing. The story of Mr. Softee is one that is much less documented, yet is certainly a matter of record. By taking what we've found on the public record and the stories that Kuklinksi has told, we can find the outline of this sinister ice-cream salesman.

This entire story is an amalgamation of police investigation, court record, prison confession, media fascination, and true crime he-said-she-said. The details come from many different angles, and no one seems to be a completely reliable narrator, especially not Iceman himself.

How true is the horrifying Legend of Iceman and Softee? Well, it's certainly not all made up, but we might find certain threads come loose the more we tug! Jump down the true crime rabbit hole with me this week as we investigate the career of The Iceman.

Oh, and PS: for those of you that are keeping up with the life and times of The League of Extordniary Gentlement, you might want to tune into the commercial breaks as well! They will not be, shall we say, "traditional" ad breaks.


This week's featured music:

Rosemary's Baby - Babylon Warchild

The Towers of Babylon - Babylon Warchild

The Way it Used to Be - Arkeologists x Tribesmen

Shut up, Richard - Doc Hammer


Sources for this episode

Swallowing the Camel - Kuklinksi a Liar (this is where Prongray's alleged son can be seen throughout the comments section)

Chicago Tribune - Kuklinski's Story

New York Times - Kuklinksi Dies

Crime Library - Robert Prongay

We are the Mighty - Kulkinski Learns to Kill from an Army Vet

Murderpedia on Kuklinksi

Sword and Scale - The Only Friend He Didn't Kill

And don't forget to check out all three of Kuklinksi's HBO interviews from prison, as well as the books by Philip Carlo and Anthony Bruno!



May 22, 202301:11:53
45: 'Brazilian Punisher' Pedro Rodrigues Filho AKA Pedrinho Matador

45: 'Brazilian Punisher' Pedro Rodrigues Filho AKA Pedrinho Matador

This week we discuss a man that seems truly mythic in ways both brutally savage and death-defying. This is a man that many have dubbed the Brazilian "Punisher" and "Dexter", and he was known as Killer Petey AKA Pedrinho Matador -- but his real name is Pedro Rodrigues Filho. Born in 1954, he was Brazil's most prolific serial killer and a bit of a YouTuber before he died in early March 2023, and his body count was said to be over 100. With over 70 documented, somewhere between 40 and 50 of those were done in prison over a period of three decades, and that was even with some years spent in solitary confinement.

Pedro's crime spree began at 14 when he murdered his father's boss, a man that had wrongfully accused his father of theft. Fast-forward just a few years later, and 17 year-old Pedro is gunning down the man that murdered his girlfriend and unborn child. He gunned this man down at his own wedding, killing six more people and injuring over a dozen more with some help behind him. Since his first kill, Pedro had stuck by an oddly defined and seemingly strict code of ethics and morality: never harm women and children, murder any sick bastard that crossed his path, and apparently try to be a good Christian, although the extent of his religious beliefs are a bit unclear.


Was this man truly a serial killer that "protected" or "avenged" the innocent? It's quite possible, although there are some heavy moral implications that one must sift through in order to answer that question. Beyond morality and philosophy though, we also have to sift through the Portuguese language barrier, and parse through the telephone-game of data that has already taken hold of so much of Pedro's story. Without any thick, official biography or docu-series, and without any extra-special interest even given by the Brazilian media, we have only so much to go on here. It seems for now that people are satisfied with the broad strokes of Pedrinho's story, but not me! I dig as deep as I possibly can with the data abound and bare all my sources for you here.


Jump down the rabbit hole with me and try to decipher the strange character and story of the Brazilian Punisher.


This week's featured music -- don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!


The Gates of Babylon - Babylon Warchild

Better off Dead - Silent on Fifth Street

Galaxies - Silent on Fifth Street


my sources this week in no particular order

1. The System Monster - Ricardo Mendonca

2. Pedrinho Matador is Killed - Globo.com

3. Pedrinho Matador Confesses

4. Police Maintain Secrecy about Where Pedrinho Matador is Held - Wayback Machine

5. The Serial Killer That Only Killed Criminals - Thought Catalog

6. Meet Pedro - All That's Interesting

7. Brazil's Biggest Serial Killer Dies in Shootout - Le Monde

8. Brazil's Bloodiest Killer Murdered 'For Pleasure' - Toronto Sun

9. The Serial Killer That is Now a Youtuber - The Grunge

10. Serial Killer Opens Up - Daily Star

11. Pedrinho Matador - Globo.com



May 15, 202301:06:40
44: Club Kids & Party Monsters - The Murderous Michael Alig

44: Club Kids & Party Monsters - The Murderous Michael Alig

This week on the show, we discuss the infamous case of Michael Alig, the 90's NYC club promoter known for his flamboyant pageantry and prankish antics that eventually murdered one of his friends, chopped them up in a bathtub and dumbed them in the Hudson River. Not only that, but it all quickly escalated into a full-on media circus as police failed to investigate, rumors ran rampant in the clubs and newspapers, and Alig himself joked about murdering Angel Melendez in public and in interviews. And this was all while Alig was hanging out with legendary icons like Ru Paul, and other zany characters like "James St. James", "Jenny Talia", and "Waltpaper".


As grisly and flashy as this case simultaneously was, it's little wonder it was turned into a movie released in 2003 entitled "Party Monster", starring Macaulay Culkin and Seth Green (and receiving pretty bad reviews overall.) Dressing up in a punkish, sometimes-androgynous aesthetic in the vein of David Bowie, Boy George, Lady Gaga, or the aforementioned Ru Paul, this brash and artistic youth movement of the "Club Kids" began as a jabby satire of the club scene that artist Andy Warhol had produced, but quickly became its own cliche. What began as a vibrant and mostly-positive NYC club scene of alt-kids -- self-proclaimed "Freaks" that were minorities of all kinds (particularly of the LGBTQ+ variety) -- that weren't even doing drugs, eventually descended into an absolute drug-fueled rampage-of-sorts through the NY club scene that led to murder, hubris, blood-soaked club parties, lots of drugs, and a whole lot of regret for a lot of people.


This story is absolutely bonkers on every level: to the incubation of a unique sub-culture, to the mind of a deeply flawed and troubled misfit murderer, the circus-like club antics, the proto-LGBTQ+ history, and the absolute abject failure of the NYPD to bring proper justice to the situation in due time.


Hopefully you dig it!


This week's featured music: don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!


Red Tops - Rothstein

Another Saturday Night - M.U.T.T.

No Trust - Negative Blast

It'll Just Be a Couple Weeks - Doc Hammer



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May 08, 202301:10:06
43.666: True Crime & Some Underground Music on 'Lighting the Void'

43.666: True Crime & Some Underground Music on 'Lighting the Void'

Black Hoodie Alchemy is currently on a small, two-week hiatus but here is my most recent appearance on Joe Rupe's live show, Lighting the Void on The Fringe FM. Joe invited me on to bump some of my favorite music from the artists that I have collaborated with to play on my show including: DOC HAMMER, BABYLON WARCHILD, NEGATIVE BLAST, and M.U.T.T. We also get into some true crime conversation including stories like Killdozer and much more! I hope you dig this content and I'll see you May 8th for a fresh episode!


This week's featured music! Don't forget to support all your favorite independent artists.

Souled Out - Doc Hammer

The Return - Babylon Warchild

Night Moves - M.U.T.T.

Egghead - Negative Blast

Magneto - Babylon Warchild (feat. Pacewon)


Apr 24, 202301:39:60
43: Gurdjieff & 4/20 Celebrations (feat. Martin Ferretti & Jefferson T. AKA Steve Buschemi)

43: Gurdjieff & 4/20 Celebrations (feat. Martin Ferretti & Jefferson T. AKA Steve Buschemi)

This episode is a cannabis-fueled 4/20 celebration! Alas, I was not here to record for it -- but Jefferson Tilamookslinger was thankfully available to fill in and keep the flame alive! For those unaware, Jefferson first appeared in Black Hoodie Alchemy #34 and is a former Illuminati cloning-lab-manager that has since relocated to the Florida Everglades, joining the forces of Tippy Patson's League of Extordiarny Gentlemen! (For the uninitiated, you can listen to it all through episodes #14, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 38, and learn about these men that are too stupid to be a cult but too organized to just be hanging out in a swamp.) As I am preparing for a family wedding/reunion and everything that this will entail out-of-state, this will be the last Black Hoodie Alchemy episode until May 8th -- but rest assured the show will come back swingin' as as always!


So, aside from Jefferson smoking dope, we have a friend of the show and fellow alchemist, Martin Ferretti, joining the program to tell us all about the life and philosophy of contemporary philosopher and mystic, George Gurdjieff. Most active during the turn into the 20th century, Gurdjieff was an eccentric figure that aspired to find a path to a practical enlightenment -- i.e. an enlightenment that did not inherently require a monkhood or hermetic nature that eschewed the rest of society. If he hadn't been so genuine and effective, you could potentially see the mechanics of a cult in Gurdjieff's Fourth Way of Enlightenment, and some might still consider it as such! But is there any real merit to this? Who was Gurdjieff anyway? An eccentric mystic, an opportunist, a charlatan, or what?


Listen in as Martin and Jefferson give you a thorough and detailed explanation of these concepts and so much more! Oh, and happy toking -- don't forget to roll up and blow that sacramental ganja to the sky this 4/20 season!


We hope you dig this week's show. See you May 8th.


This week's featured music -- don't forget to support your all your favorite independent artists!


Shore Leave - Doc Hammer

Ganja Dub - Chris Fiato

Phantasmagoria Blues - Cowboy Matt Hopewell


Gurdjieff's link in the Encyclopedia Brittanica

Martin Ferretti's The Alchemical Mind

Apr 17, 202358:28
42: Philly's Houses of Horror & Torture - Heidnik & Graham

42: Philly's Houses of Horror & Torture - Heidnik & Graham

This week is another true-crime rabbit hole, as we discuss the strange and somewhat unexplainable tales of the murderers Gary Heidnik and Harrison Graham -- two men that captured and killed women in their North Philly homes at the same times between 1986-87.


Heidnik was not only some of the "inspiration" for Buffalo Bill in the Silence of the Lambs, but he was also dubbed the "Monster Preacher", owed to the fact that he actually held weekly church sermons at the same house where several women were imprisoned in his basement. There was at least one known congregation member that even helped Heidnik with his tortures.


Graham was a mentally-handicapped drug addict living in the projects of North Philly, around an area that was known for its heavy drug trafficking. The community knew Graham for his childlike and somewhat unpredictable behavior, constantly carrying around a Cookie Monster hand-puppet and talking to the children of the neighborhood among other strange things. This man eventually, through circumstances never well understood, began abducting and murdering women from the neighborhood, in order to keep them in the second bedroom of his apartment as a sort of disturbing mausoleum.


Join me as we discuss the stories of these men further, including their crimes, arrests and states-of-mind. What the hell was going on here in these Philly Houses of Horror? Just pure coincidence? There was absolutely no evidence ever found to even suggest that these two men knew anything about each other, so where does this leave us? Does hate float?


All this and more this week!


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This week's featured music -- don't forget to support your favorite black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!


Travelling North - Legitimate x Rex Seshuns

The Injustice - Babylon Warchild

No Time - Babylon Warchild

Souled Out - Doc Hammer


some show notes on Heidnik

NY Times

All That's Interesting

Fox News

Oxygen

Penn Live


some show notes on Graham

NY Times

Psychology Today

AP News

Murderpedia


Apr 10, 202354:48
41: Israel Keyes - Satanic Alaskan Serial Killer

41: Israel Keyes - Satanic Alaskan Serial Killer

This episode, after heavy considerations of mysticism, trance states, dreams, abnormal psychology, possession, and even some true crime, we are jumping full-on into the serial killer rabbit to discuss the killer I grew up with -- well, he was stalking the hiking trails I grew up on and murdered a barista downtown while I was in high school.


This infamous and cowardly murderer is one of two Alaskan serial killers: Israel Keyes (the other one being Robert Hansen) and not only did I grow up in his hunting grounds, my dad actually polygraphed his last victim's boyfriend and father, along with other work done on the case for the Anchorage Police Department. The victim's name was Samantha Koenig, and this was the impulsive kidnap-abduction-murder that would ultimately end with Keyes writing bad poetry and slitting his wrists in a prison cell.


It's believed (though not confirmed) that Keyes murdered eleven people, but police were unequivocally certain of three. Samantha was not only the last victim, but the only victim actually taken by Keyes in Alaska. Although he'd planned for the options of more in the future, for the prior ten murders he'd kept several rules that he'd maintained, including: no kills in his home state, no children, no cell phones, and cash from bank robberies only. He's also know known for his heavy reliance on what are dubbed as "murder kits", which were literally serial-killing-buried-treasure full of all the essentials for his job and kept track of with maps. And if all that wasn't enough, he was a self-proclaimed Satanist as well!


Join me as we summarize Keyes' profile, backstory, and timeline, even getting into some philosophy and esotericism along the way.


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Israel Keyes links to quotes I read:

NY Post

Oxygen

The Brag

Biography


This week's featured music! Don't forget to support your favorite black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists:


The Karma - Babylon Warchild

Cold Days - Umang

Starcrusher - Doc Hammer

Apr 03, 202301:00:43