In HIEROPHANY we explore archetypal images from the western esoteric tradition, tracing their manifestations in our everyday dilemmas and experiences. It is probably best not to drive or operate machinery whilst listening to this show. Put on your headphones and take a nice lie-down. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Magick, spirituality, and the paranormal -- in personal experience and practice. Exploring the mystical, psychological, and internal dimensions of contemporary occultism and magick. Support the podcast and access additional content at: https://patreon.com/oeith
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Observe our pitiful condition at the moment. We, you and I, know the truth but have no way to bring it to the world. With the station we will have a way... -- Philip K. Dick, The Divine Invasion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality."
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Vayse documents the experiences of enthusiastic rookies Peter C Hine and Stephen James Buckley as they take their first bewildered steps into mysticism, magic, high strangeness and the occult with open eyes and open minds. Join them as they re-evaluate reality and expand their minds with guidance from knowledgeable guests, inspirational texts, questionable intuition and bizarre experiments. Weird stuff is everywhere - if you're listening...
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VYS0043 | The Reich Stuff - Vayse to Face with Dan Lowe
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VYS0043 | The Reich Stuff - Vayse to Face with Dan Lowe - Show Notes Facing down a huge topic that they have been wanting to talk about on Vayse for years, Hine and Buckley enlist integrative therapist Dan Lowe, to guide them through the massively dense, often confusing and incredibly weird life and work of Wilhem Reich. Dan is massively knowledgea…
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Episode 177: Riddles in the Dark: On Fairy Tales, Interpretation, and 'Rapunzel'
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Fairy tales are among the most familiar cultural objects, so familiar that we let our kids play with them unsupervised. At the same time, they are also the most mysterious of artifacts, their heimlich giving way to unheimlich as soon as we give them a closer look and ask ourselves what they are really about. Indeed, these imaginal nomads, which see…
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VYS0042 | Grinding Out Some Low-End - Vayse to Face with Aidan Wachter
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VYS0042 | Grinding Out Some Low-End - Vayse to Face with Aidan Wachter - Show Notes Somehow stumbling into a third season knowing less than when they started, Hine and Buckley welcome a guest that has been top of the Vasye-most-wanted-list since the podcast's inception - witch, dirt sorcerer, magician, animist and author, Aidan Wachter. Aidan skilf…
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Episode 176: On Charles Burns' 'Black Hole' and the Medium of Comics
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Comics, like cinema, is an eminently modern medium. And as with cinema, looking closely at it can swiftly acquaint us with the profound weirdness of modernity. Do that in the context of a discussion on Charles Burns' comic masterpiece Black Hole, and you're guaranteed a memorable Weird Studies episode. Black Hole was serialized over ten years begin…
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Mid-Break Bonus: The Quiet Earth
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Every off-week, listeners who have chosen to support Weird Studies by joining our Patreon at the Listener's Tier get to enjoy a bonus episode. These episodes are different from the flagship show. Less formal and entirely improvised, they offer Phil and JF a different way of exploring the weird in art, philosophy and culture. To tide our listenershi…
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Episode 175: Don't Look Now: Live at Lily Dale
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Daphne du Maurier was a prolific English writer of novels, plays, and short stories resonant with what she termed "a sense of unreality." In this episode, JF and Phil discuss her great short story "Don't Look Now," which Nicholas Roeg famously adapted to the screen in 1973 in a film starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. Recorded live at Sh…
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VYS0041 | Technologies of Imagination - Vayse to Face with Bel Senlle
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VYS0041 | Technologies of Imagination - Vayse to Face with Bel Senlle - Show Notes In the final episode of season 2, Hine and Buckley talk to a guest who ended up on Vayse after she appeared to Hine in a dream: Bel Senlle - artist, tarot reader, flower herbalist and creator of one of the most stylish and magical tarot decks that money can buy, the …
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*SideVayse: SVYS005 | Con-Vayse-ations Vol. II * Show Notes Despite a case of Covid, political turmoil and relentlessly terrible weather Hine and Buckley bring their weird game for a catch-up conversation based on listener questions. The Vayse cadets consider the burning issues of these uncertain times: how do you rate and compare cryptids? (and is…
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Episode 174: Magick and Enlightenment, with Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford
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Phil and JF are joined by Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford – practicing magicians, podcasters, and co-authors of the newly released Baptist's Head Compendium: Magick as a Path to Enlightenment, a collection of essays and reports from their famous occult blog, The Baptist's Head. Duncan and Alan are accomplished practitioners with deep insights into …
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Episode 173: By Heart: On Memory, Poetry, and Form
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In this computerized age, we tend to see memory as a purely cerebral faculty. To memorize is to store information away in the brain in such a way as to make it retrievable at a later time. But the old expression "knowing by heart" calls us to a stranger, more embodied and mysterious take on memory. In this episode, Phil and JF endeavour to recite t…
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VYS0040 | The Great Ping-Ping - Vayse to Face with OORYA
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VYS0040 | The Great Ping-Ping - Vayse to Face with OORYA - Show Notes Artist, poet, noise maker, purveyor of queer-electro-folk-punk and fellow northerner, OORYA, joins Hine and Buckley in an explosion of joy, weirdness and super-infectious hyper-manipulation of the English Language. OORYA explains their unique view of the "Vinyl Universe", how the…
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Episode 172: Head Over Heels: On the Hanged Man of the Tarot
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The Hanged Man is arguably the most enigmatic card in the traditional tarot deck. Divested of any archetypal apparel – he is neither emperor nor fool, but just a man, who happens to be hanging – he gazes back at us with the look of one who harbors a secret. But what sort of secret? In this episode, JF and Phil discuss the card that no less august a…
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VYS0039 | Try Not To Be A Dick Shall Be The Whole Of The Law - Vayse to Face with Duncan Barford
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VYS0039 | Try Not To Be A Dick Shall Be The Whole Of The Law - Vayse to Face with Duncan Barford - Show Notes After a 3 month break, Vayse returns for an interview with a person who inspired the podcast before it was even a podcast - writer, podcaster and psychodynamic psychotherapeutic counsellor, Duncan Barford. Duncan's book Occult Experiments i…
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Episode 171: The Beauty and the Horror
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This week on Weird Studies, Phil and JF explore the intersections of the beautiful and the terrible in art and literature. There is a conventional beauty that calms and placates, and there is a radical beauty which, taking horror’s pale-gloved hand, gives up all pretense to permanence and fixity and joins the danse macabre of our endless becoming. …
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*SideVayse: SVYS004 | con-Vayse-ations Vol. I * - Show Notes After an unplanned three month sabbatical, Hine and Buckley are back with a cheeky SideVayse before the main podcast resumes. The first of an on-going series, this SideVayse is the highlights of an hour and a half long catch-up that Hine and Buckley had at the end of May. Hinting at what …
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Episode 170: Art is Another Word for Truth: On Orson Welles's 'F for Fake'
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Orson Welles made F for Fake in the early seventies, while still bobbing in the wake of a Pauline Kael essay accusing him of being cinema's greatest fraud. Ostensibly a documentary on the famous art forger Elmyr de Hory and his biographer Clifford Irving (a talented faker in his own right), the film blurs the line between fact and fiction in an eff…
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Episode 169: On Free Expression
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The ongoing crackdown on protests at many American universities prompts a discussion on the politics, ethics, and metaphysics of free expression. Support us on Patreon. Buy the Weird Studies soundtrack, volumes 1 and 2, on Pierre-Yves Martel's Bandcamp page. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia. Visit the Weird Studi…
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Episode 168: Visions of the Wasteland: On George Miller's 'Mad Max' Films
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There are artists who express the vision of a place, person, or thing so vividly and originally that it sets the bar for all future imaginings. With his four Mad Max films, this is what George Miller did with the image of the Wasteland. No one has been able to capture the stark, raw energy and chaotic beauty of a post-apocalyptic desert quite like …
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Episode 167: The Hand of Ithell, with Amy Hale
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Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) was a British painter, poet, and occultist, long identified as a pioneer of the Surrealist movement in the UK. While her work is increasingly recognized for its mystical themes and innovative use of automatic techniques, deeply influenced by her esoteric studies, it also inspired extensive research on its broader cultur…
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Episode 166: Make Believe: On the Power of Pretentiousness
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In culture and the arts, labeling something you don't like (or don't understand) "pretentious" is the easy way out. It's a conversation killer, implying that any dialogue is pointless, and those who disagree are merely duped by what you've cleverly discerned as a charade. It's akin to cynically revealing that a magic show is all smoke and mirrors—a…
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Episode 165: Tatters of the King: On Robert Chambers' 'The King in Yellow'
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"Let the red dawn surmise / What we shall do, / When the blue starlight dies / And all is through." This short poem, an epigraph to "The Yellow Sign," arguably the most memorable tale in Robert W. Chambers' 1895 collection The King in Yellow, encapsulates in four brief lines the affect that drives cosmic horror: the fearful sense of imminent annihi…
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VYS0038 | Fuck Capitalism! - Vayse to Face with Rob Kristoffersen
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VYS0038 | Fuck Capitalism! - Vayse to Face with Rob Kristoffersen - Show Notes Unable to put off dedicating an episode to the UFO mystery any longer, Hine and Buckley welcome researcher, podcaster and writer Rob Kristoffersen. Rob is the creator and host of the incredibly popular podcast Our Strange Skies: UFOs Throughout History, co-creator of the…
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