Life Is But A Dream
Welcome back! After a hiatus of over a month, Black Hoodie Alchemy resumes -- and I've got a bone to pick with the notion of enlightenment. While I don't discount that enlightenment is an attainable state of consciousness, and I don't discount that there are altruistic people alive today that claim enlightenment, I've got a real hard time with the idea of enlightenment for several reasons. You can listen to […]
What’s the difference between St. Joan of Arc’s visions of St. Michael and a schizophrenic who hears angelic voices? In Western culture, one is sainthood; the other, psychosis. Why the difference? La Pucelle First, some history. Joan of Arc (1412-1431; aka Jeanne d’Arc in her native France) - was branded a witch and burned at the stake before she was named a saint. Her heavenly visions, battles, trial, execution, and […]
If you’re an insomniac like me, you’ve tried warm milk, OTC sleep aids, and prescriptions. I hated being a constipated, broke zombie every morning - was there no other way? Bi-What? I didn’t intend to start a sleep experiment, but I naturally fell into a biphasic sleep pattern. Most people sleep in one long block of time, aka monophasic sleep. Other people - including most insects, birds, and animals - […]
Author, illustrator, and experimental esotericist Eric Millar -- The Garbage Wizard himself --returns to the show to talk about his latest work, An Assemblage of Disparate Parts. Following up our last conversation about OG comic book culture, philosophy, and mysticism, Eric's latest work is a decidedly critical strike at the concepts of the "scholar", the "professional", the "accredited", and the "accepted". Eric takes some unique approaches in his critiques as […]
Welcome back, folks! This week on the show, my friend Martin Ferretti joins me to analyze psychoanalyst, Carl Jung's legendary self-therapy journals: The Red and Black Books. Both released after his death, The Red Book represents a sizable portion of the Black Books' contents. Large, leather-bound, and full of beautifully haunting paintings and calligraphy of his innermost spiritual turmoil, Jung's Red Book is truly something like a magical tome written […]
Those of a certain generation will remember late nights with cable TV.  We'd aimlessly flick through channels, hoping to find something to watch while drowsing off.  At midnight, the national anthem and a waving flag would signal station signoff before static ruled the airwaves until morning. Maybe you nodded off to the blue grid of the cable guide channel as it scrolled through the channel offerings. Perhaps a scene […]
Therapeutic ketamine treatments for pain, depression, or anxiety are often accompanied by music for a more powerful, moving healing experience. There is a stereotype that psychedelic music and medicine are the province of hippies, but today's doctors, neuroscientists, and researchers are getting on board the hippie jams bus, and for good reason. Supportive Soothing Two types of music are typically used in therapeutic ketamine treatments: rich instrumentals or natural, […]
Slowly but surely, science is catching up with the spiritual teachings of millennia regarding frequency and vibration. Neuroscience labs are starting to validate what shamans and sages have always known, but from a different angle: they're more interested in the "what and how" than the more elusive and ethereal "why." You Know It When You Feel It It's baffling that anyone could doubt the effects of tones and beats. We […]
After a two-week break, this next episode picks up right where the last left off: discussing and investigating the outer limits of strangeness! Joined by my friend, Fortean investigator Bob Antone, we discuss some of the stranger and creepier stories he's encountered throughout his life in North Bend, Washington with his wife Laura. Â You can listen to the episode right here! Â Laura is a native of the First […]
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