The Fringe.FM News Desk comes across weird, unique, and interesting stories every single day. Most end up in our virtual "junk drawer," rattling around until we either use them or go all konmari on the mess. Some are too good for the dustbin, though - so welcome to the 1st edition of "Random Fringe!" This Week's Grab Bag of Completely Unrelated Randomness: Biopiracy: How companies are buying up nature […]
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 […]
Does consciousness affect physics - and by extension, the universe - we inhabit? Many scientists and spiritual leaders say “yes.” The Physicist Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder is a researcher, musician, author, and theoretical physicist. Her work focuses on the intersection of consciousness and the physical laws of the universe - and she believes them to be inextricably intertwined. The Monk Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Zen Master and Nobel Peace Prize […]
A first-millennium family of mice. Mysterious, ancient monoliths on a windswept, chilly island. Their separate discoveries overturned centuries of established history. Megaliths For hundreds of years, historians thought the Azores were discovered by the Portuguese in the 1400s. A remote and difficult to reach archipelago of 9 islands in the North Atlantic, they appeared to be completely uninhabited. Over the last decade, Dr. Felix Rodrigues has documented megalithic and […]
As a follow-up to last week, I will be reading the chapter after the excerpt I read last! Both from my book Hunt Manual: 21st Century Demonology & Forteana. Last week was mostly about serial killers and some cult leaders, and this week will mostly be about cult leaders and then some serial killers -- and of course, this will all focus on their occult obsessions, and we'll attempt to […]
This week Miguel Conner and his cohort ol' Moondog join me from Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio! These guys are veterans of the game -- life, esoteric study and practice, even broadcast -- and I am always eager to have a conversation with them. And while this episode is being released on Halloween, and the holiday will be mentioned here and there, don't be discouraged to listen to this any time […]
My dad wasn’t a water witch, but he swore by Old Man Marcus.*  8000+ Years of Witching We've been hiring a water witch to dowse for new wells for as long as my farming family can recall. Even deep in our Midwest Bible Belt, it wasn't considered witchcraft. It’s folk wisdom that works. Farmers and homesteaders are a practical lot; they don’t worry about the how. It works, you dig […]
Trees talk, and those close to the earth have known this for lifetimes upon lifetimes. Science is listening now too. Bushcraft & Shrooms Shift Happens (here on the Fringe!) recently interviewed a bushcrafter and psychonaut who, like Thoreau, left the rat race to live in the woods. Towards the end of the show, he shares his thoughts on trees, mushrooms, and more.  Episode 265: https://fringe.fm/shows/shift-happens/ Spinning Vinyl and Macrame In […]
Why does every strip joint have a ghost story?  The Stripper’s Spooky Tale Retired after 20 years of stripping, author Erin Louis retells the story of her encounter in a haunted dressing room. She heard lilting laughter from nowhere. When she went out in the hall a moment later, she saw a “strange glowing orb” floating in the hall. What she finds out next is surprising and hilarious. No spoilers […]
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