Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy! This week is another solo episode, and another episode about the Christian author CS Lewis. Last time we brought him up, we went through his work The Problem of Pain and this time we're going to bring up a fictional philosophical book he wrote, something he dedicated to his friend JRR Tolkien, called The Screwtape Letters. You can listen to the episode right here […]
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. You can listen to the episode right here! Heidnik was not only some of the "inspiration" for Buffalo Bill in the Silence of the Lambs, but he […]
This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we attempt to sift through the beliefs of demonic possession from the psychoanalytic perspectives of CG Jung and others. You can listen to the episode right here! This will not be an episode based in religious orthodoxy, but that doesn't mean we aren't exploring some potentially unexplainable phenomena all the same. Building off of episode #39, what if calloused, inert phantom limbs of our […]
Most of us know at least one example of mass hysteria: the Salem witch trials (1692). In modern times, some say the Roswell Incident (1947) neatly falls under the hysteria header. How - and why - do these group freakouts happen? Forming the Egregore Most animals have a signature distress signal to warn the herd; humans are no different. Hysteria serves an essential survival purpose against actual threats. For imagined […]
Fellow researcher and field-investigator, Chaz of the Dead joins me to talk about some of his strange expeditions across the world, investigation the unexplainable, the psychedelic, and the horrific -- oftentimes all at once. Firstly we discuss Chaz's ground-rules of paranormal investigation, with considerations of Carl Jung, chaos magick, and classical paranormal ghost hunting but without the crosses and holy water. After this, we get into some real wild stories. […]
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 […]
Father Malachi Martin was a spooky regular on Art Bell's late night radio show. An author and former Jesuit priest, he shared (according to him) true stories of demon possession and redemption that commanded rapt, breathless attention - and later, nightmares. Listeners were terrified, locking their doors and clutching rosaries or a crucifix. Many were convinced that they, too, were possessed and called in for help. One of Father Malachi’s […]
Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy! In this episode we are setting the stage for our discussions of demonology. This is the first part, and this will be a subject we revisit consistently but not continuously, and we are starting out with poltergeists! We start with analyzing some of the actual sciences here, dealing with analytic psychology and the nervous system. Then the main subjects will be Peter Page and […]
In November, I was invited onto Seriah Azkath's long-running radio show, Where Did the Road Go? Known for his deep interests in the paranormal, unexplainable and psychological, Seriah and his guest-host Taylor Bell (host of The Green Lion) were kind enough to read my latest book Hunt Manual: 21st Century Demonology & Forteana, and they had great things to say about it. Â Their reads of the book made for […]
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