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Wake Up, Underworld!
What does it mean to practice magick as a path to enlightenment? Does practical magick have a role on the spiritual path? What exactly is the Western Magickal or Esoteric Tradition and who are its main thinkers and key figures? What does this tradition have to do with other spiritual pursuits or paths, from Buddhism to Animism, the Twelve Steps of AA to Christian Hermeticism? What do magick and awakening have to offer a person struggling with the anxieties of our age, its loneliness and…
Episodes
Wake Up, Underworld!Trash Conversations With God: On VALIS
It's fitting that Justin and Cameron's first in a series of conversations focused primarily on Philip K. Dick's VALIS trilogy begins with the I Ching hexagram…
Wake Up, Underworld!Who is My Teacher: Part One
How does one find a teacher? What is the right relationship between student and teacher? Is there a benefit to studying under a living teacher within a…
Wake Up, Underworld!Cassandra and Lucifer
Lucifer and Cassandra There are lots of furious arguments online and in schools these days about the end of reading. Kids aren’t doing it, neither are college…
Wake Up, Underworld!"A Higher Order of Relationship Altogether"
We begin with reflections on what’s left out of current conversations around the Odyssey after Christopher Nolan’s reboot. Is it possible to see the good news…
Wake Up, Underworld!“Tending to the Bonds Between the Seen and Unseen Worlds”
What is the relationship between mystical experience on drugs and spiritual awakening that happens when sober? What does it mean to look back upon a life of…
Wake Up, Underworld!Anarchy with Common Sense
"Anarchy with Common Sense," our first episode explores "work" -- as well as the material obsession with career, status, and money (or the lack of any of…