My special guest tonight is Carl Abrahamsson who's here to discuss his book Occulture: The Unseen Forces That Drive Culture Forward.

Explores the role of magic and the occult in art and culture from ancient times to today

• Examines key figures behind esoteric cultural developments, such as Carl Jung, Anton LaVey, Paul Bowles, Aleister Crowley, and Rudolf Steiner

• Explores the history of magic as a source of genuine counter culture and compares it with our contemporary soulless, digital monoculture

• Reveals how the magic of art can be restored if art is employed as a means rather than an end and offers strategies to rekindle intuitive creativity

Art, magic, and the occult have been intimately linked since our prehistoric ancestors created the first cave paintings some 50,000 years ago. As civilizations developed, these esoteric forces continued to drive culture forward, both visibly and behind the scenes, from the Hermetic ideas of the Renaissance, to the ethereal worlds of 19th century Symbolism, to the occult interests of the Surrealists.

In this deep exploration of “occulture”--the liminal space where art and magic meet--Carl Abrahamsson reveals the integral role played by magic and occultism in the development of culture throughout history as well as their relevance to the continuing survival of art and creativity. Blending magical history and esoteric philosophy with his more than 30 years’ experience in occult movements, Abrahamsson looks at the phenomena and people who have been seminal in modern esoteric developments, including Carl Jung, Anton LaVey, Paul Bowles, Aleister Crowley, and Rudolf Steiner.

Showing how art and magic were initially one and the same, the author explores the history of magic as a source of genuine counter culture and compares it with our contemporary soulless, digital monoculture. He reveals how the magic of art can be restored if art is employed as a means rather than an end--if it is intense, emotional, violent, and expressive--and offers strategies for creating freely, magically, even spontaneously, with intent unfettered by the whims of trends, a creative practice akin to chaos magick that assists both creators and spectators to live with meaning. He also looks at intuition and creativity as the cornerstones of genuine individuation, explaining how insights and illuminations seldom come in collective forms.

Exploring magical philosophy, occult history, the arts, psychology, and the colorful grey areas in between, Abrahamsson reveals the culturally and magically transformative role of art and the ways the occult continues to transform culture to this day.

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My special guest tonight is Pulitzer Prize Winner Katherine Ellison who sits down to discuss her book called Mother's and Murderers

My special guest tonight is Pulitzer Prize Winner Katherine Ellison who sits down to discuss her book called Mother's and Murderers that reflects on her work covering a shocking murder investigation and how it almost ended her career.

New from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Ellison!

Mothers & Murderers: A True Story of Love, Lies, Obsession...and Second Chances takes listeners on a wild tragicomic ride from the criminal courtrooms of California’s Silicon Valley to the Himalayan mountains of Pakistan to the deserts of Ethiopia.

In delightful, insightful prose, Ellison reflects on her mistakes and her triumphs as she weaves together the stories of how her Pulitzer Prize-winning career almost ended before it began, how she nearly missed marrying the love of her life, and how she unwittingly got drawn into a stranger-than-fiction murder case.

Rich in drama and self-reflection, replete with unique characters - including two bumbling hitmen, a rodeo-riding prosecutor, a flamboyant Beverly Hills defense attorney, and a charismatic stay-at-home mother-of-three who is keeping outrageous secrets - Mothers and Murderers is a mashup of Fargo, Body Heat, and Eat, Pray, Love.

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My special guests tonight are Steve Sayre, Garrett Sayre and Kelsey Bohlen here to discuss their new must-see documentary, Ghosts and The Afterlife. Watch the Documentary.

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This is a story idea based on the recently released hit docufilm "Ghosts and the Afterlife: A Scientific Investigation," which is the first truly scientific investigation into ghosts and life after death. “Ghosts and the Afterlife” has been on and off the best-seller lists of Amazon, Vudu, iTunes, and Walmart since its release a few months ago and was voted the Best Documentary Film of 2022 at the TZIFF Film Festival. Director and Producers The film’s producer and director, Steve Sayre, is a former top-secret operative for U.S. Army intelligence and was selected for Air Force nuclear missile launch. Steve has died twice on the operating room table after a serious military injury, which makes him quite familiar with the topic of life after death from a personal perspective. The project’s executive producer, Garrett Sayre, is a former top-secret intelligence officer for the United States Navy who completed 12 years of research into the field of inter-dimensional communications and life-after-death experiences in order to create this motion picture. Experts and Cast “Ghosts and the Afterlife” features James Van Praagh (creator and executive producer of “Ghost Whisperer”), Dr. Raymond Moody, M.D., Ph.D., Dr. Vernon Sylvest, M.D. (pathologist), Dr. Kenneth Rose (Harvard Ph.D. in philosophy and world religions), Psychics Eddie Conner, Reverend Justin Terry and Reverend F. Reed Brown, Dr. Jeffrey Rediger, M.D. (Harvard Professor and researcher into the phenomena of life-after-death experiences and spiritual healing), Dr. Norm Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., Captain Frederick “Skip” Atwater (the Operations Officer in charge of the top-secret military StarGate program that investigated consciousness beyond the physical mind) and many others. The program is narrated on-camera by Kelsey Bohlen with special guest appearances by Jay Thomas, Emmy-award-winning performer best known for Cheers, Mr. Holland's Opus, and Dragonfly. "Ghosts and the Afterlife" was Jay’s last film project. The film’s trailer can be seen at: https://vimeo.com/746364716

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Tonight, my special guest is Monique Faison Ross who's here to discuss how she narrowly escaped her obsessed ex-husband and his jealous rage.

This domestic abuse survivor’s memoir shares an “engaging, powerful, and ultimately shocking story" of a bad marriage that ended in attempted murder (Lundy Bancroft, author of The Joyous Recovery).

Monique Faison, the daughter of San Diego Charger’s football great Earl Faison, married her high school sweetheart soon after she discovered she was pregnant with his child. Her relationship with Chris had always been shaky, but his verbal abuse only increased—and then gave way to physical attacks. Eventually, Monique took their children and left. That was when the stalking and serious threats began.

Nothing stopped him—not protection injunctions, police warnings, or even arrests. One fateful Monday morning, Chris kidnapped Monique in front of her children. After a nightmarish car ride that involved car crashes and rape, Chris beat her on the head with a shovel and abandoned her brutalized body in the woods, presuming she was dead. But playing dead was what saved her life.

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My special guest tonight is author Michael Kozlowski who's here to discuss his new book called American Ghost Stories: True Tales from All 50 States.

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Tonight, we have author Christian Barth as our special guest to discuss one of the most perplexing unsolved murders in New Jersey's history. Get his book now on Amazon. About the book:Attorney and true crime writer examines the unsolved 1969 murders of two female college students whose bodies were left off the Garden State Parkway.In the early hours of May 30, 1969, the brutally stabbed bodies of two nineteen-year-old friends, Elizbeth Perry and Susan Davis, were dumped near Ocean
City.

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My special guest tonight is author Leslie Rule who is the daughter of famous true crime writer Ann Rule. She's here to discuss the working relationship her mother had with Ted Bundy as crisis hotline assistant to save lives and at the same time he was ending others.

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My special guest is David Domine who's here to discuss his book about a gay couple who used a sledge hammer to stuff the body of their lover in the basement.

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