Douglas Batchelor is another unfortunate soul who started a podcast in their mid-Thirties. A lifelong strange person and practical magician, Douglas does weird shit in hopes that weird shit happens.
His podcast for the most part is introductory and meant to be a welcoming hand to those who find stepping into the waters of Magic and the Occult to be a bit difficult, or who are merely curious about Magic, the Occult, the Esoteric, the Paranormal, the Supernatural and the Weird.
Douglas Batchelor has been a guest on 2 episodes.
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VYS0027 | Batchelor of Dark Arts - Vayse to Face with Douglas Batchelor Pt. 2
September 20th, 2023 | Season 2 | 1 hr 11 mins
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In the second part of Hine and Buckley's interview with the indefatigable Douglas Batchelor, creator and host of the luminous What Magic is This? podcast, the dark side is calling. Having explored his guiding principle of positivity and kindness in the previous episode he now explains how his thoughts, philosophies and understanding of magic play out when applied to the spookier side: Hexes, curses, love spells, necromancy, black magic and the left-hand path. Doug also answers some weird questions about ancestor veneration, synchronicity, what books are currently inspiring him and which deadly non-human-entity may be the one that eventually ends each and every one of us... (Recorded 3 August 2023)
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VYS0026 | It's a Wand-erful Life - Vayse to Face with Douglas Batchelor Pt. 1
September 13th, 2023 | Season 2 | 1 hr 28 mins
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Hine and Buckley are back for the first episode of season 2 and they've brought Douglas Batchelor along with them! Doug is the host and creator of the incomparable What Magic is This? - a podcast about Magic, the Occult, the Esoteric, the Paranormal, the Supernatural and the Weird and surely the single most frequently mentioned magical resource throughout the first season of Vayse. In the first part of this two-part, slightly giddy interview, the roots of Doug's magical life are revealed as he talks about how he graduated from being a disillusioned materialist teenager to a punk-rock chaos magician to a self-styled-necromantic-performative-ritual-magician with an awesome occult podcast. The conversation bounces around: from synchronicities to Bob Ross, from how to start your own magical practice to Hot Wheels skating gear, from podcasting as a work of magic to the psychic influence of the Lost Boys soundtrack... and all whilst Hine and Buckley try their best to uncover and assimilate the source of Doug's seemingly inexhaustible enthusiasm and positivity... Recorded 3 August 2023