VYS0016 | We Created It By Talking About It - Vayse to Face with Ken Eakins

February 15th, 2023  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 35 mins

aleister crowley, hanged man films, ken eakins, magick, right where you are sitting now, thelema

Slightly intimidated but keen to take notes, in this episode Hine and Buckley interview Ken Eakins, host of the longest running occult podcast out there, Right Where You Are Sitting Now. As well as being a veteran podcaster Ken is also a film maker, Thelemite, former member of the OTO and is generally knowledgeable and well-read on all things weird. The conversation delves deep into topics such as the state of modern Occulture, the best way to start your own magickal practice and what Aleister Crowley has in common with the Kardashians... Recorded 23 January 2023.

VYS0015 | The Green Witch's Guide to the January Blues - Vayse to Face with Jennifer Lane

January 25th, 2023  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 2 mins

It's the bleak midwinter: dark, cold, moods are low and the festive period seems like a year ago already - so who better for Hine and Buckley to catch up with than Jennifer Lane, author of The Wheel: A Witch's Path to Healing Through Nature and upcoming spell book The Witch's Survival Guide: Spells for Healing from Stress and Burnout: Spells for Stress and Burnout in a Modern World? Jenn talks about her journey from the depths of stress-induced illness to fully embracing life as a Green Witch, the deep connections between witchcraft, nature and wellbeing and how anyone can use a little bit of magick to fight off the seasonal blues. Recorded 16 January 2023.

VYS0014 | The Weird Review of the Year 2022

January 5th, 2023  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 41 mins

new year, review of the year, vayse, weird retrospective

To usher out the old year and welcome in the new, Hine and Buckley take a look back at a selection of the weirdest news stories of 2022 and track them against the development of Vayse throughout the year: Fish-falls, haunted AI art, dreaming arachnids and the persistent, bizarre and unfounded claims of Uri Geller - this episode has it all... and more... Recorded 27 December 2022 on location at Shireshead Studio, Lancashire.

SideVayse: SVYS001 | Numinous Melancholy

December 22nd, 2022  |  Season 1  |  29 mins 24 secs

carol of the bells, christmas blues, food banks, inequality, numinous melancholy

Welcome to SideVayse: an extra shot of weird across the bows of an increasingly incohesive reality. This is a place for the oddities that don't quite belong in the main podcast but are still certified 100% pure Vayse. In this inaugural episode of SideVayse Hine talks about his recent musings on Numinous Melancholy, the pleasurable sadness that seems to haunt the winter months, why the feeling is particularly potent this year and what, if anything, can be done about it. Recorded 15 December 2022.

VYS0013 | A Vayse-man Came Travelling - Yule 2022

December 21st, 2022  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 43 mins

servitor, shamanic journeying, shamanism, spirit box

In this noticeably un-Christmassy Christmas episode Hine and Buckley catch up on the events of the past few months. Occult experiments in an Air BnB in Yorkshire? Check. Contact with a mysterious and potentially angry entity on the spirit box? Check. Teaming up with a spirit buddy called Herman? Check. And what is Hine doing taking spiritual advice from frogs, salamanders and bears? Better check for yourself... Recorded 15 December 2022

VYS0012 | Order Out of Chaos - Vayse to Face with Mark Vincent

December 14th, 2022  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 36 mins

chaos magic, chronic pain, consciousness, hypnotism, mark vincent, sigil magic

When Hine and Buckley had the idea to start a podcast about weird stuff in order to re-evaluate their reality this was the exact thing they had in mind. Mark Vincent is a man of many disciplines and much discipline - chaos magician, hypnotist, drummer, Lavey Satanist and purveyor of mind-blowing ideas. What was intended to be a discussion about chaos magic quickly spins off-track and takes a fascinating detour through the hard problem of consciousness, assembly theory, overcoming chronic pain and the pervasive nature of trance through occult practice. If you come away from listening to this episode with your idea of reality intact, then maybe you don't really exist at all... Recorded 21 November 2022.

VYS0011 | Weird Tales - Vayse to Face with Dr Allen H Greenfield Pt.2

November 30th, 2022  |  Season 1  |  58 mins 53 secs

allen greenfield, secret cipher of the ufonauts, synchronicity, terry r wriste, ufos, vayse

In the second part of this two part interview with legendary Occultist and UFOlogist Dr Allen H Greenfield, Hine and Buckley go deep asking questions about: the Black Lodge, the Babalon Working, Hellier and the collapse of Western Civilisation. Allen also recounts unnerving tales of the UFOlogists who died too young and the dangers of research in the field... so, don't try this at home... Recorded 13 November 2022

VYS0010 | Amazing Stories - Vayse to Face with Dr Allen H Greenfield Pt.1

November 23rd, 2022  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 10 mins

allen greenfield, secret cipher of the ufonauts, synchronicity, terry r wriste, ufos, vayse

Occultist or UFOlogist? Teacher or trickster? Keeper of secrets or straight-talking raconteur? Dr Allen H Greenfield is all of these things and infinitely (or a finite very, very large number) more. In this first part of a two-part interview Allen talks about how he first uncovered the potential of the secret cipher, sets the record straight on Gray Barker and Jim Moseley, talks about the plasticity of reality and tells the story of how a single small hoax has the potential to instigate legitimate phenomena on a large scale... recorded 13 November 2022

VYS0009 | If There's Something Weird - Halloween 2022: Ghostbusters

October 31st, 2022  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 31 mins

capitalism, ghostbusters, halloween, lovecraft, neoliberalism, reagan

We got one! Before there was Hellier, before there was Twin Peaks there was Ghostbusters. In this special Halloween episode Hine and Buckley take a deep dive into this cherished classic - the movie that launched a thousand ghost hunting expeditions and at least one podcast about weird stuff. At the remove of 38 years and examined through the lens of Vayse, is Ghostbusters a beloved and harmless comedy blockbuster, a Lovecraftian cautionary tale, or a technicolour Reaganite super-dream? See you on the other side. Recorded 26 October 2022.

VYS0008 | To Hellier and Back - Vayse to Face with Will Salmon

October 12th, 2022  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 35 mins

hellier, penny royal, re-enchantment, synchronicity, will salmon

If there is one common experience in the life of both Hine and Buckley that could be said to have jump-started Vayse into existence, it was watching the TV series Hellier. If there is one person alive right now who could be said to have been directly responsible for Hine and Buckley watching Hellier, that person is writer and journalist Will Salmon. In this episode Hine and Buckley talk to Will Salmon about Hellier, Penny Royal and whether these and other 'media viruses' can be responsible, consciously or unconsciously, for re-enchanting the lives of their audience - "I think we’re at the beginning of a global awakening man..." Recorded 5 October 2022.

VYS0007 | Too Much to Dream Last Night

September 11th, 2022  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 38 mins

goat god pan, hypnogogia, sigil magic, the dark man

It's been less than 2 months since Buckley and Hine recorded VYS0003 but things are quickly getting weirder. Buckley talks about his recent dreamwork, his experiments with hypnagogia and a series of synchronicities at a London gig kickstarted by sigil magic. Hine, unexpectedly grounded from practical magic by the I Ching, recounts his experiences with the Dark Man and the Goat God Pan (one and the same?) dating from all the way back in his childhood to present day. Recorded 4 August 2022.

VYS0006 | Dreamtides - Vayse to Face with Field Lines Cartographer

September 10th, 2022  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 42 mins

cartesian dualism, creativity, dreams, dreamtides, déjà vu, field lines cartographer, free will, ghosts, intuition, time loops

In this inaugural Vayse interview, Hine and Buckley talk to electronic musician, creative dreamer and fellow weirdo Mark Burford aka Field Lines Cartographer. The conversation ranges from how dreams can be part of the creative process to time loops, retrocausality and their implications on the concept of free will to Mark's very own haunted house. Recorded 28 June 2022.

VYS0005 | UFOnauts and Inverted Crosses - The Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis Pt.2

September 9th, 2022  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 25 mins

aleister crowley, allen greenfield, babalon working, jack parsons, ultraterrestrials

As if Magonia and the Mothman weren't weird enough, in the second part of this two-part exploration of the Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis, Hine and Buckley discuss the connections between the phenomena and ritual magic by way of Allen Greenfield's secret cipher, Aleister Crowley's book of the Law and Jack Parson and L. Ron Hubbard's Babalon Working, which may or may not have opened and left open a gateway to another world... Recorded 21 July 2022.

VYS0004 | The Uncanny Vallée and the Unreal Keel - The Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis Pt.1

September 8th, 2022  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 30 mins

jacques vallee, john keel, passport to magonia, the mothman prophecies, the ultraterrestrial hypothesis

What if UFO sightings and alien encounters aren't visitations by creatures from another planet but an experience of entities which surround us all the time but usually remain outside the perception of our five senses? What if the greys and flying saucers are a manifestation of a phenomena known in days gone by names such as fairies, elementals and angles? This is the Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis. In the first part of this two-part study Hine and Buckley explore these ideas by trying to wrap their heads around the work of Jacques Vallée and John Keel. Recorded 21 July 2022.

VYS0003 | Welcome to Vayse, Population 2

September 7th, 2022  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 41 mins

imagination, magick, sigils, vayse, weird

Welcome to Vayse: A podcast about weird stuff... but what is Vayse? In this introductory episode Hine and Buckley discuss how the weirdness crept in, how they are feeding it and why they feel the need to talk about it to strangers... topics include: first experiments with sigil magic, basic dreamwork and corvid visitations. Recorded 16 June 2022.