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.

Ken Eakins Links

Right Where You Are Sitting Now Podcast
Right Where You Are Sitting Now YouTube Channel
Right Where You Are Sitting Now on Twitter
Right Where You Are Sitting Now on Instagram
Hanged Man Films
Hanged Man Films on Vimeo
Ken Eakins on Instagram
Coincidence Control Network

Other Links

Right Where You Are Sitting Now by Robert Anton Wilson

Out There Radio Podcast - one of the earlier weirdcasts

Right Where You Are Sitting Now Interviewing Out There Radio

DisinfoCast - The Disinformation podcast

John C Lilly - John C Lilly's Wikipedia Page

Right Where You Are Sitting Now Interview with Jon Ronson

John Zorn

Mike Patton

Secret Chiefs Three

The Great Beast: The life and magick of Aleister Crowley - critical biography of Aleister Crowley by John Symonds, currently out of print

The Magical Record of the Beast 666 the Diaries of Aleister Crowley Edited and annotated by Kenneth Grant and John Symonds, also currently out of print

Remembering Aleister Crowley by Kenneth Grant

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers - “Follow your bliss and don't be afraid... doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.”

Augustus Sol Invictus - Wikipedia page for the far right fuckwit and white nationalist in part reponsible for the violence which claimed three lives at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virgina

Mysterious Middle East YouTube Channel

The Magical Revival by Kenneth Grant

Aleister Crowley And The Hidden God by Kenneth Grant

Condensed Chaos: An Introduction to Chaos Magic by Phil Hine

Julian Vayne on Twitter

Right Where You Are Sitting Now Interview with Julian Vayne

Six Ways by Aidan Wachter

Right Where You Are Sitting Now interview with Andrieh Vitimus

Illuminates of Thaneteros - Wikipedia page for the Illuminates of Thaneteros

Right Where You are Sitting Now - Ozark Magic with Brandon Weston

Watkins Books - World Famous Occult Bookshop in London

Sigil Engine - a digital art project by creative team Darragh Mason and David Tidman.

Penny Royal

The Lovecraft Investigations - Modern adaptations of Lovecraft Stories by BBC Radio 4

Phil Hine on Twitter

Pieces of Eight by Gordon White - Use your discretion

Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits by Gordon White - Use your discretion

James Wasserman - Wikipedia Page for James Wasserman, occult author, ultra conservative Thelemite and Trump enthusiast

The Wasteland by Marco Visconti - An article about why he left the OTO

Fitzcarraldo trailer

Aguirre, the Wrath of God Trailer

Klaus Kinski - Wikipedia Page

Right Where You Are Sitting Now - Cults, Conspiracies & Secret Societies with Arthur Goldwag

The Gateway Process - Vice Article

The Gateway Process - CIA Analysis and Assessment

Modern Magick: Twelve Lessons in the High Magickal Arts by Donald Michael Kraig

Right Where You Are Sitting Now - Modern Magick with Donald Michael Kraig

Magic: An Occult Primer by David Conway

Aleister Crowley's Four Books of Magick: Liber ABA by Aleister Crowley

Magick Without Tears by Aleister Crowley

Kenneth Anger on IMDB

Alejandro Jodorowsky IMDB

A Dark Song - Horror movie about the Abramelin ritual

Rune Soup Podcast - Gordon White's podcast - Use your discretion

Astonishing Legends Podcast

Project Archivist Podcast

The Magician and the Fool Podcast

Live from Chapel Perilous with Leroy and Maz

Living Thelema Podcast - David Shoemaker's Podcast

Tanis Podcast

The Black Tapes Podcast

The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost

Limetown Podcast

Serial Podcast

Archive 81 Trailer

Twin Peaks - I don't believe that anyone who has read this far into these show notes hasn't seen Twin Peaks

Buckley's Civil War Ben Horne Tweet

Fire Walk With Me - Extended Blue Rose Cut Trailer

Twin Peaks: The Return Trailer

Nicolas Winding Refn IMDB

Copenhagen Cowboy Trailer

Brighton Pier - The one and only place to take Aleister Crowley should he ever turn up at your door

Special Guest: Ken Eakins.

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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.

The Texts (We will be discussing these books in depth in VYS0004 and VYS0005)

Mothman Prophecies by John Keel
Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallée
The Complete Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts by Allen Greenfield

Other References

Penny Royal
Allen Greenfield appearance on Consensus Unreality podcast
Allen Greenfield appearance on The Farm podcast
Allen Greenfield on Twitter - Worth following, he posts a lot of links to weird news stories and his comments are hilarious
Yeezus by Kanye West – Not going to post a link because he can get litigious and we don't need that kind of heat. A truly awesome album and unlike anything else, he was definitely channelling something…
What Magic is This? - "Aleister Crowley – The Myth and the New Aeon with Richard T. Cole"
The Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley
Liber el Vel Bogus by Richard T Cole
Spirit Box – #11 Marco Visconti
The Philip Experiment - 1972 parapsychology experiment to summon a spirit whose history was entirely fictional
A drawing of Lam by Crowley this was the entity that contacted Crowley during the The Amalantrah Workings
Communion by Whitley Strieber
The English Qaballa - Wikipedia link (I know, but we're very busy and so are you...)
The Magickal Language of the Book of the Law: An English Qaballa Primer by Cath Thompson
The Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts online calculator - give it a go for yourself
Hellier – if we haven't said this enough yet just watch this show
Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons by John Carter (check)
Strange Angel – a TV series and book about Jack Parsons
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Sex Cults and Rocket Science: The Jack Parsons Story
The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost
VALIS by Philip K Dick
The Eighth Tower by John Keel
I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick by Emmanuel Carrère
Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson
Aleister Crowley and the Aeon of Horus by Paul Weston
X-Files – Jose Chung’s From Outer Space (Season 3, Episode 20)
Time Loops by Eric Wargo
Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep by Jennifer Dumpert
Oneohtrix Point Never
Agnes Obel
Field lines Cartographer – Dreamtides
Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know
What Magic is This?
Spirit Box

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