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.

Weird Studies – Incredible podcast and an inspiration
Pentagon UFO releases 2020 – Guardian 26 April 2020
Penny Royal – another of the finest podcasts available to humanity
Hellier – The most important occult TV show of the last decade? Don’t ask questions, just watch it. All of it. Start here
The Pendle Witches - History of the Pendle Witches.
These are the symbols on the summit of Pendle Hill
Grant Morrison at DisinfoCon 2000 – The talk that launched a thousand sigils.
Pop Magic! by Grant Morrison - The essay that launched a million sigils
The Disinformation Book of Lies edited by Richard Metzger - we normally wouldn't link directly to Amazon but the book itself is really expensive now, but you can get a kindle copy for a few quid.
Wim Hoff Method this is the video that Hine has used to charge sigils.
Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine (no relation) - essential primer for Chaos Magic.
I Ching – The Wilhelm/Baynes 3rd edition
What Magic is This? – the most informative magic podcast out there
Weird Studies – On Graham Harman's "The Third Table"
The Eighth Tower by John Keel - Essential text for the Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis
Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallée - Another essential text (and prescribed reading for VYS0004 and VYS0005)
Occult Experiments in the Home by Duncan Barford - a fascinating collection of essays. Also check out Barford's podcast of the same name here
Understanding Chaos Magic by Jaq D Hawkins - ISBN-13: 978-1898307938 - currently out of print
Aleister Crowley and the Aeon of Horus by Paul Weston - Inspirational thinking from one of the best minds in British occultism
Time Loops by Eric Wargo - Paradigm shifting research and theories
Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep by Jennifer Dumpert - exploration of Hypnogogia, sleep and dreams
The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel - An essential text for anyone with even a vague interest in the paranormal (and prescribed reading for VYS0004 and VYS0005)
Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact by Jacques Vallée
What Magic Is This? - How to Start Doing Magic - A great place to start if you're interested in magic
Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self: Interpreting Messages from Your Future by Eric Wargo - learn to harness the precognitive power of your dreams
Six Ways by Aidan Wachter - Probably the best place that you can start if you want to begin your magical practice today
Expanding Mind – Erik Davis' podcast
Consensus Unreality - Excellent and funny podcast about conspiracies and high strangeness. Currently on hiatus after the hosts found themselves in chapel perilous.
Ultraculture with Jason Louv
The Farm Jan 17th 2020 – Allen Greenfield, Paul Weston and Frank Zero talking to Steven Snyder about Hellier
Where Did the Road Go? - Seriah Azkath's podcast exploring the unknown
Euphamet - Jim Perry's podcast on the esoteric and paranormal
Pefkin
Coil
Field lines Cartographer – Dreamtides (prescribed listening for VYS0006)
Earth – The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
Twin Peaks - No single link could do this show justice. Do your own research.
True Detective - Watch season 1.
The Outer Range - science fiction neo-Western
Brand New Cherry Flavour - Netflix Horror Drama
Dark - German science fiction thriller series
The Leftovers - Beautiful, melancholic, indescribable television.
MEN – Alex Garland's 2022 movie.
Last Tuesday Society

Corrections (The only way we learn is by making mistakes...)

1. Hine keeps mispronouncing Crowley (it's Crow-ley - like the bird)
2. When discussing the I Ching, Hine says that a Hexagram is made up of three lines, it's six (the clue is in the name...)

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