VYS0063 | Animaxxing at the End of the World: The Return of Aidan Wachter Show notes

For the final episode of season 4, Hine and Buckley welcome back an all time favourite guest to discuss an all time favourite topic, as Aidan Wachter returns to Vayse to talk about how and why the world is turning to shit right and now, and, importantly, what we can about it.

The day after this episode was recorded, tech-fascist, crap-preaching, man-child, Elon Musk briefly became the world's first trillionaire. Two weeks after recording this episode the UK was in the middle of a three day run of record breaking peaks of June heat. Twenty-three days after recording this episode, convicted felon, professional liar, friend of Jeffrey Epstein and current president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, hosted a narcissistic, self-aggrandising, nationalistic $45 million party whilst the US Military continued strikes on Iran, the constitution continued to be eroded by organised governmental corruption and the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool stagnated in an undeniably on-the-nose visual metaphor.

In this conversation Aidan sets out some of the myriad issues that the world is facing in 2026, his ideas for how animism may be able to point the way towards a better future and how it may be possible to encourage people to discover, commence on and commit to the multi-generational project, whatever it may look like, that may lead humanity out of the dark and frightening mess that it currently finds itself in... (recorded 11 June 2026)

Adiain Wachter Links

VYS0042 | Grinding Out Some Low-End - Vayse to Face with Aidan Wachter
Aidan’s Website
Aidan on Instagram
Aidan’s Patreon
Glymmering (Aidan's Podcast)

Aidan Wachter Backstory Catch-up

Spirit Box #31 / Aidan Wachter, dirt sorcery, Six Ways, Weaving Fate, & Doing what works for you
Spirit Box #62 / Aidan Wachter, on writing, the somnambulist self & the authentic self
Spirit Box #78 / Aidan Wachter, Changeling: A book of Qualities
What Magic Is This? - Spirits With Aidan Wachter
Glitch Bottle #060 - Dirt Sorcery and Six Ways with Aidan Wachter
Glitch Bottle #061 - Sigils, Vessels and Doors with Aidan Wachter | Glitch Bottle
Glitch Bottle #077 - Weaving Fate with Aidan Wachter

Animaxxing at the End of the World

The Gimmering by Elizabeth Hand - Goodreads
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchet - Goodreads
VYS0061 | Talking About Talking About Talking About UFOs
Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems by George Monbiot - The Guardian
Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals by Martin Lukacs -The Guardian
The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change by Nathaniel Rich - The New York Times
Climate Migration Coalition
The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse by Douglas Rushkoff - the Guardian
Planet Critical
The LILI Project
The Truly Sustainable Alternative | Julia Steinberger - Planet Critical
Billionaires and poverty should not coexist - High Pay Centre
Why U.S. Debt Is Incomprehensible by Tom Purcell (gives an idea or orders of magnitude in terms of large sums of money) - Jackson Sun
Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World by Paul Levy - Goodreads
Who is really to blame for climate change? by Jocelyn Timperley- BBC Focus
'I was moderating hundreds of horrific and traumatising videos' by Zoe Kleinman - BBC News
The disturbing rise of Clavicular: how a looksmaxxer turned his ‘horror story’ into fame by Elle Hunt - The Guardian
Andrew Vachss - Wikipedia
Animism - Wikipedia
Aidan Wachter - Animism & Magic
Donald Hoffman on Consciousness and Conscious Agents | Closer To Truth Chats - Youtube
What USAID did, and the effects of Trump's cuts on lifesaving aid - Oxfam
Grace Blakeley - Wikipedia
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom by Grace Blakeley - Goodreads
Jason Hickel - Wikipedia
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel - Goodreads
George Monbiot - Wikipedia
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchinson - Goodreads
Clara E. Mattei - Wikipedia
Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention by Clara E Mattei - Goodreads
Solarpunk - Wikipedia
Afro-punk -Wikipedia
Why does Nigel Farage get to play British politics on easy mode? by Andy Beckett - Guardian UK
Tyson Yunkaporta
Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen
Mythic Serpents & Right Story, Wrong Story with Tyson Yunkaporta - Youtube
Dr. Adder - Wikipedia

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Making her podcasting debut, Hine and Buckley welcome the weird, wonderful and wonderfully weird Edwina Quatermass-Palmer to Vayse. Worker of a job so secret that Hine and Buckley actually know what she does, possessor of the coolest name available to the English speaking world and wearer of a genuinely gravity defying hairstyle, EQP is an original and brilliant thinker, a valuable and treasured member of the Vayse discord community, a musician and rambler on the path less travelled. The conversation moves from early paranormal experiences in the, frankly incredibly named, Christmas Room of the Jacobean house that she grew up in, to her discovery of Crowley, root work and her dabbling in Chaos Magick. One of the most fascinating and unusual facets of EQP is her life-long relationship with the Great God Pan, and she talks in detail about how he appears to her, how he communicates with her and what this has meant to her over the years. The free ranging discussion also touches on the nature of creativity, retro-causality, the art and influence of the late, great David Lynch, and the question on everyone's lips... is EQP CIA?... (Recorded 3 February 2025)

Thanks to EQP for being so candid and open with us on her first podcast and thanks, as always goes to the great Keith, working to make sure that these podcasts make some semblance of sense, one show note at a time. You can follow hom on Blue Sky: @peakflow.bsky.social

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Intro
Missy Elliott - Work It (Official Music Video) - YouTube
Twin Peaks - Man From Another Place - YouTube
VYS0047 | The Weird Review Of The Year 2024
Lost Season 1 DVD Trailer - YouTube
Mad Max: Fury Road - Official Main Trailer - YouTube

Vayse to Face with Edwina Quatermass-Palmer
The Fun Police - Urban Dictionary
The Great “Drone” Flap of 2024 - NUFORC
Anonymous (hacker group) - Wikipedia
Psychological operations (United States)
“How to cause local panic in your city” - @stuffthatlookslikestuff on Instagram
How UFO Reports Change With the Technology of the Times - Smithsonian Magazine
Trump explanation for N.J. drones raises new questions - MSN
Egregore - Wikipedia
Trickster - Wikipedia
Psionics - Wikipedia
Neuralink - Wikipedia
The Unexplained (magazine) - Wikipedia
Winchester Mystery House website
Spontaneous human combustion - Wikipedia
The Green Ladies Enigma - The Witch, The Weird, and The Wonderful
Entropy and life - Wikipedia
Are we really all made of stars? - Live Science
Operation Chastise (the Dambusters Raid) - Wikipedia
A Beginners Guide To Hoodoo Rootwork - Original Botanica
Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia
Pan (god) - Wikipedia
Jacobean era - Wikipedia
Lego Duplo - Wikipedia
Meccano - Wikipedia
The Fisher-Price Action Garage - Medium
You may have already run into a time-travelling version of yourself from the future - BBC Science Focus
Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious by Eric Wargo - Goodreads
Uncanny podcast
Children and the Paranormal - Paranormal Research Forum
The Book of Lies, by Aleister Crowley - Goodreads
Numerology - Wikipedia
A guide to Prince's musical inspiration - The Current
George Michael - A Different Corner (Official Video) - YouTube
Synchronicity - Wikipedia
Why Some Scientists Believe the Universe Is Conscious - Mind Matters
Frequency illusion (Baader–Meinhof phenomenon) - Wikipedia
Manitou - Wikipedia
Autism - Wikipedia
Pheromone - Wikipedia
Richard Dawkins - Wikipedia
Richard Dawson - ‘Scientist’ - Live at Tor Fest 2022, Todmorden Unitarian Church - YouTube
Working With Pan: Greek God of the Wild - Tea and Rosemary
VYS0007 | Too Much to Dream Last Night (incl. Hine’s Pan encounter)
The Great God Pan in Art - John Kruse Blog
Arcadia - Wikipedia
Paganism - Wikipedia
Wicca - Wikipedia
Chaos Magic - Wikipedia
Homeopathy - Wikipedia
The Good-Morrow (John Dunne) - Wikipedia
VYS0042 | Grinding Out Some Low-End - Vayse to Face with Aidan Wachter
Ley line - Wikipedia
Hecate: How To Work With The Goddess Of Magic & Necromancy - Tea and Rosemary
Song of the Dark Man: Father of Witches, Lord of the Crossroads by Darragh Mason
VYS0021 | Song of the Dark Man - Vayse to Face with Darragh Mason
VYSXXXX | The Real Vayse: Halloween 2024
Neoliberalism - Wikipedia
VYS0037 | Elvis with a Flaming Sword - Vayse to Face with AP Strange
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia
Mandala - Wikipedia
David Lynch - Wikipedia
Mulholland Drive (film) - Wikipedia
Mulholland Drive - Official Trailer - YouTube
Eraserhead - Wikipedia
Eraserhead (1977) Trailer #1 - YouTube
Inland Empire (film) - Wikipedia
Inland Empire Official Trailer - YouTube
Presque Vu - Learning Mind
Twin Peaks - Wikipedia
The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost - Goodreads
Philip K. Dick - Wikipedia
A Scanner Darkly - Wikipedia
Valis (novel) - Wikipedia
Ubik - Wikipedia
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Wikipedia
Thinking Impossibly with Jeff Kripal - Daily Grail
The Dreaming (Dreamtime) - Wikipedia
Pareidolia - Wikipedia
Twin Peaks season 3 (The Return) - Wikipedia
The Straight Story - Wikipedia
David Lynch on his lifelong devotion to artmaking - YouTube
Crazy Clown Time - Wikipedia
Boschbot on Instagram
Hieronymous Bosch - Wikipedia
Hidden meanings in The Garden of Earthly Delights - BBC Culture
How to Achieve the Flow State - Psychology Today
David Lynch: The Art Life - Official Trailer - YouTube
David Lynch on routine and creativity - YouTube
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin - Goodreads
Flaubert’s “Be Regular and Ordinary” Quote - Another Panacea

Edwina’s recommendations
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe - Goodreads
Grateful Dead - Wikipedia
Workingman's Dead - Grateful Dead (full album playlist) - YouTube

Buckley’s closing question
Fox Mulder So Damn Hot - YouTube
This is why I'm HOT (Dana Scully) - YouTube

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After an unplanned three month sabbatical, Hine and Buckley are back with a cheeky SideVayse before the main podcast resumes. The first of an on-going series, this SideVayse is the highlights of an hour and a half long catch-up that Hine and Buckley had at the end of May. Hinting at what may be to come in the main Podcast, the discussions dances around favourite Vayse subjects: the nature of Magic, reality and the mind, haunted paintings, conceptual sharks and which is the scariest... Ghostbusters or Ghostbusters 2? (Recorded 20 May 2024)

This episode is inspired by questions posed to Hine and Buckley by participants in the Vayse Discord. To join the incredible, fun and supportive community on the Vayse Discord, get access to extra occult discourse, experiments, group video chats and the unedited version of this episode or just to support the podcast join our ko-fi at: https://ko-fi.com/vayse#checkoutModal.

Pulp magazine - Wikipedia
B movie - Wikipedia
Ghostbusters (1984 film) - Wikipedia
Ghostbusters (1984) Trailer #1 - YouTube
Independence Day (1996 film) - Wikipedia
Independence Day | Official Trailer #1 |1996 - YouTube
Hellier (TV series) - Wikipedia
Hellier: Official Trailer - YouTube
Hellier Seasons 1 & 2 - Planet Weird
Interdimensional UFO hypothesis (Ultraterrestrial hypothesis) - Wikipedia
Models of Magic - Spiral Nature
The Raw Shark Texts - Wikipedia
Steven Hall (author) - Wikipedia
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall - Goodreads
VYS0036 | Infinite Game - Vayse to Face with Joseph Matheny
Dissassociative fugue - Wikipedia
Interview with Steven Hall (2012) - Structo
Egregore - Wikipedia
The Shamanic Journey - Shaman Links
Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia
Sex magic - Wikipedia
Gnosis
Simulation hypothesis - Wikipedia
Quantum mechanics - Wikipedia
Observer effect
Sigil - Wikipedia
List of Ghostbusters characters: Vigo the Carpathian - Wikipedia
List of Ghostbusters characters: Gozer the Gozerian - Wikipedia
Ghostbusters (1984) - Fighting Gozer Scene - YouTube
List of Ghostbusters characters: Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man - Wikipedia
Ghostbusters (1984) - The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man Scene - YouTube
Ghostbusters II - Wikipedia
Original Trailer (1989) | GHOSTBUSTERS II - YouTube
From Painting To Destroyer | The Evolution of Vigo | GHOSTBUSTERS II - YouTube
Wilhelm von Homburg (actor, boxer, wrestler)
The Crying Boy (painting)
Study shows why eyes in some paintings follow viewers - Science Blog
The Real Ghostbusters (comics) - Wikipedia
Terror Dogs: Zuul the Gatekeeper and Vinz Clortho the Keymaster - Wikipedia
Ghostbusters - Zuul in the fridge - YouTube
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire - Wikipedia
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire - Official Trailer (HD) -YouTube
The Real Ghostbusters (animated series) - Wikipedia
The Real Ghostbusters: Complete Collection DVD Trailer - YouTube
Ghostbusters: Afterlife - Wikipedia
Ghostbusters: Afterlife - Official Trailer (HD) - YouTube
Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis by Annie Jacobsen - Goodreads
Annie Jacobsen - Wikipedia
Ingo Swann - Wikipedia
Uri Geller - Wikipedia
Pat Price - Wikipedia
Remote viewing - Wikipedia
Psychological warfare - Wikipedia
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill, with Dan Piepenbring - Goodreads
Vincent Bugliosi - Wikipedia
Helter Skelter (book) - Wikipedia
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi, with Curt Gentry -Goodreads
The Tate-LaBianca Homicide Research Blog: Reeve Whitson
Sharon Tate - Wikipedia
Tate–LaBianca murders - Wikipedia
Phoenix Program (Vietnam War) - Wikipedia
Black Panther Party - Wikipedia
Charles Manson - Wikipedia
MKUltra - Wikipedia
Lee Harvey Oswald - Wikipedia
Sinister Forces- The Nine: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft by Peter Levenda -Goodreads
Sinister Forces Book Three: The Manson Secret by Peter Levenda - Goodreads
Twin Peaks - Wikipedia
Twin Peaks Season 1, Special Edition DVD Trailer - YouTube
Moby Dick - Wikipedia

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