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VYS0061 | Talking About Talking About Talking About UFOs

Vayse — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:30:00 +0200

VYS0061 | Talking About Talking About Talking About UFOs - Show notes

The truth is out there... sometimes... maybe... well, Hine and Buckley just aren't sure. UFOs, UAPs, Flying Saucers, Alien Spacecraft, whatever you think they are, you don't know for sure - and if you think you do know for sure, it's a sure sign you don't.

What you do know for sure is that you are told a lot of different things about them by a lot of different people: abductees spinning stories of high strangeness, senators pressuring whistle-blowers for information in congress, devoutly religious authors telling tales of angels and demons, folklorists and scholars of comparative religion painting vivid pictures of ancient beings dressed up in the skin of Technicolor sci-fi nightmares... no-one agrees and everyone is out to prove that their interpretation is the right interpretation - but what does any of it actually mean?

In this episode Hine and Buckley don't analyse the verisimilitude of the stories or the veracity of the storytellers but instead examine the discourse around the phenomena or more accurately the discourse around the discourse around UFOs. The mechanisms with which people might think about this topic and the reasons that they may think in that way.

The conversation around UFOs is big business, a lot of people making a lot of money - but who are these people and what happens to that money? Where did it all start? Was it Peter Levenda that stealthily laid the ground work over the last 50 years to shape the UFO movement as we know it today? Why would people lie about this stuff? Why should you believe some conspiracy theorist warning you of the terrible dangers of the existential crisis that UFOs pose anymore than you should trust some conspiracy theorist warning you of the terrible dangers of vaccines and their link to childhood autism?... and if the people who are trying to take control of the discourse are lying, overly-gullible or deluded, then is there really any truth out there at all? (recorded 23 April 2026)

Whitley Strieber - Wikipedia
UFOlogy - Wikipedia
2 Navy Airmen and an Object That 'Accelerated Like Nothing, I've Seen' - New York Times (Pay Wall)
Pentagon UFO Videos - Wikipedia
To the Stars
Peter Levenda - Wikipedia
Sinister Forces by Peter Levenda - Goodreads
Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult by Peter Lavenda - Goodreads
Tom DeLonge - Wikipedia
Jim Semivan - The Sol Foundation
Hal Puthoff - Wikipedia
Luis Elizondo - Wikipedia
The Necronomicon: A Study of Ancient Ritual Magic and Esoteric Grimoire Traditions by Simon - Goodreads
HP Lovecraft - Wikipedia
VYS0036 | Infinite Game - Vayse to Face with Joseph Matheny
Dead Names: The Dark History of the Necronomicon: The Untold Story of Lovecraft's Stolen Grimoire by Simon - Goodreads
Ong's Hat
Sekret Machines by Tom DeLonge and Peter Levenda - Goodreads
Penny Royal Podcast
The Collins Elite/Final Events - Wikipedia
Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia
Helena Blavatsky - Wikipedia
Anton LaVey - Wikipedia
Brandon Sanderson - Wikipedia
Hellier - Youtube
Hyperstition - Wikipedia
ARG - Wikipedia
Kayfabe - Wikipedia
LARPing - Wikipedia
Andrew Collins
Synchronicity - Wikipedia
Cosmic Trigger - Wikipedia
Robert Anton Wilson - Wikipedia
Chapel Perilous - Wikipedia
JFK Assassination - Wikipedia
AP Strange
Steph Quick
Rob Reiner - Who Killed JFK? Podcast
Occam's Razor - Wikipedia
Capitalism - Wikipedia
MrBeast - Wikipedia
Extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia
Psychosocial UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia
VYS0054 | You Can't Make An Omelette Without Breaking A Few Egregores - Vayse to Face with Joshua Cutchin
Joshua Cutchin
Demonic UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia
Buddhism - Wikipedia
The Diamond Sutra - Wikipedia
Mayahna
Buddhism and Quantum Mechanics by Michael Behrens - Sience and Non-Duality
Reality in Buddhism - Wikipedia
The Matrix
The Matrix Trailer - Youtube
UFO of God: The Extraordinary True Story of Chris Bledsoe by Chris Bledsoe
Diana Walsh Pasulka - Wikipedia
Steven M. Greer - Wikipedia
Meditation - Wikipedia
Flow State - Wikipedia
Mindfulness - Wikipedia
Elon Musk - Wikipedia
Jeff Bezos - Wikipedia
Count to a Billion (How I began to grasp the atrocity of Musk) by Susan Duerksen - The Jumping Off Place
Amazon Breaks Record For Lobbyist Spending Amid Anti-Union Drive by Jordan Zakarin - perfectunion.us
Predator - Wikipedia
Predator Trailer - Youtube
Saul Hudson (Slash)
Slash by Slash and Anthony Bozza - Goodreads
Philip K Dick - Wikipedia
John Nash - Wikipedia
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar - Goodreads
A Beautiful Mind (Film) - Wikipedia
A Beautiful Mind Trailer - Youtube
Joan of Arc - Wikipedia
The Schizophrenia of Joan of Arc by Clifford Allen
Schizophrenia - Wikipedia
Temperal Lobe Epilepsy - Wikipedia
Focal Seizures - Epilepsy Action (British Epilepsy Association)
living with the rarest form of epilepsy - reddit
Is AI Really Just a Tool? It Could Be Altering How You See Reality by University of Exeter - Sci-tech Daily
Mirage Men - Wikipedia
Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs by Mark Pilkington - Goodreads
Mirage Men Trailer - Youtube
VYS0020 | Messages of Deception - Vayse to Face with Mark Pilkington
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump - Wikipedia
L Ron Hubbard - Wikipedia
L. Ron Hubbard's 5 Most Impressive Lies (Besides Scientology) by Kristi Harrison - Cracked
Carlos Castaneda - Wikipedia
Laurens van der Post - Wikipedia
More myth than man by JDF Jones - The Guardian
The Trickster and the Paranormal by George P. Hansen
Voices for Vaccines - Website which helps de-bunk harmful misinformation about Vaccines
Autism, Vaccines and Immunization - Autism Today - debunking misinformation about the link between childhood autism and vaccines - spoilers: there isn't a link
VYSXXXX | The Real Vayse: Halloween 2024

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VYS0060 | Pickin' Up Good Vibrations - Vayse to Face with Mark Wagner

Vayse — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0200

VYS0060 | Pickin' Up Good Vibrations - Vayse to Face with Mark Wagner - Show notes

In autumn of 2025 Buckley saw him across a crowded esoteric festival and liked his vibe, he has Hine's lucky number tattooed across his chest, newspapers have reported on his "Big Pyramid Energy" and in this episode Mark Wagner brings his unique collision of philosophies, magicks and creative ambitions to Vayse.

Mark is an artist who lives his art, a hermetic philosopher who navigates the world of the weird with intuition and passion and a mystic who reflects on his magical life with an analytical eye. In this conversation Mark tells Hine and Buckley tales of how he was drawn towards the path less trodden at an early age, his initiation and the role of CG Jung in that awakening, his experiments with sound that led to the creation of the "Sonic Orgasm", applying hermetic teachings to every day life, his techniques for manifesting the life that you want to live, the liberation that can come from confronting your shadow, the language of the birds... and how this all leads directly to Britney Spears... (recorded 2 March 2026)

Mark Wagner Links

Mark's Website
Mark's Instagram
Mystical Tour of London

Pickin' Up Good Vibrations

CG Jung - Wikipedia
The Simon Necronomicon
Mysticism - Wikipedia
Visible Spectrum -Wikipedia
Celestial Mechanics - Wikipedia
Johannes Kepler - Wikipedia
Galileo Galilei - Wikipedia
Isaac Newton - Wikipedia
Isaac Newton's Occult Studies - Wikipedia
Giordano Bruno - Wikipedia
Albert Einstein - Wikipedia
Synchronicity - Wikipedia
Sympathetic Resonance - Wikipedia
Linguistics - Wikipedia
Manifestation (New Thought) - Wikipedia
Neville Goddard - Wikipedia
Mitch Horowitz
Musique concrète - Wikipedia
Pierre Schaeffer - Wikipedia
George Gurdjieff - Wikipedia
Hermeticism - Wikipedia
Florence - Wikipedia
Medici Family - Wikipedia
Hermes - Wikipedia
Hermes Trismegistus - Wikipedia
Alchemy - Wikipedia
Shadow (psychology) - Wikipedia
Jungian Psychology of Self - Wikipedia
Answer to Job by CG Jung - Wikipedia
Tony Soprano - Wikipedia
Individuation - Wikipedia
Mevlevi Order (Whirling Dervishes) - Wikipedia
33 Hz Experience
Transducer - Wikipedia
Kundalini - Wikipedia
The Original 33Hz Sonic Orgasm - Youtube
Master Number 33: The Master Teacher - worldnumerology.com
Vortex Ring (Toroidal Vortex) - Wikipedia
Caduceus - Wikipedia
Pleasure guaranteed: THIS sound - called Great Pyramid Energy - gives you orgasms - The Express
Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion by Harry Sword - Goodreads
Language of the Birds - Wikipedia
Kabbalah - Wikipedia
Om - Wikipedia
Chakra Tones - heavenofsound.com
Sufi Poetry - wahiduddin.net
Max Martin - Wikipedia
Melodic Math 101: The Prince Theory - Max Martin's Secret Weapon - Youtube
...Baby One More Time by Britney Spears
I Want It That Way by Backstreet Boys - Youtube
BABY ONE MORE TIME | Britney Spears cover by Mark Wagner & Rasha Kahil - Youtube
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
What Does "Smells like teen spirit” Mean? | Nirvana Song & Lyrics Explained
Elizabeth Fraser - Wikipedia
Blue Bell Knoll by Cocteau Twins - Youtube
Cocteau Twins Lyrics - cocteautwins.com
Untitled #4 (Njósnavélin) by Sigur Rós - Youtube
Vonlenska - thehouseofvines.com
Troubadour - Wikipedia
You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) by Dead or Alive - Youtube

Mark's Recommendations

Resonance
Resonance on Instagram
Gnod -Wikipedia
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Wikipedia
Everything, Everywhere, All At Once - Trailer - Youtube

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BONUS EPISODE: The PK Files - PKF001 | Hail to the King, Baby

Vayse — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:30:00 +0100

The PK Files - PKF001 | Hail to the King, Baby - Show notes

Submitted for your approval... Welcome to this evening's transmission of... The PK Files...

Beamed from furthest reaches of outer-Vayse, the PK files is a Vayse side-cast, behind the scenes, after hours and completely unscripted - Hine and Buckley talk for precisely one hour (Buckley keeps a close eye on that) about whatever the Peanut King wants them to. As a thanks to the wonderful subscribers to the Vayse Ko-Fi, new episodes of the PK Files will be released monthly - the first episode is available to everyone!

In this episode the conversation turns to the power of narrative, the role of LARPing in the manifestation of the phenomena, why the PK files was created, the importance of finding the spiritual path that is right for you and the role that conscious agnosticism can play in that... and the glorious freedom that comes with BIG TALK (recorded 12 March 2026)

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Tarot Decks used in PKF001

The New Orelans Voodoo Tarot
Clarity Tarot
Bel Senlle's Website
VYS0041 | Technologies of Imagination - Vayse to Face with Bel Senlle

Hail to the King, Baby

VYS0059 | We Can Trance If We Want To - Vayse to Face with Lonnie Scott
Hellier Season 1: Episode 1 | The Midnight Children
They Might Be Giants - Why Does the Sun Shine?
They Might Be Giants - Why Does the Sun Really Shine?

Credits

Voice Work by Douglas Batchelor
Artwork by Bob Freeman
Music and Sound Design by Stephen James Buckley

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VYS0059 | We Can Trance If We Want To - Vayse to Face with Lonnie Scott

Vayse — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:30:00 +0100

VYS0059 | We Can Trance If We Want To - Vayse to Face with Lonnie Scott - Show notes

It's always useful to get a lesson in how it's done, so Hine and Buckley welcome to Vayse an OG of occult podcasting, Lonnie Scott, the host of Weird Web Radio, a show which has now been running for a decade.

Lonnie is a heathen, a hypnotist, award winning tarot reader and Hellier-almuni and occult podfather who has been podcasting since 2016 - interviewing Vayse favourites such as Aidan Wachter, Greg and Dana Newkirk and Mitch Horowitz years before it was cool. The conversation flows quickly from how Lonnie found his way into magic, heathenism and hypnotism to what really happened in the hypnosis session in season 2 of Hellier to how he navigates the complex ethics of hypnosis to whether hypnotists can really implant ideas into the heads of their subject... and the joys of having a book addiction... (recorded 20 February 2026)

Lonnie Scott Links

Weird Web Radio
Weird Web Radio on Instagram
Weird Web Radio on Patreon

Magic and Heathenism

Aidan Wachter
Kevin Smith - Wikipedia
Smodcast Network
Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good by Kevin Smith - Good Reads
Tim Ferriss - Wikipedia
The Tim Ferriss Show
Down at the Crossroads
Sandman Slim Series by Richard Kadrey
Jay and Silent Bob Get Old
Fatman on Batman/Fatman Beyond
Hollywood Babble-On
Ralph Garman - Wikipedia
The Secret Stash
Celtic Magic by D.J. Conway - Goodreads
The Gate Trailer - Youtube
The Gate - Wikipedia
Army of Darkness Trailer - Youtube
Army of Darkness - Wikipedia
The Statanic Bible by Anton LeVay - Goodreads
Sylvia Browne - Wikipedia
Raymond Buckland - Wikipedia
Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft by Raymond Buckland - Goodreads
The Truth About Witchcraft Today by Scott Cunningham - Goodreads
Chaos magic - Wikipedia
Liber Null and Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic by Peter Carroll - Goodreads
Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life by Shakti Gawain - Goodreads
Phil Hine - Wikipedia
Z(Cluster)
Bruce Lee - Wikipedia
Grant Morrison - Wikipeida
Wicca - Wikipedia
Thelema - Wikipedia
Catholic Church - Wikipedia
Peter J. Carroll - Wikipedia
Heathenry - Wikipedia
Runes - Wikipedia
The Necronomicon: A Study of Ancient Ritual Magic and Esoteric Grimoire Traditions by Simon
Norse Mythology - Wikipedia
Futhark: A Handbook of Rune Magic by Edred Thorsson - Goodreads
Stephen Flowers - Wikipedia
My thoughts on Edred Thorsson’s The Big Book of Runes and Rune Magic - Occult Detective
J. R. R. Tolkien - Wikipedia
Yggdrasil - Wikipedia
Buddhism - Wikipedia
Joshua Cutchin
VYS0054 | You Can't Make An Omelette Without Breaking A Few Egregores - Vayse to Face with Joshua Cutchin
Animism - Wikipedia
Baldr - Wikipedia
Frigg - Wikipedia
Loki - Wikipedia
Neoliberalism: the idea that swallowed the world by Stephen Metcalf - The Guardian
Book review: 'Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World' by Jason Hickel - degrowth.info

Hypnosis and Mesmerism

Hypnosis - Wikipedia
Hellier Season 2: Episode 4 | Your Green Man
International Certification Board of Coaches and Hypnotists
Weird Web Radio Episode 45 - Solo Show Talking Hellier Hypnosis Experiments - Youtube
Trump says he will order the release of Pentagon files on aliens and UFOs by Robert Mackey - The Guardian
They told a famous story about being abducted by space aliens. A new book says it’s really about racism by John Blake - CNN
Budd Hopkins - Wikipedia
The Black Vault - Hypnosis in Intelliegnce
The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers by Daniel L. Schacter - Goodreads
Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Vaping: Get Free from JUUL, IQOS, Disposables, Tanks or any other Nicotine Product by Allen Carr with John Dicey - Goodreads
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu - Goodreads
The Century of the Self - Wikipedia
The Century of the Self - Youtube
Edward Bernays - Wikipedia
Are apps designed to be addictive? - UK Addiction Treatment Centres
Confessions of a product designer: How we got you addicted to apps by Phill Keaney-Bolland - linkedin

Lonnie's Recommendations

Six Ways: Approaches & Entries for Practical Magic by Aidan Wachter
The Sorcerer's Secrets: Strategies in Practical Magick by Jason Miller - Goodreads
Besom, Stang & Sword: A Guide to Traditional Witchcraft, the Six-Fold Path & the Hidden Landscape by Christopher Orapello and Tara-Love Maguire - Goodreads
Thorn Mooney - Goodreads
John Beckett - Goodreads
Morgan Daimler - Goodreads
Our Troth Vol. 1 - History and Lore by Kveldúlf Hagan Gundarsson - Goodreads
Our Troth Vol. 2 - Living the Troth by Kveldúlf Hagan Gundarsson - Goodreads
Our Troth Vol. 3 - Heathen Life by Ben Waggoner - Goodreads
A Practical Heathen's Guide to Asatru by Patricia M. Lafayllve - Goodreads
Elves, Witches & Gods: Spinning Old Heathen Magic in the Modern Day by Cat Heath - Goodreads
Integrative Hypnosis: A Comprehensive Course in Change by Melissa Tiers - Goodreads
Keys to the Mind: Learn How to Hypnotize Anyone and Practice Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy Correctly by Richard Nongard - Goodreads
The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker - Goodreads
Weaveworld by Clive Barker - Goodreads
Imajica by Clive Barker - Goodreads
Sacrements by Clive Barker - Goodreads
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - Goodreads
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke - Goodreads
Jim Butcher - Goodreads
Richard Kadrey - Goodreads

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VYS0058 | Queer Devotion - Vayse to Face with Charlie Claire Burgess

Vayse — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:30:00 +0100

VYS0058 | Queer Devotion - Vayse to Face with Charlie Claire Burgess - Show notes

The first Vayse interview of 2026 is with someone that Hine and Buckley have wanted to interview for years, it's none other than Charlie Claire Burgess! As an author and artist working at the intersection of spirituality and queerness, Charlie has written two of the most original and powerful spiritual books of the decade, Radical Tarot and Queer Devotion and has created the Fifth Spirit Tarot Deck, the Gay Marseille Tarot deck and has a third deck, the Aquarius Rising Oracle Deck in the works.

Charlie was super generous with their time and ideas, talking about how tarot was their rebellion against a conservative religious upbringing, how their attempt at conforming with societal norms and expectations left them searching for more and how discovering the way in which their magic and queerness is intertwined led them to finding themselves, others like them and a new direction in life.

The conversation also wanders through Charlie's process in creating the Fifth Spirit Tarot, the importance of self-expression, individuality and authenticity, the magick which can arise from embracing chaos and uncertainty... and why it's always a good time to embrace your inner-teen-goth... (Recorded 15 January 2026)

Charlie's Links

Queer Devotion by Charlie Claire Burgess
Radical Tarot by Charlie Claire Burgess
Fifth Spirit Tarot
The Gay Marseille Tarot
The Aquarius Rising Oracle
Charlie's Website
Charlie's Instagram
Charlie's Bluesky
Charlie's Substack

Charlie's Origin Story

The Craft - Wikipedia
The Craft Trailer - Youtube
Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Wikipedia
Rider Waite Smith Tarot - Wikipedia
Wicca - Wikipedia
Shamanism - Wikipedia
Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America by Margot Adler - Good Reads
Spiral Dance by Star Hawk - Good Reads

Radical Tarot

Fifth Spirit Tarot Images
TransActual
Advocates for Trans Equality
Glossary of Must-Know Sexual Identity Terms by Daniella Amato - VeryWellMind.com
How to Navigate Your Own Privilege by Akeem Marsh, MD - VeryWellMind.com
Learning How to Fall, Or, How Getting Relentlessly Thrown on My Ass Helped Me Learn to Love the Wheel by Charlie Claire Burgess - WordWitch.com
Why we're so terrified of the unknown by David Robson - BBC
The Word Witch Podcast

Queer Devotion

Neoliberalism - Wikipedia
Nationalism - Wikipedia
Individualism - Wikipedia
Community - Wikipedia
‘Everything you’ve been told is a lie!’ Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline by James Ball - The Guardian
How the world loved the swastika - until Hitler stole it by Mukti Jain Campion - BBC News
Cancel Culture - Wikipedia
The dark side of wellness: the overlap between spiritual thinking and far-right conspiracies by Eva Wiseman - the Guardian
Neil Gaiman: accuser files civil lawsuit alleging rape, sexual assault and human trafficking by Sian Cain - the Guardian
JK Rowling says loved ones ‘begged’ her to keep trans views to herself by Ellie Muir - the Independant
Sappho - Wikipedia
Hymn to Aphrodite by Sappho - Translated from Ancient Greek by Katie Byford - Modern Poetry in Translation
A Guide to Being a Trans Ally - LGBT Foundation
10 Ways to Be An LGBTQ+ Ally - BBC
Tarot for Hope by Charlie Claire Burgess
Persecution of transgender people under the second Trump administration - Wikipedia
Anti-transgender legislation accelerates in early 2026 by Alexandra Martinez - Prism

Charlie's Recommendations

Hades - Wikipedia
Orphic Hymns - Wikipedia
Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg - Good Reads
Jordy Rosenberg's Website

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VYS0057 | The Weird Review of the Year 2025 - Part Deux

Vayse — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:30:00 +0100

VYS0057 | The Weird Review of the Year 2025 - Part Deux - Show notes

As the second half of shit-show now know collectively as 2025 crashes and burns, Hine and Buckley read it its last rites as they prepare for the difficult delivery of a bouncing baby 2026.

Ploughing on through the relentless rain of crap that made up the news between July and December they witness the coming of the mysterious cosmic interloper of 3I/Atlas and the incoherent stream of endless nonsense that Avi Loeb chats about it, several more fantastic fungi, a troubled train driver with chronic insomnia, the completely sensible, benign and not-at-all-horror-movie-fodder thawing of ancient organisms from arctic ice, a genuine fake Bigfoot corpse... and despite sightings of triangular UFOs, Lockheed Martin's new drone and a tentacled alien potato in 2025 did humans become too boring for extraterrestrials to bother visiting us at all? (Recorded 26 January 2026)

Thanks to Unexplained Mysteries who do incredible work keeping a record of weird news stories and make these Weird Reviews possible.

July 2025

Toxic Fungus from King Tutankhamun’s Tomb Yields Cancer-fighting Compounds
3I/ATLAS - Mysterious cosmic interloper -LiveScience
Is the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Alien Technology? by Adam Hibberd, Adam Crowl and Abraham Loeb
'Mysterious Black Goo' Found on Ship Docked in Cleveland - IGN
Mystery Figure Dressed as Big Cat on the Prowl - BBC News
Peter Jackson and Colossal Biosciences - IGN
Dan Rivera dies suddenly while on the Devils on the Run Tour - NDTV
Man in Thailand Dies after Consuming Nothing but Beer for Over a Month - Oddity Central
'World's Thinnest Car' is Unveiled in Italy - Road and Track
Turin Shroud was Laid on a Sculpture, Not a Real Body, a New Study Finds - Live Science
Shroud of Turin - Wikipedia

August 2025

New Turin Shroud Study Suggests That it Had Once Wrapped a Body - SciencePG
70th Anniversary of the Kelly-Hopkinsville Goblin Encounter EU-Courier Journal
Kelly–Hopkinsville Encounter - Wikipedia
British Train Driver Oliver Alvis Claims that he Hasn’t Slept Since December 2023 - Bored Panda
Fatal Insomnia - Wikipedia
Sleep State Misperception - Wikipedia
The Goblin Universe by Ted Holiday - Good Reads
Man Claims to Have Found 'Bigfoot remains' in New York State CBS6 Albany
PT Barnum - Wikipedia
Fiji Mermaid - Wikipedia

September 2025

Pentagon Denies Existence of “Yankee Blue” Memo - The Black Vault
Yankee Blue - Wikipedia
Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs - Mark Pilkington - Goodreads
Lockheed Martin unveils advanced stealth combat drone 'Vectis' - Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin - Wikipedia
Wild Footage of a V-Shaped UFO Hovering Over LA - BarstoolSports.com
Avi Loeb: 3I/ATLAS may have been the source of the 'Wow!' signal - Avi-Loeb.medium.com
Wow! Signal - Wikipedia
The Loeb Scale: Astronomical Classification of Interstellar Objects - avi-loeb.medium.com
Tentacled ‘Alien’ Growing From a Meteorite in Panama - Vice

October 2025

First Image Of 3I/ATLAS Captured By Mars Perseverance Rover - NDTV
Scientists Thaw Out 40,000-year-old Organisms Trapped in Arctic Ice - DiscoverWildlife.com
The Thing - Wikipedia
Ice (X-Files Episode) - Wikipedia
Has Intelligent Life Stopped Bothering Trying to Contact Earth? - The Guardian
'My Wife Turns into a Snake at Night' Man Claims in Bizarre Domestic Dispute - Keralakaumudi.com

November 2025

Organ Donors Might Pass On Their Personality Traits - Popular Mechanics
The League of Gentlemen - Wikipedia
Explaining the Unexplainable with Non-local Consciousness - Noetic.org
Avi Loeb: '3I/ATLAS may be delivering alien probes to Jupiter' - avi-loeb.medium.com
Uri Geller - Wikipedia
Independence Day - Wikipedia
Jurassic Park - Wikipedia
US Army's Secretive PSYOP Group Releases Chilling New Video - FaceBook
Fungus Inside Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has Evolved a New Ability - Science Alert
Chernobyl Disaster - Wikipedia
Radiosynthesis - Wikipedia
Man Discovers That His Malfunctioning Car is Packed Full of Hazelnuts - Oddity Central
Filling My PC with Beans and Hiring a Repair Man to Fix it - Youtube

December 2025

Donald Trump Plan to Send Astronauts Back to the Moon - Phys.org
Pentagon Reopens Search for Alleged “Yankee Blue” Memo - The Black Vault
3I/ATLAS Reaches its Closest Approach to the Earth - phys.org
Steven Spielberg Facing Conspiracy Theory His Top-Secret New UFO Movie 'Features Real Aliens' - Radar Online
Steven Spielberg - Wikipedia
Chris Ramsay - Wikipedia
Disclosure Day - Wikipedia
Disclosure Day Trailer - Youtube

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VYS0056 | The Weird Review of the Year 2025 - Part 1

Vayse — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:30:00 +0100

It's that time again - time look back at the year that was, and that was a year that was weird. Hine and Buckley have barely recovered from the horrific ordeal of looking back at 2024 but they bravely get their shit together just about enough to sift through the ragged tatters of weirdness that held together the fabric of reality of 2025.

The Vayse boys encounter the usual suspects: Lue Elizondo, Christopher Mellon, Eric Davis et al, and some new (to the Vayseverse) recurring characters: Mark Christopher Lee, Avi Loeb and the sinister genetics company Colossal Biosciences.

In this dizzying dance through to June of 2025 there are also highly strange encounters with egg shaped UFOs; wooly mice; twitchy dangling robots; foul mouthed relatives of his holiness the Pope; the wreckages of persistent bullshit-talking dullard, Elon Musk's childish, egotistical, spacefaring ambitions; soldiers on the moon... and some mother-fucking snakes on a mother-fucking plane... (recorded 22 January 2026)

Thanks to Unexplained Mysteries who do incredible work keeping a record of weird news stories and make these Weird Reviews possible.

January 2025

Do Scientists Think That Aliens Exist? - Nature.com
The Drake Equation - Wikipedia
Luis Elizondo - Wikipedia
UFO OF God by Chris Bledsoe - Good Reads
The Whistle Blower, Jake Barber, and the Egg UFO - News Nation
Christopher Mellon - Wikipedia
Doomsday Clock is Set To 89 Seconds to Midnight - The Bulletin
Director David Lynch dies at 78 - BBC News
Figures Walking Above Clouds - ABP Live
Brocken Spectre - Wikipedia

February 2025

Asteroid Collision Predicted - The Independent
SETI 30th Anniversary - The Conversation
Fortean Times
Contact - Wikipedia
X-Files - Wikipedia
Twin Peaks - Wikipedia
Independence Day
Clone Robotics Releases Creepy Video - New Atlas
Hellraiser - Wikipedia
Peru Mummies Have Human Teeth - MSN.com
Belief in the supernatural linked to higher stress and distress levels - News-Medical.net

March 2025

Vast City alleged to have been discovered beneath Giza Pyramids - The Mirror
The Controversial Case of Giza’s “Underground City” - Answers In Genisis
The US government has released the final batch of documents on the assassination of President John F Kennedy (JFK) - BBC News
Ten Findings from the Newly-Released JFK Assassination Records - Centre for Politics
Musk Outlines Ambitious Plan to Send Humans to Mars as Early as 2029
Musk Says First Mission to Mars Will Launch Next Year - BBC News
12 times rockets and spacecraft crashed and burned in 2025 - Space.com
Scientists Working on Making Woolly Mammoths Make Woolly Mice

April 2025

Secretive Russian military satellites release mystery object into orbit - Space.com
Pope Francis Died on 21 April 2025 - BBC News
Prophecy of the Popes - Euro News
What Pope Leo Just Said Shocked the World - Charisma
Pope 'Preparing' for First Contact with Aliens This Year, Says UFO Researcher - Mirror
Pizzagate at the Vatican - NY Mag
“I Confessed Everything Short of Murder” — Pope Leo’s MAGA Brother Bares All - The Letters From Leo
A Researcher Says the First UFO Really Crashed in Italy in 1933. And He Has Evidence - Popular Mechanics
Researchers claim Vatican archives hold UFO secrets - Cath News
Diana Walsh Pasulka - Wikipedia
Scientists Announce Dire Wolf Species Has Been Brought Back From Extinction After 10,000 Years - Time
‘They Didn’t De-extinct Anything’: Can Colossal’s Genetically Engineered Animals Ever Be the Real Thing? - The Guardian
Consortium for Space Genetics - Harvard
Jurassic Park - Wikipedia
KLAS News Reports that Jacques Vallee Has Stated That “Aliens are Killing People” - 8 News Now
Jacques Vallée
George Knapp - Wikipedia
Islanders say they cannot escape mysterious humming - BBC News
Yellowjackets - Wikipedia

May 2025

UAP Congressional Briefing on 1 May 2025 - Orbital Today
Unfortunately Lue’s Photo is Now 100% Officially Debunked
Pentagon’s UAP investigators exploring new options to better track and manage confidential reports - DefenseScoop
Russian tourist leaps to death fleeing ‘ghost’ in Pattaya - The Thaiger
Ghosts in Thai culture - Wikipedia
The New UK Disclosure Group Launches - Journalism.co.uk
Most Songs on a Digital Album - Guinness World Records
Unsold £1m album keeps royalties debate open - BBC News
Robbie Williams Breaks The Beatles' Chart Record - BBC News
The King of UFOs in the News - Raindance
The World’s Tallest Dog Met the World’s Smallest Dog - Smithsonian Mag

June 2025

Senior Army Official: 'We Spoke to a Soldier Astronaut on the Moon' - Mens Journal
25th Anniversary of the First Draft of the Human Genome - BBC News
Futurism reported on the Mystery over the rise of AI-fueled delusions
Man Found with 47 Venomous Vipers in Bag at Mumbai Airport - BBC News
Mumbai Arrest: 47 Venomous Vipers Found in Baggage Stuns Airport Security
Common Slow Worm - Wikipedia

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VYS0052 | Goddamn Shit-sucking Vampires - Halloween 2025: The Lost Boys - Vayse to Face with Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

Vayse — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:30:00 +0100

VYS0052 | Goddamn Shit-sucking Vampires - Halloween 2025: The Lost Boys - Vayse to Face with Sorcha Ní Fhlain - Show Notes

"Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die." - Sounds exhausting. This is not how Hine and Buckley do Halloween anymore. So, instead of re-living their twenties, or the Lost Decade, as they call it, they talk to Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn about the greatest horror movie of the 1980s, or the Lost Boys, as they call it.

Sorcha is a film critic, a writer, an academic - a Reader in Film Studies with a specialism in American Film at Manchester Metropolitan University specialising in Gothic Studies and Horror Cinema, with a particular focus on Vampires - and an all-round legend who helps Hine and Buckley get their teeth stuck deep into Joel Schumacher's 1987 masterpiece without getting lost in the gory details (but never over-looking the Corey details).

The Lost Boys stands up well to scrutiny (well, mostly...kind of...) and Sorcha leads a discussion ranging from the transplanting of vampiric folklore from dark-ages Europe to MTV-era USA, the history of the vampire as a metaphor in literature and cinema, the way in which the Lost Boys and contemporary 1980s vampire movies, Near Dark and Fright Night contributed to queer horror, exactly what it is that makes the Lost Boys one of the greatest movies of all time... and what's the deal with the greased up, pumped up, beach-party thrusting sax-player and why is it that he's brilliant? (recorded 6 October 2025)

Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
Sorcha's Website
Sorcha's Instagram
Sorcha's Twitter
Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn - Wikipedia
Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture by Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn - Good Reads
Visions of the Vampire: Two Centuries of Blood-sucking Tales, Edited by Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn and Xavier Aldana Reyes - Good Reads
Clive Barker: Dark imaginer, Edited by Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn - Good Reads
The Worlds of Back to the Future: Critical Essays on the Films, Edited by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn - Good Reads

The Lost Boys
Lost Boys Trailer - YouTube
Lost Boys - Wikipedia
Back to the Future Trailer - YouTube
Back to the Future - Wikipedia
Kiefer Sutherland - Wikipedia
Lost Boys - Michael Super Cut
Jason Patric - Wikipedia
Corey Feldman - Wikipedia
Corey Haim - Wikipedia
Alex Winter - Wikipedia
Vampire - Wikipedia
Clive Barker - Wikipedia
The X-Files Trailer - YouTube
The X-Files - Wikipedia
Fright Night Trailer - YouTube
Fright Night - Wikipedia
Interview With the Vampire Trailer - YouTube
Interview With the Vampire - Wikipedia
Our Vampires, Ourselves by Nina Auerbach
Near Dark Trailer - YouTube
Near Dark - Wikipedia
Twilight Trailer - YouTube
Twlight - Wikipedia
True Blood - Trailer
True Blood - Wikipedia
Thomas Ligotti - Wikipedia
Dracula - Wikipedia
Zombie - Wikipedia
John William Polidori - Wikipedia
The Vampyre - Wikipedia
Lord Byron - Wikipedia
Frankenstein - Wikipedia
Mary Shelley
Nosferatu - Wikipedia
F. W. Murnau - Wikipedia
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson - Wikipedia
Dracula (1931) Trailer - YouTube
The Hunger Trailer - YouTube
The Hunger - Wikipedia
Whitley Strieber - Wikipedia
Michael Chapman (cinematographer) - Wikipedia
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series) - Wikipedia
Joel Schumacher - Wikipedia
St. Elmo's Fire (film) - Wikipedia
St. Elmo's Fire Trailer - YouTube
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992 film) - Wikipedia
Bram Stoker's Dracula Trailer - YouTube
Dianne Wiest
Tim Cappello - Wikipedia
I Still Believe by Tim Cappello
"30 Years Ago, The Lost Boys Introduced Me to Queer Cinema" by Alcy Leyva - Bright Wall/Dark Room
"The Night Has its Price: The Queer Fangs of ‘Near Dark’" by Brant Lewis - Dread Central
"THE BOYS NEXT DOOR: The Homoeroticism of Fright Night and how it saved my life" by Glenn McQuaid - Gayly Dreadful
Family Ties - Wikipedia

Sorcha's Recommendations
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Let the Right One In Trailer - YouTube
Let the Right One In (film) - Wikipedia
Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture by Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn - Good Reads
Our Vampires, Ourselves by Nina Auerbach
Celluloid Vampires: Life After Death in the Modern World by Stacey Abbott - Good Reads
Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator by Heather O. Petrocelli - University of Wales Press

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VYS0050 | One And The Same - Vayse to Face with Peter C Hine

Vayse — Wed, 28 May 2025 19:30:00 +0200

VYS0050 | One And The Same - Vayse to Face with Peter C Hine - Show Notes

By some miracle Hine and Buckley have made it to episode 50 and to make the occasion they welcome to Vayse close collaborator and friend of the show, Peter C Hine. Peter is a podcaster, writer and musician from Manchester UK. Together with Stephen James Buckley he co-founded Vayse, a podcast about weird stuff, now celebrating it's 50th episode. The conversation flows from how Vayse was formed, how Peter first became interested in all things weird, why his magical practice is on pause, how deep disillusionment with the current occult scene runs, what does the future hold for Vayse and just how many time can he mention Six Ways, Hellier and Penny Royal in a single interview? (Recorded 22 May 2025)

Thanks to all our guests over the last 50 episodes and to everyone who has listened. Thanks as always to Keith for sorting out the show notes - you can find him on Bluesky here: @peakflow.bsky.social

Buckley’s/Hine’s Intro

Elon Musk's 14 Children: All About the Tesla CEO's Sons and Daughters and the 4 Women He Shares Them With - People.com
If Amazon is serious about climate change, why is it ignoring tropical forests? - Forest500
Digital Doppelgangers: Instagram Tests Creator-Made AI Clones - Forbes.com

Vayse to Vayse with Peter C. Hine

Peter’s recommendations (and music project)

Ted Lasso Official Trailer | Apple TV+ - YouTube
Reservation Dogs Season 1 Trailer | Rotten Tomatoes TV - YouTube
Dead Pioneers - Bandcamp
Warfare | Official Trailer HD | A24 - YouTube
Crash, by J.G. Ballard - Goodreads
Canvas Bodies | Cuckoo - YouTube

Buckley’s closing question
???!!!

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VYS0049 | Machines of Loving Vayse - Vayse to Face with Sequoyah Kennedy v2.0

Vayse — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:30:00 +0100

VYS0049 | Machines of Loving Vayse - Vayse to Face with Sequoyah Kennedy v2.0 - Show Notes

Imagine, if you will, a world burning as society crumbles (is this stretching you?), in the perpetual, scorched twighlight of a dying planet, the determined foot of a tall figure crushes a skull on a landscape forged of human bones - that foot belongs to Sequoyah Kennedy and the human bones are the vestiges of the common myths and misunderstandings about artificial intelligence... apparently AI's are better than humans at devising effective metaphors in order to convey useful information - and we'll have to hope for their sake that's true.

In this episode Hine and Buckley invite back to Vayse one of the most intelligent and articulate humans in the material world, Sequoyah Kennedy. Since the Nonsense Bazaar ended SK has gone deep down the rabbit hole of large language models and has returned to help Hine and Buckley get their heads round what artificial intelligence actually means in 2025 and dismisses some of the ubiquitous confusion which surrounds the topic: is the best use of AI as personal assistant and unpaid artists? Are there demons haunting cyberspace? Do androids dream of electric sheep? and he touches on one of the big questions of our time - are we all in very real danger from this soulless, characterless mockery of human ingenuity with no empathy, no conscience and no soul... or will Elon Musk just finally piss off so that we can live in glorious harmony with our wonderful, wise robot buddies? (recorded 11 March 2025)

Thanks to Sequoyah for his patenience in explaining these ocmplex ideas to two middle-aged luddites and thanks, as always to Special K - the man who makes sense of our ramblings, Keith who once again did a sterling job of the show notes. You can give him a follow on Blue Sky here: @peakflow.bsky.social

Sequoyah Kennedy online

Sequoyah's Patreon - Find the links to SK's custom chatbots and other great content here
Empyrean Dream Machines substack
Sequoyah on Twitter/X
Sequoyah on Instagram
The Nonsense Bazaar podcast - Podtail

Hine’s (?) Intro

AI Voice Cloning: Is It the Future or a Cybersecurity Nightmare? - Neil Sahota

Vayse to Face with Sequoyah Kennedy

What is Late-Stage Capitalism? - The Balance
ArtificiaI Intelligence - Wikipedia
Battlestar Galactica | The Cylons Arrive on New Caprica - YouTube
AI with personality — Prompting ChatGPT using Big Five Personality Model values - Medium
Ong’s Hat Compleat - JosephMatheny.com
Ong's Hat: COMPLEAT, by Joseph Matheny, Sequoyah Kennedy - Goodreads
The Nonsense Bazaar 62 - Written By Artificial Intelligence - Podtail
Recommender system - Wikipedia
Relational database - Wikipedia
Facial recognition system - Wikipedia
Large language model - Wikipedia
Are LLMs Just Fancy Autocomplete? Here’s Why It Might Look That Way - Medium
Andrej Karpathy - Intro to Large Language Models - YouTube
Attention mechanism - Geeks for Geeks
Vector space - Wikipedia
Generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) - Wikipedia
Claude (language model) - Wikipedia
ChatGPT - Wikipedia
Llama website (open-source AI models)
Python (comp lang)
Why Can't AI Count the Number of "R"s in the Word "Strawberry"? - HackerNoon
Gods in the machine? The rise of artificial intelligence may result in new religions - The Conversation
Robert Anton Wilson - Wikipedia
Hunter S. Thompson - Wikipedia
From pixels to realism: the evolution of video game graphics - Mainleaf
The Green Dilemma: Can AI Fulfil Its Potential Without Harming the Environment? - Earth.org
The Uneven Distribution of AI’s Environmental Impacts - HBR.org
Almond Milk vs. Cow's Milk: Which Is More Environmentally Friendly? - Treehugger
Elon Musk warns AI could cause ‘civilization destruction’ even as he invests in it - CNN Business
Grok-3 website
Elon Musk's AI assistant Grok roasts its creator - Mashable
Claude AI website
Anthropic (company) - Wikipedia
Amanda Askell’s website
Genie from Aladdin (Robin Williams) - YouTube
Pareidolia - Wikipedia
Artificial consciousness - Wikipedia
Frankenstein’s Monster, AI, and the Perils of Innovation - Medium
David Lynch - Wikipedia
Kundalini - Wikipedia
William S. Burroughs: "Language is a virus from outer space" - FixQuotes
David Grusch UFO whistleblower claims - Wikipedia
Diana Walsh Pasulka - Wikipedia
DARPA - Wikipedia
UFO Twitter
Psilocybin & OCD: Can psychedelics treat obsessive compulsive disorder? - New Atlas
Kabbalah - Wikipedia
Taoism (Daoism) - Wikipedia
AI in 2024: Reaching the Point of Super-Persuasion - YouTube
Cambridge Analytica - Wikipedia
Quantum mysticism - Wikipedia
Google Gemini website
VYS0047 | The Weird Review Of The Year 2024
Don’t be evil (Google motto) - Wikipedia
Rhode Island - Wikipedia
UAP recovery video shows ‘egg-shaped’ object - YouTube
Tarot - Wikipedia
I Ching - Wikipedia
Artificial Intelligence Could Finally Let Us Talk with Animals - Scientific American
Anthropic’s Claude AI is playing Pokémon on Twitch…slowly - TechCrunch
Reality tunnel - Wikipedia
AI through the lens of neurodiversity - Medium
Neural network (machine learning) - Wikipedia
Skynet (Terminator) - Wikipedia
Data (Star Trek) - Wikipedia
The Shamanic Journey - Shaman Links
Aidan Wachter’s website
VYS0042 | Grinding Out Some Low-End - Vayse to Face with Aidan Wachter
The Eagle River Incident (Joe Simonton and the Space Pancakes)
Co-Creation of Reality, Consciousness Evolution, and the Hierarchy of Consciousness in the Cosmic Synthesis Theory (CST) Model - Medium
Information space - Wikipedia
The Imaginal Realm - Imaginal Journeying
The Secret Commonwealth: An Essay of the Nature and Actions of the Subterranean (and, for the Most Part) Invisible People, Heretofore Going under the Name of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies, by Robert Kirk - Goodreads
Meme - Wikipedia
The Power of Language: How Words Shape Our Reality - Medium
AIs are becoming more self-aware. Here's why that matters - AI digest
Jinn - Wikipedia
Live action role-playing game (LARP) - Wikipedia
TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, by Erik Davis - Goodreads
Hermetic Qabalah - Wikipedia
Four Worlds (spiritual realms) - Wikipedia
The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford: Dilettante's Guide to What You Do and Do Not Need to Know to Become a Qabalist, by Lon Milo DuQuette - Goodreads
Twin Peaks - Red Room Full Scene HD - YouTube
Morphine - Like a Mirror - YouTube
A hilarious new Harry Potter chapter was written by a predictive keyboard, and it's perfect - Mashable
Great Filter - Wikipedia
This Wild, Believable Theory Suggests AI Is Blocking Us From Alien Contact - Inverse
VYS0048 | Chinese Sex Balloons - Vayse to Face with Edwina Quatermass-Palmer
Adama's 'So Say We All' Speech - Battlestar Galactica - YouTube

Sequoyah’s recommendations (and other stuff)

ChatGPT website
Sequoyah's Patreon - You can find the links to SK's custom chatbots here
Wind of Change podcast
Under the Silver Lake - Wikipedia
Under the Silver Lake | Official Trailer HD - YouTube
Robert Monroe (The Munroe Institute) - Wikipedia
Songs in the Key of Vayse compilation - Bandcamp

Buckley’s closing question

Data - Best Moments - YouTube
The Best of Bender - YouTube
Short Circuit 1 and 2 - Best of Johnny 5 - YouTube

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VYS0048 | Chinese Sex Balloons - Vayse to Face with Edwina Quatermass-Palmer

Vayse — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:30:00 +0100

VYS0048 | Chinese Sex Balloons - Vayse to Face with Edwina Quatermass-Palmer - Show Notes

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

EQP online
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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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VYS0047 | The Weird Review Of The Year 2024

Vayse — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:30:00 +0100

VYS0047 | The Weird Review Of The Year 2024 - Show Notes

[Caution: This episode contains an extreme weariness for bullshit that some listeners may find triggering] 2024 was a tough year, weird but tough. And looking back over it doesn't make it any better. In what amounts to a rapid and inexorable descent into madness Hine and Buckley pick apart the weird and, frankly, fucking dystopian year that was 2024. Bouncing between jaded despair and hysterical mania the Vayse boys mull over the topics that dominated 2024: UFOs, Artificial Intelligence and Elon Fucking Musk. Whilst stumbling around in the intoxicating embrace of the seemingly endless darkness they also uncover strange stories of interconnected dreams, robot dogs with flame throwers, robot faces with living skin, bowls of goo with pong skills, plots to genetically engineer super-sheep, a surprising number of goblin attacks and perhaps, maybe, possibly a giant lake dwelling cow...? Recorded 22 January 2025

Massive thanks to Keith who had to tackle the show notes for this long and difficult episode - you can follow him at: @peakflow.bsky.social

As usual, the news stories in this episode were sourced from the weird and wonderous website: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/ - bookmark it and check it daily.

Hine’s Intro

How Far Have You Travelled? - Michael Owen Carroll
Oligarchy - Wikipedia
A Wizard of Earthsea: True names - Wikipedia
What Is Late-Stage Capitalism? - The Balance
Animal Farm - Wikipedia

January

‘Jellyfish’ UFO
MoD expert gives surprising verdict on ‘Jellyfish UFO’ hovering over Iraq - Metro
Jellyfish UFO Analysis by Mick West - YouTube
"Those Are Balls" - Arrested Development - YouTube

Neuralink human brain implant
Elon Musk's Neuralink implants brain chip in first human - Reuters
Brain implants: what are the ethical issues of wiring up our minds? - Unexplained Mysteries
March 2024 - Neuralink video shows patient using brain implant to play chess on laptop - The Verge

Stanford hypnosis booster
Stanford Hypnosis Integrated with Functional Connectivity-targeted Transcranial Stimulation (SHIFT): a preregistered randomized controlled trial - Nature
Stanford scientists boost hypnotizability with transcranial magnetic brain stimulation - PsyPost
VYS0041 | Technologies of Imagination - Vayse to Face with Bel Senlle
Derren Brown’s Most Incredible Hypnosis Tricks - YouTube

February

Lucid dreamers control virtual Cybertruck
Two-way control of a virtual avatar from lucid dreams - REMSpace
Severance - Official Trailer - YouTube

Plasma lifeforms in our skies?
Scientists Suggest WWII "Foo Fighters" Were Plasma Forms - Coast to Coast
Extraterrestrial Life in the Thermosphere: Plasmas, UAP, Pre-Life, Fourth State of Matter - SCIRP
How to Identify a Dark Matter Lifeform - Medium
Origins of the Gods: Qesem Cave, Skinwalkers, and Contact with Transdimensional Intelligences by Andrew Collins & Gregory L. Little - Goodreads
A New Science of Heaven by Robert K.G. Temple - Goodreads
The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained by Whitley Strieber & Jeffrey J. Kripal - Goodreads
The Cryptoterrestrials by Mac Tonnies - Goodreads
Non-Living Intelligence: Cracking The Code For Materials That Can Learn - Astrobiology.com
A brief history of ontological shock - Unhidden.org
Animism - Wikipedia

Oklahoma Thundercow
Video: Mysterious "Thundercow" Becomes Local Legend in Oklahoma

AI explains how to catch a Bigfoot
Bigfoot can be caught with 'giant net' and 'Bigfoot suit' as advice issued - MSN
Usborne’s World of the Unknown: Monsters - Goodreads

March

ASMR - Wikipedia

Skinwalker Ranch investigated by AARO?
Did AARO Just Confirm The US Government Officially Investigated Skinwalker Ranch? - Unexplained
Diana Walsh Pasulka - Wikipedia
Gary Nolan - Wikipedia
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - Goodreads

When goblins attack!
Horror Film Come to Life: Goblins Terrorise Bulawayo Family, Children Beaten, Food Vanishes - iHarare
Otherworld podcast

Montana ‘Frankensheep’
Montana rancher pleads guilty to ‘frankensheep’ wildlife crimes - AGDaily
Ungulate - Wikipedia
Liger - Wikipedia

Bigfoot in Devon?
Mysterious ‘Bigfoot’ prints found along Torquay coast path - Devon Live
Jan 2025 - UAP recovery video shows ‘egg-shaped’ object - YouTube

April

Australian Govt declares no interest in UFOs
Australian Dept of Defence drops 10-page UFO dossier - The Mandarin
Skinwalker Ranch - Wikipedia
Religion in Twin Peaks: Native American Beliefs - Fire Walk With Me

Thermonator: Rise of the Machines
Ohio company to sell a ‘flamethrower-wielding robot dog’ called the Thermonator - The Guardian
May 2024 - Robot dogs armed with AI-aimed rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation - Ars Techina
Are we living in a dystopia? - The Conversation
Handmaid’s Tale Season One trailer - YouTube

Fear and non-humans in Las Vegas
Las Vegas ‘nonhuman, UFO’ encounter ‘traumatizing,’ teen says - News Nation
American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology by D.W. Pasulka - Goodreads
Jan 2025 - Whistleblower reveals UAP retrieval program; object caught on video | NewsNation - YouTube

Morbid masqueraders
‘AI death calculator’ creators issue urgent warning about frighteningly accurate tool - NY Post

Dirty fuel
Harwich factory to make jet fuel out of faeces in world first - BBC News

Robbie Williams: He’s The One
Robbie Williams thinks aliens are targeting him because he's so famous and can help them - Daily Star
Robbie Williams - Better Man | Official Trailer (2024 Movie) - YouTube
VYS0045 | This Is Not The End Times; This Is A Rescue Mission - Vayse to Face with Bob Cluness
The Unseen Grant Morrison - Intensive Care (Robbie Williams’ album design)

May

UAP Transparency Act introduced
Rep. Burchett introduces UAP Transparency Act - House.gov
2023 - ‘Crazy Plane Lady’ Tiffany Gomas Opens Up About Viral Meltdown on Plane in Exclusive Interview - Inside Edition
June 2024 - Hailey Welch (hawk tuah girl) - Wikipedia

Vatican issues new guidelines on weird stuff
Vatican tightens rules on supernatural phenomena - BBC News

AI to blame for lack of alien contact?
AI may be to blame for our failure to make contact with alien civilisations - The Conversation

Turing test passed for first time?
GPT-4 has passed the Turing test, researchers claim - Live Science

I’m not a doppelgänger says Lavigne
Avril Lavigne responds to bizarre conspiracy theory she died 20 years ago and was replaced by body double - The Standard

Chinese ‘pandas’ were spray-painted dogs
Chinese zoo under fire after dyeing dogs black and white for 'panda' exhibit - Sky News
Sept 2024 - Moo Deng - Wikipedia

E.M. phone home
Elon Musk Claims "I Am an Alien" Promises To Share Proof Online - Mashable

More goblin attacks

Police officers in Zimbabwe desert station citing goblin attacks - Cite
Bizarre footage shows alleged "goblin" running across a road in Mexico - Unexplained Mysteries

June

10% chance of Cryptoterrestrials existing says Harvard study
UFOs May Be Evidence Of "Cryptoterrestrials" Secretly Living Among Us - IFL Science
The Cryptoterrestrials by Mac Tonnies - Goodreads

Robot faces made of living skin
Faces made of living skin make robots smile - BBC News
Perforation-type anchors inspired by skin ligament for robotic face covered with living skin - Cell.com

Nevada monolith
Mysterious monolith appears in Nevada desert - BBC News
Mexican BVM statue ‘cries tears of blood’
Mystery as Virgin Mary statue "cries tears of blood" as church investigates "alleged miracle" - Irish Mirror

25-foot-tall rideable bike breaks record
Record-breaking 25-foot-tall rideable bike built by two friends - Guinness World Records

July

Alleged Roswell metallic specimen analysed
Pentagon Publishes Report on Material From an Alleged Alien Aircraft - Gizmodo
AARO: Supplement to Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Analysis of a Metallic Specimen, July 2024

MUFON claims to have material of ‘non-human’ origin
Lighter than petal alien spacecraft's debris is on Earth. UFO hunters say it has 'non-human' origin - WION

Mars may have hosted microbial life
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Scientists Find Intriguing Mars Rock - NASA.gov

Proposed seed repository on the moon
Scientists propose lunar biorepository as ‘backup’ for life on Earth - The Guardian

South Korea develops remote mind-control device
New Technology to Control the Brain Using Magnetic Fields Developed - IBS
Moscow Signal - Wikipedia
Peter Levenda - Wikipedia
Havana Syndrome - Wikipedia

Extreme eater dies during livestream
Extreme eater, 24, dies during livestream of 10-hour food binge after her stomach ripped open - LBC

August

Man found dead on beach surrounded by headless chickens
Man found dead after performing ‘black magic ritual’ on decapitated chickens - Metro

Early ‘hobbit’ hominins shorter than we thought
Archaic human "hobbits" were even shorter than we thought, 700,000-year-old teeth and bone reveal - Live Science

Stonehenge ‘altar stone’ came from Scotland
Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds - The Guardian
Spinal Tap: Stonehenge - YouTube

Liquid water found under surface of Mars
Liquid water in the Martian mid-crust - PNAS
Reservoir of liquid water found deep in Martian rocks - BBC News

Yet another goblin attack
Bizarre video reportedly shows 'goblin' that attacked farm worker - Unexplained Mysteries

Scientists train goo to play computer game
Electro-active polymer hydrogels exhibit emergent memory when embodied in a simulated game environment - Cell.com
Scientists Trained a Lump of Goo to Play Pong - Gizmodo

September

First civilian spacewalks
SpaceX Makes History With First Spacewalks Ever by Private Citizens - Science Alert

Prince Philip fails to meet alien
Prince Philip was ‘meant to meet an alien called Janus in a Chelsea flat’ - Metro

Flurry of activity at Loch Ness
Mystery creature filmed moving across the surface of Loch Ness - Unexplained Mysteries
Loch Ness Monster encounter as shocked swimmer feels Nessie brush up against him - Daily Record
June 2024 - Huge search for the Loch Ness Monster claims to have found "unexplainable" new evidence - The Scotsman
Oct 2024 - Monstrous disturbance recorded at Loch Ness - LochNess.com
Oct 2024 - Loch Ness Monster spotted in "unprecedented" video that "can't be anything else" - Edinburgh Live

First lucid dream communication
Breakthrough from REMspace: First Ever Communication Between People in Dreams - Business Wire
A historic milestone: Two people communicate in dreams - Tech Explorist

Moon affected by COVID-19 pandemic
Effect of COVID-19 global lockdown on our Moon - Oxford Universty Press
COVID-19 Pandemic Affected the Moon, Scientists Claim - Futurism

October

Trump protected against spells say witches
Witches Report Their Spells Against Trump Aren't Working: "He Has a Shield" - CBN

100 right-footed shoes stolen
Mystery over why shoe thief stole 100 right-footed shoes - Metro

Viral pyramid pup
This Pup Is Going Viral for Climbing to the Top of an Egyptian Pyramid - Smithsonian Magazine

Animals get drunk more frequently than we thought
Drunk animals far more common than previously thought, scientists say - The Independent
The evolutionary ecology of ethanol - Cell.com

Extraterrestrial life could be thriving near Uranus
Constraining Ocean and Ice Shell Thickness on Miranda from Surface Geological Structures and Stress Modeling - IOP Science

November

Tucker Carlson ‘physically mauled’ by ‘demon’
Tucker Carlson claims a ‘demon’ attack left him bleeding in bed - The Guardian

43 monkeys escape lab
South Carolina Residents Told to Secure Their Homes After 43 Monkeys Escape Lab - Gizmodo

AI tells student: “Please die. Please.”
Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." - CBS News

690452 TikTok trend explained
What does 690452 mean? The TikTok trend explained - Capital FM
How to Play the Elevator Game (and Survive the Otherworld) - WikiHow
We're All Going to the World's Fair | Official Trailer - YouTube

Alex Jones’ Infowars bought by The Onion
The Onion purchases Alex Jones' Infowars at bankruptcy auction - Unexplained Mysteries
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting conspiracy theories - Wikipedia

Drone-cember

US Air Force bases in UK swarmed by drones
Mystery drones swarmed US Air Force base for 17 consecutive nights - Unexplained Mysteries
What's going on with drones spotted over air bases in the UK? - Sky News

New Jersey drone flap
FBI joins hunt for answers behind nightly drone sightings in New Jersey - NBC New York
"I don't buy it": Americans want answers on possible drone sightings - BBC News
Live action role-playing game (LARP) - Wikipedia
Ong’s Hat: Compleat - Incunabula
UK sets out position on unidentified aerial phenomenon - UK Defence Journal

‘Mirror life’ microbe research poses threat to life on Earth
‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research - The Guardian

Tomb of ‘real Santa Claus’ discovered
Sarcophagus of ‘real Santa Claus’ found at St. Nicholas Church in Turkey - Archaeology News

Buckley’s closing question
…..

Vayse online
Website
Twitter
Bluesky
Instagram
Bandcamp (Music From Vayse)
Ko-Fi
Email: vayseinfo@gmail.com

VYS0046 | Ding Dong Merrily On High Strangeness - Vayse to Face to Face with Stephanie Quick and AP Strange: Christmas 2024

Vayse — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 19:30:00 +0100

VYS0046 | Ding Dong Merrily On High Strangeness - Vayse to Face to Face with Stephanie Quick and AP Strange: Christmas 2024 - Show Notes

Ho, ho, holy shit that's another year gone and Christmas is here again! To mark the ever-increasing speed at which the years fly past in a blur of spiralling anxiety and gathering doom, Hine and Buckley invite two of the nicest, wisest and funniest people in Weirdosphere, Stephanie Quick and AP Strange, to help them celebrate away the winter blues.

Drawing on the British tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas, Hine, Buckley, Strange and Quick (also the title of the upcoming Vayse autobiography) work their way around the cardinal points, each telling a ghost story from the place in which they were born: the North and South of England and the East Coast and West Coast of the US. There are tales of a murderous jester who stalks the corridors of a Cumbrian castle to this day; a red haired woman who haunting a pirate-built cottage in New England; a missing bride at a Christmas wedding in a very haunted stately home in Hampshire; and a revolutionary Californian abolitionist who still throws nuts from trees over 120 years after her death... and they discuss three lesser known British winter traditions: Raymond Briggs' Snowman, ignoring Thanksgiving and moaning about the weather... (recorded 8 December 2024)

Thanks to AP and Steph for preparing the stories and thanks to Keith for another year of show notes - follow the man on Blue Sky: @peakflow.bsky.social.

Merry Christmas everyone, thanks for listening!

Steph Quick online

Ghost Dog is a Mystery Box (Steph’s blog)
Steph on YouTube
Steph on Instagram
Steph on Facebook
Steph on Bluesky

AP Strange online

AP Strange's Weird Writings
The AP Strange Show podcast
AP on YouTube
AP on Instagram
AP on Bluesky

Hine’s intro

A Visit from St. Nicholas - All Poetry
VYS0013 | A Vayse-man Came Travelling - Yule 2022
VYS0028 | Psychic Jizz - Vayse to Face with Stephanie Quick
VYS0037 | Elvis with a Flaming Sword - Vayse to Face with AP Strange

A short history of the Christmas ghost story

Yule - Wikipedia
A Christmas Carol - Wikipedia
The Pickwick Papers
The Story Of The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton (BBC Radio Drama) - Archive.org
A Ghost Story for Christmas (BBC anthology series) - Wikipedia
M.R. James - Wikipedia
Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad - Wikipedia
Whistle And I'll Come To You - Dream Sequence (BBC Omnibus 1968) - YouTube

Buckley’s ghost story: The Murderous Jester of Muncaster Castle

Muncaster Castle - Wikipedia
Cumbria - Wikipedia
VYSXXXX | The Real Vayse: Halloween 2024
Thomas Skelton: The Murderous Jester of Muncaster Castle - Haunted Palace
The Remains of John Briggs, containing Letters From the Lakes, Letter XI: Muncaster Hall - Archive.org
Fool of Muncaster - Muncaster.co.uk
Thomas Ligotti - Wikipedia
Morecambe Bay cockling disaster - Wikipedia
Jester - Wikipedia

AP’s ghost story: Ocean Born Mary

New England - Wikipedia
In search of Stephen King in New England, US - Roadbook
H.P. Lovecraft - Wikipedia
Barney and Betty Hill incident - Wikipedia
Bridgewater Triangle - Wikipedia
Dover Demon - Wikipedia
Salem witch trials - Wikipedia
The Great New England Vampire Panic - Smithsonian
Bigfoot in New England: Sixty-Seven Credible Sightings? - New England Folklore
The Great New England Sea Serpents - New England Historical Society
New Hampshire Legend: Ocean Born Mary
Hans Holzer - Wikipedia
Sybil Leek - Wikipedia
Princess Bride (1987) clip, The Story of Dread Pirate Roberts - YouTube
The dark fandom behind healthcare CEO murder suspect - BBC News
American Gods - Wikipedia
Jack Parsons - Wikipedia
VYS0029 | If There's Something Strange In Your Neighbourhood - Vayse to Face to Face with Field Lines Cartographer and Bob Freeman: Halloween 2023
The Retributory Haunting of Bannister Doll - Beyond the Black Pool
La Llorona - Wikipedia
Jenny Greenteeth - Wikipedia
Unthanksgiving Day, The Indigenous Peoples Sunrise Ceremony Occupation of Alcatraz - Wikipedia
Unthanksgiving Day: A celebration of Indigenous resistance to colonialism - The Conversation
The Indigenous Peoples Sunrise Thanksgiving Service on Alcatraz Island - YouTube

Hine’s ghost story: The Mistletoe Bride

Bramshill House: Legends - Wikipedia
The Bramshill House Bride, or the Legend of the Mistletoe Bough - Burials and Beyond
Burials & Beyond website
The Mistletoe Bough (1904) - BFI National Archive restoration - YouTube
Rope (1948) clip - Reference to Mistletoe Bough - YouTube
The Mistletoe Bride & Other Haunting Tales, by Kate Mosse - Goodreads
Bellowhead: The Mistletoe Bough (From BBC Four Sessions - The Christmas Session) - YouTube
‘The Incorruptibles’: Who Are These Mysterious Saints? - EWTN
Egregore - Wikipedia
VYS0044 | For Fear of Little Men - Vayse to Face with Jo Hickey-Hall

Steph’s ghost story: Mary Ellen Pleasant

Steph's Notes on Mary Ellen Pleasant
Mary Ellen Pleasant - Wikipedia
Napa County, California - Wikipedia
John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry - Wikipedia
Haitian Vodou - Wikipedia
Underground Railroad - Wikipedia
Marie Laveau - Wikipedia
Shusheel Bibbs’ MEP website
Heritage of Power: Marie LaVeaux to Mary Ellen Pleasant, by Susheel Bibbs - Goodreads
Mary Ellen Pleasant Memorial Park - Atlas Obscura
Lwa (Loa) - Wikipedia

Christmas weather

Radiation Fog - Weather.gov
The history of British winters - Net Weather
Little Ice Age - Wikipedia
River Thames frost fairs - Wikipedia

Christmas recommendations

Beltane Ranch and Vineyard website
The Christmas Toy (1986) Restored (video) - Archive.org
The Snowman: Bowie intro - YouTube
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) Trailer #1 - YouTube
Scrooged Trailer - YouTube
Tom Waits - Wikipedia
New York Dolls - Wikipedia
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus trailer - YouTube
David Johansen & Larry Saltzman: Last Kind Words (audio) - YouTube
Geeshie Wiley - Wikipedia
Buddy Hackett - Wikipedia
Hot Frosty Official Trailer - Netflix - YouTube
This American Life: The Super (audio)

Buckley’s closing question

Hands: A true case study of a phenomenal hypnotic subject, by Margaret Williams - Goodreads

Vayse online

Vayse Website
Vayse on Twitter
Vayse on Bluesky
Vayse on Instagram
Bandcamp (Music From Vayse)
Vayse on Ko-Fi
Email: vayseinfo@gmail.com Special Guests: AP Strange and Stephanie Quick.

VYSXXXX | The Real Vayse: Halloween 2024

Vayse — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:00:00 +0100

Since October 2023, Vayse HQ has been regularly receiving mysterious, confusing and unsettling emails, seemingly from all over the world, all hinting towards the same impossible conclusion.

In this episode the Vayse boys launch an investigation into where these weird communications might be coming from and who might be behind them with a little help and a lot of expertise from some familiar and very welcome faces: Douglas Batchelor, Darragh Mason, Sequoyah Kennedy, Joseph Matheny, Stephanie Quick and AP Strange. The deeper they dig, the more they find themselves falling down rabbit holes within rabbit holes within rabbit holes... (Recorded October 2024)

VYSXXXX | The Real Vayse: Halloween 2024 - Show Notes

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Special Guests: AP Strange, Darragh Mason, Douglas Batchelor, Joseph Matheny, Sequoyah Kennedy, and Stephanie Quick.

Support Vayse

VYS0043 | The Reich Stuff - Vayse to Face with Dan Lowe

Vayse — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:30:00 +0200

VYS0043 | The Reich Stuff - Vayse to Face with Dan Lowe - Show Notes

Facing down a huge topic that they have been wanting to talk about on Vayse for years, Hine and Buckley enlist integrative therapist Dan Lowe, to guide them through the massively dense, often confusing and incredibly weird life and work of Wilhem Reich.

Dan is massively knowledgeable on the subject and gives fascinating insights on Reich and is patient when Hine and Buckley asking him what can only be frustratingly basic questions: What differentiates Reichian therapy from other types of psychotherapy? What is Orgone Energy? What is emotional armouring? Was there a conspiracy against Reich? Did cloud-busting really work?... and what did Kate Bush actually know about Wilhelm Reich anyway...? (Recorded 29 August 2024)

Thanks to Dan for indulging us in asking questions on a subject that we know next to nothing about and thanks as always to Keith for the show notes - give the man a follow: @peakflow.bsky.social

Dan Lowe online

Dan on Twitter
Dan’s Counselling Directory profile

Hine’s Intro

Cloudbuster - Wikipedia
Orgone - Wikipedia
Wilhelm Reich - Wikipedia
Integrative psychotherapy - Wikipedia
The Life and Ideas of Wilhelm Reich with Dan Lowe - What Magic Is This? podcast
Who Was Wilhelm Reich? The Theory and Practice of Reichian Therapy with Dan Lowe - Acid Horizon podcast
Reichian Therapy, Character Armor, and Christ with Dan Lowe - Hermetix podcast

Vayse to Face with Dan Lowe

Robert Anton Wilson - Wikipedia
The Mass Psychology of Fascism - Wikipedia
The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich - Goodreads
Cosmic Trigger #2 - Down to Earth by Robert Anton Wilson - Goodreads
Reichian therapy - Wikipedia
Health Touch (Dierdre Gough) website
Sigmund Freud - Wikipedia
Character structures: what are the 5 Reichian character defense patterns? - Body Mind Assessment
Body psychotherapy - Wikipedia
Character Analysis - Wikipedia
Character Analysis by Wilhelm Reich - Goodreads
Reich’s Segmental Armouring Theory - Energetics Institute
Mind-body (Cartesian) dualism - Wikipedia
Fury On Earth: A Biography Of Wilhelm Reich by Myron R. Sharaf - Goodreads
Function of the Orgasm by Wilhelm Reich - Goodreads
Orgasmatron scene from Sleeper - YouTube
Prana - Wikipedia
Qi - Wikipedia
Pranayama - Wikipedia
Chakra - Wikipedia
Monroe Institute website
Robert Monroe - Wikipedia
Syncretism - Wikipedia
Wilhelm Reich, Biologist by James E. Strick - Goodreads
Satanic panic - Wikipedia
What an Accumulator Is, and How to Make and Use One - Orgone.org
Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War by James Edward Martin - Goodreads
Orgone Lab - James DeMeo’s Research Website
The Orgone Accumulator Handbook: Wilhelm Reich's Life-Energy Discoveries and Healing Tools for the 21st Century, with Construction Plans by James DeMeo - Goodreads
Claims that former US military project is being used to manipulate the weather are “nonsense” - RMIT
Right-Wing Influencers Claim ‘They’ Defeated Physics, Geoengineered Hurricane Milton - Wired
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting video
Barbarella (1968), the Excessive-Pleasure Machine and Durand Durand - YouTube
Wilhelm Reich and UFOs (article by Peter Robbins) - StudyLib
Contact With Space: Oranur second report, 1951-1956. Orop desert Ea, 1954-1955 by Wilhelm Reich - Goodreads
Gestalt therapy - Wikipedia
Stanislav Grof website
Holotropic Breathing: A Complete Guide to Techniques and Practice - Primal Trust
Lowen Foundation website
Human Potential Movement - Wikipedia
Sexual revolution - Wikipedia
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism - Wikipedia
W.R. - Mysteries of the Organism TRAILER - YouTube
A.S. Neill Summerhill School website
The Institute for Orgonomic Science website

Dan’s Recommendations

Billy Woods (& Kenny Segal) - Maps (2023) full album - YouTube
JPEGMafia - I Lay Down My Life For You (2024) full album - YouTube
Summerhill TV Series (feature-length film) - YouTube
Listen, Little Man! By Wilhelm Reich - Goodreads
Emotional Armoring : An Introduction to Psychiatric Orgone Therapy by Morton Herskowitz - Goodreads
Peter Jones - Wilhelm Reich and Forbidden Science - Legalise Freedom

Buckley’s Closing Questions

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (1985) full album - YouTube
Hounds of Love Reissue - The Baskerville Edition Unboxing Video
A Book of Dreams by Peter Reich - Goodreads
Duran Duran - Electric Barbarella (Official Music Video)

Vayse Online

Vayse website
Vayse on Twitter
Vayse on Instagram
Vayse on Bandcamp (Music From Vayse)
Vayse on Ko-Fi
Vayse email: vayseinfo@gmail.com Special Guest: Dan Lowe.

VYS0041 | Technologies of Imagination - Vayse to Face with Bel Senlle

Vayse — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:30:00 +0200

VYS0041 | Technologies of Imagination - Vayse to Face with Bel Senlle - Show Notes

In the final episode of season 2, Hine and Buckley talk to a guest who ended up on Vayse after she appeared to Hine in a dream: Bel Senlle - artist, tarot reader, flower herbalist and creator of one of the most stylish and magical tarot decks that money can buy, the Clarity Deck. The discussion runs all the way from whether divination is reliable or deceitful, the question of whether tarot is supernatural or psychological, how Bel created the clarity deck and how she may have had some help from the other side, Bel does a reading for Vayse... and we finally try to get to the bottom of why a certain card is haunting Buckley... (Recorded 8 July 2024)

Thanks to Bel for her time and for answering our weird questions and thanks as always to Keith for the show notes - give the man a follow: @peakflow.bsky.social

We'll be back in September with more weird stuff...

Bel Senlle online

Bel’s website

Bel on Instagram

Hine’s Intro

Ace of Wands (tarot card) - Wikipedia

King of Cups (tarot card) - Wikipedia

The Star (tarot card) - Wikipedia

The Magician (tarot card) - Wikipedia

The Fool (tarot card) - Wikipedia

The Devil (tarot card) - Wikipedia

The Hanged Man (tarot card) - Wikipedia

Vayse to Face with Bel Senlle

Oracular Spectacular

She’s Lost Control website

Bless Stories website

Clarity Tarot: A deck for creative visualization - Watkins Publishing

Clarity Tarot - Silent Flip-through - YouTube

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

Sigil - Wikipedia

Servitor (chaos magic) - Wikipedia

Treadwell’s website

History and patterns of cards in Spain - Cards History

The Deck of Cards That Made Tarot A Global Phenomenon - Atlas Obscura

Tarot of Marseilles - Wikipedia

Opening of the Key Tarot Spread Introduction - Paul Hughes-Barlow

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - Wikipedia

The Lesser Key of Solomon - Wikipedia

Camino de Santiago. All You Need To Know - Camino Ways

The History of May Day - National Trust

The Morris Tradition - The Morris Ring

Ely, Cambridgeshire - Wikipedia

The unfortunate, ongoing disappearance of 'third places' - The Week

Kundalini - Wikipedia

Tantra - Wikipedia

Tarot in the Middle Ages: European Influence and Adaptations - Tarot Wise

Clarity Tarot: The Emperor - Gypsy Moon

The Emperor (tarot card) - Wikipedia

Oracle Cards: A Beginner's Guide - Practical Magic

How Does Tarot Work? (Divination Practice) - Tag Vault

Are Tarot Cards Supernatural? - Sage’s Lantern

Egregore - Wikipedia

Dixit (board game) - Wikipedia

Claridad Tarot (Spanish edition)

Clarity Tarot: The Fool - TarotArts

Psychogeography - Wikipedia

Automatic Drawing (1916 article by Austin Osman Spare & Frederick Carter) - Hermetic

Shem HaMephorash Tarot Correspondences - Angelorum Tarot

Bel’s Three Card Reading for Vayse: Essence of Air (TarotArts), the Empress (Gypsy Moon), the Hierophant (Gypsy Moon)

Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes mid-credits scene - YouTube

Clarity Tarot: The Devil

Did John Milton Really Sympathize with Satan? - Tales of Times Forgotten

Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Wikipedia

Written In The Stars: A Horoscopic Glance At Astrology Through Our Newspapers - British Newspaper Archive

How Tarot Benefits the Health of Society with Pamela Eakins, PhD - YouTube

The Viktor Wynd Museum Of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History - The Last Tuesday Society

Watkins Books website

Tarot with Bel Senlle - Cheri Amour Barge

Bel’s Recommendation

Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez - Goodreads

*Buckley’s Closing Question *

Austin Osman Spare - Wikipedia

Austin Osman Spare Tarot - Strange Attractor Press

*Vayse Online *

Vayse website

Vayse on Twitter

Vayse on Instagram

Vayse on Bandcamp (Music From Vayse Vols 1 & 2)

Vayse on Ko-Fi

**Vayse email: **vayseinfo@gmail.com Special Guest: Bel Senlle.

SideVayse: SVYS005 | Con-Vayse-ations Vol. II

Vayse — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:30:00 +0200

*SideVayse: SVYS005 | Con-Vayse-ations Vol. II * Show Notes

Despite a case of Covid, political turmoil and relentlessly terrible weather Hine and Buckley bring their weird game for a catch-up conversation based on listener questions. The Vayse cadets consider the burning issues of these uncertain times: how do you rate and compare cryptids? (and is it fair to do that?) Can science ever fully explain the paranormal? Are hoaxes ever ok? (and which of the Vayse boys is a serial hoaxer?) and Hine describes the dream that guided him to the guest for the upcoming season 2 finale... (Recorded 4 July 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.

Cryptid Trumps, Cryptozoology Card Game - Etsy
Mothman - Wikipedia
Chupacabra - Wikipedia
Loveland frog - Wikipedia
Jersey Devil - Wikipedia
Fresno Nightcrawler - Cryptid Wiki
Colossal Squid - Wikipedia
List of cryptids - Wikipedia
Cryptozoology - Wikipedia
Is Bigfoot real? Everything you need to know about the Sasquatch - Live Science
Lesser-Known Forest Spirits: The Huldra, Leshy, and More - Hub Pages
Appalachian Mountains Folklore: Monsters, Demons and Ghosts - Discover Walks
Kelpie - Wikipedia
The unknown giants of the deep oceans - BBC
Kraken - Wikipedia
Egregore - Wikipedia
Tombstone Thunderbird Photograph - Lost Media Wiki
Midjourney - Wikipedia
Deepfake - Wikipedia
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (TV series) - Wikipedia
Adam Curtis (documentary filmaker) - Wikipedia
‘All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace’ Trailer - YouTube
Ayn Rand - Wikipedia
Buckminster Fuller - Wikipedia
W.D. Hamilton - Wikipedia
Oral polio vaccine AIDS hypothesis - Wikipedia
Second order cybernetics - Wikipedia
Pennyroyal podcast website
Spooky Parallels: Quantum physics and paranormal phenomena - Horror Facts
Eric Wargo - Goodreads
Gaia Documentaries & Films
James Fox (film-maker) - Wikipedia
Quantum entanglement - Wikipedia
Stargate Project - Wikipedia
Star Gate Project: An Overview - CIA
Remote viewing - Wikipedia
Uri Geller’s website
Silicon Valley: How a Bunch of Hippies Changed the World - Techovedas
VYS0040 - The Great Ping Ping - Vayse to Face with OORYA
The Franchise Era: Blockbuster Hollywood in the 2010s…and Beyond - Senses of Cinema
Why Netflix Keeps Canceling Shows After Just 2 Seasons - Wired
Why Twin Peaks Originally Ended - CBR
Deadwood (TV series) - Wikipedia
Deadwood HBO series trailer - YouTube
List of hoaxes - Wikipedia
Alternate reality game - Wikipedia
VYS0010 | Amazing Stories - Vayse to Face with Dr Allen H Greenfield Pt.1
Gray Barker - Wikipedia
Stefano Leproto - Discogs
Stefan Bachmeier - Discogs
Szczepan Buczkowski - Discogs
Richard Bachman - Wikipedia
The Running Man (novel) - Wikipedia
The Chaos Chamber (Mark Vincent’s website)
Six Ways: Approaches & Entries for Practical Magic by Aidan Wachter - Goodreads
Dream It, Do It: Instructional dreams - Unariun wisdom

Vayse Online

Vayse website
Vayse on Twitter/X
Vayse on Instagram
Vayse on Bandcamp (Music From Vayse Vols 1 & 2)
Vayse on Ko-Fi
**Vayse email: **vayseinfo@gmail.com

VYS0040 | The Great Ping-Ping - Vayse to Face with OORYA

Vayse — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 19:30:00 +0200

VYS0040 | The Great Ping-Ping - Vayse to Face with OORYA - Show Notes

Artist, poet, noise maker, purveyor of queer-electro-folk-punk and fellow northerner, OORYA, joins Hine and Buckley in an explosion of joy, weirdness and super-infectious hyper-manipulation of the English Language. OORYA explains their unique view of the "Vinyl Universe", how they dance with the great ping-ping to make their life more magical and how you can do the same, how their live performances become a channeling of their deepest spine, how licking the void is an essential part of levelling up, what it means to them to be a queer artist... and prepare to receive some sonic healing from their beautiful vocal stims... (Recorded 25 June 2024)

Thanks to OORYA for giving so much of their time and patience - do yourself a favour and seek out their music as soon as possible.

And thanks, as always to Keith for the wonderful show notes - go on, you know that you want to give him a follow: @peakflow.bsky.social

OORYA online

OORYA on Instagram
OORYA’s website (Join up to their mailing list here!)
OORYA on YouTube
OORYA on Bandcamp

Hine’s Intro

What is OCD? - Mind
The ADHD Adults Podcast - Domestic Anxiety

Vayse to Face with OORYA

Is the X-Files anyone else's comfort show? - Reddit
David Lynch explains Transcendental Meditation - YouTube
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch - Goodreads
Nick Cave on Music, Mystery, and the Relationship Between Vulnerability and Freedom - The Marginalian
VYS0039 | Try Not To Be A Dick Shall Be The Whole Of The Law - Vayse to Face with Duncan Barford
How to Talk to Trees: Communicating With Tree Spirits - Holly Worton
What is a Hedge Witch? - Wicca Now
Menai Bridge - Visit Anglesey
OORYA’s ‘Voice memos Vols 1 & 2’ album - Bandcamp
OORYA’s ‘I awoke’ track - Bandcamp
OORYA’s ‘Fireshrine’ track - Bandcamp
Simon "Ding" Archer - Wikipedia
6db Studio, Salford
Rimbaud's Systematic Derangement of the Senses - Language is a Virus
VYS0003 | Welcome to Vayse, Population 2
Hellier Season 2: Episode 10 - Night of Pan
The Archetype of Initiation: Sacred Space, Ritual Process, and Personal Transformation by Robert L Moore - Goodreads
What To Know About Past Life Regression Therapy - MindBodyGreen
Eternalism (philosophy of time) - Wikipedia
Sigil - Wikipedia
The Shamanic Journey - Shaman Links
Life as RPG: Living, Leveling, and Beating Bosses in the Real World - Intelli.game
Everything To Know About Ego Death - MindBodyGreen
OORYA’s ‘Irons’ track - Bandcamp
Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll by Peter Bebergal - Goodreads
VYS0036 | Infinite Game - Vayse to Face with Joseph Matheny
VYS0028 | Psychic Jizz - Vayse to Face with Stephanie Quick
Sex magic - Wikipedia
The Buddhist Metta (Lovingkindness) Prayer - Buddha Grove
Cool Runnings - Wikipedia
Do you wanna kiss my egg? (Cool Runnings excerpt) - YouTube
Bibliomancy - Wikipedia
Dispatches from Elsewhere - Wikipedia
Dispatches From Elsewhere Trailer - YouTube
The Jejune Institute - Wikipedia
Alternate reality game - Wikipedia
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in”: The story of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Anthem’ - Quartz
VALIS by Philip K. Dick - Goodreads
Disclosure (documentary on transgender depictions in film and tv)
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective - Transgender portrayal - Wikipedia

OORYA’s Recommendations

They: A Sequence of Unease by Kay Dick - Goodreads
Freedom: Medicine Words for Your Brave Revolution by Jaiya John - Goodreads
Waking Life (2001) Official Trailer - YouTube
The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep by Tènzin Wangyal Rinpoché - Goodreads
The Blindboy Podcast

Buckley’s Closing Question

Best Of Agent Mulder | THE X-FILES - YouTube

Vayse Online

Vayse website
Vayse on Twitter/X
Vayse on Instagram
Vayse on Bandcamp (Music From Vayse Vols 1 & 2)
Vayse on Ko-Fi
Vayse email: vayseinfo@gmail.com Special Guest: OORYA.

VYS0037 | Elvis with a Flaming Sword - Vayse to Face with AP Strange

Vayse — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 19:30:00 +0100

VYS0037 | Elvis with a Flaming Sword - Vayse to Face with AP Strange - Show Notes

In this episode Vayse welcomes AP Strange, a writer, researcher and blogger with a near encyclopaedic knowledge of all things weird and a wicked sense of humour to go with it. Hine and Buckley shake down AP's voluminous brain on a wide range of bizarre topics and greedily feast on the nuggets of information that fall out, including the answers to such questions as: What were the entities that revealed the future to AP as a child and why did he liken them to Mikey Mouse's gloves? Did AP take a ghost for a spin in his Mustang and what was revealed when he got a tarot reading from this suspected phantom? Why is a sense of humour essential to an open mind and what happens if you don't embrace that? How can we learn to receive messages from the cosmos and allow a little more Strange into our lives? How and why do people so often ignore their own experiences of High Strangeness and should more of us be open to accepting the King of Rock 'n' Roll's Flaming Sword...? (Recorded 18 February 2024)

Thanks to AP for generously giving us time from his busy Sunday morning and thanks as always to Keith for his valiant and tireless work on the ever increasing show notes, give the man a follow: @peakflow.bsky.social

AP Strange online

Website/blog
Twitter
Instagram
Holy Donut Revival Hour - YouTube channel
Holy Donut Revival Hour on Twitter
Holy Donut Revival Hour - Patreon

AP’s blog posts referenced in the episode

My Personal Experience with the Phenomenon, Which I've told on Podcasts Too Many Times
Emanations From the Clown Realm - Legend Tripping, Hilarious Magic, and Synchronicity
The Journey of the Fool
From Brooklyn to Neptune: The Bugs Bunny / UFO Connection!
Elvis by the Numbers or: The King and the Tower of Death
The Paradox of Credibility When Confronting the Incredible
The Spooky Side of Disclosure
Wight Magic and the Sandown Ghost Clown
Star-cross'd Lovers
Dispatches From Jerry's Impossible Hallway

Hine’s Intro

Ultraviolet (radiation) - Wikipedia
Carbonic Acid - Wikipedia
Dihydrogen monoxide parody - Wikipedia
Trellis (architecture) - Wikipedia
Gremlins 2: Secretary - "Coffee" - YouTube
Paranormality magazine
HighStrange magazine
SJ Brick on Twitter
HDRH 6.0: Secrets of the Real Black Lodge Revealed with Allen Greenfield - Part One
HDRH 6.5: Secrets of the Real Black Lodge Revealed with Allen Greenfield! Part Two
Some Other Sphere podcast
Strange Familiars podcast
Project Archivist podcast
Our Strange Skies podcast
Where Did The Road Go? podcast

AP’s personal experience with the phenomenon, which he’s told on podcasts too many times

Mickey Mouse - Wikipedia
McDonald’s - Wikipedia
My Personal Experience with the Phenomenon, Which I've told on Podcasts Too Many Times - AP Strange
Monster Munch - Wikipedia
Why cartoon characters wear gloves - YouTube
Precognition - Wikipedia
Out-of-body experience - Wikipedia
Time travel - Wikipedia
What Did Einstein Mean By Time is an Illusion?
Albert Einstein - Wikipedia
Quantum mechanics - Wikipedia
The birds and the bees - Wikipedia
Eternalism (philosophy of time) - Wikipedia
H.G. Wells - Wikipedia
The Time Machine - Wikipedia
The Time Machine (1960 film) - Wikipedia
The Time Machine Official Trailer #1 - Rod Taylor Movie (1960) HD - YouTube
Rod Taylor - Wikipedia
The Birds (film) - Wikipedia
The Birds (1963) Trailer - YouTube
Impact of Non-linear Time: A Life Perspective - All The Differences
Psychometry (paranormal) - Wikipedia
Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious by Eric Wargo - Goodreads
The Shamanic Journey - Shaman Links
Greco-Roman mysteries (mystery schools) - Wikipedia
The Secret Meanings of Your Cartoon Dreams: Interpreting the Symbols and Messages - Inside My Dream
Cartoon physics - Wikipedia
Top 10 Cartoon Logic That Make No Sense - YouTube
Surrealism - Wikipedia
Poltergeist - Wikipedia
Toy Story - Wikipedia
Toy Story (1995) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers - YouTube
Toy Story: Andy is coming up the stairs! - YouTube
Tommy Steele - I Puts the Lightie On (78rpm - 1958) - YouTube
What Is The Space-Time Continuum? - IFL Science
3D printing - Wikipedia
Robert Anton Wilson - Wikipedia
Creative Agnosticism by Robert Anton Wilson - Cognitive Liberty
Reality Tunnel - Wikipedia

Sam, The Sandown Ghost Clown

The Isle of Wight Entity Case: AFU Special Case Report Number One - Goodreads
151: Clowning Around with Stephanie Quick & AP Strange (Sam, the Sandown Clown) - Our Strange Skies podcast
Bufora Journal Vol 6, No 5, Jan/Feb 1978 - Bufora.org
Note: The article which contains the Sandown Clown report starts on page 9.
Sam The Sandown Ghost Clown - The Cryptonaut Podcast
Sam the Sandown Ghost Clown (England) - Cryptopia
The Sandown “Ghost Clown,” 1973 - YouTube
Warminster - Wikipedia
Wiltshire - Wikipedia
Emanations From the Clown Realm - Legend Tripping, Hilarious Magic, and Synchronicity - AP Strange blog post
Childhood hallucinations are surprisingly common – but why? - The Guardian
Brain scans show how LSD mimics mind of a baby - Reuters
Theta waves in children’s waking electroencephalogram resemble local aspects of sleep during wakefulness - NCBI
What do psychedelics, meditation, and babies have in common? - Jeff Valdivia on Medium

What is high strangeness?

High Strangeness And Understanding It - Global Bizarre
Psychosocial UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia
The Clown/MiB Connection by Fred Andersson - Medium
Hypnotic induction - Wikipedia
Derren Brown - Snapping Induction - YouTube
Jacques Vallée - Wikipedia
Men in black - Wikipedia
John Keel - Wikipedia
Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe? - Scientific American
As above, so below - Wikipedia
Quantum entanglement - Wikipedia
Time travel - Wikipedia
Jacques Vallée, Ph.D. on the UFO Phenomenon being a Genuine Scientific Problem - YouTube - Presentation by JV. Includes an analysis of the correlation between degrees of strangeness and reported/unreported cases
Synchronicity - Wikipedia
Mick West - Wikipedia
Jaime Maussan - Wikipedia

Liminality, anti-structure, and reckless wizards

VYS0036 | Infinite Game - Vayse to Face with Joseph Matheny
Alternate reality game (ARG) - Wikipedia
Consensus reality - Wikipedia
The Trickster and the Paranormal by George P Hansen - Goodreads
Liminality - Wikipedia
Structure vs. Communitas/Antistructure: Victor Turner on the two modes of human society - Living Philosophy
Shamanism - Wikipedia
Hermetic Qabalah - Wikipedia
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - Wikipedia
The Meaning of Magic - Psychology Today
Israel Regardie - Wikipedia
The Middle Pillar: The Balance Between Mind and Magic by Israel Regardie - Goodreads

Shamans among us, and the disappearing tarot reader

Shamans as Healers, Counsellors, and Psychotherapists - Research Gate
Exploring Modern Shamanism: Practices, Challenges, and Benefits in Today’s World - Go Ask Uncle
Tarot - Wikipedia
Cataract - Wikipedia
Ford Mustang - Wikipedia
Psychic - Wikipedia
Crystal ball - Wikipedia
The Size Of Sports Balls Compared - Measuring Stuff
Cherry - Wikipedia
Rubber up - Word Sense
Hair bleaching - Wikipedia

Parallel universes, alternative lives, and the simulation hypothesis

In a Parallel Universe, Another You - New York Times
The Shamanic Journey - Shaman Links
Spirit guide - Wikipedia
Anthony Peake’s website
Is There Life After Death? The Extraordinary Science of What Happens When We Die by Anthony Peake - Goodreads
Cheating the Ferryman: The Revolutionary Science of Life After Death by Anthony Peake - Goodreads
Simulation hypothesis - Wikipedia
The Simulation Hypothesis by Rizwan Virk - Goodreads
Potato chip - Wikipedia
Clockwork universe - Wikipedia
Vedanta - Wikipedia
Hinduism - Wikipedia
Buddhism - Wikipedia
Dharmachakra - Wikipedia
Bhavacakra (Wheel of Life) - Wikipedia
Maya (religion) - Wikipedia
Quantum physics - New Scientist
Holodeck (Star Trek) - Wikipedia
The Matrix - Wikipedia
Allegory of the cave (Plato) - Wikipedia
Sutra - Wikipedia
Hindu saints - Wikipedia
Bit - Wikipedia
Binary code - Wikipedia
Quantum computing - Wikipedia
Christopher Walken - Wikipedia
VYS0034 | The Weird Review of the Year 2023 Pt.1
The Weird Review of the Year 2023 Pt.2
Video-game - Wikipedia
Wave function - Wikipedia
Quantum non-locality - Wikipedia
Selective rendering: Computing only what you see - Research Gate

Messages from the Cosmos

Western esotericism - Wikipedia
Mysticism - Wikipedia
Koan - Wikipedia
Ram Dass - Wikipedia
Be Here Now (book) - Wikipedia
Be Here Now by Ram Dass - Goodreads
Ram Dass Quote on Moving Forward and How Your Next Message Is Always Right Where You Are - Move Me Quotes
Active Meditation: How to Meditate While You Move - PsychCentral
Animism - Wikipedia
Cultivating a Practice of Sacred Nature Connection - Wild Rhythms
Playing card - Wikipedia
Fortune cookie - Wikipedia
Synchronicity - Wikipedia
George Washington - Wikipedia
The George Washington connection to the north Lancashire village of Warton - Great British Life
Scrabble - Wikipedia
Tarot - Wikipedia
The Fool (Tarot card) - Wikipedia
The Journey of the Fool - AP Strange
Lateral thinking - Wikipedia
Dream logic helps us understand the workings of the brain and mind - Psychology Today
Intuition - Wikipedia
Allen Greenfield on Twitter
Illuminism - Encyclopedia.com
Gnosis - Wikipedia
Talk Gnosis - Free Illuminism, Memphis Misraim, & Hidden Realms w/Dr. Allen Greenfield - YouTube
Empty Your Cup: Why Unlearning Is Vital for Success - Psychology Today
Stephanie Quick’s blog

Humour in occultism, forgetting weird experiences, and generating synchronicities

From Brooklyn to Neptune: The Bugs Bunny / UFO Connection! - AP Strange
Elvis by the Numbers or: The King and the Tower of Death - AP Strange
Flaming sword (mythology) - Wikipedia
Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia
Guardian angel: Thelema - Wikipedia
List of demons in the Ars Goetia - Wikipedia
Lesser ritual of the pentagram - Wikipedia
Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) - Wikipedia
Heavy Metal (magazine) - Wikipedia
Horror film - Wikipedia
Shared Hallucinations & Parallel Universes: Joint Adventures in Holographic Dreamscapes - Official Brendan Murphy
Poltergeist - Wikipedia
The Neuroscience of How We Intentionally Forget Experiences - Psychology Today
Dishwasher - Wikipedia
Fruitcake - Wikipedia
How To Induce Synchronicities - Ghost Dog is a Mystery Box (Steph Quick)
Coincidence - Wikipedia

AP’s spiritual beliefs

Ontology - Wikipedia
Discordianism - Wikipedia
Buddhism - Wikipedia
Taoism (Daoism) - Wikipedia
Vedas - Wikipedia
Hinduism - Wikipedia
Transcendental Meditation - Wikipedia
Witchcraft - Wikipedia
Hermetism and other religions: Christianity - Wikipedia
Western esotericism - Wikipedia
Mysticism - Wikipedia
The Communion of Saints - Simply Catholic
The Practice of Contemplative Prayer - Catholic Exchange
An Introduction to the Basic Beliefs of the Vodou (Voodoo) Religion
Dyson Sphere - Wikipedia

AP’s take on the whole disclosure thing

David Grusch UFO whistleblower claims - Wikipedia
Extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia
Astrophysics - Wikipedia
Jellyfish UAP Megathread - Reddit
Jeremy Corbell - Wikipedia
The Paradox of Credibility When Confronting the Incredible - AP Strange
The Spooky Side of Disclosure - AP Strange
Perception management - Wikipedia
What are UAPs, and why do UFOs have a new name? - CBS News
Non-Human Intelligence (NHI) - Unidentified Phenomena
Diana Walsh Pasulka - Wikipedia
History of espionage - Wikipedia
Secret society - Wikipedia
UFO Sightings by Country 2024 - World Population Review
The new American religion of UFOs (includes conversation with Diana Pasulka) - Vox
Cybernetics - Wikipedia
Ronald Mcdonald - Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick - Wikipedia
Weird Studies Episode 20: The Trash Stratum - Part 1
Weird Studies Episode 21: The Trash Stratum - Part 2
Marginalia - Wikipedia
The X-Files – "The truth is out there" - ACMI
Maybe The Real Treasure Was the Friends We Made Along the Way - Know Your Meme

Return of the Sandown Ghost Clown

Wight Magic and the Sandown Ghost Clown - AP Strange
The Ghosts of Gettysburg: A Haunted History of a Battlefield - War History Online
Isle of Wight Festival 1970 - Wikipedia
Hawkwind - Wikipedia
Pink Floyd - Wikipedia
Black Widow (band) - Wikipedia
Black Widow - Come To The Sabbat (1972) - YouTube
In 1926, Houdini Spent 4 Days Shaming Congress for Being in Thrall to Fortune-Tellers - Atlas Obscura

Finding weirdness in the mundane

Star-cross'd Lovers - AP Strange
Dispatches From Jerry's Impossible Hallway - AP Strange
Frasier (tv sitcom) - Wikipedia
When Even the Simplest Word Looks Weird And Wrong You Have Wordnesia - Smithsonian Magazine
Semantic satiation - Wikipedia
Aphorism - Wikipedia
House of Frankenstein (film, 1944) - Wikipedia
House of Frankenstein (1944) Official Trailer #1 - YouTube
Igor (character) - Wikipedia
Bela Lugosi - Wikipedia
The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame (novel) - Wikipedia
Quasimodo - Wikipedia

AP’s recommendations

The Mixed-Up Masters of Early Animation - The New Yorker
Surrealism - Wikipedia
Un Chien Andalou - Wikipedia
TRIGGER WARNING - Un Chien Andalou - Full Movie - YouTube
Salvador Dalí - Wikipedia
Luis Buñuel - Wikipedia
Epic poetry - Wikipedia
Victorian literature - Wikipedia
Pulp magazine - Wikipedia
Marvel Cinematic Universe - Wikipedia
Iron Maiden (band) - Wikipedia

Buckley’s closing story

Hartlepool - Wikipedia
Hartlepool: Monkeys - Wikipedia
Monkey hanger - Wikipedia
The Man-Monkey of Shropshire Union Canal - Spooky Isles
The Pond Square Chicken, Highgate - Mysterious Britain
The Bizarre, True Story of Gef the Talking Mongoose - Atlas Obscura
Francis Bacon - Wikipedia
Salmonella - Wikipedia

Vayse Online

Vayse website
Vayse on Twitter
Vayse on Instagram
Music From Vayse: Volume 1 by Polypores - Bandcamp
Vayse on Ko-Fi
Vayse email: vayseinfo@gmail.com Special Guest: AP Strange.

VYS0036 | Infinite Game - Vayse to Face with Joseph Matheny

Vayse — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 19:30:00 +0100

VYS0036 | Infinite Game - Vayse to Face with Joseph Matheny - Show Notes

Some rare art transcends reality, some even rarer art seems to create a new reality altogether - the work of Joseph Matheny does both of these things while embracing the trickster spirit inherent in the magickal traditions in which his work has its roots.

Joseph talks to Hine and Buckley about Ong's Hat, his "living book" project, widely recognised as the first Alternate Reality Game, and how it took on a life of it's own, not only for the people who were playing it but also for the people who created it. The conversation also turns to synchronicity and how his recent work, the Liminal Cycle, seems to generate synchronicity in the lives of those who engage with it, how his work connects so closely to magick, nature and theatre, his experiences in the North Pole and how they affected his writing, the use of magic in political systems and how the internet we know and love (to hate) today retains the legacy of the ritual magicians and DnD enthusiasts who created it... (recorded 7 February 2024)

Thanks to Joseph for his time and thanks, as always, to Keith for the excellent show notes, you can hit him up on on bluesky: @peakflow.bsky.social

Joseph Matheny online

Website
Official Archive of the Ong’s Hat Project
Ong’s Hat website
YouTube channel
Twitter/X
Instagram
Substack
Facebook
Goodreads page
IMDb page

Hine and Buckley’s Intro

Neuralink - Wikipedia
Elon Musk says Neuralink has implanted its first brain chip in human - The Guardian
True Detective (Season 1) - Wikipedia
Ong’s Hat - Wikipedia
Ong's Hat: The Beginning (Authorized Version) by Joseph Matheny (Audiobook) - Soundcloud
Ong's Hat: The Beginning (Authorized Version) by Joseph Matheny - Goodreads
Alternate reality game (ARG) - Wikipedia
QAnon - Wikipedia
January 6 United States Capitol attack - Wikipedia
Pizzagate conspiracy theory - Wikipedia
Gamification in Politics: how does it influence Political Participation? by Elena Giordano - Medium
Liminal (The Liminal Cycle) by Cameron Whiteside (Joseph Matheny) - Goodreads
Xen: The Zen of the Other (The Liminal Cycle) by Ezra Buckley (Joseph Matheny) - Goodreads
Statio Numero (The Liminal Cycle) by Joseph Matheny, Jason Nunes (Illustrator) - Goodreads

Joseph’s early background in tech

Early Personal Computers, 1970s-1980s - Museums Victoria
Technology that changed us: The 1980s, from MS-DOS to the first GPS satellite - ZDNET
Berkeley Macintosh User Group - Wikipedia
Steve Wozniak - Wikipedia
ARPANET - Wikipedia
Dial-up Internet access - Wikipedia
Bulletin board system - Wikipedia
Email - Wikipedia
The History of Email: Digging Into the Past, Present, and Future - Email On Acid
Pony Express - Wikipedia

Joseph’s epiphany

High Frontiers magazine - Anarchivism
High Frontiers Issue #1 - Archive.org
Modem - Wikipedia
The WELL - Wikipedia
Dialer - Wikipedia
Apple Inc. - Wikipedia
Silicon Valley: How a Bunch of Hippies Changed the World - Techovedas

Joseph’s ‘living book’ art project

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Wikipedia
Ceremonial magic - Wikipedia
Dungeons and Dragons (DnD) - Wikipedia
The worlds of technology and magic are closer than you think - Dazed
Swiss Army knife - Wikipedia
This is Not the End of the Book by Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carrière - Goodreads
Nick Herbert (physicist) - Wikipedia
Bulletin board system (BBS) - Wikipedia
How Psychedelics Helped Shape Modern Technology - Psychedelic Spotlight
Mycelium - Wikipedia

Magic is theatre; theatre is magic

Live action role-playing gamer (LARP) - Wikipedia
Dungeons and Dragons (DnD) - Wikipedia
Rimbaud's Systematic Derangement of the Senses - Language is a Virus
Arthur Rimbaud - Wikipedia
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - Wikipedia
John Dee - Wikipedia
Enochian magic - Wikipedia
Enochian (language) - Wikipedia
Watchtower (magic) - Wikipedia
Scrying - Wikipedia
"Spirit mirror" used by 16th-century occultist John Dee came from the Aztec Empire - Live Science
What Do The Angels From The Bible Actually Look Like? - All That’s Interesting
Ezekiel - Wikipedia
Yahweh - Wikipedia
J. Z. Knight / Ramtha - Wikipedia

Would there be magic without humans?

Jacques Vallée - Wikipedia
Daemon (computing) - Wikipedia
Httpd - Wikipedia
Unix - Wikipedia
Linux - Wikipedia
Invocation - Wikipedia
Evocation - Wikipedia
Function (computer programming) - Wikipedia
Magical Code and Coded Magic: The Persistence of Occult Ideas in Modern Gaming and Computing
Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers by Jacques F. Vallée - Goodreads
Martin Shaw website: books
Wolf Milk: Chthonic Memory in the Deep Wild by Martin Shaw - Goodreads
Devon - Wikipedia
William S. Burroughs - Wikipedia
Brion Gysin - Wikipedia
Cut-up technique - Wikipedia
Cut ups - BrionGysin.com
The Third Mind - Wikipedia
The Third Mind by William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin - Goodreads
Simonton's Famous Flying Flapjacks, Just Another Tin Foil Hat - YouTube
The Eagle River Incident - UFO Insight
Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati - Wikipedia
Buckwheat - Wikipedia
The Trickster and the Paranormal by George P. Hansen - Goodreads
Peripheral vision - Wikipedia

Joseph’s thoughts on, and experiences of, synchronicity

Synchronicity - Wikipedia
Collective unconscious - Wikipedia
Psychic staring effect - Wikipedia
Grimoire - Wikipedia
Six Ways: Approaches & Entries for Practical Magic by Aidan Wachter - Goodreads
Everything You Need to Know about Salmon Fishing in Alaska - Katmai Fishing Guides
Sockeye salmon - Wikipedia
Naknek, Alaska - Wikipedia
Contiguous United States (‘The lower 48’) - Wikipedia
Jack London - Wikipedia
Arctic circle - Wikipedia
Arctic methane emissions - Wikipedia
‘Squirt the bird’ - Wordspy
True Detective: Night Country (Season 4) - Wikipedia
True Detective (Season 2) - Wikipedia
Watchmen (TV series) - Wikipedia
Rust Cohle - Wikipedia
Thomas Ligotti - Wikipedia
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race - Wikipedia
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror by Thomas Ligotti - Goodreads
The magnetic field near the Arctic is acting weird - The Verge
Climate change is rapidly transforming the Arctic: Why everybody should care - The Hill
Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

We are nature

Big Sur - Wikipedia
Santa Cruz, California - Wikipedia
Central Coast (California) - Wikipedia
Sequoioideae (Redwood) - Wikipedia
Jack Kerouac - Wikipedia
Big Sur (novel) - Wikipedia
Henry Miller - Wikipedia
Esalen Institute - Wikipedia
Robert Anton Wilson - Wikipedia
'Dark Watchers' have been spooking California hikers for centuries. What are they? - Live Science
Brocken spectre - Wikipedia
Shamanism and trees - Shamanic Practice
Peter Levenda - Wikipedia
Joseph Campbell - Wikipedia
Cardinal Directions Spiritual Meaning - Spiritual Desk
Firmament - Wikipedia
The Matrix - Wikipedia

Is the Internet a failed experiment in freedom of expression?

How the Internet Has Changed Everyday Life - Open Mind BBVA
Early websites 1991 - 1995 - Web Design Museum
The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension - Deoxy.org website
Gopher (protocol) - Wikipedia
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) - Wikipedia
Incunabula Research Centre - Deoxy.org
Timothy Leary - Wikipedia
Robert Anton Wilson - Wikipedia
John C. Lilly - Wikipedia
E- commerce - Wikipedia
Art Bell - Wikipedia
HTML - Wikipedia
Adobe Photoshop - Wikipedia
How The Internet Transformed The American Rave Scene - NPR
Disinformation (company) - Wikipedia
Penny Royal podcast website
Push technology - Wikipedia
Algorithm - Wikipedia
MySpace - Wikipedia
Spotify - Wikipedia
Neurodiversity - Wikipedia
Artificial Intelligence - Wikipedia
Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences by D.W. Pasulka - Goodreads
Chatbot - Wikipedia
Cut-up technique - Wikipedia
Large language model - Wikipedia
Enochian (language) - Wikipedia
Jacques Vallée - Wikipedia
Scrying - Wikipedia
Creepy Microsoft Bing Chatbot Urges Tech Columnist To Leave His Wife - Huffington Post
Dave Metcalfe’s blog
Source code - Wikipedia
Ezekiel - Wikipedia
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) - Wikipedia
Special Collections & Archives - UC Santa Cruz
Alchemy - Wikipedia
Hermeticism - Wikipedia
Schizophrenia - Wikipedia
Santa Barbara, California

Art becoming someone else’s reality

Rorschach test - Wikipedia
Waking Life - Wikipedia
Waking Life (2001) Official Trailer - YouTube
Rotoscoping - Wikipedia
Richard Linklater - Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick - Wikipedia
A Scanner Darkly (film) - Wikipedia
A Scanner Darkly (2006) Official Trailer - YouTube
A Scanner Darkly (novel) - Wikipedia
Allen Greenfield on Twitter/X
Santa Cruz , California - Wikipedia
Valis (novel series) - Wikipedia
Gnosis (magazine) - Wikipedia
Gnosis magazine website
High Frontiers magazine - Anarchivism
Robert Anton Wilson - Wikipedia
Berkeley, California - Wikipedia
Big Sur - Wikipedia
Route 66 - Wikipedia
Los Angeles - Wikipedia
Jim Morrison - Wikipedia
J.R. “Bob” Dobbs - Wikipedia
Church of the Sub Genius - Wikipedia
1989 Loma Prieta earthquake - Wikipedia
Tai chi - Wikipedia
Timothy Leary - Wikipedia
Nina Graboi - Wikipedia
Albert Hofmann (chemist) - Wikipedia
R. Gordon Wasson - Wikipedia
Terence McKenna - Wikipedia
Dennis McKenna - Wikipedia
St Louis Obispo, California - Wikipedia
Robertson Jeffers - Wikipedia
Peter Levenda - Wikipedia
Sinister Forces Series by Peter Levenda - Goodreads
Project Artichoke (formerly Project Bluebird) - Wikipedia
Edward Kelley - Wikipedia
John Dee - Wikipedia
Edward Kelley and Paul Waring Raising the Dead - The Occult and Magick blog
Cosmic Trigger I (audiobook) - Audible
Light pollution - Wikipedia
Noise pollution - Wikipedia
Electromagnetic radiation and health - Wikipedia
Nonsense Bizarre podcast

Psychoactive texts

Paul Weston’s website
VYS0023 | Mercurial, Mutable, Mysterious Something - Vayse to Face with Paul Weston
Synchromysticism, Wikipedia
Valis (novel) - Wikipedia
Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati - Wikipedia
Robert Anton Wilson - Wikipedia
Syd Barrett - Wikipedia
Psychedelic drug - Wikipedia
The Illuminatus! Trilogy - Wikipedia
The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson - Goodreads
The Raw Shark Texts - Wikipedia
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall - Goodreads

Are ideas living things?

Animism - Wikipedia
VYS0010 | Amazing Stories - Vayse to Face with Dr Allen H Greenfield Pt.1
VYS0011 | Weird Tales - Vayse to Face with Dr Allen H Greenfield Pt.2
Muscle memory - Wikipedia
Genesis P-Orridge - Wikipedia ( )
Psychic TV - Wikipedia
William S. Burroughs - Wikipedia
Cut-up technique - Wikipedia
Cartesianism - Wikipedia
Capitalism - Wikipedia
The Trickster and the Paranormal by George P. Hansen - Goodreads

Are there magicians in politics?

Group Magickal Workings in Politics - Reddit
What is Meme Magick? - YouTube
Pepe the Frog (and Kek) - Wikipedia
Cambridge Analytica - Wikipedia
Steve Bannon - Wikipedia
Chaos magic - Wikipedia
A video making the rounds online depicts Trump as a Messiah-like figure - NPR
Hacker - Wikipedia
Caller ID Spoofing - Wikipedia
Sophomore - Wikipedia
Memetics - Wikipedia
Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections - Wikipedia
Punk'd (TV series) - Wikipedia
Playing the Infinite Game - World Quant
Zero-sum game - Wikipedia
Gamification - Wikipedia
Bitcoin - Wikipedia
Live action role-playing game(LARP) - Wikipedia
Reality tunnel - Wikipedia
A framework for using magic to study the mind - Frontiers in Psychology
Ritual In Game Design - Lumpley Games
Ritual, reality and representation: From ancient theatre to postmodern performance - Interartive
Charles Bukowski, “Find what you love and let it kill you” quote - Goodreads
Charles Bukowski - Wikipedia

Joseph’s recommendations (with suggestions from Buckley and Hine)

Under the Silver Lake - Wikipedia
Under The Silver Lake (2019) Official Trailer - YouTube
Everything Everywhere All At Once - Wikipedia
Everything Everywhere All At Once | Official Trailer - YouTube
Michelle Yeoh - Wikipedia
Jackie Chan - Wikipedia
Wolf Milk: Chthonic Memory in the Deep Wild by Martin Shaw - Goodreads
Martin Shaw author page - Goodreads
High Fidelity (film) - Wikipedia
High Fidelity (2000) Theatrical Trailer - YouTube
John Cusack - Wikipedia
Evanston, Illinois - Wikipedia
High Fidelity (novel) - Wikipedia

Vayse online

Vayse website
Vayse on X/Twitter
Vayse on Instagram
Music From Vayse - Volume 1 by Polypores
Vayse on Ko-Fi
Vayse email: vayseinfo@gmail.com

Buckley’s Closing Question(s)

Central Intelligence Agency - Wikipedia
Dealey Plaza - Wikipedia
The motives of Terry Wriste - Reddit
Georgia Guidestones - Wikipedia
Waste Container (Wheelie bin) - Wikipedia
Voynich manuscript - Wikipedia
Ashtar (extraterrestrial being) - Wikipedia
D. B. Cooper - Wikipedia
The Narrator (Fight Club) (Tyler Durden) - Wikipedia
Fight Club trailer - YouTube Special Guest: Joseph Matheny.

VYS0029 | If There's Something Strange In Your Neighbourhood - Vayse to Face to Face with Field Lines Cartographer and Bob Freeman: Halloween 2023

Vayse — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 19:30:00 +0100

VYS0029 | If There's Something Strange In Your Neighbourhood - Vayse to Face to Face with Field Lines Cartographer and Bob Freeman: Halloween 2023 - Show Notes

Four middle-aged men bravely join forces to confront ancient evils, spooks, spectres and ghosts - ok, so, Vayse did Ghostbusters last Halloween but instead, this year, Hine and Buckley welcome back master of the liminal soundscape, Field Lines Cartographer and the Occult Detective himself, Bob Freeman to sit around the virtual camp fire as they each tell a ghost story from their home towns.

FLC tells a tale of Warwickshire plague pits and feelings of stalking dread in the dark, Hine recounts a gruesome murder in Preston which led to bloody revenge from beyond the grave, Bob spins a classic American yarn of haunted houses in the deep, dark woods of rural Indiana and Buckley tells of the spirit of a young boy who haunts the picturesque town of Great Corby bringing those who encounter him great fortune followed by certain death.

The conversation also turns to whether ghosts are actually, really all that scary, the differences between ghost stories in the UK and the US, the nature of reality itself (of course, this is Vayse)... and digitally transported flies... (Recorded 10 October 2023)

Thanks again to Keith for the show notes and thanks to everyone for listening - please tell a friend (or benignly neutral acquaintance) and ask them to do the same!

Mark Burford/Field Lines Cartographer (FLC) - Links

FLC on Bandcamp
FLC/Castles in Space on Bandcamp
FLC on Twitter
FLC on Instagram
FLC on Bluesky
FLC’s Phases of This and Other Moons album

Bob Freeman/Occult Detective - Links

Occult Detective website
Occult Detective on Patreon
Occult Detective on YouTube
Occult Detective on Twitter
Occult Detective on Instagram
Occult Detective on Bluesky
Fire and Ice Miniatures Adventure Game, Kickstarter

Vayse - Links

Vayse website
Vayse on Twitter
Vayse on Instagram
Music From Vayse - Volume 1 by Polypores
Vayse on Ko-Fi

Introduction - Links

The Addams Family (1964 TV series) Intro
The Addams Family (1964 TV series) - Wikipedia page
Halloween - Wikipedia page
VYS0006 | Dreamtides - Vayse to Face with Field Lines Cartographer
Fox Mulder - Wikipedia page
Dana Scully, Wikipedia page
VYS0017 | Occult Detective - Vayse to Face with Bob Freeman
INTERVIEW: Sara Frazetta and Bob Freeman continue the Frazetta family legacy with VAMPIRELLA: DEAD FLOWERS, Comicsbeat article
Fire and Ice Miniatures Adventure Game, Kickstarter
Frank Frazetta - Wikipedia page

Mark’s Spooky Story: Encounter on Bush Heath Lane - Links

Hine’s spooky story: The Bannister Doll - Links

Bob’s story: A Spectral Entity in Peoria - Links

Buckley’s story: The Radiant Boy - Links

Differences between US and UK ghost stories, experiences, and landscape - Links

Are weird stories more believable if they’re non-coherent? - Links

Buckley’s recommendations for Halloween - Links

Something Wicked This Way Comes (novel) - Wikipedia page
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Borderlands (2013 film) - Wikipedia page
Lana Del Ray - Season Of The Witch
Hole - Season of the Witch
Donavan - Season of the Witch
Season of the Witch (song) - Wikipedia Page

Hine’s recommendations for Halloween - Links

Richard Thompson - Season of the Witch
The October Country - Wikipedia page
The October Country by Ray Bradbury
The Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Army of Darkness
Spiderland - Wikipedia page
Slint - Spiderland

Mark’s recommendations for Halloween - Links

Legion (Blatty novel) - Wikipedia page
Legion by William Peter Blatty
The Fog (1980 film) - Wikipedia page
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920 film) - Wikipedia page
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Field Lines Cartographer's Live Improvised soundtrack to The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

Bob’s recommendations for Halloween - Links

The Willows (story) - Wikipedia page
Algernon Blackwood: The Willows (BBC Radio Drama)
The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
The Devil Rides Out (1968 film) - Wikipedia page
The Devil Rides Out aka The Devil’s Bride (US)/ Official Theatrical Trailer (1968)
Charming Disaster (goth-folk musical duo) website

Special Guests: Bob Freeman and Field Lines Cartographer.

VYS0028 | Psychic Jizz - Vayse to Face with Stephanie Quick

Vayse — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 19:30:00 +0200

VYS0028 | Psychic Jizz - Vayse to Face with Stephanie Quick - Show Notes

Handing on a plate to Hine and Buckley the most potently inspired episode title in Vayse history is teacher, researcher, blogger and "the Julia Child of Sex Magic", Stephanie Quick. In an intense and varied conversation Stephanie takes Vayse through her near death experience, complete with a fall through the starlit sky, disembodied consciousnesses and sky-scraper sized entities, she talks about how to start off your own run of synchronicities and the conversation weaves itself around Carlos Castaneda, Gurdjieff, how to not lose yourself in your spiritual practice or join a cult... and, speaking of cults, enter the glowing orange 16-bit pineapple... Recorded 10 August 2023

Stephanie Quick Links

Steph’s blog, Ghost Dog is a Mystery Box

Steph on Bluesky

Steph on Instagram

Steph on Twitter

Steph on Facebook

Steph’s YouTube channel

Introduction Links

Lovecraftian horror - Wikipedia page

Julia Child - Wikipedia page

Sex magic - Wikipedia page

Cheese Board Collective - Wikipedia page

Chez Panisse, Wikipedia page

Alice Waters - Wikipedia page

An Introduction to Western Sexual Mysticism, New Dawn Magazine article

Refuge in Buddhism - Wikipedia page

Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) - Wikipedia page

Coven - Wikipedia page

Steph, the West Coast, and the ‘Spiritual Marketplace’ Links

Fresno, California - Wikipedia page

Bigfoot, Chupacabra, and…Fresno Nightcrawler? Walking pants bring Fresno freaky fame - Fresno Bee article

The Fresno Nightcrawlers - sceptical, humorous

North Fork, California - Wikipedia page

The Chukchansi People - Coarsegold Historical Society article

Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians - Wikipedia page

East Bay - Wikipedia page

Oakland, California - Wikipedia page

Berkeley, California - Wikipedia page

University of California, Santa Cruz - Wikipedia page

Napa, California - Wikipedia page

Tibetan Buddhism - Wikipedia page

Zen (Buddhism) - Wikipedia page

Understanding the Spiritual Marketplace - From Monopoly to Open Access - Patheos article

Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion by Wade Clark Roof

Lupus Psychosis and Brain Inflammation - Lupus Corner article

Aphasia - Wikipedia page

Yoga - Wikipedia page

Archangel Michael (channelled messages) - Sanada website

Pick‘n’mix: the 21st Century approach to religious affiliation, Walls Come Tumbling Down blog article

How did Steph find her way into weird stuff? Links

Strangely Enough by C.B. Colby - Goodreads page

C.B. Colby - Wikipedia page

Jersey Devil - Wikipedia page

Near death experience - Wikipedia page

Lidocaine - Wikipedia page

Bardo (liminal state between death and rebirth) - Wikipedia page

Keith's Excellent Detective Work (gods bless you, Keith) - Based on SQ’s mentions of her age now (61) and at later events, I reckon the exhibition she must have gone to was ‘Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet’, held at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, in 1991. There is an exhibition catalogue available. Not sure if it’s worth including, but there’s a link to it here on Abe Books

I couldn’t find anything else specific to that exhibition that wasn’t behind a pay-wall or on a subscription site, but here’s a short video trailer for that museum’s similar exhibitions:

San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Tibetan Buddhist exhibitions

Tanka - Wikipedia Page

Sand mandala - Wikipedia page

Tibetan Sand Mandala (construction and destruction)

Synchronicity - Wikipedia page

Steph’s Near Death Experience Links

Coma - Wikipedia page

Meningitis - Wikipedia page

Meningitis Research Foundation - Excellent charity

Near death, seeing dead people may be neither rare nor eerie - AP News article

PMH Atwater website

Psychopomp - Wikipedia page

Last rites - Wikipedia page

Anointing of the Sick in the Catholic Church (Extreme Unction) - Wikipedia page

Auto-immune disease - wikipedia page

Bronchoscopy - Wikipedia page

Robert Monroe - Wikipedia page

Mindfulness - Wikipedia page

Whitley Strieber - Wikipedia page

A Wild and Wonderful Dialogue between Whitley and UFO Master Greg Bishop...and Gru!

George Gurdjieff - Wikipedia page

Fourth Way (Gurdjieff) - Wikipedia page

Gurdjieff sensing exercises

Alien abduction - Wikipedia page

Biocentrism Posits That Death Is Merely Transport into Another Universe - Big Think article

Heaven - Wikipedia page

Jung, Flying Saucers, and the Anxieties of Our Time (UFOs as mandala symbols) - Psychology Today article

VYS0024: Between Being Real and Not Real - Vayse to Face with Nathan Paul Isaac

Is Consciousness a Fundamental Quality of the Universe? - Sci News article and video

Are we really made of 'star stuff' and what does that even mean? - Space article and video

Steph’s encounter with skyscraper-sized entities and its impact on her spiritual practice - Links

Rinpoche - Wikipedia page

Kensington, California - Wikipedia page

Ewam Choden Tibetan Buddhist Centre, Kensington website

24 years on retreat (Judith Skinner) - The New Fillmore article and ‘On Retreat’ documentary trailer

Tathāgata (Buddhism) - Wikipedia page

The X Files - Wikipedia page

The X-Files

Allen Greenfield on Twitter

Secrets of the Real Black Lodge Revealed! by Allen Greenfield and Olav Phillips

Black and White Lodges, Twin Peaks - Wikipedia page section

Empire State Building - Wikipedia page

Grey alien - Wikipedia page

Marian apparition - Wikipedia page

Emergency medical technician (EMT) - Wikipedia page

Plaid Moon Rising - The Flannel Man - Birdy Magazine article

Ontological security - Wikipedia page

Meditation for awareness - Headspace article

Shavasana (Yoga) - Wikipedia page

Sacred Space: How to Make an Altar in Your Home - Chopra article

Leslie Temple Thurston - website

Native American religions - Britannica.com

Sweat lodge - Wikipedia page

Astrology - Wikipedia page

Acupuncture - Wikipedia page

Acupressure - Wikiepdia page

Wuxing (Chinese Philosophy, Five Element System) - Wikipedia Page

New Thought - Wikipedia page

Synchronicity, the Sandown Clown, and Psychic Jizz - Links

Anthony Nine on Twitter

Synchronicity - Wikipedia page

AP Strange - website

AP Strange on Twitter

The Sandown Clown: Exploring Sam, the Isle of Wight’s surreal 1973 encounter, On the Wight article and videos

Our Strange Skies podcast, 151: Clowning Around with Stephanie Quick & AP Strange (Sam, the Sandown Clown)

How To Induce Synchronicities, Stephanie Quick blog post

Radio Misterioso - Greg Bishop bio

Quick and Ray – A Psychic Influencing Experiment - Radio Mysterioso post

(Lama) Kunga Rinpoche - Wikipedia page

Buddhist Symbols - Faith Inspires article

Synchronicity and symbols as the base level of magic and entity encounters - Links

VYS0026 | It's a Wand-erful Life - Vayse to Face with Douglas Batchelor Pt. 1

VYS0027 | Batchelor of Dark Arts - Vayse to Face with Douglas Batchelor Pt. 2

Birdwatching - Wikipedia page

Bird symbolism - World Birds article

Bird vocalisation - Wikipedia page

Paramecium - Wikipedia page

Robert Monroe - Wikipedia page

Dodechahedron - Wikipedia page

Chakra - Wikipedia page

Spreading the weird word, sweeping statements, and the teacher-trickster - Links

Julia Child - Wikipedia page

What Magic is This? website

VYS0024 | Between Being Real and Not Real - Vayse to Face with Nathan Paul Isaac

VYS0025 | Truth with a Capital "T" - Vayse to Face with Sequoyah Kennedy

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

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

AP Strange - website

George Gurdjieff - Wikipedia page

Teacher as trickster on the learner’s journey - Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning article

Whitley Strieber - Wikipedia page

Communion (book) - Wikipedia page

Project Archivist podcast

Sex Magic with Allen Greenfield - SQ blog post and link to podcast audio

Carlos Castaneda, Amy Wallace, and Steph’s Rules for Sex Magic with Others - Links

Carlos Castaneda - Wikipedia page

Trickster: The Many Lives of Carlos Castaneda, podcast

Destructive cults - Wikipedia page section

Amy Wallace - Wikipedia page

Sorcerer's Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda by Amy Wallace - Goodreads page

Sorcerer's Apprentice : My Life with Carlos Castaneda by Amy Wallace

Irving Wallace - Wikipedia page

Rodeo Drive - Wikipedia page

Florinda Donner - Wikipedia page

John Lennon - Wikipedia page

George Lucas - Wikipedia page

Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia page

My Rules for Sex Magic with Others - Stephanie Quick blog post

Steph’s recommendations - Links

Women of the Paranormal Vol I by Alex Matsuo

The Spooky Stuff podcast with Alex Matsuo

The Spooky Stuff with Alex Matsuo on YouTube

Personal Pans podcast with Vanessa Walilko

Pan Paracon/Personal Pans on YouTube

Vanessa Walilko’s Jewellery and Wearable Art

Necronomicast podcast

Some Other Sphere podcast

Church of Mabus Radio on YouTube

John E.L. Tenney’s website

Eric Wargo’s website

*Vayse *

Vayse website

Vayse on Twitter

Vayse on Instagram

Music From Vayse - Volume 1 by Polypores

Vayse on Ko-Fi Special Guest: Stephanie Quick.

VYS0027 | Batchelor of Dark Arts - Vayse to Face with Douglas Batchelor Pt. 2

Vayse — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 19:30:00 +0200

VYS0027 | Batchelor of Dark Arts - Vayse to Face with Douglas Batchelor Pt. 2 - Show Notes

This is the second part of a two part interview - if you haven't yet listened to the first part, give it a listen before you dive into part two.

*You can find part one here: *

VYS0026 | It's a Wand-erful Life - Vayse to Face with Douglas Batchelor Pt. 1

Thanks to Doug for making it through 3 hours of Vayse interrogation and thanks as always to Keith for the show notes!

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)

Douglas Batchelor/What Magic is This? Links

What Magic is This? website

Douglas/What Magic is This? On Twitter

Douglas/What Magic is This? On Instagram

Douglas/What Magic is This? On YouTube

Douglas/What Magic is This? Facebook

Douglas/What Magic is This? Patreon

VYS0026 | It's a Wand-erful Life - Vayse to Face with Douglas Batchelor Pt. 1

The darker side of magic, and related links

Transubstantiation - Wikipedia page

Curse - Wikipedia page

Curse tablet (tabella defixionis, defixio) - Wikipedia page

Jinx - Wikipedia page

Introduction to Hexes, Jinxes, Curses, Evil Eyes, and Black Magic - what are the differences? - WiccanBrew article

Left hand path and right hand path - Wikipedia page

VYS0021 | Song of the Dark Man - Vayse to Face with Darragh Mason

Spirit Box S2 #18 / Peter Hine and Stephen Buckley, Dreams, Nightmares and Pan - this is actually where we discuss magic being self regulating

Love magic - Wikipedia page

When William Shatner told Star Trek fans to ‘get a life’ - UCR article

Sex magic - Wikipedia page

Six Ways: Approaches & Entries for Practical Magic by Aiden Wachter
Servitor (chaos magic) - Wikipedia page

Chaos Magic - Wikipedia page

Sigil - Wikipedia page

Skin-walker - Wikipedia page

Apollo - Wikipedia page

The Chimp Paradox: The Acclaimed Mind Management Programme to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness by Prof Steve Peters

The Chimp Paradox Explained - Student Aspect article

Cyprian and Justina - Wikipedia page

Animism - Wikipedia page

Animism with Gordon White - What Magic is This? episode

Spirits with Aidan Wachter - What Magic is This? episode

Necromancy, Nigromancy, Black Magic, and related links

Necromancy - Wikipedia page

Necromancy - What Magic is This? episode

Lucifer - Wikipedia page

The Devil - What Magic is This? episode

Hecate - Wikipedia page

Sorcery (goetia) - Wikipedia page

Goetia - What Magic is This? episode

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa - Wikipedia page

Nigromancy in the Later Middle Ages - Inquiries Journal article

Black magic - Wikipedia page

Bone Magick: Using Bones, Fangs, Feathers, Claws, and Shells in Animal Magick and Ancestor Workby Radiana Pit - The Old Craft article

Graveyard magick: A Witch’s guide, Grove and Grotto article

Key of Solomon, Wikipedia page

An Introduction to Solomonic Magic with Alexander Eth of Glitch Bottle Podcast - What Magic is This? episode

Evocation - Wikipedia page

Grimoire - Wikipedia page

Grimoires with Alexander Cummins - What Magic is This? episode

How To Read Grimoires - What Magic is This? episode

Divination - Wikipedia page

Ars Goetia - Wikipedia page

History of Chinese immigration to Canada - Wikipedia page

Jake Stratton-Kent - Goodreads page

Eulogy for a Necromancer (Jake Stratton-Kent) - Scarlet Imprint article

Eschatology - Wikipedia page

Gary from accounting (short film)

Asking advice from ancestor spirits, magical thinking, and related links

Veneration of the dead - Wikipedia page

Tao Te Ching (Dao De Jing) - Wikipedia page

Kenneth Grant - Wikipedia page

The Magical Revival by Kenneth Grant

Paul Weston's Website

VYS0023 | Mercurial, Mutable, Mysterious Something - Vayse to Face with Paul Weston

Glastonbury - Wikipedia page

Aldous Huxley - Wikipedia page

The Doors of Perception - Wikipedia page

Robert Anton Wilson - Wikipedia page

John Keel, Wikipedia page

Synchronicity - Wikipedia page

A Brief Introduction to Indigenous Epistemology and Unconscious Learning - The Pub article

Shamanism - Wikipedia page

Douglas’ recommendations and related links

Cosmic Trigger Vol. I: Final Secret of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson

Will Storr Vs the Supernatural: One Man's Search for the Truth About Ghosts by Will Storr

Edith Hamilton - Wikipedia page

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton

Science and Psychic Phenomena: The Fall of the House of Skeptics by Chris Carter

Jeffrey Kripal - Wikipedia page

The Luminous Mind of Jeffrey Kripal - What Magic is This? episode

The Return of Jeffrey Kripal - 100th episode - What Magic is This? episode

Jack Hunter’s website

Spiritualism & Spirit Mediumship with Jack Hunter - What Magic is This? episode

Joshua Cutchin’s Website

Fairies, UFOs & Aliens with Joshua Cutchin, What Magic is This? episode

VYS0020 | Messages of Deception - Vayse to Face with Mark Pilkington

Mirage Men: A Journey into Disinformation, Paranoia and UFO by Mark Pilkington

Mirage Men Documentary

Of all the magicians and wizards ever, fictional and non-fictional, who would Douglas most like to have on What Magic is This? - related links

Gandalf - Wikipedia page

Yoda - Wikipedia page

John Dee - Wikipedia page

Dr John Dee's Spiritual Diary 1583-1608 : Second Edition by Dr Stephen Skinner

John Dee's Five Books of Mystery: Original Sourcebook of Enochian Magic by Joe Peterson

Tom Bombadil - Wikipedia page

Genius loci - Wikipedia page

J. R. R. Tolkien - Wikipedia page

A Tolkien Bestiary by David Day

The Tolkien Trail - Website

Special Section: Killer cows and related links

How Many People Are Killed by Cows Each Year - World Animal Foundation article

Cows officially the most deadly large animals in Britain - Independent article from 2015

The 13 Most Dangerous Animals in the UK: Statistics to Know In 2023 - Pet Keen article

When cows attack - Killer Cows article

Tabanidae (Horseflies) - Wikipedia page - Absolute Bastards Special Guest: Douglas Batchelor.

VYS0026 | It's a Wand-erful Life - Vayse to Face with Douglas Batchelor Pt. 1

Vayse — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 19:30:00 +0200

VYS0026 | It's a Wand-erful Life - Vayse to Face with Douglas Batchelor Pt. 1 - Show Notes

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

Big thanks go to Doug for being so generous with his time and enthusiastic with sharing his knowledge - we were not expecting for this to be a double episode!!! And thanks as always to Keith for the show notes! Give Keith a follow on Twitter @peak_flow for electronic music and weird stuff.

Douglas Batchelor/What Magic is This? Links

What Magic is This? website

Douglas/What Magic is This? On Twitter

Douglas/What Magic is This? On Instagram

Douglas/What Magic is This? On YouTube

Douglas/What Magic is This? Facebook

Douglas/What Magic is This? Patreon

Buckley and Hine’s introductory stories - related links

Carl Sagan’s Cosmos - Wikipedia page

Bob Ross - Wikipedia page

Surfskating - Wikipedia page

Hot Wheels - Wikipedia page

The Lost Boys Trailer

The Lost Boys (film) - Wikipedia page

The Lost Boys Soundtrack

VYS0003 | Welcome to Vayse: Population (first released episode)

Selected topics and people featured on What Magic Is This? Links

Chaos Magic, Wikipedia page

Chaos Magic Part I - What Magic Is This? episode

Chaos Magic Part II - What Magic Is This? episode

Sigil - Wikipedia page

Sigils - What Magic is This? episode

The Lesser Key of Solomon on Sacred Texts

The Lesser Key of Solomon edited by Joseph H Peterson

Lesser Key of Solomon/Ars Goetia - Wikipedia page

Goetia - What Magic is This? Episode

Greek Magical Papyri - Wikipedia page

The Greek Magical Papyri In Translation on the Internet Archive

The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation Volume I: Texts by Hans Dieter Betz

The Greek Magical Papyri - What Magic is This? episode

I Ching, Wikipedia page

I Ching - Wilhelm/Baynes

I Ching or Book of Changes: Ancient Chinese wisdom to inspire and enlighten - Wilhelm/Baynes Translation 3rd Edition

The I Ching with Dan Lowe - What Magic is This? episode

Ouija - Wikipedia page

Ouija - What Magic is This? episode

Aidan Wachter's website

Spirits with Aiden Wachter - What Magic is This? episode

Gary Lachman's website

The Ever-Evolving Consciousness of Gary Lachman - What Magic is This? episode

Jack Hunter's website

Spiritualism & Spirit Mediumship with Jack Hunter - What Magic is This? episode

Joshua Cutchin's website

Fairies, UFOs, Aliens with Joshua Cutchin - What Magic is This? episode

Alexander Cummins' website

Grimoires with Alexander Cummins, What Magic is This? episode

Jeffrey Kripal's website

The Luminous Mind of Jeffrey Kripal - What Magic is This? episode

The Return Of Jeffrey Kripal – 100th Episode! - What Magic is This? episode

What Magic is This? as tutorial/opinion - related links

Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia page

Aleister Crowley – His Life and Ideas with Richard Kaczynski - What Magic is This? episode

Aleister Crowley – The Myth and the New Aeon with Richard T. Cole - What Magic is This? episode

Aleister Crowley – My Beastly Thoughts - What Magic is This? episode

Charles Fort - Wikipedia page

Charles Fort - What Magic is This? episode

Fort's 'Measurement Of A Circle' - Forteana.org forum discussion

Occultism - Wikipedia page

Occultism with Mitch Horowitz - What Magic is This? episode

The Art of Storytelling in Non-Fiction - Reedsy Live article

Colin Wilson - Wikipedia page

Colin Wilson - What Magic is This? episode

Carl Jung - Wikipedia page

Carl Jung - What Magic is This? episode

Consensus reality - Wikipedia page

Douglas’ early interest in magic and weird stuff - related links

Calgary, Alberta - Wikipedia page

Indigenous peoples in Canada - Wikipedia page

Animism - Wikipedia page

Greek Mythology - Wikipedia page

J. R.R. Tolkien - Wikipedia page

Mysteries of the Unknown books - Wikipedia page

The Search for the Lost Lemon Mine, CIM Magazine article

Robert W. Service (poet) - Wikipedia page

John E Douglas - Wikipedia page

Carl Jung - Wikipedia page

Robertson Davies - Wikipedia page

Herman Hesse - Wikipedia page

Siddhartha (novel) - Wikipedia page

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Steppenwolf (novel) - Wikipedia page

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Disinformation TV series and related links

Video rental shop - Wikipedia page

Disinformation (TV series) - Wikipedia page

DisInfoTV - clips from the show

Disinformation: The Complete Series, DVD review

Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult - edited by Richard Metzger

Richard Metzger's "DisinfoCon 2000" (feat. Robert Anton Wilson, Kenneth Anger, et al.) - video (3.5 hrs approx.)

Richard Metzger - Wikipedia page

Disinformation (company) - Wikipedia page

Joe Coleman (painter) - Wikipedia page

Kenneth Anger - Wikipedia page

Douglas Rushkoff - Wikipedia page

Robert Anton Wilson - Wikipedia page

Genesis P-Orridge - Wikipedia page

Nevill Drury - Wikipedia page

Allen Greenfield on Twitter

Grant Morrison and related links

Grant Morrison - Wikipedia page

Grant Morrison on Chaos Magic, the occult & Sigil creation (from DisInfoCon 2000) - video (45 mins approx.)

Pop Magic by Grant Morrison

Chaos Magic - Wikipedia page

Sigil - Wikipedia page

The Magic Mind of Grant Morrison -What Magic is This? episode

Douglas’ magical practice and related links

Unforeseen Interlude: How I Started in Magic - What Magic is This? episode

Ceremonial Magic - Wikipedia page

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

Treadwell’s Books - website

Models of Magic - Spiral Nature article

Peter J Carroll - Wikipedia page

Phil Hine - Wikipedia page

Austin Osman Spare - Wikipedia page

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - Wikipedia page

Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia page

Hermetic Qabala - Wikipedia page

Egregore - Wikipedia page

Servitor (chaos magic) - Wikipedia page

Edmonton, Alberta - Wikipedia page

Chaos Magick vs ceremonial and others - Reddit thread

Greek Magical Papyri - Wikipedia page

Cunning folk - Wikipedia page

Cunning Folk with Aerinn Hodges - What Magic is This? Episode

The Great Work - Wikipedia page

Alan Moore and related links

Alan Moore - Wikipedia page

V for Vendetta (graphic novel) - Wikipedia page

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

Watchmen (comic book series) - Wikipedia page

Watchmen by Alan Moore

Promethea (comic book series) - Wikipedia page

Promethea: The Deluxe Edition Book One by Alan Moore

Alan Moore interview - Mustard magazine

The Marvellous Magical World of Alan Moore - What Magic is This? episode

Starting a magical practice / Protection Magic / Dreams / Precognition and related links

How to Start Doing Magic - What Magic is This? episode

The Imagination - What Magic is This? episode

What Magic is This? The Dirt episodes (some previews only, full access requires sign up to the Patreon)

George Carlin - Wikipedia page

Protection Magic - Green Witch Farm article

Psi and Science - Psychology Today article

Dreams - What Magic is This? episode

Lucid Dreaming - What Magic is This? episode

Precognition - Wikipedia page

Is Precognition Real? Cornell University Lab Releases Powerful New Evidence that the Human Mind can Perceive the Future - H Plus magazine article (2010-2011)

Hildegard of Bingen - Wikipedia page

Spiritual Cleansing: Your Guide to Cleansing Rituals and Methods, Otherworldly Oracle article

Eric Wargo / Coincidence / Synchronicity and related links

Eric Wargo's website

Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious by Eric Wargo

Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self: Interpreting Messages from Your Future by Eric Wargo

Coincidence & Synchronicity - What Magic is This? episode

The Timely Ideas of Eric Wargo - What Magic is This? episode

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia page

Peak experience - Wikipedia page

Publication bias (aka file-drawer effect) - Wikipedia page

Is Death an Illusion? Evidence Suggests Death Isn’t the End, Psychology Today article

Douglas asks Hine and Buckley why Vayse exists - related links

Ultra-terrestrial hypothesis

Ultra-terrestrial Models, by H.E. Puthoff, article from The Journal of Cosmology

Ghost hunting - Wikipedia page

VYS0021 - Song of the Dark Man - Vayse to Face with Darragh Mason

Folie à deux - Wikipedia page

Mid-life crisis - Wikipedia page

Pennyroyal podcast website

Hellier (TV Series) - Wikipedia page

Hellier Season 1: Episode 1 | The Midnight Children

Spirit house - Wikipedia page

2000AD (Comics)

Boo Cook - Wikipedia page

Tweet by Vayse showing Boo's incredible Artwork

Meet the Void Runners - 2000AD article

Animism - Wikipedia page

Douglas’ positivity and related links

Thelema - Wikipedia page

Thoth Tarot - Wikipedia page

Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia page

Carl Sagan - Wikipedia page

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage - Wikipedia page

James Burke (science historian) - Wikipedia page

Connections (British TV Series) - Wikipedia page

Robert Anton Wilson - Wikipedia page

The Tools by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels

Ed Sheeran - Wikipedia page

Karma - Wikipedia page

Garth Ennis - Wikipedia page

Preacher (comics) - Wikipedia page

Classic Frames from Preacher - words by Garth Ennis, art by Steve Dillon
Special Guest: Douglas Batchelor.

VYSTS2 - Vayse Season 2 Trailer

Vayse — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 19:30:00 +0200

Vayse returns for Season 2 on 13 September 2023. Until then, guess the guest.

Support Vayse

VYS0025 | Truth with a Capital "T" - Vayse to Face with Sequoyah Kennedy

Vayse — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:30:00 +0200

In a triumphant finale to season 1 of Vayse, Hine and Buckley talk to one of their favourite mega-brains of the paraweirdpodosphere, Sequoyah Kennedy of the Nonsense Bazaar podcast. The conversation wanders into some favourite topics of the Nonsense Bazaar including Saint Germaine, To the Stars and the Lavenda agenda and then deep into more personal matters such as Sequoyah's self-guided magical practice, his encounters with supernatural beings and his love of freaky modular synths... (recorded 19 July 2023)

Thanks to Keith for the show notes which have, again, gone above and beyond the call of duty!

VYS0025 | Truth with a Capital "T" - Vayse to Face with Sequoyah Kennedy

Sequoyah Kennedy/Nonsense Bazaar/Willow Truman links

Sequoyah Kennedy’s Twitter
The Nonsense Bazaar website
The Nonsense Bazaar Twitter
The Nonsense Bazaar Instagram
Willow Truman’s Twitter
Willow Truman’s Instagram
Atlas Aruba Bandcamp page (Willow’s music)

Biosphere 2 links

Wikipedia Article on Biosphere 2
Biosphere 2, website
The Nonsense Bazaar, Episode 03: Biosphere 2 Part I - A Johnny Dolphin Production
The Nonsense Bazaar, Episode 04: Biosphere 2 Part II - Ecological Thing
Eight go mad in Arizona: how a lockdown experiment went horribly wrong, Guardian article
Spaceship Earth, Biosphere 2 official trailer
Biosphere 2: Our World, footage shot during the two-year mission

Jack Parsons links

Wikipedia Article on Jack Parsons
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 42: Jack Parsons Part I - The Suicide Squad
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 43: Jack Parsons Part II - Io Pan!
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 44: Jack Parsons Part III - Babalon
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 45: Jack Parsons Part IV - Ad Astra, Per Aspera (To the Stars, Through Hardship)

Oneida Community links

Wikipedia Article on Oneida Community
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 47: The Oneida Community Part I - Free Love and Bible Communism
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 48: The Oneida Community Part II - Like Sand Through the Hourglass
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 49: The Oneida Community Part III - Whoops, We’re a Sex Cult

Harry Horse/Drowned God links

Wikipedia Article on Harry Horse (Richard Horne)
Wikipedia Article on Drowned God (video game)
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 10: Harry Horse and Drowned God Part I - The Life and Death of a Prankster
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 11: Harry Horse and Drowned God Part II - The Drowned God
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 40: Harry Horse and Drowned God Part III - A Conversation With a Man in a Gray Suit

“I AM” Activity Movement and related links

Wikipedia Article on “I AM” Activity
Wikipedia Article on Guy Ballard
Wikipedia Article on the Ascended Masters
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 22: The Ascended Masters, An Inquisition Part 0 - Prelude
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 23: The I AM Activity Part I - Saint Germain’s Cup of Cream
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 24: The I AM Activity Part II - Death Blasts Over the White House

Other Selected Nonsense Bazaar Episodes links

The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 94: The Tin Man
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 65: Fae Encounters in the Modern World
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 100: The Bomb
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 75: NLP: Scumbag Magic That Works!

Twin Peaks links

Wikipedia Article on Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks

Other book links

Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious by Erik Wargo
Six Ways: Approaches & Entries for Practical Magic by Aiden Wachter

Taoism (Daoism) links

Wikipedia Article on Taoism (Daoism)
Wikipedia Article on the Tao Te Ching (Dàodé Jīng)
The Tao Te Ching - Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way by Ursula K. Le Guin

OCD link
Wikipedia Article on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

MKUltra/Stargate Project/Psychic Spies links

Wikipedia Article on MKUltra
List of 149 MKULTRA Subprojects, Illuminati Rex website
Operation Midnight Climax: The Sub-Project of MKUltra You Didn’t Know About, Grunge article
Wikipedia Article on the Stargate Project
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 57: America’s Psychic Spies Part I: CIA Man
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 58: America’s Psychic Spies Part II: Galactic Barbecue
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 59: America’s Psychic Spies Part III: Goblin Mode
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 75: NLP: Scumbag Magic That Works!
The Mojito Tapes Vol 1 (life requires a hiatus, but we shall return)

Human Potential Movement links

Wikipedia Article on the Human Potential Movement
Wikipedia Article on The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential

Robert Anton Wilson/Cosmic Trigger/Reality tunnels/Guerrilla ontology links

Wikipedia Article on Robert Anton Wilson
Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson
Wikipedia Article on Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson
Wikipedia Article on Reality tunnel
Introduction to Reality Tunnels: A Tool for Understanding the Post-modern World, Medium article
Wikipedia Article on Guerrilla ontology
Robert Anton Wilson & Guerrilla Ontology, New Dawn Magazine article
Vayse VYS0023: Mercurial, Mutable, Mysterious Something - Vayse to Face with Paul Weston (includes discussion of Cosmic Trigger)

Magic / Psychology / Schizophrenia / Psychosis and related links

Wikipedia Article on Psychological theories of magic
Magical thinking in individuals with high polygenic risk for schizophrenia but no non-affective psychoses—a general population study, Nature article
The Meaning of Magic: The psychology and philosophy of magic, Psychology Today article
The thin line between magick and psychosis?, Reddit thread
Wikipedia Article on Set and Setting (psychedelic drug experience)

Initiation in Shamanism and Western Mystery Traditions links

Ancient Shamanism: Looking at Illness as Initiation, Wellcord article
Shamanic Initiation and the Legacy of Suffering, Huffington Post article
Towards a Definition of Initiation: Emic and Etic Views of Initiation in the Western Mystery Tradition by Jeffrey S. Kupperman, Michigan State University paper

Penny Royal/Oakwood NHIs link

Penny Royal Season One, Episode Seven: The Game (includes Dan Dutton relating his possible encounter with non-human intelligences at Oakwood Hospital, Kentucky, in the 1970s)

Israel Regardie/Therapy and Magick links

Wikipedia Article on Israel Regardie
If you’ve never been to therapy, you’re probably not ready for Magick, Reddit thread

Hat Man/Dark Man/Shadow People/Sleep Paralysis links

The Hatman Project website
Shadow people, Psychonaut Wiki page
Wikipedia Article on Sleep paralysis
VYS0021 | Song of the Dark Man - Vayse to Face with Darragh Mason

Lost objects and pendulum dowsing link

Find lost objects with pendulum dowsing, Friendly Specter article

To The Stars Academy/Tom DeLonge/Hal Puthoff/Jim Semivan links

Wikipedia Article on To The Stars (company)
Wikipedia Article on Tom DeLonge
Wikipedia Article on Harold ‘Hal’ Puthoff
Ex-CIA Officer’s (Jim Semivan’s) Alien Encounter: ‘There Is Non-Human Intelligence Living With Us On Earth’, How and Whys article

Peter Levenda and related links

Hellier/Allen Greenfield links

Wikipedia Article on Hellier
Hellier website
Hellier Season 2: Episode 7 - The Trickster (feat. Allen Greenfield)
Allen Greenfield’s Twitter
Vayse VYS0010: Amazing Stories - Vayse to Face with Dr Allen Greenfield Pt 1
Vayse VYS0011: Weird Tales - Vayse to Face with Dr Allen Greenfield Pt 2

UFO/UAP / Disclosure / Project Blue Beam and related links

Wikipedia Article on The X-Files
The X-Files
Wikipedia Article on Extraterrestrial UFO Hypothesis
Wikipedia Article on Jacques Vallée
Wikipedia Article on Close encounter
Wikipedia Article on UFO conspiracy theories: Disclosure
‘We’re done with the cover-up’: UFO claims to get their day in Congress, Guardian article
‘Non-human intelligence’: Schumer proposes stunning new UFO legislation, The Hill article
Wikipedia Article on Serge Monast (Project Blue Beam)
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 12: Project Blue Beam

‘That person is not real’ plane rant / Exo-Biospheric-Organisms Reddit thread links

"That Person Is Not Real"; Plane Woman, Know Your Meme summary
‘I worked as a molecular biologist for a national security contractor in a program to study Exo-Biospheric-Organisms (EBO)’, Reddit thread

Truth, belief and related links

The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 104: Lies in the Sky! The Balloon Hoaxes of 1844 and 2009
UAPMax website
Wikipedia Article on Post-truth politics
Cult Thinking and How to Avoid It, CrimeReads article
The Corkboard Bizarre, Nonsense Bazaar Patreon
The Difference between Objective and Subjective Truth & the Illusion We All Believe, Learning Mind article
Spirit Box S2 #14 / Joshua Cutchin on Ecology of Souls

H.P. Lovecraft/Rhode Island links

Wikipedia Article on H.P. Lovecraft
Wikipedia Article on Providence, Rhode Island
Son of Providence: The weird legacy of H. P. Lovecraft
Wikipedia Article on The Colour Out of Space (short story) by H.P. Lovecraft
The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft

Vayse VYS007 link

Vayse VYS0007 - Too Much to Dream Last Night (in which Hine relates his weird experience in the woods on the Solstice)

Lyra 8 synthesizer link

Lyra 8 description, Soma Laboratory website

Tarot and related links

Wikipedia Article on Tarot
Tarot and Qabalah: A Guide, article by Rachel Anne Williams
Wikipedia Article on Thoth Tarot
Wikipedia Article on Aleister Crowley
Wikipedia Article on Thelema
Wikiepdia Article on Music theory, Wikipedia page
Wikiepdia Article on 777 and Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley
Wikipedia Article on Sigils

Count of St Germain and related links

Wikipedia Article on Count of St Germain
Wikipedia Article on Nyarlathotep,
Wikipedia Article on The Doctor (Doctor Who)
Wikipedia Article on St Germain (musician)
St Germain (Toaru Majutsu no Index character)
Wikipedia Article on Bugs Bunny, Wikipedia page
AP Strange, blog
Wikipedia Article on Saint Germain Foundation
Saint Germain Foundation, website
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 20: The Count of St Germain
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 31: Nesara: Saint Germain’s Infinite Monkey Cheat Code
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 52: The Saint Germain Foundation
The Nonsense Bazaar Episode 76: The Saint Germain Foundation Part II
Bring Me the Head of the Comte de Saint-Germain (role-playing game)
American Psyop podcast
Wes Clark Jr Twitter and blog

Wikipedia Article on Enoch (Patriarch)
Rabbits podcast
The Council of Nine, article by Wes Penre, originally from Fortean Times 126
Wikipedia Article on Charles Webster Leadbeater
Wikipedia Article on Sovereign Military Order of Malta (Knights of Malta)
Wikipedia Article on Theosophy
Hyperstition: An Introduction, Nick Land interview

Orbs/OBOLs/Pukwudgie and related links
Orbs, Paranormal Encyclopedia article
Phil Legard’s Twitter
Phil Legard’s blog
Wikipedia Article on Will-o-the-wisp
Wikipedia Article on Pukwudgie

Sequoyah’s recommendations links

Wikipedia Article on Dune (novel)
Wikipedia Article on Dune Messiah (novel)
Wikipedia Article on Children of Dune (novel)
Wikipedia Article on God Emperor of Dune (novel)
The Great Dune Trilogy: The stunning collector's edition of Dune, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
God Emperor Of Dune by Frank Herbert
Wikipedia Article on Tabletop role playing game
Best tabletop RPGs 2023, Games Radar article

Kelly Bear's Youtube Channel Special Guest: Sequoyah Kennedy.

VYS0022 | This Phenomena Draws You In - Vayse to Face with Steve Mera

Vayse — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 19:30:00 +0200

VYS0022 | This Phenomena Draws You In - Vayse to Face with Steve Mera - Show Notes

Steve Mera is a prominent and well respected researcher in the realms of UFOlogy, Unexplained and the Supernatural, the head tutor for British & U.S. Investigators Training Courses in UfOlogical Studies and the CEO of Phenomena Magazine, the world’s largest paranormal e-zine. In this episode Hine and Buckley sit Steve down and pick his brains on a wide range weird stuff: the connection between UFOs and other manifestations of supernatural phenomena, the hitchhiker effect and the dangers of letting the phenomena into your life, the recent claims of whistle-blower David Grusch and how Steve took a punch to the back from a pugilistic poltergeist... recorded 8 June 2023

Steve Mera Links

Steve Mera's Website
Phenomena Magazine
Awakening Expo 2023

Other Links

SideVayse: SVYS003 | Anglezarke

Vayse — Wed, 24 May 2023 22:15:00 +0200

SideVayse: SVYS003 | Anglezarke - Show Notes

In VYS0018, Hine and Buckley interviewed author and researcher Kathryn J Preston about her book, the 'LaManChe Zodiac" in which she described a terrestrial zodiac spanning three counties in the north of England. At the heart of this zodiac is Round Loaf, a man-made Neolithic mound constructed millennia ago on the stark moorlands of Anglezarke. According to Kathryn Preston's book, Ley Lines radiate from the mound into the surrounding country and Anglezarke has become a hot spot for UFOs, sightings of cryptids and other high strangeness. In this SideVayse, friend of the show Ric Bennett, a life-long resident of the area, recounts some of his own strange encounters and takes Hine and Buckley on a guided tour of this weird and uncompromising landscape. Recorded 6 May 2023.

VYS0018 | Ex Cabus Ad Astra - Vayse to Face with Kathryn J Preston
The LaManChe Zodiac by Kathryn J Preston
Round Loaf on Google Maps
Wikipedia article on Angelzarke
Wikipedia article on Round Loaf
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Trailer
Mick McLaren's Youtube Channel
Knights Templar
[Wikipedia Article on Winter Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Hill_(North_West_England)
Wikipedia Article on Rivington Pike
VYS0020 | Messages of Deception - Vayse to Face with Mark Pilkington
Mirage Men by Mark Pilkington
Wikipedia Article on Warton Aerodrome
Obituary of James (Jimmy) Longton
Special Guest: Ric Bennett.

VYS0021 | Song of the Dark Man - Vayse to Face with Darragh Mason

Vayse — Wed, 10 May 2023 22:00:00 +0200

Darragh Mason is a podcasting hero to Hine and Buckley, he's the host of the truly excellent, award-nominated Spirit Box podcast but he's also an multi-award-winning photographer, a researcher specialising in the Djinn and the Aghori Hindu sect and the co-creator of the wonderful Sigil Engine. Darragh's latest project (one of many) is his up-coming book "Song of the Dark Man, Father of Witches" and this episode takes a deep and, at times, emotionally charged dive into the mysterious figure of the Dark Man, his prolific but largely unrecognised role in initiation into the world of witchcraft, his infrequent but significant appearances throughout folklore and his apparent ascent in the psychic aftermath of the pandemic... recorded 2 May 2023.

VYS0021 | Song of the Dark Man - Vayse to Face with Darragh Mason - Show Notes

Darragh Mason Links

Spirit Box Podcast on Spotify
Spirit Box Podcast on YouTube
Spirit Box on Patreon
Darragh Mason Photography Portfolio
Darragh Mason on Instagram
The Sigil Engine
Vice Article on the Sigil Engine

Other Links

Darragh Mason on What Magic is This?
Darragh Mason on Weird Web Radio
Darragh Mason on Penny Royal (episodes 6, 9, 10 and 11)
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
Spirit Box #14 / Phil Hine on possession, overshadowing, channelling, Kali and Baphomet
Spirit Box #29 / Phil Hine: The life and times of T. Lobsang Rampa
Spirit Box #47 / Phil Hine, The Cannibal Club: The British Empire and Erotica
Spirit Box #50 / Mana Aelin, Spirit Portraits, Podcasting & Fae beings
Spirit Box #60 / Douglas Batchelor, finding your way
Spirit Box #90 / Dr Al Cummins on The Art of Cyprian's Mirror of the Four Kings
Spirit Box S2 #06 / Jo Hickey-Hall, Modern Fairies, Daimons and Podcasts
Wikipedia article for T Lobsang Rampa
Wikipedia Article on Arthur C. Clarke
Operation Trojan Horse: The Classic Breakthrough Study of UFOs by John Keel
Wikipedia Article on The Aghori Sect
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple
Wikipedia Article on Daimons
Wikipedia Article on Hecate
Wikipedia Article on The Morrígan
Wikipedia Article on Lilith
Spirit Box Podcast Photo
The Invisible College: What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered about UFO Influence on the Human Race by Jacques Vallée
Wikipedia Article on the Fenian Cycle
Wikipedia Article on Isobel Gowdie
Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallée
Article Written By Lara Silva on the Miracle at Fatima
How the ‘Hat Man’ Went From Benadryl Joke to TikTok Horror Villain - Rolling Stone Article
Hat Man T Shirt
The Nonsense Bazaar #71 - The Benadryl Episode: A Trip to Eiriel
IMDb Article on The Hat Man: Documented Cases of Pure Evil
Wikipedia Article on Sleep Paralysis
Ecology of Souls: A New Mythology of Death & the Paranormal - Volume One by Joshua Cutchin
Ecology of Souls: A New Mythology of Death & the Paranormal - Volume Two by Joshua Cutchin
The Ecology of Souls Companion (Ecology of Souls: A New Mythology of Death & the Paranormal) by Joshua Cutchin
Support Vayse on Bandcamp
Support Vayse on Ko-fi - monthly supporters get access to our Discord Server
Far Out Article about the theory that Bob Dylan Sold his Soul

Special Guest: Darragh Mason.

VYS0020 | Messages of Deception - Vayse to Face with Mark Pilkington

Vayse — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 21:30:00 +0200

VYS0020 | Messages of Deception - Vayse to Face with Mark Pilkington - Show Notes

If you don't know Mark Pilkington by name, chances are you will be familiar with some of his work: he's the author of the seminal history of deception and misinformation throughout the history of the UFO phenomenon, Mirage Men, and producer of the documentary of the same name, he runs Strange Attractor Press, the diverse, beloved and well respected counterculture publisher, he's a journalist, having written for the Fortean Times, the Guardian and Bizarre Magazine amongst others, and he also records and performs music with Teleplamsiste, Luminous Foundation and the Begotten. In this episode Hine and Buckley chat to Mark about the legacy of Mirage Men, which is having a moment again with the tenth anniversary of the documentary falling this year, the recent release of the audiobook and continued favourable nods in the occultosphere and beyond. The conversation also takes turns into the way misinformation is now a pervasive part of our everyday lives, Mark's ideas about the nature of the phenomenon itself and his experiences as a crop circle hoaxer... recorded 7 March 2023

Mark Pilkington Links

Mark Pilkington on Twitter
Strange Attractor Press
Mirage Men by Mark Pilkington
Mirage Men Audiobook
Mirage Men DVD
Mirage Men on Vimeo
Mirage Men Blog
Frequency is the New Ecstasy by Teleplasmiste

Other Links

The Austin Osman Spare Tarot Deck
High Weirdness by Erik Davis
Purgatory by Ken Hollings
North by Gyrus
The Pepsi-Cola Addict by June-Alison Gibbons
David Tibet
Current 93
Jamie Sutcliffe
An Overview of Project Serpo
The Haunted Objects Podcast
Parcast Unexplained Mysteries - UFOs and the Mirage Men pt.1
Parcast Unexplained Mysteries - UFOs and the Mirage Men pt.2
HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis
Wikipedia entry for John Lundberg
Laughlin UFO Mega Conference on Facebook
IMDB entry for Richard Doty
Wikipedia entry for Paul Bennewitz
Wikipedia Entry for the Roswell Incident
Wikipedia Entry for George Adamski
BBC News Article about the U-2 Bomber and Area 51
History Channel Article on Black Triangle UFOs
Wikipedia Article on Radar Spoofing
Popular Science Article - The stealth helicopters used in the 2011 raid on Osama Bin Laden are still cloaked in mystery
Wikipedia Article on Cattle Mutilation
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Trailer
Wikipedia Article on the Famous Five
War of the Worlds by HG Wells
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Usborne Guide to the Supernatural World by E Maple - a steal at £300
Forbidden Planet
Fortean Times
Magonia Journal
Bizarre Magazine on Twitter
Mark's Far Out Column for the Guardian
Wikipedia entry on Norman Tebbit
Wikipedia entry on David Icke
Circle Makers Website
Wikipedia entry on Mandelbrot Fractals
Wikipedia Article on Discordianism
How Stuff Works Article on the Maury Island UFO Incident
Wikipedia article on Antônio Vilas-Boas
The Malingerer
Wikipedia entry on the 2023 Chinese Weather Balloon Incident
NASA Echo 1 Balloon Picture
Time Magazine Article on Robert Bigelow and his donations to Ron DeSantis
UFO's (It Has Begun) Past, Present, and Future Documentary
Day the Earth Stood Still Trailer
Independence Day Trailer
Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy
Into The Fringe: A True Story of Alien Abduction by Dr Karla Turner
Wikipedia article on Siphonophorae
Wikipedia article on Pareidolia
The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky by CG Jung
The Invisible College: What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered about UFO Influence on the Human Race by Jacques Vallee
The Trickster and the Paranormal by George P Hansen
Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson
Hellier - you know the score
The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel
Communion: A True Story by Whitley Strieber
Communion Trailer
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt
The Greys Have Been Framed: Exploitation in the UFO Community by Jack Brewer
The Secret Life of Puppets by Victoria Nelson
Mutants and Mystics by Jeffrey J. Kripal
Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred by Jeffrey J. Kripal
Chameleo by Robert Guffey
Vision of The Hawk by The Art of Arik Moonhawk Roper
Cabarets of Death by Mel Gordon - coming soon from Strange Attractor Press
Music from Elsewhere by Doug Skinner - coming soon from Strange Attractor Press
State51
Polypores on bandcamp
The Wickerman (1973) Trailer
The Wickerman (2006) Trailer
Luminous Foundation on bandcamp
To The Stars
Blink 182 on bandcamp
Vayse on bandcamp Special Guest: Mark Pilkington.

VYS0019 | It's A Very, Very Mad World - Donnie Darko

Vayse — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 21:00:00 +0200

VYS0019 – It’s a Very, Very Mad World: Donnie Darko – Show Notes

In December 2002 Hine and Buckley met at the Dukes Cinema in Lancaster, Lancashire, UK, for what become one of their most cherished movie-going experiences - to watch an independent film which had already gathered a cult following: Donnie Darko. Donnie Darko is a divisive film popular opinion swings between it being a poignant and magical modern classic to it being amateurish, film school bullshit with an inexplicably great cast (and soundtrack!!!). In this feature length episode (an entire swaggering minute longer than the run-time of the theatrical cut itself!) Hine and Buckley drill down deep into why the film still means so much to them almost 21 years later, what Richard Kelly actually intended the film to mean, why it's actually a '90s masterpiece (despite not being set, made or released in the '90s) and what the "S" in "S. Darko" might stand for... Recorded 16 March 2023.

Warning: Extreme Spoilers For Donnie Darko Follow

Donnie Darko Trailer
Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut
Lancaster, Lancashire, UK
Twin Peaks
Eraserhead Trailer
Wild at Heart Trailer
Lost Highway
Spiderland by Slint
Blue Bell Knoll by Cocteau Twins
S(hitty) Darko Trailer
American Beauty Trailer
The Matrix Trailer
Fight Club Trailer
Requiem for a Dream Trailer
American Psycho Trailer
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Trailer
The Fast and The Furious Trailer
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Trailer
Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen
Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley
Hallelujah by Alexandra Burke
Mad World by Tears for Fears
Mad World by Gary Jules and Michael Andrews
Mad World by Adam Lambert
Wikipedia page for Intercourse - For the benefit of innocents like Hine
David Lynch Quotes - Here and Here
The Leftovers Trailer
Twin Peaks the Return
Donnie Darko Website - This is not the original Donnie Darko Website, the original used Flash player which is no longer supported by most browsers but can still be found here)
Wikipedia Page for The Lost Experience - The alternate reality game which was part of the TV series Lost
The Philosophy of Time Travel - Do not buy the version being sold on Amazon
The Donnie Darko Book by Richard Kelly
2004 Article from Saloon on Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut
Back to the Future Part II - Doc explains tangent universes
The Destructors by Graham Greene - and remember: that old man could be you in a few years...
Dubliners by James Joyce
Back to the Future Part II - Doc Explains a time-travel-paradox
Independence Day Trailer - the trailer starts with more Tears for Fears
Battlestar Galactica Trailer - Legitimately one of the best TV series ever made (according to Vayse), it's weird that we haven't mentioned it sooner
Campbellian Story Structure
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Michael Andrew’s Soundtrack to the Donnie Darko
Life and Death from Lost by Michael Giacchino
The End Of All Our Exploring from the Leftovers by Max Richter
The Killing Moon by Echo and the Bunnymen
Head over Heels by Tears for Fears
Wikipedia Page for Stephen Hawking
Wikipedia page for Stephen King
Wikipedia page for Steven Spielberg
Southland Tales Trailer
Stranger Things Trailer
Guardian Article about the mental health crisis of the late '80s and '90s told with a focus on Prozac - a connection that Hine didn't make at the time of recording was that Prozac was launched in the US in 1988, the year in which Donnie Darko is set...
Blue Velvet Trailer
Nevermind by Nirvana
Bleach by Nirvana
Surfer Rosa by Pixies
Ultramega Ok by Soundgarden
Invisible Lantern by Screaming Trees
Bug by Dinosaur Jr
Superfuzz Bigmuff by Mudhoney
It’s a Wonderful Life Trailer
Harvey Trailer
The Last Temptation of Christ Trailer
Richard Kelly Interview from the Playlist in which Kelly talks about doing more Southland Tales and more Donnie Darko
Watchmen TV Series
Justin Timberlake dance sequence from Southland Tales
The Chumscrubber Trailer
Brick Trailer
Heathers Trailer
The Virgin Suicides Trailer
Napoleon Dynamite Trailer
Wanted Trailer
The Big Lebowski Trailer
The Hudsucker Proxy Trailer
Under The Silver Lake Trailer
A Beautiful Mind Trailer - Released the same year as Donnie Darko
Frank Trailer
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Carmen Daye and Steve Baker
Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious by Eric Wargo
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale: Volume Five Of The Collected Stories by Philip K Dick
The fate of Jim Cunningham revealed and other extraneous Donnie Darko trivia from the mind of Richard Kelly

VYS0018 | Ex Cabus Ad Astra - Vayse to Face with Kathryn J Preston

Vayse — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 19:15:00 +0100

VYS0018 | Ex Cabus Ad Astra - Vayse to Face with Kathryn J Preston - Show Notes

Kathryn J Preston is an author, investigator and discoverer of the "LaManChe Zodiac", a terrestrial zodiac that is centred around the county that Hine and Buckley grew up in. This interview covers a wide range of topics connected to the LaManChe Zodiac, including the association with ley lines, the possible link to extra-terrestrial intelligences, theories about who or what may have constructed the terrestrial zodiacs and speculation that they may still be here on Earth to this day... Recorded 7 January 2023

Thanks to Lowfold Audio for the use of Shireshead Studio.

Kathryn J Preston Links

Kathryn J Preston on Payhip
Kathryn J Preston on Twitter
Kathryn J Preston at Amazon
The LaManChe Zodiac by Kathryn J Preston
Lyrics, Limericks & Love by Kathryn J Preston
The Truth About Santa by Kathryn J Preston
Venus Andromeda by Kathryn J Preston
Lawn Soccer (or Garden Football) by Kathryn J Preston

Other Links

Wikipedia Page for Jenny Randles
Wikipedia Page for Katharine Maltwood
Map of the Glastonbury Zodiac
Wikipedia Page for Anglezarke
Wikipedia Page for the International Raëlian Movement
What Magic Is This? - The Occult Influences on Mormonism with Nick Literski
Wikipedia Page for Chorley, Lancashire, UK
Mick Mclaren - head of The Winter Hill Investigation Team, a group who investigate paranormal phenomena in the west Pennine moors around Winter Hill and surrounding towns including Chorley
Article by Calum Russell on the Todmorden UFO case
UFO Sightings in or near Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England as reported to the British Ministry of Defence
Wikipedia Page on The Sirius Mystery
The Lacerta Files
Moment of Contact trailer - 2022 Documentary by James Fox about the alleged UFO crash in Varginha, Brazil
Wikipedia page on the Agartha Theory
Wikipedia Page on Richard Shaver
A Spaceman Came Traveling by Chris De Burgh
Wikipedia Page on the Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp
The octopus genome and the evolution of cephalopod neural and morphological novelties - an article from Nature
Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates - article from the BBC
Video of a Crow skiing down a roof
Guardian Article on Dreaming Spiders
Wikipedia Page on John C. Lilly
What Magic Is This? - The Life and Ideas of Wilhelm Reich with Dan Lowe
CIA records on Remote Viewing experiments released as part of a Freedom of Information request
The Old Straight Track : Its Mounds, Beacons, Moats, Sites and Mark Stones by Alfred Watkins
The Ley Hunter's Manual: A Guide to Early Tracks by Alfred Watkins
View Over Atlantis by John Michell
Mysterious Lancashire : Legends and By-Lines of Lancelot's Shire by Philip Rickman
Happy Talk from South Pacific
Special Guest: Kathryn J Preston.

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

Vayse — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 17:45:00 +0100

VYS0015 - Show Notes

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.

Jennifer Lane Links

The Wheel: A Witch's Path to Healing Through Nature by Jennifer Lane

Pre-Order The Witch's Survival Guide: Spells for Healing from Stress and Burnout by Jennifer Lane

Information about The Black Air by Jennifer Lane (Jenn's upcoming YA Novel)

Jenn's Instagram

Jenn's Website

Book a Distance Reiki Session with Jenn

Sign up to Jenn's Mailing List

Other Links

Why modern-day witchcraft is on the rise - i Newspaper article

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Charmed

The Craft

A Beginners Guide to the Wheel of the Year - Artcile from the Self Care Emporium

Blue Monday by New Order

When is Blue Monday 2023 and why is it the most depressing day of the year? - Article from the Yorkshire Post

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) - NHS Inform

Hedge Witch: A Guide to Solitary Witchcraft by Rae Beth

Earth Magick: Ground yourself with magick. Connect with the seasons in your life & in nature by Lindsay Squire

Lindsay Squire's Instagram

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

Grotbags: Mean Green Mother from Outer Space

Turn On to T-Bag S4E1 (1988)

The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy

The Worst Witch (1986) This 1986 film adaptation of the Worst Witch which co-incidentally stars Fairuza Balk, whi played Nancy in the Craft and Dorothy in the even more terrifying Return to Oz.

Mental Health Links (taken from the wonderful mental health charity Mind's website)

Samaritans - talk about anything that is upsetting you - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. You can call 116 123 (free from any phone). You can also call the Samaritans Welsh Language Line on 0808 164 0123 (7pm–11pm every day).

SANEline - If you're experiencing a mental health problem or supporting someone else, you can call SANEline on 0300 304 7000 (4.30pm–10.30pm every day).

National Suicide Prevention Helpline UK. Offers a supportive listening service to anyone with thoughts of suicide - 0800 689 5652 (6pm–3:30am every day).

Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM). You can call the CALM on 0800 58 58 58 (5pm–midnight every day) if you are struggling and need to talk.

Shout. If you would prefer not to talk but want some mental health support, you could text SHOUT to 85258. Shout offers a confidential 24/7 text service providing support if you are in crisis and need immediate help.

The Mix. If you're under 25, you can call The Mix on 0808 808 4994 (3pm–midnight every day), request support by email using this form on The Mix website or use their crisis text messenger service.

Papyrus HOPELINEUK. If you're under 35 and struggling with suicidal feelings, or concerned about a young person who might be struggling, you can call Papyrus HOPELINEUK on 0800 068 4141 (weekdays 10am-10pm, weekends 2pm-10pm and bank holidays 2pm–10pm), email pat@papyrus-uk.org or text 07786 209 697.

Nightline. If you're a student, you can look on the Nightline website to see if your university or college offers a night-time listening service. Nightline phone operators are all students too.

Switchboard. If you identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, you can call Switchboard on 0300 330 0630 (10am–10pm every day), email chris@switchboard.lgbt or use their webchat service. Phone operators all identify as LGBT+.

C.A.L.L. If you live in Wales, you can call the Community Advice and Listening Line (C.A.L.L.) on 0800 132 737 (open 24/7) or you can text 'help' followed by a question to 81066.
Special Guest: Jennifer Lane.

VYS0014 | The Weird Review of the Year 2022

Vayse — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 17:15:00 +0100

VYS0014 - Show Notes

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.

The news stories in this episode were sourced from the incredibly wonderful website https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/

Schedule for Weird Night on BBC2 18th December 1994

X-Files – Season 1 Episode 12 - Fire

Attack of the 50ft Woman (1958)

Attack of the 50ft woman (1993)

Pee-Wee’s big Adventure

The First Episode of Fortean TV with a new introduction by Lionel Fanthorpe

Fortean Review of the Year 1994

Mysterons by Portishead

January

Fish Fall in Texarkana

Magnolia

Charles Fort

What Magic is This? – Charles Fort

The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort

New Lands by Charles Fort

Lo! by Charles Fort

Wild Talents by Charles Fort

Kentucky Meat Shower

Uri Geller claims to know where the Arc of the Covenant is

Uri Gellar - Fascinating article and video about a Stanford study and the subsequent CIA interest into his abilities

Modelling portfolio of Uri Geller

Hellier

The White Lotus Season 1

Polypores BandCamp

Curiosity rover finds possible evidence of life on Mars

Woman marries the colour pink in historic ceremony

Man receives genetically-modified pig heart in transplant breakthrough

Uri Geller claims that an alien 'mass landing' is imminent

February

Mystery 6ft creature spotted on rural road in England

Fresno Nightcrawlers Cryptid Study by Madame Macabre

Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallée

Joshua Cutchin

Brain scan captures last thoughts of a person as they died

NDE video - A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife | An In-Depth Interview with Eben Alexander

The OA

All The Things She Said by Tatu

Anthony Peake

The Lyra (synth)

Man wins $10 million lottery jackpot twice in three years

Penny Royal

'Bulging triangle' UFO appears over Islamabad for two hours

Could the Earth itself be an intelligent entity ?

March

The Greater Manchester street so haunted you had to sign a WAIVER to move there

Twin Peaks

Total number of discovered exoplanets now exceeds 5,000

Two children survive for a month alone in the Amazon rainforest

1st image snapped by iconic Webb telescope pushes limits of the 'laws of physics'

April

CIA files reveal that the Soviets were developing cybernetic telepathy

Soviet Dog-head Experiment (not for the faint hearted)

The Gateway Process - Vice Article

The Gateway Process - CIA Analysis and Assessment

What Are Binaural Beats? - WebMD Article

Strange Frequencies : The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural by Peter Bebergal

Loab – Vice Article

Loab Twitter thread by Supercomposite

CrAIyon (Formerly DALL-E Mini) interpretation of Steven Seagal eating a Piglet

Entire human genome has been sequenced for the first time

Pentagon files reveal UFO 'radiation burns' and 'unexpected pregnancies'

Europa Pools could support life

May

US Congress Open UFO hearing: is there evidence that aliens have visited the Earth?

US Congressional Hearing on UFOs

Pentagon erroneously claims that it has no data on UFOs disabling nukes

Creepy dolls found washed up along Texas beach

NASA image shows what looks like a door on Mars

Woman appears on TV with her 'alien boyfriend'

June

Scientists create living skin to use on robots

Terminator

Terminator 2

Google Engineer Claims AI Chatbot Is Sentient

The Boggart : Folklore, History, Place-names and Dialect by Simon Young

VYS0003 | Welcome to Vayse, Population 2

VYS0006 | Dreamtides - Vayse to Face with Field Lines Cartographer

It turns out that male mice are terrified of bananas

Man ends up in hospital after fish jumps down his throat

Voyager 1 glitch is due to aliens, claims Uri Geller

July

YouTuber Coyote Peterson announces 'Bigfoot' skull discovery

Man kills friend 'to stop him from summoning Bigfoot'

Global Tribe

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

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

Fisherman catches extremely rare blue lobster

Chess robot breaks boy's finger during tournament

Georgia Guidestones destroyed by bomb blast

August

New evidence suggests that even spiders have dreams

Michael Levin

Classified 1990 Calvine UFO photograph has surfaced 32 years on

Kenneth Arnold 'flying saucer' sighting turns 75

VYS0007 | Too Much to Dream Last Night

Weird creature with no anus was not earliest human ancestor

Possible live thylacine filmed in South Australia

Uri Geller says he will use his 'mind power' to stop a nuclear attack

September

SETI pioneer Frank Drake dies, aged 92

Weird voice whispers 'death is irreversible' during Queen's funeral

Jack Osbourne: 'US government is covering up the truth about UFOs'

Ukraine's astronomers report that they have been seeing UFOs 'everywhere'

NASA successfully smashes space probe into an asteroid

UFO appears in official logo of US aviation intelligence office

US aviation intelligence office removes UFO from its official seal

Woman heard 'fairy' laughter while lost in the woods in Ireland

October

Elon Musk unveils his new Optimus robot at Tesla's AI Day

Robotics firms join commitment to ban weaponization of robots

Videos of 'Boston Dynamics' robot dog with machine gun

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick ("Do Robots Dream of Robotic Sheep?")

One of the top costume ideas for 2022 is Avril Lavigne

Paul McCartney is dead theory

Kanye West fall from grace

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

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

The Sacred Trust - UK-based not-for-profit educational organisation offering shamanic trainings and workshops on shamanism

Ghostbusters

Grandmother has Ouija boards handed out to attendees at her funeral

Man falls ill after eating live crab to 'punish' it for pinching his daughter

Scientists have spliced human brain tissue into the brains of rats

Warhammer to be made into movie and TV show, starring Superman actor Henry Cavill

November

Oculus founder builds VR headset that kills the wearer if they die in-game

11 school children pass out after Ouija board session in Colombia

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

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

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

China's top-secret spaceplane has released an unknown object into orbit

Secretive X-37b space plane returns to Earth after 908 days in orbit

NASA's Artemis I has successfully launched on its voyage to the Moon

December

Pentagon's UFO office has received 'several hundred' new reports

A DJ, a rapper and a YouTuber are set to fly to the Moon on Musk's Starship

Bill Hicks – It’s just a ride

VYS0013 | A Vayse-man Came Travelling - Yule 2022

SideVayse: SVYS001 | Numinous Melancholy

US Air Force unveils its new nuclear stealth bomber - the B-21

Santa's grotto uses polygraph to test if kids have been naughty or nice

88-year-old walks into hospital with WWI shell stuck in his rectum

Vayse BandCamp

Michael-6: The Robot Talk Show Host - from the criminally under-rated Peter Serafinowicz Show

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

Vayse — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 17:15:00 +0100

VYS0011 - Show Notes

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

As mentioned in the pre-amble to this episode, after the technical difficulties we experienced during the recording of this interview we have completely overhauled our recording software which we were able to do because of listeners buying the Vayse soundtrack by Polypores. 100% of the proceeds from the album are put back into the podcast. So, if you enjoy the music featured in the podcast, or if you just want to throw us some cash to keep the lights on, you can download "Music From Vayse - Volume 1" here on our bandcamp

Dr Allen H Greenfield's books
The Complete Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts
The Grail Within: The True Quest for the Holy Grail and the Western Sex Magick Tradition
Saucers and Saucerers
The Roots of Modern Magic: Glimpses of the Authentic Tradition from 1700 - 2000

Dr Allen H Greenfield links

Twitter - Stay on top of all things Allen Greenfield
Secret Cipher Calculator (Liber AL vel Legis) - Grab a copy of the book (above), try some Cipher calculations of your own and then get out into the field!
Hellier - I don't believe that anyone has found their way here without watching it, but if you haven't - do that now!

Other links

The Episode of his podcast, the Paranoia Podcast, in which Olav Philips suggests that Terry R Wriste could possibly be an Ascended Master

Local newspaper article looking back on the Todmorden UFO and the mysterious death of Zigmund Adamski

The Canadian case – “The Falcon Lake Incident”

The Brazilian Case - The Lead Masks Case

Twin Peaks - Hawk explains the Black Lodge to Cooper

Article about the death of Ron Bonds

Death of Jim Keith

Frank Edwards' Wikipedia entry

Flying Saucers - Serious Business by Franks Edwards

Article about how John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day

Penny Royal - essential podcast listening

The Re-birth of Pan by Jim Brandon - this book is referenced in both Hellier and Penny Royal BUT if you've watched Hellier and Penny Royal, you'll know that Jim Brandon is the nom de plume of William Grimstead - white supremacist, Holocaust denier, associate of David Duke and all-round piece of shit. Greg Newkirk puts it best himself.

Something in the Dirt - Excellent new film by Benson and Moorhead - if you enjoyed Hellier, there's a very good chance you'll enjoy this too.

Lullaby - Upcoming horror movie written by Allen's son, Alex Greenfield.

A Dark Song - Horror movie about the Abramelin ritual.

See Richard Gere as John Keel in The Mothman Prophecies
Special Guest: Allen H Greenfield.

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

Vayse — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 17:15:00 +0100

VYS0010 - Show Notes

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

The sound quality on this episode isn't quite where we usually like it to be - this is just due to the technical challenges of talking to the other side of the world on a shoe-string budget. Apologies but stick with it - Allen is his usual brilliant self, and we go deep.

Dr Allen H Greenfield's books

The Complete Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts

The Grail Within: The True Quest for the Holy Grail and the Western Sex Magick Tradition
Saucers and Saucerers
The Roots of Modern Magic: Glimpses of the Authentic Tradition from 1700 - 2000

Dr Allen H Greenfield links

Other links

The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell - don't try this at home...

*The Absolute Elsewhere with an introduction by Andrew Stephens * - The transcriptions of the lost interviews between Kerry Thornely and Allen Greenfield were released as a limited run of 33 copies. Good luck finding one of those.

Olav Phillips on Twitter - Allen's publisher and friend

Communion by Whitley Strieber

Paradise Lost: West Memphis Three The documentary about Damien Echols and the West Memphis Three and their wrongful conviction for murder during the satanic panic of the 1980s/1990s

The X Files

Haunted Objects Podcast - The Newkirks' new podcast

Mind-reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities (Studies in Consciousness) by Russell Targ and Harold E. Puthoff

The Wanaque Reservoir Flap - there was a cool photograph taken and this weird artwork from an eye witness (which we assume is from the same flap but let us know if you know differently)

Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos by Michio Kaku

Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal by CG Jung

Ulysses by James Joyce

I Ching – The Wilhelm/Baynes 3rd edition

Special Guest: Allen H Greenfield.

VYS0003 | Welcome to Vayse, Population 2

Vayse — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 16:45:00 +0200

VYS0003 - Show Notes

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...)

Hine keeps mispronouncing Crowley (it's Crow-ley - like the bird)
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...)