Vayse - Episodes Tagged with “Weird”

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

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

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

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

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

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

Adiain Wachter Links

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

Aidan Wachter Backstory Catch-up

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

Animaxxing at the End of the World

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

Vayse online

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Bandcamp (Music From Vayse)
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Email: vayseinfo@gmail.com Special Guest: Aidan Wachter.

VYS0062 | Rabbit Trap: Sounds Like a Spell - Vayse to Face with Bryn Chainey

Vayse — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:30:00 +0200

VYS0062 | Rabbit Trap: Sounds Like a Spell - Vayse to Face with Bryn Chainey - Show Notes

In 2025 an independent film was released that blew the minds of experiencers, occult communities and connoisseur's of Weird Stuff alike - that film was Rabbit Trap, a darkly melancholic and hauntingly beautiful meditation on love, trauma and the power of the natural world, both discovered and undiscovered, to brutalise and heal in even measure, with equal ferocity and sometimes even at the same time. The man who write and directed Rabbit Trap was Bryn Chainey and in this episode he talks to Vayse.

Bryn guides Hine and Buckley on a journey through the film making process, what inspired him to make this gorgeous and deeply weird film, how he made it look so good, how he made it sound so good, how he got such incredible performances from the the three lead actors and what it means to make a film with heart. And then on slightly more familiar ground for Vayse listeners Bryn talks about what it means to him to be "weird", how fantasy can provide an from reality but can also show a way to see the world more clearly, the power of the genus loci, how music is magic... and why one of his greatest fears is to have "Happy Birthday" sung at him... (Recorded 17 May 2026)

Bryn Chainey Links

Website
Instragram
Rabbit Trap - Wikipedia
Rabbit Trap Trailer

VYS0062 | Rabbit Trap: Sounds Like a Spell - Vayse to Face with Bryn Chainey

Vayse online

Ko-Fi
Website
Youtube
Instagram
Bandcamp (Music From Vayse)
Bluesky
Email: vayseinfo@gmail.com Special Guest: Bryn Chainey.

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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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.

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...)