Empire as Pathology and Functional Societies

Luxa https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata welcomes Aidan Wachter https://www.patreon.com/cw/aidanwachter/home, author of Six Ways, Weaving Fate, Changeling, and more, back to the show to discuss current events and looking forward with the new Black Book hypersigil project, After the Fall, as well to do a Retrospektive lookback at Aidan’s time with Thee Temple of Psychic Youth.  Luxa also shares historical context about gamergate, a track from Music for Good: A Mixtape for MN Mutual Aid by Community Aid Network MN (CANMN) https://canmn.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-good-a-mixtape-for-mn-mutual-aid, and an update about The Green Mushroom Project https://greenmushroomproject.com/ and Void House- creating consent centered magical spaces for conducting group work both in person and online, investigating the magical and alchemical properties of consent, and providing consent education to magically inclined people. 

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After the Fall by Aidan Wachter https://www.patreon.com/posts/after-fall-black-149530791

Music for Good: A Mixtape for MN Mutual Aid by Community Aid Network MN (CANMN) https://canmn.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-good-a-mixtape-for-mn-mutual-aid

Poetry by XYZ Arts https://www.xyzartsllc.com/

The Consent Academy https://www.consent.academy/

Find Luxa’s work published in Serpents of Circe: A Manual to Magical Resilience edited by Laura Tempest Zakroff and Ron Padrón https://revelore.press/product/serpents-of-circe-a-manual-to-magical-resilience/

TOPY Grey Book https://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/topy/topybook.txt

A Very Brief History of Gamergate, 2012-2016 by Caren Pagel Media Commons.org https://mediacommons.org/imr/content/very-brief-history-gamergate-2012-2016

Sounds Like a Cult Podcast: The Cult of Incels (feat. Last Podcast on the Left) https://youtu.be/ZuxTbzZ-D84?si=TbXenjN9vkyPM8Yy

American Hysteria Podcast: The Art of (Psychological) War with Annalee Newitz 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-art-of-psychological-war-with-annalee-newitz/id1441348407?i=1000746664238

A Bit Fruity w/ Matt Bernstein Podcast: The Incel to ICE Pipeline (with F.D Signifier and Caroline Kwan) https://youtu.be/p8Vf0wcYwOE?si=rsaKDpW-TKAqSQ4b

The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control by Steven Hassan https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Cult-of-Trump/Steven-Hassan/9781982127343

Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/289845/why-does-he-do-that-by-lundy-bancroft

PDF:  https://archive.org/download/LundyWhyDoesHeDoThat/Lundy_Why-does-he-do-that.pdf

Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships by Janja Lalich https://www.lalichcenter.org/take-back-your-life/

EYES OF YOUR EYES- Luxa Strata ft. Folds & Floods https://youtu.be/EfdQ-pJEBsg

MACHINA ABSTRACTA- Luxa Strata https://luxastrata.bandcamp.com/track/machina-abstracta

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