Spirit Box

Joining us on the Spirit Box for episode 26 is Michael Lichens. Michael holds an MA in Religion and Literature from the University of Chicago and spends much of his time studying overlooked spiritual experiences when he isn't busy revising and editing. He is the editor of The Catholic Exchange and resides in Colorado where you can often find him discussing preachers, ghosts, and churches of the Old West. We will be discussing the book “The Devil is Afraid of Me: The Life and Works of the World’s Most Popular Exorcist.” by angelologist Father Marcello Stanzione. The book narrates the true story of Father Gabriele Amorth, the former chief exorcist of the vatican who performed more than sixty thousand exorcisms over a thirty-year period in Rome. The book details the experiences Fr Amorth had during his career like the windows icing over during an exorcism in summertime in Rome, dealing the results of magical attacks and some startling manifestations including a possessed young man producing nails from his mouth. We compare elements of the accounts and techniques detailed with the Islamic equivalent and look at the reasons while individuals can be open to obsessions and possession and discuss the fate of fallen angels from both the catholic and fairy lore perspectives. SHOW NOTES: https://www.sophiainstitute.com/products/item/devil-is-afraid-of-me KEEP IN TOUCH? TWITTER - twitter.com/spiritbox3  CONTACT - www.darraghmasonfield.com/contact  SUPPORT - www.patreon.com/spiritbox  PAYPAL - www.paypal.me/dmfphoto MUSIC - Obliqka

In this episode we welcome Julian Vayne to discuss psychedelic entities, the purpose of ritual in relation to psychedelics and the significant case for psychedelics as medicines.  Julian Vayne is an occultist and author of numerous books, essays, journals, 'zines and articles in both the academic and esoteric press.  A regular speaker at events, and facilitator of retreats and workshops, his work is informed by chaos magic and lineages within Wicca and Tantra. Julian is a co-organizer of the psychedelic conference Breaking Convention, and sits on the academic board of The Journal of Psychedelic Studies. Julian facilitates psychedelic ceremony, as well as providing one-to-one psychedelic integration sessions and support. He is the author of the celebrated Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony.  Since 2011 he has been sharing his work through The Blog of Baphomet and is the curator of the Youtube series My Magical Thing. The thumbnail art is by the great visionary artist Alex Grey whose work we briefly touch on. Those of you of a certain age and with excellent music taste will recognise his work from the Tool album art for the album Lateralus. If you like the show and want more Spirit Box in your life, join the Patreon and the podcast Discord. SHOW NOTES: Julian’s Website: theblogofbaphomet.com/category/julian-vayne/ Julian’s books: amzn.to/2BN8sQ7 My Magical thing: www.youtube.com/channel/UC6TWW-5KTelMMe4xW77TpFQ Alex Grey: www.alexgrey.com Video samples from www.videvo.net/profile/joseph2/ KEEP IN TOUCH? TWITTER - twitter.com/spiritbox3  CONTACT - www.darraghmasonfield.com/contact  SUPPORT - www.patreon.com/spiritbox  PAYPAL - www.paypal.me/dmfphoto MUSIC - Obliqka

This week we are joined by Joshua Cutchin and Timothy Renner to discuss the book they co-authored, ‘Where the Footprints End’, an exploration into the high strangeness surrounding the bigfoot phenomena. Joshua is an author and musician, and a well known figure in paranormal circles having appeared on some of the best known paranormal podcasts out there. Timothy is also a musician and author and on top of that he's a brilliant illustrator and host of the superb Strange familiars podcast.  So, what’s the premise of the book? Despite their apparently physical nature, bigfoot and its hairy hominid kin consistently appear mired in High Strangeness—the peculiar, ineffable, and nonsensical absurdities so often encountered in paranormal phenomena. Some sightings seem more consistent with mythology than biology. Bigfoot often present supernatural attributes, like luminescent eyes or the ability to pass, ghostlike, through structures. Anomalous lights are regularly seen in areas of frequent sasquatch activity. Footprints persistently, if rarely, display odd numbered toes, and—most bafflingly—bigfoot trackways suddenly terminate in the middle of open, untouched terrain. In Volume 1 of Where the Footprints End: High Strangeness and the Bigfoot Phenomenon, authors Joshua Cutchin and Timothy Renner carefully examine not only the intersection of hairy apemen with global folklore—of poltergeists, faeries, extraterrestrials, magic, witches, ghosts, and archetypal women-in-white—but also question the fundamental assumptions underlying contemporary cryptozoological beliefs surrounding bigfoot. If you like the show and want more content Spirit Box in your life join the Patreon and the podcast Discord. It’s the price of a cup of coffee and you get all the shows early and a host of other glorious perks. SHOW NOTES: Book:  amzn.to/3isBp4h Joshua’s Website: www.joshuacutchin.com Strange Familiars podcast: www.strangefamiliars.com Strange Familiars facebook: www.facebook.com/strangefamiliars KEEP IN TOUCH?  TWITTER - twitter.com/spiritbox3   CONTACT - www.darraghmasonfield.com/contact  SUPPORT - www.patreon.com/spiritbox  PAYPAL - www.paypal.me/dmfphoto   MUSIC - Obliqka

As you know the point of this podcast is to look at all sides of the puzzle of non-physical non human intelligences, this week we’ll be looking at things from a Catholic perspective. To that end our next guest, Fr. Dwight Longenecker talks to the Catholic concept of Spiritual warfare detailed in his book Immortal Combat - Confronting the Heart of Darkness Brought up as an Evangelical in the USA, Fr. Dwight Longenecker earned a degree in Speech and English before studying theology at Oxford University. He served as a minister in the Church of England, and in 1995 was received into the Catholic Church with his wife and family. The author of over twenty books and booklets on Catholic faith and culture, Fr Longenecker is also an award winning blogger, podcaster and journalist. He is pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Greenville, South Carolina. Fr Longenecker maps out how Catholicism changed to a more ‘love and light’ position and in doing so lost its awareness of actual evil forces. We discuss the danger of pretending evil doesn’t exist and his personal experience with exorcisms. There are some sections I’ve bleeped out to remove names and location of those involved in the exorcism. If you like the show and want more Spirit Box in your life join the Patreon and the podcast Discord. It’s the price of a cup of coffee and you get all the shows early along with other benefits. Send me your experiences with the other. I’ll leave links below, you can either email me or leave me a phone message. SHOW NOTES: Book: https://www.sophiainstitute.com/products/item/immortal-combat Blog-Website: www.dwightlongenecker.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsld_cllX-psYORZ_DnHAEg KEEP IN TOUCH? TWITTER - https://twitter.com/spiritbox3  CONTACT - https://www.darraghmasonfield.com/contact SUPPORT - https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox PAYPAL - https://www.paypal.me/dmfphoto  MUSIC - Obliqka

This episode we welcome back Lonnie Scott. He’s been an Occultist, Pagan, Strategic Sorcerer, Chaonimist, and Heathen for over two decades. He’s a Professional Hypnotist (seen on Hellier), Tarot Professional (Tarosophist of the Year 2014), experienced memberships and initiations in various Magic, Witchcraft, Pagan and Heathen organizations. Also, the founder of the Wayfinder Tradition. he’s been investigating the Paranormal and experimenting in the Occult for a long time and in all that somehow finds the time to create and host the Weird Web Radio podcast and I’m delighted to have him back on the Spirit Box. We talk about his journey into magick, teenage curses and an intense vision that culminated into a norse figure of some significance coming into his life. Just a quick bit of housing keeping. If you like the show and want more content Spirit Box in your life be sure to sign up to Patreon and join the podcast Discord. It’s the price of a cup of coffee for pre-releases to all the shows and a host of other perks. ****** You can find Lonnie Scott here: https://www.patreon.com/weirdwebradio https://www.facebook.com/weirdwebradio/?fref=nf http://weirdwebradio.com https://twitter.com/lonnie_scott KEEP IN TOUCH? TWITTER - https://twitter.com/spiritbox3  SUPPORT - https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox Music by Obliqka

For episode 21 of The Spirit Box we welcome Elise Oursa. Elise is a card reader, craniosacral therapist, practicing witch and creator of The Blood & Ink Tarot. Her magical practice, rooted in traditional witchcraft focuses on personal sovereignty coupled with an evolving relationship with land and spirit. She is currently producing a body of work on her research and magical journey over the past 7 years with Gloucestershire cunning woman Ellen Hayward (d 1911), one of the last women in Gloucestershire to be tried for witchcraft.    Her witchcraft, largely solitary & spirit based, has evolved through her experience as a therapist. She is guided by her work with Hekate, her connection to the chthonic currents of the British landscape and a deep reverence for those who have come before. She teaches on the tarot and designs individual bespoke rituals for transformation and empowerment. items.  She runs Coffee And Cards a free daily morning Tarot practice on zoom for tarot readers of all abilities.  She hosts a monthly fortune telling Salon on zoom, Le Salon De La Fortune. Next date Saturday June 27  She recently presented an online lecture entitled ‘My Secrets of Spellcrafting’ which she is hoping to expand into a series of lectures.   SHOW NOTES:  http://www.eliseoursa.com  https://www.instagram.com/eliseoursa/  http://www.eliseoursa.com/coffee-cards/      KEEP IN TOUCH?  TWITTER - https://twitter.com/spiritbox3  SUPPORT - https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox  Music by Obliqka

A great line up the first Spirit Box Trialogue, we welcome back Marco Visconti and welcome Lonnie Scott for a discussion on Hellier.   Marco has been on the show before explaining the Thelemic significance of Pan and The Star Sapphire ritual outlined at end of season 2 and professional hypnotist Lonnie appeared in the show in season 2 carrying out some exploratory hypnosis experiments with the Hellier team.   Show notes:  Marco Visconti's links:  “Hellier to Heliopolis” - Fri, 12 June 2020 19:00 – 21:00 BST https://marcovisconti.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eed45718599969d31bc1b4a0b&id=6ea2dad8d6&e=9e53821f4f  https://twitter.com/azrael2393  http://www.marcovisconti.org  https://www.patreon.com/marcovisconti   You can find Lonnie Scott here:  https://www.patreon.com/weirdwebradio   https://www.facebook.com/weirdwebradio/?fref=nf  http://weirdwebradio.com  https://twitter.com/lonnie_scott   Keep in touch? TWITTER - https://twitter.com/spiritbox3 SUPPORT - https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox Music by Obliqka

Firstly, they are called 'The Good People' now that we've got that out of the way please welcome author Morgan Daimler.   Morgan has been a practicing witch since the 1990's and studying Irish folklore and mythology since the mid-90's. Growing up around the Irish-American diaspora contributed to this interest which came to include other Celtic language speaking cultures, such as Scottish and Welsh, and eventually the more loosely connected Norse, with a focus on folklore relating to fairies. Morgan began teaching and writing about fairies in the early 2000's and has presented workshops on related topics in the United States and Ireland as well as presenting as an independent scholar at the University of Ohio's 'Fairies and the Fantastic' conference in 2019.   I got huge amount out of this conversation, and I'm very grateful to Morgan for her openness and for sharing the wisdom and knowledge she's gained researching and engaging with this subject matter. It brought the phenomena of Jinn and 'The Good people' a lot closer for me. In fact it's really solidified what I already suspected in that this is a phenomena that communicates using the symbols that are culturally relevant to the witness. We even had the classic technical problems when discussing how dangerous these entities are which is essentially a paranormal badge of honour and a clear indication that we were in the right territory.   If you have your own experiences be sure to leave them in the comments below or reach out to me.    Show notes:   https://twitter.com/morgandaimler?lang=en https://www.amazon.co.uk/Morgan-Daimler/e/B0047QW0WY https://www.facebook.com/Morgandaimler/ https://lairbhan.blogspot.com    Keep in touch? TWITTER - https://twitter.com/spiritbox3 SUPPORT - https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox PODCAST - https://anchor.fm/spirit-box Music by Obliqka

Dana Fox is a trainee Gestalt psychotherapist, a practicing Magickian most notably in visionary magic.  He’s been drawn to the subject of UFO’s and the paranormal for as long as he can remember.   In the this episode Dana talks about Non-terrestrial writing/communication. Things seen on the exterior and interior of witnessed alien craft; writing which has been the result of possession; and so-called automatic writing and channelled texts. Our use of written language sets humans apart from many of the other beings on earth. It is also apparent the we share this method of communication with the ultraterrestrial intelligences who come here still.    As if that’s not enough we talk phantom airships, Kenneth Arnold, Black Triangles and  Ghost rockets. Plus the incredible link he has made between Rendleshem forest and an incident in Utsuro Bune in 1830.    Show notes:  Scryptid: The Ultraterrestrial Word. https://www.facebook.com/events/2352899085019612/ Utsuro Bune: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utsuro-bune Keep in touch?  TWITTER - https://twitter.com/spiritbox3   SUPPORT - https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox PODCAST - https://anchor.fm/spirit-box    VOICEMAIL - https://anchor.fm/spirit-box/message.  Music by Obliqka

In response to a subscriber comment this week we go back to the roots of the Spirit Box podcast for some good ol' Jinn Lore and list the 13 most common types of Jinn. I've pulled this together from a number of online sources so if you know of any I missed that would be make interesting reading by all means let me know by leaving a message for me here https://anchor.fm/spirit-box/message.   Show notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinn  https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/List...  https://jinn.fandom.com Keep in touch? TWITTER - https://twitter.com/spiritbox3  SUPPORT - https://www.patreon.com/spiritbox PODCAST - https://anchor.fm/spirit-box Music by Obliqka