Black Hoodie Alchemy

This week on the show, my good friend, colleague, and fellow alchemist Martin Ferretti comes back on to get real deep into the stages of alchemy throughout all processes of life. Despite his show The Alchemical Mind being on hiatus for some time, Martin has been a diligent alchemist in many capacities for years now, and he's one of my favorite people to talk to when it comes to this subject. Calcination, Dissolution, Separation, Conjunction, Fermentation, Distillation, and Coagulation -- these are the seven stages of alchemy, whether it be mental, physical, or spiritual. In seven stages we even find the levels of heaven and hell, the seven chakras, concepts like the seven stages of grief, and so much more. What does it mean to go through these processes on a psychological, existential level? To further elaborate this food for thought we bring up topics like Carl Jung, shadow work, the Kabbalah, Aristotle's distaste for the written word, Philip K Dick, Liu Cixin's The Three Body Problem, dark timelines and my recent conversation with Eric Millar, deciphering psychedelic revelations, and so much more. We hope you dig it! This week's featured music! Don't forget to support your favorite artists and all that black hoodie metal and hardcore! Rigor Mortis - Darkroom Original Spirit - Negative Blast Rats - Salt Psychic Trash - Negative Blast Starcrusher - Doc Hammer --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/support

Fellow researcher and field-investigator, Chaz of the Dead joins me to talk about some of his strange expeditions across the world, investigation the unexplainable, the psychedelic, and the horrific -- oftentimes all at once. Firstly we discuss Chaz's ground-rules of paranormal investigation, with considerations of Carl Jung, chaos magick, and classical paranormal ghost hunting but without the crosses and holy water. After this, we get into some real wild stories.  Chaz talks about poltergeists, demonology, reports of vampiric flying serpents in modern day South Africa, and even his field investigations . He's investigated UFO hotspots in Chile (to include possibilities of Nazi hideouts from their post-WWII scramble in South America), he's also investigated the strange paranormal of the haunted mansion and a strange metal sphere near Jacksonville, Florida, that attracted government attention in the 1970s, and he talks about his experiments with LSD and psilocybin while ghost-hunting and playing with ouija boards! Chaz is a very adventurous man to the say the least, and for all the wild topics he's able to talk about, he brings a level of grounded, humorous skepticism to it all that is mostly missing from the rest of the paranormal community. Chaz isn't expecting to find the answers to all his questions, but that won't stop him from trying! So what about psychedelics and the paranormal anyway? Would it help a ouija board to work better if you were peaking on mushrooms? Would it make you more receptive to the paranormal while walking around a haunted mansion at night on LSD? Or is it just a really wild experiment with some fun stories? The food for thought you find in here might be more concrete than you would expect.  Hear about all this and more! We hope you dig it. See all of Chaz's work at his website, including books, articles and interviews. This week's featured music! Y'all know: support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists! 11-11 - Umang & Kickback Nightmare - Umang & BBZ Darney Raw Raps (feat. Robust) - Epidemic & Dreamtek The Karma - Babylon Warchild --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/support

Author, illustrator, and experimental esotericist Eric Millar -- The Garbage Wizard himself --returns to the show to talk about his latest work, An Assemblage of Disparate Parts. Following up our last conversation about OG comic book culture, philosophy, and mysticism, Eric's latest work is a decidedly critical strike at the concepts of the "scholar", the "professional", the "accredited", and the "accepted". Eric takes some unique approaches in his critiques as well, noting the philosophy of collage work itself, and the symbolic implications therein.  In a way that reminded me just a little bit of Fight Club's destructive philosophical wit, I tell Eric that his latest work reminds me of something like Tyler Durden on one of his easier-going days. In this vein of thought, Eric describes what he affectionately describes as "garbage wizardry" among many other descriptions. In essence, this is an idea of trash and treasure being perspective, and how that perspective in relation to any object can serve as a deep psychological catalyst for change if used properly. In Eric's point of view, a magic eight-ball is as mystical and divinatory as you make it. Anyone can be a wizard -- even with garbage and grime -- if you apply it properly. Eric also goes into some detail about depersonalization and what he calls "The Grey Man" persona, discussing how the two knee-jerk reactions to oppression are a desire to rebel, or a desire to blend in. As well, we talk a bit about finding self awareness through your own honest artwork, and we talk about relating to and interacting with the inner child within us all -- even shedding some light on fatherhood from Eric's perspective and the things he's learned while raising a child with his own mind so mystically-oriented.  Lastly, we even get into the double edged sword of social medial a bit. People keep talking about the "collapse of Twitter", so Eric and I pose that if honest art makes you more self-aware, honest social media seems to be psychiatrically designed to bring some of the worst out in us. Granted, it's not completely useless and it has its benefits, but it was designed with so many existential pitfalls, that it seems as if it could be creating rampant thought-forms that are becoming autonomous in their own rights. Whatever be the case, it certainly seems like social media brings the worst out of people all too often. But we don't get on a pulpit about it, this is just one of the many existential topics discussed! My first conversation with Eric, centered around his work, The Four Color Grimoire -- all things philosophical, esoteric, and OG comic book culture. Eric Millar's OUTLET PRESS my website where you can find my books, Dive Manual and Hunt Manual This week's featured music -- support that underground black hoodie rap and all your favorite indie artists! La La Lala - Hex One The TV Programs You - D REV Ghetto Guitar - uMang --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/support

Welcome back, folks! This week on the show, my friend Martin Ferretti joins me to analyze psychoanalyst, Carl Jung's legendary self-therapy journals: The Red and Black Books. Both released after his death, The Red Book represents a sizable portion of the Black Books' contents. Large, leather-bound, and full of beautifully haunting paintings and calligraphy of his innermost spiritual turmoil, Jung's Red Book is truly something like a magical tome written by a modern man of science.   The Black Books were the rough journals he kept of nearly twenty years of therapeutic investigation into his dreams, meditations, and trance states. Like a mythological hero speaking to gods and goddesses, angels, even some demons and ghosts, Jung would work himself into an active trance and communicate with his hypnotic archetypes in order to discover epic journeys, tribulations, lessons, and triumphs that actively played roles in his daily life. The story today is almost something like a hard-nosed, disciplined man of science allowing himself to go on one of the truest NeverEnding Stories of all time.   And not only do we discuss Jung's journey of this nature, we also bring up the likes of JRR Tolkien, Dante Alighieri, Wolfgang Goethe, and Manly P Hall, showing how the investigations of our imaginal constructs through art and magick are sometimes the only way to highlight and grab hold of some of our innermost undiscovered drives, instincts, aspirations, and downfalls. Without our dreams, our art, and plans and projects, we would implode under the weight of our un-mined potential. Truly, this is the physics of the situation -- ignore it and see what happens.  People like Jung and Tolkien didn't shoulder the weight of an existential crisis because they thought it might be fun, they did so because they found themselves at a place in their lives where it had become unavoidable. So, rather than avoid it at all costs, they strapped up and dove headfirst into the abyss so that they might tame it!   As Jung himself once wrote, borrowing from Goethe, “This is the fund of unconscious images which fatally confuse the mental patient. But it is also the matrix of a mythopoeic imagination which has vanished from our rational age. Though such imagination is present everywhere, it is both tabooed and dreaded... It is considered the path of error, of equivocation and misunderstanding. I am reminded of Goethe’s words; ‘Now let me dare to open wide the gate/ Past which men’s steps have ever flinching trod.’ …Unpopular, ambiguous, and dangerous, it is a voyage of discovery to the other pole of the world.”  Come with me if us want to dive.  This week's featured music -- support that black hoodie rap and your favorite independent artists!  Intro - Hex One  Model Citizen - Babylon Warchild (feat. Black da Plague & Fresco P)  The Gates of Babylon - Babylon Warchild  Fire in the Sky - Babylon Warchild  Don't forget!  Dive Manual: Empirical Investigations of Mysticism  Hunt Manual: 21st Century Demonology & Forteana  Martin Ferretti's The Alchemical Mind --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/support

Black Hoodie Alchemy is currently on a small, two-week hiatus but here is my most recent appearance on Joe Rupe's live show, Lighting the Void on The Fringe FM. Joe invited me on to bump some of my favorite music from the artists that I have collaborated with to play on my show including: DOC HAMMER, BABYLON WARCHILD, NEGATIVE BLAST, and M.U.T.T. We also get into some true crime conversation including stories like Killdozer and much more! I hope you dig this content and I'll see you May 8th for a fresh episode! This week's featured music! Don't forget to support all your favorite independent artists. Souled Out - Doc Hammer The Return - Babylon Warchild Night Moves - M.U.T.T. Egghead - Negative Blast Magneto - Babylon Warchild (feat. Pacewon) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/support

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we're releasing the third of four episodes from the now-defunct Patreon feed! Patreon will be back eventually, but no dates are set right now and I've decided that, for now, I do not want to split my time and attention up so much when it comes to my show. So this episode comprises the third installment of Chris, Seedperson and I analyzing "Existential Alchemy in Practice" by sifting through the unexplainable, surreal, and highly symbolic aspects of our lives. This week we build off our investigation of surreal, dream-like childhood memories - including a consideration of young children and the paranormal, and we also talk about the idea of Lost Media. Lost Media is art that we remember from our childhoods, media that usually made an indelible impression on us - yet we cannot find a single trace of its existence in today's world. Today, people have whole internet forums dedicated to trying to find the things that scared or inspired them as very young children. The idea of lost media, especially considering the surreal and unexplainable experiences that we often find in our youth, is quite an open-ended rabbit-hole for analytic psychology that we found extremely interesting. It's all this and a whole lot more, so we hope you dig it! DIVE MANUAL AUDIOBOOK OUT NOW Black Hoodie Alchemy DISCORD SERVER (this invite link expires in a week but it's very easy to find on the discord app if you're interested) my linktree, with my books, website and much more Seedperson on Instagram Chris Fiato on Instagram This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists! WaxWaner - Dakota Slim Divide - Salt Gutted - Salt Towers of Babylon (feat. Chief Kamachi) - Babylon Warchild --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/support

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! This week is another chat I had with my good friend and fellow alchemist, Seedperson1. It's also a chat that was recorded in February of this year, and was originally put into the now-defunct Black Hoodie Alchemy patreon feed. (Candidly, we'll likely do a patreon again at some point, but it ended up being a greater strain on my schedule than I thought it would be, and there was not a huge amount of listener interest in it for now anyway.) In this conversation, we build off of our last chat in episode 84 talking about existential alchemy and the inner process, and this time we get into things like maintaining sanity amidst conspiracy theory rabbit-holes, the black mirrors of technology and the potential black magick behind them (archetypally speaking, at the very least), the dark obsessions that so many people have with "influencer fame", and we even bring up the supposed underground pyramid in Alaska again in retrospect. DIVE MANUAL AUDIOBOOK BLACK HOOD ALCHEMY DISCORD my linktree with my website, book links and more! This week's featured music -- don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists! Building Pyramids - Unknown Mizery x Odweeyne Sticky Bomb - Unknown Mizery x Odweeyne Royal Flush - Unknown Mizery x Odweeyne God's Image - Unknown Mizery x Arkeologists --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/support

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! This week is all things Sasquatch -- not only do we analyze some of the folklore and typical content in the sightings, but I also am pleasantly surprised to report to you all that I have my own Sasquatch story to share with you! It happened over the weekend of April 2024's Solar Eclipse, it was auditory with several people around, and it happened multiple times. Oh yeah and there was a Sasquatch hunting board-game involved! But you'll have to listen in to learn more. From a hairy hominid, to mystical gatekeeper of the forest, or even a poltergeist of the wilderness, my guests and I take a look at this topic from several different angles, and we even contrast them to sightings of "skinwalkers" and "dogman" at the end. MY BOOK HUNT MANUAL DIVE MANUAL AUDIOBOOK OUT NOW my linktree to everything you'd need to follow up on my action Best link I found to the Sasquatch SIERRA SOUNDS (The opening is stick-beating, followed by the whooping, and right afterward, listen a little closer to hear what I can only describe as snickering-death-rattles. I heard the hollers and the rattles.) related episodes: #52 - The Goblin Universe #29 - Psychedelic Horror & Paranormal Activity #21 - Unexplainable Phenomena & Mental Health #5 - Demonology & Poltergeists Where the Footprints End - Josh Cutchin x Tim Renner Angels in Vermillion - PD Newman Beasts Between the Rivers - Martin Grove JC Johnson - Cryptid investigator and former exorcist Martin Grove's Dogman interview, recommended by Chris This week's featured music is brought to you by the extremely talented and multi-faceted musicians Zig Mentality. And we even have another collaboration between them and Cleopatrick! Very stoked to be bumping these tracks. BMF #11 - ZIG MENTALITY When You Force It - ZIG MENTALITY What Weighs on You - ZIG MENTALITY BMF #14 - ZIG MENTALITY x CLEOPATRICK I & I - ZIG MENTALITY --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/support

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we have a podcast-swaparoo with my homie Joe Rupe, host of Lighting the Void, and we're both celebrating the fresh release of my audiobook Dive Manual: Empirical Investigations of Mysticism. With the paperback released in 2020, Joe has lended his narration and editing talents to help me bring this book into audio form, and since he took the time to read the entire thing -- including all the outtakes and re-reads -- he now has quite a bit to say about it all. I admittedly have a hard time explaining this book briefly, but it is data-driven research about my own investigations into mysticism, magick, and the religious experience. I look heavily into scientific concepts like Jungian psychoanalysis, sleep paralysis, dream analysis, phantom limb syndrome, memetics, and chaos theory. In addition, I also investigate the mechanics and history of things like alchemy, astrology, tarot, numerology, reincarnation, the Trees of Life & Death, Hermeticism, Gnostic Christianity, Taoism, Buddhism, Kabbalah, Paganism, and much more. Lastly, it has at times a semi-fictional framework that includes me as the narrator guiding you as the reader through the proverbial diving experience. There's more I could say, but I will leave it at that for now! It's a winding journey about insanity, neuroticism, catharsis, unexplainable phenomena, and ineffable transcendence. Don't forget -- if you dig Dive Manual, check out my second work Hunt Manual: 21st Century Demonology & Forteana. Joe has plans to bring this to audiobook form soon as well! DIVE MANUAL AUDIOBOOK HERE my linktree to my books, website, comedic character shorts & more This week's featured music is brought to you by the extremely badass rock n' roll talents of ZIG MENTALITY, including some of their collaborations with their well-known homies CLEOPATRICK. I'm very excited to be able to bump these killer musicians and you really oughta check em out! Best Direction - ZIG MENTALITY Hate to Say I Told You So (The Hives Cover) - ZIG MENTALITY x CLEOPATRICK BMF #13 - ZIG MENTALITY x CLEOPATRICK Triggered Emotion - ZIG MENTALITY --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/support

This week, I share with you my most recent guest appearance on my longtime friend Joe Rupe's show, Lighting the Void. By telling the traditional story of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (which is far more alchemical and esoteric than the Universal rendition), the heartbreaking and triumphant story of Joseph 'Elephant Man' Merrick, and discussing some of Viktor Frankl's survival of the Auschwitz concentration camp (and development of logotherapy), we try to understand the struggles in our own personal lives a bit more. Relativizing one's own suffering can be problematic, surely, and should be done with caution -- but looking into the stories of people with struggles far greater than your own can give great perspective and inspiration. We hope you dig the listen! BHA Linktree with my books, website and all --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/support

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, our outlaw wizard friend Keats Ross returns from his last appearance on the show to talk about his latest work: Divergent Magick - An Anarchic Grimoire, which is far less destructive than it sounds. Or, perhaps a better way to put it is: it is destruction with strong alchemical purpose. But beyond that, the true nature of the anarchy and divergence here lies in the difference between orthodoxy and heterodoxy; the tried-and-true versus the path less traveled. With study, practice, and structure, so much of Keats' work is centered around flipping his study on its head and finding new meaning in the abstract, the mundane, and the intuitive rather than specific rules from books. However, with discussion of anarchy and metaphysics we as well get into the more socio-cultural implications, dealing with wealth and poverty, struggle and resilience, and how the hunger that poverty can give us is truly something even the most pampered people are envious of. We hope you dig it! my linktree with my books, website and more Keats' PRAGMAGICK WE THE HALLOWED This week's featured music -- brought to you by this week's special guest Keats AKA Dakota Slim! Don't forget to support your favorite independent artists. Yosotros - Dakota Slim Cactus Crown - Dakota Slim Knell - Dakota Slim And Lo! - Dakota Slim Wasted Bones - Dakota Slim --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/support

Welcome black to Black Hoodie Alchemy! This week I'm joined by yet another special guest, researcher and longtime show-host, Jess Rogge of 'Escape the Simulation'. In her time involved with broadcast and internet streaming, Jess has talked all sorts of people -- from Tommy Chong to David Icke and so many more in between -- and her wealth of experience helps me navigate modern conspiracy theory lore in our chat. Jess is a researcher that is willing to look into just about anything with a healthy mindset that is equal parts skepticism and open-mindedness, whether it be esoteric knowledge or modern conspiracy theories. In this chat, we talk about Jess' Buddhist upbringing and her personal stumbling into the realm of conspiracy theories, and what it means to deal with these concepts and mindsets in the modern era. 9/11, the Illuminati, Alex Jones, William Cooper, David Icke, QANON and the post-Trump era of conspiracy theories, and many more topics are brought up in the chat as we try to our best to understand just what the hell is going on in the collective consciousness these days. BHA LINKTREE BHA PATREON ESCAPE THE SIMULATION FOR LIVE YOUTUBE INTERVIEWS & MORE Jess on Insta Jess on Twitter This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists: The Soulution - Epidemic x Tantu And Lo! - Dakota Slim Waxwaner - Dakota Slim Dreamers (feat. Fashawn) - Epidemic x Tantu --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/support

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, I'm joined by another special guest Leticia Martinez -- an alchemist, journalist, and holistic health counselor that utilizes herbal remedies, massage therapy, and much more in her practice with clients. Not only has she taken her studies seriously throughout the years, she has also put her money where her mouth is being a terminal cancer survivor! In this episode, we talk about Leticia's come-up into alchemy, her cancer diagnosis and also the path that lead her into a full remission that baffled doctors. With a combination of nearly all the doctor-offered treatments ASIDE from chemotherapy, Leticia as well used a wide varying combination of mushrooms, cannabis, and other medicinal herbs and extracts that we get into during our chat. In addition to all this we also talk about mortality, life and death and survivor's guilt, Big Pharma's looming shadow, the suppression of cancer research and researchers, the philosophy of animism, and navigating one's personal health in a very flawed western medical system. As a final disclaimer, it should be heavily noted that I am not a medical professional in any degree, and while Leticia is far more qualified to talk about these things than I am, she also freely admits that while her story should be taken into consideration -- it SHOULD NOT be taken as some sort of medical gospel. We hope you dig it! BHA Linktree BHA Patreon BHA Discord (link expires in 7 days but you can find it easily on discord) Leticia's Linktree! This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists! Put Ya Lights Out - School of Thought High With You - M.U.T.T. Dali - Tribesemen x Arkeologists Night Moves - M.U.T.T. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/support

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, I got the chance to be in-studio here in Pensacola, Florida with my two guests and local Floridians: Justin Otto, host of the Dharma Junkie podcast, founder and instructor of Gulf Coast Dharma, childhood cancer survivor, former addict, and current wonderful human being; and Max Komes, licensed yoga instructor, operator of Clarity Wellness Collective, student wrapping up his Masters in Psychology, and also a current wonderful human being! In this conversation, we peel back the layers of psychology and physical health a bit, discussing the mind-body connection in a way that seeks to dispel some of the New Age half truths that are really ancient wisdom taken out of context. We get into yoga, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and also discuss the psychologies of Carl Jung and Victor Frankl in the context of the mind-body connection. Among the ailments of this physical spirituality, we bring up debilitating bodily pains and even conditions like cancer (no, not astrological conditions!) And, as a final cherry on top, we take the time to get into the potential religious "superpowers" that esoteric circles of Buddhist monks are said to gain as byproducts of their enlightenment process, with certain a caveat: you must never use them to placate your ego, which basically means that you can't use them intentionally or they are said to disappear. Very curious, and definitely some black hoodie shit! Justin helps us navigate this more. All this and more this week! We hope you dig it. BHA Patreon BHA Discord chat (link expires in 7 days but it's easy to find on the discord app) my linktree with books, videos & more Justin Otto's Dharma Junkie Justin Otto's Gulf Coast Dharma Justin on Instagram Max Komes' Clarity Wellness Collective Max Komes on Instagram This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists! WaxWaner - Dakota Slim AKA Keats Ross You Never Meant Much - Salt Psychic Trash - Negative Blast Yosotros - Dakota Slim AKA Keats Ross --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/support

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy I have a double-whammy for you! I'm joined by special guests and fellow writers, Brad Kelly and Kevin Kautzman of the popular biography-philosophy podcast 'Art of Darkness', which focuses on lengthy deep dives into the full lives and dark psychologies of history's greatest artists, whether they be painters, authors, filmmakers, et cetera. With Brad as a published working fiction author and Kevin as a working playwright and director, armed with their encyclopedic brains about the plights of the artist, we get into more Jung and the shadow complex, the catharsis of art and the similarities to religion and mysticism. We also get into demonology and memetics, exploring our inner mythologies through our art, and the dichotomy of the "sell-out" vs the "real artist." As for specific artists that we bring up throughout the chat, we discuss John Lennon, the director of the cult classic 'Solaris' Andrei Tarkovsky, Stanley Kubrick, Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling, Lucille Ball, Dante Alighieri and many more! We hope you dig it. BHA PATREON BHA DISCORD (invite link expires in 7 days from posting but you can find Black Hoodie Alchemy easily on the app) BHA LINKTREE w/ my books and everything! ART OF DARKNESS BRAD ON TWITTER KEVIN ON TWITTER Get Brad's book HOUSE OF SLEEP This week's featured music -- don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists! In the Paint - Towercity Stay Golden - Epidemic x Jesse James The TV Programs You - D REV x BBZ Darney Promoterman - Tribesemen x Arkeologists --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/support

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, I'm joined by the wonderful and well-studied Hermeticist, Ashley Ryan AKA Pythian Priestess of tiktok (witchtok to be specific) and her investigative occult podcast, The Occult Unveiled, which you can find on all platforms. While tiktok is not usually on this podcast's radar, it's worth noting a bit since our guest has nearly half a million followers, and she is a refreshing example of a genuine person, putting out authentic content on tiktok (among other places), and it goes to show that you should never judge a book by its social media platform!⁠ As for more serious matters, Ashley is an intriguing esoteric student, living in Los Angeles, doing consistent volunteer work at Manly P. Halls' Philosophical Research Society and working with a disciplined unnamed Hermetic Order in LA -- all with her tiktok virality and her detailed podcast on top. Of particular note from her own show -- and a topic I bring up in our discussion here -- she's interviewed Manly P. Hall's last living personal student, Ronnie Pontiac, a name I hope to get in contact with in the future. Coming from the LA punk rock scene as a teenager, Ronnie's story about his time with Hall is touching, informative, and we just barely scratch the surface of the entire story. So along with the life and times of the esoteric philosopher Manly P. Hall, we discuss some of Ashley's personal esoteric story, hermeticism in the modern day, the dangers of New Age cults, navigating the vapidness of the social media grind for positive reasons, magical philosophy, and of course we get into some Jung and shadow work! BHA PATREON BHA DISCORD BHA LINKTREE WITH MY BOOKS, WEBSITE, ETC This week's featured music - don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists! City of Dreams - Babylon Warchild Divide - Salt Original Spirit - Negative Blast Gutted - Sat --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/support

This week is a revisit of the topic from BHA #62, but if you've heard that episode before I urge you to stick around for a listen! Not only is the true crime narrative polished and expanded, there is A LOT OF ADDITIONAL RESEARCH THAT WAS NOT INCLUDED IN EPISODE 62. More research was done into the events and songs that put several big names artists (one way or another) in association with the cult leader Malachi Z York, to include: Jay Z, Nas, Andre 3000, MF DOOM, Prodigy of Mobb Deep, Army of the Pharaohs, A Tribe Called Quest, and a whole lot more. From humble beginnings as a petty conman in Brooklyn, to an aspiring Islamic black rights activist and R&B musician, to child abusing cult leader with pyramids at his compound, Malachi Z York is one of the strangest cult stories that you've likely never heard before! And on top of that, I join for the occasion Miguel Conner and his co-host Moondog on their flagship program Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio. Miguel and Moondog have had longstanding fascinations with the dark and esoteric side of entertainment, to include Miguel's upcoming release on Elvis Presley's fascination with the occult! Lastly, anyone that is familiar with this show knows that I am a big fan on authentic hip hop culture and music, so this not at all an indictment of hip-hop as a whole. Rather, it is a rabbit-hole-of-a-story that shows how we can find cult leaders anywhere that there is enough cultural traction for them to sink their teeth into. Watch the video version of this conversation here! BHA PATREON BHA DISCORD CHAT LINKTREE W/ BOOKS, YOUTUBE, ETC This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists. The System - Babylon Warchild In the Paint - Towercity Talkin Durty to the Godz - Unknown Mizery x Tainted Wisdom --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/support

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy! This week is another solo episode, and another episode about the Christian author CS Lewis. Last time we brought him up, we went through his work The Problem of Pain and this time we're going to bring up a fictional philosophical book he wrote, something he dedicated to his friend JRR Tolkien, called The Screwtape Letters. This is a fascinating read into the letters of an arch-demon, Screwtape, written to his nephew-demon-apprentice, Wormood -- teaching him how to claim the soul of a European man amidst the onset of World War II. I am not Christian, but I do appreciate the esoteric notions found within the beliefs, and I also appreciate the writing and thoughts of CS Lewis -- so, while I do not agree with everything in this book, I think it is excellent food for thought that is well worth considering! And it has a very unique narrative context that you'll enjoy. BHA PATREON my linktree to my books, videos and more This week's featured artists! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite indie artists! The Karma - Babylon Warchild The Injustice - Babylon Warchild The Most Violent - School of Thought Fragmented (feat. Hex One) - Umang x BBZ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/support

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, I'm joined by another special guest: Adam Butler -- philosopher, psychonaut, alchemist, and author of the book, Butler's DMT Field Guide. This book is a dense collection of DMT extraction recipes, the various ways to consume DMT, the best precautions and intentions to shape when trying it -- as well as some of Adam's personal experiences with it, his rigorous study and experimentation, and his overall analysis of the biological and psychological potential. And yes, some of these studies include sexual activity of the tantric variety while under the influence of DMT! So naturally we get into all this and more -- to include more hermetic philosophy, Carl Jung, shadow work, the strong case of John Dee and Edward Kelley using to DMT to create Enochian magic, gods and devils, the nature of consciousness, and trying to navigate the balance between the spiritual and the mundane grind of life. We hope you dig it! my linktree with my books n website n more BHA Patreon BHA DISCORD CHAT (this invite link expires in 7 days) Adam's DMT Field Guide Adam's Audio version on Audible Adam on instagram This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists! God's Image - Unknown Mizery x Arkeologists Fire in the Sky (feat. Fresco P) - Babylon Warchild Travelling North - Legitimate x Rex Seshuns Model Citizen (feat. Black da Plague & Fresco P) - Babylon Warchild --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/support

This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, I'm joined by special guest, Jessie Desmond! As former director of MUFON in Alaska, lifelong Alaskan resident, UFO historian, Sasquatch hunter, and overall Fortean investigator, Jessie has several books released, competes in bodybuilding in her spare time, and has several other projects and interest that we discuss. It is highly encouraged that you check out episode 73 about some Alaskan weirdness that we get into more here! Among the topics of high strangeness at hand, we get into all the UFO and Sasquatch action, but we also get into more investigations of the Dark Pyramid of Alaska, the Alaska Triangle (similar to the one in Bermuda), HAARP, paranormal activity, mysterious cattle mutilations, reports of Alaskan vampires, and even a discussion of the non-Alaskan alchemist, Count St. Germain! Not only do we discuss reports of all these things, but we also get into the theories on why they might be happening, and why Jessie finds them so interesting. Heavy X-Files vibes in this episode! We hope you dig it. my linktree to my books, website and more! BHA PATREON BHA DISCORD (link expires in 7 days but you can find the chat easily) Jessie Desmond's website Saucers of the North: A History of UFOs in Alaska Airspace Ultramodern Future Jessie on Twitter This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists. In the Paint - Towercity No Pain No Gain - Towercity Chancers Are - The Liberators Inifinity - Epidemic x Jesse James --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackhoodiealchemy/support