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This Podcast is a Ritual creates a magical space for a wizard, his guests, his listeners, and an omnipotent future being to create a slightly better reality. Get initiated now by listening to the Opening Ceremony!
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Settle in and take a sip with kava-tender Steven E. Leszyk, author of Kava's Magical Roots, as we explore the ceremony surrounding this traditional Polynesian brew, its recent inroads into American culture, and the magical states its consumption can create. Get a copy of Kava's Magical Roots at: https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=WkCKUummqxq5DUsXss5V5RXIGB1bYfKY4dqkzuYy0fV Tune into Steven's vibrations at: @cavevalleykava on Instagram Join the ritual: www.patreon.com/thispodca...
The Magic of Meta (Hypnosis & Meditations) continues to get even more magical in our third chapter! This time, we're focusing on the practice and persistence that improves focus, creating a powerful personal ritual with countless benefits. This is also where we're working to develop "access concentration," or the level of focus necessary to really benefit from the deeper meditation practices we'll be getting into in our next chapter. And, again, there's bonus hypnosis session included to ...
From honored ancestors to long dead sages, real wisdom can be found beyond even the oldest elders in the land of the dead, a place one may prefer not to wander without a knowledgable guide. Thankfully, philosophy professor and practicing necromancer Kadmus returns to the ritual to help us hear the whispers of dead wizards, the topic of his recent book Learning from Legendary Practitioners: A Necromantic Journey into History, Myth, and the Practice of Magic. Get a copy of Legendary Practitione...
The second chapter of The Magic of Meta (Hypnosis & Meditations) is here! In this installment, we dive deeper into developing concentration and focus by learning to appreciate the moments of losing focus—all too often regarded as "failing" at meditating—as the actual skill we've honing! And there's a bonus hypnosis tape that will take you even deeper into that drifting, dreaming mind allowing your meditation to improve with the help of (un)conscious effort! Listen to The Magic of Meta - ...
Tom Banger is an artist, writer, and occultural technologist whose wild life has wound its way through the counter cultural currents of punk rock, heavy metal, and magick. After receiving a serious medical diagnosis, he decided to face it the same way he's lived—with art, intention, and a gleeful anarchic spirit!Tune into Tom's vibrations: https://linktr.ee/tombangerJoin the ritual: www.patreon.com/thispodcastisaritual
The first installment of The Magic of Meta (Hypnosis & Meditations) is here! This is a new series of bonus content, released every other week on the Patreon, consisting of both a guided meditation AND a hypnosis tape designed to help you successfully implement a meta-magical meditation practice in your life and make your reality... slightly better! Learn more in this sneak peek and check out our Patreon for both the guided meditation and hypnosis tape.Listen to The Magic of Meta - Chapter...
We're all going to die and, unfortunately, this truth applies to parents and other legally intwined loved ones. Thankfully, Becky Robison, author of My Parents Are Dead: What Now?, joins the ritual to give us a guided tour of the bureaucracy waiting beyond the grave!Buy Becky's book, My Parents Are Dead: What Now?, wherever you buy books.Tune into Becky's vibrations: https://www.deadparentswhatnow.com/Join the ritual: www.patreon.com/thispodcastisaritual
Metta is a Buddhist concept ordinarily translated into English as "loving kindness." But beneath a surface some might dismiss as simplistic "peace and love" good vibes, metta meditation offers a deep set of practices for developing the capacity to understand one's state of mind, manage difficult emotions, and approach the world from a place of greater ease and peace. Join us on the Patreon to hear the full episode exploring this unique magical take on metta!Listen to What is Metta?: https://w...
The ritual gets a little whacky as we're visited by Tyler Nacho, creator of the existential puppet show, Death to Realism, and the freaks only magazine Kill Pretty, as we learn how a playful puppet can not only help you find your own voice, but offer aid and guidance to tripping festival goers.Tune into Tyler's vibrations at: https://www.tylernacho.com/Got a question for the the Wizard? Call the Wizard Hotline at 860-415-6009 and have it answered in a future episode!Join the ritual: www.patr...
What's the point of magic? The Wizard finally answers this timeless question with an imminently practical, unbelievably powerful, and ludicrously simple hands-on magical ritual that you can do at home! As the Wizard lays out the steps required to put theory into practice, you'll find yourself manifesting a "slightly better" reality and connecting with the point of magic like never before. This ritual will change your life... if you let it!For more on the ideas explored in this episode, check ...
After 7 years and hundreds of episodes, the Wizard finally gets to the point and lays out his "metaphysics of magic," a theory of everything that not only explains all of existence (at last!), but creates an intellectual foundation for the practice of magic and wizardry, which will be revealed next episode in our imminently practical follow up, What's the Point? (practice).For more on the ideas explored in this episode, check out our previous episodes The Invocation and What is an LLM?Join th...
The secret power of any holiday tradition is repetition. Endless re-runs of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas or A Charlie Brown Christmas are what engraved them into the cultural consciousness as "classics." So, in a similar spirit, we're re-releasing this very special seasonal ceremony to make your holy days a little more meta and a bit more magical.Is Santa Claus a wizard? What is the true meaning of Christmas? Did you get me any presents? All of these classic Christmas questions are at long ...
In this special bonus follow up to The Invocation, the wizard pulls back the curtain and reveals his sources, discussing all of the books, movies, artists, and ideas that inspired this most recent piece of magic. But this is just a preview of that episode, so for the real thing you'll need to check out the Patreon! Listen to The Annotated Invocation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/145559960Got a question for the the Wizard? Call the Wizard Hotline at 860-415-6009 and have it answered in a fu...
This Podcast is a Ritual began 7 years ago with an Opening Ceremony. Now the true purpose of this ritual is revealed in... The Invocation! Tune in to this episode's magical frequency to better understand the struggles of this Age of Anxiety and how wizardry just might help us find our way to a "slightly better" future.Recorded live at MaybeItsFate (Louisville, KY) on November 30, 2025.Got a question for the the Wizard? Call the Wizard Hotline at 860-415-6009 and have it answered in a future ...
Magic is one of the most confusing, confounding, and captivating words in our culture. Every human society works with magic in some way, but what it is exactly is still up for considerable debate. In this preview, the Wizard offers a glimpse into the unique conception of magic that animates this podcast and points the way towards the deeper definitions explored in the full bonus episode on Patreon.Listen to What is Magic?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/144467404Got a question for the the Wiz...
Large Language Models, or LLMs, are infiltrating every facet of our society, but do we even understand what they are? In this fascinating deep dive into the intersection of technology, language, and consciousness, the Wizard offers a few new ways of perceiving these revolutionary—and worrying—systems.Got a question for the the Wizard? Call the Wizard Hotline at 860-415-6009 and have it answered in a future episode!Join the ritual: www.patreon.com/thispodcastisaritual
The Invocation pulls from the past to foresee a "slightly better" future. As November 30th, 2025 draws nearer, we take one more look back to see This Prophecy is a Ritual, an episode exploring where AI might really be leading us...Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.As A.I. infiltrates our reality at an alarming pace, one wizard attempts to give voice to his concerns and con...
Meta-tation is a new practice of imaginative expansion, using one's own natural curiosity to see the present moment from a wider perspective and open up new pathways to a "slightly better" reality. While traditional meditation often takes us "in" to the present moment, trying to experience it without mental chatter, meta-tation leads us "out" of the present moment, far beyond mental chatter and daily frustrations to contemplate a bigger, weirder view of reality.Listen to the meta-tation: http...
Artist, occultist, and psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair joins the ritual for another probing exploration of the strange and symbolic realms of psychoanalysis itself as we move beyond Freud and discuss the other thinkers who mapped our collective unconscious.Learn more about the RU Center for Psychoanalysis at: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/Got a question for the the Wizard? Call the Wizard Hotline at 860-415-6009 and have it answered in a future episode!Join the ritual: ww...
As we move ever closer to our "Invocation of the Listener" ceremony on November 30th, 2025, we're returning to the episodes that first set the stage for the expanding mythos of This Podcast is a Ritual...A Slightly Better Episode celebrates the holy wizard holiday, April Fools Day, with a very special ritual wherein your wizard, Devin Person, bares his soul and reveals the true aims of This Podcast is a Ritual.Originally released April 1, 2021Ritual audio graciously provided by Logan Dennison...
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