Occult of Personality

Teacher and author Josephine McCarthy returns in podcast episode 116 to discuss her phenomenal books, including The Work of the Hierophant and the Magical Knowledge trilogy, published by Mandrake of Oxford...

Mystic, artist, and author David Chaim Smith returns to the show in podcast episode 115 to discuss his groundbreaking new book The Sacrificial Universe, just released by Fulgur Limited.



"Triple construct used on the cover of The Sacrificial Universe. It is a biomorphic evocation of BeYeA (Briah, Ye...

Philip Deslippe joins us in podcast episode 113 to discuss William Walker Atkinson (1862 - 1932), a New Thought luminary who authored many influential texts in the early twentieth century, including The Kybalion. As part of his research on Atkinson, Philip edited and wrote the introduction for The K...

Anthropologist, psychologist, and Palero, Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold joins us in podcast episode 112 to discuss his wonderful book Palo Mayombe: The Garden of Blood and Bones published by Scarlet Imprint. In addition to studying Palo as an academic, Nicholaj is also an initiate and practitioner. Be...

Master numerologist Richard Andrew King is our guest in podcast episode 111. Richard describes his quest to understand the mysteries of life, which led him to the study of numerology. After much study and research, he eventually formulated "THE KING'S NUMEROLOGY© - a revolutionary numerology system...

We're fortunate to have with us Vanese McNeill, creator and co-producer of The Great Work DVD series and host of The Great Network ("the esoteric facebook"), as our guest in podcast episode 110.



In this free-form interview, Vanese talks about The Great Network and her experience hosting it and why...

Internationally renowned author, teacher, performer, psychic, and artist Freya Aswynn is our guest in podcast episode 109. Freya has been studying, practicing, and teaching the Nordic mysteries for almost three decades and her work with the Runes is particularly noteworthy...

In podcast episode 108, our guests are Paul Clark and Cindy Forbes, authors of The Dark Brotherhood, a novel of occult fiction written by two experienced practitioners. Paul has appeared previously in episodes 46, 66, and 84...

Miguel Conner, the host of Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio, best-selling science fiction author and author of Voices of Gnosticism, is our guest in podcast episode 103. Miguel's highly acclaimed internet radio show has been at the vanguard of modern inquiry into ancient Gnosticism and he's raised the bar wi...

Josephine McCarthy, author of The Exorcist's Handbook, joins us for our 100th episode.

Josephine has been teaching and writing about the Western esoteric tradition, as well as working as a consecrator and exorcist, for the past two decades. The Exorcist's Handbook is a groundbreaking work that appro...