Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy! For this episode, I'm sharing a recent guest-spot I did on Joe Rupe's Lighting the Void for his week-long Halloween themed broadcasts.
Joe hit me up just a couple hours before his show and asked me if I wanted to jump on to talk about serial killers and abnormal psychology (a topic I analyzed in part with my book HUNT MANUAL), so without much preparation I pulled up some notes and found myself in the zone for the full chat! Listeners had really great feedback to share, and I personally felt like this had been the best conversational presentation I've ever done of this complex material, so here it is for Black Hoodie Alchemy!
Usually, if anyone brings up the topic of "serial killers and possession" with any sort of seriousness, they are likely religious zealots that haven't based their thinking on empirical data. But what if one were to analyze this topic with a skeptical, empirical, and open mind? What would they find?
You may or may not be surprised to find that throughout this conversation, even with the most skeptical mindset we find some unexplainable head-scratchers. Does that mean that serial killers are literally possessed by classical demons? No. But that doesn't mean there isn't more to the discussion than meets the eye...
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Joe Rupe's Lighting the Void
This week's featured music showcases brand new releases from the homies Grim Pesci and NEGATIVE BLAST! Don't sleep on that black hoodie rap, that titanic punk rock frenzy, or any of your favorite underground artists!
I Won't - Grim Pesci x Johnny Slash
Out the Box - Grim Pesci x Johnny Slash
Happy Halloween -- but also, give this a listen any time of year if you're a fan of cosmic, existential horror and esoteric spirituality!
To help celebrate this year on The Fringe FM, Joe Rupe of Lighting the Void invited me to read a short story of my choosing, and the first one that popped into my mind was this lesser known Lovecraft story that has always been my favorite.
Not only do the events of the story occur on the day before and of my real-life birthday, but they also speak to every part of my artistic sensibilities: horror, unease, mystery, spirituality and philosophy, mad science, and unexplainable phenomena! In many ways this story has heavily influenced the notions that boiled over and became Black Hoodie Alchemy.
This story is as beautiful as it is eerie and haunting, with even a Hills-Have-Eyes sort of flare to it that could potentially upset the staunchest of social justice warriors, but thankfully stops at the threshold of full-on xenophobia (something that cannot be said of some of Lovecraft's other stories.)
In any case, I was pleasantly surprised to find that this story is also in the public domain at this point, so here it is for all your listening enjoyment! Happy Halloween and salutations to you year-round horror fiends listening to this out of season! I hope you dig it.
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This week's featured music coming from titanic wordsmiths always holding it down for the underground! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists.
Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! This week, we have a huge wild-card episode with the only political show I've ever done and probably will ever do. Really, the whole point is actually approaching politics from an apolitical standpoint. There really are no politics -- there are just common people and the ultra elite. The vermin and exterminators.
Anarchism (society without structured rule) sounds nice at times, but it will inevitably create a power vacuum. Communism might sound nice in theory but never in practice. Capitalism, what seems like our best option, has become a system that feeds off its weak and impoverished by necessity. Republicans and Democrats (and any other political party for that matter) seem to be so far up their own asses that they're tickling their tonsils...
So where does that leave us -- the vermin class that all these parties and politicians are constantly trying to divide and conquer? Unless we band together like the rats, the roaches, and the vermin we are, we're all fucked.
To help guide us this episode I read the latest release, a small "chapbook of prose poetry" written by my dear friend and colleague, Eric J. Millar of Outlet Press and We the Hallowed Media. The title of this work is PEST CONTROL: MEDITATIONS ON THE VERMIN CLASS, and this will actually mark the third episode in a row where I read from Eric's various works, which was unintentional but something I am more than happy to do!
The first were part 1 and 2 of the Four Color Grimoire, and since this latest work of his impacted me so sincerely with its striking imagery, I felt that this was as good a time as any to round home plate with one more Millar brain-child! Good things come in threes anyway.
BAND TOGETHER. MORE TEETH BITE HARDER.
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HUNT MANUAL
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This week's featured music -- don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!
Walk Wit the Word - KDB x DKST (feat. Don Jon 600 & King Mizo)
Underworld Politics (Fighting) - School of Thought
This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we're rounding home-plate and reading the second half of my friend and colleague Eric Millar's work, The Four Color Grimoire! And this has everything to do with the legendary and still somewhat-unsung legacy of Jack Kirby - the King of Comics! But overall, it has the most to do with the art of nerd-fandom world-building itself, and the catharsis that can come from both creating and enjoying these things.
(For those unfamiliar, Stan Lee hardly created any of the heroes he is known for, and rode off the coat-tails of Kirby in the creation of superheroes like the Avengers, the X-Men, and most of their respective casts. And when Lee wasn't riding on Kirby's coat-tails, he hitched onto people like Steve Ditko in the creation of Spider-Man.)
If you haven't listened to the last episode, I encourage you to do so, although it's not entirely necessary. In the first half of the work, we discussed the archetypal, allegorical value in modern nerd fandoms by looking at OG comic book culture and art.
In this episode, we talk all that context and dive into the legacies of some of the most inventive and esoteric creators in comic books! While a solid two-thirds or so focuses on the great Jack Kirby, we also take the time to look into the titanic art and careers of both Steve Ditko and Rick Veitch.
Don't sleep on these fascinating artists, or on Eric's Four Color Grimoire!
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purchase Four Color Grimoire
WE THE HALLOWED MEDIA
BHA episodes with Eric Millar:
OG Comics and mysticism pt 1
OG Comics and mysticism pt 2 (with Martin Ferretti)
This week's featured music, as always, is brought to you by some of the most titanic beatmakers and wordsmiths of the underground! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!
Jeffrey Dahmer (feat. Solomon Childs) - Switch
Talkin Durty to the Godz - Babylon Warchild x Tainted Wisdom
Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! This time around, I have a solo episode diving deeply into something that has really saved me over my medical recovery this year: my nerd fandoms. And I do it all with the help of my friend and colleague, Eric Millar's beautifully written book: The Four Color Grimoire, taking the time to read the first five chapters.
Comic books, video games, movies, television, and pop culture do something for us that is often hard to describe. Past the corporate mill that churns out sales according to data, these ideas often stem from the genuine and unique places within a creator's life, mind and spirit. Things like comic books and video games have long since been a lifeblood for unique story-telling that would not be given a chance in other medias. And when they get into real world-building, it becomes an even greater inspiration.
Whether its Spider-Man, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars or Trek, Fallout, et cetera, these stories and lores and characters strike at archetypal components of our imagination and can help us connect with ourselves in new ways that other schools of thought or spiritual traditions might have trouble addressing properly.
Nerd fandoms are unbound aside from the artistic spirit that creates them, and this not only gives them utility beyond our regular traditions, but separates them from those traditions. It would be improper to call superheroes modern analogues of old gods, because they represent a deeper human authenticity. Suffice it to say that in the same way that science fiction has helped inspire modern scientific advancements, other nerd fandoms provide such inspiration.
I hope you dig the listen this week and thanks for tuning in.
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WE THE HALLOWED MEDIA
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OG Comics and mysticism pt 2 (with Martin Ferretti)
This week's featured music -- some fire nerd-culture-heavy boombap from some master musicians!
Model Citizen - Babylon Warchild
Talkin Durty to the Godz - Tainted Wisdom x Babylon Warchild
Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy! This week my good friend, recurring guest and host of 'Lighting the Void' joins me, the great Joe Rupe! While we take our usual analytical eye to today's topic, we also kick back and have a bit of fun as we talk about a topic that is really all about having fun: video games!
From the art of programming, to the imaginative lore, the human psychological pros and cons, all the way to the esoteric philosophical implications -- we've got you covered in this episode! Are video games something we can become addicted to and waste time with? Yep. Are they also a fascinating art form that does something no other art can do? Yep. Are there unique speculative implications with video games, such as simulation-theory, the collective consciousness at work, and the overall Hermetic nature of the cosmos? Yep!
And on top of all that, we also just about some great games as well. We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed chatting. Cheers!
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This week's featured music!
Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! My head was jumbled, my body was in a lot of pain, and I wasn't really sure what my next move was after this near-death experience at the beginning of the year -- so I took a bit of a longer, unexpected, and unannounced break. Some of it was out of frustration, a lot of it was out of total exhaustion, and even more of it was rooted in a level of surrender and acceptance. Some real serenity prayer sort of stuff on a very Jungian level, but it was all worth it. I'm feeling pretty damn solid now.
Joe Rupe, host of Lighting the Void helps me get into all this, unpacking some of his mental health experiences and some of my recent ones, along with analyzing mental in the fringe spiritual, new age, conspiracy theory and fortean communities.
People are always getting into these head-spaces and schools-of-thought for one reason or another, yet so many of them fail to ask themselves what these ideas and beliefs do for them on a daily practical level. People analyzing "real" alien species on internet forums, reading the "latest leaks" from Q, or trying to hex their neighbors are likely not considering the fundamental idea: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Because of this, their mental health usually suffers on a noticeable level.
But beyond this, we get deeper into Jungian psychology and the relationship between our inner child and the archetypes of the Great Mother and Father, i.e. the Yin and Yang, et cetera.
It's a heavy episode but in many ways it's a celebratory return with great music, some fun shout outs and an awesome guest! Thanks for tuning in, folks -- there's a lot more to come. I'm feeling better than I have all year and we hope you dig the listen.
my links:
DIVE MANUAL AUDIOBOOK (narrated by Joe Rupe)
BHA LINKTREE w books, shorts, and much more
JOE RUPE'S LIGHTING THE VOID
my convo with Joe about Hermeticism
my convo with Ronnie Pontiac about alchemy and Manly Hall
my convo with Leticia Martinez about alchemy and medicine
my convo with AP Strange about unexplainable phenomena & mental health
SHOUT OUTS:
Patrick's Southern Paranormal World youtube videos (i swear these are quiet noises and not jumpscares):
Start listening around 11:35 with headphones and wait for it
Start at around 1:45 with headphones and listen carefully
This week's featured music -- some of the heaviest hitters that the underground has to offer!
For this episode of Black Hoodie Alchemy, I'm finally covering a topic I have teased here and there since the beginning of the whole show-run! At last, I am covering the sprawling, Charlie-Kelly-in-the-mailroom-style conspiracy theory that suggests that David Berkowitz did not act alone in the Son of Sam Murders of NYC.
But make no mistake, this frenzied mailroom vibe comes not from the incredulity of the research, but from the sheer state of mind that tackling all of this topic's many threads will put you into! And let's not forget the fact that Berkowitz was working in a mailroom at the time, and contributed to the whole "going postal" phrase that we have today.
Get ready to enter a story that surprisingly finds us diving into real-life theistic Satanism, Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard, Charles Manson, a strange Scientology doom-hippie offshoot called 'The Process Church of the Final Judgment', the dangers of hysterical Satanic Panic, brainwashing, and so much more! There is a lot of hype, hysteria, and leaping-conspiracy-theory conjecture that surrounds this case, but the actual case for the 'Sons of Sam' itself is quite compelling to me.
In any case, I work my way through not only the classic tome on the topic, Maury Terry's 'The Ultimate Evil', but I also dissect the docu-series done by award-winning filmmaker Josh Zeman on this same subject, entitled: Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness. Not only was Zeman friends with Maury Terry towards the end of his life, but Zeman was the man that Terry willed his entire life's work to -- every document, photo, scribble, phone number... everything.
And as an inside scoop, I was able to pick Josh Zeman's brain about this over a Skype call many years ago. While there isn't much he told me that his documentary didn't say, I did get some more direct and explicitly informative answers from him that I share here in the episode.
Happy trip down the rabbit hole!
Related BHA true crime episodes:
Sante Muerte - the good and bad
Israel Keyes Alaskan serial killer
SHOW NOTES:
Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness documentary
Actual old school Process Church propaganda
Love, Sex, Fear, Death - book about the Process Church
Maury Terry's 'The Ultimate Evil'
Declassified FBI investigation into Process Church
Ed Opperman talks to NYPD Mike Codella
Opperman talks to childhood friend of Carr family
Opperman on History of 'Yonkers Cult'
Opperman talks to Carl Denaro, Son of Sam victim
This week's featured music -- a truly magnificent sonic assault coming from the strongest underground punk, hardcore, and experimental rock acts around!
Welcome back, folks! This week I'm doing an episode that I feel like I probably should've done a long time ago -- but everything comes in due time, and here it finally is! Two and a half hours hashing out outers-space through the lens of philosophy, alchemy, and metaphysics.
Diving into topics like the symbolism of outer-space from ancient to modern day; the possibilities and pros/cons of colonizing other planets; whether or not human survival for any deep length of time in space is possible; the history of Operation Paperclip and Warner Von Braun and the extremely dark legacy this paints on our space pursuits as a human culture; Jack Parsons and the history of NASA through Jet Propulsion Labs, including all his weird sex magick, his hang-outs with L. Ron Hubbard, and the absolute brilliance of his self-taught rocketry! And if that wasn't enough, I even take the time to dissect the Moon Landing a bit, discussing why people think that Stanley Kubrick faked the footage and what some of the key details of the hoax theory are. It's one wild fuckin ride this week, I hope you dig it!
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Jack Parsons, Sex Magick & NASA
Grabby Aliens & the Fermi Paradox
This week's featured music!
Aretha (feat. Grim Pesci, Coal Cash, Ixion Form, Coast LoCastro & Tone Spliff) - Dispatched to Hell
Gehennom Lullaby (feat. DJ TMB) - Dispatched to Hell
The Gates of Babylon (feat. Profit Pre & KDB) - Babylon Warchild
The Towers of Babylon (feat. Chief Kamachi & Wordsworth) - Babylon Warchild
Welcome back -- at long last! Ending another unexpected break, I bring you an unexpected episode just in time for a 4/20-Easter combo, and this should mark the beginning of regular weekly or (at least) bi-weekly episode releases. I've had a lot going in my life recently, most of which has been very trying. It's brought about a lot of change, mostly for the better in the long run, but not before manifesting as horrific chronic pain for a couple months. More updates in the episode!
But as for the central focus at hand, I take some time to address some of the insights I felt I gained as I gritted my teeth through intense waves of pain -- as always, I used philosophy to try and preoccupy myself and sometimes when you are pushed to your limits, you find some of your best insights.
So I decided that for my episode back, embracing all the suck that I have gone through since my last episode (and all year honestly), I would explain just why all these New Agers that won't embrace the suck are seriously in the grips of mental illness.
Using books like Robert Pirsig's legendary Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and others, I get into why exactly this is the case and why's it not even a controversial stance to take. Outside of these insulated and self-congratulatory New Age communities, none of the critical thinkers are fooled. But all the same, rest assured that these 'spiritual' people will keep high-fiving and congratulating each other for saving the world in a way all too similar to the Scientologist rah-rah mindset.
I'm just trying to do my part in this episode as a drop in the bucket. I hope you dig it!
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This week's featured music by talented homies of the show! Don't sleep on these underground titans, all their music is dope.
Welcome back, folks! This time around on Black Hoodie Alchemy, after another small delay, is the investigation of the phenomenon known as Rainbow Body. I’m also joined once again by my friend and cohort, Justin Otto ofDharma Junkie Podcast andGulf Coast Dharma, who served as a great help not only in fleshing out the philosophies of Buddhism, but also helping me pronounce some of the terms!
Mostly found in Tibetan Buddhism, but with strong components also found in Hinduism and the lesser known traditions of Bonism and Jainism, Rainbow Body is an occurrence that is said to happen to enlightened spiritual masters in which, on their deathbeds, their bodies shrink and mummify to sometimes as small as an inch tall. Sometimes, these bodies even shrink out of existence, completely disappearing, and sometimes only hair and fingernails are left! It is usually reported that not only are rainbows found in the sky over the monk’s deathbed while the process is occurring, but that usually the shrinkage of the monk’s body comes with rainbows literally shooting out of it. Often there is also sweet-smelling scents surrounding the body as this happens, and not only has it been reported for thousands of years in different eastern traditions, but it continues to be reported to this day, with the most recent documented account I found being 2011!
The more I researched this curious phenomenon the more I even came across many esoteric Christian comparisons as well. Most notably, Father Francis Tiso has spent decades studying the history of eastern Rainbow Body out of his deep-seated curiosity about what light it might shed on the Christian resurrection symbolism and even the reported experiences of stigmata—where holy men report bearing the wounds of Christ with no discernable reason. And while Justin and I didn’t have much prepared material of our own on this next subject, Father Tiso even brings up the highly debated Shroud of Turin in some of the excerpts we read—which is supposed to be the cloth soaked with the blood of Christ, wiped during his crucifixion.
What are some real accounts of rainbow body achieved in the modern day? If this is real, how can we incorporate this into our daily lives, even if just as an ideal? More importantly, how can science come to verify these claims without destroying the spiritual traditions, and if science can do this, what kind of light might this shed on all of comparative religion as we know it?
There are really no concrete answers here, but both Justin and I found the case for the reality of rainbow body extremely compelling, and we found the Christian comparisons as well as the other religious comparisons to not be without merit! We hope this episode gives you some solid food for thought on your pursuits – smoke weed and God bless!
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an episode where i chatted with Justin and our friend Max about esoteric Buddhism
an episode I did on enlightenment vs disillusionment
SHOW NOTES:
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Rainbow Body and the Resurrection - Francis Tiso
Tibetan Buddhist Religious Archives
The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot
This week's featured music is a whole lot from the underground rap heavyweight UMANG -- a friend of the show whose artistry ages like fine wine that slaps you in the face! At the end of the show, we also are excited to share a brand new song from a rock-band homies over at ZIG MENTALITY -- playing some of the very best, grimy experimental alt rock you can find!
Spacesaver - Umang x Melvin Junko
Lizard Brain - Umang x Melvin Junko
Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! When it comes to the soul and modern science, a question often overlooked is: how could something help ensure our genetic survival after death? Well, we've got some considerations for you!
It's been almost long enough since the last episode to count as another mini-hiatus unfortunately, but hey cut me some slack. With the start of January, I had a weeklong trip in Georgia to see family and ended up nearly dying in the Emergency Room from a septic colon-response that emerged from norovirus. I'm all good now! But it mostly ruined the trip and gave me a solid week and a half of recovery before I could even get back into the swing of the basics. Not the best start to the New Year, but I'm thankful to be alive and running strong as ever!
That in mind, we're diving into all things to do with death this episode, and I'm joined by my longtime friend and collaborator Justin Otto -- host of Dharma Junkie Podcast and facilitator at Gulf Coast Dharma. Justin has been heavily steeped in Buddhist practice and study for years now, and while he prefers to call himself a 'Dharma Practitioner' instead of the pigeon-holed spiritual label, he is one of the best people to have around for a conversation like this.
With his help, I go through the seminal peer-reviewed scientific study done on reincarnation and natural selection, published in 2000, and titled: The Structure And Function Of Near-Death Experiences: An Algorithmic Reincarnation Hypothesis based on Natural Selection. This study gets DEEP talking about modern Near-Death Experiences, ancient and modern accounts of Out-of-Body Experiences, chaos theory, anthropology, physics and the nature of algorithms -- and even more!
We also take the time to talk about Canadian psychiatrist Dr. Ian Stevenson and his dedication in the last half of his esteemed career to the diligent scientific investigation of reincarnation. Conducted out of the University of Virginia and continued in ways to this day, Stevenson absolutely pioneered the topic of reincarnation as a serious shadow of doubt even for the scientific materialist. Truly, even minds like Carl Sagan were fascinated with what Stevenson was doing and his work still leaves a tremendous amount for us all to digest today!
We hope you dig the chat, stay safe out there, and remember to enjoy the small things in life!
See you in a couple weeks.
PS: We've also got some fresh updates for you straight from Tippy Patson and Jeff Mamba themselves -- don't forget to check it out at the commercial break!
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BHA LINKTREE w books, shorts, and much more
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Justin Otto on Insta
SHOW NOTES:
Murphy & Persinger's peer-reviewed Reincarnation Study
Todd Murphy's Lecture on Darwinian Reincarnation
Jim Tucker, Stevenson and University of Virginia
More Study into Birthmarks and rebirth
This week's featured music is brought to you by the titanic hip-hop talents of Unknown Mizery aka KING MIZO, Hex One, and Umang! These dudes are always holding it down for the underground with real muscle -- keep an eye out for their current releases and show em some love!
Living Dead - Unknown Mizery x Soul 4 Hire
Welcome to the final Black Hoodie Alchemy episode of 2024 -- and we're all back in action! I'm joined by both my cohorts, Seedperson1 and Chris Fiato, and this time around we're getting deep into the analysis of the winter season itself.
Starting with the crucial role that cold temperatures play in studying chemistry, we move into the psychology of prolonged cold and darkness in the winter, considering what it does to the mind and body in a variety of different ways and bringing that with us into a symbolic analysis full of Jungian sentiment.
Considering the diurnal nature of the human being, we bring up the Kabbalist Trees of Life and Death and take some time to focus on where the winter season ultimately leads us: the Mother of the Mysteries. Kali and Isis being some of my favorite non-Abrahamic examples, we also take the time to talk about Lilith and others (and if you're interested in this angle, my book Dive Manual: Empirical Investigations of Mysticism gets into it heavily. Link below!)
But before all that cold winter talk, we take a good half hour or so to catch up with Seedperson about his fascinating updates with the practice of The Monroe Institute's Gateway Tapes. Some very interesting Out-of-Body food-for-thought! And as if that wasn't wild enough, we take some time to dive into the Hermetic nature of reality from a different angle by briefly talking about a Youtube video that blew my mind. Listen in for more info, but essentially, a cutting-edge gamer hooked the game SKYRIM up to VR and an AI model that runs through every single NPC in the game -- then he found an NPC and told it all about how it was in a simulation... Some really trippy shit that I couldn't help but bring up!
Overall, winter may sometimes be a harsh, dark, and dismal time of year -- but that's all the more reason to band together with your favorite people and your favorite simple pleasures. Bring some light into the dreary winter season and have a heartfelt holiday this year. We here in the Black Hoodie Alchemy fam wish you a pleasant holiday and New Year -- live it up!
SHOW NOTES:
BrainFrog gives Skyrim AI the Matrix Pill Options
Brainfrog brings Skyrim AI to Fallout 4
The Book of the Damned - Charles Fort
Tippy Patson & Justin Otto review 'Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas' in a full conversation!
Our episode on CIA Remote viewing, The Monroe Institute and The Gateway Tapes
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This week's music is a combo of some of the very best conscious hip-hop from the titans of Toronto: Legitimate, Rex Seshunz, Unknown Misery and the company of their rap crew Babylon Warchild. We also have the thrashing and brutal auditory assault of the band SALT from Colombus, Ohio!
Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy! This week we're blowing the dust off of an episode recorded in early October. Unfortunately, it was temporarily shelved when I got blindsided by 12 hour shifts, 7 days a week for over a month! If you'd like to hear all about that, just give last week's episode a listen. That in mind, I'm now happy to report that I'm rested, back in a normal routine and ready to hit the ground running with more BHA.
This episode, my cohort Chris Fiato and I get into another sprawling, bat-shit crazy and fascinating subject! My research and focus for this episode started with the Paris Catacombs (and this takes up a good half of the runtime or so), but then it quickly spiraled out into the overarching history and psychology of 'subterranea' -- ranging across global history with catacombs, forgotten mines, freedom-fighter tunnels, expansive urban sewer and subway tunnels, and so much more.
I even learned about Buddhist torture chambers, functioning city blocks in Scotland that were buried underground intact with businesses and homes still in operation, and an ancient Turkish city that housed up to 20,000 people with several stories underground.
And to top that all off, as if this episode wasn't sprawling and crazy enough, we take some time to brush shoulders with the fringe-history conspiracy theories of the ancient advanced civilization of Tartaria and the obfuscation of history through "mud-floods." While these topics in and of themselves could warrant an entire episode, we do our best to get into this a bit and make some sense out of it!
We had such an eerily fun time recording this episode, and it's a shame we weren't able to get it out in time for the Halloween season -- but hey, fuck it! It's always a Halloween vibe here at Black Hoodie Alchemy.
That in mind, if you're listening to this when it comes out -- happy holidays and thanks for listening! We hope you dig it.
Sources:
A Skeptical Look at Tartaria & Mudfloods
People debating Pensacola Tunnels on Reddit
5+ Hr Out-There Look at Pensacola Tunnels and Tartaria
Theater in the Paris Catacombs
Legend of Ashoka's Hell - Buddhist Torture Chamber
Conspiracy Theories & Subterranea
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Chris on Insta
This week's featured music -- full of absolute bangers!
Raising the Culture III - Legitimate x Rex Seshunz
THE WAIT IS OVER! Black Hoodie Alchemy is back in action, baby!
This episode might not be the greatest start for new listeners, just as a heads up, but hey if you're new and already here then give it a shot anyway! You'll certainly get to know me better for your dive into the increasingly large back-catalogue of episodes.
To start with (especially since I've been settling back into my regular life lately ) I present you this episode as a bit of a kick-back and catch-up session. No heavy research, I'm just going to fill you in on where I've been lately, and what is was like.
Long story short, it was a work opportunity that had me working 80+ hours a week, and it was a brutal, rewarding, life-changing experience.
But now that job is over, I've digested it a bit more, and caught up on regular life. So aside from the necessary breaks for the holidays, Black Hoodie Alchemy is back in full effect!
I missed y'all, and I hope you real heads out there enjoy this more casual episode.
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This week's featured music comes from the overwhelmingly talented efforts of an underground hip-hop champion - R DOTTA.
For this episode on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we're celebrating the fall and Halloween aesthetic a bit more with our historical overview of the vampire!
As Carl Jung often said: whether or not God exists, the image of God certainly exists, and has propelled humanity thought throughout history in ways both enlightening and catastrophic. Certainly, one could say this to varying degrees about all symbolic aspects of the psyche, especially the particularly old and familiar ones -- and certainly, this mentality has a lot to do with Jung's overall viewpoint. All that in mind, we apply that the notion of the vampire!
Regardless of whether or not a vampire is real in a physical sense, the image of the vampire has been projected by the human imagination since nearly the beginning of human storytelling. Where did the word and belief come from? Why is it so compelling, and what can it tell us about our own psyches?
Join us as we dive into modern New Orleans vampire lore, the origins of the characters throughout comparative religion and folklore the world over, the modern human "vampire" culture that has sprouted up (especially in places like New Orleans and Buffalo, NY), and some of the many historical underpinnings to the vampire mythology that can be related to early medical misunderstandings.
We even get into pieces of American history like the New England Vampire panic -- something extremely similar to the Salem Witch Trials and just as terrifying! And we take a little bit of time to get into some of the key symbolic takeaways in our favorite works of vampire fiction, like the books I Am Legend and Interview with the Vampire.
Enjoy the start of this Halloween season! Embrace your shadow and enjoy the episode.
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This episode of Black Hoodie Alchemy is a seriously wild ride! The un-canonized Latin American 'Saint of Death' aka 'Santa Muerte' is essentially the Grim Reaper or Angel of Death moved to the forefront of Catholic folk magick. Along with other folkloric figures like Jesus Malverde, Santa Muerte is considered a "Narco Saint" and is a spiritual figure that not only helps us process and contextualize the death around us in digestible ways, but they as well will never turn a blind eye to the criminal's plight.
The Narco Saint is not one that judges -- it is one that appeals to the humanity in us all, and in a large sense, the Narco Saints are the saints of impoverished people that, when pushed to the brink have resorted to crime, despite the great shame they might feel for it. In some ways, they are the saints of the second chance, but there's a whole lot more to it than that.
In this episode we take the time to consider the historical contexts that brought about Santa Muerte as the growing and de-centralized folk religion it is today. We analyze some of the practices, philosophies, neighborhoods, and local figures that have become commonplace in this discussion, but unfortunately, these somewhat inspiring and endearing folk religion roots are not where this story ends.
While it is important to remember the wholesome roots that Santa Muerte has come from, it has also branched out and been taken hold of by many, many competing criminal cartels in Mexico for intimidation tactics -- and these tactics are about as violent and horrifying as one could possibly imagine.
These various cartel have become roving gangs of Richard-Ramirez-style murders and drug smugglers that are willing to perform all levels of black magick curses, incantations, and hexes in order to protect their assets and destroy those out to end them. They're even willing to perform human sacrifices, and do so very regularly.
I told you this was going to be a wild ride with a lot of twists and turns! So buckle up.
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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we're getting deep into the history, practice and application of Voodoo! Firstly, what's the difference between Voodoo, Vodou, Vodun, and Hoodoo aside from the spelling? We'll explain that and all the other African Diasporic Religions associated (like Santeria and Palo Mayombe) all the way up to traditions in good ol' New Orleans, Louisiana!
We also take the time to discuss in some detail the historical events and characters surrounding Voodoo, like the successful Haitian Revolution against Napoleonic France, and prominent New Orleans characters like Queen Marie Laveau and Dr. John Bayou.
As well, we analyze practices associated with Voodoo like the zombie, the doll, spirit possession and animal sacrifice, and their ceremonial drums' crucial influence on modern music today as we know it! And while it might sound a bit spooky to the un-studied eye, it's actually much more wholesome and cathartic and horror cinema would lead you to believe... most of the time!
Voodoo in history and modern day is a complex, de-centralized, and heavily misunderstood web of spiritual traditions that has their roots in what can only be described as the West African Mystery Rites. It's an absolutely fascinating spiritual tradition that deserves a bit more respect in the west, and we here at Black Hoodie Alchemy hold a deep reverence for it.
We sincerely hope we did it justice in our conversation and we hope you dig your listening!
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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy we’re celebrating for our hundredth episode! But aside from some sincere thank yous and some extra music, this is mostly another research driven episode that you've come to expect -- and it's one that we're very excited to get into for this hundredth go-round. For a little more celebration and absurdist humor, don't forget to check out last episode, 99.999!
For this episode, we're getting into the plant known as datura stramonium AKA jimson weed AKA devil's trumpets AKA hell's bells (among many other names) and the strange and vast comparative religious history that is carries with it. Perhaps used sacramentally in the ancient world even more than cannabis and mushrooms, THIS IS NOT A PLANT THAT YOU SHOULD TRY TO CONSUME.
Now, there are some fascinating caveats to that, but you need to understand right out the gate that you should not try to fuck with this plant at all. 99% of any trip reports you read will show you that this stuff is pure nightmare fuel every time. Even if you think you can handle it -- that you're experienced and spiritual enough to handle it -- you still won't be able to. Everyone from the wreckless partier, to the studied psychonaut, to the devout spiritualist has tried this plant and many of them have ended up in the hospital.
But still, this plant was used as a powerful medicine throughout history all over the world quite literally, and even has a surprising impact on the history of the Voodoo Zombie!
All this and more this week -- we hope you dig it, and we hope you stay safe out there! Thanks for tuning into this episode and all the others, we appreciate you sincerely.
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Show Notes:
Discovering the Zombie potions
Understanding the Flower of Datura
Facts about people Doing Nutmeg
Detailed history of sacramental datura use (I'm not sure why it's not letting my hyperlink it):
http://cms.herbalgram.org/herbalgram/issue69/article2930.html
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One Step Closer (feat. Slaine & Stoupe) - Switch
Thanks for tuning in! This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we're taking a break from the intense rabbit holes of research involving extra-sensory perception, parapsychology, outlier physics and so much more. That's right, this week you're getting another surrealist comedic break from reality with the return of Jeff Mamba - Mind Jockey (AKA Steve Buschemi AKA Jefferson Tillamookslinger AKA Shnelius Maximus)!
Being a self proclaimed 'classy movie critic', Jeff sits down with returning-guest Justin Otto to give an in-depth, metaphysically minded movie review of the cult-classic movie DONNIE DARKO (the director's cut, to be exact.) We here at Black Hoodie Alchemy are all fans of the movie, and it seems fitting that it should be bundled into the pre-100th-episode-celebration!
For those that don't know, Jeff Mamba is colleagues with Tippy Patson - the Redneck Mystic Extraordinaire - who is the founder of the The League of Extrodniary Gents. This 'League' is a group of various drugged out conspiracy theorists camped out in the Everglades, and trained in the art of 'gator wrasslin'. They're also convinced that these gators are actually the shapeshifting shadow elite known as the Illuminati, and that's just the tip of the iceberg with all of their beliefs. For instance, Jeff Mamba himself is a self proclaimed 'former Illuminati cloning-lab manager from Newark, New Jersey.'
If you're looking for more from these wild characters, don't forget to check out the Black Hoodie Alchemy Youtube and tiktok for more ridiculous content related to them, and you can look through the BHA episode feed for more of their appearances, or this link here for starters! Not to mention every BHA episode break.
All hail The League of Extordniary Gents!
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