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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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SHOW NOTES:
Jungian psychology and vampires
The Carter Bro Vampires and DeathPenaltyUSA
Vampires in Briticannica
Vampires NOLA
NOLA Vampires CNN
Casket Girls
Forgotten History of NOLA Vamps
Paranormal French Quarter
PBS on Vampires and Real Disease
New England Vampire Scare
Vampires in Britain
Vampires of Nebraska
The Highgate Vampires of England
This week's music is brought to you by the homies of the Babylon Warchild crew in the Toronto hiphop scene! With bars as enlightening as they are brutal and beats of equal measure, these guys are some of the life-blood of the underground that you're probably sleeping on -- so catch up!
Bloodsmoke Camoflage - LostArtofFactz
Hold the Crown - LostArtofFactz
Turn it Up - Legitimate x Rex Reshunz
Weapons of Mass Deception - Babylon Warchild
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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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SHOW NOTES:
FBI Analysis of Santa Muerte
Tepito & Santa Muerte
Chicago Santa Muerte Murders
Interview with Edgar Santa Muerte
NY Post on Santa Muerte
DEA Santa Muerte smuggling
Mexico News Daily Santa Muerte
Narco Saints analysis
Dark Tourist
This week's featured music is brought to you some of the very greatest emcees of the underground! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!
The Karma - Babylon Warchild
Dreamz on Reset - Legitimate x Rex Seshunz
Red Hook - Umang x Kickback
The Towers of Babylon (feat. Chief Kamachi & Wordsworth) - Babylon Warchild
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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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New Orleans Voodoo Robert Tallant
Zombies are Real
Haitain Voodoo
Dr. John Bayou
Conjuring Dr. John
Dark Tourist
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Zombies are Real
Nat Geo Voodoo
Leonard Nemoy narrates a Voodoo doc
Voodoo Afterlife considerations
Digital Voodoo doll
Alex of Natural Born Alchemist talks about taking iboga
This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!
Equal Power - Babylon Warchild
Building Pyramids - Unknown Mizery x Odweeyne
The Gates of Babylon (feat. Profit Pre, KDB, & Laylow) - Babylon Warchild
Farm Complex (feat. Chief Kamachi) - Babylon Warchild
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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
Erowid Datura Vault
Datura as Poison
Psychonaut Wiki on Datura
Datura Tales from the Trip
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
This week's featured music, brought to you by so many amazingly talented artists! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!
One Step Closer (feat. Slaine & Stoupe) - Switch
BMF #13 (feat. Cleopatrick) - Zig Mentality
Brain Dust - Glowing Brain
Vamparty Diaries - Doc Hammer
Strange Times - Deca
Magneto (feat. Pacewon) - Babylon Warchild
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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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This week's featured music is from the homie Switch and featuring the legendary MOKA ONLY of Swollen Members! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists.
Who are We (feat. Moka Only) - Switch
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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, Seedperson1 and Chris are helping me wrap up our multi-episode deep dive about the modern scientific research done on extra-sensory perception in general. Over the last month, we've talked about Jung and synchronicity, chaos magick, quantum and chaos theory, JB Rhine and Duke University's decades of study into ESP, and the CIA's Project Stargate, which involved the heavy funding of the Stanford Research Institute (associated with the college) and The Monroe Institute. And, as you can probably imagine at this point, Project Stargate involved the CIA's Cold-War interest in astral projection, remote viewing, and other forms of ESP.
So for this week, we are going deeper into the practices of Robert Monroe and the Monroe Institute, talking more about remote viewing in the modern day, and getting deep into what the actual scientific studies can tell us about the psychology and neurology of the extra sensory perceptions.
If there's one thing we've learned in all these episodes, it's that you can't bend the world around you with your mind like putty -- but if you're trained and try hard enough, you can likely bend the chances in your favor with your mind far more than you can imagine. It's easier said than done, of course, but it's just like the butterfly causing a typhoon half-way around the world with the flap of its wing. It probably won't happen, sure... but it could. And in that chance alone, there's a tremendous amount of self empowerment.
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Show Notes this week!
CIA assessment of The Monroe Institute
Monroe Institute on Infinite Consciousness
Remote Viewing Instructional Services
Rhine Institute
Copper Panel Room Monroe Institute
Copper Panel blog comment
Michael Persinger's Neurology of the Paranormal
This week's featured music from the amazingly talented rapper SWITCH -- the epitome of that black hoodie rap! Switch is fuckin dope and I'm always especially glad to be able to bump the rappers holding it down for the underground. Salute!
Jeffrey Dahmer (feat. Solomon Childs) - Switch
Get Your Facts Straight (feat. Idlhands) - Switch
Running Rampant - Switch
Sabu - Switch
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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, Chris Fiato and Seedperson1 join me once again to help build off the recent conversations we've had about the connected web of: synchronicity, Hermeticism, psychology, physics, and even things like clairvoyance, remote viewing, ESP in general, and astral projection.
After discussing JB Rhine and his ESP research at Duke University, we are now diving headfirst into the waters of the CIA's research into remote viewing, astral projection, and all forms of extra sensory perception. We talk about Robert Monroe, the Monroe Institute, and the CIA's interest in what he dubbed "The Gateway Experience," which all sounds extremely Inception-esque. For many years, the CIA would send agents here to be literally programmed through a brain-hemispheric-synchronization process that is said to be similar to states achieved by monks in meditation, and agents would learn to both remote view and astral project at will.
And while the CIA says today that they found little to no use from their research in the Monroe Institute, their declassified documents say otherwise, and curiously, the Monroe Institute is still around today -- ready to train you like they did all those agents, but for a hefty fee!
We also talk about Ingo Swann, Uri Geller, and the related members of the Stanford Research Institute that were also well funded by the CIA in their efforts to scientifically document and analyze various forms of ESP.
It's all the way down the rabbit hole this week! We had a lot of fun and we hope you dig it.
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Show Notes this Week!
Rhine Institute of Parapsychology today
CIA Gateway Process Overview
Alex Edwards Gateway Journals
CIA and Psi
Edgar Mitchell ESP on the Moon
CIA on Robert Monroe and Ingo Swann
Monroe Institute Origins
Uri Geller and the CIA
Monroe Institute website
This week's featured music is more from the incredibly talented trio of ZIG MENTALITY, off of their latest release LEAD US NOT ASTRAY.
BMF #11 - ZIG MENTALITY
BEST DIRECTION (album version) - ZIG MENTALITY
What Weighs on You - ZIG MENTALITY
When You Force It (album version) - ZIG MENTALITY
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Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy! This week, to help supplement what we've been talking about on this show lately, I share with you my most recent appearance on the 'Juan on Juan' podcast (and one of the few guest spots I've had the time to do this year). If you didn't hear my first chat with Juan, you can check that out right here too!
I share with Juan some of my favorite research as of late, talking to him more about heuristic comparative religion, evolutionary psychology, dreams, trance states, and the pineal gland; as well as The Goblin Universe, exorcisms and the nervous system, demonology and Lovecraftian entities, the pan effect and wanderlust syndrome, the attempted exorcism of Loch Ness, Malachi York's hip-hop cult empire and so much more.
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This week's featured music is more from my cohort Chris Fiato AKA ODD COMBO, always bringing that positive punk energy to several different genres!
Heavily Meditated - Chris Fiato
Breakdown Lane - Chris Fiato
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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, my cohort Seedperson1 and I build off of the discussions we've had in the last two episodes (shoutout to Chris Fiato!) as we dive into the history of modern parapsychology. What did these diligent scientists -- funded by the prestigious Duke University -- find out about extra-sensory perception over their decades of study?
Get your inner X-Man on this episode as we talk about people being tested in labs for telepathy, clairvoyance, remote viewing, telekinesis, and more! We also try and understand the distinctions between what one might call ESP and what one might call "mysticism" or "spiritualism" involving trance states.
It's a bit of psychology, statistics, sociology, pharmacology, chaos theory, maybe some quantum theory, a lot of Jungian and Hermetic sentiments, and so much more coming together this week as we dive down this historical rabbit-hole and sink our teeth into the meat of the data.
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SHOW SOURCES:
JB Rhine Bio
Legacy of the Duke Parapsychology Program
ESP book from Sacred Texts
Mitch Horowitz on JB Rhine's work
This week's featured music is from the homies Ronnie Pontiac and Tamra Lucid -- the duo of LUCID NATION (and both students and friends of the late great esoteric philosopher Manly P. Hall)!
Night Prowler - Lucid Nation
Las Vegas - Lucid Nation
Coyote - Lucid Nation
LA River - Lucid Nation
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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we are following up our conversation on synchronicity, with the cohort Chris Fiato jumping back in as well! Fronting the conversation topically, we are finishing our read of Seedperson's recommendation, Synchronicity: The Art of Coincidence, Choice & Unlocking Your Mind by Dr. Kirby Surprise.
Last week we talked a lot of chaos theory, chaos magick, and ideas about extra-sensory perception -- so we take these notions to help us dive further into the streams of thought found within quantum physics.
String theory, M and N Space, the Observer Effect, Many-Worlds Theory round out our quantum ideas, and we don't forget to talk about more fractal mathematics, chaos theory, magickal philosophy, plasma intelligence, and so much more! All of this to try to understand the practical implications of synchronicity -- oh, and of course we bring up some Carl Jung! But that's a given.
We hope you dig it.
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This week's featured music is from the cohort Chris Fiato aka ODD COMBO and more! Don't forget to support your favorite independent artists!Glory Hole - Odd Combo
Song to the Siren (Tim Buckley Cover) - Odd Combo
I Am (feat. Reef the Lost Cauze) - Babylon Warchild
Walk Wit the Word - KDB
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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, Seedperson1 joins me with a book recommendation. Many years ago, he read a book that really opened his eyes to the practicality of magickal philosophy and metaphysics, a book that got him looking further and asking more questions. This work was Synchronicity: The Art Coincidence, Choice & Unlocking Your Mind by Dr. Kirby Surprise.
Using this book as an opportunity to look further at CG Jung's research and philosophy of the "synchronicity experience", we also find ample opportunity to discuss chaos theory and the magickal philosophies related to it, and really probe the idea of chance and statistics in metaphysics.
This also gives way to secondary topics like JB Rhine's parapsychology program at Duke University (founded in the early 20th century and persisting to this day) and even the CIA and their own declassified studies into parapsychology.
While it's not nearly as cut and dry as smooth-talking cult leaders would lead you to believe, we certainly hold more power in our psyches than modern science has fully understood yet. It's largely a matter of trying to separate the wheat from the chaff in a topic like this.
It's all this and more this week! We hope you dig it.
This week's featured music comes from the amazingly talented homies at Zig Mentality with tracks from their latest album drop: LEAD THEM NOT ASTRAY. Don't forget to support all your favorite independent artists!
LEAD THEM NOT ASTRAY - ZIG MENTALITY
TRIGGERED EMOTIONS - ZIG MENTALITY
WALK IT BACK - ZIG MENTALITY
OK - ZIG MENTALITY
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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we are taking a break from the dark character studies and metaphysical deep-dives to catch up with our old friend, Tippy Patson -- the redneck mystic extraordinaire who is NOT me with a modulated voice! Unfortunately (like usual when it comes to Tippy) I was unable to make it to this recording, but thankfully Joe Rupe was able to fill in for me! The twist here is that Joe was a bit tired of trying to put up with Tippy's bizarre and surrealist philosophies, so in order to stomach it, he brought Tippy onto a videogame livestream broadcast on his Lighting the Void Youtube channel.
That's right, for the first time ever, this Tippy Patson chat was recorded live! This specific podcast episode was edited for a punchier listening experience, but if you'd like to watch the entire livestream, you can check that out right here: TIPPY AND JOE LIVE STREAM VIDEO OF THIS CONVO.
The game they played was World War Z, (based on the bad movie based on the good book) and they attempted to see how long they could survive on Horde Mode, which is an equivalent to the old school Call of Duty zombie modes.
As they played, they caught up on Tippy's travels to NYC and his adventures with NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers, they discuss what has become of Tippy's League of Extordnairy Gents and what his future plans are, and we get more into Tippy's redneck philosophies about reading the future in cow shit, praising Henry Ford, and saving the world from shapeshifting Illuminati alligators! Joe also tries to ask Tippy more questions about his past with dubious results.
We hope you dig it and have a laugh this week! You've never heard a podcast like this one, that's for sure.
Anthony and Joe live stream video playing the same game
This week's featured music are from the talented homie Chris Fiato! Don't forget to support all your favorite independent artists.
Where is My Mind (Pixies Cover) - Chris Fiato
Lord Give Me a Sign (DMX Cover) - Chris Fiato
Clint Eastwood (Gorillaz Cover) - Chris Fiato
That's Life (Sinatra Cover) - Chris Fiato
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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we're doing another deep-dive character study as I tell Seedperson1 and Chris all about one of the wildest serial killers I've ever heard of: Carl Panzram. Imagine if Henry David Thoreau kept some of artistic spark, love of philosophy, and awe of nature -- yet also assaulted thousands of people and murdered over 20, some of them even being children.
Immersed in hobo train-hopping culture in the early 20th century, Panzram was known to commit acts like church burnings, murder-and-pillage sprees on stolen yachts, successful prison-breaks, and a ton of robberies that even included former president William Taft. And not only did he do this in America, but he traveled to Africa and South America as well.
Truly tortured at a boy's reform school as a child, following severe abuse during his train-hopping, and then even more severe torture as he served prison time on and off, Panzram eventually came to see himself as a living embodiment of rage and vengeance, and the only thing he truly enjoyed was torturing the human race as much as it seemed to relish in torturing him.
And still, amidst all that, he maintained a deep love of nature, literature, and philosophy, enjoying the works of authors like Oscar Wilde, Immanuel Kant, and Friedrich Nietzsche.
Who is this bizarrely human monster and can anyone really understand his motivations? His infamy has fascinated true crime researchers for decades now, and now you can hear the story along with some good ol Black Hoodie Alchemy philosophizing.
Oh, and as some more get-out-of-jail-free cards to all the darkness and morbidity this week, I occasionally break up the conversation and share lesser known facts about Always Sunny with the boys!
We hope you dig it!
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SHOW NOTES:
the pic of Panzram mentioned in the show
Panzram's Journals
Always Sunny Screenrant
Always Sunny Ranker
Panzram All That's Interesting
Taft and Panzram
Panzram Murderpedia
LPOTP Panzram Series
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 (feat. Unknown Mizery & Don Jon)
Devil's on Holiday - Legitimate x Rex Seshunz
Underworld Politics - School of Thought
Turn it Up - Legitimate x Rex Seshunz
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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we are going for the jugular and making this a chat with a heavy LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED warning, trigger warning, and all that fun stuff. The full descriptions of gore will be left out of our discussion here, but the fact of the matter is that these stories in and of themselves are so gory, terrifying, and true that even talking about them at any length requires a legitimate WARNING.
And with that out of the way, my cohort Chris Fiato joins me with a strong existential, alchemical perspective as we dive into two of the most brutal true stories I've ever heard of in my life.
First it's Hishachi Ouchi -- the world's most irradiated man -- who basically stared into an active nuclear reaction like Bruce Banner, except instead of turning into the Hulk, he melted off his own bones like a marshmallow on a stick for 80+ days WHILE STILL ALIVE. Yes, you read that right, and it's as horrific as it sounds.
Second, it the story of Stalin's gulag on a tiny, unnamed Siberian island where men, women, and children were sent without food or supplies as punishment for their crimes, and told to set up a colony. However, because of the conditions and even the brutal torture from what little guards there were to have control, the island became known in the history book's as Cannibal Island, and it was probably even be worse than what you are imagining.
As we talk about all this, I give Chris some get-out-of-jail free cards by occasionally giving him factoids about the show, The Office, and we try and wrap our heads around these stories from the perspectives of existential alchemy, and even the biblical story of Job.
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Joe Rupe and I streaming WWZ Horde Mode
SHOW NOTES:
Hishachi Ouchi All That's Interesting
Wendigoon talks Ouchi
Cannibal Island article
Great mini doc on Cannibal Island
Another Cannibal Island article
The Office factoids
This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap, your indie punk and metal scenes, and all your favorite independent artists! Hold it down for the underground:
Shake, Rattle (snake) & Roll - A Girl A Gun A Ghost
No Light - Spoken Like a True Hero
AndItEndsWithoutYou - InnerWounds
TheScissorInsideMe - InnerWounds
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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we have a very information-dense topic! Lots of notes, lots of twists and turns, tragedy and comedy, philosophy and practicality, and a combination of essentially every topic that this show tends to cover. It's wilderness adventure-time!
I'm joined once again by my cohorts Seedperson1 and Chris Fiato, and I share with them ten stories of men who experience what I can only describe as "wanderlust syndrome", which is throwing away all of their worldly possessions to hit the open expanse -- whether it be the Alaskan wilderness, the desert, the mountains, the beach, or elsewhere. Sometimes this syndrome turns out for the best, in the case of people like John Muir, and sometimes in the case of Chris McCandless of 'Into the Wild' fame or Timothy Treadwell of Werner Herzog's tragic documentary 'The Grizzly Man', it can end in the most horrifying ways imaginable.
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BHA DISCORD CHAT (invite link expires in 7 days but it's easy to find on discord, or you can send it to you on social media)
Here's the list of the names we discuss in the episode:
Chris "Alexander Supertramp" McCandless - a transcendentalist adventurer who foolishly died in the Alaskan wilderness, famous from John Krakauer's book 'Into the Wild.'
Everett Ruess - a young American adventurer from the early 20th century that embodied genuine poetic wanderlust, and who mysteriously disappeared in the Utah deserts.
Carl McCunn - a wilderness photographer who was lost in the Alaskan wilderness during a series of very unfortunate events.
John Waterman - a celebrated and very eccentric alpinist and mountaineer who mysteriously disappeared in the Denali Mountain Range.
Gene Rosellini - another eccentric and philosphical man, like a mild-mannered Ted Kaczynksi, who attempted to live like a stone-age man in the wilderness of Alaska for over a decade before committing suicide.
Timothy Treadwell - a very curious man who lived in the Alaskan wilderness amongst bears for many seasons before staying too late into the fall, only to be eaten alive on camera. He eventually became the focus of Werner Herzog's documentary 'The Grizzly Man'.
August Engelhardt - a strange German man who lived and died on the beach eating only coconuts, claiming that they were the fruit of the gods, only to slowly starve to death in the public eye.
Nathan Campbell - a man who went out searching for the alleged 'Dark Pyramid of Alaska' in 2020 and was never seen again.
John Muir - an ecologist, philosopher, adventurer, and the man on this list that embodies the truest definition of the genuine poetic wanderlust, because he is the only man on this list that doesn't have a tragic ending to his story.
We also bring up to lesser degrees: Aron Ralston of the '127 Hours' fame, Ted Kaczynski the Unabomber himself, and Carl Panzram the serial-killing train-riding hobo from the early 20th century.
Lots to mull over this week! We hope you dig it.
SHOW NOTES:
Carl McCunn NY Times
Nathan Campbell Dark Pyramid
Everett Ruess
Chris McCandless
Gene Rosellini
John Waterman
Timothy Treadwell
August Engelhardt
John Muir
Carl Panzram
INTO THE WILD by John Krakauer
WALDEN by Henry David Thoreau
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
This week's featured music comes from an OG forgotten band that deserves way more respect for their innovation of hardcore, rock n roll, and experimentation!
Peregrine - A Girl A Gun A Ghost
(Curse of) the Horse Latitudes Pt. 2 - A Girl A Gun A Ghost
Bear Witness - A Girl A Gun A Ghost
Beware the Tales of Scorpains - A Girl A Gun A Ghost
The Fox is Restless (The Lamb is Found) - A Girl A Gun A Ghost
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Welcome back, folks! This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we have the final installment of the post-patreon infusion to the main feed. Yes, the patreon was a thing we tried for a couple months, but decided to conserve our energy and momentum for one feed for the time being.
I'm joined once again by my cohorts, Seedperson1 and Chris Fiato, as we continue to unpack the concepts revolving around what we are calling 'Existential Alchemy in Practice.' We've discussed surreal and unexplainable memories from childhood, the strange modern-day concept of "lost media" and how this relates to surreal memories, black mirror philosophy and the concept of wild internet rabbit-holes, and much more.
This week, we bring all this into the discussion of family curses and epigenetics - using modern science to try and understand older folk magick and philosophies - and the overall idea of 'horticulture of the psyche.'
Since horticulture as a concept has so much to do with alchemy and Hermeticism, it's very easy to see how the principles of horticulture can be applied to psychological health! Yes, we get into beekeeping, holistic medicines, cannabis growing and genetics, we bring up the famed Alaskan Thunderfuck/ Matanuska Thunderfuck cannabis strain, and much more!
We hope you dig it.
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BHA DISCORD CHAT
MY LINKTREE WITH ALL THE ACTION YOU NEED
my feature in Paranormality Magazine about my potential Sasquatch encounter
SEEDPERSON ON INSTA
CHRIS ON INSTA
This week's featured music! Don't forget to support that black hoodie rap and all your favorite independent artists!
WaxWaner - Dakota Slim
DYG - Darkroom
I Gave You Power - King Mizo x Rex Seshunz
Origami Starlight - Umang x BBZ Darney
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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!
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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