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This week Ken talks to author and esoteric scholar Peter Mark Adams about his new book Ritual and Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras (Theion Publishing). They explore the deep mysteries of Mithraic initiation, why caves matter, Mithras as cosmic hero, connections to Saturn, and the relevance of true initiatory experiences today. 💡 This week: Origins and roots of Mithras in Indo-European traditions, The bull-slaying scene (Tauroctony) and its deeper meaning, Mystery cult initiations and purification by water and fire, Why Mithraism appealed to Roman soldiers and elites, Connections to Saturn, Orphism, and the non-dual AI in reconstructing ritual processes, Freemasonry, Thelema, and modern echoes of Mithras 📚 Get Peter’s book at Theion Publishing: https://theionpublishing.com/shop/pma-ritualepiphany/ [https://theionpublishing.com/shop/pma-ritualepiphany/] 🔗 People, places, concepts mentioned * Peter Mark Adams – Official website https://petermarkadams.com [https://petermarkadams.com/] * Peter Mark Adams – Scarlet Imprint profile https://scarletimprint.com/collections/peter-mark-adams [https://scarletimprint.com/collections/peter-mark-adams] * Theion Publishing https://theionpublishing.com [https://theionpublishing.com/] * David Beth – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Beth [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Beth] * Helena Blavatsky – Wikipedia (briefly referenced re: esoteric currents) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky] * Epic of Gilgamesh – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh] * Tiridates I of Armenia – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiridates_I_of_Armenia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiridates_I_of_Armenia] * Nero – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero] * Pleiades (star cluster) – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades] * Plato’s Phaedrus – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedrus_(dialogue) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedrus_(dialogue)] * Porphyry – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyry_(philosopher) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyry_(philosopher)] * Orphism (religion) – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphism_(religion) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphism_(religion)] * Saturn (mythology) – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(mythology) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(mythology)] * Cronus – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronus] * Demiurge – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demiurge [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demiurge] * Vajrayana Buddhism – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrayana [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrayana] * Freemasonry – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry] * Thelema – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelema [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelema] * Mystery cult – Wikipedia (general concept) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_religion [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_religion] * Tauroctony – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauroctony [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauroctony] * Pater (Mithraism priest grade) – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraic_mysteries#Grades_of_initiation [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraic_mysteries#Grades_of_initiation]

***Begin transmission   Joseph Matheny, David Metcalfe, Willow Truman and Ken Eakins send you transmissions from the Mauve Zone. How idiots became 'intellectuals', The Queen of Canada's Conspiracy scene, how to 'prove' UAPs, and ploughing them fields baby.   Music by Simon Smerdon   Transmission ends***

Join us as we come crashing down from the transcendental realm and deep into the Cthonic realm with our new friend author, publisher and magician David Beth This week: Why boredom is a powerful magickal tool, how the modern world is removing us from the spiritual Kosmos. and how to find Aleister Crowley books in an Indian bookshop in Africa (no, really!). Joining me in co-host duties this week is Ulysses Black Main theme by Simon Smerdon [https://stillheatrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/burnthouse-lane] Music bed by chriszabriskie.com [http://chriszabriskie.com/]   David Beth Bio: David Beth was born in Luanda, Angola, South-West Africa in May, 1974, into a family of the (West) German Diplomatic Corps. He was educated in Europe and in Los Angeles, California, USA. David began his career as a teacher of occultism by leading small classes and conducting seminars in Denmark and Germany, where he was able to initiate a new style of ‘dialogue’ with the various levels of psychic experience. In 2002, after more than a decade of occult and spiritual studies, David began the intensive study of German philosophy and psychology, as internal experience and as evolution of the person, paying attention to those areas where the age of systems (Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Lotze) had failed to communicate with their respective age and with contemporary consciousness, especially ‘youth-culture’. At that time, David experienced an epiphany when he was led to discover the evolutionary theogony of eros, as found in the writings of Ludwig Klages, the Graf Hermann von Keyserling, and Max Scheler (philosophers highly read during the Weimar years, 1919-1933), as well as in the work of recent ‘character analysis’. By a careful exploration of his own inner-consciousness, David was able to enter upon a voyage into his own gnostic being. David realised that he had been initiated into this primal awareness by a high-priestess of an ancient Afro-Totemic tradition-history, when he was a very young man, still living in Africa. In a profound sense, she was the archetypal influence discovered by Klages in 1922, when he wrote his book Vom kosmogonischen Eros. In this work, the role of the eternal feminine in evolution was delineated as the faces of Isis, Yenus, Freya, Shakti, Tanith, Sophia-Maria. David realised that this was the answer to the needs of contemporary consciousness, particularly the disenchant­ment of the youth-awareness movement, which was found world-wide. In his first book, Voudon Gnosis, David began to teach for publication his interpretation of the modern mind which becomes gradually suffused with the polar-mysticism of his deeply personal encounter with god-archetypes and forms. These force-fields, which awakened as powers in David’s lectures and class-talks, now came to appear in his desire to hear the new sound-energy and see the light from the north, yet coming from the voice of a youth, a youth fed-up with static traditions, fed-up with traditions that had lost their vital-roots.

***Begin transmission   David Metcalfe, Darragh Mason, Willow Truman, and Ken Eakins send you transmissions from the Mauve Zone. Check Darragh's amazing podcast @SpiritBox Check Willow's podcast archive @thenonsensebazaar7273   Music by Simon Smerdon   Transmission ends***

Enter the Chapel Perilous with us and bite from the apple of Eris as we explore the life and thought crimes of Robert Anton Wilson with author Gabriel Kennedy (Prop Anon). This week: RAW’s Aleister Crowley influences explored, why did the Chicago Police have a file on the Wilsons, RAWs relationship with Timothy Leary, and much more. Main theme by Simon Smerdon [https://stillheatrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/burnthouse-lane] Music bed by chriszabriskie.com [http://chriszabriskie.com/] Pick up Gabriel’s book: Amazon UK [https://amzn.to/4hp4uMf] Amazon US [https://amzn.to/4jErDvH] Lulu [https://www.lulu.com/shop/gabriel-kennedy-and-douglas-rushkoff-and-grant-morrison-and-laura-kang/chapel-perilous/paperback/product-kvmj4v2.html?srsltid=AfmBOooCInUT7-CZ7d2PlIC-Tl5E5hNAi7OhFDVaihH8FvCJDoxegGf7] Gabriel Kennedy Bio: Gabriel Kennedy, aka Prop Anon, is an actor, musician, and writer whose work has been featured in BoingBoing.net [https://boingboing.net/], Realitysandwich.com [https://realitysandwich.com/], Mondo2000.com [https://mondo2000.com/], and his own website, http://chapelperilous.us [http://chapelperilous.us/]. Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson is his first book. Source: Google Books