Podcasts by Thelema NOW! Crowley, Ritual
Our mission is to provide listeners with interesting, informative, thought-provoking interviews featuring individuals involved in myriad realms of mysticism, spirituality and magical theory and practice: authors, sorcerers, academics, entertainers. We’ll be looking into everything except inter and intra organizational politics as that’s ground very thoroughly tilled by other programs.
(Opinions expressed on this program by interviewees and interviewers are theirs alone and do not necessarily represent those of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O), Ordo Templi Orientis U.S.A. (O.T.O.-U.S.A.), or any of their officers or directors.)
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Thelema Now! Guests: Peter JENX and Frater Archer from 2023-11-25T00:07
In this dramatic follow on to the Peter JENX on ThaiOccult 2 Harper leads a conversation between Frater Acher and Peter JENX on the topic of magical talismans. They not only consider the signifi...
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Thelema Now: Peter Jenx from 2023-09-19T13:05
Peter Jenx is the guest on this episode of Thelema NOW, and Harper talks to him on the occasion of the release of the long-awaited sequel to his first book “The Thai Occult.” “Listen
Thelema Now! Guest: Larry Roberts from 2023-09-15T00:11
Thelema NOW Robert Allen from 2023-09-01T16:43
In this episode of ThelemaNOW, Harper talks with actor, dancer, director and ceremonial magician Robert Allen about his new book Imago: Body. Vision. Magick, recently released by Theion...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Brian Cotnoir from 2023-08-01T20:48
In this episode of ThelemaNOW, Harper talks with Brian Cotnoir on the occasion of the release of his new book “On Alchemy.” Brian has been practicing alchemy as the art and science of perfecting...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Peter Mark Adams from 2023-06-27T17:54
Peter Mark Adams is an author, poet, esotericist and professional energy worker specializing in the ethnography and visuality of ritual, sacred landscape, esotericism, consciousness and healing....
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Thelema Now! Guest: Red K. Elders from 2023-05-09T22:31
In this fascinating ThelemaNOW episode, Harper talks to friend and colleague Red K. Elders about art and movement, magic and bodies. Red’s perhaps best known for her stellar pencil drawings insp...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Scott Michael Stenwick from 2023-04-28T00:24
In this wide-ranging interview, Scott Michael Stenwick and Harper talk about everything between John Dee and quantum mechanics, by way of Eugene Wigner and the Falkland Islands.
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Thelema Now! Guest: Tobias Churton (2023) from 2023-04-15T20:36
Thelema Now! Guest: Sasha Chaitow (2023) from 2023-03-14T18:54
Thelema Now welcomes Sasha Chaitow! Having written her Ph.D. thesis on Joséphin Péladan, Dr. Sasha...
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Thelema Now! Encore Episode of Jake Stretton-Kent from October 2020 from 2023-02-04T17:25
Jake was a lot of things to a lot of people, clear from the hundreds of tributes written ...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Marcus McCoy (2022) from 2022-12-28T00:10
Thelema Now! Guest: Frater Acher from 2022-11-25T22:35
Thelema Now! Guest: Samuel David from 2022-11-17T21:13
Samuel David and Thelema Now host Harper Feist dig deep in a wide-ranging discussion that includes Christianity, Inanna, and all points in between. It's - in Samuel's words - Sexy, sultry, and s...
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Thelema Now Orryelle Defenestrate Bascule from 2022-10-23T17:02
Thelema Now host Harper Feist speaks to author and artist Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule. Merging the concepts of sexuality, Magick, and art, Defenestrate-Bascule explores the erotic nature that'...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Jason Miller (2022) from 2022-08-22T21:20:33
The always awesome and entertaining Jason Miller returns to Thelema Now and discusses wh...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Carl Abrahamsson (2022) from 2022-06-30T17:49:21
TN host Harper Feist speaks to author Carl Abrahamsson! One of the privileged few who spent time with the “Black Pope” in the last decade of his life, Carl Abrahamsson met Anton LaVey in 1989, s...
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Thelema Now Rodney Orpheus (2022) from 2022-05-13T14:57:53
Hey - did you know that Aleister Crowley had a tin ear and didn't like music that much?! WHO KNEW?! Listen to this fascinating conversation (no really, it is!) between TN's Harper Feist and mu...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Frater Barrabbas from 2022-04-12T22:11:36
Thelema Now host Harper Feist goes toe-to-toe with witch and author Frater Barra...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Richard Kaczynski (2022) from 2022-03-27T20:11:20
Thelema Now host Harper Feist talks with Brother Richard Kaczynski about The Sword of Song: Called By Christians The Book of the Beast. Check it out!
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Thelema Now! Algol from the band Mehenet from 2021-12-28T00:15:36
Thelema Now's Harper Feist talks to Algol from the band Mehenet. Algol is also an OTO Brother, in addition to his other ritual practices. Check out Mehenet's Listen
Thelema Now! Guest: Trevor Gray (2021) from 2021-12-09T20:21:24
Man Has The Right To Dress As He Will! History has been made! This episode of Thelema Now is the first where both the host, Harper Fiest, and the guest, Trevor Gray, are nude! The perfect setti...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Jessica Grote from 2021-11-17T23:07:45
Jessica Grote is currently the presiding bishop of the Ecclesia Gnostic Aeterna and an advanced member of the Société Voudon Gnostique. She is also a teacher and instructor. In her course, she ...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Jason Augustus Newcomb from 2021-09-17T18:11:55
Author Jason Augustus Newcomb and TN host Harper Feist discuss aspects of Magick, and especially Tarot! Do you like Thoth? Rider? Rider-Waite? What does the imagery say to you? As Jason develo...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Peter Grey from 2021-08-17T22:25:56
Peter Grey is a writer, and the co-founder of Scarlet Imprint. He is the author of The Red Goddess (2007), which has become the standard work on the goddess of Revelation. His ...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Cath Thompson from 2021-07-01T21:07:02
Cath Thompson is an English Qaballist and Stellar Magickian of thirty-seven years experience; in 1980 she was the youngest initiated member of James Lees’ O.’.A.’.A.’.. She is the author of ...
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Thelema Now! Guests: Springfield IL Esoteric Authors from 2021-06-08T22:58:34
The place that President Abraham Lincoln called home, where Frank Lloyd Wright built a house, and a small town with past and present practitioners of ritual!
Enter Jack Grayle, Zemaemidj...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Zemaemidjehuty from 2021-04-02T18:17:50
Zemaemidjehuty (Zemmi) is a poet-priest and theurgist in service to the Great God Djehuty. The founder of the Church of Flesh and Feather, his work and research focuses amongst others on the mys...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Deja Whitehouse from 2021-02-28T18:16:23
Deja Whitehouse completed her doctoral thesis at the ...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Sonia Bible from 2021-01-30T22:05:34
One of Thelema Now's most popular guests steps in as a host! Richard speaks to Sonia Bible. Sonia is an internationally award-winning documentary writer and director. "The Witch of Kings Cross"...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Roger Williamson from 2021-01-03T19:19:15
93 and welcome to 2021! Yay! And not a minute too soon.
To kick off the year right, TN's own Harper Feist spoke to Roger Williamson, who also a Minnesota resident (by way of England). Ro...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Jake Stratton-Kent (2020) from 2020-11-04T22:24:59
A TN favorite is back! Jake Stratton-Kent has been a goetic magician since 1972, making more than forty years of continuous goetic practice. His practical work integrates the magical papyri, Ita...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Amy Hale from 2020-09-30T19:27:03
Thelema Now's host Harper Feist talks to Amy Hale talks about her book Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully. This book offers the first in-depth biographical study of the B...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Alkistis Dimech (2020) from 2020-08-21T19:29:47
Harper Feist talks to Scarlet Imprint's founder Alkistis Dimech! 13 is a magick number indeed. Hear about how it happened, what's happening, and what will happen! And check out Listen
Thelema Now! Guests: Sue Terry and Erzebet Barthold (2020) from 2020-08-09T21:15:49
We're living in a COVID world, and host Harper Feist, Sue Terry and Erzebet Barthold are COVID women! These women won't let anything, even a pandemic, stop them from doing their Will. The remai...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Manon Hedenborg White (2020) from 2020-06-27T20:31:47
A Thelema Now favorite is back! Manon Hedenborg White talks to Harper Feist about her book, The Eloquent Blood
The Goddess Babalon and the Construction of Femininities in Wes...
Thelema Now! Guest: Trevor Gray from 2020-06-03T21:54:16
Welcome back! We here at Thelema Now are making the most of our time in lockdown! TN host Harper Feist talked to Trevor Gray about his book From Manhood to Godhead: The Many Lives of Jean V...
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Thelema Now! Guest: David Hertzberg (2020) from 2020-04-17T21:36:11
Thelema Now talks to David Hertzberg, the composer of The Wake World opera. Scored for five instruments and nine singers, it premiered in 2017 at the Barnes Foundation under the aegis of Opera P...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Frater Orpheus from 2020-04-02T20:20:48
Thelema Now host Harper talks about Crowley, the peace sign (or V for Victory) and gratitude with Frater Orpheus. The wide-ranging conversation covers a lot of topics so check it out! And to fi...
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Thelema Now! Guest: M. Dionysius Rogers (2020) from 2020-03-03T18:51:04
Thelema Now host Harper Feist talks to Thelemic Bishop M. Dionysius Rogers about serving both the Thelemic laity as well as clergy! Allow - listen to him talk about ass worship. (He means donk...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Peter Mark Adams (2020) from 2020-01-17T21:45:02
Back again! Harper Fiest talks to Peter Mark Adams. He previous book was "The Game of Saturn" and he just published "Mystai -
dancing out the mysteries of dionysos." The Dionysian themed ...
Thelema Now! Guest: Tobias Churton (2019) from 2019-12-20T19:42:26
One of Thelema Now's favs is BACK! Tobias Churton talks with Harper Feist about his latest work, Aleister Crowley in India. Tobias' exhaustive research on the topic gives us all food ...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Richard Kaczynski - "Panic in Detroit" from 2019-11-19T18:54
A Thelema Now favorite is back! Author and lecturer Richard Kaczynski talks about the newly revised and re-released "Panic In Detroit." At 400 pages, this release is significantly expanded from...
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Thelema Now! Guests: Jon Povey&Marco Conti from 2019-10-10T16:30:32
Thelema Now host Harper talks to Jon Povey & Marco Conti, the minds behind "Sympathy For The Beast: Songs From the Poems of Aleister Crowley." This album is from Twink & the Technicolour Dream, ...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Robert Podgurski from 2019-09-26T20:21:48
Host Harper Feist puts her thinking cap on and talks to Robert Podgurski, author of The Sacred Alignments and Sigils: Angelic Magick, Renaissance Thought, and Modern Methods of Sigilization....
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Thelema Now! Guest: Joseph Alexander Robicheaux from 2019-08-16T20:54:01
Thelema Now host Harper Feist talks to Joseph Alexander Robicheaux, also known as Ya sezi Bo Oungan. They talk about voodoo, working with Papa Legba, and how you know your magick is working. Listen
Thelema Now! Guest: Alkistis Dimech from 2019-08-14T18:30:26
Thelema Now host Harper Feist talks to Alkistis Dimech, who is a dancer and choreographer, as well as a writer. Her current work is an exploration of female mysteries and sexuality through the n...
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Thelema Now! Guest: BJ Swain, Part II (36 minutes) from 2019-06-28T20:50:28
This is part 2 of Thelema Now host Harper Feist talking to Brother BJ Swain about his book Living Spirits: A Guide to Magic in a World of Spirits.
BJ discusses working with many...
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Thelema Now! Guest: BJ Swain, Part 1 (52 minutes) from 2019-06-26T20:48:03
Thelema Now host Harper Feist talks to Brother BJ Swain about his book Living Spirits: A Guide to Magic in a World of Spirits. BJ discusses working with many different kinds spirits inc...
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Thelema Now! Topic: Magickal Women Conference from 2019-05-03T17:59:40
Put together by Sue Terry and Erzebet Barthold, The Magickal Women Conference pays homage to the women of the past who challenged the status quo by embracing mysticism, esotericism, and occult t...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Manon Hedenborg-White (60 minutes) from 2019-04-03T21:09:25
Manon Hedenborg-White is a contributor to the book ‘A Rose Veiled in Black’ – an anthology on the Lady Babalon.
The Lady Babalon is one of the more enigmatic figures in the Cult of Thelem...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Keith Readdy (55 minutes) from 2019-02-20T19:00:17
Keith Readdy, author of One Truth and One Spirit: Aleister Crowley's Spiritual Legacy speaks with Thelema Now stunt host Richard Kaczynski.
Keith and Richard talk about what it t...
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Thelema Now! Guest: M. Dionysius Rogers (65 minutes) from 2019-02-20T17:36:42
Dionysius Rogers has just released "Thelema For the People." he discusses this along with other projects with host Harper Feist. Enjoy!
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Thelema Now! Guest: Lon Milo DuQuette (77 minutes) from 2018-12-27T16:15:10
Thelema Now's Harper Feist talks to the lovable Lon Mile DuQuette about his latest work, Listen
Thelema Now! Guest: J. Daniel Gunther (70 minutes) from 2018-12-26T20:06:33
Thelema Now host Harper Feist talks to J. Daniel Gunther about his latest work, The Visions of the Pylons: A Magical Record of Exploration in the Starry Abode.
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Thelema Now! Guest: Sister Hattie Quinn on Benjamin Franklin (53 minutes) from 2018-11-23T16:25:10
Sister Hattie Quinn's lecture on Benjamin Franklin at NOTOCON was an eye opener! ...
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Thelema Now! Guest: George Pendle (58 minutes) from 2018-11-06T21:19:43
You know that kooky TV show "Strange Angel" on CBS All Access (which no longer streams through Amazon Prime - thanks Amazon)?
Well, it's based on a book of the same name by George Pendle!...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Jake Stratton-Kent (70 minutes) from 2018-09-21T21:32:35
Jake Stratton-Kent has been a goetic magician since 1972, making more than forty years of continuous goetic practice. His practical work integrates the magical papyri, Italo-French grimoires in ...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Joseph Peterson (2018) (80 mins) from 2018-08-30T19:50:56
Joseph Peterson spoke at Leaping Laughter Lodge in Minneapolis, MN in July 2018 to an appreciative audience of about 20 people. It was seriously fun.
Joseph discusses putting together a w...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Jason Miller (2018) 60 minutes from 2018-07-20T18:45:54
Thelesis founder and Thelema Now's favorite sorcerer Jason Miller talks with Harper about a wide range of topics. His latest book, Listen
Thelema Now! Guest: Rain Al-Alim (30 minutes) from 2018-06-01T16:41:46
Host Harper Feist speaks to Rain Al-Alim, which is the nom de plume of the author of Jinn Sorcery. He has chosen to remain anonymous to avoid t...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Colin Campbell on Thelema (60 mins) from 2018-05-10T16:05:19
Thelema Now host Harper Feist speaks to Colin Campbell about his new book Listen
Thelema Now! Guest: Carl Abrahamsson (58 minutes) from 2018-03-16T20:01:52
Have a sense of humor, people! That's what one of Thelema Now's fav guests - Carl Abrahamsson - would tell us.
Carl talks to Harper Feist about humor, magick, and why Americans are so g...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Lita-Luise Chappell (50 minutes) from 2018-02-15T21:31:08
Harper Feist talks to Sister Lita-Luise Chappell latest books are The Collioure Concealment & Murder o...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Eric Stedman (36 minutes) from 2018-01-17T20:40:57
Wow! Check this out and have your mind BLOWN! Eric Stedman, who specializes is film restoration, discusses with Frater Puck the Mysteries of Myra film series that was tied to our very...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Lon Milo DuQuette 2017 (36 mins) from 2017-12-29T18:30:23
Check it! Frater Puck talks to Thelema Now's fav guest, Lon Milo. Listen and learn something you didn't know about magick, tarot, and life in general.
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Thelema Now! Guest: Tracey Rollin from 2017-10-06T20:12:56
Tracy Rollin talks to Thelema Now's Harper Feist about her book, Santa Muerte – the History, Rituals and Magic of Our Lady of the Holy Death. Listen
Thelema NOW! Guest: Peter Mark Adams (1 hour) from 2017-09-08T16:56:10
Thelema Now's Harper Feist and author Peter Mark Adams discuss Sola-Busca tarot and Peter's book The Game of Saturn.
The Game of Saturn is the first full length, scholar...
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Thelema Now: David Hertzberg, the composer of The Wake World libretto from 2017-08-24T16:08:24
Thelema Now welcomes composer David Hertzberg!
Composer in Residence David Hertzberg and director R.B. Schlather take visitors on a fantastic journey through the treasured galleries of Phila...
Thelema Now! Guest: Aaron Leitch (30 minutes) from 2017-07-27T20:37:41
Frater Puck talks with Aaron Leitch, who is a senior member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the academic Societas Magica. A scholar, practitioner, and teacher of Western Hermeticism...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Carl Abrahamsson 2017 (42 minutes) from 2017-06-28T17:28:04
Let's get loud! Frater Puck and Carl Abrahamsson talk in person at a lively coffee shop about newest issue of his journal Fenris Wolf.
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Thelema Now! Guest: Deborah Castellano (55 minutes) from 2017-06-12T20:21:56
Glamour Magic: The Witchcraft Revolution to Get What You Want is the latest book from Deborah Castellano. She discusses the book - and well as how to use glamour effectively - with Thel...
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Thelema Now! Guest: David Shoemaker (2017) 30 mins from 2017-05-19T17:00:50
Dr. David Shoemaker returns to Thelema Now to discuss his latest work, Karl Germer Selected Letters 1928-1962.
Karl Germer (1885-1962) was Aleister Crowley’s successor as head of...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Scott Stenwick from 2017-04-10T15:54:38
Scott Stenwick gave the lecture Enochian 101 at Leaping Laughter Lodge. Enjoy!
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Thelema Now Peter Levenda 2017 from 2017-03-15T18:49:51
Drawing on decades of experience, author and historian Peter Levenda turns to the novel as the best and perhaps only way to tell a story that has to be told – that hidden within the tales of Ame...
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Thelema Now! Frater Ashen Chassan (55 minutes) from 2017-01-25T19:41:39
Thelema Now host Harper Feist speaks to Frater Ashen Chassan about his new book Gateways Through Light and Shadow. This is the second book by Bryan Garner, (aka Frater Ashen Chassan) an...
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Thelema Now! Guest: Thomas Hatsis from 2016-12-29T22:49:21
In our final podcast of 2016, Thelema Now host Frater Puck speaks with Thomas Hatsis about his book, The Witches' Ointment: The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic. Find out what old-school witc...
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Thelema Now! Guest: David Shoemaker 2016 (38 minutes) from 2016-12-15T19:57:49
Returning to Thelema Now is David Shoemaker! The Living Thelema author talks to Frater Puck about his newest project The Winds of Wisdom Listen