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Necromancy Podcasts
Radio Free Golgotha is a semi-regular podcast of the occult and esoteric ramblings of Al Cummins & Jesse Hathaway Diaz, and their guests. Each episode is based around a chosen Saint or Angel, Demon or Devil, Herb, Stone, Geomantic Figure, Tarot Trump, and more as the intersections and trajectories are explored through the discussions between these two friends.
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Intelligent conversations about Buddhism, Asian medicine, and embodied spirituality. (Formerly Blue Beryl.)
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Welcome to Ghostcraft Divination—a podcast where the veil thins and the spirits speak. Every other week, we dive into ghost stories, true crime, occult mysteries, witchcraft, horror lore, and spiritual revelations. Join the coven from Ghostcraft Coven on YouTube as we explore the shadows, one sacred night at a time.
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Timm the Vampire follows the misadventures of a normal guy with a normal, if not terrible job, and a normal, if not horrendous roommate. He just so happens to be a vampire. After around 400 years of life (if you can call it that), Timm encounters a young woman who he thinks is kind of sexy, if not a little deranged. Not to mention his roommate's habit of killing whores is really getting out of hand.
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Exploring classic science fiction, with a focus on the 1950s to the 1990s.
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Five good friends embark on an epic adventure upon the high seas. An actual play podcast in Pathfinder 2nd Edition.
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Maniculum: little hand, pointing finger; often found in manuscript marginalia. Hi! We’re Mac and Zoe, a professional medievalist and triple AAA game developer, and together, we use modern game design techniques to uncover the origins of your favorite tropes and adventures from medieval manuscripts. In each episode, we explore a new medieval manuscript, its connections to modern TTRPGs, and teach you how to adapt these tales into compelling campaigns and amazing adventures. Whether you’re l ...
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Come sit a spell with Amber and Maddie as they discuss divination, the occult, the supernatural, the paranormal, paganism and different paths, solstice celebrations, mythology from around the world, aliens, cryptids and other creatures, and Of Course- Tarot!
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Welcome to Light Against Empire – the Podcast—part reckoning, part resistance. If you've ever felt the chill of rising power dressed as patriotism, you're not imagining it. We confront the spectacle, expose the performance, and hold a torch to the machinery of modern empire—while listening closely to the echoes of those who once brought empires down. www.lightagainstempire.com
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My work as a Death Witch
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A parody of the Harry Potter universe, in which good characters are evil, simple plots are complicated, and the many holes in the original author's world are plugged so hard, they open up whole new interesting avenues to explore.
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An anxious medical student in a modern-magical world discovers she can do necromancy when she accidentally kills a patient and brings them back to life. There's just one problem: necromancy is illegal.
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What are the parallels between faith and open source software? Join Henry Zhu for an off-the-cuff conversation between friends. Check out hopeinsource.com and nadiaeghbal.com/public-faith for the backstory!
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Poplar Kids is a Kids On Bikes actual play podcast that takes place in the fictional Eastern Kentucky town of Poplar. Our GM is Andy (@Andylion92). Our players are Thomas (@DorkseidVO) as Jackson "Fox" Skuggs, Evan (@Namesequipped) as Pat Benson, Casey (@Childofginevra) as Stevie Davis, and Nick (@chainsawombat) as Eddy Brier. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andrew-w-staed/support
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A seasonal podcast with episode releases every Thursday where Lee talks about Magick, Witchcraft and Daemonolatry. Find me: https://linktr.ee/leewjohnson
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Lovers of all things strange, allow me to be your guide as we journey through peculiar tales, curious histories, and uncanny cases! Rockette Fox is a Korean-American storyteller, illustrator, performer, designer of oddities, and embracer of the strange. She's spoken nationally on topics such as villainesses, diversity in media, storytelling, and folktales for over seven years.
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Exploring the paranormal since 2002. Ghostly Talk History Let’s travel back to the early days of the internet, back in 2002, when streaming paranormal shows were scarcer than unicorn sightings and the word “podcast” didn’t exist. But there was one show that stood out from the eerie crowd: Ghostly Talk! Hosted by Doug Semig and Scott Lambert from the Detroit area, this show was the ultimate hangout spot for all things paranormal. They talked about their adventures, shared their interests, and ...
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Welcome to Mystery Pie, where the bizarre becomes reality and the hidden is revealed. You're not crazy for what you've experienced, there are countless others who share your encounters but remain silent, afraid of ridicule. This podcast is a sanctuary for those fringe stories. We explore the unsettling: interdimensional travel, government coverups, military secrets, ancient technology, and conspiracies buried deep within society. These are the stories that nightmares are made of. In a world ...
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The Dead Still Vote in America: Electoral Myths and Modern Necromancy
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13:06Why You Should Listen Because America’s elections aren’t haunted by fraud, they’re haunted by ghosts. This essay pulls back the velvet curtain on our most sacred political ritual and reveals what’s really happening behind the patriotic pageantry: a full-blown séance disguised as democracy. You’ll meet the restless spirits who still cast their ballo…
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Come sit a spell with your favorite witches while we get into the nitty gritty of a practice that speaks volumes into the vibes of spooky season- Necromancy. The art of communing with the dead. So, come sit a spell with these witches, and necromancers- Amber and Maddie!
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The crew follow the screams into a laboratory and everything is certainly not okay, we promise.By The Campaign Notes Podcast
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Why You Should Listen Because the world’s cleverness has outpaced its conscience. This essay invites you to explore the quiet revolution that begins within — where intellect humbles itself before empathy, and where clarity and compassion might finally walk side by side. It’s not a sermon, but a mirror — for anyone who senses that progress without t…
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Halloween Special: Demonic Accounts the Law of the Circle
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1:37:16Happy Halloween! The demon has become a fantastic villain (or patron) in many TTRPGs, but their legalistic nature can sometimes feel overused. Join us this week as we analyze real accounts of medieval demons, how they behave, and how to get rid of them so that you can spice up your TTRPG this Halloween. MOONSHOT NETWORK CHARITY STREAM: Streaming No…
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Come sit a spell while your favorite witches talk about the perfect activity this season- restocking the apothecary for winter! An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of treatment
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Episode 355-School For Kids Who Don't Magic Good
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1:09:53The crew go talk to a bunch of nerds and despite their most sincere efforts to be nice and polite, they are met with nothing but hostility and rudeness.By The Campaign Notes Podcast
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Come sit a spell with your favorite witches while we discuss real life death eaters. Those creatures that eat the flesh of dead things. Spooky season natural world episode- full of magical discussion.
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#175 Collision with the future: The Masks of Time (1968) by Robert Silverberg
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7:48The definitive time travel story, H. G. Wells' The Time Machine (1895), focuses on a protagonist who visits the extremely far future. Across over a century of time travel tales, in most cases it is the people of our own time who visit either the past or the future. Rather less commonly, the contemporary world plays host to a visitor from another er…
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Come sit a spell with your favorite witches while we turn the pages through the past and talk about those scary stories we loved to read when we were kids.
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No cap.By The Campaign Notes Podcast
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Why You Should Listen This essay is for anyone who feels the quiet sickness of our age—the flattening of thought, the worship of ignorance, the fear of knowing too much. Through the lens of Odin’s sacrifice, it asks what we are willing to lose to regain our moral and intellectual sight. It is a myth reborn as warning, a mirror for modern cowardice,…
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The Empire of Extraction: How Resource Hunger Shapes Our World
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10:22Why You Should Listen Because the empire we live under doesn’t wear armor—it wears packaging. Because every phone, tank of gas, and bite of food carries the fingerprints of conquest. Because understanding the empire of extraction isn’t about guilt—it’s about awakening. This isn’t a sermon about despair. It’s a map of memory. It reveals how empire h…
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Ep 284: Witches Talking Tarot Halloween Treat
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40:37Come sit for a spell while your favorite witches travel back in time and revisit their favorite Halloween TV specials growing up.
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Why You Should Listen If you’ve ever felt that modern life demands your faith without calling it that, this essay is for you. When Ideology Becomes Idolatry asks what happens when our deepest convictions—about progress, politics, or reason itself—start to look more like worship than wisdom. It’s not a sermon against belief; it’s an invitation to ex…
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The Collapse of Competence: What Happens When a Government Stops Governing
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12:51Why You Should Listen Because this essay isn’t about politics—it’s about civilization’s quiet heartbeat. You’ll see how decline begins not with explosions but with indifference, and why competence, care, and moral responsibility are revolutionary acts in an age that confuses noise for leadership. It’s a reminder that empires fall when people forget…
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The Table of Life: Making Room for Each Other
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10:59Why You Should Listen Because we’re starving for something deeper than information. This essay is a reminder that what sustains us isn’t opinion or outrage, but each other. It’s about the sacred act of making room: for the friend, the stranger, the skeptic, the tired. You’ll find no sermon here, only an invitation: to sit at the long table of life,…
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A Court of Bleeding and Boiling: Medieval & Modern Courtly Romance
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2:02:38In this episode, we finish off the Lais of Marie de France and ask - what makes a medieval romance, and how can we apply that to our games and stories in fresh ways? How does medieval romance compare to modern fantasy romance? Join our discord community!Check out our Tumblr for even more!Support us on patreon! Get your copy of Marginal Worlds, a de…
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Come sit a spell while your favorite witches talk about some of the unfortunate real life horrors we are currently experiencing through technological manipulation.
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#174 Reign of evil: Swastika Night (1937) by Murray Constantine
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8:50Published in 1937, Katharine Burdekin's Swastika Night is a chilling depiction of a far-future fascist dystopia, in which the triumph of Nazism also represents oblivion for humanity and freedom. A precursor to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), this is an under-recognised and chilling vision of the future which is troublingly relevant today. Get…
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Episode 353-Real Greatpickme Energy
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1:14:40The crew fight on in the cottage/mansion/townhome/condo of Plitzel the necromancer.By The Campaign Notes Podcast
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Why You Should Listen “The Church of the Algorithm” Because we’ve built cathedrals out of code and mistaken them for temples of truth. Because the same hunger that once built altars now builds apps. Because in a world obsessed with certainty, awe has become an act of rebellion. This essay is for anyone who’s ever felt both amazed and uneasy at how …
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#173 Hanging by a thread: the Society of Time trilogy (1962) by John Brunner
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11:30Originally published in 1962, John Brunner's Society of Time stories are set in an alternate Britain in the 1980s. It is 400 hundred years since the Spanish Armada was not defeated, and the Catholicism of the Spanish Empire rules much of the world. The Empire possesses the gift of time travel, though only a new pope is given the ultimate privilege …
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The Perils of Tantra, with Susannah Deane
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52:48Today I sit down with Susannah Deane, a scholar of Tibetan medicine, Buddhism, and psychiatry. Together, we delve into her work on Tibetan concepts of "wind disorders" and Tantric practice gone wrong. Along the way, we talk about losing control of spirits, becoming a deity, and how Tibetans choose between religious and medical specialists when spir…
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Heyyyyyy! Your favorite witches are back with a brand new season full of magic and wonder! We're kicking off season 5 with a doozy- the new A24 movie Bring Her Back. Not for the faint of heart. Spoilers and sensitive subject matter from the movie. Come sit for a spell, if you can!
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Why you should listen If the daily crisis cycle keeps stealing your energy and clarity, this essay offers a way out. I’m talking to you, and I’m talking to myself. Together we can refuse the manipulation of urgency and choose a slower, steadier rhythm that strengthens our communities for the long haul. Send us a text Support the show…
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A Republic Summoned, a Golden Toilet Answered
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8:37Why You Should Listen Because the Republic has summoned a savior before — and once it got a farmer who gave everything and wanted nothing. This time, we got a man who gilds his toilets, trademarks his name, and never leaves the stage. If you want to understand the difference between civic virtue and gaudy fraud — and laugh bitterly along the way — …
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The Thousand Altars: Spirituality in an Age of Isolation
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14:51Why You Should Listen We live in a world where the chapel is in your pocket, the priest is an algorithm, and silence comes packaged as an app feature. For many, this isn’t just a convenience—it’s the only way they engage with the sacred anymore. But what happens when faith is no longer inherited or communal, but personalized, private, self-curated?…
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Danse Macabre: Adapting the Medieval Mediterranean with Stillfleet Studio
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1:36:40In this episode, we're joined by Chris and Wythe, the creators of Danse Macabre, to discuss their medieval horror TTRPG and how to create historical settings that feel both real and reasonable to a modern gamer. We discuss the concept of the "novum" in worldbuilding, medievalism, and why TTRPGs feel so set upon the Medieval Fantasy in this fantasti…
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The crew engage in lively discussion and also act like fools. What's new?By The Campaign Notes Podcast
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#172 The endless plain of fortune: Orbitsville trilogy by Bob Shaw (1975 - 1990)
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11:55It was British science fiction writer Olaf Stapledon, not US physicist Freeman Dyson, who first imagined the "Dyson sphere" - an immense macrostructure which would enclose and harness the entire energy of a star. Beginning with his BSFA Award-winning novel Orbitsville (1975), Northern Irish SF writer Bob Shaw explored this dizzying concept in a tri…
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Why You Should Listen Because you’ve felt it too—the choking sensation when every headline seems like smoke, every argument like fog. This essay is about learning how to breathe again. Not by pretending the air is clean, but by practicing clarity, protecting your own mind, and finding fresh air in community. It’s both a survival guide and a moral c…
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Why You Should Listen Because the shadows got an upgrade. Plato’s prisoners never had WiFi, Netflix, and TikTok—yet here we are, choosing illusion over reality every day. This essay reimagines the ancient cave for the digital age and asks the uncomfortable question: Why are we so willing to stay in the dark when daylight is right outside? Send us a…
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When Federal Policing Becomes Regime Policing - A Special Report
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10:17Why You Should Listen This is a warning shot. In Nazi Germany, policing didn’t collapse overnight. It consolidated, piece by piece, until ordinary cops became regime enforcers. The Gestapo, Kripo, and Orpo were absorbed into the SS, then fused under the RSHA. From there, resistance inside the system was impossible. Today, ICE is draining local depa…
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The crew battle mercilessly in the warehouse, while re-discovering their love of gaslighting.By The Campaign Notes Podcast
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#171 Avatar of war: The Book of Elsewhere (2024) by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville
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7:49An unusual detour into contemporary SF, this episode is a look at the thoroughly strange The Book of Elsewhere (2024), a collaboration between Hollywood icon Keanu Reeves and British flag-bearer for the New Weird, China Miéville. The novel is a spinoff from Reeves' comic book series BRSRKR, about an immortal warrior with 80,000 years of bloodshed b…
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Why you should listen If you’ve ever felt something holy was stolen—twisted into politics, weaponized for power, used to shame the vulnerable—this essay will name that theft. Written not from behind a pulpit but from the edge of the wreckage, The Sacred and the Profaned is a humanist’s indictment of Christian nationalism, prosperity gospel grifters…
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Why You Should Listen We live in a time when labels fly faster than names, when entire lives are collapsed into hashtags, files, or ballots. This essay is a reminder that your name—your story, your dignity, your voice—is worth defending. From history’s darkest examples to today’s subtle erasures, I explore what it means to hold your name intact and…
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Why You Should Listen Because we live in an age where distraction isn’t a byproduct—it’s the design. The louder the noise, the thicker the smoke, the harder it is to see clearly. This essay cuts through the haze, showing how attention and rootedness can steady us when chaos is wielded as a political weapon. If you’ve ever felt exhausted by the endl…
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The Hunt is On: Medieval Romantasy in the Mabinogion
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1:50:55When sovereignty myth declares that anyone who kills the White Stag can be king, stakes are high in King Arthur's Court. We're exploring the Welsh origins of Eric and Enide in the Mabinogion, and how two different versions of a text can bring to light important context in mythmaking and worldbuilding. Join our discord community!Check out our Tumblr…
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The crew form a dastardly and devious plan before putting to test not only their mettle, but also their patience.By The Campaign Notes Podcast
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Why You Should Listen We live in a time that rewards masks—public smiles, private evasions, curated lives that look whole but feel fractured. This essay is my attempt to strip those layers back and ask what it means to be one person in public and in private, without performance or disguise. Drawing on wisdom from Baldwin, Confucius, and quieter voi…
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Why You Should isten What happens when those meant to speak fall silent, when the witnesses turn into brand ambassadors? This is a reckoning for the Chorus—for us. Not a metaphor. A mirror. Send us a text Support the showBy Light Against Empire
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Why You Should Listen This essay is about reclaiming your humanity in an age that profits from distraction. It blends personal reflection, the wisdom of Rilke and Tagore, and simple daily practices to show how stillness is not escape—it’s resistance, preparation, and survival. If the world feels overwhelming, this is a reminder that you already car…
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#170 Solar Enemy Number One: The Stars My Destination (1956) by Alfred Bester
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8:51The Count of Monte Cristo make not seem like the likeliest template for an SF novel, but Alfred Bester was able to take this 19th century French classic and turn it into the basis for his 1956 book The Stars My Destination. This frenetic, fast-paced adventure also begins with a kind of parody of the opening to Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. It's a …
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Episode 348-The Pitfalls of Armor Potency
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1:16:02The crew shop and fight over the littlest things in effort to ensure maximum group efficacy and idiocy.By The Campaign Notes Podcast
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Why You Should Listen We’re told artificial intelligence is the next frontier. Smarter tools. Faster answers. Endless convenience. But beneath the sales pitch lies a quieter, more troubling reality: people are asking machines for the things once sought from faith, from reason, and from one another. This essay isn’t about AI’s power. It’s about our …
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The Trial of the Gods for Crimes Against Humanity
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7:03Why You Should Listen Imagine Zeus pleading the Fifth, Poseidon flooding the courtroom, and Dionysus swearing on a wine glass. Funny? Yes. Familiar? Uncomfortably so. This essay stages a Monty Python–style trial of the Greek and Roman gods for their crimes against humanity. But the joke isn’t just divine mischief—it’s a mirror. Every absurd objecti…
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Madness & Acute Religious Experiences, with Richard Saville-Smith
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47:52Today I sit down with Richard Saville-Smith, an independent scholar of madness, religion, and psychiatry. We discuss Richard’s book Acute Religious Experiences (2023), which argues that frameworks from Mad Studies can get us out from under the academy’s current habit of either pathologizing or sanitizing religious experiences. Along the way, we tal…
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Why You Should Listen Because in an age when leaders trade oaths for lies, it’s the quiet faithful who still hold the line. This essay is about them—and about us. It reminds us that civilization doesn’t survive on speeches or ceremonies, but on the unspoken covenants of conscience we keep when no one is watching. If you’ve ever wondered whether int…
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