Glitch Bottle Podcast

Carroll "Poke" Runyon founded the Ordo Templi Astartes in 1970, which is now America’s oldest continually operating ritual magick lodge. Poke is joined by OTA senior member Maximilian Raphael Paul, and film director (and composer) Johnny Royal, to talk about ‘American Magick’ a four-part television miniseries directed by Royal that unveils the OTA and Church of the Hermetic Sciences, following modern members through a powerful journey toward enlightenment. 
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►⚡Watch ‘American Magick’ on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/show/SC6WUMl-fpVsT1vz-xmD1Knw?season=1&sbp=CgEx

►⚡Watch ‘American Magick’ on Apple TV - https://tv.apple.com/us/show/american-magick/umc.cmc.v9tc6yrvc48losngtqfs66k7

►✅Poke’s Website - https://www.pokerunyon.com/

►✅Johnny Royal - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3198724/ 

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How is Kabbalah dynamic and fluid? Why should we STOP treating Agrippa’s writings like a pick-and-choose-magical-buffet, and instead as a system of spiritual illumination? What is Merkavah Mysticism? Dr. Justin Sledge - scholar, author, professor and proprietor of the ESOTERICA YouTube channel - shares about his latest research, insights into academic scholarship and answers your Glitch Bottle Patreon questions!
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►⚡Support Dr. Sledge on Patreon! - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel

►✅Dr. Sledge Website - https://www.justinsledge.com/ 

►▶️ESOTERICA YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@TheEsotericaChannel

►📚Get your copy of ‘Invisibilia Dei: A Collection of Hermetic, Mystical, and Anti-Magical Works by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’ https://www.amazon.com/Invisibilia-Dei-Collection-Anti-Magical-Cornelius/dp/B0DKSGRN8R 

___Episodes referenced from ‘ESOTERICA’___

*Introduction to Merkavah Mysticism - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaQt5fIjKGw
 
*Seminar on the Occult Philosophy of Agrippa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsu7HW0ouVA&list=PLZ__PGORcBKxTXb5m5WBu4rAppTmvPVwe&index=16 
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00:00 Intro
4:23 Early interest in Occult studies
15:31 Letting texts speak for themselves!
20:36 Destroying the  “Fossils are Safe” mentality
29:22 Kabbalistic ‘Tree of Life’
49:29 Hermetic view of afterlife
59:40 Amulet protection in Judaism
1:08:31 Top book recommendations
1:14:47 Dr. Dan Attrell collab: Invisibilia Dei by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
1:21:07 Breaking Agrippa Misconceptions
1:32:04 Merkavah Mysticism
1:38:21 Being Famous
1:46:18 Bridging the ‘gap’: scholars vs. practitioners
1:57:13 Upcoming work & projects

Who is Mithras, and what were the Mythraic Mysteries practiced thousands of years ago? How was the cult organized? What role did Orphic metaphysics and architecture play in communicating its mysteries? Peter Mark Adams - author, poet and essayist specialising in the ethnography and visuality of ritual, sacred landscape, esotericism, consciousness and healing - shares about his latest tome: Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras. The Secret Cult of Saturn in Imperial Rome, answers your Patreon supporter questions and more!
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►⚡Get ‘Ritual & Epiphany’ now: https://theionpublishing.com/shop/pma-ritualepiphany/

►✅Peter’s website: - https://petermarkadams.com/ 

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Why should we challenge the assumption that the Greek magical text, the Hygromanteia, is really the source of the Key of Solomon? Why is Frankenstein’s Monster a better way to look at the collection of ‘Solomonic’ manuscripts? What is a ‘Solomonic network’ with ‘genes’, ‘nodes’ and ‘clusters’? Dr. Gal Sofer - scholar, medical doctor and translator - discusses his first book, Solomonic Magic: Methodology, Texts, and Histories (Brill 2025), answers your Patreon supporter questions and more!
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►⚡Dr. Sofer’s ‘Solomonic Magic’ tome - https://brill.com/display/title/64906

►✅Dr. Sofer’s Academia page: - https://bgu.academia.edu/GalSofer 
►▶️Dr. Sofer Lecture: Wisdom and Command | The Magical Seals of Solomon - https://youtu.be/iu5lPccZLyw?si=XdTw7iZwA2bUV9UP 
►▶️Dr. Sofer Lecture: From Seals to Pentacles| The Magical Seals of Solomon - https://youtu.be/zgjeysr5OK0?si=SLSiY04YxDt5U2mm 
►Email Dr. Sofer - [email protected] 

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00:00 Intro
2:52 Esoteric + Medical interests
8:52 Deep Manuscript Interest
12:23 Genes, Nodes and Clusters
27:46 SSM and Manuscript Evolution
35:36 Role of Scribes in Narrative!
46:54 Liber Bileth Analysis
1:13:44 Key of Solomon Analysis
1:40:36 Ḥover Ḥaver and Babylonian Talmud
2:06:15 Hygromanteia Analysis
2:58:59 Future Work and Projects

What *actually* makes exorcisms effective? What are demons? What is the Catholic teaching on magic, grimoires and spirit summoning? Jimmy Akin - Catholic theologian, philosopher, author and host of ‘Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World’ - goes deep into magic, theology, testing spirits, near-death-experiences, answers questions from Patrons and more!
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►⚡Support Jimmy’s on Patreon! - https://www.patreon.com/JimmyAkinPodcast 
►✅Jimmy’s website - https://jimmyakin.com/ 
►▶️Subscribe to Jimmy’s YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@JimmyAkin 
►🌟Subscribe to Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World - https://sqpn.com/podcasts/jimmy-akins-mysterious-world/

___Episodes referenced from ‘Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World’___

*Old and New Rites of Exorcism - https://sqpn.com/2024/12/exorcism-the-old-and-new-rites-of-exorcism/ 
*St. Thomas Aquinas and the Occult - https://sqpn.com/2020/06/st-thomas-aquinas-and-the-occult/ 
*Near Death Experiences - https://sqpn.com/2019/02/mys027-the-mystery-of-near-death-experiences/
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