What are the new Mysteries of the Heart? Lisa Romero returns to AEWCH to talk about esoteric christianity and what it gives us moving forward.

30 May

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Here is a episode five in a series of on occult & esoteric christianity, an evolving tradition that offers vitalizing insight into how to move forward.

Across these episodes, I’ll be talking about various streams and fruits of occult & esoteric christianity, as well as some of its key figures. Rather than presenting the typically dogmatic, dominating, and totalizing christianity — which is always in danger of being seized by people, especially conservatives, with power — this series will present a different and truer form. Open, wounded, individuated, and powerless; a tradition that relates to other spiritual paths without seeking to control or diminish them.

The first in the series, AEWCH 220, featured Rev. Jonah Evans, and the second, AEWCH 221 featured Rev. Patrick Kennedy, the third, AEWCH 222, was a conversation about Peter Deunov (Beinsa Douno) with spiritual researcher and writer David Lorimer. And the fourth was AEWCH 223, a discussion on Cypriot esoteric teacher and healer, Daskalos, with Daniel Joseph and Aki Toshimitsu, which concluded with a beautiful meditation from Aki.

This time, I wanted to talk about how esoteric christianity is unfolding into new tasks, new work, new mysteries: the Mysteries of the Heart. What does that even mean? To discuss it in a clear but very in-depth way, I invited writer and teacher Lisa Romero back onto the show.

We discuss

  • What “all you need is love” means
  • How to find and dispel any inner fascistic tendencies you have
  • What the limits of “manifesting” are on the spiritual path
  • The light of the cosmic and earthly roses
  • Meeting in the mystery chamber of the spiritual heart
  • Why utopia matters

And so much more.

Lisa has been on the show four other times, most recently on AEWCH 209, when we talked about the pitfalls or psychedelic drugs and magick. She’s the author of many books, including Spirit-led Community: Healing the Impact of Technology and A Bridge to Spirit: Understanding Conscious Self-Development and Consciousness-Altering Substances.

One of her latest efforts is the Astral Arc, an ongoing series of videos with different themes. First, “Questions on the Path,” where she discusses spiritual development with young people. And now a series on the virtues – which can help us enter this Mystery School of the Heart that Lisa and I talk about on the show, each related to a zodiacal sign. Here’s the introductory video. And you can find the others here.

SHOW NOTES

WHAT SHOULD YOU READ?
Light on the Path by Mabel Collins is a little book that covers so much esoteric development. It’s a small $7.00 book and you can read through teh entire thing each day if you want. It’s beautiful.

WHAT OTHER AEWCH EPISODE SHOULD YOU LISTEN TO?
I looked into the heart, and why it is absolutely necessary for our political work, with journalist Abby Martin on AEWCH 160. It was a, well, heartfelt episode on which Abby got to talk about WHY she does what she does instead of just detailing the challenging pictures of the world events she covers.

MORE ON LISA
Lisa is offers courses on the festivals throughout the year. The one happening just after this episode posts is on St. John’s Tide. You can find all that info here. You can also work with Lisa one-on-one here. And if you’d like to check into some of Lisa’s other books, they’re all on here site, where she also has a short audio clip detailing the books and her work. Lisa has also been on the Duncan Trussell Family Hour, my pal Duncan Trussell’s podcast.

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An esoteric Christian stream you may have never heard of + A beautiful active meditation: Daniel Joseph and Aki Toshimitsu on AEWCH 223 talking about Daskalos and the Researchers of Truth!

23 May

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Here is a episode four in a series of on occult & esoteric christianity, an evolving tradition that offers vitalizing insight into how to move forward.

Across these episodes, I’ll be talking about various streams and fruits of occult & esoteric christianity, as well as some of its key figures. Rather than presenting the typically dogmatic, dominating, and totalizing christianity — which is always in danger of being seized by people, especially conservatives, with power — this series will present a different and truer form. Open, wounded, individuated, and powerless; a tradition that relates to other spiritual paths without seeking to control or diminish them.

The first in the series, AEWCH 220, featured Rev. Jonah Evans, and the second, AEWCH 221 featured Rev. Patrick Kennedy, the third, AEWCH 222, was a conversation about Peter Deunov (Beinsa Douno) with spiritual researcher and writer David Lorimer.

While I’ve gone to a handful of Christian Community services and am relatively new to Peter Deunov’s work, this episode features a stream of esoteric christianity and a figure I am more familiar with,: Cypriot healer and esoteric teacher, Stylianos Atteshlis, better known as Daskalos. I studied with the group that carries out Daskalos’s work, The Researchers of Truth, and two of central figures in the group, Daniel Joseph and Aki Toshimistsu. Daniel was last on the show way back on AEWCH 67.

Daniel is the author of three books, including Swimming with the Whale: The Miracles, Wonders & Healings of Daskalos & The Researchers of Truth. Aki teaches meditation and guides people in Japan through Daskalos’s teachings. They both appear on the Researchers of Truth podcast, which hasn’t updated in awhile, but has a wealth of information and wisdom. They also hold events and seminars that you can find here.

In addition to a deep and loving conversation about the esoteric christianity of Daskalos and the Researchers of Truth, Aki offers a beautiful and active meditation at the end of the episode. Obviously, don’t be driving, and also be somewhere that you can encounter the meditation without interruption. It is rather intense and profound.

SHOW NOTES

WHAT SHOULD YOU READ?
For more on Daskalos, you can read The Magus of Strovolos: The Extraordinary World of a Spiritual Healer, which provides an excellent introduction to Daskalos. Unfortunately, the follow up books by the author are, according to multiple witnesses and testimonials, mostly fabricated after the author had a break with Daskalos and the Researchers of Truth. So stick with the first book. You can also read Esoteric Teachings or other books by Daskalos, which are on the Stoa series website.

WHAT OTHER AEWCH EPISODE SHOULD YOU LISTEN TO?
Daskalos said that his healing came from God, and that’s the same as people practicing in the Powwow or braucherei – the Pennsylvania Dutch healing tradition – including AEWCH 199 guest, Robert Phoenix. There’s quite a bit to learn about esoteric christianity and healing in that episode, as well!

MORE ON DANIEL and AKI,
If you’re interested in more from Daniel and Aki, go to the Researchers of Truth patreon, where you can support their work and get access to more lectures, Q&As, and meditations. Daniel is also the author of Diving With The Whale: Experiences & Revelations with Daskalos & the Researchers of Truth.

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The esoteric christianity of Peter Deunov (Beinsa Douno) on AEWCH 222 with writer and researcher David Lorimer.

17 May

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Here is a ep 3 in a series of on occult & esoteric christianity, an evolving tradition that offers vitalizing insight into how to move forward.

Across these episodes, I’ll be talking about various streams and fruits of occult & esoteric christianity, as well as some of its key figures. Rather than presenting the typically dogmatic, dominating, and totalizing christianity — which is always in danger of being seized by people, especially conservatives, with power — this series will present a different and truer form. Open, wounded, individuated, and powerless; a tradition that relates to other spiritual paths without seeking to control or diminish them.

The first in the series, AEWCH 220, featured Rev. Jonah Evans, and the second, AEWCH 221 featured Rev. Patrick Kennedy.

For this episode, I’m moving from looking at esoteric christianity overall and towards one of its most profound figures, Peter Deunov (1830 – 1918), also known as Beinsa Douno. Deunov was a Bulgarian spiritual teacher, the creator of a system of spiritual movement called paneurythemy, and a composer. His spiritual teachings, for instance his expression of the Christian qualities of the pentagram, are vast and often seem simple… until you spend a silent moment with them, which is when they reveal their depth. If you’re not familiar with Deunov, there are new lessons there to be found.

A real engagement with Deunov’s work can be difficult in the same was as engaging with other esoteric christian figures like Steiner or Swedenborg. So I asked David Lorimer, on the show.

David is the author/editor of Prophet for Our Times: The Life & Teachings of Peter Deunov and more recently a fantastic collection of spiritual essays, A Quest for Wisdom: Inspiring Purpose on the Path of Life. He’s also the program director of The Scientific and Medical Network which explores and researches common ground between science, medicine, and spiritual traditions.

WHAT SHOULD YOU READ?
If you’re willing to throw yourself into the deep end with all of this, Rudolf Steiner’s Christianity as a Mystical Fact is awaiting you. If you’d rather wade in on the scientific end, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison’s book Objectivity is a good place to start.

WHAT OTHER AEWCH EPISODE SHOULD YOU LISTEN TO?
An episode which touches on so many of the themes here – mutual aid & spirituality, the dangers of entheogens in spiritual development, materialism, and more – is AEWCH 200, Part 3, featuring Mitch Horotowitz, Dean Spade, Duncan Trussell, and Lisa Romero. It’s a massive and wide-ranging episode, and a listener favorite.

MORE ON DAVID
David’s podcast, Imaginal Inspirations, features David in conversation with spiritual and scientific luminaries. There’s a great episode where David’s daughter interviews him on his own development (and how he was deeply influenced by Colin WIlson). He also has multiple other books, including Resonant Mind: Life Review in the Near-Death Experience.

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Is occult/esoteric christianity just another religion? Can it inform religion? I talk with Rev. Patrick Kennedy on AEWCH 221!

10 May

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Friends,

Here is a ep 2 in a series of on occult & esoteric christianity, an evolving tradition that offers vitalizing insight into how to move forward. 

Across these episodes, I’ll be talking about various streams and fruits of occult & esoteric christianity, as well as some of its key figures. Rather than presenting the typically dogmatic, dominating, and totalizing christianity — which is always in danger of being seized by people, especially conservatives, with power — this series will present a different and truer form. Open, wounded, individuated, and powerless; a tradition that relates to other spiritual paths without seeking to control or diminish them.

The first in the series, AEWCH 220, featured Rev. Jonah Evans.

With the episode, I’ll continue on with questions for the Christian Community, one of the only religious streams of esoteric christianity, with Jonah’s close colleague and co-host of The Light In Every Thing podcast, Rev. Patrick Kennedy. 

Patrick was last on the show on AEWCH 181, and is a reverend in The Christian Community, the gathering of Christians in service and ritual informed by Rudolf Steiner.

WHAT BOOK YOU SHOULD READ?
To get an idea of the foundations of the Christian Community, you can read First Steps in Christian Religious Renewal: Preparing the Ground for the Christian Community by Rudolf Steiner. Like all of Steiner’s lectures, it can be a bit difficult for a beginner, but if you encounter it with openness, understanding can come later.

WHAT OTHER AEWCH EPISODE YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO?
Though it’s a bit of a sideways connection here, AEWCH 198 with philosopher of religions and culture, Federico Campagna, has quite a bit about looking at reality carefully and allowing the rest of life to come from that view.

MORE ON PATRICK
Patrick has a patreon which offers early access to each episode of The Light in Every Thing and other benefits. And one of the best ways to understand some of what Patrick and  that is to see if there’s a service near you and then attend one. Nothing will be expected of you, no one will try to get you “in” to the group. You’ll just encounter what all encounter: the baseline of the service is always the same; the Act of Consecration of Man. And then some talking afterward.

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Why esoteric christianity? A new series of episodes on occult streams of christianity begins with AEWCH 220 featuring Reverend Jonah Evans!

2 May

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Friends,

I’ve spoken a lot about what we need to move beyond to meet the challenges of our time and the future: manifestation, magick, entheogens, wellness, and more. But what should we move towards?

Here is a series of episodes on occult & esoteric christianity, an evolving tradition that offers vitalizing insight into how to move forward.

Across these episodes, I’ll be talking about various streams and fruits of occult and esoteric christianity, as well as some of its key figures. Rather than presenting the typically dogmatic, dominating, and totalizing christianity — which is always in danger of being seized by people, especially conservatives, with power — this series will present a different and truer form. Open, wounded, individuated, and powerless; a tradition that relates to other spiritual paths without seeking to control or diminish them.

(And if you like this series, listen to last year’s series on the same topic, which started with AEWCH 181 and ended with AEWCH 185 – which I’ve linked to because it has links to all the other episodes in the show notes.)

To begin this series, it seemed important to me to ask:
Why esoteric christianity at all?

So I asked someone who works daily in one stream of esoteric christianity – the Christian Community, which offers christian services and gatherings based on religious renewal offered to ministers and theologians by Christian occultist Rudolf Steiner.

Jonah Evans is a reverend and seminary director in the Christian Community in Toronto. He is cohost of one of my favorite podcasts (right up there with Weird Studies!) The Light In Every Thing. And he helps edit the series of Rudolf Steiner lectures offered by the Community, and offers workshops and conference around the world.

This episodes gives a picture of Jonah’s experience of receiving esoteric christianity into his life, and why he decided to let it in, as well many christian mysteries, like:
Why does the name of Christ have any power outside of the christian tradition?
What is the mystery of the two Jesuses?
Does Hell exist?
What role do the dark forces play and how do we recognize them without a violent or merely dogmatic morality?

SHOW NOTES

WHAT BOOK SHOULD I READ? A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are by Byron Katie and her husband, Stephen Mitchell. We mention the book on the show, and, because it blends an Eastern tradition – Taoism – with a Western perspective – The Work – and because the Tao helped both Jonah and I prepare the way for esoteric Christianity, I think it can be a helpful supplement to the series, even though it’s not esoteric Christianity.

WHAT OTHER EPISODE SHOULD I LISTEN TO? Jonah’s closest colleague is Patrick Kennedy, who was the guest on a favorite episode of mine, AEWCH 181.

MORE ON JONAH Jonah has a YouTube channel, Living with Christ, with lots of video lectures. Here’s an interview with Jonah about The Christian Community and his role. Jonah’s podcast with Patrick Kennedy has a patreon which offers early access to each episode and other benefits. And one of the best ways to understand some of what Jonah and that is to see if there’s a service near you and then attend one. Nothing will be expected of you, no one will try to get you “in” to the group. You’ll just encounter what all encounter: the baseline of the service is always the same; the Act of Consecration of Man. And then some talking afterward.

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Can magick help us in our spiritual development? Duncan Barford on Against Everyone with Conner Habib 219

18 Apr

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DUNCAN BARFORD and I met in London at legendary occult bookstore Treadwells to have a conversation in front of an audience about my debut novel, Hawk Mountain. It was a magical moment; as we went into the basement where the event was, the news that the Queen had died was spreading through the city and the world. And there we were, surrounded by magickal artifacts, talking about fiction.

Duncan is perhaps best known for his collaborative projects with Alan Chapman, including the Baptist’s Head – a (currently out of print) series of books detailing their path to enlightenment – and the podcast WORP FM. He’s is also the creator of the podcast Hierophany; on which he discusses a different spiritual theme on each episode. author of many other books, including Occult Experiments in the Home: Personal Explorations of Magick and the Paranormal and The Magick of A Dark Song: The Abramelin Ritual in Fiction and Reality.

This is a wide-ranging but very deep episode about the occult, drugs, magick, and enlightenment, a sort of how-and-why (and why-not-to) do certain practices on the way to spiritual development.

I’m so happy to share it with you.

SHOW NOTES

WHAT BOOK SHOULD I READ?
A book that does not directly relate, but is productively adjacent, to this conversation, is Rudolf Steiner’s The Spiritual Foundation of Morality: Francis of Assisi and the Christ Impulse. A small book filled with depths of wisdom.

WHAT EPISODE SHOULD I LISTEN TO?
The episode is probably most resonant with my conversation with Lisa Romero on AEWCH 209 about going beyond sorcery and psychedelics.

MORE ON DUNCAN
Duncan’s patreon features plenty of posts to explore. He’s also appeared on Weird Studies for a great conversation about magick. Duncan’s other books are available via his site, as well as a substantial blog. Duncan is also a counselor; here’s one of his therapy-related articles, on narcissism, in Therapy Today.

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What’s inside the box? Conner talking Hellraiser and The Hellbound Heart on the Weird Studies podcast!

13 Apr

Friends,
In lieu of posting an episode for the week, you can find me talking at length about two of my favorite horror masterpieces on one of my favorite podcasts, Weird Studies!

We talk about Clive Barker’s film, Hellraiser, and the novella it’s based on, The Hellbound Heart.

From the Weird Studies site:

In the 1980s, Clive Barker burst onto the cultural scene with The Books of Blood, collections of unforgettable tales of horror, depravity, and decadence the likes of which had been seldom seen since the days of Lautréamont’s Les Chants de Maldoror and Huysmans’ Là-Bas. In the decades that followed, he went on to create an astounding body of work in fantasy and horror as a writer, artist, and film director. In this episode, author, lecturer, and podcaster Conner Habib joins JF and Phil to discuss what is arguably Barker’s best-known work, the 1987 horror classic Hellraiser, as well as the novella that inspired it, “The Hellbound Heart.”

Listen via the links above, and for more of me in conversation with Phil and JF, here’s our epic two-part conversation on the problems with magick.

Part 1

Part 2

Until next week,

CH

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How do spiritualism and AI intersect? And why does anyone even WANT AI, anyway? Simone Natale on AEWCH 218!

4 Apr

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A question – which spins out into many others – that has haunted me for awhile:
Why does anyone actually WANT a computer to become conscious anyway?
What is the desire there, and where is it leading us?
Have we had examples of these sorts of strange desires before?
Why is the “inevitability” of AI constantly posed to us?

To answer all these questions, I asked researcher into both spiritualism and AI, professor and author Simone Natale onto the show.

Simone has written two excellent books, Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture and Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life After the Turing Test.

This is one of my favorite conversations on the topic, and I hope it gets all the gears properly aligned.

SHOW NOTES

WHAT BOOK SHOULD I READ? WHAT EPISODE SHOULD I LISTEN TO?
For a completely different view of AI, read James Lovelock’s beautiful book, Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence. It’s not that I fully agree with Jim’s ideas, but that he presents a much much different vision of what intelligent created beings could be and do than what exists in other, more limited thinkers. I also recommend the episode of AEWCH that I did with James Lovelock – AEWCH 171 – on Gaia and its machine beings.

MORE ON SIMONE
Simone is also the co-editor of Believing in Bits: Digital Media and the Supernatural – the other editor is AEWCH guest Diana Walsh Pasulka (AEWCH 144 and AEWCH 204). Here’s Simone’s co-authored article “Is AI-generated art really creative? It depends on the presentation”.

Until next time, human friends,
CH

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Why punk matters: Talking with punk-mod legend TED LEO on the latest Against Everyone with Conner Habib

21 Mar

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I’m so excited to share this episode about punk rock with you. Not only does it weave in and out of where the source of many of my ethics come from, it also features a reunion between myself and an old friend, the musician Ted Leo, who I haven’t spoken with for almost twenty years.

Ted is best known for his band Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, but also for his project with Aimee Mann, The Both, his solo albums, and his hugely influential mod-punk band, Chisel.

On this episode, Ted and I talk at length about how punk changed our lives, but – perhaps more importantly – why that punk rock network and community matters now.

And as a bonus, Ted plays two of his songs!

But don’t stop there – Ted’s oeuvre is wildly varied… with a line of mod pop music running through. I’ve created a playlist of some of my favorite Ted Leo songs for you on spotify.

SHOW NOTES

WHAT OTHER AEWCH EPISODE YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO?
One of my favorite AEWCH moments was when Fugazi/Minor Threat frontman and Dischord Records founder Ian MacKaye agreed to be on the show… and our conversation on AEWCH 119 was really incredible. A very different kind of conversation than this one with Ted, but still adjacent to everything.

WHAT BOOK SHOULD YOU READ?
A great introduction to the ways art and politics and mutual aid interwove during our punk coming of age is We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews which features longform interviews with musicians, but also leftist political figures of the time.

MORE ON TED
Ted’s website is here, and he also posts frequently on bandcamp, where you can support his music via donation. Here’s Ted’s Stereogum interview about his solo album The Hanged Man. And just for the fuck of it, here’s Ted singing a karaoke version of Kelly Clarkson’s “Since You’ve Been Gone” with comedian Paul F. Tomkins in tow.

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Minimalists Moralia – Conner Habib in conversation with The Minimalists’ Joshua Fields Millburn on AEWCH 216!

15 Mar

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Friends,

There’s so much talk about “uncertainty” in the public sphere. “We live in uncertain times” and etc etc, yes we’ve heard it so many times. But what brings certainty? Not a job or stuff; not materiality in any form.

I wanted to talk about this, so I brought Joshua Fields Millburn on to the show to talk about it with me.

Along with Ryan, authored the books Love People, Use Things: Because the Opposite Never Works and Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life , and he’s also the co-host of The Minimalist Podcast. He also created the documentaries Minimalism and Less Is Now.

We start with talking about my storage unit in LA, then we spin off into a discussion of fiction vs nonfiction, how time is changing, the spontaneous combustion thought experiment, and more.

It’s a non-moralistic inventory of the morality of dissolving your inventory.

SHOW NOTES

WHAT OTHER AEWCH EPISODE YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO?
My episode with philosopher Brian O’Connor – AEWCH 89 – is about the virtues of being idle and the arguments against it (as well as Adorno (author of Minima Moralia, which the title here is riffing off of). It’s one of those favorite lesser-known episodes of the show that has SO much in it.

WHAT BOOK SHOULD YOU READ?
One of my favorite nonfiction books of the 2010s was Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things. It;s a look at hoarders – back when hoarding loomed large in public consciousness – and how it overlaps with our own intense attachments to objects.

MORE ON JOSHUA
The Minimalists website – which has soooo much on it offered as free resources – is here. And The Minimalists patreon is here. Joshua is the also the author of the novella, As A Decade Fades , which is also avaialble as an audiobook.

Until next time,
CH

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