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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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Friends,

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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Friends,

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

18 Apr

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Friends,
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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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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Friends,
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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Wrestling with the Angel in Realtime – Gang of Youths frontman Dave Le’Aupepe returns to AEWCH!

7 Mar

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Friends,

All good art has a spiritual component, but how? Sometimes it’s obvious, of course; for example, a book or film will have spiritual content. But what about art that isn’t apparently spiritual but has deep spiritual meaning and resonance? I wanted to talk about the spirit in an unlikely place: rock music. So I invited my friend, Dave Le’Aupepe, frontman of Gang of Youths, back onto the show. Dave was last on the show back waaay on AEWCH 31 back when the show was primarily video.

Dave’s latest album with Gang of Youths is Angel in Realtime, which was one of the most celebrated albums of 2022, particularly in Australia. It’s a beautiful meditation on death and discovery, blending rock, minimalist composition structures, and excessive layering.

This is a wide-ranging episode covering angels, mythology, representation, politics in music, the dead, and more. I’m so happy to share it with you.

CH

SHOW NOTES

WHAT OTHER AEWCH EPISODE YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO?
Since the episode begins with a little back and forth about how people don’t know what to ask musicians, here’s AEWCH 109 with Stephen Malkmus about music and Giles Deleuze. One of my favorite eps, for sure.

WHAT BOOK SHOULD YOU READ?
To compliment Angel in Realtime, I suggest the most profound expression of loss ever written as a novel, Jame’s Agee’s A Death in the Family.

MORE ON DAVE
If you’re new to Dave’s music, listen to it! It’s brilliant. Here’s a playlist of Gang of Youths songs that I love. And the last time Dave was on the show, he played the Gang of Youths song “Persevere” and also a great cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Chelsea Hotel No. 2” And obviously, you can go to the Gang of Youths site for Merch, tour dates, etc.

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What is LOVE? What is DEATH? How do they entangle? It’s a special Valentine’s Day episode of AEWCH with CAITLIN DOUGHTY!

14 Feb

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Friends,

Happy Valentine’s Day, let’s talk about love and death. They’re companions, themselves lovers. To have this discussion, I invited my favorite death worker, and also someone I love so much, mortician Caitlin Doughty.

We start with, you know, the small stuff: What IS love? What IS death? And of course, it opens up from there into many dimensions.

I’m so excited to share this with you.

SHOW NOTES

WHAT OTHER EPISODE SHOULD YOU LISTEN TO
My experience of death, and its implications for us, is expressed at length on AEWCH 150: The Spiritual Politics of the Dead.

WHAT BOOK SHOULD YOU READ?
For a good overview of the occult concept of love, maybe Rudolf Steiner’s Vision of Love: Spiritual Science and the Logic of the Heart by Bernard Nesfield-Cookson is where to go first.

MORE ON CAITLIN
Caitlin’s been on the show many times, most recently on AEWCH 200 in conversation with me and paranormal research John E.L. Tenney. Here’s Caitlin’s website. And my favorite book of Caitlin’s is From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death.

Until next time!
Love yourself.

X O

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Wellness isn’t good for you. Here’s how to move beyond it on AEWCH 211 with Fariha Róisín!

24 Jan

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Two other ways to support the show and my other efforts:

  • Buy my debut novel, Hawk Mountain (and if you’ve bought it and loved it, give it a great review on Amazon and/or Goodreads!). All my creative projects end up supporting each other!
  • Give the show a 5 star rating and positive review on Apple Podcasts (and subscribe if you haven’t already!).

Friends,
Welcome to the How To Live Beyond series of eps on AEWCH!
To open 2023, each episode in this series will consider a set of tools or way of thinking that are useful but that we’re ready to go beyond in 2023. We’ll be looking at abundance and manifestation, magick and entheogens, paganism,  and more. The first episode (AEWCH 208) featured Mitch Horowitz on How To Live: Beyond the New Age. The second (AEWCH 209) featured Lisa Romero on How To Live: Beyond Psychedelics & Sorcery. And the third (AEWCH 210) featured Pilar Lesko on How To Live: Beyond Money Magic.

These are the techniques and traditions we use to cope with and confront the challenges of our time, but risk –  if we can’t consider them deeply – getting us stuck in those challenges or worse, funneling their strengths back into those challenges. These episodes aren’t a call to forget about these techniques and traditions, but instead a call to bring forward what they’ve offered without the barbs of the problems they’re tangled up with.

This time:

We’re constantly tracking ourselves: with Fit Bits, exercise journals, food journals, mediation apps and more.

But what if wellness went deeper than tracking and instead into witnessing the wounds of materialism and the constant reopening of those wounds by colonialism, capitalism, racism, homophobia, and more?

To discuss this, I invited Fariha Róisín, artist and author of the excellent critical memoir, Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behindonto the show.

Together we examine the hidden woundings that are so frightening to us that we seem to only be left with narrow paths for healing: wounds in the erotic, the spiritual, sacred anatomy, healing, speaking, and more. 

In the same way we fear to touch a cut on our body or look into emotional to heal it, we encounter the deepest wounds as sites of pain. So we end up pushing the knowledge of these wounds to the far edges of our consciousness until they’re that their damage is only revealed a moment that is too late, as surprise diagnosis.

This is an adventure in wellness and how to heal wellness itself. I’m so excited to share it with you.

SHOW NOTES

WHAT OTHER EPISODE SHOULD YOU LISTEN TO
I talked a lot about mental health with author and psychotherapist Charlotte Fox Weber on AEWCH 196. It’s worth a listen because, well, everyone needs some form of therapy! (And if you want to pair it with a therapeutic look at restorative justice, you can listen to AEWCH 162 on violent offenders with Dr. Gwen Adshead!)

WHAT BOOK SHOULD YOU READ?
A good introduction to other models of anatomy and health is Cyndi Dale’s The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy which is richly illustrated and written in clear language.

(Also, if you’re interested in my essay on heath and wellness, here’s
“When You’re Sick You’ll Wait for the Answer, But None Will Come”)

MORE ON FARIHA
Subscribe to Fariha’s excellent newsletter, How To Cure A Ghost (which shares its name with her debut poetry collection). And here’s Fariha’s website which is a good hub for her earlier work. Also, you can engage with a different layering of her consciousness by reading her novel Like A Bird(which is also available on audio). And here’s a short profile on her novel in the New York Times.

Until next time, friends,
Seek wholeness.
CH

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HOW TO LIVE: BEYOND MONEY MAGIC – Moving Past Abundance & Manifestation with Pilar Lesko on AEWCH 210!

17 Jan

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The best way to support this show, my writing, my events & courses, is to give an annual or monthly pledge to Patreon.com/connerhabib.

When you use patreon, you’re not only supporting me, but accessing an economic model that isn’t about paying people for their labor, and instead showing care and appreciation of who they are.

Two other ways to support the show and my other efforts:

  • Buy my debut novel, Hawk Mountain (and if you‘ve bought it and loved it, give it a great review on Amazon and/or Goodreads!). All my creative projects end up supporting each other!
  • Give the show a 5 star rating and positive review on Apple Podcasts (and subscribe if you haven’t already!).

Friends,
Welcome to the How To Live Beyond series of eps on AEWCH! To open 2023, each episode in this series will consider a set of tools or way of thinking that are useful but that we’re ready to go beyond in 2023. We’ll be looking at abundance and manifestation, wellness and self development, entheogens, paganism,  and more. The first episode (AEWCH 208) featured Mitch Horowitz on How To Live: Beyond the New Age. The second (AEWCH 209) featured Lisa Romero on How To Live: Beyond Psychedelics & Sorcery

These are the techniques and traditions we use to cope with and confront the challenges of our time, but risk –  if we can’t consider them deeply – getting us stuck in those challenges or worse, funneling their strengths back into those challenges. These episodes aren‘t a call to forget about these techniques and traditions, but instead a call to bring forward what they‘ve offered without the barbs of the problems they’re tangled up with.

This time:

The problem with money magic – abundance training, vision boards, manifesting, not to mention all sorts of team-building corporate exercises and so on – is… that it works!

But what’s the cost of just focusing on and trying to make money? After all, if we’re all connected to the economy, is it good for others to be extracting what we need from that sphere by just magicking what we need from it? And is it good for the magick-er?

And why does it seem like some of these money making rituals have diminishing returns for some people? Is it just that they’re not manifesting hard enough? Is The Secret too public now to be effective?

And what about all the above in the times of so-called “recession”?

To talk about all of this, and to create new pathways forward, I invited my favorite journeyer into the realms of money and business, PILAR LESKO back on the show. Pilar’s first appearance was on AEWCH 154, and it was one of the best times I’ve had talking with someone: Pilar is funny, lighthearted, and also completely devoted to real spiritual growth and relationship. Like last time, this is a fairly mind-blowing episode. Mind-blowing for me, and I hope it will also help blow out the restrictions of the money magic world.

SHOW NOTES

WHAT OTHER EPISODE SHOULD YOU LISTEN TO
I love the deep economy episode I did with occult economic historian John Bloom and Marxist economic historian Conor McCabe on AEWCH 110.

WHAT BOOK SHOULD YOU READ?
The book that got me on my money magic journey, and which still has merit, even though it’s good to start moving in new directions, is the excellently titled You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero. Instead of considering it as merely “how to get what I want,” consider it instead as training for who you are.

MORE ON PILAR
Pilar’s hub is her website. Sign up for her excellent (at times hilarious and strange) newsletter. And to truly level up your life, you can consider working with her. She’s incredible.

Until next time, friends! C

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