Against Everyone With Conner Habib · AEWCH 111: GLOBAL SOLIDARITY WITH PROTESTORS
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST VERSION: iTunes • Stitcher • Soundcloud
Thank you for your support in this time, friends.
This podcast is only possible because listeners like you support it. If the show is keeping you company in isolation, please give what you can.
Contribute to my mission by supporting Against Everyone With Conner HabibonPatreon!Thank you so, so much.
Friends,
We must form a global solidarity movement in support of protestors. Please listen and do what you can to overcome the obstacles in thinking, feeling, and behaving, that I talk about in this episode.
Love.
CH
SHOW NOTES AEWCH 15 with Mark Bray on antifa AEWCH 29 with Alex Vitale on the end of policing AEWCH 83 with Franco Bifo Berardi on theory and action
This podcast is only possible because listeners like you support it. Do contribute to my mission by supporting Against Everyone With Conner Habib on Patreon! Thank you so, so much.
Friends,
I’m so excited to introduce you to my friend, and one of my spiritual teachers and comrades, Diana Young-Peak, a priest of The Church Of The Living Christ, Order Of Melchizedek. This episode was part of my first try at starting a podcast, way back in 2011, which is also when I recorded AEWCH 91 with Lynn Margulis.
The Order is small, dates back to the 19th Century, and is almost completely unknown. And yet, it continues to resonate with power and depth, through Diana’a wisdom and work, as well as the work of her spiritual partner, Robert Young.
Each month, The Order holds services in the Bay Area, around a theme, with a presentation of Diana and Robert’s mediations and contemplations. Then there’s discussion, and then a ritual. It’s a simple and beautiful service. And it’s informed by Diana’s experience of being in contact with a spiritual landscape and spiritual beings.
The Order has an interesting history, but even more enthralling in Diana’s history, as a stripper who was contacted by a spiritual being she felt she had been prepared her whole life to meet, starting with her dreaming/astral projection as a child where she encountered people from the Bible.
Diana has been a wonderful and warm light in my life, and I’m so happy to share her efforts and wisdom with you.
SHOW NOTES
• For information on The Church Of The Living Christ, Order Of Melchizedek, reach out to Diana or Robert, who runs the Order with her
“Founded in Great Britain in 1939, by Grace Hooper Pettipher, Ph.D., D.D., it continues today to practice a metaphysical understanding of universal unity and transcendent spiritual nature, sharing a philosophy that is beyond the limitations of evolutionary religion.
We are an inclusive congregation honoring the many paths and faiths by which we may travel to the realization of the One. For us, the great mystery of the Divine is within, accessible through the realization of the Christ, the true self and eternal Being at the heart of Humankind. This Christ self is eternally one with the Creator Parent, beyond gender, a Being both immanent and transcendent, everywhere present within Creation, yet surpassing it, being That from which it arises.
The white-gold blood of spiritual communion fills the chalice of our sacred celebration, and the substance of divine presence is the nourishment we are offered as the bread of life. “
• There’s very little public information available about Grace Hooper Pettipher (pictured here), but she is mentioned briefly in Beyond The Occult by Colin Wilson, via a story about UFO researcher Jacques Vallee. You can also read her book (if you can find it!), Philosophy of Reality.
• If you’re interested in the Saint Germaine Foundation, and their spiritual path of I AM (which is very different than the path laid out by Grace/Diana) here’s their site.
• The Esoteric Orders and Their Work by Dion Fortune is a wonderful book, and if you’re interested in the occult landscape, you should read it.
• I talk more about my experience at Occult Emporium on AEWCH 62.
Like the show? SupportitonPatreon! The show is funded exclusively by listeners like you, and your contribution is vital and deeply appreciated!
Friends,
We talk so much about the occult on this show – about angels and esoteric philosophies, about magic and materialism – but I don’t get a chance to talk about God often. Which is why I invited writer, theologian, and peace maker PadraigÓTuama onto the show.
That time, and his huge body of experience dealing with deep divisions and aggressive oppositions, serves as the foundation of much of our talk, which circles around conflicts and how God, power, and powerlessness mediates them.
This is an episode unlike any other, and I’m so happy to share it with you.
We talk:
Whether or not we should pray to God or ourselves
The good and boring versions of Superman
Seeking, wielding, and letting go of power
The economy of victimhood
How to resolve conflict with fascists (potential and otherwise)
Keeping an eye on who’s exploiting every conflict
Brexit and the British Border (Padraig’s better name for the “Irish Border)
Taking an interest in what people valuein every situation, and the erosion of that interest
Loneliness and confidence
And Padraig also reads his beautiful poem “Day of the Dead”.
Who better to go on a spiritual adventure with on the podcast than my pal Pete Holmes! There are lots of places you might know Pete from; his stand-up, his spirituality-meets-comedy podcast You Made It Weird, his HBO show Crashing, or his new book, Comedy Sex God. Pete and I have been wanting to record another show since ourepicconversationonPete‘spodcast, and it’s a great and wide-ranging discussion but for me, the big news is that we do a short but totally accessible spiritual experiment to unravel the weirdness of the universe just through paying attention to our own experiences.
We also discuss
what toxic masculinity means if no one really has a definition of masculinity
identity and certainty
whether or not lucid dreaming is good for us
just how much free will do we have, anyway?
what Louis CK represents to people, especially in his “comeback” set, and why it’s important to think about those representations
Please pay for the podcasts you love, including this one. This podcast is always free and available to the public, but your support is crucial to keep it going. If you find something of value on my show, give back and support the many hours of free content I offer every month for the price of a latte or cocktail or lunch.
I’ve been longing to introduce you to Christian occultism more deeply, and particularly the work of Stylianos Atteshlis, also known as Daskalos. So I’ve invited one of my spiritual teachers, who was also a student of Daskalos’s. author Daniel Joseph, onto the show to explore why Christian occultism matters now more than ever.
If you’re turned off by the “Christian” part, but interested in the “occultism” part, listen through; you’ll find that there’s plenty there to think through. In fact, we don’t mention Christianity as such very much, but it runs through the work and practice. And if you’re turned off by both, Daniel and I break down all the seemingly hocus pocus terminology and make it intelligible for secular listeners.
Daniel runs workshops for The Researchers of Truth, who carry on Daskalos’s work, and I highly recommend you check them out.
Daskalos’s work, via Daniel and his spiritual partner, Aki Toshimutsu, has changed my life, and I know many people can benefit greatly from engaging with it.
Daniel and I discuss:
Who Daskalos is, how Daniel came to meet his teachings, and why his work matters so much.
What are the “Seven Ascended Masters”? (We really do get to it by the end of the ep)
How Westerners often reject Western esotericism
How religious Christianity has wounded people and how that Christianity is much different than Christian occultism and esotericism
Daskalos’s healing miracles, and how proximity to spiritual truth can itself be healing
What the human being is and what dreams are
Why dead people often don’t know they’re dead (and how you can tell if you’re dead or not)
The different esoteric bodies
Why some esoteric masters are public, some remain hidden, and one that was recently incarnated
The illusion of time
Where humanity will be in a million years and why nuclear war and climate change won’t be the end of us
The theory of understanding and practice of engaging with elementals
The skill of spiritual listening, versus secular hearing
Being frustrated when we don’t have spiritual encounters
Why Conner was all nervous about this episode, and how to deal with this nervousness when you’re about to speak with someone
Well hello everyone! AEWCH 14 is me and Peter Rollins — author, philosopher and radical theologian — talking about religion without God, about desire and psychoanalysis, about the way pleasure and pain are intertwined. I have to say, this is my favorite episode so far!
A small but fun-fact backstory: Peter and I used to be roommates – I was a fan and I hit him up and we hung out and then a year later we were living together. If you like our conversation, please consider supporting Peter’s Patreon as well:
IN THIS EP
How to have religion without God: 1:20
Why do we hide under the covers to protect ourselves?: 5:50
The way we enjoy our fears and oppressions: 8:00
The only true analysis in the second before you die 9:05
It’s difficult to know what you don’t believe, but the unexamined life is not worth living: 10:10
Young Conner vs Dracula: 11:35
“One of life’s great pleasures is having enemies…the trick is picking the right one”: 14:28
Love Trump’s hate: 14:45
We have not seen the enemy and it is us: 17:10
What if this is the world we want? How would we make it better?: 18:35
Whether you like Freud or not, here’s his point that we should all be grateful for: 21:45
Why gamblers don’t want to win: 24:35
The value of being a utopianist: 26:10
Conner’s brushes with atheism, and how Simone Weil saved him: 38:15
CS Lewis meets an obscure Italian occultist in the light: 52:05
How to act when you’re a mystery to yourself: 55:50
“Monogamy is the most widespread perversion”: 1:00:20
The value of grace and forgiveness: 1:10:00
Why are people suspicious of pleasure: 1:23:40
As always, I invite you to support the show and my work via my Patreon. Your contribution is so helpful and helps me not lose my mind with all the time I dedicate to this and other projects.
• There’s very little public information available about Grace Hooper Pettipher (pictured here), but she is mentioned briefly in 
