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Season 5 – Coming Back on Air
Hello, dear friends and listeners! Happy to be back with you and happy to announce that the Thoth Hermes Podcast will be back on air with a new season and regular episodes starting on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021! In the meantime, I have two treats for you: On March 7, I will release an interview with Canadian author RICHARD GAVIN which I recorded back in September 2020. This will be an...
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Season 5-Episode 8 – Witchy Scholar-Amy Hale
In this episode, Rudolf talks about a wide variety of aspects of being a scholar and an active esotericist, politics and the Occult, about Art and occultism, etc. to AMY HALE She is an Anthropologist and Folklorist specializing in modern Cornwall and contemporary esoteric history and culture. She has published academic and popular articles on topics such as modern Druidry, Cornish...
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Season 5-Episode 7 – The Divine Feminine-Georgia van Raalte
She is certainly one of the most interesting young voices in the field of Occultism and Rudolf is very happy to welcome GEORGIA VAN RAALTE in this Episode! Georgia van Raalte is an academic, author, and Priestess of Babalon. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Surrey, where her research explores textual initiation, sexual magic, and the occult fiction of Dion Fortune. Her first...
Season 5-Episode 6 – Thelema!-David Shoemaker
Rudolf has the pleasure to welcome David Shoemaker on this new episode in a fascinating talk not only about O.T.O. and A.:A.: Dr. David Shoemaker is a clinical psychologist in private practice, specializing in Jungian and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy. David is the Chancellor and Prolocutor of the Temple of the Silver Star. He has been a member of O.T.O. and a student of A∴A∴ since...
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Season 5-Episode 5 – Academic Esotericism-Henrik Bogdan
As an Academic Scholar on Western Esotericism, HENRIK BODGAN will be the first of a little series of personalities from that field to be interviewed on this podcast Henrik Bogdan is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Gothenburg. His main areas of...
Season 5-Episode 4 – The Birth of Chaos-Peter J. Carroll
In this episode, we will have the opportunity to talk to almost a historical figure of modern Occultism: PETER J. CARROLL Carroll's 1987 book Liber Null & Psychonaut is considered one of the defining works of the chaos magic movement. Carroll was a co-founder of...
Season 5-Episode 3 – A Magic Reality-Charlotte Rodgers
In this episode, Rudolf talks to New Zealand born artist and author Charlotte Rodgers, who now lives in the UK, about her background, her art, what her art means to her and why magic IS art! Charlotte Rodgers is an artist and author who is also an animist and...
Season 5-Episode 2 – Science meets Magic-Dean Radin
Our guest today, DEAN RADIN, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Science (IONS), Distinguished Professor of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), and a science adviser for several startup...
Season 5-Episode 1 – Labyrinths and Treasures-Frater Acher
FRATER ACHER is certainly one of the most interesting figures in the world of Esotericism, Occultism and Magic today. And it makes us very happy and proud that he has - after a first appearance in December 2017, which was altogether his first podcast appearence ever -...
Season 4-Episode 24 – The Conquering Twin-Tomas Vincente
The Cover of Tomas Vincente's book THE FACELESS GOD (Theion Publishing)In this "Season Finale" there is not only a finale, but also a premiere! This is the first time that Dr. Tomas Vincente, author of the book "The Faceless God", has agreed to appear on a podcast,...
Season 4-Episode 23 – Living Philosophy-Gary Lachman
Even though GARY LACHMAN has already appeared in three episodes on our podcast, we never did that full interview with him (He spoke to us about Colin Wilson in that Episode 10 in our first season in August 2017, and twice on presentations of conferences he took part...
Season 4-Episode 22 – Tantra and Chaos-Phil Hine
Portrait of PHIL HINE by Asa MedhurstRudolf's guest in this new episode is PHIL HINE. Get ready for a nice Northern English accent Phil is an independent researcher and author. A former editor of Chaos International, he was the co-creator and editor (with Rodney...
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Thoth-Hermes has been a plan I have been cherishing for a while: a website treating different subjects from the world of the Western Esoteric Tradition … At the centre of the activity there is a podcast, presenting mainly high quality interviews with important authors, thinkers and and experts, but also other aspects of the field.
I am European. Over the centuries Europe has given birth to most of the currents of what we call the Western Tradition. Over the last century or so there has been a shift towards North America, where many of the leading experts are now located. Also what we find on the internet comes often out of North America and the Anglo-Saxon world. Thoth-Hermes will try to give a strong European accent to our field, but is of course at any time open to esotericists from the whole planet.
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