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Season 7-Episode 20 – The Academic Eye-Carole Cusack
I’m happy to welcome Prof. Carole Cusack who has been working and teaching in the field of religious studies at the University of Sydney for more than 40 years. Carole is not only well-known and highly respected in the world of academia but also among practicing occultists despite of not being a practitioner herself. She has been involved in teaching undergraduate courses since 1984 and her work...
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Season 7-Episode 19 – French Gnostics and Egyptian Masons-Mathieu Ravignat
The interview with my guest of this week’s episode was actually recorded right away on New Year’s Day and I’m very happy to welcome author, leader of a Gnostic Parish and a Martinist Lodge, 32nd Degree Mason and 9° Magus in the S.I.R.A., Rev. Mathieu G. Ravignat. Mathieu has published three large and very deeply researched and well-written books on the Élus Coëns, the French Gnostic Church and...
Season 7-Episode 18 – Manly P.Hall, L.A. and the 80s-Tamra Lucid
Please welcome my very first guest in this new year, interviewer, producer, author and musician, Tamra Lucid as we’ll be having a wonderful time talking about her book ‘Making the Ordinary Extraordinary - My Seven Years in Occult Los Angeles with Manly Palmer Hall’ which has just been published with Inner Traditions. This book is a rarely found gem that starts out with the touching account of...
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Season 7-Episode 17 – Revelations-Barbara Hand Clow
In this episode, I have the pleasure to talk to Cherokee record keeper Barbara Hand Clow, who used to introduce herself as a researcher, left-brain writer and publisher but due to a very influential event in 1994-1995 (which we will of course discuss) became a...
Season 7-Episode 16 – Games and VR-Magic-Jobe Bittman-Morgan Leigh Serong
In today’s episode of the show I have the huge pleasure to welcome not only one but two guests and we’ll start with Seattle-based author Jobe Bittman who just published his amazingly illustrated high quality work ‘Book of Antithesis’, a grimoire of game and ritual...
Season 7-Episode 15 – Occult Revival-John Michael Greer
Only a shorter introduction here today. John Michael Greer is back on the show, and I may already say, it will not be his last appearance, we are already planning a new interview on "Sacred Geometry" in a couple of months. But today it is all about the Occult Revival...
Season 7-Episode 14 – Contemplation-Greg Kaminsky Chuck Dunning
In this week’s episode co-hosted by my friend and fellow podcaster Greg Kaminsky we will have an extraordinary conversation with Charles “Chuck” R. Dunning Jr., psychotherapist, mason and author of two highly relevant books on contemplation practice, ‘Contemplative...
Season 7-Episode 13 – Chinese Magic(k)-Jason Read
In today’s episode I have the great pleasure to talk to UK based author of two books and more to follow soon, teacher, martial artist and specialist on Daoist witchcraft, alchemy and magic, Jason Read. Jason’s path started like probably a lot of ours out there with...
Season 7-Episode 12 – Saturnian Reflections-David Beth
This latest episode is a very special one as my guest has already been on the show shortly before the first lockdowns started back in spring 2020. Many of you may be familiar with his name and work, as he is a certainly well-known and widely respected practitioner,...
Season 7-Episode 11 – Astrological Traditions-Shu Yap
Please welcome my next guest on the show, astrologer, bee keeper and practitioner of the occult arts, Shu Yap. Shu lives on a farm in Australia, Central Victoria, however, she was born in Malaysia and moved to Australia at age 7. Her father died when she was just 4...
Season 7-Episode 10 – On Planetary Magic-Rufus Opus
My guest in this episode is hermeticist Rufus Opus, whose work is widely known in occult communities, especially his Red Work Course and his book ‘Seven Spheres’, a manual on planetary magic that teaches how to open up gates and provides the working magician with...
A few words about this page
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.
I am an Artist. This is why I have also a special interest in artists who are working with influences and impressions from the Esoteric realm in their art, be it performing arts, music or visual art. The podcast and the website will therefore regularly feature artists and their work.
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