Episode Three, Season Ten of the Thoth-Hermes podcast explores facets of Higher Worlds and the Anthroposophical traditiom. Today, Rudolf meets with Thomas Mayer, Anthroposophical teacher, author and direct democracy activist. In Thomas’s words, “you will meet the...

Welcome to Episode Two of Season Ten with the Thoth-Hermes podcast. Today, Rudolf dialogues with Marco Visconti, author of “The Aleister Crowley Manual: Thelemic Magic for Modern Times” (2023), published through Watkins Press. An Italian freemason living in London,...

Welcome to Season 10 of the Thoth-Hermes Podcast, dedicated to scholarly exploration of the Western Mystery Tradition. In this opening episode, Rudolf re-engages with Italian-American author David Pantano. David provides a dizzying timeline of occult development in...

ONLY SHORT SHOW-NOTES STILL FOR THIS EPISODE,NEXT WEEK FULL NOTES SHOULD BE BACK! This week I am happy and honoured to welcome once again one of those great "Tarot Ladies" on Thoth Hermes, Mary K. Greer. It is a pleasure to talk to her about her vast experience in the...

ONLY SHORT SHOW-NOTES FOR THIS AND THE COMING TWO EPISODES My guest today is a very special man - Wolf DIeter Storl is cultural anthropologist, ethnobotanist and book author. At the age of eleven, he moved with his parents from his native Germany to rural Ohio, where...

ONLY SHORT INTROS FOR THIS AND THE COMING TWO EPISODES Welcome back to Mark Stavish, the Director of the Institute for Hermetic Studies, where Rudolf and he discuss the not always easay way how to enter the world of the Western Tradition. This starts by how you want...

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...

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...

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...

Today's guest on the show is no other than widely read author, blogger, occultist, and former Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America, John Michael Greer. We start engaging in a highly entertaining conversation with what it was like growing up in an...

In this brand new episode Rudolf has a fascinating conversation with Italian witch, High Priestess and teacher in the Temple of Ara tradition, Giulia Turolla. Having a background in academics, Giulia graduated with honours in Archaeology and Ancient World Cultures...

In this episode Rudolf welcomes legendary Jake Stratton-Kent who is one of the most knowledgeable authors and practitioners of grimoire magic and has been called the most notorious necromancer in England. Jake describes himself as a ‘very late Late Pagan’ which is a...

CHAPTER 1 First published in French in 1911, this practical guide to the art of spagyrics also outlines the ancient yet forgotten Hermetic foundations of herbalism. The author provides botanical and medicinal classifications for over 600 plant species and detailed...

Rudolf is excited to welcome Professor PATRICIA MACCORMACK as his guest on Episode 15! Australian-born Patricia is a researcher and Professor of Continental Philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge. She has published extensively on philosophy, feminism, queer...

Our guest in this episode is CHRISTOPHER MCINTOSH. Christopher was born in England in 1943 and grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland. He holds a doctorate in history from Oxford University, a degree in German from London University and a diploma in Russian from the United...

Shani Oates is an Occultist, Mystic, Luciferian Pilgrim of the Forbidden Arts, Traditional Craft practitioner, researcher, lecturer, historian and writer of the Craft, Magic, Ancestral Tradition, particularly the Robert Cochrane Tradition, and the cultural Folk-lore...

Thomas Hatsis is a historian of psychedelia, witchcraft, magic, pagan religions, alternative Christianities, and the cultural intersection of those areas, who holds a master’s degree in history from Queens College. The author of The Witches’ Ointment and Psychedelic...

Angel Millar is the author of "The Crescent and the Compass: Islam, Freemasonry, Esotericism and Revolution in the Modern Age" (2015), "Freemasonry: Foundation of the Western Esoteric Tradition" (2014), and "Freemasonry: A History" (2005), as well as numerous articles...

William Mistele, who now lives in Hawaii, is one of North America's great esotericists. He calls himself a spiritual anthropologist and a "professional contemplator". In everything he has to say about the different traditions and his own life it becomes clear that for...

Vancouver-based Canadian author, born and raised in Montreal, esotericist and transpersonal psychologist PT Mistlberger is Rudolf's guest on this new episode. Phil first introduces the listeners to his esoteric background, when as a young man he came across the...

Alan Richardson is a modest man, very modest for someone with his background and number of books he has written. He talks to  us about the advantages of having a pen-name (which he hasn't) and why it is that he just has to write, even though the reality of an author...