Magus in the Media

The Food You Trust Isn’t What You Think | Surveillance & the Age of Deception w/ Kaiva Rose

What happens when the things we’re told to trust no longer match what’s actually underneath? Kaiva and I start with the recent UC Davis avocado oil study and what resear

Young Aleister Crowley and the Magicians' Revolt: A Conversation w/ Lon Milo DuQuette

Lon Milo DuQuette is a scholar, author, magician, and one of the most authoritative voices on the work of Aleister Crowley, Thelema, and the Thoth Tarot. His books includ

Amazon & Anthropic Are Destroying Books to Feed AI | Who Controls Knowledge? w/ Kaiva Rose

Amazon is buying physical books, cutting off their bindings, scanning them for AI training, and destroying the originals. Court documents have also revealed Anthropic’s P

Supernatural Woman & the Crisis of Modern Masculinity | Angel Millar

Angel Millar joins Magus in the Media for a deep discussion on initiation, modern masculinity, Freemasonry, the sacred feminine, Jung's anima, the Warrior Mystic path, an

Why Does the World Feel Fake? AI, Accelerationism & the End of an Age w/ Kaiva Rose

Why does the world feel fake, and why does it feel like everything is speeding up? In this conversation with Kaiva Rose, we get into Philip K. Dick, AI, accelerationism,

Philosophia, the Platonic Mystery & the Rebel Philosopher | Danielle Layne

What if philosophy was always an initiation, a living practice, a rebellion against the assumption that you already know what you are? Dr. Danielle Layne is a professor

The Counterfeit Renaissance | When Information Pretends to Be Wisdom w/ Kaiva Rose

We have access to more information than any generation in history, so why does it feel like we understand less? In this Monday Night Live, Kaiva Rose and I ask what happ

Magick, Initiation, and Myth in the Modern World | Ike Baker of ARCANVM

This conversation with Ike Baker of ARCANVM focuses on magick, the Western Esoteric Tradition, and embodied practice shaped through time, discipline, and lived experience

We Forgot How to See the World | Myth, Meaning & the Technological Age

We’ve become very good at measuring the world, breaking it into parts, turning it into data, resources, systems, and functions. But what happens when that way of seeing b

Hermeticism, Freemasonry & the Living Tradition | Collin Conkwright of American Esoteric

Collin Conkwright of American Esoteric joins me for a long-form conversation on Hermeticism, Freemasonry, and the Western esoteric tradition. We discuss the Poimandres f

Gnosis, Archons, Abraxas & The Occult Elvis | Miguel Conner of Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio

In this episode of Magus in the Media, I sit down with Miguel Conner of Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio. We talk about how his path into Gnosticism began through experience and

The Invisible Things We Give Our Power To | Egregores, Ritual & Modern Myth w/ Kaiva Rose

What are we actually giving our attention, belief, emotion, and energy to every day? In this live conversation, Kaiva Rose and I explore egregores, ritual, modern mythol

The Anunnaki Revelation: Hidden Power & the Parasitic Class | Dr. Heather Lynn

What do the earliest Sumerian texts actually say about the Anunnaki? In this conversation with Dr. Heather Lynn, historian, educator, and author of The Anunnaki Revelati

The Black Pilgrimage & Why Modern Occultism Lost Its Soul | David Beth of Theion Publishing

David Beth of Theion Press joins Magus in the Media for a deep conversation on his new book, The Black Pilgrimage, anti-transcendentalism, living tradition, Haitian Vodou

Lucifer Praxis & the Mythopoetic Tradition | Peter Grey & Alkistis Dimech of Scarlet Imprint

I’m joined by Peter Grey and Alkistis Dimech, founders of Scarlet Imprint, for a long-form conversation on Western esotericism, magic, books, and practice. We talk throu

Mithras & The Game of Saturn: The Initiation You Were Never Meant to Find | Peter Mark Adams

Peter Mark Adams is a philosopher, poet, and author whose work traces the living transmission of the Western mystery traditions from the Neolithic to the Renaissance. In

The Secret History of the Universe: A Conversation with Mark Booth(Jonathan Black)

There are a handful of books that genuinely changed the direction of my own studies, and The Secret History of the World is one of them. For years, Mark Booth’s work has

Crowley, The Great Work & Becoming Who You Are | Dr. David Shoemaker

Dr. David Shoemaker joins Magus in the Media for a deep conversation on Thelema, the living transmission of the AA, and what Aleister Crowley was actually building. We co

The Great Work, the Underworld & Living Magick | Alan Chapman

The Great Work lies at the heart of the Western Mystery Tradition, yet it is often misunderstood. In this conversation, Alan Chapman and I explore the underworld, Plato,

The Stories We Take In Change Us | What Is Magus in the Media?

Magus in the Media explores the stories, symbols, myths, and ideas shaping the way we see ourselves and the world around us. In this introduction, I lay out what this pr