Rune Soup

Gordon

Rune Soup is a podcast channel that platforms the most important discussions at the cutting edge of magic, animism and spirit work.

Gordon is chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, podcaster, author and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics gained at some of the world's largest media companies. He is the author of four books on magic, animism and star lore: Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, The Chaos Protocols, Pieces of Eight and Ani.Mystic: Encounters With A Living Cosmos.

When not travelling, Gordon hosts his weekly show, Rune Soup, from a small permaculture farm in southern Tasmania.

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Oct 10, 2022 · 1 hr 55 min
Talking Pulp Magic | Chris Knowles
The good Doctor Knowles makes a welcome return to the show this week. We talk about the presence of nineteenth century occultism in the pulps, how those pulps influenced the superheroes of the twentieth century, Watcher cults, imperial worldviews and the synchromysticism of the apocalypse. A freewheeling romp for all! Show Notes The Secret Sun. The Secret Sun on Patreon.
Oct 5, 2022 · 1 hr 21 min
Intention with Jess Waters and Brian Wilkins| Rune Soup Healing Dialogues
This week we have the first triple-header of the energy healing dialogues. Brian Wilkins returns to the show with first-time guest, Jess Waters. Jess and Brian are principally responsible for creating and maintaining a weekly intention group based on the principles outlined in Lynne McTaggart's Power of Eight. So we discuss their respective paths through various healing modalities, how they came to intention-based work, what it's good for, how it might work and what its efficacy implies for the cosmos at large. Really scintillating chat. Excellent stuff with some excellent people. Enjoy! Show Notes Jess and Brian's substack, Banhe. Brian's website.
Sep 28, 2022 · 1 hr 12 min
Traditional Chinese Medicine with Brandt Stickley | Rune Soup Healing Dialogues
This week, returning guest Brandt Stickley joins us for another instalment of our energy healing dialogues series. We discuss how Chinese medicine sees the human energy body/ies, the antiquity of the system, how it works, what it works best with and the attitude or ways of thinking that characterise TCM. In particular, we look at what even am meridians, how TCM understands human organs, polarity and all that good stuff. Enjoy! Show Notes Brandt's website. Brandt's Patreon.
Sep 12, 2022 · 1 hr 4 min
Talking Homeopathic Psychiatry | Jerry M. Kantor
One of my favourite books of the year is Jerry Kantor's Sane Asylums. He joins us this week for an equally-scintillating episode. We explore how homeopathy works, the 19th century heyday of homeopathic psychiatry -including the successful treatment of Abraham Lincoln's widow's 'incurable madness' with three months of homeopathy. And we find out just how it was homeopathy was erased from history and why. (Spoiler: Money.) Really great stuff. Show Notes Get Sane Asylums. Jerry's website, Vital Force Health Care. Jerry's publishing website, Right Whale Press.
Sep 2, 2022 · 1 hr 7 min
Biofield Tuning with Eileen McKusick | Rune Soup Healing Dialogues
The legendary Eileen McKusick joins us this week for the next Rune Soup Energy Healing Dialogue. We discuss the origins of biofield tuning, how it and other forms of sound healing work, what it's best for and what other modalities it best supports. A fantastic discussion with a true healing pioneer. Enjoy! Show Notes Biofield Tuning Store. Biofield Tuning Website.
Aug 31, 2022 · 1 hr 9 min
Talking Thai Occultism, Magic and Prophecy | Jenx
Jenx returns to the show with his latest and best book, The Thai Occult 2. We catch up with what's been going on with Jenx's ongoing cultural survey and research on and with various Ajarns, we talk about global candle magic, Thai astrology, talisman, doll magic and why you might want to live in a graveyard for a month. He also explains that this latest book is a 'living' book. Get the PDF once and you will automatically receive all ongoing updates, additional material and interviews. Great stuff. Show Notes Get The Thai Occult 2.
Aug 30, 2022 · 1 hr 15 min
Mind Connection Healing with Kenzie Adams | Rune Soup Healing Dialogues
Continuing the energy healing dialogues this week, we welcome to the show Kenzie Q. Adams. Kenzie is a Reiki master and teacher, professional healer, industrial engineer and the creator of Mind Connection Healing. She also happens to be the better half of Scarlet Imprint author, Peter Mark Adams. MCH is a healing and trauma release system incorporating meridian therapy, Reiki and several other modalities into an holistic synthesis. Kenzie and I discuss her own journey as a healer, the road to developing MCH and what it can be used for. Note: Kenzie is giving a training webinar this weekend (Sunday Sept 4th) as part of the Rune Soup Premium Member energy healing course. So if you like what you hear, there's still time to join us! Show Notes Mind Connection Healing.
Aug 19, 2022 · 1 hr 17 min
Resonant Attention with Stella Osorojos | Rune Soup Healing Dialogues
This is one of my favourite shows of the year so far! Continuing our dialogues with energy healers as part of the Rune Soup Premium Member course on energy healing, this week we welcome to the show Stella Osorojos. Stella is a mother, a writer, an acupuncturist and multi-disciplinary healer, and the creator of a powerful healing modality called Resonant Attention. We discuss the origins of Resonant Attention in her own miraculous health journey, working with and learning from 'non-western' systems, the importance of understanding trauma, how healing systems 'work' and what health even 'is'. Splendid stuff! Show Notes Stella's Substack, Resonant Attention. Part 1 of Stella's serialised healing memoir, The Universe Is Generous. Stella's website. A guided resonant attention exercise.
Aug 14, 2022 · 50 min
Pranic Healing with Trisha White | Rune Soup Healing Dialogues
Continuing our dialogues with and about different energy healing frameworks, this week we welcome to the show Pranic Healer, Trisha White -who also happens to be my mother. We chat about the origins of Pranic Healer, Trisha's career as a professional healer, how the system works and what it works best for. And if you would like to participate in the energy healing course, join the Rune Soup Premium Membership here. Enjoy!
Aug 7, 2022 · 1 hr 33 min
Talking Devotional Astro Magic and The Decans | Brian Wilkins
Poet, author, taiji instructor and intentionist (this will make sense shortly), Brian Wilkins joins the show this week, on the occasion of the publication of his book, A Wheel of Small Gods. We discuss how poetry can be a container or place for spirits, different methods of experiencing and understanding energy, healing magic, magic-as-time-travel as well as the how's and why's of coming into relation with star spirits. Super fun discussion. Enjoy! Show Notes Get A Wheel of Small Gods. Brian's website.
Aug 4, 2022 · 1 hr 14 min
Reiki with Lance Baker - Rune Soup Healing Dialogues
The Q3 premium member course beginning shortly is on energy healing and -to go alongside it- we'll be doing a series of dialogues with practitioners from various energy modalities. First cab off the rank is fellow Newcastle boy, Lance Baker, to talk about certainly the most well-known (and perhaps the least understood?) modality, Reiki. Lance is a Reiki Master, hypnotherapist, author and teacher. Definitely the right person to talk me through it! Show Notes Lance's website and business, Branches of Healing. Lance's YouTube channel.
Jul 22, 2022 · 1 hr 22 min
Talking Ancestral Living and Sacred Landscapes | Matawhero Lloyd
The one and only Matawhero Lloyd returns to the show this week. More specifically, while I am in New Zealand, I returned to Whetu Ariki to spend some time with Matawhero and to see what's been happening with his pā project over the past couple of years. This is a project many of you will be familiar with from Ani.Mystic, where it gets a whole chapter of its own. I'm releasing this one as an audio version as well as the video tour because -while I definitely think you should actually watch it so you can put images to the words- Matawhero goes really deep on Maori metaphysics, indigenous philosophy and all kinds of powerful topics. So there's still a lot to pick up just in the conversation. But if you do want to watch it, jump over to YouTube and watch it there. Enjoy! Show Notes Get Ani.Mystic.
Jul 2, 2022 · 2 hr 7 min
H2 2022 Astrological Forecast | Austin Coppock
It's that time of half-year again! Forecastapalooza. With returning champ, Austin Coppock. You know you want it. Get in. Note: This was a video show so you can watch along on YouTube if you prefer. Enjoy!
Jun 28, 2022 · 42 min
Thoughts On Shamanic Healing From The Middle Of The Amazon | Solo Show
An Amazonian solo show this week, exploring the one-year anniversary of providing shamanic energy healings. One of the things I mention during the episode is how I consider some of the seemingly bolder claims of shamanic healing from a different perspective having been in the jungle a number of times now. There's certainly a shared underlying metaphysics there. Note: As mentioned at the top of the episode, this is a video one. So you may want to jump over to YouTube instead. Show Notes Register to be notified for the next availabilities for healing sessions here.
Jun 6, 2022 · 4 min
Visiting Pablo Amaringo's Amazonian Art School in Peru | Solo Show
Something different -and personally very exciting- this week. In the few days in between my Ecuadorian ayahuasca retreat and a return to my Peruvian jungle dieta, I got to visit the art school founded by my favourite artist, Pablo Amargino. Even better… I got given the tour by Pablo's son, Juan! Juan is himself an artist, so I also got to see some of his work, and some of the work of Pablo's students. Plus I got the opportunity to ask some questions about Peruvian shamanism and curanderismo, and have some of the amazing concepts depicted in the painting spelled out. This is very much a video episode, rather than an audio on, so be sure to head over to YouTube and check it out. Enjoy!
May 31, 2022 · 1 hr 13 min
Talking Supernatural Thailand| Jenx
The one and only Jenx returns to the show to discuss his latest book, Supernatural Thailand. And so of course we discuss graveyards, Naga caves, boy spirits, dying for one's city and a whole bunch more. Then we end the show looking at some of Adjarn Apichai's forecasts for the next few years and where they precisely align with our own. Great stuff, as always! Please note I'm still in the Andes so there are a few audio dropouts. Also this was recorded as a live video discussion if you would prefer to watch rather than listen. Enjoy! Show Notes The Thai Occult. Get Supernatural Thailand.
May 1, 2022 · 1 hr 22 min
Ani.Mystic Abroad! | Solo Show
A solo show this week, in which I explore Ani.Mystic now that it's about two months out from launch, and how it has been immensely helpful in coming to terms with Mexican and explicitly Mayan sense making. As I have basically been travelling since the thing came out, I've been remiss in sharing some of the shows that have kindly had me on to discuss the book. So let that be your show notes for this week. Each episode is remarkably, remarkably different in a way that shows I've done for Star.Ships or The Chaos Protocols or Pieces of Eight weren't. And I genuinely think that's down to the material in the book. Which means, if you are so inclined, you have hours of material to enjoy! (And hopefully that makes up for the travel-based radio silence.) This week's solo show is the audio of my presentation and discussion with the guys from Watkins -the most recent discussion of the book- for reasons spelled out in the opening of the episode. Show Notes Gordon talking Ani.Mystic on The Higherside Chats. Gordon talking Ani.Mystic on Coffee and Divination. Gordon talking Ani.Mystic on Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio.
Apr 11, 2022 · 1 hr 15 min
Talking Ways of Being | James Bridle
I joke at the beginning of the episode that James wrote the best book I read this year that I didn't write. But actually, it's true. Ways of Being is an excellent book that toils in many of the same vineyards as Ani.Mystic. So James and I discuss our notions of technology, artificial intelligence, publishing, language and how these all interrelate and are interdependent. We also have an excellent discussion on the true significance of randomness as well as speculating on political and technological futures. Enjoy! Show Notes Get Ways of Being. Get Ways of Being on audiobook. James's website.
Mar 12, 2022 · 1 hr 19 min
Talking Dreams and Time | Gary Lachman
The one and only Gary Lachman returns to the show this week. And the topics of the hour are dreams and time: precognition, sacred time, time slips, machine time and what even am dreams in the first place? Definite food for thought here. Always a pleasure! Show Notes Gary's latest book, Dreaming Ahead of Time. Gary's website.
Mar 6, 2022 · 1 hr 56 min
Advice For Professional Astrologers During An Apocalypse | Solo Show
Wait a minute. Gordon of all people is giving advice about what now? Relax. I truly would never dream of it. Think of it more like Advice To A Young Wife From An Old Mistress. It's a dramatic frame that allows us to explore ways of being with this moment that -oh, just a thought- don't contribute to a field of war that brings everyone closer to nuclear annihilation while somehow assuming doing so gives you the moral high ground. So it's not actually (just?) for professional astrologers and other fortune tellers. It's for any of you looking around at the entire planet losing its mind and working out what role -in your profession, in your family, in your friendship group, in your communities- you are being called to step into. It's my offering to you, delivered in the form of a presentation given to a strictly hypothetical group of professional astrologers. Yeah, it's long. I mention at the beginning that the personal reason for sharing this is a healing one, around finding transformative ways of being with anger and defence. It may be challenging to watch or listen to for some of you. Healthy anger is a useful warning that situations or people are approaching important boundaries (physical or otherwise). And it is not that it means these boundaries must never be crossed or must always be defended. Anger simply calls you to an urgent awareness that boundary business is afoot. For instance, being wrong about something or some position you have taken in which you have invested a lot of emotional energy. When someone points this out or when you begin to realise it yourself, the anger signal is there. But this is probably one instance where you allow that signal to draw your attention to the boundary and, rather than defending it, allow that pent up energy to dissipate across it. I sincerely hope you come to your own understanding of the sentiment in which this presentation is offered, why it is offered at this time, as well as my intention that you find whatever medicine is meant for you in it. Note: This is a video presentation with slides and such. It is only available on Rumble. Though it will still work fine as an audio offering if that is what you prefer. Show Notes War and the Hyperreal. Rhyd Wildermuth. Tears for Ukraine, Sanctions for Russia, Yawns for Yemen, Arms for Saudis: The West's Grotesque Double Standard. The Overton Window Is Being Shoved Toward Warmongering Extremism. Caitlin Johnstone. Defending Freedom And Democracy Sure Requires An Awful Lot of Censorship. Caitlin Johnstone. The Field of Peace. Charles Eisenstein. Bunny Rabbits and the Big Bad Wolf: Ukraine and Russia through the lens of Western reporting. Gilbert Doctorow. The Tom Woods Show episode I truly hope you watch. Ukraine Neo-Nazis Infiltrate EVERY LEVEL Of Military & Government. Jimmy Dore. Ukraine War Driving Rampant Censorship At Home. Jimmy Dore. There's More To This. Russell Brand.