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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Jul 21, 2021 · 1 hr 2 min
Talking Grief and Healing | Karen Johnson
This week we welcome to the show Karen Johnson. Karen is a shaman, healer, and former judge. She was catapulted into the life of a healer when her son died suddenly of a heroin overdose at the age of twenty seven. Leaving her old life behind, Karen embarked on a multi-year spiritual quest around the world, ultimately discovering -among many modalities and sources of spiritual nourishment- shamanic energy medicine. (Karen is actually my teacher at the Four Winds Academy, which comes up a couple of times in the show.) She joins us today to talk about her brand new book, Living Grieving: Using Energy Medicine to Alchemize Grief and Loss. A really great chat about a really powerful topic. Enjoy. Show Notes Living Grieving: Using Energy Medicine to Alchemize Grief and Loss. Karen's energy medicine website and blog. Karen's Instagram.
Jun 30, 2021 · 2 hr 8 min
H2 2021 Astrological Forecast | Austin Coppock
Christmas only comes but once a year, which makes the half-yearly astrological forecasts twice as good as it! Big thanks to the one and only Austin Coppock -as well as the premium members and patrons who join the call. As is now tradition, we look at the previous six months, the upcoming six months and situate our discussion in the context of longer cycles. I always look forward to these chats!
Jun 13, 2021 · 2 hr 7 min
Politics As Religion, Ressentiment and Identitarianism: Finding the Ekumen with Rhyd Wildermuth
Something a bit different and exciting this week in lieu of a normal show. One of the things the premium members will be doing over the coming month is participating in calls and Q&As with thinkers who have something to share or contribute to this notion of operating at the level of the living field. First cab off the rank is none other than Rhyd Wildermuth. Finding The Ekumen gets its name from Ursula K. Le Guin's space utopia, effectively an anarchist version of Star Trek's far more militant United Federation of Planets. So if we are going to have a series of discussions beyond traditional politics, we should begin with a discussion of what politics is, what it isn't and where it might be that you come in. I can think of no one better than Rhyd for that chat, so here it is! Big thanks to Rhyd and the members for participating! This is obviously a video discussion if you would prefer to watch on YouTube or Odysee. Further Reading Rhyd's Substack. Rhyd's essay, Here Be Monsters. Saul Newman's Anarchism and the Politics of Ressentiment. The works of Silvia Federici. Human Scale. Postmodern Anarchism in the Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin. Against Identity Politics.
Jun 8, 2021 · 1 hr 35 min
Talking Entheogens, Dreams, Prophecy and Releasing the Past | Nick Sun
Comedian, author, ceremonialist and healer, Nick Sun, joins us this week. Back in January, Nick wrote a piece on Medium called Watch Your Dreams Die And Be Happy Now. It's about how childhood dreams in general and the insistence we all follow them is not always a good thing. In fact, it can even be pathological. Obviously that sort of piece has Big New Year Energy given the world is awash with resolutions at the time. But it is also good and insistent medicine for now -particularly for younger readers. There is a lot about this in the wealth magic course in the members area, but desire is very poorly understood and even more poorly experienced in the modern world. Given the dramatic changes to how society functions we have all been through these past sixteen months have barely begun to be felt, the work of sitting with, parsing and simply showing up to your dreams, desires, goals -as well as how they all differ- takes on a different form of urgency. So that's what Nick came on to discuss ostensibly. We also talk about a bunch of other stuff too, I hasten to add. Encountering different plant spirits, prophecy, healing from trauma, all very good times. Show Notes Nick on Medium. Nick's Patreon.
May 30, 2021 · 1 hr 40 min
Talking Indigenous Thinking | Tyson Yunkaporta
This week, we welcome to the show the author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World -genuinely one of my favourite books ever- Tyson Yunkaporta. In addition to being an author, Tyson is a poet, an artist, a wood carver, a linguist and and is senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University. I had a fantastic time with this chat. We talk about ceremony, metaphor, the pitfalls of the new age, right relation and all that good stuff. We also talk about communicating via body odour, getting fat and 80s movies. Enjoy! Show Notes Get Sand Talk.
May 24, 2021 · 1 hr 10 min
Talking The Two Antichrists | Peter Grey
Author, speaker and Scarlet Imprint co-founder, Peter Grey, returns to the show this week to talk about his latest book, The Two Antichrists. This means we explore the Babalon Working(s), the influence of Jack Parsons on science fiction and science fiction's influence on Jack Parsons, the sophistication in Parsons's later work, L. Ron Hubbard's fascination with Aleister Crowley -as well as some of the ways he managed to out-Crowley the Beast himself. We also talk about what witchcraft could and should do now, as well as the urgent necessity of coming into relation with the stars. Enjoy! Show Notes Get The Two Antichrists. Scarlet Imprint on Instagram.
Apr 27, 2021 · 1 hr 28 min
Talking Nordic Animism | Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen
This week, we are speaking with Danish historian and animist, Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen. Animism is the main topic of our discussion, inevitably. We talk about what it looks like in the doing, and what academic work does and still might come from operating within an animist framework rather than a materialist-naturalist one. We also examine both some of the opportunities and risks inherent in learning from and with indigenous ways of thinking and being. Absolutely killer chat. Enjoy! Show Notes Rune's website, Nordic Animism. Nordic Animism on YouTube. Nordic Animism on Patreon.
Apr 18, 2021 · 59 min
Talking Microanimism | Dr Siv Watkins
Microbiologist, teacher and ritualist, Dr Siobhan Watkins joins the show this week. We have a really great chat about the how and why of coming into right relation with the microbial world, what all forms of biology look like from an animist perspective and the ancestral implications of being a composite being. Awesome discussion. Enjoy! Show Notes Microanimism website. Thinking Like A Plague course. Siv on instagram.
Apr 11, 2021 · 1 hr 43 min
Talking Yagé, Ayahuasca, Spirits and Ecology | Jonathon Miller Weisberger
Ethnobotanist, ecologist, author and teacher Jonathon Miller Weisberger joins us this week. We talk about growing up in Ecuador, living among various Amazonian nations, ecology, eco-spirituality, environmental activism and the difference between ayahuasca and yagé -among many, many other topics (including being dispatched by Terence McKenna to buy a paddleboat). This is an amazing and lengthy chat which I have wanted to have since reading Jonathon's book, Rainforest Medicine, a few years ago. And we are having the conversation now because Jonathon is convening three upcoming series of yagé ceremonies at his amazing facility in Costa Rice known as Ocean Forest Ecolodge in April, May and June 2021. I mention it at the opening of the audio-only version of the show and then we discuss it again toward the end of the episode in both the audio and video versions. Details and dates in the show notes! Show Notes Details on Rainforest Medicine the book, as well as the yagé ceremonies. April 24 – May 1 (option to add 3 days til May 4) May 29 – June 5 June 6 – June 12 Learn more and book your ceremony. Don Pablo's copal ceremony. Ocean Forest Ecolodge video tour.
Apr 6, 2021 · 1 hr 40 min
Talking Playing Card Divination | Camelia Elias
One of our most popular returning guests joins us again this week. Denmark's very own Queen of Swords is back to talk about the latest book in her Read Like The Devil series, which is about something near and dear to my own heart (and diamonds), fortune telling with playing cards! So we discuss the in's and out's of the various suits, how significators work in playing card readings, which questions might be better 'suited' to playing cards and which ones to tarot, which spreads play to their various strengths and weaknesses and what can happen when, you know, you just read the damned cards. A great chat with a great person about a great book. Enjoy! Show Notes Get Read Like The Devil: Playing Cards. Camelia's website. Camelia's cartomancy blog.
Mar 15, 2021 · 1 hr 14 min
Talking Fortune Telling, Creativity and Lenormand | Colin Alexander
This week, my Fortune's Fools cohost and Lenormand deck artist, Colin Alexander joins the show. Inevitably, we discuss fortune telling, and Madame Lenormand herself, as well as creativity, growing up weird in the 90s, comics and that other magical comic creator from the Glasgow area you may or may not have heard of. And, naturally, because we are launching a live video show in a couple of days, this one is best consumed on YouTube, but you can certainly download it here instead. One thing I keep forgetting to mention is that the Telegram group for Fortune's Fools is already up and kicking and you should definitely join us there. (Also in the Rune Soup one for main blog banter.) Show Notes Fortune's Fools Telegram group. Fortune's Fools Episode 0. Hit the bell icon so you know when we're live! Fortune's Fools main site. Colin's main site. Colin on Instagram.
Mar 9, 2021 · 1 hr 25 min
Talking Automatic Writing | Michael Sandler
Life coach, author, teacher, athlete and host of the Inspire Nation show, Michael Sandler is our guest this week. Michael joins us to discuss his latest book, AWE: The Automatic Writing Experience. Along the way, we also explore different forms of spirit contact, what it's like to have had two Near Death Experiences, the importance of ceremony, sweat lodges and -topic du jour for the premium members- angels and how to contact them. Quick note if you're listening to the audio version, this was in fact recorded as a video discussion. So if you like looking at people while they talk, this is one to watch on YouTube. Enjoy! Show Notes Get AWE: The Automatic Writing Experience, along with bonus material. Michael's podcast, Inspire Nation. Inspire Nation on YouTube. Michael's training programmes; Inspire Nation University.
Feb 28, 2021 · 1 hr 31 min
Talking Vedic Astrology and Magic | Freedom Cole
Author, teacher, and Vedic Astrologer Freedom Cole joins us this week for a deep dive into the astrology of India and the Indian experience of what we call magic. Along the way we discuss yoga, Ayurveda, the chakras and how to save a farm from bushfires by summoning a dragon. Super fun chat. Show Notes Science of Light vol 1 and vol 2. Freedom's teaching site, Science of Light. Freedom's consultation site. Freedom's YouTube channel.
Feb 10, 2021 · 1 hr 23 min
Talking The Spirit and Intelligence of Water | Veda Austin
Artist, researcher and author Veda Austin joins us this week. She talks us through her healing journey with water, as well as some of the amazing artwork she creates from and with water. Along the way, we discuss what water actually is, that it is far stranger than we typically realise and the implications of living in a world which responds to our thoughts and emotions. Please note: This is a very visual episode, as Veda takes us through some of the art that informs her upcoming book, The Secret Intelligence of Water. You can certainly follow the discussion on the audio version but it is highly recommended you watch the show on YouTube. Show Notes Get The Secret Intelligence of Water. Veda's website. Veda on Instagram.
Feb 3, 2021 · 1 hr 34 min
Talking Islamic Folk Magic | Bint Al-Shalabiya
Artist, performer, musician, magician and teacher Bint Al-Shalabiya joins us this week. We talk about growing up Muslim in America in the 9/11 years, the importance of travel as a teacher, art, astrological and image magic, shared ayahuasca jungle encounters and the world of Islamic folk magic. Really great chat. Enjoy! Show Notes Bint's website. Bint's Patreon. Bint on Instagram. Upcoming Intro to Islamic Magic course.
Jan 27, 2021 · 1 hr 12 min
Talking Catacomb Saints, Cats and Desert Dwelling | Dr Paul Koudounaris
This week, we welcome to the show Dr Paul Koudounaris, art historian, photographer, explorer and member of the order of good death. Paul is the author of multiple books including Empire of Death, Heavenly Bodies and, most recently, A Cat's Tale: A Journey Through Feline History, which he co-authored with his cat, Baba. Paul joins us today to talk about catacomb saints, death rites, the impact of cats on the development of civilisation and people who mine jade under the instruction of UFOs. Great stuff. Show Notes Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs. The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses. A Cat's Tale: A Journey Through Feline History. Live event with Paul and Baba hosted by Glen Eira libraries. Smithsonian article on A Cat's Tale. Paul on Instagram.
Jan 17, 2021 · 1 hr 15 min
Talking Shamanism, Animism & Community Building | Langston Kahn
This week, we welcome back to the show good friend and one of our most popular returning guests, Langston Kahn. Langston is a shaman, educator and community leader. And now he can also add author to that list, because he joins us today on the occasion of the launch of his excellent first book, Deep Liberation: Shamanic Tools For Reclaiming Wholeness In A Culture Of Trauma. Show Notes Deep Liberation: Get the book. Langston's website. Free online book launch party and on January 19th. Langston's Energy Body Mastery Course.
Jan 12, 2021 · 1 hr 19 min
Talking Music, Ceremony & Psychedelic Assisted Therapy | Tania de Jong AM
This week, we welcome to the show Tania de Jong. Tania is a soprano, social entrepreneur, business woman, professional speaker and member of the Order of Australia among many other things. She has also founded several highly successful charities that have brought thousands of people together to heal through music and singing. Tania's most recent charity is Mind Medicine Australia, which is helping to bring psychedelics into the fields of mental health and social well being. A great chat for the first month of the year, and especially this first month of this specific year. Be sure to check out the show notes for a reminder that good things happen in the world, and good people live in it. This week's outro music is Angel Song by Tania de Jong AM. Show Notes Tania's website. Tania de Jong AM on Soundcloud. Tania's article, My Magic Medicine Journey. Mind Medicine Australia. List of webinars and events coming up from Mind Medicine Australia. Creativity Australia's With One Voice programme. Tania's TedX talk: How Singing Together Changes The Brain. Video highlights of the With One Voice programme.
Jan 2, 2021 · 1 hr 38 min
New Year's Special with Conner Habib
Cometh the hour, cometh the traditional new year special guest! Conner Habib joins us once again for a 2020 retrospective and a deep and thoughtful engagement with 2021: Politics, health, agency, meaning, desire. All that great stuff. This was a livestreamed discussion so you can download the audio version here or watch along over on the YouTube channel. Enjoy! Show Notes Patreon for Conner's podcast, Against Everyone with Conner Habib. Conner on Twitter.
Dec 23, 2020 · 27 min
Solo Show - Recapitulation
A brief solo show this month to finish up our accidental series on time with a practical technique you can use to move forward into 2021 with greater coherence and optimism. Have a wonderful Christmas and I will see you on January 2nd at 3pm New York time when we return with a live recording of Conner Habib and my traditional new year's episode. Click through to YouTube and hit the bell icon. (Members and patrons can join the call live.)