Occult Confessions

The Alchemical Actors

Discover the secret history of cults, witches, magicians, conspiracies and the supernatural with occultism scholar Rob C. Thompson. His crew of Alchemical Actors explore life’s mysteries with a blend of research, ritual, and old-fashioned radio drama.

  1. 26/12/2025

    28.12: Death on Stage (Holiday Special)

    While the full series remains exclusive to patrons, we are pulling our episode on musical deaths on stage to the main channel for the holiday. Please and enjoy and consider supporting us on patreon!

    59 min
  2. 28.11: Hermit on Fire

    12/12/2025

    28.11: Hermit on Fire

    Richard Rolle was a hermit and a mystic who was probably more widely read than Chaucer during the medieval period. Rolle sets forth the proper religious path for the contemplative introvert. He teaches a message that is not especially charitable to women but participates in one of the most notable platonic relationships between a man and woman with the anchoress Margaret Kirkby.

    1h 10m

  3. 28/11/2025

    28.10

    Rob and Luke sit down with Sheer Zed to talk about his experience traveling to Thailand to receive sacred tattoos, captured in his book Thai Tattoo Magic.

    1 hr

  4. 14/11/2025

    28.9: Margery Wept

    Margery Kempe cried so much and so loudly that she became one of the most annoying women in her hometown of Lynn as well as neighboring Lincoln and Norwich not to mention Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de compostella where she made pilgrimages. She was regarded as a madwoman, a heretic, a faker, and a lollard. She was also called a deeply pious and religious woman. She was examined by priests, bishops, and archbishops and threatened with burning at the stake. Friars denounced her from the pulpit. Anchorites alternately encouraged and rejected her. She idolized St. Bridget and met St. Julian of Norwich. And she wrote, with the aid of a priest as scribe, what is probably the very first autobiography in the English language.

    1h 20m
  5. 28.8: The Dark Pool Project Part 3 of 3

    07/11/2025

    28.8: The Dark Pool Project Part 3 of 3

    Rob's strange experiment in subconscious exploration and creation comes to an exciting conclusion in this final installment of our Dark Pool project.

  6. 31/10/2025

    28.7: The Dark Pool Project Part 2 of 3

    The story continues. The actors blend subconscious exploration, devised theater, and occult theory in this experimental storytelling experience.

    1h 32m

  7. 24/10/2025

    28.6: Dark Pool Project Part 1 of 3

    After four years, we have taken down the website for our experiment in audio storytelling created during the pandemic lockdown and so we're posting it up here on our main channel for your Halloween enjoyment (or whichever season you happen to be listening).

    1h 56m

  8. 17/10/2025

    28.5: The Cloud of Unknowing (Part Two)

    Where did the medieval via negative come from? In large part, it was inspired by Plato and those who followed him an innovated on his way of thinking. In the second of two parts on the Cloud of Unknowing we consider Plotinus and Pseudo-Dionysius.

    45 min
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