Black Hoodie Alchemy Anthony Tyler

Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! This week is all things Sasquatch -- not only do we analyze some of the folklore and typical content in the sightings, but I also am pleasantly surprised to report to you all that I have my own Sasquatch story to share with you! It happened over the weekend of April 2024's Solar Eclipse, it was auditory with several people around, and it happened multiple times. Oh yeah and there was a Sasquatch hunting board-game involved! But you'll have to listen in to learn more.



From a hairy hominid, to mystical gatekeeper of the forest, or even a poltergeist of the wilderness, my guests and I take a look at this topic from several different angles, and we even contrast them to sightings of "skinwalkers" and "dogman" at the end.



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Best link I found to the Sasquatch SIERRA SOUNDS

(The opening is stick-beating, followed by the whooping, and right afterward, listen a little closer to hear what I can only describe as snickering-death-rattles. I heard the hollers and the rattles.)



related episodes:

#52 - The Goblin Universe

#29 - Psychedelic Horror & Paranormal Activity

#21 - Unexplainable Phenomena & Mental Health

#5 - Demonology & Poltergeists



Where the Footprints End - Josh Cutchin x Tim Renner

Angels in Vermillion - PD Newman

Beasts Between the Rivers - Martin Grove

JC Johnson - Cryptid investigator and former exorcist

Martin Grove's Dogman interview, recommended by Chris



This week's featured music is brought to you by the extremely talented and multi-faceted musicians Zig Mentality. And we even have another collaboration between them and Cleopatrick! Very stoked to be bumping these tracks.



BMF #11 - ZIG MENTALITY

When You Force It - ZIG MENTALITY

What Weighs on You - ZIG MENTALITY

BMF #14 - ZIG MENTALITY x CLEOPATRICK

I & I - ZIG MENTALITY


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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we have a podcast-swaparoo with my homie Joe Rupe, host of Lighting the Void, and we're both celebrating the fresh release of my audiobook Dive Manual: Empirical Investigations of Mysticism. With the paperback released in 2020, Joe has lended his narration and editing talents to help me bring this book into audio form, and since he took the time to read the entire thing -- including all the outtakes and re-reads -- he now has quite a bit to say about it all.



I admittedly have a hard time explaining this book briefly, but it is data-driven research about my own investigations into mysticism, magick, and the religious experience. I look heavily into scientific concepts like Jungian psychoanalysis, sleep paralysis, dream analysis, phantom limb syndrome, memetics, and chaos theory. In addition, I also investigate the mechanics and history of things like alchemy, astrology, tarot, numerology, reincarnation, the Trees of Life & Death, Hermeticism, Gnostic Christianity, Taoism, Buddhism, Kabbalah, Paganism, and much more. Lastly, it has at times a semi-fictional framework that includes me as the narrator guiding you as the reader through the proverbial diving experience.



There's more I could say, but I will leave it at that for now! It's a winding journey about insanity, neuroticism, catharsis, unexplainable phenomena, and ineffable transcendence.



Don't forget -- if you dig Dive Manual, check out my second work Hunt Manual: 21st Century Demonology & Forteana. Joe has plans to bring this to audiobook form soon as well!



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This week's featured music is brought to you by the extremely badass rock n' roll talents of ZIG MENTALITY, including some of their collaborations with their well-known homies CLEOPATRICK. I'm very excited to be able to bump these killer musicians and you really oughta check em out!



Best Direction - ZIG MENTALITY

Hate to Say I Told You So (The Hives Cover) - ZIG MENTALITY x CLEOPATRICK

BMF #13 - ZIG MENTALITY x CLEOPATRICK

Triggered Emotion - ZIG MENTALITY


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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, we have another special guest: the wonderful, talented and laid-back Ronnie Pontiac. Ronnie is the author of books like 'American Metaphysical Religion: Esoteric and Mystical Traditions of the New World', he's part of the punk rock duo Lucid Nation with his wife Tamra Lucid, and he also just so happened to work as the great Manly P. Hall's research assistant and substitute lecturer for the last seven years of Hall's life.



For the first half of the show, we talk about the legacy of Manly Hall as seen and experienced by Ronnie and his wife, who were completely taken under the wing of Hall and his wife in a relationship that eventually grew to feel like grandparents and grandchildren.



Ronnie shares many candid stories about Manly Hall and gives us further insights into his philosophies and personal conduct, but beyond this we also get into Ronnie's work 'American Metaphysical Religion', and what it means to consider American spirituality from an outside perspective that focuses less on labels and more on actual conduct.



The insights from these perspectives are huge, and include contexts like, for instance, all of the alchemists that were prevalent in Colonial America. Yes, the history of America is a whole lot more esoteric than the 'Pilgrim' stereotypes would lead us believe, and with all this context, Ronnie helps me take a look at modern American spirituality as well.



And if that wasn't enough, we also get a little bit into the philosophies of DIY punk rock and even astrology!



It was a great pleasure sitting down to chat with Ronnie, and we will definitely be getting him back on the show before too long -- we hope you dig it.





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Ronnie on Instagram

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Tamra's book about Manly Hall



This week's featured music is brought to you by the wild punk talents of LUCID NATION -- music done by the guest and his wife, Ronnie Pontiac and Tamra Lucid!

Penetration - Lucid Nation

Food Chain - Lucid Nation

Privilege - Lucid Nation

Dad - Lucid Nation


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Welcome back to Black Hoodie Alchemy, folks! This week is coming in from the Black Hoodie Alchemy patreon feed, which I have decided to roll into the main feed of the regular show. Given the inconsistency of my own schedule, not wanting to split my show feeds apart, and the fact that patreon listenership can be a long game sometimes -- I am consolidating things just a bit!



With my cohort, friend, BHA listener and fellow alchemist, Seedperson1, this week we dive into the deeper aspects of alchemy in everyday life to include unraveling the idea that so many of us wrestle with, yet often do not acknowledge: how about those weird surreal memories from our childhood?



Damn near everyone has got one if they think hard enough -- some sort of memory that seems more like a dream than anything else, that no one else seems to remember, and perhaps even has some paranormal or mystical tones to it. Are they just dreams? Why do they stick out to us so much still throughout the span of our lives? Why do they seem to exist as strange existential riddles in the back of our heads, and what might these riddles be able to tell us about ourselves if we to unravel them?



PS: if you are in the show description looking for the name of the strange eastern-mystical portal that I was describing this week, it is called a SRI YANTRA.



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This week's featured music from my homie and fellow magician, Keats Ross AKA Dakota Slim. Don't forget to support all your favorite indie artists!

Knell - Dakota Slim

WaxWaner - Dakota Slim

And Lo! - Dakota Slim

Yosotros - Dakota Slim


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This week, I share with you my most recent guest appearance on my longtime friend Joe Rupe's show, Lighting the Void.



By telling the traditional story of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (which is far more alchemical and esoteric than the Universal rendition), the heartbreaking and triumphant story of Joseph 'Elephant Man' Merrick, and discussing some of Viktor Frankl's survival of the Auschwitz concentration camp (and development of logotherapy), we try to understand the struggles in our own personal lives a bit more. Relativizing one's own suffering can be problematic, surely, and should be done with caution -- but looking into the stories of people with struggles far greater than your own can give great perspective and inspiration.



We hope you dig the listen!



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This week on Black Hoodie Alchemy, our outlaw wizard friend Keats Ross returns from his last appearance on the show to talk about his latest work: Divergent Magick - An Anarchic Grimoire, which is far less destructive than it sounds.

Or, perhaps a better way to put it is: it is destruction with strong alchemical purpose. But beyond that, the true nature of the anarchy and divergence here lies in the difference between orthodoxy and heterodoxy; the tried-and-true versus the path less traveled.

With study, practice, and structure, so much of Keats' work is centered around flipping his study on its head and finding new meaning in the abstract, the mundane, and the intuitive rather than specific rules from books.

However, with discussion of anarchy and metaphysics we as well get into the more socio-cultural implications, dealing with wealth and poverty, struggle and resilience, and how the hunger that poverty can give us is truly something even the most pampered people are envious of.

We hope you dig it!



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Keats' PRAGMAGICK

WE THE HALLOWED



This week's featured music -- brought to you by this week's special guest Keats AKA Dakota Slim! Don't forget to support your favorite independent artists.



Yosotros - Dakota Slim

Cactus Crown - Dakota Slim

Knell - Dakota Slim

And Lo! - Dakota Slim

Wasted Bones - Dakota Slim


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