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Today on Roon Soup, we welcome Dr Arran Chique, comparative religious scholar, author, editor, and all-around expert in the fields of alchemy and hermeticism.

Dr. Arran, thank you for your time.

Thank you, it's good to be here.

Absolutely, absolutely.

So, traditional first question, Aaron, were you a weird kid?

Um, yeah. Aaron were you a weird kid? Yeah, I kind of just think I'm normal, but you know, in hindsight and by comparison, I guess I have to answer, yes, I was a weird kid.

Yeah, so I don't know, I was always drawn to kind of strange and obscure things and you know, I don't really remember too much of my early childhood but I just remember I have stories that my parents and family tell me which are kind of you know strange like I would like they had to get rid of the family dog because I was just imitating it and basically acting like a dog to, you know, it was almost going wild and stuff.

Of course I don't remember any of this.

This is just hearsay.

But yeah, I would allegedly bring home sheep's skulls and spinal columns of animals I'd find and stuff back in

back in Auckland when I was a kid. Well you're the second key we have had on the

show who seems to have brought bones home as a kid I wonder if

that was just a pastime you guys were interested in yeah maybe it's just you know a native

native past time. Yeah you know so I'd have to say yes in general. And then you

I mean we were talking about this before the show you were born in Auckland but you moved

around 13?

Yeah around 12 or 13 I think yeah my parents moved to Australia at the Gold Coast of all places.

And, yeah, so I've been here in Australia for an entire Saturn cycle, like 28 years, and I'm kind of feeling I've done my time

here and I'm feeling the call to move on back to where I came from back to New Zealand.

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