Hey, everybody. This is Against Everyone with Connor Abeeb, a weekly podcast featuring my conversations

with countercultural figures and presenting complex, philosophical, spiritual, and political ideas

in an engaging and accessible way. This episode has me in conversation with the host of the

Michael Brooks Show. You might guess who that is, it's Michael

Brooks. Michael Brooks is, well, we would maybe call him a pundit, although that's kind of a dirty

word, and doesn't really capture the spirit of what Michael does, which is global political analysis

with a leftist perspective, definitely leaning towards, if not

completely occupying socialism, with socialist space and the socialist perspective.

Michael is also a contributor to the majority report with Sam Sater, and he's written, perhaps surprisingly, co-written a book called

The Buddhist Playbook with Josh Summers and has written about other topics as well.

Just go follow Michael on Twitter and you'll see what he's all about.

It's Michael Brooks, but there's an underscore, so it's underscore Michael Brooks on Twitter,

or you can support his Patreon.

Patreon.com forward slash TMBS, the Michael Brooks show, TMBS.

Anyway, Michael and I talk about spirituality and politics.

Now, this is something that I don't think Michael gets to talk about a lot on his own show,

or the massive amounts of content that he puts out. Basically, I knew who Michael was. I liked what

he was doing, and we started talking on Twitter, in a certain point, he reached out and asked me

if I would want to do his show, which I did, just a

sort of Patreon at first. I think it's available to everybody now, and you can listen to that,

a Patreon-only episode. But Michael asked me to talk about spirituality and the occult.

So I was actually rather surprised very often when I get asked to talk on sort of leftist platforms, I get asked to speak about sex work and porn, and I'm really glad I get asked to speak about all of that. But it doesn't encompass a lot of my interests, especially the ones that I am now, I think, the most dedicated to, which are occult and spiritual interests and how they

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