Welcome to Roon Soup, a podcast about Magic, Culture and the Paranormal, coming to you from Sunny West London.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host. Enjoy.

Today on Roon soup I am very pleased to be speaking to author, mystic, root worker and

hudist extraordinary conjugamand Ali.

Ali welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me. It's such a pleasure to the show. Thank you for having me.

It's such a pleasure to be here.

Yes, I'm looking forward to this.

Say, you know, heard you maybe once or twice before.

And so I kind of know a little bit of backstory for the first Christian, but I'm going to ask it anyway.

Ali, were you a weird kid?

Oh yeah, oh yeah. Of course, one would have to say how do you define weird but I once

joked one of my students that if there was ever if I ever wrote down my autobiography

or what my childhood would like, it would come out of a fantasy novel

because it was so bizarre and strange, slightly different from, I think, the experiences of other cultists or people in this particular world

but it was definitely strange it was definitely interesting and it's made me into the person that I am today so I wouldn't change it.

So what would be you say your earliest memory that other people might consider weird or experience?

Oh, that's a tough one because there's so many bizarre ones, but I think the earliest for me

was when I was around six years old I had this conversation with so I grew up in a very

spiritual family I should clarify and in addition to doing work in Hoodoo, I practice Seher or Ruhinia, which is the form of Middle Eastern and North African

spiritual and magical practice. And that's handed down via family tradition.

So I was six years old when my great grandfather

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