Episode 174: Magick and Enlightenment, with Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford

Weird Studies

Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.8 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Phil and JF are joined by Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford – practicing magicians, podcasters, and co-authors of the newly released Baptist's Head Compendium: Magick as a Path to Enlightenment, a collection of essays and reports from their famous occult blog, The Baptist's Head. Duncan and Alan are accomplished practitioners with deep insights into the nature of magic(k). The conversation touches on a number of subjects, including the parallels between magic, mysticism, and religion; form and formlessness; the nature of truth; the primacy of devotion; and the quest to converse with one's Holy Guardian Angel. To purchase The Baptist's Head Compendium at a 20% discount, go to http://www.spirit.aeonbooks.co.uk and enter the code given in the introduction to this episode. Support us on Patreon. Buy the Weird Studies soundtrack, volumes 1 and 2, on Pierre-Yves Martel's Bandcamp page. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia. Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop Find us on Discord Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau! REFERENCES Occult Experiments in the Home, Duncan Baford's blog and podcasts. Barbarous Words, Alan Chapman's Substack. WORP FM, a ten-part podcast series with Alan and Duncan. The Abremelin working Illuminates of Thanatos (IOT) Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law Buddhist Geeks, “The Great Work of Western Magic with Alan Chapman” Aleister Crowly, John St. John Special Guests: Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Spectrevision Radio
0:02.0	Welcome to Weird Studies, an arts and philosophy podcast with hosts Phil Ford and J.F. Martel.
0:20.0	For more episodes, or to support the podcast,
0:23.3	go to weirdstud J.F.
0:52.8	We have guests in today's episode. Authors, podcasters, and occultists, Duncan Barford and Alan Chapman.
1:00.7	Longtime listeners of the show may remember Duncan from all the way back in May of 2022, when we recorded an episode with him entitled Dark Night Radio of the Soul.
1:12.2	Today, Duncan returns to weird studies with a friend, the incredibly insightful Alan Chapman.
1:18.8	Both Alan and Duncan are practicing magicians. Back in the Notties, they kept a blog,
1:25.2	the Baptist's head, chronicling their magical experiments, and in particular their
1:29.6	efforts to make contact with what the tradition calls the Holy Guardian Angel.
1:34.6	Though the blog no longer exists, the entries in that fabled log of occult exploration
1:40.2	have blessedly found their way into print.
1:43.1	The Baptist's Head Compendium,
1:45.1	Magic as a Path to Enlightenment,
1:47.1	is now available from Aeon Books
1:49.0	in hefty hardback format.
1:51.4	We hope that listening to this episode
1:53.4	will inspire you to get a copy,
1:55.5	which you can do with a 20% discount
1:57.6	by purchasing it directly from the publisher
1:59.9	at www.spirit.aionbooks.com.
2:06.1	That's Aeon Aeon and entering the discount code BHC20.
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