Hello everybody. Today I'm speaking with Zena Shrek whose original name was

Lave, and who is the daughter of Anton Lavey, who was the most famous Satanist of the last half of the 20th century.

And so she grew up with the man who established the

modern Church of Satan. A very intelligent man, very charismatic, very

creative, very maculian, psychopathic, manipulative, a Carney Barker, an admirer of

P.T. Barnum, a man for whom there was a sucker born every minute, a man who deeply believed

that the world was an act and that life was a carnival and that if you had the wall pulled over your eyes to his benefit then so much the worst for you and I suppose as well you deserve it for being so foolish and gullible.

That's the eternal... foolish and gullible.

That's the eternal self-justification of the Carney Barker Psychopath.

And Zina grew up in that household as, all appearances a dutiful woman, young woman committed to the well-being

of her father to the degree where in the 1980s when a panic about satanic

practice arose in the general population quite a widespread panic she felt

compelled to defend him and took on the mantle of high priestess of the

satanic church for five years before coming to the realization that she had been immersed in a pack of lies, in a web of lies,

before understanding as a consequence of the promptings of her conscience that she was

participating in something that was not what it claimed to be and in a life that

wasn't what she thought it was and was also called by promptings, you might say, of a genuinely

religious nature to forswear the church, to leave her father and to set out what would you say into the desert of her own

doubt and so that's what we talk about. The crazy 1970s, the hangover from the hedonistic

bliss of the summer of love hippies, the dark side of let it all hang out and tune in turn on and drop out right the

catastrophic underbelly of immature hedonism right and uh... well who better to guide us through that absolute bloody catastrophic mess than the daughter of the prime Satanist from the 1960s and the 1970s?

Join us.

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