Magic - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 4/15/26
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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George Noory and author Richard Kaczynski explore the psychology of magic practiced by witches and pagans, how to achieve spiritual goals using magic, and discuss the misunderstood life of famous occultist Aleister Crowley.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on IHeart Radio. |
| 0:09.3 | And welcome back. |
| 0:10.2 | George Norrie with Richard Kaczynski. |
| 0:12.3 | He is a lifelong student and Western writer of esoterrorism. |
| 0:16.7 | He's an authority on the life and works of Alistair Crowley, the author of Purdue Arabo. |
| 0:22.5 | If I got that right, the life of Alistair Crowley and the editor of Alistair Crowley's The Sword of Song. |
| 0:28.7 | He holds a PhD in Psychology with a minor in statistics. |
| 0:32.8 | His doctoral dissertation examined the structure and correlations of metaphysical beliefs lives in |
| 0:38.5 | Raleigh, North Carolina. Welcome, Richard. Good to have you on the program. Oh, it's good to be |
| 0:44.1 | here. Thanks for inviting me on. How did I pronounce the name of that book? You know, we don't |
| 0:51.1 | speak Latin these days, so in many ways it's anybody's guess. |
| 0:55.1 | I've always said it, Pirdarabo, but I've heard other people say per durobo, but I don't know, |
| 1:00.9 | per durobo to me just seems to roll off the tongue a little bit better. |
| 1:04.7 | How'd you get interested in Alistair Crowley? |
| 1:08.1 | Oh, gosh. |
| 1:09.3 | I had this as a 14-year-old gotten interested in things like, you know, Nostradamus and things like that through my local library. |
| 1:19.3 | And I discovered a metaphysical bookstore in my neighborhood and went in there to pick up a book of the prophecies of Nostradonis |
| 1:29.1 | and in very short order and subsequent visits went from that to picking up a book on the |
| 1:36.1 | Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which was a secret society in London that had members |
| 1:41.9 | like William Butler Yates amongst its members. |
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