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MonsterTalk

Magic: Spiritualism and Theosophy

MonsterTalk

Monster House LLC

History, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

The 19th century saw the rise of a variety of secret and secretive movements. Free Masons, Spiritualists, Theosophy and Esoteric Orders give rise to a variety of mystic-themed groups whose influence lurks under the mainstream themes of the 19th century. In this episode of MonsterTalk, we talk with religious studies scholar John Crow about the birth of these movements and how they influenced 19th (and 20th) century thought. Read the episode notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an airwave media podcast.

0:08.0

It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.

0:17.0

A giant hairy creature, Part 8, Part Man. In Larkness, a 24 mile long bottomless lake in the highlands of Scotland.

0:22.0

It's a creature known as the Loch Ness monster. Yeah. Monster Talk.

0:49.0

Welcome to Monster Talk, the science show about monsters.

0:52.0

I'm Blake Smith. Today we're going to continue our

0:54.4

series on Magic because I want to talk about some famous people within that area of study,

0:58.4

but I feel like there's too much legend and lore surrounding some of these figures

1:02.4

that doesn't give them

1:03.2

their proper historical context. So in this episode we're going to begin a

1:07.2

conversation with Religious Studies expert John Crow about Theosophy, but we'll be

1:12.4

touching on spiritualism, Masonic

1:14.4

rights, and many other topics. Our goal here is to get to the life of Alistair Crowley,

1:18.4

but before we can do that I think we need to understand the world he grew up in.

1:22.1

Also just a quick note I believe

1:25.0

his name is pronounced Crowley as Robert Anton Wilson constantly reminds me it's

1:30.5

supposed to rhyme with Holy but I at some points during the interview I do say Crowley my apologies

1:36.9

But I can't get that Ozzy Osbourne song out of my head anyway a bit of quick sad monster news.

1:43.8

We want to note the passing of Dr. John Bindernagle,

1:46.7

a biologist who spent many years researching Bigfoot stories.

1:50.2

I had the chance to exchange a few emails with him him and he was always very polite and friendly

1:54.7

and while I never met him in person I certainly had come to know him by way of his many documentary

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