S20 Ep59: Jim Morrison, Secret Teacher Of The Occult w/Paul Wyld

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Darkness Radio Presents: Jim Morrison, Secret Teacher Of The Occult w/ Musician/Poet/Author, Paul Wyld!

The groundbreaking 1960s band The Doors, named for Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception, achieved incredible acclaim and influence, ultimately serving as a key group in the development of psychedelic and progressive rock. At the center of it all was complex front man Jim Morrison, who died in 1971 at only 27. Yet, as author Paul Wyld reveals, despite Morrison’s reputation as a lewd, drunken performer, he was a full- fledged mystical, shamanic figure, a secret teacher of the occult who was not merely central to the development of rock music, but to the growth of the Western esoteric tradition as a whole. Wyld looks at the mystical works that inspired Morrison, including Kurt Seligmann’s The Mirror of Magic, Colin Wilson’s The Outsider, and the writings of Nietzsche and Jack Kerouac. Drawing on Morrison’s lyrics and poems, his intimate writings, and the recollections of friends like photographer Paul Ferrara and
Doors keyboard player Ray Manzarek, the author makes the case that Morrison was not simply a superficial dabbler in the occult but an actual secret teacher transmitting knowledge through the golden thread stretching back to Egypt and Thoth-Hermes.

On Today's Darkness Radio, we talk with Paul about Morrison's journey before the Doors, what events shaped his life to make him set out on an esoteric journey. We discuss the parallels between the movie Lawrence of Arabia and Morrison's journey and why he may have taken cues from that movie on his spiritual journey. We also discuss significant spiritual highpoint's of Morrison's life, his tragic end, and much more!

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The United States Welcome in to the best in paranormal podcasting. This is Darkness Radio. I'm your host, Tim Dennis.
0:34.5	Today is going to be a great show, folks. We're going to focus a little bit on some American iconography
0:40.6	and a little bit about teachings of the occult
0:45.5	and a special person in American culture,
0:50.7	that being Jim Morrison of the Doors.
0:52.5	I read quite the book this past week and got to
0:57.6	sit down and really get to absorb it. It's one of those books that I think you probably have to
1:02.6	read twice because there's so many different concepts here that are fascinating, that you
1:08.8	really need to read and absorb. And I'll tell you,
1:14.5	it's a great, great book that I'm honored to have our author on Paul Wilde today. It's called
1:21.7	Jim Morrison's Secret Teacher of the Occult, A Journey to the Other Side. It's put up by
1:26.8	inner traditions. And I want to bring Paul in
1:30.8	right away and get to this because there's a lot of meat on this bone, folks. So let's bring him in now.
1:37.3	Paul Wilde is a singer-songwriter, artist, poet, and author with a liberal arts degree in history.
1:43.0	And I want to bring him in now and talk a little bit.
1:45.1	We know kind of a little bit of the history of Jim Morrison,
1:47.7	but not a lot before he gets to the door.
1:49.7	So we'll talk a little bit about that history.
1:51.9	And we'll talk about how exactly Jim Morrison is not just that singer that you know
1:58.7	and that poet that you know,
2:00.7	but I actually tried to disseminate
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