Talking Aleister Crowley in America | Tobias Churton

Rune Soup

Gordon White

Magic, Occult, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Paranormal, Ufo, Spirituality

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2017

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

This week we speak with the one and only Tobias Churton about his latest Crowley book, Aleister Crowley in America.

We discuss his New York experience, mountain climbing in Mexico, to what extent he was working for British Intelligence, his curious UFO incident in New Hampshire and a whole lot more.

A splendid discussion with one of my favourite authors. Enjoy.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Roon Soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the paranormal.
0:10.5	My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.
0:13.0	This week we are speaking to one of my favorite authors,
0:16.0	who also happens to be the author of one of my favorite books of the whole year.
0:20.0	The writer in question is Tobias Chertin
0:22.0	and the topic is his latest book,
0:23.9	Alistair Crowley in America. Mr. Chertin, welcome aboard.
0:28.3	Delighted to be here. Well there.
0:30.8	Yeah. The Iber, wherever we are. Well, uh, congratulations on the book. I loved it. I've been pressing your original
0:39.6	Crowley biography into people's hands for some years now and this this was a
0:44.8	gripping read. Well I'm absolutely delighted to hear that I put a lot into it and you
0:51.4	should reap what you so.
0:53.0	Well yes definitely I mean the quality is there but you certainly also get quantity with a Tobias Churten book.
1:00.0	Yes well we never we never like to short change our customers.
1:05.4	No, it's amazing. I have to start with well we have a traditional first question so I'm going to start
1:12.3	with that.
1:13.2	Tobias, were you a weird kid?
1:16.2	No, I was the sweetest apple of my mother's eye and a kindly and loving child.
1:23.0	And weird, no, I don't think weird.
1:30.0	No, I don't think weird.
1:31.0	No, I just sort of very jolly, spiritually minded, open-minded, broad-minded,
1:40.0	wanted to be very...
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