Welcome to Roon Soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the paranormal.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

Since he was last on the show, Gary Luckman has published not one but two new books.

The first, Lost Knowledge of the Imagination, is a splendid addition to what we might call

his hermetic line of books. The second and most recent Dark Star Rising is an

examination of the novel and occult worldviews that appear to have researched and quite possibly are impacting politics around the planet.

And here's the kicker, they sort of go together,

although you can of course certainly read one and or the other.

I was, well I don't want to say dubious, but interested to see how that might play out.

This is that conversation. The prolific Mr Luckman, welcome back.

Oh, it's my pleasure to be here. Thank you for having me on.

All right, so what shall we call this episode, Gary? Lost Trump of the imagination?

That's the next book.

Yeah, Dark Star of the Imagination is actually kind of cool.

It's not... Oh, that's a good one. Dark Stars of the imagination is actually kind of cool. It's not... Oh that's a good one. Dark

Stars of the Imagination. That sounds very good. Lost secrets of the dark stars.

That's very sci-fi. Yes, that can be the movie version. All right.

We are joking about this because, well, you're crazy prolific.

And since we've last spoke, you've actually published two books, lost knowledge of the imagination, and Last

Last Knowledge of The Imagination and More Recently, Dark Star.

So, and as I do for these shows, I tend to listen to

other interviews you've done more recently about them and you kind of made the point or

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