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Rejected Religion
Добавлен 20 авг 2017
Illuminating the Obscure
Rejected Religion is a platform for diverse topics regarding 'religion', 'spirituality', 'magic', 'occultism', philosophy, art, or any combination of these concepts. My goal is to mediate communication between the academic sphere and mainstream culture.
Created by Stephanie C. Shea, MA (res) Theology and Religious Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hello Friends! If you enjoy my content, and would like to donate to my platform, THANK YOU!
While the work that is put into each episode, interview, and video is done with a love of sharing information and a willingness to help broaden perspectives, it does require many hours of research preparation, scheduling, interviewing, editing and producing. If you appreciate this work, and feel inclined to donate to my platform, you can do so by following the "Donate" button on my website and use my PayPal link: paypal.me/stephanieRRpod. Your support is greatly appreciated!
Rejected Religion is a platform for diverse topics regarding 'religion', 'spirituality', 'magic', 'occultism', philosophy, art, or any combination of these concepts. My goal is to mediate communication between the academic sphere and mainstream culture.
Created by Stephanie C. Shea, MA (res) Theology and Religious Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hello Friends! If you enjoy my content, and would like to donate to my platform, THANK YOU!
While the work that is put into each episode, interview, and video is done with a love of sharing information and a willingness to help broaden perspectives, it does require many hours of research preparation, scheduling, interviewing, editing and producing. If you appreciate this work, and feel inclined to donate to my platform, you can do so by following the "Donate" button on my website and use my PayPal link: paypal.me/stephanieRRpod. Your support is greatly appreciated!
Spotlight Dr. Tara Smith: Warhammer 40k and Spirituality
Dr. Tara Smith is an interdisciplinary academic that works in the fields of science fiction, literature, and popular culture. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, writing on religious ideas and experiences of people who paint and play within the science fiction 'grim dark' universe of Warhammer 40,000. She is currently visiting Amsterdam's HHP Centre at the University of Amsterdam in her Fellowship role.
In this interview, Tara discusses how there is a lacuna in the area of Religious Studies when it comes to researching the relationship between religion and tabletop games. Her work demonstrates that Warhammer 40...
In this interview, Tara discusses how there is a lacuna in the area of Religious Studies when it comes to researching the relationship between religion and tabletop games. Her work demonstrates that Warhammer 40...
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RR Pod E29 Mike Marinacci: Psychedelic Cults and Outlaw Churches
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Guest: Mike Marinacci, author of Psychedelic Cults and Outlaw Churches: LSD, Cannabis, and Spiritual Sacraments in Underground America Mike is an independent expert on psychedelic spiritual groups and nontraditional American religious sects. He is also the author of California Jesus and Mysterious California, and coauthor of the bestselling Weird California. And he lives in the San Francisco Ba...
Spotlight Dr. Randall Hall Excerpt
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Music clip, taken from Randall Hall's album _Oracle_, Voces Mysticae, is used here with kind permission from the artist. www.randallhall.net/ randallhall.bandcamp.com/ open.spotify.com/artist/3wjAugsZsJCaIuqmHzMUzm profile.php?id=100063004759989
Spotlight Dr. Randall Hall: 'Weird' Music, The Sacred, and Initiatory Experiences
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This interview was recorded December 7, 2023. Dr. Randall Hall is professor of music at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, as well as a performing saxophonist and composer. He's also writing a book about 'speculative' and 'weird' music as it relates to the Sacred and ritual experiences. In this special Spotlight interview, Randall shares his process of creating music that attempts to r...
NEW COURSE IN JUNE 2024!! The Psychedelic Universe - Trailer 1
Просмотров 5586 месяцев назад
The Psychedelic Universe: Global Perspectives on Higher Consciousness Hosted by the University of Amsterdam 16-28 June 2024 Applications now open! Deadline: Friday 15 March 2024 summerschool.uva.nl/content/summer-courses/the-psychedelic-universe/the-psychedelic-universe.html?origin=PtN3uwswQquDlGtnNX3fZg#Programme-description This course provides an in-depth exploration of psychedelic conscious...
RR Pod E28 P2 Bob Cluness - An Esoteric Menagerie...
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Full title: An Esoteric Menagerie: The Weird & Eerie, Slenderman, CCRU, Accelerationism, Chaos Magic(k) and Digital Technology In Part 2, we sit with the concept of accelerationism, how it is occultural in its original form (in Bob’s opinion), its problems, its appropriation by far-right groups, and the related sticky problems of capitalism and neoliberalism that are currently associated with a...
RR Pod E28 P1 Bob Cluness - An Esoteric Menagerie...
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Full title: An Esoteric Menagerie: The Weird & Eerie, Slenderman, CCRU, Accelerationism, Chaos Magic(k) and Digital Technology This month’s guest is Bob Cluness. Bob is a PhD candidate and researcher in the cultural studies program at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik. Bob graduated in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in film studies on accelerationist aesthetics and action cinema, while in 2...
HHP Centre/University of Amsterdam Online Winter School 2024
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Don’t miss the 5th edition of our ✨ONLINE✨ “Visions of the Occult” Winter School programme at the University of Amsterdam. . Head Instructor: J. Christian Greer (@angelheadedhipstersarchive Instagram) . 🌟WHEN🌟 Dates: 15 - 26 January 2024 . Admission deadline: 10 December 2023 . 🌟ABOUT🌟 . The goal of this course is to offer an introductory overview of the study of esotericism as a disci...
Update October 2023
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Hi Friends, I thought it might be a good idea to give an update as to my voice issues. As I originally thought this was a question of time and patience, I have been resting my voice as much as possible and practicing a whole list of remedies to try to help in my recovery. Sadly, this has not really helped me, so today I had a doctor’s visit. Long story short, my doctor thinks there is another i...
RR Pod E27 Dell Rose - Cultural Receptions of Emanuel Swedenborg
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Full title: Cultural Reception of Emanuel Swedenborg: Connecting the Spiritual with the Material My guest this month is Dell J. Rose. Dell is a cultural historian and current Ph.D. researcher at the University of Amsterdam’s HHP Center. He is also the recipient of the Swedenborg Doctoral Scholarship from the Swedenborg Society in the UK. Dell holds a Bachelor's degree, with majors in English, H...
Spotlight Occulture Series #2: What is 'magic' and how do we see it portrayed in contemporary media?
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Several months ago, I interviewed Andrea Franchetto for the podcast (E22) about magic in the history of religions, and in that discussion we focused on magical practices taken from antiquity and medieval periods. In this video, I'm taking another (brief) look at an academic chapter that I referenced back then, from the book _Defining Magic: A Reader_, edited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Michael ...
Spotlight Sue Terry: Magickal Women Conference & Owl House Seminars
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Sue Terry has an MA from the University of Surrey where her dissertation was _The Magician Goes Further: The Occult Oblique View in the Short Fiction of Mary Butts_. Sue is now a PhD candidate at Surrey researching feminist occult modernist novels of the 20th century, and she is teaching open access courses in "Literature and the Weird" through her new venture Owl House Seminars. Sue co-founded...
HHP Centre Summer School 'Arcane Worlds' July 2-20, 2023
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Summer School: Arcane Worlds, New Frontiers in the Study of Esotericism In July 2023 the HHP Centre takes part in the Summer School programme at the University of Amsterdam, organised by the Graduate School of Social Science. Dates: Sunday 2 July - Thursday 20 July 2023 Early admission deadline: Wednesday 1 February; regular admission deadline: Wednesday 15 March. The study of esotericism is a ...
Spotlight Freek Wallagh & Death and Rebirth Ritual Art Festival - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Freek Wallagh is a poet, writer, painter, cultural organizer, and political scientist who lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His work centers on the dynamics (especially with regard to art & politics) of more obscure areas of life where counterculture meets the occult. Freek conducts interviews with people from all forms of 'nightlife', and attempts in his work to forge new apprecia...
RR Pod E26 Prof. Dr. Wouter J. Hanegraaff: Hermetic Embodiment, Interpretation, & Imagination
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It was my pleasure to speak with Prof. Dr. Wouter Hanegraaff about his new book, Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity. As Wouter preferred not to give a general summary, I chose four very important themes of the book to discuss: what the Hermetica is really all about; the notion of embodiment in the Hermetic texts; the difficult but...
Spotlight Brennan Kettelle & Morbid Anatomy Course: 'The Demoness Lilith'
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Spotlight Brennan Kettelle & Morbid Anatomy Course: 'The Demoness Lilith'
Spotlight Katy Bohinc & The Ratio Project: Astrology and Data Science
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Spotlight Katy Bohinc & The Ratio Project: Astrology and Data Science
RR Pod E25 P2 Dr. Luke Walker- Allen Ginsberg & His Blakean Revival
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RR Pod E25 P2 Dr. Luke Walker- Allen Ginsberg & His Blakean Revival
RR Pod E25P1 Dr. Luke Walker -Allen Ginsberg & His Blakean Revival
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RR Pod E25P1 Dr. Luke Walker -Allen Ginsberg & His Blakean Revival
HHP Centre Winter School - January 2023
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HHP Centre Winter School - January 2023
Spotlight Cavan McLaughlin - Trans-States Exhibition and Conference Series
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Spotlight Cavan McLaughlin - Trans-States Exhibition and Conference Series
RR Pod E24 Part 2 Dr. Aaron French - US from the Future?
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RR Pod E24 Part 2 Dr. Aaron French - US from the Future?
RR Pod E24 Part 1 Dr. Aaron French- Us From The Future?
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RR Pod E24 Part 1 Dr. Aaron French- Us From The Future?
Spotlight Richard Mason: Arthur Edward Waite & the 'Trinick-Pippet' Tarot
Просмотров 517Год назад
Spotlight Richard Mason: Arthur Edward Waite & the 'Trinick-Pippet' Tarot
RR Pod E23 Drs. Michelle K. Oing & J. Christian Greer- Kumano Kodo
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RR Pod E23 Drs. Michelle K. Oing & J. Christian Greer- Kumano Kodo
Hope you will join myself and @oddedges! 🌟
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Hope you will join myself and @oddedges! 🌟
RR Pod E22 Andrea Franchetto - Ritual Space in Grimoire Traditions (Full Title in Description Box)
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RR Pod E22 Andrea Franchetto - Ritual Space in Grimoire Traditions (Full Title in Description Box)
RR Pod E21 Ralph Tegtmeier / Frater U:.D:. - Chaos Magic P2: Emic Experiences
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RR Pod E21 Ralph Tegtmeier / Frater U:.D:. - Chaos Magic P2: Emic Experiences
Spotlight Occulture Series - Netflix's Archive 81 & Stranger Things Season 4
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Spotlight Occulture Series - Netflix's Archive 81 & Stranger Things Season 4
Spotlight Ninian Nijhuis - Western Sidereal Astrology
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Spotlight Ninian Nijhuis - Western Sidereal Astrology
I figured there were smart people here, capable of both thinking and feeling (maybe even both at the same time!?)------ -------so I submit the following foundational(i.e "stupid") question:------ Do words "say" things? ----or ----Do people "say" things? If I point at the moon ----with enough determination(and stretching exercises)----- --might i one day stand on Earth and poke a new crater in it?
This is a great job. Not easy to digest in one run. Regards. Adlai
I feel like all writing is prophetic in some sense, or at least kind of a sincronicity machine of sorts. That’s been my particular experience…
This poor lady, lol
Many thanks for this non-sensational empirically responsible talk. Much appreciated.
Wow, this guy has been doing what I’ve been interested in doing since learning a little more about Pythagoras in college! I definitely want to know when he’ll release his book! Should I keep in touch with him for updates on it?
Thanks for your comment! I plan to keep in touch with Randall and will certainly post updates!
I just discovered this 3 years after you recorded it in 2024 free the explosion of a. I technology if I went into the past and told my self that artificial intelligence would be what it is today I would have a problem believing it.
wh40k was written by people... sacred texts were written by people .... all fiction is written by people... they are the human mythos, the human experience written in parable ... so of course something like wh40k could help some people in their lives.
prayer and magic are interchangeable... the fact that the imperium uses the warp ... should really be a key point to what is "evil"
Nihilism is what is happening ... people just finding meaning in hobby, community, identity, shared dislikes. specifically Warhammer though... imperialism, strength, destruction of "the other" of xenos and heresy . warhammer is a critique on all these things... that seems missed by many.
Hail the Omnissiah! He is the God in the Machine, the Source of All Knowledge.
"All events are equally lawful - and every one necessary, in the long run - for all of us, in theory; but in practice, only one act is lawful for each one of us at any given moment. " um... he is just a determinist...
"He showed his KNOWLEDGE chiefly by the use of cipher or cryptogram in certain passages to set forth recondite facts, including some events which had yet to take place, such that no human being could possibly be aware of them; thus, the proof of his claim exists in the manuscript itself. It is independent of any human witness. The study of these passages necessarily demands supreme human scholarship to interpret - it needs years of intense application. A great deal has still to be worked out. But enough has been discovered to justify his claim; the most sceptical intelligence is compelled to admit its truth. This matter is best studied under the Master Therion, whose years of arduous research have led him to enlightenment." 1) soooooo a book that claims it's true by refencing that the book says it is true... is that good evidence of anything? 2) "f these passages necessarily demands supreme human scholarship to interpret " have we done this? was the book ACTUALLY written in such a way to be deciphered? or is it jsut said to be and left to be impossible to?
30:56 do we have these tests documented and available to us?
i searched the catalogue and do not see anything explicitly about mental health ......
"g a fiction that you're making it real but you have to have in this case you have to have people reading it so it influences people and then that changes the future because and it doesn't matter if it isn't uh real at the at the time of reading it can still be a virtual thing " yup... lies, when believed, and acted on, can be "real". this isn't a revelation this is just agents acting.
"i would encourage them to go to naked lunch and look at the very first sentence of the book" um.. ok .. ^^^^ "i can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper i threw away at Washington square station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train ... Young, good looking, crew cut, Ivy League, advertising exec type fruit holds the door back for me. " um... this sounds like a junky that was just shooting up and is running from cops..... soooo..... or do you mean the tittle of the chapter? " and start west"? that doesn't sound like magic.
existence is nihilistic, and a person that has stared into the void is a nihilist. what result each person gets from staring into the void is a different story. anyone grabbing on to myth & magic is coping from nihilism. "seekers" that weave fictions or accept fictions from others. IMO
it might be unique that he got his words into writing.. but unique as a person? nah, i know a handful of people personally that saw this wacky stuff. let alone all the people ranting on the subway.... as fiction.. as pushing the envelope... sure this stuff is great. but as truth... as evidence... nah man.
" he thought was an ability to sort of disrupt the future perhaps because you know he believes that he believes that the future is pre-recorded right so the arc the archons have already written the future well so if you take any language that's written with normal grammar structures and then you mix it up you're sort of scrambling uh you're scrambling time itself and therefore by scrambling time you're you're playing with with what the future can be you're creating a chaotic potential for the future" sooo what does that mean for the library of babel? is it the cure or the poison?
every fiction is true if we believe , with the same level of evidence, these claims. Dune, Aliens, Star Wars, Scientology, all the world religions, the Witcher , Frankenstein , Oryx and Crake, His Dark Materials trilogy, the Matrix, The Thing, Killer Clowns from Outerspace. i jsut dont understand where the line is? the line that rolls these artists into reality?
um ...the Mayan calendar thing... ar ewe sure he just didn't read The Tyranny of the Clock - George Woodcock - 1944 ..... sounds like he was just into anarchy... i mean.. all these people came up with Hubbard ... and were tripped out..... usually the religious folks say that faith s needed and gods are outside of materialism .. but this esoteric stuff is VERY MUCH in the material world... where is the evidence? an esoteric liberation movement? they are discriminated? .. um .. what? No esoteric magic user is being arrested for being a shaman. they are free to beleive what they want... they just can't shoot their wives in the face ... OH WAIT!! that other guy got away with that one... i'm not sure where this idea of persecution of the esoteric is happening. -- the scientists want to apply the scientific method. the esoterics want to be believed .... but do not have the science to back them up. so where is the middle ground? what is the test that can be agreed upon? -- again... no talk about mental health.... no talk about evidence. just stories, very possibly all fictions.
why wasall the bad stuff not addressed ?? lovecrafts xenophobia, the maga anti-semitism, all the white-chritian-nationalis blood libel stuff , mental health of many "seekers" that go down the Jungian path , religius zealots submitting to pure faith over facts, the paranoia of conspiracy-fantatics of governemnt UFO coverups and mk ulta experiments, the occult beleifs of the german riech . ... ... idk... i've seen way too much harm come out of people that fall down this rabbit hole... self reinforcement of illusions. forgetting that it was your own macination , seeing it as a "truth" from the outside, injecting it as such, and adding it to your own beleif that you forgot you already had... over and over... untill you forget that it was your own lie for the start. isn't this how trauma is formed? self fulfilling prophiceis.....
The God Emporer approves.
Tara, thanks for your thoughts and insights on this project that you are working on.
Interesting stuff, thank you!
Very happy you enjoyed it!
Tara is very interteresting, i wonder if she has any thougts about otherkin culture, which is n much closer to being a "religion" in se ways, as a confirmed way of liffe as an angel, therian
Thank you for your comment! I find it interesting that you bring up Otherkin; have you perhaps read my Research Master thesis? (It's about Otherkin.) :)
@@rejectedreligion i have not, but that is very exciting i would love to read it. have an interest in religion, belief systems and rpgs of all sorts.
Keep up the exceptional work, Stephanie 👍
Thank you so much!
@@rejectedreligionmy son actually co-wrote a script with me about the theological and apocalyptic significance of the Dark Souls/Miyazaki universe. When I eventually have time to make more freeform essay videos, I'll do it
@@SobekLOTFC That is awesome! I look forward to it!
What are you people doing not talking about the best book wild boy’s . Or the latter western land series?
I feel like this could gain so much from looking at 'Cities of the Red Night'
he starts at 4:30
P r o m o S M 💕
Fantastic, a Scotsmen talking aboot the pgm, grand😊
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Great in-depth on Waite's personal life. We know all that had influence on him as well as the somewhat sad side of his experiences with not being totally recognized, at the time, by what ended up being his peers.
Freemasonry... My family have been involved in the "secret" society in the past. If you lived 200 years ago it was secret but not now, the powers that existed in the past and were usurped by people like the Masons are long gone. It really is now the largest worldwide boy-scouts-for-adult-males organization. They claim to talk high spiritual wisdom but everybody knows that they talk shop, and help each other out. It is a clique.
A. E. Waite claimed that there was not one single historical claim made by Eliphas Levi that was not doubtful or outright falsity. I put that quote on Wikipedia and they blocked me from editing Wiki pages.
if you plug keel's MIB trope into the gnostic archon trope you get an interesting contemporary vantage.. on another note, i wonder how many harry potter fans ended up in the middle of naked lunch upon looking up the mugwump😆
Congrats Mike on a lengthy interview. Good advice to folks at the 1 hr plus mark re: new trippers. Also subbed.
There was a fourth admonition, turn on, tune in, drop out and Get Well
I love how you say quote unquote white people and he was talking about black people. Who exactly were you quoting when you said white people? And why would the struggle for white people have to be put in quotes by you in the first place? Are you implying white people don’t exist? And if so, why don’t you raise the same objection to quote unquote black people? You seem to be pushing back against the idea of white people being a people while refraining of the same equal treatment for black prople.
Getting ready for Tommy Cowan’s visit w/ Juan Ayala’s RUclips Channel Juan on Juan Podcast ⭐️ fyi I was the 420th 👍🏼
@@otigerlily P A & Juan same time?!! What do we do? Juan never goes this late? It’s not on purpose do you think lol or or this is weird! Oh and btw I’m totally proud of you, have you figured out how to grab a link?!!