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KOOKS, CRANKS, AND ICONOCLASTS!

KOOKS, CRANKS, AND ICONOCLASTS!

By: Michael Lucht Spencer Lowery Chris Wells Jonas Lucht Jason Lloyd
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Greetings & Salutations! We're here to cover various interesting/infamous/inexplicable living enigmas & anomalies from across all of time, space, maybe even beyond, & from history BOTH ANCIENT & RECENT! Basically it's "BIOGRAPHY!" but focused solely on WEIRDOS! Listen then repeat what you hear to sound smart at parties! STOP being MYOPIC! START being ESOTERIC! (Mmm! Yum!) Stay tuned True Believers! Clear The Hump w/us as we provide Weekly Bios on strange/insane/shameful/lost/forgotten Misfits of History! Comedy/Conspiracy/True Crime/High Strangeness!Michael Lucht, Spencer Lowery, Chris Wells, Jonas Lucht, Jason Lloyd
Episodes
  • JOE FISHER, HUNGRY GHOSTS, & THE DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS - "SPIRITED DECEPTIONS"
    Oct 10 2026

    Wanna learn it? Listen up! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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    SOURCES:

    Fisher, Joe, The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts, Paraview Press, 2001.

    Eliade, Mircea, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, Princeton University Press, 1964.

    Harner, Michael, The Way of the Shaman, Harper & Row, 1980.

    Iamblichus, De Mysteriis, Translated by Emma C. Clarke, John M. Dillon, and Jackson P. Hershbell. Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

    Fortune, Dion, Psychic Self-Defense, Weiser Books, 1930.

    Crowley, Aleister, Magick in Theory and Practice, Castle Books, 1929.

    Jung, C.G., The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, Princeton University Press, 1969.

    Crabtree, Adam, Multiple Man: Explorations in Possession and Multiple Personality, Praeger, 1985.

    Wilson, Colin, Afterlife, Caxton Editions, 2000.

    Barrett, William, Deathbed Visions. Methuen & Co., 1926.

    Moody, Raymond, Life After Life, Mockingbird Books, 1975.

    Whitton, Joel, and Fisher, Joe, Life Between Life, Doubleday, 1986.

    Grof, Stanislav, Realms of the Human Unconscious, Viking Press, 1975.

    Monroe, Robert, Far Journeys, Doubleday, 1985.

    Klimo, Jon, Channeling: Investigations on Receiving Information from Paranormal Sources, North Atlantic Books, 1987.

    Cassian, John, Conferences, Translated by Boniface Ramsey. Newman Press, 1997.

    The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Translated by Robert A.F. Thurman. Bantam Books, 1994.

    Patanjali, The Yoga Sutras, Translated by Swami Satchidananda. Integral Yoga Publications, 1978.

    Records of the Society for Psychical Research, London.

    Operational Records of RAF Bomber Command, 1939-1945. Public Record Office, Kew.

    Goodman, Benny. Personal correspondence and interviews, 1986.

    Didwell, Norman. Interviews regarding 99 Squadron, 1986.




    You're all fucked up. Call 988.

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • THE SCIENCE OF CHANNELING & WALK-INS - "CALL 1-666-COLLECT"
    Oct 7 2026

    HEYYYOOOOOOOO! SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOKS! This is a continuation of our look into the spirit world, specifically the act (and "art"?) of spirit/alien/praetor-human intelligence/ultra-terrestrial CHANNELING! Just open up your psychospiritual bits and let the voices ride the meat-machine! Mmmmyup. PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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    SOURCES:

    - Studies on the neurobiology of channeling by Dr. Charles Tart, Dr. Andrew Newberg/researchers at the Institute of Noetic Sciences including Dr. Helané Wahbeh

    - The Filter Thesis of Consciousness developed by Frederic W. H. Myers/expanded by Dr. Edward Kelly in Irreducible Mind

    - Research on non-pathological dissociation/spectrum of consciousness by the Institute of Noetic Sciences

    - Phenomenological studies of walk-in experiences by Ruth Montgomery/subsequent researchers

    - Parapsychological investigations of xenoglossy by Ian Stevenson/Charles Richet

    - The historical records of the Pythia of Delphi, the Sibylline Tradition/cross-cultural shamanic oracles

    - Documentation of the Ashtar Command phenomenon through George Van Tassel/Tuella (Thelma Terrell)/subsequent contactees

    - Records of the Spiritual Church Movement/Mother Leafy Anderson's channeling of Chief Black Hawk

    - The Seth Material by Jane Roberts/Robert Butts, archived at Yale University

    - The Ramtha School of Enlightenment/associated legal documentation including the trademark case against Julie Ravell

    - The Lazaris material channeled by Jach Pursel through Concept Synergy, Inc

    - The Spirit Teachings of Reverend William Stainton Moses/archives of Society for Psychical Research

    - The Leonora Piper investigations by William James/Society for Psychical Research, including cross-correspondences phenomenon

    - The Patience Worth case documented by Dr. Walter Franklin Prince in The Case of Patience Worth (1927)

    - A Course in Miracles by Dr. Helen Schucman/Dr. William Thetford/published by Foundation for Inner Peace

    - The Ra Material by Carla Rueckert/Don Elkins/Jim McCarty of L/L Research

    - The Abraham-Hicks material by Esther/Jerry Hicks

    - The Kryon material by Lee Carroll, including presentations at the United Nations

    - The Bashar material by Darryl Anka/Bashar Communications

    - The Pleiadian material by Barbara Marciniak, including Bringers of the Dawn (1992)

    - The Alice Bailey material channeled from Djwhal Khul/published by the Lucis Trust

    - The I AM Activity by Guy/Edna Ballard/Saint Germain Foundation

    - The Cassiopaean Experiment by Laura Knight-Jadczyk/Quantum Future Group

    - The digital channeling platforms of Elizabeth April/Marina Seren.

    - The Urantia Book compiled under Dr. William S. Sadler

    - Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law) by Aleister Crowley

    - The Cthulhu Mythos by H.P. Lovecraft/subsequent analysis by Kenneth Grant

    - Oahspe: A New Bible by Dr. John Ballou Newbrough

    - The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ by Levi H. Dowling

    - The Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith Jr.

    - The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage attributed to Abraham of Worms

    - The Enochian Journals of John Dee and Edward Kelley

    - The theological works of Emanuel Swedenborg

    - The Prophecies of Nostradamus (Les Prophéties, 1555)

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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • THE SCIENCE OF SPIRIT POSSESSION - "DSM-666!"
    Oct 6 2026

    SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOKS! This is exactly what it says on the tin! ALSO! This episode is the first in a spooky season long series examining THE SPIRIT WORLD! WOOOOO! Oh wait, no, I meant BOOOOOOOOOO! No, no, no, that's not quite right either...[INSERT GHOST NOISES]...there, that's better! Are schizophrenics possessed by parasitic entities? Is civilization at large possessed by "THE WETIKO!" Listen up and learn yo' self up on some "UNIVERSAL TROOF!" {tm}. PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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    SOURCES:

    P. McNamara, "Spirit Possession & Exorcism-History, Psychology, & Neurobiology (Vol.1-2)" (2011); J. Marzinsky, "Understanding and Getting Rid of The Voices Schizophrenics Hear" (2016); E. Durkheim, "Elementary Forms of Religious Life" (1912); I.M. Lewis, "Ecstatic Religion" (1971); M. Harner, "The Way of the Shaman" (1980); J. Halifax, "Shamanic Voices" (1979); R. Firth, "Religion" (1995); F. Goodman, "Ecstasy, Ritual and Alternate Reality" (1988); M. Eliade, "Shamanism" (1964); J. Boddy, "Wombs and Alien Spirits" (1989); T. Csordas, "The Sacred Self" (1994); P. McNamara, "The Neuroscience of Ritual" (2014), Bloom, Howard, "The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History" (1995), Forbes, Jack D., "Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism" (2008), Le Bon, Gustave, "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind" (1896), Wessely, Simon, "Mass Hysteria: Two Syndromes?" Psychological Medicine 17, no. 1 (1987), Bartholomew, Robert E., and Simon Wessely, "Protean Nature of Mass Sociogenic Illness: From Possessed Nuns to Chemical and Biological Terrorism Fears." "British Journal of Psychiatry" (2002), Midelfort, H.C. Erik, "A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany" (1999), Durkheim, Émile, "The Elementary Forms of Religious Life" (1912/1995), Freud, Sigmund "Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego" (1921/1990)


    If you are currently struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse issues...YOU MIIIIIIIGHT BE POSSESSED! But don't gamble on that alone, it's good to get multiple opinions. So please dial 988 if you need immediate assistance.

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    1 hr and 39 mins
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