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Voices: Peter Mark Adams Season 2 Episode 6

Release Date: 03/17/2025

Voices from the House of Zophiel

The Devil's Carol The snow fell thick that Christmas Eve as Margaret Thornby hurried past the church. She was late—the carol service had already begun. But it wasn't the familiar hymn that made her pause. From the old graveyard came another voice. A woman's voice, singing alone—beautiful but wrong, with words that weren't quite words at all. A black cat darted across her path, its yellow eyes gleaming. It stopped at the graveyard's edge, staring with unnatural intelligence, then padded into the darkness. Margaret followed. Between ancient tombs stood a woman in a pale dress,...

Voices: Julian Vayne Season 2 Episode 23

Voices from the House of Zophiel

Julian Vayne is a prominent British independent scholar and author with over forty years' experience in esoteric culture, spanning traditions from Druidry and Chaos Magic to Shamanism, Freemasonry, and Witchcraft. Beginning his magical journey at sixteen within the Western Esoteric Tradition, he has since worked ceremonially with practitioners across diverse lineages and cultures. As a senior member of the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros, Julian is recognised as one of Britain's leading occultists. In the 1990s, he edited Britain's bestselling pagan newspaper Pagan Voice,...

Voices: Frode Neergaard Season 2 Episode 22

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Frode Neergaard's life has been shaped by a profound quest for meaning that bridges the tangible world with mysteries beyond ordinary perception. As a clinical psychologist, he devoted himself to understanding the human psyche, yet his journey has always reached towards something deeper and more enigmatic. His years as a Norwegian soldier during the late 1990s and early 2000s took him across Lebanon, Israel, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Macedonia, where he witnessed humanity at its most vulnerable. Later, working as a scuba diving guide in Egypt, he found himself immersed in ancient mystical...

Voices: David Rankine Sesson 2 Episode 21

Voices from the House of Zophiel

David Rankine is an author, esoteric researcher and magician who lives in Spain with his wife, artist and tattooist Rosa Laguna. He has been making major contributions to the modern occult revival since the 1980s through lectures, workshops, presentations, articles, and books. His esoteric expertise covers a wide range of topics, including the Western Esoteric Traditions, especially the Qabalah, the Grimoire tradition, Greco-Egyptian magic and Ceremonial Magic, as well as British Folklore and European Mythology. His published work in recent years has been characterised...

Voices: Michael Staley Season 2 Episode 20

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Michael Staley has been fascinated by the occult for as long as he can remember and is particularly steeped in Thelema and Advaita Vedanta …. “AD VAITA VED ANTA” being non dualistic, this realisation is achieved through practices like self-inquiry, contemplation, and meditation. Michael is a prominent member of the Typhonian Order, led by Kenneth Grant and was for many years editor of Grant’s works. Publishing the first issue of Starfire in 1986, he subsequently expanded it into Starfire Publishing, issuing Kenneth Grant’s work from the late 1990s. Having delved...

Voices: Siân Sibley Season 2 Episode 19

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Sian Sibley is a traditional witch, author, and ecological activist with over 30 years of experience in the craft. Leader of the DragonOak Coven for over three decades, she employs magical practices derived from the Greek magical papyri and plant spirit work, as well as deep ecological ethics. Her work blends science and spirituality, drawing on her academic background – an MSc in Biological Science and an MA in Ecology and Spirituality – to explore how animism and witchcraft can nurture a sustainable, reciprocal relationship with the natural world. Sian is the author of "Unveiling the...

Voices: Claire Pingel Season 2 Episode 18

Voices from the House of Zophiel

Claire Pingel is a Wiccan High Priestess, a Priestess of Mary Magdalene and an Archdruidess in the Fellowship of Isis. As well as Mary Magdalene she works with Lilith and Hekate. She is the author of Mary Magdalene – The Darker Saint, which is available from Veneficia Publications, and Amazon. She has also contributed to The Witches Almanac, and the Hermetic Sentinel. Her main interest is building a successful relationship with the Goddess and working with Her in her daily life. She talks at conferences, events, moots and camps and runs workshops both in person and online. She regularly...

Voices: SJ Farrer Season 2 Episode 17

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Sarah-Jayne Farrer is an established writer on magic and the occult, public speaker, Typhonian and Dionysian. She is also the founder of the EDGEWAYS community, which brings together experts in folklore, art, science, history, archaeology, and esotericism. To explore the paths less taken, the forgotten stairwells of history, and the unanswered questions of art, science, and magic. As a devoted Dionysian and occultist her vision and voice carry the essence of rustic wisdom and the twisted, cold logic of dark mythology. She is a passionate believer in merging factual rigour with immersive...

Voices: Anatolia H Karteras Season 2 Episode 16

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Anatolia H. Karteras loves to write, draw, sing, dance, guide people who find themselves at crossroads, facilitate events, tell stories and study the mysteries. Her creations seem to fall at the meeting point between ritual and nature activism. Born to migrant Pontian Greek parents, raised on the Wurundjeri land of Melbourne, Australia and now based in regional France, Anatolia's relationship to the various lands we walk on and the land of the body we walk with, informs her work. At the heart of her art is a fascination and honouring of how the trance states of ritual magic,...

Voices: Emma Kathryn Season 2 Episode 15

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Emma Kathryn is a witch and Obeah woman from Nottinghamshire. She has been involved with magick and witchcraft for over twenty years and runs an Obeah mentorship programme, passing on her knowledge of this mystery shrouded practice in the hope of keeping the tradition alive. She is particularly passionate about sharing her knowledge with those who might have links to or an interest with the craft but have struggled to overcome the many obstacles that stand in their way, and this is a thread that weaves through much of her work, including her writing. She is an author of...

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"As a professional author, Peter’s non-fiction is published by Scarlet Imprint, Theion and Inner Traditions; literary prose and poetry by Corbel Stone Press; essays examining other than human encounters in the peer reviewed journals ‘Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal’ and ‘The Journal of Exceptional Experiences and Psychology’; and reviews of contemporary esoterica on paralibrum.com.

Peter is the author of ‘The Game of Saturn’; ‘Mystai; ‘Hagia Sophia/ Sanctum of Kronos’; ‘The Power of the Healing Fİeld’ and ‘Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras’."

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